Galatians 3:29, "And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise."

 That "promise" of Salvation through Christ Jesus Messiah, first given through Abraham, was by 'faith', and not by the bondage of the flesh (see the study on The Old and New Covenants).

Isa 27:7     Hath He smitten him, as He smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?

     Even though God's People of Israel have also done things to deserve chastisement by our Heavenly Father's Hand, and have been punished for falling away, God has never smitten His "vineyard" in punishment like He has the enemy? What about today? Still, among which peoples on the earth do the majority of God's Blessings rest upon? That's easy. The answer is His that have believed on His Son Jesus Christ as the Saviour. Even the believers of the "house of Judah" in Jerusalem are still under His "strength". Is all that by chance, or luck, as some would say? Which peoples live in the best crop producing lands on earth, with the majority of resources, who accept His Saviour? What happens when peoples of foreign destitute lands begin believing on His Saviour, including the majority of their leaders? Has chaos ever been the result of that Faith on Christ Jesus? Absolutely not! The result of God's Blessings is obvious to a true student of history. Chaos among nations has always been by the enemies of Christ, often through a people's deceived leadership that would disregard God's Word, and thus His Blessings. (Recall Solomon being blessed by God, and then falling from God's Grace; 1 Kings 4 forward, and many of the kings of Judah, and kings of the 'house of Israel'; 1 and 2 Kings). Read All.

Isa 27:8     In measure, when it shooteth forth, Thou wilt debate with it: He stayeth His rough wind in the day of the east wind.

     This verse is still of how God's Hand in chastisement is light upon His own People, compared with what He does to His enemies, and the enemies of His children. But when we, His children need discipline by His Hand, when we see it coming, we may not like it at all ("thou wilt debate with it"), but it's very light ("stayeth his rough wind") upon His own, compared with what His enemies are going to get ("the east wind"). The east wind is symbolic of a very dry and hot wind;

 

 Gen.41:27. And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after them are seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine.

 

Exod.10:13. And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning the east wind brought the locusts.

 

 See the lamentation for wicked rulers;

 

 Ezekiel 19: Read All.

 

 That "day of the east wind" in this verse is also symbolic of God's consuming fire, which will burn off the chaotic elements of Satan's controls over the earth.

 

 Heb.12: Read All.

     Those in Christ have no need to fear that future event of God's "east wind" (consuming fire). Even as Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were protected in the hot fiery furnace of the king of Babylon, Christ was the fourth man in that furnace with them. Their clothes didn't even smell of smoke when they came out of it.

 

 Daniel 3:19-28: Read All.