Isaiah 61 Visual Commentary • A Vision of the New Creation 

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Can't wait to see the video.

Imagine you're sitting in the Nazareth synagogue when Y'shua reads this passage and proclaims, “Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”

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This is so good! This chapter is my favorite chapter in the entire Bible, it’s just so beautiful and powerful!

This was amazing! I really liked the vertical formatting of the video 😊 This vid made me want excited to meditate even deeper on Isaiah 61 this week

Please do more of this visual commentaries!

This is so encouraging, for us, children of God. Thank you for all your work. May we always follow his path💕

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The visual commentaries are among my favorite Bible Project videos (besides the Tree of Life!)! This one is fantastic. Very helpful. Thank you, Jon, Tim and team. 🙏🏻🙌🏻

Fantastic. I’ve always loved this chapter but I’ve not understood it as clearly as I do now. Thank you so much for the beautiful work and helping us see the Bible for the work of art that it is.

My favorite chapter of the Bible! It says instead FIVE TIMES! This is an invitation to think with the mind of Christ!

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This was a great commentary on Isaiah 61, may God continue blessing this ministry. Gh

wow. This is absolutely stunning. Glory to the Eternal King!

Любим ВЕЛИКОГО БОГА ОТЦА и ВЕЛИКОГО СЫНА БОЖИЯ ИИСУСА ХРИСТА и ВЕЛИКОГО ДУХА СВЯТОГО БОЖИЯ АМИНЬ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

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That was incredible! Thank you for such a beautiful presentation!

very moved to watch this just now. The passage means a great deal to me - given to me to read the last time I have read scripture in public - years ago now - in a historic church of significance in Scotland re John Knox, the Reformation. One of those spine tingling moments. But then also because some of it ... 'comfort those in mourning' ff was prayed over me by people who did not know me. Kept it to my heart but without understanding why I would be like an Oak of Righteousness. Great strong trees, majestic - not me at all! You have opened a window to my understanding here. My heart is lifting in praise - I continue to ponder. God bless and prosper your work. Thank you.

This video came out the very day I'm on Isaiah 61 in my Bible reading. 😮

Such a clear summary. A joy to receive.

Cannot wait for God to make all things new!

After the coming of the Lord, there will be a millennial reign of Christ.

This is a beautiful and rich chapter that corresponds with the Day of the Lord, with New Jerusalem, the 144,000 (an indefinite number), and much more. "a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God...dressed in long white robes...the ones who have come out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb!...Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb!" (Rev. 7,14,21) Awake and fill your lamps with oil and clothe yourself in your glorious garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city. (Matt 22,25; Isa. 52)

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This was fantastic! The Book of Isaiah and its literary genre/style has always been mysterious to me, but the breakdown and explanations in this video were so very helpful! Thank you, BibleProject!

I was very sad to see Tim Mackie of Bible project jumping in support of the gay bandwagon despite what the Bible says about it.

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Which version of the Bible are you guys using? I could not find it. ☺

A master piece, I love this breakdown it makes us understand scripture with clarity, May God bless this work you are doing

what a wonderful teaching of a very precious chapter

No, the Jubilee is not also called the day of vengeance in verse 2. He is proclaiming two separate things, 1.) the Jubilee _AND_ the 2.) Day of Vengeance. It's not one and the same. Otherwise, Jesus would have read both in Luke 4 but He left out the 2nd proclamation of " _the day of vengeance_ " because Jesus is both Mashiach Ben Joseph _AND_ Mashiach Ben David Who comes twice with two separate missions.

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Everyone should go read Luke 4:14-21 after watching this video btw. It's so interesting where Jesus stopped reading that day in his home Nazarene synagogue. He stopped in the middle of verse 2. He did NOT read the line "[to proclaim] .. the day of vengeance of our God," There was no "cutting" a covenant (verse 8) during Jesus first visit, only part #1 "to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor". Part #2 will get spoken next time I'm guessing.

Im sorry but the mobile phone aspect ratio on this video ruins it for me. Its so distracting i cant even watch it.

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I WOULD LIKE TO SUGGEST THAT RIGHTEOUSNESS means right relationship with GOD, ELOHIM. not only with JESUS BUT THE FATHER AND HOLY SPIRIT.

