MESSIAH'S ANOINTING AND MISSION.
GOD'S CONTROVERSY WITH ISRAEL (NOT THE TODAY'S COUNTRY OF ISRAEL, BUT THE TRIBES).
GOD'S CONTROVERSY WITH THE NATIONS.
Isaiah 40:1 "Comfort ye, comfort ye My People,"saith your God.
COMFORT FOR JERUSALEM.
40:2 "Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare (HARDSHIPS) is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD's hand double (IN FULL) for all her sins."
THIS IS FUTURE.
40:3 The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, "Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
QUOTED IN MATT.3:3, MARK 1:3, LUKE 3:4-6, JOHN 1:23, I PETER 1:24.
JOHN THE BAPTIST WAS A TYPE OF ELIJAH.
THIS WAS WRITTEN SIX HUNDRED AND A HALF YEARS BEFORE CHRIST, AND BEFORE JOHN THE BAPTIST.
THE VOICE = THE VOICE OF THE TEMPLE IN CHAPTER 6, CONCERNING THE SCATTERING, AND THIS VOICE OUTSIDE THE LAND CONCERNING THE GATHERING. THE VOICE WAS NOT ISAIAH'S, BUT HEARD BY HIM IN VISION. JOHN THE BAPTIST CLAIMS IT; BUT THIS PEOPLE WOULD NOT HEAR; AND HE WHOM HE HERALDED WAS CRUCIFIED AND HIS KINGDOM WAS REJECTED (JOHN 1:11). THE KING AND THE KINGDOM ARE THEREFORE ALIKE IN ABEYANCE , AND THE PROPHECY YET AWAKE ITS FUTURE FULFILMENT.
40:4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:
THIS WILL HAPPEN WHEN THE NEW EARTH AGE BEGINS.
THESE PHYSICAL MARVELS ARE SUPERNATURAL, AND CAN NEVER BE PRODUCED BY THE SPIRITUAL AND HOLY LIVING OF INDIVIDUAL CHRISTIANS.
40:5 And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it."
THIS IS ALL FUTURE.
40:6 The voice (THIS IS A SECOND VOICE= THE VOICE OF GOD) said, "Cry (SHOUT)." And he said, "What shall I cry?" "All flesh (ALL PEOPLE) is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
IN OTHER WORDS, FLESH IS NO BETTER THAN GRASS.
40:7 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
40:8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand forever."
FLESH DON'T LAST LONG, BUT GOD'S WORD LASTS FOREVER.
40:9 O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, "Behold your God (THIS SENTENCE IS APPLICABLE TO THE GOSPEL BY JOHN)!"
40:10 Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong hand, and His arm shall rule for Him: behold, His reward is with Him, and His work before Him.
REFERRING TO CHRIST.
HE WILL TEACH AND JUDGE.
40:11 He shall feed His flock like a shepherd: He shall gather the lambs with His arm, and carry them in His bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.
HE DOES TAKE CARE OF HIS OWN.
40:12 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
HE CREATED AND BALANCED EVERYTHING.
40:13 Who hath directed the spirit of the LORD, or being His counseller hath taught Him?
NOBODY HAS.
40:14 With whom took He counsel, and who instructed Him, and taught Him in the path of judgment, and taught Him knowledge, and shewed to Him the way of understanding?
ALL WISDOM COMES FROM GOD (PROVERBS 1:7).
40:15 Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, He taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
THE NATIONS, GOVERNMENTS ARE NOTHING COMPARING TO THE POWER OF GOD.
40:16 And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn (FOR WOOD-OFFERING), nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.
CHRIST WAS OUR SACRIFICE.
40:17 All nations before Him are as nothing; and they are counted to Him less than nothing, and vanity (EMPTY).
40:18 To whom then will ye liken GOD? or what likeness will ye compare unto Him?
WHO ARE YOU GOING TO COMPARE HIM WITH?
40:19 The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over gold, and casteth silver chains.
40:20 He that is so improverished (POOR) that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved (NOT FALL OVER; HEAVIER AT THE BOTTOM THAN THE TOP).
40:21 Have ye not known: have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth (THE FIRST AGE BEGINS THE MYSTERY)?
40:22 It is He That sitteth upon the circle of the earth (A COMPASS THAT MAKES THE CIRCLE), and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; That stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
40:23 That bringeth the princes to nothing (PRINCE OF THE AIR IS SATAN, AND THE PRINCES ARE THE KENITES, HIS OFFSPRING); He maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
THE EVIL PART OF THE WORLD WON'T WIN.
40:24 Yea, they shall not be planted (STAND); yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and He shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind (GOD'S VEHICLE) shall take them away as stubble (STRAW).
40:25 "To whom they will ye liken Me, or shall I be equal?" saith the Holy One.
YOU CANNOT COMPARE HIM TO ANYONE OR ANYTHING.
40:26 "Lift up your eyes on high, and behold Who hath created these things, That bringeth out their host by number: He calleth them all by names by the greatness of His might, for that He is strong in power; not one faileth.
HE KNOWS ALL THE STARS; HE NAMED THEM HIMSELF.
40:27 Why sayest thou O Jacob (ALL 12 TRIBES), and speakest, O Israel, 'My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?'
WHY THEY SAY GOD ISN'T FAIR.
40:28 Hast thou not known ? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of His understanding.
GOD NEVER GETS TIRED ; HE TAKES CARE OF THE WEAK.
40:29 He giveth power to the faint (THE WEAK); and to them that have no might He increaseth strength.
40:30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall (WITHOUT GOD'S HELP):
40:31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew (CHANGE FOR THE BETTER IN THE HEBREW) their strength; they shall mound up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint (THIS IS SYMBOLIC TO THE PROGRESS OF EXPERIENCE IN GRACE. AT FIRST WE FLY (II COR. 11:5, 12:11), THEN WE RUN UP (EPH. 3:8), THEN WE WALK (I TIM.1:15).
GOD BLESS
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