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BEFORE SHE TRAVAILED, SHE BROUGHT FORTH - That is, Zion. The idea here
is, that there would be a great and sudden increase of her numbers.
Zion is here represented, as it often is, as a female (see Is...
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CHAPTER 66
The Finale: The Two Classes and the Prophecy of Isaiah in a Retrospect
1. _The apostates and their wicked worship (Isaiah 66:1) _ 2. _The
remnant suffering and encouraged (Isaiah 66:5) _ 3...
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ISAIAH 66. Here divisions are hard to define. The theme the coming
punishment of the apostates and the coming glory of the pious is
pursued now on one side, now on the other.
ISAIAH 66:1. AN ATTACK O...
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SHE BROUGHT FORTH. This is the birth of the new nation. These are the
"birth pangs" (or "sorrows") of Matthew 24:8. In Revelation 12:1;
Revelation 12:2 we have one part of the type in the person of Me...
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The sudden repopulation of the city by her children. The figure is
taken from ch. Isaiah 49:17-21; Isaiah 54:1; the fact set forth being
the instantaneous return of the exiled Israelites, by which, wi...
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BEFORE SHE TRAVAILED, &C.— Another consolatory argument is here
urged, to those who _reverence the word of Jehovah,_ who form the
_true Sion,_ taken from the sudden and wonderful increase of the
churc...
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2. BIRTH OF NEW ZION
TEXT: Isaiah 66:7-14
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Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was
delivered of a manchild.
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Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen Such thing...
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Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was
delivered of a man child.
She - ZION. Before she travailed, she brought forth. THE ACCESSION OF
NUMBERS, AND OF PROSPERITY, TO H...
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1. WHERE, etc.] RV 'what manner of house.. what place shall be my
rest.' The v. is a strong rebuke of such as, without a really
religious spirit, idly trusted in the inviolability of Zion, and the
pro...
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The *Lord uses picture language to emphasise an important truth. In
real life, for a mother to give birth without pain cannot happen. Were
it to take place, it could only be by the *Lord’s powerful ac...
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ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS
GOD’S PROMISES TO HIS SPECIAL PEOPLE
ISAIAH CHAPTER S 58 TO 66
_NORMAN HILLYER_
CHAPTER 66
The *Lord divides the ‘people of God’ into two types. There are
those...
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BEFORE SHE TRAVAILED... — The mother, as the next verse shows, is
Zion; the man-child, born at last without the travail-pangs of sorrow,
is the new Israel, the true Israel of God. The same figure has...
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בְּ טֶ֥רֶם תָּחִ֖יל יָלָ֑דָה בְּ
טֶ֨רֶם יָבֹ֥
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CHAPTER XXV
A LAST INTERCESSION AND THE JUDGMENT
Isaiah 63:7 through Isaiah 66:1
WE might well have thought, that with the section we have been
considering the prophecy of Israel's Redemption had re...
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GOD'S PEOPLE MADE A BLESSING
Isaiah 66:1-14
The prophet forecasts the advent of a new day, when places and rites
would be comparatively unimportant compared with the condition of the
heart, Isaiah 66...
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This last chapter is confessedly difficult of interpretation. In it
the prophet seems to look beyond all that he has previously described,
and to deal with destiny. He first announces anew the fact of...
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Before (h) she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she
was delivered of a male child.
(h) Meaning, that the restoration of the church would be so sudden and
contrary to all men's opin...
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_Before, &c. This relates to the conversion of the Gentiles, who were
born as it were all on a sudden to the Church of God. (Challoner) ---
Sion furnished the first preachers of the Gospel. (Haydock)_...
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Perhaps the voice here spoken of, means the voice of the gospel: and
the effects of it follow. Quick was the success, when the Holy Ghost
came upon them that heard the voice. Jehovah inquireth whether...
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7._Before she travailed, she brought forth. _Having formerly comforted
believers, that they might not be discouraged by the insolence and
contempt of brethren, whom he would at length punish, and havi...
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Chapter 66 speaks of the judgment that introduces it, and consequently
gives us more historical details. The temple is rebuilt in Jerusalem
(Isaiah 66:6), but Jehovah does not own it, man alone being...
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BEFORE SHE TRAVAILED, SHE BROUGHT FORTH,.... That is, Zion, as appears
from the following verse: lest it should be thought that the interest
of Christ would be swallowed up and lost in the destruction...
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Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was
delivered of a man child.
Ver. 7. _Before she travailed, she brought forth._] _Quum nondum
parturiret peperit; _ understand it o...
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Here begins a new paragraph of the prophet's discourse, containing a
description of the sudden and great increase of the Christian Church,
upon God's rejecting the Jews, and destroying their temple an...
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Before she, Zion, the bride, the Church of the Lord, TRAVAILED, SHE
BROUGHT FORTH; BEFORE HER PAIN CAME, SHE WAS DELIVERED OF A MAN CHILD....
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THE ABOMINATIONS OF A DEAD WORSHIP AND THE BIRTH OF THE NEW CHURCH...
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5-14 The prophet turns to those that trembled at God's word, to
comfort and encourage them. The Lord will appear, to the joy of the
humble believer, and to the confusion of hypocrites and persecutors...
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The whole verse is expressive of a great and sudden salvation, which
God would work for his church, like the delivery of a woman, and that
of a MAN CHILD, before her travail, and _without pain_. The o...
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THE BIRTH OF THE NEW AGE (ISAIAH 66:6).
Isaiah 66:6
‘A voice of tumult from the city,
A voice from the temple,
A voice of Yahweh,
Which renders recompense to his enemies.'
Before she travailed s...
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YAHWEH COMFORTS THOSE WHO FEAR HIM TRULY IN THE FACE OF THEIR
TREATMENT BY THE FORMALISTS. HE TELLS THEM A NEW DAY IS COMING, A DAY
OF GREAT CHANGE (ISAIAH 66:5).
Isaiah 66:5
“Hear the word of Yahwe...
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TRAVAILED
(Isaiah 66:7); (Isaiah 66:8).
(_ See Scofield) - (Micah 5:1). _...
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CONTENTS: Blessings of the coming universal Kingdom.
CHARACTERS: God, Christ.
CONCLUSION: Following the day of Christ's vengeance the sorrows of
Israel will be turned into abundant joys. All the Gen...
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Isaiah 66:1. _The heaven is my throne._ This chapter applies to
Isaiah's time, as well as to future times; and though the Lord
rejected the impure worship of the temple, yet he would dwell with the
co...
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_Before she travailed, she brought forth_
THE NEW ISRAEL
The predictive message of our prophet is now so far advanced that the
future promised is at the door; the Church of the future is already
lik...
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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 66:1 Though the worship of God is violated
now, in the future falsehood will be judged, true worship will spread,
and God will be honored forever.
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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 66:7 Mother Zion gives BIRTH, effortlessly and
instantly, to a new nation (see Isaiah 49:19;...
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SECTION XII.—FINAL THREATENINGS AND PROMISES (Isaiah 66:1.).
EXPOSITION
ISAIAH 66:1
THE UNGODLY EXILES REBUKED
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Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my
footstool: where is the house that you build unto me? and where is the
place of my rest? (Isaiah 66:1)
They're going to build a new te...
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Galatians 4:26; Isaiah 54:1; Revelation 12:1...
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Before — The whole verse is expressive of a great and sudden
salvation, which God would work for his church, like the delivery of a
woman, and that of a man — child, before her travail, and without
pa...