The Sun of Righteousness
“But for you who revere my name, the sun of
righteousness will rise with healing in its wings” – Mal. 4:2
The Messiah is born and as Isaiah 53 so poignantly reveals, “He had
no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we
should desire him. He was despised and
rejected by men, a man of sorrows and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he
was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we
considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he
was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon
him, and by his wounds we are healed.”…”and though the Lord makes his life a
guilt offering, he will see his offspring and prolong his days, and the will of
the Lord will prosper in his hand.”…”For he bore the sin of many, and made
intercession for the transgressors.”
Jesus, the Messiah, was born into lowly of condition and rejected by
those seeking royalty. The incarnate Son
of God was crucified for our sins, and his resurrection and ascension into the
heavenly realms is the evidence that He lives.
There are two witnesses of this:
heaven and earth. “God created
heaven and earth” – Gen. 1:1, and heaven and earth have been dutiful
witnesses to the history of the ages.
They shall remain as such until the day of “a new heaven and a new
earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away” – Rev.
21:1. It is an awesome thing to consider
all of heaven and all of earth as witnesses for God. The sky, the ocean, and the mountains – all
of it was made by the Creator to serve as mighty witnesses.
As that truth staggers us, God does something equally or even more
amazing. If we move forward into the
Acts of the Apostles, we see Jesus giving instructions to His apostles. Acts 1:8 finds Jesus informing the apostles, “But
you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and when you will be
my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the
earth.” The apostles, with the gift
of the Holy Spirit, become witnesses as well.
So too, we will as believers, be His witnesses.
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