Isaiah 65:1-7
THE LORD'S REFUSAL... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD'S REFUSAL... [ Continue Reading ]
I am sought of them that asked not for Me, the Gentiles being represented as having access to the Lord and His mercy, although they were not members of God's covenant people; I AM FOUND OF THEM THAT SOUGHT ME NOT, His free grace and mercy being revealed to all men without any merit or worthiness on... [ Continue Reading ]
I have spread out My hands all the day, during the entire period when His covenant relation with Israel was in force, UNTO A REBELLIOUS PEOPLE, stiff-necked and stubborn in all its actions, WHICH WALKETH IN A WAY THAT WAS NOT GOOD, utterly at variance with God's holy will, AFTER THEIR OWN THOUGHTS,... [ Continue Reading ]
a people that provoketh Me to anger continually to My face, with a bold impertinence that challenged the wrath of the Lord; THAT SACRIFICETH IN GARDENS, in groves, after the manner of the heathen, AND BURNETH INCENSE UPON ALTARS OF BRICK, like the idol-worshipers of Babylonia;... [ Continue Reading ]
which remain among the graves and lodge in the monuments, passing the night in hidden recesses, for the purposes of necromancy and Spiritism, WHICH EAT SWINE'S FLESH, a custom which was expressly forbidden in the Ceremonial Law, Leviticus 11:7, AND BROTH OF ABOMINABLE THINGS IS IN THEIR VESSELS, Cf... [ Continue Reading ]
which say, Stand by thyself, thus declaring their rejection of Jehovah, COME NOT NEAR TO ME; FOR I AM HOLIER THAN THOU. Thus the idolaters give voice to the thoughts of their hearts, with whom they no longer desire to be identified, since they consider themselves members of a better religious class... [ Continue Reading ]
Behold, it is written before Me, so that He has it before His eyes all the time. I WILL NOT KEEP SILENCE, this being God's answer upon their final appeal, Isaiah 64:12, BUT WILL RECOMPENSE, EVEN RECOMPENSE INTO THEIR BOSOM, with a thoroughness which they would not be apt to forget,... [ Continue Reading ]
your iniquities and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the Lord, so that the guilt of both would be laid upon them, Exodus 20:5, WHICH HAVE BURNED INCENSE UPON THE MOUNTAINS, in an excess of idolatry which had so often been rebuked by the Lord, AND BLASPHEMED ME UPON THE HILLS, where the... [ Continue Reading ]
Thus saith the Lord, in a parable setting forth His mercy upon His chosen people, AS THE NEW WINE IS FOUND IN THE CLUSTER, as one, upon examining imperfect, unripe grapes, still finds juice in some of the berries, AND ONE SAITH, DESTROY IT NOT, FOR A BLESSING IS IN IT, a wholesale destruction would... [ Continue Reading ]
A REMNANT SAVED... [ Continue Reading ]
And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, reserve to Himself out of the people taken away into the Babylonian exile the nucleus of a Church of the New Testament, AND OUT OF JUDAH AN INHERITOR OF MY MOUNTAINS, since the Messiah, the Ruler of His Church, would be a descendant of this tribe, Cf Micah... [ Continue Reading ]
And Sharon, the fruitful plain along the Mediterranean, SHALL BE A FOLD OF FLOCKS, rich meadow-land, AND THE VALLEY OF ACHOR, near the city of Jericho, sloping toward the Dead Sea, A PLACE FOR THE HERDS TO LIE DOWN IN, where caravans might find a resting-place, FOR MY PEOPLE THAT HAVE SOUGHT ME, the... [ Continue Reading ]
But ye are they that forsake the Lord, that forget My holy mountain, the place of His habitation, where He was worshiped, THAT PREPARE A TABLE FOR THAT TROOP, for Gad, the idol of happiness and good fortune, AND THAT FURNISH THE DRINK-OFFERING UNTO THAT NUMBER, to Meni, who may have been the corresp... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore will I number you to the sword, deliver them to the extremity of a violent death, AND YE SHALL ALL BOW DOWN TO THE SLAUGHTER, to the slaughtering-bench instead of to the loaded banquet-table at the feast of idols; BECAUSE, WHEN I CALLED, YE DID NOT ANSWER, when the Lord sought out those wh... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore, thus saith the Lord God, the all-powerful Ruler of the universe, BEHOLD, MY SERVANTS, the believers, SHALL EAT, enjoy the fullness of God's blessings, BUT YE SHALL BE HUNGRY; BEHOLD, MY SERVANTS SHALL DRINK, BUT YE SHALL BE THIRSTY; BEHOLD, MY SERVANTS SHALL REJOICE, BUT YE SHALL BE ASHAM... [ Continue Reading ]
