was regarded as “good news (gospel) for the world”; with second Isaiah’s announcement of a new age when God would be king over the world (Isa 52:7–10); and with the people of the Dead Sea scrolls who greeted the arrival of a new order of community life in the desert as they were made ready by the cleansing of the Spirit. You can relate these three ideas to the modern scene where “good news” is in short supply! There’s plenty of “bad news” on the political scene, the economic front, or at the social