*Scripture: Isaiah 63:1-14 (NKJV)* 1 Who is this who comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah, this One who is glorious in His apparel, traveling in the greatness of His strength?—"I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save." 2 Why is Your apparel red, and Your garments like one who treads in the winepress?
3 "I have trodden the winepress alone, and from the peoples no one was with Me. For I have trodden them in My anger, and trampled them in My fury; Their blood is sprinkled upon My garments, and I have stained all My robes. 4 For the day of vengeance is in My heart, and the year of My redeemed has come. 5 I looked, but there was no one to help, and I wondered that there was no one to uphold; Therefore My own arm brought salvation for Me; And My own fury, it sustained Me. 6 I have trodden down the peoples in My anger, made them drunk in My fury, and brought down their strength to the earth." 7 I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the LORD and the praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD has bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which He has bestowed on them according to His mercies, according to the multitude of His lovingkindnesses. 8 For He said, "Surely they are My people, children who will not lie." So He became their Savior. 9 In all their affliction He was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them; In His love and in His pity He redeemed them; And He bore them and carried them all the days of old. 10 But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit; So He turned Himself against them as an enemy, and He fought against them. 11 Then he remembered the days of old, Moses and his people, saying: "Where is He who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of His flock? Where is He who put His Holy Spirit within them, 12 Who led them by the right hand of Moses, with His glorious arm, dividing the water before them to make for Himself an everlasting name, 13 Who led them through the deep, as a horse in the wilderness, that they might not stumble?" 14 As a beast goes down into the valley, and the Spirit of the LORD causes him to rest, so You lead Your people, to make Yourself a glorious name. *Devotion* Edom was the region where the descendants of Jacob's brother Esau resided. Edom means "red," for we are told that Esau had red hair. Therefore the prophet Isaiah, by the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, uses the association with the color red of Edom to the garments of one who treads in the winepress, and to blood. We have three things that are red. This serves to place in our minds a picture of the color red. So, when we are given the image of a Man Whose garments are red it is easy for us to picture that Man soaked in blood. This is an image of our dear Lord Jesus Christ on the holy Cross. The garment of our flesh, which He took upon Himself at His Incarnation, is now bloodied from scourging and beating, and is nailed to the holy Cross for our atonement. The Lamb of God is sacrificed on the holy altar of the Cross. His sacrifice atones for the sins of the whole world. His blood is poured out into the Cup of salvation, which through faith we drink in, with, and under wine. On the holy Cross, our Lord defeated our enemies of sin, death and the devil. Now, by His sacrifice the power of sin, death and the devil are destroyed, and whenever we eat His Body and drink His Blood under bread and wine the Holy Ghost makes us to remember we are rescued from them.
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