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The Prophet Isaiah
I
would love to start a teaching on the Book of Revelation, but it has come to my attention
that many would not be prepared in the metaphors and symbology that our Lord uses in that
great Book. Why? Because many of today’s Churches don’t cover the Old Testament
anymore. I’m saying many, not all. Even some Churches teach that we don’t live
in the Old Testament anymore, when there is more in the Old Testament that has not
happened yet, even to this day, than given in the New Testament. Our Lord Jesus Christ
even referred many times to the Old Testament in His teachings. Jesus stated the phrase
"Have ye not read!" (Matt.12:3) six different times pointing to six books of the
Old Testament while teaching The Gospel. Jesus Himself sealed every one of the Ten
Commandments in the Gospel.
The above proof of Christ’s teaching from the Old
Testament makes those who would say that "we don’t live in the Old Testament
anymore" look very silly. How do you think they’ll appear to God on the
‘last day’? There will be much shame on that day for those who would rather
listen to the traditions of men, and popular Christian ‘slogans’, rather than
reading God’s Word for themselves, with understanding. Well, why would they be
ashamed on that day, one might ask? Because by not reading and understanding The Word for
themselves, they become open to many false doctrines that are not part of our
Father’s Letter. It then becomes easy for these people to be deceived by any fancy
teacher claiming to teach God’s Word. If you’re not in line with
God’s Word, well, you know whose teachings you’re putting your trust in, the
false teachings of Satan. One might think that it’s not possible for a true believer
in God to be deceived, but our Father has put a test on all those who would come to Him.
Without understanding His Word, you won’t understand the ways that Satan is allowed
to cause deception in the world. The Lord has told us all things in His Word, and that's
how It will come down the line, as written.
There is more to consider speaking of the Old Testament. The Old
Testament prophets referred to the Book of The Law (The Pentateuch, i.e., the first five
books of the Old Testament), no less than 1,531 times.1 So that made The
Law included with their prophetical Books (which of course are The Lord’s Words).
Jesus Christ was the True Author of the Book of Revelation ‘which God gave to
Him’, as stated in Rev.1:1, so again, that pretty much covers the whole Bible,
from Genesis to Revelation, not just the New Testament, that we are to study. It all adds
up to this: The Holy Bible, all of It, is The Word, and we are to ‘eat It’,
‘consume It’ in our heart and mind, for that Holy Word is Jesus Christ, The
Bread of Life (John 1; John 6:35 & 48). So don’t let any man, not this man or any
other, a Church 'system', theology, etc., tell you that "you don’t have to read
all of God’s Word", for they are either in ignorance, or aim to purposely
deceive those who would understand The Word. And this because those meant to understand
would be able to verify what they’re being taught, man’s doctrine, or God’s
Word. Some would say, "Oh, my preacher wouldn’t deceive us, he’s so sweet
and nice, and we all just love him." Really? Let me ask you this. Will that preacher
be standing there on ‘judgment day’ next to you, backing you up before God, when
you’re asked by The Lord, "Well, I sent this Letter to you, but you
never read It. You let some man tell you what It says, listening to ‘mammon’
instead of your Father. If you had read It, or at least went back and checked that man
out, you would have known that I allowed many false teachers in the Church, to separate My
people from the false ones. You then would have known which Church to attend that was
teaching My Word. Why have you disobeyed Me?" (see Acts 20:28-31; 1 Timothy 4; 2
Peter 2 and 2 Cor.11 if you doubt this can happen in God's Churches).
Get the idea? I hope so.
These are all reasons why I want to do a study in the Old Testament, chapter by chapter,
and verse by verse, so that God’s Word flows in the mind, and not man’s word.
The Old Testament prophets help to open up The Gospel of Jesus Christ, and The Book of
Revelation.
The Book Of Isaiah:
We
begin this study with The Book of the prophet Isaiah. The period is approximately from 649
- 588 B.C. The word Isaiah in the Hebrew, means "The Salvation of Jehovah".
