The Lord's words in Red
My words in Blue
Isaiah for Today and Tomorrow
Chapters 50 - 56
From the New Living Translation CHAPTER 50 1 "The LORD asks, Did I sell you as slaves to my creditors? Is that why you are not here? Is your mother gone because I divorced her and sent her away? No, you went away as captives because of your sins. And your mother, too, was taken because of your sins." God is speaking as AFTER His people Israel and Judah have been taken captive by their lover enemies. God did not put them away into captivity just because He got tired of them, or just at His whim, or just wanting a change of wife, as many men of the flesh have done. No, it was because of their SINS that the Lord had to finally divorce them and send them into captivity. Israel and Judah have SINS that are MOUNTING each and every day, we have turned our back on our God more and more, even when we call our nations "Christian." 2 "Was I too weak to save you? Is that why the house is silent and empty when I come home? Is it because I have no power to rescue? No, that is not the reason! For I can speak to the sea and make it dry! I can turn rivers into deserts covered with dying fish. I am the one who sends darkness out across the skies, bringing it to a state of mourning." God could have saved us from the third world war yet to come. He did save us from the destruction of the FIRST and SECOND World Wars. But the next time around there will be no victory. We shall be DEFEATED! God will NOT save us from defeat the next time around in the THIRD world War! He will allow us to be defeated. He will not rescue us from captivity by our lover enemies. The LORD'S Obedient Servant 4 "The Sovereign LORD has given me his words of wisdom, so that I know what to say to all these weary ones. Morning by morning he wakens me and opens my understanding to his will. 5 The Sovereign LORD has spoken to me, and I have listened. I do not rebel or turn away. 6 I give my back to those who beat me and my cheeks to those who pull out my beard. I do not hide from shame, for they mock me and spit in my face." This was a prophecy applied in the New Testament to Christ. 7 "Because the Sovereign LORD helps me, I will not be dismayed. Therefore, I have set my face like a stone, determined to do his will. And I know that I will triumph. 8 He who gives me justice is near. Who will dare to oppose me now? Where are my enemies? Let them appear! 9 See, the Sovereign LORD is on my side! Who will declare me guilty? All my enemies will be destroyed like old clothes that have been eaten by moths!" Jesus the Christ Messiah will have the VICTORY over His enemies. He DID have the victory of Satan at His death and resurrection, He did lead captivity captive as the apostle Paul put it. Jesus will yet come again in power and glory and destroy those who are destroying the earth. 10 Who among you fears the LORD and obeys his servant? If you are walking in darkness, without a ray of light, trust in the LORD and rely on your God. 11 But watch out, you who live in your own light and warm yourselves by your own fires. This is the reward you will receive from me: You will soon lie down in great torment." Those who will receive light and truth will come to have faith and trust in the Lord Almighty. But those who rely on their own heart and strength, and trust their own fires of power, will be rewarded with torment and destruction. How the book of Revelation brings this out in detail is your to study and read, as I have already expounded it on my website. A Call to Trust the LORD CHAPTER 51 1 "Listen to me, all who hope for deliverance - all who seek the LORD! Consider the quarry from which you were mined, the rock from which you were cut! 2 Yes, think about your ancestors Abraham and Sarah, from whom you came. Abraham was alone when I called him. But when I blessed him, he became a great nation." 3 The LORD will comfort Israel* (*Hebrew "Zion") again and make her deserts blossom. Her barren wilderness will become as beautiful as Eden - the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found there. Lovely songs of thanksgiving will fill the air." Now once more we are transported into the AGE TO COME! The time when Zion, Jerusalem, shall be as a wonderful garden as Eden was at the beginning. It is the time of restitution of all things, the time we have seen portrayed already in many chapters in Isaiah. 4 "Listen to me, my people. Hear me, Israel, for my law will be proclaimed, and my justice will become a light to the nations. 5 My mercy and justice are coming soon. Your salvation is on the way. I will rule the nations. They will wait for me and long for my power. 