Isaiah interjects a prayer to Jehovah to call forth the Messiah, who is the arm of the Lord. Isaiah pleads for the Messiah to arise and come to the defense of His people. Isaiah has seen that Christ will vanquish the devil, just as He will defeat the king of Babylon, just as he defeated Pharaoh and freed captive Israel from Egyptian slavery. Over and over God has rescued His children from temporal captivity. He will do so again and again. But these deliverances are only symbols of the eternal deliverance that Christ ultimately performs for all through the ransom of the atonement, which brings about redemption from sin. The ultimate enemy is not an earthly king but Satan. Just as God performs miracles to defeat His worldly enemies, He will employ the miracle of the atonement to defeat His spiritual adversary, who is truly the enemy of our souls.
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