The Book of Isaiah is quoted much in the Gospel, and Jesus Himself would read from Isaiah
in the Temple at Isaiah Chapter 61. (Jesus didn’t complete the reading of the 2nd
verse in Chap. 61 while in the Temple, for it wasn’t time for His second coming. Luke
4:17-21; Isaiah 61:1-2). This is a long book, 66 Chapters, so here we go. We ask a Word of
Wisdom from our Father in Christ's Name, Amen:
Isaiah 1:1
The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and
Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
These
are Kings that were in existence during that time. Note the distinction ‘kings of
Judah’.
(I did the Lost Tribe studies
so you would understand this marker of 'kings of Judah', and other terms in
Isaiah, such as 'house of Judah', 'house of Israel', 'Samaria',
'Ephraim', etc. Might want to check those studies out).
Isa
1:2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have
nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against Me.
This
is also the way the Song of Moses starts in Deut. 32:1. This is God speaking out to the
whole earth, to all. God is the Father of all ‘souls’. He ‘nourished’
us, and now they have outright rebelled against Him. Don’t think that He is talking
about those during the time of Isaiah only. All you need to do is look around today. The
rebellion against Him is not hard to see. This great nation of America has just about
taken God’s Stamp off its heritage. Even Paul would tell us in I Corinthians 10 how
the events in The Old Testament are examples for us, revealing a blueprint for the things
that would befall us in the end time. Consider the following:
1 Cor 10:11
Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are
written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
So
don’t allow any man to tell you that we don’t live in the Old Testament anymore.
The Books of the prophets are history, but also a mold for a repeating history, "what
goes around, comes around" type. This is the key to understanding Old Testament
prophecy, for much of the Old Testament is future yet. We’ll see this more and more
as The Book of Isaiah contains passages that do not mix with even Isaiah’s time or
era.
Isa
1:3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but
Israel doth not know, My people doth not consider.
God
is saying that His people do not know Who feeds them, (physically and spiritually); they
don’t even stop to think about where the blessings come from, but even dumb animals
do know from where and who feeds them. His children when they are rebellious against Him,
are dumber than animals in this sense. That’s what He’s saying. This should
start to reveal to you that God has feelings; and His children hurt Him when they
don’t seek and follow Him. We were made in His Image, remember? Most people know
their paternal mother or father, but what about the Father of your soul? Often people
mistakenly apply thanks to their paternal parents when the thanks should go to our Father,
in heaven, everyone's original Father.
Isa
1:4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers,
children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One
of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
God
is angry about us leaving Him for man’s little self-serving turmoil. This ‘seed
of evildoers' has replaced God with man’s philosophy and idolatry. They believe
they can go it alone and figure out the mysteries of life on their own, without God. They
present science in replacement for the knowledge of our Holy Father, and much of their
truth is false science, as in the case of ‘evolution’. Even though there is no
archeological support of evolved species over time, or even physical ‘states’ of
the changing of evolution going on today, from specie to specie development; the pseudo
scientists still expect us to believe it, for the sake of science. Be careful friend, for
these kind of falsehoods are happening in the spiritual field today too, and they expect
you to swallow them also.
Isa
1:5 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the
whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
The
rebellious say, "Well why should God go on punishing us? What’s He got against
us?" And God is replying , "If I don’t put a stop to it by punishing you,
you’ll ‘revolt more and more’. Your leaders are sick; their noodles are
overdone and there is no brain left in them. The heart is weak from rebellion and will
turn to anything that is evil." Hey, in case you don’t recognize it, The LORD is
reacting just like a true Father when His children get out of line. Cross that line too
far, and He’ll disown you.
Isa
1:6 From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no
soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not
been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
Our
Father can get pretty graphic if needs be. Too bad many teachers are afraid to teach our
Father’s Word, even the graphic parts. They are so careful not to offend, afraid
they’ll lose their flock. I guess they’re too good to teach even God’s
graphic Word. Our Father teaches this way for a purpose; to get our attention! It shows us
how He feels! When He speaks this way, it is really time to perk up and pay attention. If
we don’t pay attention, you know what's next? A strong boot, fast as
lightning, never seen, but oh how it will be felt! The sad part is that the 'boot' isn't
enough for many people.