The project interpretation of the passage was pivoted on the “religious atonement theory” thus concluded with the exaltation of the role of the clergy/teacher and the support/offerings of the laity in spreading love or “righteousness in Christ” - a false gospel. The actual context is about Zion, a “city on a hill” to all nations. That city is not a spiritual city neither a religious city. And definitely not the city in the Middle East, the old Jerusalem or the geographical Israel. Isa 62:1 For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until her righteousness go forth as brightness, and her salvation as a lamp that burneth. That “city on a hill” is still a mystery. Joh 3:8 The wind bloweth where it will, and thou hearest the voice thereof, but knowest not whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. It speaks about the birth of the kingdom of peace/spirit on earth. In practical terms, you can’t establish a new kingdom without overriding or demolishing the old political kingdom of man. The seed is the kingdom of Christ. Mat 13:24 Another parable set he before them, saying, The KINGDOM of heaven(conception) is likened unto a man that sowed good SEED in his field: Faith in the SEED, or in the kingdom(body of Christ) , and NOT faith in the religious idol in the person of Jesus according to the atonement theory of religious minded scholars shall move mountain. Mat 17:20 And he saith unto them, Because of your little faith: for verily I say unto you, If ye have FAITH as a grain of mustard SEED, ye shall say unto this MOUNTAIN(government/kingdom of man), Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you. The righteousness by faith thus refers to the righteous conduct in the House of the lawmakers(government)! And it will change the world and shall address the economic oppression by the rich. No amount of your hypocritical religiously conjured “imbued righteousness/love of Christ” will solve your mass homelessness and the growing poverty/inequity in nations or your senseless shooting and drug culture etc etc. No amount of your hollow “love/righteousness “ from your atonement theory will ever stop wars and the polarised world ravaged by economic/political self interests. And certainly no deity will be coming on clouds to save you either.

