Come, my people, enter your rooms and shut your doors behind you;
hide yourselves, as it were, for a little while until his wrath is past.
-Isaiah 26:20
We then, as workers together with Him also plead with you not to receive the grace of God in vain. For He says:
“In an acceptable time I have heard you,
And in the day of salvation I have helped you.”
Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.
– Isaiah 49:8
– 2 Corinthians 6:1-2
Yeshua went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. He stood up to read, and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written:
"The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor."
Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him. He began by saying to them,
"Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing."
– Isaiah 61:1
– Luke 4:21
When John the Baptist (who was a Jew, not a Baptist) proclaimed, "Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!" (John 1:29), he was revealing two important facts…1) He revealed the identity of Yeshua as the Messiah, and 2) He revealed that Salvation would be available to everyone…not just the Jews.
– Genesis 22:8