Can you believe it? God is saying we are like ‘open
sores’, untreated pus infected sores, when we don’t follow Him. This is how He
is relating our spiritual status to Him in that state of rebellion. "Well, how does
this state come about?," some might ask. By not reading and understanding His Word,
Biblical illiteracy, that’s how. No one is perfect; that’s why He sent His Son
Jesus Christ. As long as we repent of our sins, and attempt to get into His Word and try
to do what God wants us to do, our sins are wiped away, daily if we repent daily.
Believing on His Son and getting baptized is the first easiest step, but don’t stop
there, the real work has only begun. The better we understand God’s Word, the more He
will put us to work in the ‘field’, in His service. If we just go to Church and
sit on a bench, saying how wonderful a service that was, going home, never cracking His
Word open, but returning back to our little daily rat race, we are in rebellion and are
about to get the belt across our rear, spiritually speaking. How could we be of service to
God in that light? These don’t know what their Father wants them to do, because they
haven't read It. Haven’t you heard there’s a war on? It’s a spiritual war,
and like it or not, we are all on sides, no neutrals. Which side do you want to be on?
Isa 1:7
Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with
fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as
overthrown by strangers.
America
has always been blessed. Its resources have been overwhelming. Our rich history shows the
presence of God throughout; the writings of our past leaders show it, but today, something
has changed. Our leaders today have opted for ‘political correctness’ doctrines
over God’s Word. Most of those socialist doctrines are foreign to America; they never
used to have much existence here. Overwhelming crime in the cities, diseases that we ought
to have the technology blessings to cure, all refer to the ‘burning with fire’
in this verse. The ‘New World Order’, which will grow to become the New
‘Babylon’ one world government, or ‘beast’ system of Revelation 13 -
18, is part of the old Sodom and Gomorrah system. Our leaders won’t talk of this
group, but the participation of many with that false doctrine is obvious to anyone with
common sense. They are ‘strangers’, invaders, and the remnant knows it, and can
see their presence, right amongst us. Unfair trade and the selling off of America, erosion
of our Constitution, which is based on God’s Word, nah, sure..., we don’t live
in the Old Testament anymore, but God speaking through Isaiah is hitting pretty close to
the state of affairs today.
Isa 1:8
And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge
in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
This
word ‘cottage’ means a ‘shanty’ out in a work field.
Our cities have been sieged if you look close enough. How much money have we given the IMF
(International Monetary Fund) lately? It seems that after each war America is involved in,
a mass amount of our wealth trods overseas. Who pays this bill? The taxpayer of course.
What are we left with? A shanty, a shack in a cucumber field left to ruin after
harvest, meaning after we’ve paid our bills, taxes, even the interest on our national
debt. (Interesting that God would use this analogy, it fits perfectly today.) Don’t
get too upset, after all, it’s part of God’s Plan. These events are to allow
Satan’s ‘New World Order’ to come into being. Remember God’s original
message when we started this Chapter; His children are rebellious, and this is all
punishment indeed.
Isa 1:9
Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should
have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.
This
was quoted by Paul in Rom.9:29 also. What’s God saying here? If it weren’t for a
'small remnant’ of God’s elect that are helping to keep some
resemblance of order, we should be as Sodom and Gomorrah. If you’ll recall, Sodom and
Gomorrah held doctrines that made things natural into unnatural, doctrines against
humanity such as homosexuality, and whatever was wrong and evil, they taught was good and
just, and visa versa. These liberals today who speak out against Christianity don’t
realize how close to the edge of destruction they’re treading. Recall Matt.24:22,
which says that if the days weren’t shortened for the elect’s sake, there should
be no flesh left? This verse here in Isaiah gives a definite link to the end time, our
time. In case you haven’t figured out what I’m talking about, God destroyed
Sodom and Gomorrah, after He had rescued the only righteous remnant from it (no
"secret rapture" illusions here, please). Lot’s wife turned back to view the destruction against
God’s commandment and was turned to a pillar of salt. She evidently was going to miss
that life. She also was originally of that Holy remnant being led out of Sodom and
Gomorrah. Could this represent the unforgivable sin that only the elect can commit when
they are delivered before Satan’s New World Order system to give
‘testimony’ for God, by refusing to allow the Holy Spirit to speak through them?