6 Look up to the skies above, and gaze down on the earth beneath. For the skies will disappear like smoke, and the earth will wear out like a piece of clothing. The people of the earth will die like flies, but my salvation lasts forever. My righteous rule will never end!" There is NO MISTAKING when this prophecy is meant for. It is the end time heavenly signs and a time when death is everywhere, people dropping dead and being killed as like the killing of flies with a killing smoke or spray. It is the time that most of the book of Revelation is foretelling. It is the last 42 months, the 1260 days, the time and times and dividing of a time, as given in the book of Revelation - the very last three and one half years of this age, before the coming of the age to come. 7 "Listen to me, you who know right from wrong and cherish my law in your hearts. Do not be afraid of people's scorn or their slanderous talk. 8 For the moth will destroy them as it destroys clothing. The worm will eat away at them as it eats wool. But my righteousness will last forever. My salvation will continue from generation to generation." Those who love the LAW of the Lord (which seems to be hated more and more today - certainly some parts of it) are not to be dismayed. God will yet have His righteousness proclaimed from Zion and Jerusalem. His salvation will YET go forth to the nations of the earth. Those who preach and teach against the Law of the Lord will be eaten, will be gone from the earth, only righteousness (see Psalm 119:172) and salvation will remain on earth. How we need that day! 9 "Wake up, LORD! Robe yourself with strength! Rouse yourself as in the days of old when you slew Egypt, the dragon of the Nile. 10 Are you not the same today, the one who dried up the sea, making a path of escape when you saved your people? 11 Those who have been ransomed by the LORD will return to Jerusalem, *(*Hebrew "Zion") singing songs of everlasting joy. Sorrow and mourning will disappear, and they will be overcome with joy and gladness." God will come with the might as He once showed against Egypt, when He delivered Israel by His mighty hand. He is the same, He has not lost His power, even though many think He is sleeping. He will come and will deliver His people once more from the land of their enemies. They will come as a huge wagon trail of people marching from Europe and Egypt, from the North and the South, from all parts of the world, as they were scattered by the Beast power of Europe during the last 42 months on this age. They will come with SINGING of JOY, the sorrow will be over, only JOY and GLADNESS at that day. 12 "I, even I, am the one who comforts you. So why are you afraid of mere humans, who wither like the grass and disappear? 13 Yet you have forgotten the LORD, your Creator, the one who put the stars in the sky and established the earth. Will you remain in constant dread of human oppression? Will you continue to fear the anger of your enemies from morning till night? 14 Soon all you captives will be released! Imprisonment, starvation, and death will not be your fate! 15 For I am the LORD your God, who stirs up the sea, causing its waves to roar. My name is the LORD Almighty. 16 And I have put my words in your mouth and hidden you safely within my hand. I set all the stars in space and established the earth. I am the one who says to Israel, 'You are mine!'" The Lord gives Israel, Judah, Zion, the hope of DELIVERANCE. THEY ARE NOT TO FEAR MERE MAN! All they have been given in the end time great tribulation of imprisonment, starvation, death, shall no longer be their fate. The GOOD NEWS is that God will send Jesus back to earth to DELIVER Israel and Judah and Jerusalem from the enemy. They will again be the Lord's. 17 "Wake up, wake up, O Jerusalem! You have drunk enough from the cup of the LORD'S fury. You have drunk the cup of terror, tipping out its last drops. 18 Not one of your children is left alive to help you or tell you what to do. 19 These two things have been your lot: desolation and destruction, famine and war. And who is left to sympathize? Who is left to comfort you? 20 For your children have fainted and lie in the streets, helpless as antelopes caught in a net. The LORD has poured out his fury. God has rebuked them." It is a time when Israel and Judah will look and see that their children are so few it will seem like there is none left. What desolation and destruction it will be, what famine and war. Who is left to comfort you, so terrible will be the punishment of Israel and Judah for their sins. It will need come, God will have no choice, for we are stiff-necked and have kicked our God out of our house. We have said we do not want Him in our schools, our homes, even in our churches, though some be filled, we outwardly profess Him but we will NOT live our lives by His Holy Law and Word. God's FURY will surely come upon us, it is only a matter of WHEN! 21 "But now listen to this, you afflicted ones, who sit in a drunken stupor, though not from drinking wine. 22 This is what the Sovereign LORD, your God and Defender, says: 'See, I am taking the terrible cup from your hands. You will drink no more of my fury. It is gone at last! 22 But I will put that cup into the hands of those who tormented you. I will give it to those who trampled you into the dust and walked on your backs.'" OH, THOSE WHOM GOD WILL USE TO PUNISH ISRAEL AND JUDAH SHALL BE THEMSELVES PUNISHED! God is no respecter of persons! The end time Beast power of Europe as well as the power of the kings of the East, the mighty Soviet Russia, China, India, Japan powers are also great SINNERS and will receive their punishment also. Deliverance for Jerusalem CHAPTER 52 1 "Wake up, wake up, O Zion! Clothe yourselves with strength. Put on your beautiful clothes, O holy city of Jerusalem, for unclean and godless people will no longer enter your gates. 