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March/April 2017 Richard D. Emmons

Isaiah’s Good News Isaiah 61

A look at three specific blessings in Israel's future. You owe no taxes. You’ve fulfilled all your graduation requirements. Your biopsy was negative. Good news comes in all shapes and sizes, and when it arrives—particularly in the midst of trying times—it is usually like the soothing balm of Gilead. The words of Isaiah 61 may have affected the Israelites of the prophet Isaiah’s day

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Dr. Richard D. Emmons is a professor emeritus in the School of Divinity at Cairn University in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, and seniors pastor of Coastal Christian Church in Ocean City, New Jersey.

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