5. Ni bani bashimikila imbila nsuma pa myaka nalimo 2,000?

⁵ Kabili, Yesu asambilishe abakonshi bakwe ukuba bakabila, nelyo bakashimikila ba mbila nsuma. Pa Pentekoste wa mu 33 C.E., bakashimikila ba mbila nsuma nalimo 120 balisubilwe no mupashi wa mushilo kabili basangwike abana ba ku mupashi aba kwa Lesa. (Imilimo 2:1-4, 14-42; Abena Roma 8:14-16) Na bo bene balituminwe ku kubile mbila nsuma ku balanda na ku banakuka imitima. Balya 120 e babalilepo muli ba 144,000 ukusubwa muli uyu musango. Aba kulekeleshako muli ili bumba lya bashalapo bacili abapimpa pano isonde na lelo. E ico, pa myaka nalimo 2,000, abakonshi basubwa aba kwa Yesu balishimikila pa lwa “kulapila kuli Lesa no kutetekela kuli Shikulwifwe Yesu Kristu.”—Imilimo 20:21.

4. Mu kufishiwapo kwa ntanshi ukwa kwa Esaya 61:1 nani atuminwe ku kubile mbila nsuma, kabili nani atuminwe mu kufishiwapo kwa bubili?

⁴ Esaya alemba ati: “Umupashi wa kwa Shikulu Yehova waba pali ine, pa kuti Yehova ansubila ku kubile mbila nsuma ku balanda; antuma ku kukakililako [abanakuka imitima, NW] ku kubilisha kuli bankole ukulubuka, na ku bakakwa ukwiswilwa [amenso, NW].” (Esaya 61:1) Nani uyu uwatumwa ukubile mbila nsuma?