Isaiah
Isaiah
4:1 - 5:13 pages 1-11
Today, we’ll start a new
chapter in the Book of Isaiah, Chapter 4. At the end of Chapter 3, God
described the ‘desolate’ state of Jerusalem, due to the worship of false idols,
and basically, things foreign to The Word of God. The leaders, spiritual
and political, and the deceived peoples, were causing this state of degradation
by not following The LORD. By continuing this state in Jerusalem, they will
allow the ‘abomination of desolation’ written of by Daniel to sit in the
rebuilt Temple on Mount Moriah. The last verse of that Chapter 3 of Isaiah
therefore refers to a condition in the near future. We then continue that
prophecy with Isaiah Chapter 4. We ask a blessing from our heavenly Father in
Christ's Name, Amen:
Isa 4:1 And in that day seven women shall take hold
of one man, saying, "We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel:
only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach."
The analogy
of 'spiritual harlotry' from Isaiah 3 continues, but the analogy here is about
the true Bride of Christ, holding to "one man" as The
Bridegroom, being Christ Jesus. The key word in this verse is ‘seven
women’ who eat their ‘own bread’. This ‘bread’ is spiritual, in that
it means Christ, for He is the True Bread of Life. Refer these
seven in the spiritual sense to God's elect, per the ‘seven thousand’
spoken of in... I Kings 19; ... Where Elijah was reassured of a
remnant by God. The Lord told Elijah:
I Kings 19:18 "Yet I have left Me seven
thousand I Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every
mouth which hath not kissed him."
Again, ‘women’
is used to refer to the ‘daughters of My People’, or the elect. The part
‘We will wear our own apparel’ is put for clothing of ‘righteousness’
in a sense, different from the clothing of the ‘harlot’ of the last
Chapter of Isaiah, which those wear who are ‘in bed’ with Satan by
following him instead of our Father through
Christ Jesus. That harlot clothing is in the spiritual sense,
idolatry, or ‘spiritual adultery’ away from Christ our Lord.
You should realize who that ‘one man’ is
above in Isaiah 4:1, which the ‘seven women’ take hold of, for He is
Christ, and by His Name they are also called. Only by studying God’s Word
chapter by chapter, and verse by verse will you learn to recognize these
spiritual ‘key’ words, or phrases. In this one verse we have: ‘ in
that day’ to refer to the return of Jesus Christ on earth; ‘seven
women’ referring to God’s remnant, or elect; ‘our own apparel’ put
for the righteous clothing of the elect, which is symbolic of good works here
on earth.
Rev. 7:9-17: 9: After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which
no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues,
stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and
palms in their hand. 17:...God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.
Rev. 14:13: And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed
are the dead which die in the Lord henceforth: Yea sayeth the Spirit, that they
may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.
‘Bread’ is put for The Bread
of Life; and ‘called by thy name’ is put for that ‘new
name’ that Christ will write upon His elect in the eternity.
Rev. 3:12: Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of
my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my
God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh
down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.
This is how God communicates, so get used to it, sharpen up;
these Biblical ‘key’ words should