You decide. (See Mark 13; Matt. 24; Luke 21)
Isa
1:10 Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of
our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
God
is telling the Israelites, and us today to listen up, to what; His Word, not man’s
word. Notice He calls the state of affairs like unto Sodom and Gomorrah. Again, look
around toady if you think this is not pertaining to our time also. This message is
especially for our leaders, spiritual and political alike, for the priests of Israel were
to be consulted on statehood. They were then to ask God’s advice on the running of
affairs. How is it done today friend? Do our political leaders consult Church leaders, and
if and when they do, are our Church leaders up to the chore? The beginning session of
Congress is not started with a prayer to God for nothing. Our forefathers made that a
requirement in our Constitution, because they knew that God belongs in the affairs of men.
Look on your U.S. currency; it says ‘In God We Trust’. The Word of God is what
made America great, not a bunch of puffed up liberal philosophers that want to remove God
from among us.
Isa 1:11
"To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto
Me?" saith the LORD: "I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of
fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
Isaiah
is directly quoting from our Father here. At the time of Isaiah, Jesus Christ had not come
yet, so the daily sacrifice was part of the Law. But yet, God is telling them He’s
tired of their sacrifices and burnt offerings. Why? Because The LORD wants our love, not
the blood of animals. This verse destroys the idea the higher critics pronounce, that
Jehovah is a bloody God; but He is instead, a Loving and Just Father. He is saying to the
Israelites that their sacrifices are null and void, because they have not shown Him love
and respect, but they live according to their own hearts, stretching out God's Word into
as much ritual dogma as they can. The fact that God sent His Son, doing away with the
daily oblation animal sacrifice is living proof that He wants our love instead of blood
sacrifices.
Isa
1:12 When ye come to appear before Me, who hath required this at your hand, to
tread My courts?
God
is asking these spiritual leaders, "Who asked you to set up your own Church creeds
and doctrine?" The word ‘tread’ is Hebrew ramas, meaning to
‘trample on’, or to profane. God is angry because the spiritual leaders
profane His Temple with their little doctrines of men, and methods that He did not teach.
They ‘profane’ the Temple (this means the Church also) with their little Easter
egg rituals and the like.
(The word ‘Easter’ in Acts 12 is not in the
original manuscripts. This was added by man. The Greek word there is pascha,
meaning Passover. Most Churches celebrate Easter, which came from the pagan ritual
of 'Eostre', as the time of Christ’s resurrection, but Christ became our Passover
Lamb as written in 1 Cor.5:7.)
Isa 1:13
Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto Me; the new
moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is
iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
Isa
1:14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts My soul hateth: they are a
trouble unto Me; I am weary to bear them.
God
is sick of all this playing religion stuff. The phrase ‘I cannot away with’
means ‘He is not able to bear them’. God wants us to come to Him ‘in spirit
and in truth’ (John 4:23), not by man’s solemn feasts and holidays that the
Father did not set up. He hates the use of incense in religious practice, for that was
done to appease the gods in pagan worship, making a pleasing aroma, to set the tone of the
religious experience, driving the emotions high.
Don’t get me wrong, He wants us to feel joy when we
are in good standing with Him, but have you ever been to a spiritual meeting in a Church
or elsewhere, where all they did for the first couple of hours was to try to raise
everyone’s emotional state, before they ever got to actually teaching from God’s
Word, if at all? Be careful friend, because when the emotions take over the mind,
you’re opening yourself up for many things that don’t belong to God. This
phenomenon is called ‘mysticism’, which advocates a ‘direct’
experience of God, and I mean that in the sense of the psychic realm. Our closeness to our
Father should be in the sense of studying His Word, and praying to Him. If we have any
vision or dream from Him, it will be when He causes it, and not all the altered state
producing effects that man causes, such as eastern meditation, incense burning, chanting
vowel sounds, saying the same prayer over and over until our senses are numbed, thus
opening up that psychic world. Anything in the Church that gets in the way of hearing the
Word of God with understanding, is heathenism!