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You’re not even 10 years old. You have conscious thought, you know where you are, who you are with, and how you got there. There are other people, kids; kids your age, maybe 1, 2, 3 years older than you. You have a sibling, older, younger, or none at all. Yet there are other people. You can’t live in a world without being around other people. There is 1 Bible verse I will reference. It helps for this situation. No one understands why we seek other people’s attention, yet we all do it. No exception. There is nobody on earth who is perfect, Jesus was the last living being on earth to have that title of perfect. We see other people and wish we had what they had. Looks, wealth, health, and their smiles. If nobody is perfect then why do we believe that everyone other than ourselves is perfect. It’s because we know ourselves, we know personally we are imperfect, yet we can’t apply that same knowledge to other people. If we believe we are imperfect why can’t we believe even the “perfect” believe they aren’t perfect. We are chained to the idea that our thoughts and minds are unique. Do we not come from the same place, is our blood and body not composed of the same materials. We are all flesh, mind, and spirit. God is our spirit and covers all of us. As a child with other children around I thought, I want to be funny, I want someone else to smile in order to feel content. Ironically this was in church. So I did silly things and never got what I wanted. I became the butt end of the joke. I always fell short because of my mindset of 2nd. 2nd son, 2 years younger, too ugly, too myself. So you change and nobody cares, or you don’t change and everyone stays the same distance away; far. So I changed. I was wrong to have wanted to change. It’s an early thought to seek someone’s approval, life is small and simple when you are young. People your age or close to you are everything. Yet as you get older you realize, everyone lets you down and it’s not their fault. It’s our fault; it’s my fault. You seek happiness in simple times because you see perfection in a figure you weren’t born with, in an item you don’t have, in a person you want to connect with. It’s simple, to be happy you need money, good looks, and an exclusive romantic partner. Yet nobody is perfect. You can give a person all the time in the world, all the money in the world, all the gifts in the world, and it’s never enough. Yet “perfect people” give none of that to someone they connect with and it works. You will see more attractive people together than ugly people together, even ugly people don’t want ugly people. It’s unfair. Life is unfair. Even as this is written It’s horrible for me to say it’s unfair when in a world where people die unjustly all I care about is what I’m writing, that is unfair. The world is unfair. You will see attractive couples struggling, really truly, struggling. Life is ironic. You can be a complete person by having stability, loyalty, and love, yet without looks nothing matters. Ugly is scary. Attractive is happiness. These people who aren’t you are perfect. Some have it all, looks, money, connections, fame, and much more. You want it, it looks good. It looks like happiness. You’re a child, you see kids playing, you want to play, you want to be happy. Who are you? Are you a child, or did you grow up? Children who can think and make decisions don’t cry, they cry when it hurts them or they want something. They make mistakes. Children who can’t think and make mistakes will cry and grow up. We all cried when we learned that other people are happier than us. We all cried when we learned life is unfair. We all cried when we learned everything was ironic. We all cried when we all learned it’s always our fault. I cried when I learned that I couldn’t do anything. God can. I learned that by listening and hearing I found that you can make a connection to why we see others as perfect and how we can learn from our mistakes. I wanted to be happy. Everyone wants to be happy. So for me and everyone else to be happy, we give up everything for other people. We revere them and hold them up higher so that they can say, yes, I do, accept you. So now you can be perfect in our imperfect ways. Now other people will look at you in envy, jealousy, and desire to be like you; and you don’t care because you already made it. You give someone else everything in order to be on the other side of the fence. The grass is greener. Except, no. You never made it to the other side of the fence. You gave up everything and now you failed, or embarrassed yourself trying many times. You keep looking and trying over and over again and you get angry. Life is in your way. You blame everyone. You don’t believe you deserve to be punished. You are alive. You are alive. Life made a mistake. How?!. God doesn’t make mistakes. God is the future, past and present, God knew you were born before he created the stars in heaven. God is good. God created Adam and Eve. Perfect. They were made imperfect after failing god. It’s the oldest story in the Bible. We are made imperfect and born with sin. We are imperfect, no exceptions. God is good. Our hearts suffer when we feel insecure, or when we aren’t happy with ourselves or our current situation. So we look away from God and call what we see perfect, yet it’s made by the desires of man. God is there. By wanting to be happy, we give someone else status in our brains and hearts as a king, only to fail or make it to the other side, only to harshly find out it’s not greener. Jesus is king. Nobody is king in any kingdom. We failed and should seek to accomplish not giving titles to someone in our hearts, God fills us with love, everything else is truly just heartbreaking and only going to hurt you. “You shall have no other God before me”. Don’t place others in your heart before God. Don’t not exalt kings, or praise others, or weaken yourself to men your age, older, younger, dead or alive. Do not seek happiness in darkness. Seek truth, seek the answers between you and God. Work for happiness, but don’t place it in your heart either, God is happiness. Believe God, and happiness will flow.

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As a visual learner, I appreciate this one.

I love you guys, I am thankful for you…I play your videos for my girls…however what makes this project special is the animation. Please more animation and less highlighted text.

Did I miss the part where you mentioned Jesus said "Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing"? (Luke 4:21)

This was so awesome commentary of a major prophetic vision for all mankind. Thanks for illuminating these verses and giving life and meaning to the word of God. May God empower you to keep doing what ur doing brothers 🙏🏿👏🏾

While this explanation may seem plausible, one should look again with a different perspective and ask for guidance from GOD in order that the true message of this passage might be revealed.

You are completely wrong about the bride, the groom as long awaited for his resurrection and to take his true bride. Her she had made herself righteous and true, and in some versions she is the glory as part of him taken from his side when she was recreated. About 400 BC the young king had the Torah rewritten we took all references to the woman the counterpart of God. He took out all references to what she had brought forth to the people. The qualities of health the qualities of healing, how to use the plant as food and has parts of the plant to become medicine. And then some of the ancient storylines they talk that they were tired of being at war against their neighbors and some of them love that that woman that brought them the qualities of life even more than they love God. And the importance of women is far greater than anybody knows when God created mankind he gave the man extreme knowledge and authority, but he gave his wife intuition and understanding in a greater way to do her own works. And the most important part of that is he connected her directly to The Well of Souls. So that anywhere that there is a natural nature in the presence of God mankind can be brought forth. The early church claimed all that knowledge was pagan and so they destroyed the history of it. Some mankind does not know the ways of Heaven but if you read Revelations it talks about the 144,000 born before the foundations of the earth that have the right and the duty to overcome the darkness. That makes it very clear the sum of us were created in heaven even before the foundations of the Earth. If you don't believe me go ask God. I might be the lowest man on Earth, but he has risen me from the dead four times or five times in this life alone because I am the most hated by Satan. And in whatever way I am great there is somebody else greater than me in each one of those separate ways. But I am this one and only the loves my God and will walk any path, suffer any hardship on my way back home.

