We will begin with the very first proclamation that was upon Adam and Eve.

1. God delayed His promised judgment upon Adam and Eve, thus escaping God’s promise of death… for a time, after their rebelling and sinning in the Garden. For God had originally told Adam; “But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” (Gen. 2:17) Since the day of Adam’s sin against God all mankind has been under “the sentence of death” … but God intervened offering a way to cover their sins, that was by the ‘shed blood of innocent animal sacrifices,’ while delaying Adam’s dying.

Yes, Eve and then Adam ate of the forbidden “tree” … but they did not die right away. They were allowed to live for a time because… “Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.” (Gen. 3:21) God providing “coats of skins” represent the very first ‘shedding of innocent blood to cover sins.’

This experience for Adam and Eve must have set the family’s precedent of offering an innocent blood sacrifice to deal with sins, as seen by his son Able (Gen 4:4). Able’s good sacrifice of an innocent animal, shedding its blood was accepted by God, while his brother Cain offered vegetables and it was rejected (cf. Gen. 4:3, 5). So even before the Mosaic law with all of its sacrificial system outlined, God had already made a way for sins to be ‘covered.’

We know that all humans of all dispensational ages possess the infection of “Sin in the flesh” (Rom. 8:3), which then causes all men to commit acts of sinning and to die physically. Thankfully, those who believe are no longer “in Adam,” but now “in Christ” (1Cor 15:22). In Christ they are redeemed, justified, and eternally set free of the penalty for and the effects of ‘Sin’ that brings eternal death.

“For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made (eternally) alive. (1 Corinthians 15:22)

“For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. (Rom. 8:2)

2. The Nation Israel escaped God’s judgment for a time, after generations of unrepented sins, “killing the prophets (of God)” (1Kings 18:4); and then killing Jesus of Nazareth at the cross.

“³² And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man (against Jesus, the Messiah), it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall NOT be Forgiven him, neither in this world (age), neither in the world (age) to come. (Matthew 12:32)

It was in the killing of Stephen, a man “full of the Holy Spirit,” in Acts 7, by which Israel rejected the witness of “the Holy Spirit,” which was unforgivable. With that act, Israel became fallen, blinded and set aside… for a time, before judgment. Thus the “Kingdom to come …on earth” for Israel has been delayed… for a time.

“I say then, Have they (Israel) stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their FALL salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy. ¹²Now if the FALL of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them (Israel) the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?

¹³ For I (Paul) speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles… ¹⁴If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them. ¹⁵For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead? ²⁵ For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in (at Rapture).” (Rom. 11:11-15, 25)

Here the age changed; Israel was set aside and God turned to the Gentiles with a new “gospel of the grace of God.”

3. Here in Lk 4:18-19 Jesus quotes Isa. 61:1 proclaiming good news for Israel and “closed the book,” before ever reading Isa. 61:2 since its words of God's vengeance are not to be fulfilled all at once.

Note that here Jesus stopped reading with Isa. 61:1 and handed the book to the minister; Isa. 61:2 would have continued…

^“19To preach the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of the Lord” (cf. Isaiah 61:2)

This means, God’s vengeance was being ‘delayed’ … apparently in hope that Israel would have received their Messiah.