will be established in order to prepare for a 'false messiah' to sit in God's Temple, on mount 'Zion', in the third Temple, now at this time being prepared to be re-built .

Isa 1:28   And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed.

     God is a ‘consuming fire’ (see last verse of Heb. 12). Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and Godly fear.

The ‘transgressors’ are ‘rebels’. ‘Forsake’ means apostate that is, to have once known and worshipped the Lord, but turn away and worship something else. This is talking about the great Apostasy that we are now in today, for many having once searched for The Lord have turned away following their own designs, and the ways of men. Those that are truly trying to find the Lord by studying His Word instead of listening to false traditions will not be harmed by God’s ‘consuming fire.’ Even though we are all sinners, in the sense that none are perfect except Christ Jesus, this is what repentance and the Blood of Christ is for. These ‘sinners’ in this verse refer to those noted in verse 4 of this Chapter 1 of Isaiah, evildoers, corrupters, those that hate God. The ‘consuming fire’ will purify our ‘silver’ and get rid of our ‘dross’. For the evil ones, their ‘tin’ will melt.

Isa 1:29   For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.

     These ‘oaks’ are the idols the ‘corrupters’ chose. ‘Oaks’ represent ‘grove worship’, the carving of graven images in wood, similar to totem poles, for the purpose of worship, the setting up of stone idols in Molech worship, etc.

 

Amos 5: 4. For thus sayeth the Lord unto the house of Israel, “Seek ye Me, and ye shall live:

 

Acts 7: 8 ...And so Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs.

 

This represents all false worship, anything that gets in the way of following the True Christ. ‘Gardens’ allude to the ‘tree in the midst of the garden’, in Eden, the ‘tree of knowledge of good and evil’, which is a metaphor for Satan, the cherub which God originally created 'good'... Ezekiel 28: but became 'evil'. God uses many analogies to make sure we get the deeper meaning, so try to picture these things together: the ‘false tree’, oak grove, false gardens or orchards, idol worship.

Isa 1:30   For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.

     These false idols of wood, stone, etc., don’t speak, they don’t have life, offer no protection, give no blessings, and have no 'water' of that True Fountain of Life that is Jesus Christ.Rev.21 & 22:

 

So why would man follow them instead of the Lord of Hosts Who is the only Living God? Be careful, because these idols can even be your car or your house, or a loved one that you might put first, instead of God. There’s nothing wrong with having those things, as a matter of fact God makes His people wealthy, as long as they do it for Him, and they don’t allow ‘things’ to take over their lives. The more wealth you own in this world, only the more to take care of in this life, and someone else will always be trying to take it away. I can hear all those clichés....'the one with the most toys.. .’, but I don't buy it.  We own nothing in this world.  We are only given the right to possess. Have you ever wondered about how the first land property title came in being?  Who did that first person buy it from? Now I'm not saying go out and sell or give away everything you own, just realize how you can become attached to 'things' in this world that have little importance in the world to come in Christ Jesus. God knows the things we need, and He provides for those who love Him.