Isaiah 63:1 by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · May 28, 1912

By Editor

3760 — Isaiah 63:1

Will you please explain in the "Question Corner" Isa. 63:1? When and how is our Saviour coming from Adam?

Our inquirer has not read carefully; it does not say "Adam," but "Edom." "Who is this that cometh from Edom?" Edom stands as a representative of the great, wicked world. Isaac had two sons, Jacob and Esau. Jacob became Israel; Esau, Edom. They stood as two types of two different conditions, or rather two classes of characters.—Jacob, for those who were faithful to God; Edom, for those who placed their whole hopes in this world. And the text under consideration was when judgment was executed upon the latter class. "Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah [a city of Edom]? this that is glorious in his apparel, marching in the greatness of his strength?" And He answers, "I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save." And yet His garments were red with the vengeance upon sin and those identified with sin; but the same power is pledged to save His people. The doom of Edom is well set forth in the prophecy of Obadiah; and in this, also, Edom stands as the symbol of the great, wicked world.