Anointed One

DEVOTION

PROPHESIES AND FULFILLMENTS CONCERNING CHRIST

ANOINTED ONE

Ps 45:6-7

6 Your throne, O God, will last for ever and ever; a scepter of justice will be the scepter of your kingdom. 7 You love righteousness and hate wickedness; therefore God, your God, has set you above your companions by anointing you with the oil of joy.

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Heb 1:8-9

8 But about the Son he says, "Your throne, O God, will last for ever and ever, and righteousness will be the scepter of your kingdom. 9 You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has set you above your companions by anointing you with the oil of joy."  

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It is really clear that Psalm 45:6-7 is speaking about Jesus when God quotes himself through the writer of Hebrews. This is the very beginning of the letter to the Hebrews and it is laying out the foundation that Jesus is the Son of God. He says that he spoke to the people through prophets, but in the last days he spoke through his Son. God the Father anointed Jesus the Son. What we need to understand is the meaning of the word anoint. Both the Old and the New Testament words carry the same meaning, to rub with oil. They both also have that implied meaning to consecrate to a holy office. The modern dictionary lines itself with this meaning as well, to ceremonially confer divine or holy office upon (a priest or monarch} by smearing oil upon them.  Jesus is both a priest and a monarch. We merely have to see where God smeared him with oil to complete this truth. Although it was the practice to use anointing oil in those times, and in some sense Jesus was anointed with oil, God anointed Jesus with the Holy Spirit.

Acts 10:37-38

37 You know what has happened throughout Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John preached— 38 how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how he went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil, because God was with him.

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In the smearing of oil upon him we could say it was done by a woman as she was inspired by God.

Matt 26:6-13

6 While Jesus was in Bethany in the home of a man known as Simon the Leper, 7 a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, which she poured on his head as he was reclining at the table. 8 When the disciples saw this, they were indignant. "Why this waste?" they asked. 9 "This perfume could have been sold at a high price and the money given to the poor." 10 Aware of this, Jesus said to them, "Why are you bothering this woman? She has done a beautiful thing to me. 11 The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have me. 12 When she poured this perfume on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial. 13 I tell you the truth, wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her." 

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The point is Jesus is in fact the Anointed One of God. He is the One, the only One, who is our High Priest or Monarch, our Kings of kings, Lord of lords. Everything throughout the whole of the bible is a witness about Jesus. He is the central theme of all scripture because He is the only way for us to be united with God. Without Jesus we are separated from God by our sin. We have been told God is good, in him there is no evil. We have been told God cannot look upon sin.

Hab 1:13

13 Your eyes are too pure to look on evil; you cannot tolerate wrong.

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But that view which may be taken out of context of Habakkuk is wrong. Jesus actually rushed to sin, to heal people of their sin. He came to take their sin upon himself, he became sin, and yet he was God. The Father divinely anointed the Son for that express purpose, so with that in mind we have to know God did not turn away from his Anointed One at any time, even while he was on the cross. We know this idea might go against most of the scholars and traditional thinking. However, we have to know Jesus was God and he took our sin upon him. Yes, he was God in the flesh, he experienced humanity, as he created it. He experienced the joy and the misery or pain of the human condition. But God has also told us that he would never leave us nor forsake us. We might feel like it at times, and this might have been the experience Jesus as man was feeling, but God never left him nor did he forsake him for Jesus was His Anointed One. He was anointed with the Holy Spirit. Throughout the Old Testament God declares the children of Israel have forsaken him for other gods. When Jesus made this statement quoting the psalm, it was in response to the Jews insulting him, mocking him, making comments about if he were the Messiah he could save himself, they were forsaking the Anointed One of God. If God actually did turn his back on Jesus because he had all our sin, then we would have to make the leap that whenever we fail God, whenever we commit the least little sin, he turns his back on us. Even if we are in Christ and he sees Jesus when he looks at us because some believe he turned his back in Jesus because of sin. So then when we sin, we are forsaken by God. That is absolutely so wrong on so many levels. God never turns his back on us, nor did he on his Son, His Anointed One.