Isaiah 66:7-14
I looked at these verses
yesterday and once more this morning and I asked the Holy Spirit to open my
eyes to what I needed to understand. This morning I read the thoughts of other
men, men of wisdom and knowledge, and you also can do this. I will not attempt to address verses 7-9, but
would like to look with you at verses 10-14.
Look at verses 10-11,“Rejoice with
Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her; rejoice with her in joy,
all you who mourn over her; that you may nurse and be satisfied from her
consoling breast; that you may drink deeply with delight from her glorious
abundance.” As a follower of Christ, we have our roots in
the promises of God to Abraham and our foundation truths are in the
Commandments given to Moses. As we
examine Isaiah and other Old Testament books, we see the promises of our LORD
to Jerusalem and the chosen people’s Messiah.
Do you recall the promise made in Genesis 12:3, “I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will
curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
The
Jewish people have been used by God to bless all the families of the earth in
so many ways: a leader in health care, in technology, products of farming and
drip irrigation, and how about the cell phone, and so many other things we use
each day. As a follower of Christ, each
of us should pray for the Jewish people and support them against the many who
hate them.
As
we look at the words Isaiah is speaking, they were not only for that time in
history, but to all people and all nations, God is very serious about His
chosen people, today as He was in the time of Isaiah’s writing. Verse 14 states; “You shall see, and your
heart shall rejoice; your bones shall flourish like the grass; and the hand of
the LORD shall be known to his servants, and he shall show his indignation against his enemies.
“ From heavens view, what is the meaning of the word indignation;
righteous anger, why would anyone pick a fight with someone who has the power
and ability to destroy them, and the answer is simple, they have been brain
washed by the one Jesus calls the liar and thief in John 10:10.
Israel has a very special
weapon and it is more powerful than any bomb that has ever been made, and God
is holding it in check until the time is right.
The weapon I believe was used in what is called the six day war, but a
time is coming when Israel’s prince will not be held back by God and the
enemies of Israel will melt in fear of this holy one of God. If you have spent time in the book of Daniel
you know Israel’s Prince to be Michael the archangel. In chapter 12 and verse 1, "Now at that time Michael, the great prince
who stands guard over the sons of your people, will arise. And there will be a
time of distress such as never occurred since there was a nation until that
time; and at that time your people, everyone who is found written in the book,
will be rescued.”
From
the Back Porch,
Bob
Rice
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