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Now we come to the grand finale of Jennens’ and Handel’s inspired and prophetic masterwork. It began with the dark and ominous clouds in the orchestral Overture, and the prophetic announcement of “Comfort ye, My people”. Remember, Paul in 1 Corinthians 14:3 gave us the [...]

We now move on to the penultimate section of Handel’s “Messiah”. In the wordbook from 1743 I mentioned previously this has the heading, “A Hymn of Thanksgiving for the final overthrow of Death”. This, in turn, is broken down into another three sub-sections, the first [...]

This next portion of “Messiah” deals with the spreading of the Gospel message among those who accept it and among those who reject it, and God’s response to the latter, leading on to the prophetic foretelling of His eternal lordship. As I mentioned in a [...]

Now that we’ve seen (and heard) how Handel deals with the prophetic nature of the crucifixion, we next come to the resurrection, the ascension, as well as His enthronement as the glorified Son. As with the section on Messiah’s ministry, this section is quite brief, [...]

We come now in our study of the prophetic nature of Handel’s “Messiah” to the central part of the whole work, as well as the core theme of the Gospel. That is the sacrificial death of the Messiah on the cross. (The previous part can [...]

As we continue in our examination of Handel’s Messiah after the Nativity, we come to four Scripture passages used to show the Messiah’s ministry as a prophetic fulfilment. First is an excerpt from Zechariah 9:9–10: “Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout, O daughter of [...]

In our journey through Handel’s Messiah, we’ve now arrived at the account of the Messiah’s birth in Bethlehem. For many years, performing Messiah at Christmas has been a firm tradition all around the world. But that wasn’t always the case. In fact, it was originally [...]

We are now approaching Christmas, when we celebrate the Messiah’s birth. In our journey through Handel’s Messiah, after the prophetic warning of a deep purification by fire in Haggai and Malachi, we find the prophetic announcement of His coming, all taken from Isaiah.We find the [...]

Handel's Messiah draws on scriptural prophecies of a time of persecution, which will be followed by a great revival and the coming of Christ. In the first article of this series, I gave an introduction to what I believe is not only one of the [...]

We present the first of a series on the prophetic voice inherent in Handel's musical masterpiece, Messiah. This piece of sacred music presents God's word to listeners, speaking of comfort, strength and ultimate victory for those engaging in spiritual battle. A few months ago, Warwick [...]