(Isaiah 35:10) “And the ransomed of the LORD will return. They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.”
Isaiah Chapter 35 is a prophetic psalm as are many of the Psalms. In fact the whole Bible is prophetic in nature. The Hebrew prophets prophesied for three time frames. They prophesied for their own time, for the first coming of the Messiah, for His Second Coming and the days leading up to this event, and in some passages of scripture included the Messianic age to come after this age has finished.
The Old Testament as the New Testament there were no chapter and verse divisions in the texts. These were added much later by translators for easier referencing. A prophet in one prophecy would cover all three time periods and include the Messianic Age to come as well and run them all together in the one prophecy…
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