What did God promise to do for Israel in Luke 1:74?
God promised to grant Israel deliverance out of the hand of their enemies—mortal, physical, next-door enemies—so that they might serve Him without fear, in holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of their life. This is the promise of verse 74, a physical, literal, political deliverance for the nation.
Les explains that Luke 1:74 is tied to the covenant promises God made with Abraham, and that it was Jew only. He reads the verse as God granting the nation of Israel deliverance out of the hand of their enemies—mortal enemies, physical enemies, next-door enemies—so that they might serve the God of Abraham without fear, in holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of their life. In the surrounding context, Les notes this is the physical, literal, political aspect of the kingdom, while the spiritual side—being born again to enter the kingdom—must also come together.
That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear,