35._ Anointed

Besides to be present in a place, God also was represented symbolically by some selected people: prophets, religious or political leaders, kings, priests. That special consecration was often expressed ritually, by the solemn application of an "unction" in the forehead of the chosen one; for that reason such person was called "anointed", who in Hebrew says "messiah" and in Greek "christ".

But no one of those anointed represented totally and authentically to God, but only symbolically, since God was always infinitely over the human condition of those people.
Neither one of those anointed could make the exact fulfillment of the Promise: to construct the eternal kingdom of peace and justice. The other way around, Israel finished imprisoned of the foreign domination, sunk in the oppression.

However, the hope held fast of which a "definitive" anointed would come, that would bring the Kingdom of God for always, which would be the liberating one, the good shepherd, the prince of the peace, the faithful servant of Yahveh, the instrument of the saving power of Yahveh, that he would at last establish to Israel at the top of the nations, and he would consecrate it like his "Holy Nation". This man would be the true one anointed; no longer only symbolically; between all, the only authentic representative of God: "the" Messiah by antonomasia. The "Immanuel": God with us.

Thus, then, the more deep intention of God was revealed to Israel: His incarnation.

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Prophecies

Yahveh then said,
‘I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt.
I have heard them crying for help on account of their taskmasters.
Yes, I am well aware of their sufferings.
And I have come down to rescue them’.
(Exodus 3:7-8)

Therefore, behold, I will seduce her,
And I will bring her into the wilderness, and I will speak to her to the heart.
And she will respond there, as in the days of her youth,
And as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

I will betroth you to me forever.
Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in lovingkindness, and in compassion.
I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness; and you shall know Yahveh.
(Oseas 2, 16-17b. 21-22)

For I, Yahveh your God,
will hold your right hand,
saying to you: don't be afraid;
I will help you.

Don't be afraid, you little worm of Jacob,
and you caterpillar of Israel;
I will help you, says Yahveh,
and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

The poor and needy seek water,
and there is none,
and their tongue fails for thirst;
I, Yahveh, will answer them,
I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

I will open rivers on the bare heights,
and springs in the midst of the valleys;
I will make the wilderness a pool of water,
and the dry land springs of water.

I will put in the wilderness the cedar,
the acacia, and the myrtle, and the oil tree;
I will set in the desert the fir tree,
the pine, and the box tree together:

that they may see, and know, and consider,
and understand together,
that the hand of Yahveh has done this,
and the Holy One of Israel has created it.
(Isaiah 41; 13-14 and 17-20)

This says Yahveh:

You remember the former things, you consider the things of old?
Behold, I will do a new thing;
now shall it spring forth; shall you not know it?
I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
Then the town that I have formed will proclaim my praises.
(Isaiah 43, 18-19)

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