Isa
1:15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide Mine eyes from you: yea,
when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
Our
Father knows what we need before we even ask. He knows our hearts and minds that well. So
what is the purpose of repeating a prayer over and over, or making long prayers with the
idea that if we don’t verbalize all of our thoughts, it won’t be heard,
as if we were waiting for a miraculous sign from heaven to show that He did hear us? Is
prayer more effective with our Father if we hold up our arms to the heavens while we make
supplication? We should make our prayers to Him short, with respect and humility, showing
our faith in Him that He will answer and do according as it is His Will, not ours. Also if
a person thinks to pray all the time, wanting guidance in the smallest of matters instead
relying on His Word and Holy Spirit as Guide, might it show that person may not be a good
vehicle for God to use, alluding to the lack of their faith and understanding? Don’t
get me wrong, repentance is necessary, but we can overdo much asking of The Father of
things that have nothing to do with repentance. Understand The Word, then do It, and God
will bless, giving you what is necessary, and then some, if you’re in the
‘field’ doing His Work, and many times without us even asking.
Isa 1:16
Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before Mine
eyes; cease to do evil;
Wash
who? Make who clean? Each one of us, individually, that’s who, and He's not talking
about with physical soap, but with 'spiritual soap'. Many things in the assembly are
taught as being from the Word, and they're not in It. God is saying that each one of us
has a personal responsibility to Him. If we follow man’s system and doctrines, He
will still hold each person responsible, because He gave This Letter to each person,
allowing us to know the difference between good and evil. Have you read It lately? Are you
using His Word to clean with, or man's?
Isa 1:17
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless,
plead for the widow.
Follow
The Lord, seek righteous thinking in daily dealings with the world. Stand up and make a
difference. That’s what God is saying. "Well, how do we know righteousness, and
to be able to make fair judgments?" Study The Word, that’s how we’ll know.
Christ is our Daily Bread, literally! That means The Word, for Jesus Christ is That Word.
(See John 1).
Isa
1:18 Come now, and let us reason together,", saith the LORD: "though
your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson,
they shall be as wool.
‘Let
us reason together’ means ‘let’s settle the matter’.
Even though our sins are great, He will forgive us if we return to
Him, because He loves His children. God is saying ‘reason’ with His Letter He
gave to us, use It for guidance. Don’t wait until you can get your life and sins in
order by yourself before you turn to God; it won’t happen! Christ is the only One Who
walked in the flesh and did not sin. "Well I've just got to get my life in order and
get rid of these bad habits that's so hard to break, before I can become a
Christian," some might say. Sorry friend, you don't have enough time in this short
existence on earth. We are going to sin as long as we’re in the flesh.
That’s why He sent His Son and Christ claimed the victory over Death for us. This is
a personal message for each one of us, from our Father. If you make an effort to come to
Him, He will help you get rid of all that old 'baggage' of sins you've been toting around.
Isa 1:19
If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
His
blessings become ours if we are ‘willing’ and
‘obedient’. Again, by studying His Word is how we learn to do this. It all comes
down to "if...". Don’t worry too much if you fail sometimes, that is what
Christ died for. Be wary of guilt trips which can stump your growth in The Word. Ask
forgiveness, and you’ve got a new start. A habitual sinner is one who doesn’t
come to God for guidance, but tries to go it alone. They believe on themselves and
practice a type of atheism, and try to develop their own sense of morality. This doesn't
mean we can keep on sinning either. Don't misunderstand me. Our Father knows when we
are not sincere with Him, there's no fooling Him. If you truly want to come to Him, and
believe on His Son Jesus Christ, know that there is a commitment involved, just as in real
life.