behold, My servants shall sing for joy of heart, in the happiness which goes with the certainty of being children of a gracious Father, BUT YE SHALL CRY FOR SORROW OF HEART, when despair takes hold of them, AND SHALL HOWL FOR VEXATION OF SPIRIT, when their courage fails them altogether.... [ Continue Reading ]
And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto My chosen, so that the Lord's people would pronounce curses upon the name of the idolaters whenever they think of it; FOR THE LORD GOD SHALL SLAY THEE AND CALL HIS SERVANTS BY ANOTHER NAME, so that they would no longer be obliged to bear the name of the... [ Continue Reading ]
that he who blesseth himself in the earth, calling down some blessing upon his head, SHALL BLESS HIMSELF IN THE GOD OF TRUTH, literally, "in the God of Amen," in Him who fulfils all His promises to His children and executes His threats upon His enemies; AND HE THAT SWEARETH IN THE EARTH SHALL SWEAR... [ Continue Reading ]
For, behold, I create new heavens, the plural being applied to the abode of the blessed in many passages of the Bible, AND A NEW EARTH, Cf Revelation 21; AND THE FORMER, that which was here infested with sin and its curse, SHALL NOT BE REMEMBERED NOR COME INTO MIND, the very remembrance of the sorro... [ Continue Reading ]
THE NEW HEAVEN AND THE NEW EARTH... [ Continue Reading ]
But be ye, the partakers of the glories in this new earth, GLAD AND REJOICE FOREVER IN THAT WHICH I CREATE; FOR, BEHOLD, I CREATE JERUSALEM A REJOICING AND HER PEOPLE A JOY, so that the believers of all times are engaged in praises of Him always, in honor of His works of mercy.... [ Continue Reading ]
And I will rejoice in Jerusalem and joy in My people, in the Church which He Himself founded, this joy of the Lord being apparent throughout the entire Bible; AND THE VOICE OF WEEPING SHALL BE NO MORE HEARD IN HER NOR THE VOICE OF CRYING, the tears over the misery of this earthly life being dried up... [ Continue Reading ]
There shall be no more thence, in the kingdom of the Messiah, AN INFANT OF DAYS, a babe taken away after just a few days of earthly life, NOR AN OLD MAN THAT HATH NOT FILLED HIS DAYS, reaching the full measure of years in accordance with God's creative plan; FOR THE CHILD SHALL DIE AN HUNDRED YEARS... [ Continue Reading ]
And they shall build houses and inhabit them, enjoying the blessings of the Lord in a quiet and peaceable life; AND THEY SHALL PLANT VINEYARDS AND EAT THE FRUIT OF THEM, this expression being used throughout the Old Testament of undisturbed happiness.... [ Continue Reading ]
They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat, so that they will be deprived of the fruit of their labor; FOR AS THE DAYS OF A TREE ARE THE DAYS OF MY PEOPLE, all of them being blessed with a ripe age, as of a cedar or oak, AND MINE ELECT, those whom His mercy has ch... [ Continue Reading ]
They shall not labor in vain, without result or lasting reward, NOR BRING FORTH FOR TROUBLE, their children inheriting nothing but misery; FOR THEY ARE THE SEED OF THE BLESSED OF THE LORD, begotten of the Lord and blessed by Him, AND THEIR OFFSPRING WITH THEM, partakers of the same benefits, which t... [ Continue Reading ]
And it shall come to pass that before they call, the cry having hardly left their lips, I WILL ANSWER, being so desirous of extending assistance and deliverance to them, AND WHILE THEY ARE YET SPEAKING, I WILL HEAR, such being the extent of His good pleasure in His children.... [ Continue Reading ]
The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, pasturing in the same meadow, AND THE LION SHALL EAT STRAW LIKE THE BULLOCK, forgetting his ferocious nature; AND DUST SHALL BE THE SERPENT'S MEAT, or, "and even the serpent whose food is the dust". THEY SHALL NOT HURT NOR DESTROY IN ALL MY HOLY MOUNTAIN, S... [ Continue Reading ]