Isaiah 11:1-9
THE MESSIAH, THE BRANCH OUT OF THE STEM OF JESSE... [ Continue Reading ]
THE MESSIAH, THE BRANCH OUT OF THE STEM OF JESSE... [ Continue Reading ]
And there shall come forth a Rod, a fresh shoot or twig, OUT OF THE STEM OF JESSE, out of the dead stock, the stump, of the former proud tree of the house of David, AND A BRANCH SHALL GROW OUT OF HIS ROOTS, Zechariah 3:8; Zechariah 4:12; Jeremiah 23:5; Jeremiah 33:15, the root-stock being all that w... [ Continue Reading ]
and the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon Him, the sevenfold Spirit, Himself God from eternity, lighting or settling upon Him, Psalms 45:7, with the fullness of His divine power, THE SPIRIT OF WISDOM, which searches all things, even the secrets of God, AND UNDERSTANDING, able to make the proper dis... [ Continue Reading ]
and shall make Him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord, literally, His pleasant savor is in the fear of Jehovah, He is highly pleased when men bring to Him the sacrifice of their fear of God; AND HE SHALL NOT JUDGE AFTER THE SIGHT OF HIS EYES, NEITHER REPROVE AFTER THE HEARING OF HIS EARS... [ Continue Reading ]
but with righteousness shall He judge the poor, His Savior's-interest turning especially to the lowly, to those who bear the enmity of the world on account of their faith with the proper meekness, AND REPROVE WITH EQUITY FOR THE MEEK OF THE EARTH, taking the part of those who are persecuted for thei... [ Continue Reading ]
And righteousness shall be the girdle of His loins and faithfulness, upon which His believers may rely with full confidence, THE GIRDLE OF HIS REINS, holding up His clothes at His hips. Even as the girdle confined the wide garments of the ancients and enabled them to work, run, and fight without hin... [ Continue Reading ]
The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them, a figurative representation of ideal spiritual conditions.... [ Continue Reading ]
And the cow and the bear shall feed, all the bloodthirstiness of the latter forgotten; THEIR YOUNG ONES SHALL LIE DOWN TOGETHER; AND THE LION SHALL EAT STRAW LIKE THE OX, his nature so completely changed that he is no longer a carnivorous, but a herbivorous animal.... [ Continue Reading ]
And the sucking child, the unweaned infant, SHALL PLAY ON THE HOLE OF THE ASP, on the entrance of the adder's cave, AND THE WEANED CHILD SHALL PUT HIS HAND ON THE COCKATRICE'S DEN, or, stretch out his arm to touch the sparkling eye of the basilisk, the poisonous serpents having lost all their viciou... [ Continue Reading ]
They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain, all the members of the Messiah's kingdom, whose former state was characterized by the comparison with the various animals named above, would lose and lay aside their hostile habits toward one another; FOR THE EARTH SHALL BE FULL OF THE KNOWLED... [ Continue Reading ]
And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, that same wonderful Scion, the Son of David spoken of in which shall stand for an ensign of the people, a standard raised up to attract the attention of the nations everywhere, directing them to the redemption obtained by the Messiah; TO IT SHALL THE G... [ Continue Reading ]
The Spread of the Messiah's Kingdom... [ Continue Reading ]
And it shall come to pass in that day, in the Messianic period of the New Testament, THAT THE LORD SHALL SET HIS HAND AGAIN THE SECOND TIME, stretching it out as once before when He led His chosen people out of Egypt, TO RECOVER THE REMNANT OF HIS PEOPLE WHICH SHALL BE LEFT, not, only the believers... [ Continue Reading ]
And He shall set up an ensign for the nations, around which all the believers might rally, AND SHALL ASSEMBLE THE OUTCASTS OF ISRAEL, those of His spiritual people, AND GATHER TOGETHER THE DISPERSED OF JUDAH FROM THE FOUR CORNERS, wings or edges, OF THE EARTH, so that they will march under His banne... [ Continue Reading ]
The envy also of Epraim shall depart, this hostility having been the chief factor in keeping up the division of the nation during the time of the kings in the Old Testament, AND THE ADVERSARIES OF JUDAH SHALL BE CUT OFF: EPRAIM SHALL NOT ENVY JUDAH, AND JUDAH SHALL NOT VEX EPHRAIM, that is, the Isra... [ Continue Reading ]
But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Phillstines toward the west, this nation being the embodiment of the fiercest hostility in the early history of Israel; THEY SHALL SPOIL THEM OF THE EAST TOGETHER, the Bedouin hordes of Arabia; THEY SHALL LAY THEIR HAND UPON EDOM AND MOAB, conquering the... [ Continue Reading ]
And the Lord shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea, the fork of the Arabian Gulf known as the Red Sea, as at the time when the children of Israel left the house of their bondage; AND WITH HIS MIGHTY WIND SHALL HE SHAKE HIS HAND OVER THE RIVER, over the Euphrates, AND SHALL SMITE IT IN... [ Continue Reading ]
And there shall be an highway for the remnant of His people, cast up or purposely built for the believers in the Lord's Church, WHICH SHALL BE LEFT, FROM ASSYRIA, permitting the captives to return to their inheritance; LIKE AS IT WAS TO ISRAEL IN THE DAY THAT HE CAME UP OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT. Thi... [ Continue Reading ]