Isa 1:31   And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them."

     ‘Tow’ in this verse is a ‘wick’ as used in a lamp. ‘The maker’ represents God. God is a ‘consuming fire’ you may remember? This ‘wick’ of those who ‘forsake’ The Lord won’t make it under His ‘fire’. Those who are in Christ, and are not deceived by the false one, are the righteous ‘wick’, and will burn with the ‘oil’ of God’s Lamp, the ‘oil’ of His Truth. If you remember the parable of the ten virgins with their lamps, five virgins, the foolish ones didn’t have any spare ‘oil’ (God’s Truth, See Matt.25). Their ‘wick’ was dry when Christ came, spiritually speaking. They were told to go to the market to buy oil by those five wise virgins, and then the Bridegroom came, and the door to the wedding feast was shut. This tells us that there is a definite time limit on how long we have to get the ‘oil’ (God’s Truth), so time is running out for those who let some man do the understanding of God’s Word for them, while they go about their daily affairs thinking they’re saved. That’s the way it is and this is not my opinion, it is God’s Word, like it or not. Luke 13:23-30:Matt.7:21-27:            

As long as you’re trying, that’s the key.

Isaiah Chap. 2:

Isa 2:1   The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

     This first verse of chapter 2 is a repeat of Chapter 1:1, though condensed. This shows that Chapter 1 was an introduction or outline for the whole book of Isaiah. Note this first verse of Chapter 2 as in Isaiah 1:1, states ‘Judah’ and ‘Jerusalem’. This is also true today, for the majority of the Ten northern tribes are not in modern day Israel. It is not recorded that the ten tribes returned to Judea, except for a small number. The subject of the Ten Lost Tribes is a remarkable Biblical and archaeological study, and there are many references in God’s Word that Judah, which includes Benjamin and Levite, were separated from Ephraim which represent the ten tribes of the ‘House of Israel’. God has not lost them.

 

 See Ezek. 37:15-28: Read All. By the resurrection of dry bones, the dead hope of Israel is revived, by the uniting of two sticks.

 

 Ezra: ... 1 Now these are the children of the province that went up out of captivity...

               

Nehemiah: 1-7  6:12 And, lo, I perceived that God had not sent him; but that he pronounced this prophecy against me: for Tobias and Sanballat had hired him. 7:5 ... a register of the genealogy...

 

 So if you have 'eyes to see', God is telling you who resides in Jerusalem in this verse, as regarding His people. It’s the same today, it hasn’t changed all that much. This verse is further proof that The Word is not authored by man, but by God, for how could Isaiah know that Judah would be the representative of God’s people in Jerusalem today, minus the majority of the other ten tribes that were in the northern kingdom of Israel, and taken away by Assyria long ago?

 

Read I & II Kings: 17 Moreover there were at my table an hundred and fifty of the Jews and rulers, beside those that came unto us from among the heathen that are about us. 6 The remnant genealogy from Babylon Back to Judah.

Isa 2:2   And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.

 See Rev. 21: A new heaven and a new earth...