The saying you’re saying is true thank you for the scriptures God bless peace be with you❤

This is awesome content, but plays in portrait even on my laptop? Makes it distracting and hard to read because it's small

I'm calling BS on this prophecy because who wants to live where anyone is boasting and if animals are still enslaved its no eden.

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Thanks for all your work. Just adding my two cents, I am not a fan of the portrait orientation.

Love u ❤ this channel is a blessing

Amen, hallelujah, praise god

Rejoice in His law, be perfect as He is; He loves us!

Love your videos but not in this phone format

Great stuff as usual. Keep up the great work!

So can someone help me out with this. Will God use us to spread his new creation on the new earth or will he restore it all on his own. I’m confused

Will there be study notes for this video?

In Italiano non c'è mi farebbe molto piacere comprendere grazie❤

This version of this verse sounds very different from the one in my bible...

The robe...? Is this something we will wear when we go before Jesus?

I'm watching on my tv and its like you recorded it on a phone

This is a beautiful analysis. Thank you for the video!

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Today these promise is fulfilled.

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The inclusivity does not work when it comes to the Bible. The Nations will serve Israel whether they like it or not. Isaiah 60:12 says they will perish if they do not do so. Revelation 2:26-27 says thew Jews will rule over the nation's with a rod of iron. So when it comes to Isaiah 61 verse 5 the other nations will be slaves to Israel. They will be doing laborious work. Plus Isaiah 60 verse10 it says the other nations will also be building up the walls... So Isaiah 61:4 is not in reference to the people of God building up the walls it's to the servants that are going to be in the fields, building up those walls for Israel.

Hi guys, I really loved this video! Blessings from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic!

Righteousness: it’s not right relationship between people, it’s right relationship between Lord and citizen of kingdom of heaven.

excellent stuff as always! but i feel like you guys are burying the lead for part 2 on Luke 4 when Jesus quotes this about himself. Show me that arc! in all seriousness, i'm very grateful for your free resources. thank you.

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Amen

This is so so so powerful. Wow. 🙌🏻

While I do love your work, what evidence do you have that this poem was written during the exile and not before by Isaiah himself?

Do you guys ever need freelance motion graphics animators? I'd love to be a part of this in some way. Been following for years.

I love the visuals it helps me learn the Bible better. I get so excited to watch these. You guys have done something great keep going and ket God continue to use you.🙏🏽❤

So much of it sounds like the renewal of Israel as a real nation in 1947. Is it possible that the start of Israel was the start of this prophecy, culminating in a completion series of events that we read of in other parts of Scripture?

Wonderfull. Congrats to Bible Project team!

i love to understand from this video that Heaven is not about a beutiful place (flower, garden, etc). But its about the relationship of all humans to praise the Him together

Listen to God alone! Anyone from anywhere will flip your ship and turn every blessing into a curse if you do not flee the scorners and cling to the Rock.

What struck me was how perfectly this poem seems to be used by the gospel writers to construct the story and mission of “the Christ” figure of Jesus.

those texts are way too small to read

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I believe 💪 ... New relationships in Jesus' name

Thank you for breaking down such a beautiful vision of our future

I so love sharing these with my curious unsaved or wayward friends.

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Thank you so very much. May The Lord bless you always.

God be praised!

Such a bad commentary. In this chapter, Isaiah is speaking in the first person, and he says that God anointed him. Messiah really means anointed, but THE MESSIAH, is never called the Messiah in the Hebrew bible. Unfortunately, this is a Christian channel, so I can't say I'm surprised...

I want new creation 😭

Let us remember there is no wrong trying to do what is right in Jesus name Amen ❤

HalleluYah ❤שלם עליכם

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