Isa
1:20 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword:
for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
Here’s
the other choice of non-commitment to our Father. That’s right, choice. That’s
what it all boils down to. If you believe in God, but are apostate, i.e., rebellious, you
have made a choice against Him. There is no in-between. As Jesus would say in Rev 3:16:
"So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of
my mouth." To refuse God, and not study His Word, even if you believe, means you
have chosen Satan, because Lucifer is the author of ‘confusion’ and that’s
what the word ‘babel’ and Babylon means. And by not understanding The Word for
yourself, means you’re in a state of ‘confusion’; it’s that simple.
Hey, this is not my opinion, or idea. I am not the author of It. What is this ‘sword’
The Lord is talking about? You’ll find It mentioned in Rev.1:16, and it is a ‘two-edged
sword’ that cuts both ways. It is this ‘sword’ that the True
Christ will defeat Satan with, and all those that refuse Him by worshipping 'a pseudo
messiah' (Matt.24:24 per the Greek), who comes before our Lord Jesus Christ. Those
who truly love The Lord, but are too busy or wrapped up in this world to study His Word,
that same Word becomes a ‘stone of stumbling’ to them. Hang on to that idea. It
will come up later in the eighth Chapter of Isaiah.
Isa
1:21 How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment;
righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
The
word ‘is’ means, ‘is it that she’ in the context of
this verse, so reading it again: ‘How is it that she (Jerusalem), the faithful city,
has become a harlot!’ God is checking you out to see how much you know of His Word
with this verse, for He has foretold us ‘all things’. (John 14:26; Mark 13:23).
He is calling our ‘remembrance’ of former things. God is asking us how Jerusalem
and His children came to this horrible state of ‘confusion’ and rebellion; in
other words, what events led to this condition? God’s most favorite place on earth is
Mount Moriah in Jerusalem. This is where God’s Temple was built by Solomon (2
Chr.3:1). The ‘harlot’ He refers to is ‘MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT,
THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH’ of Rev.17:5. (Hey, that’s
the last Book of The Holy Bible. I guess that makes Isaiah part of Revelation then....the
critics are not going to like this!) This ‘harlot’ is the apostate Church,
in rebellion, who will wrongly worship 'a pseudo messiah', i.e. Satan, when he comes prior
to Jesus Christ, in person, to earth, setting himself up in the Temple of God, (in
Jerusalem), and proclaiming himself to be God (See 2 Thess. 2; Matt. 24; Mark 13; Luke 21;
Isaiah 14; Ezekiel 28; 31; Revelation 12 - 18).
But who are these ‘murderers’? Well who was
the first murderer? Cain, who murdered his brother Abel (See John 8:44). And the offspring
of Cain are the Kenites (look up the word Kenite in your Strong’s, no. 7014). These
are the ‘murderers’ that have taken over Jerusalem, and the Temple, even
as Christ would say in Matt.23:2, ‘the scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses’
seat:’ The seat of Moses means The Law, God’s Law. These murderers
had their start in the garden of Eden with Satan, and they help set up the New 'Babylon'
World Order, preparing the re-built Temple, in Jerusalem, for Satan to sit in as its head.
What a fantastic verse! God just covered the timeline from Satan’s offspring in the
garden to his false kingdom that is yet future to us written in Revelation 13-17.
This seems a good place to stop for now. I hope you get the
message of how The Lord is hurt by His apostate children. What a wonderful teaching this
Book of Isaiah is for the times we are living in. Wait ‘til the 13th and
14th Chapters. We’ll find out that this apostate Jerusalem is the center
of the future Babylon, and God will give us the identity of the Assyrian of the future,
for he will be Satan. The 14th Chapter will confirm that the historical
Assyrian of Isaiah’s time was but a ‘type’ of the role Satan himself will
play in the near future.
Peace be with you in Christ
Jesus,
Dave Ramey.
Footnotes:
1 The
Companion Bible. Kregel Publishing, Grand Rapids, MI, 1990), Ap.92.
All references to "Strong's nos." are from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance,
PC Study Bible, Biblesoft, 1993-1996.
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