Isaiah
Isaiah
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We finished the 6th Chapter
of Isaiah in the last study, and God stated that He had preserved a ‘tenth’ in
the world, representing His elect that are sealed with His Truth. This should be
a comfort for us today, in that this 'remnant' are able to shed light on
God’s Word, helping us to understand what it is our Father would have us do.
It is too bad that the elect have been persecuted down through history, and
in many cases, even by their own deceived brethren. However, this
persecution was written of in God’s Word, and even taught by Christ, so it
is part of the sacrifice that God’s true ones must unwontedly suffer. Now
this doesn't mean to go out looking for danger, not using common sense, and
seek persecution in order to prove that you may be 'elect'. God said He
would never put more on His people than they are able to bear, and always
leaving a way of escape, but if you go looking for trouble, you will
definitely find it, and so we must use the mind God gave us as guided by His
Holy Spirit.
We begin Chapter 7 of the great Book of Isaiah.
This Chapter is historical and prophetical. It shows how God feels when we,
as a nation, and as individuals, rely on anything other than Him. Another
parallel of the sign that God is ‘undefeatable’, as we are also when He is with
us, would be the 7th and 8th Chapters of Judges, and the three
hundred that followed Gideon against the Midianites. Three hundred Israelites against a great host army of thousands,
and these three hundred were given the victory by Jehovah.
This Chapter 7 of Isaiah also reveals a ‘sign’ to
Israel; that being the first Advent of Jesus Christ on earth. You
will not find the Name Jesus Christ here in Isaiah, as in The Gospel,
but the Name 'Immanuel',
which translates from the Hebrew as 'God with us', giving His people knowledge of our Holy Father as the
role of Saviour through His Son Jesus Christ. So many systems of
man confuse the idea that Jesus Christ is God, for they cannot separate
their flesh understanding from the 'spirit' of Truth. This is why Jesus
would say in...
John 14:9: Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? He that hath seen me hath seen the father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
...That if you have seen the Son, you've seen The Father. Even Christ's disciples wrestled with this idea because they believed on Jesus Christ as the Son of God, but they didn't make the 'full' connection between Him and The Father. These examples of even Christ's disciples not understanding His full Mission until after the crucifixion are for our admonition and learning (see
Mark 9:31 – 34: For he taught his disciples, and saith unto them, The Son of man is delivered into the hands of men, and they shall kill him; and after that he is killed, he shall rise the third day.
32 But they understood not that saying, and were afraid to ask him.
33 And he came to Capernaum: and being in the house he asked them, What was it that ye disputed among yourselves by the way?
34 But they held their peace: for by the way they had disputed among themselves, who should be the greatest.
Matt.16:21 – 23: From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go into Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day.
22 Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee.
23 But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest (think) not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.
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