In the Old Testament, we’re promised a “Deliverer” who’s our Anointed and Messiah. The nature of His anointing isn’t with oil—it’s spiritual.
“The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, since the Lord has anointed me to proclaim excellent news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners,” Isaiah 61:1
“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim excellent news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free,” Luke 4:18
“The kings of the earth stand up and the rulers band together against the Lord and against his anointed, saying,” Psalm 2:2
“After the sixty-two ‘sevens,’ the Anointed One will probably be put to death and can have nothing.[1] The people of the ruler who will come will destroy town and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood: War will proceed until the tip, and desolations have been decreed,” Daniel 9:26
These passages declare Jesus is our anointed Savoir who then proclaims these words in Luke 4:18. Christ says He anointed One who’s anointed with the Holy Spirit. Several passages within the New Testament confirm He is indeed the Anointed (John 1:41; Acts 9:22; Acts 17:2, 3; Acts 18:4, 28).
Is It Biblical to Anoint with Oil Today?
Should Christ-followers anoint with oils today? There is not any reason to not as long as we remember anointing with oil is a symbolic act. Nothing in Scripture forbids the act but no scripture commands it either because we’ve the Anointed One who leads us in all truth. He anoints us with His grace and wisdom as mentioned in 1 John 2:20, “But you might have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you realize the reality.”
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