The Royal Saving Power

We are discussing the Horn of Salvation.  The background setting is from Luke chapter 1 where we see two songs written by two people. Jesus' mother Mary  and Zechariah's  song . Both these people had an angelic visitation from angel Gabriel. Mary's song has some resemblance to Hannah's song from the old testament and Zechariah's song was more of a prophetic song that provides a metaphoric meaning to the Horn which shows Salvation. The Horn symbolises power. Specifically the horn of Wild Ox was seen as a sign of Power to even rip countries and kingdoms.

Numbers 23:22
God brought them out of Egypt; they have the strength of a wild ox. There is no divination against Jacob, no evil omens against Israel.

God's kingdom has great power, similarly we need to know a prayerful person is a powerful person and a prayerless person is a powerless person.

Zechariah's song was a prophetic song that sings on raising the Horn to depict Salvation from God's Kingdom. The Lord's power that led the people of Israel from Egypt had the strength of a wild ox. Throughout their journey the people saw and knew that their God was very powerful.

Their Lord split the sea, provided special food every morning in front of their tent daily throughout their journey and always had a pillar of fire around them to protect them and also a cloud hovering over them for protection.

God's people always have power. If God is with you no one can harm you. There may be many plans or plots that the devil has planned against us. Nothing will be successful or find its way to you.

1 Kings 22 :11
Now Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah had made horns of iron for himself; and he said, “Thus says the Lord: 'With these you shall.

The Horn of Salvation has an anointing power to rip enemies. When we have anointing power that serves like the enemy's snare. It has the power to cause the enemies to flee away.

Daniel  7:8
“While I was thinking about the horns, there before me was another horn, a little one, which came up among them; and three of the first horns were uprooted before it. This horn had eyes like the eyes of a human being and a mouth that spoke boastfully.

 In the Old Testament, political power and strength of kings were depicted by the use of horns.

Psalm 18:2
The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

Usually many of our personal names have some titles attached to it. Sometimes it can be a surname, family name or at times even the profession.  God, The Son and the Holy Spirit possess many titles .
 As portrayed in the above verse.  God is known as the rock, the rock of ages. This signifies his unchanging nature. He is also called  a deliverer based on his power to deliver us from any kind of stronghold. He is again called the shield because He can protect us from any weapons or attacks of the evil one.  He is known as the stronghold and also called the horn of salvation because of His saving power and protection.

Exodus 27:2
Make a horn at each of the four corners, so that the horns and the altar are of one piece, and overlay the altar with bronze.

The above portion of the scripture shows how horns were used in the old testament as a part of the tabernacle. Four horns were placed at the four corners of the structure and the main purpose of it was if someone is being chased by an enemy he can run to the tabernacle and touch on any of the horns and then none can attack them. It was therefore marked as a safe place

Luke 1:69
And has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David

This is a portion of Zechariah's song that shows the horn that was raised up with a royal saving power and called the Horn of Salvation.  In the Old Testament anyone to be safe and be protected could touch the horn attached to the tabernacle but now we have the horn of salvation that's our Messiah Jesus Christ who has the royal saving power. Anyone who needs to be safe and be protected just grab hold of Jesus; he is the Horn of Salvation.

My Horn of Salvation is Christ.  This is a part of Zechariah's song.

About The Author:

Dr. Damien Antony
Born and brought up in a Christian family, Dr. Damien Antony possessed an unquenching quest for truth right from his boyhood days and eventually his relentless search led him to the Bible. He is a Revival Preacher, Bible Teacher, Leadership Trainer, Author and a Life Coach. He moves under the anointing for Prophetic, Healing, Deliverance, Inner Healing and Financial Breakthrough. God has also blessed him with an Apostolic Mandate to take the Universal Body of Christ to the next level of revelation and anointing.