2 Rise from the dust, O Jerusalem. Remove the slave bands from your neck, O captive daughter of Zion. 3 For this is what the LORD says: 'When I sold you into exile, I received no payment. Now I can redeem you without paying for you.'" It is time for Zion, Jerusalem, to rise up as in a resurrection, to be RESTORED, and to remove the bands of captivity. It does not matter or is not accounted on physical flesh or material anything, it is God's WILL only that everything transpired as it did - destruction and captivity and healing and redemption for Jerusalem, from the hands of the end time Beast power. 4 "This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Long ago my people went to live as resident foreigners in Egypt. Now they have been oppressed without cause by Assyria. 5 And now, what is this asks the LORD. Why are my people enslaved again? Those who rule them shout in exultation. My name is being blasphemed all day long. 6 But I will reveal my name to my people, and they will come to know its power. Then at last they will recognize that it is I who speaks to them." The German (Assyria) led Europe will hold oppression on Israel (all 12 tribes) at the end time. They will be enslaved again as like in the ancient enslavement of Egypt. Many will at that time blaspheme Christ, but they will KNOW and SEE the POWER of God, and that it was God who was speaking to them through His prophets (there will be two witnesses in Jerusalem proclaiming the truths of God during the last 42 months of this age, as told to us in Revelation 11) and His word. 7 "How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news of peace and salvation, the news that the God of Israel* (*Hebrew "Zion") reigns! 8 The watchmen shout and sing with joy, for before their very eyes they see the LORD bringing his people home to Jerusalem.* (*Hebrew "Zion") 9 Let the ruins of Jerusalem break into joyful song, for the LORD has comforted his people. He has redeemed Jerusalem. 10 The LORD will demonstrate his holy power before the eyes of all the nations. The ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God." In every age it is most beautiful to have those who proclaim the good news of peace and salvation for individuals and then finally the whole nations of the earth. The watchman (the true teachers and prophets of God) will shout the truths of God, others will when they see it happen, shout and sing with joy. The ruins of Jerusalem will sing forth with joyful song (this is personifying the ruins) as God comforts His people and redeems Jerusalem from the Gentile Beast power. The Lord will indeed demonstrate His MIGHTY POWER to all nations when Jesus returns to redeem Jerusalem, Israel, and Judah. The whole earth will then begin to see the salvation of God. Today that is not so, many nations, many hundreds of millions of people do not know the salvation of the true God, they are deceived by FALSE religions. But the days comes when all false concepts, ideas, and religions will be BLASTED AWAY by the power of the Lord Almighty, and truth and the salvation of God will reign on earth. The knowledge of God will cover the earth as the waters cover the sea beds. So it is written and so it will come to pass. 11 "Go now, leave your bonds and slavery. Put Babylon behind you, with everything it represents, for it is unclean to you. You are the LORD's holy people. Purify yourselves, you who carry home the vessels of the LORD. 12 You will not leave in a hurry, running for your lives. For the LORD will go ahead of you, and the God of Israel will protect you from behind." The times will come at the end of this age that God will tell Israel to leave her bonds and slavery of captivity. She is to cast off Babylon and all the evil it represents. Israel and Judah are now to be once more a holy nation, belonging to the Lord. It will not be a fleeing as running from the enemy, but a fleeing out of captivity from the Babylon Beast power. God will be their PROTECTOR - leading in front and protecting from the rear. We have seem already in Isaiah that there will be an END TIME EXODUS from Europe (Assyria) and from Egypt (the south). It will be an even GREATER Exodus than when Israel left Egypt under Moses. I refer you again to Isaiah chapters 11 and 12. The LORD'S Suffering Servant The prophecy is now stopped for a moment. It is interjected with a prophecy of the FIRST coming of the Messiah. 13 "See, my servant will prosper he will be highly exalted. 14 Many were amazed when they saw him beaten and bloodied, so disfigured one would scarcely know he was a person. 15 And he will again startle* (* or cleanse) many nations. Kings will stand speechless in his presence. For they will see what they had not previously been told about; they will understand what they had not heard about." The First time the Messiah came He was beaten and killed literally in His death of the cross. Yet in the long run of it all, the kings and nations of the earth will stand speechless. They will see and understand the truth of God, the blindness that covers their minds will be removed. Many who did not hear (and/or especially did not understand) the good news of the salvation of God, through Christ, will hear and will UNDERSTAND! CHAPTER 53 1 "Who has believed our message? To whom will the LORD reveal his staying power? 2 My servant grew up in the LORDS presence like a tender green shoot, sprouting from a root in dry and sterile ground. There was nothing beautiful or majestic about his appearance, nothing to attract us to him. 3 He was despised and rejected - a man of sorrows, acquainted with bitterest grief. We turned our backs on him and looked the other way when he went by. He was despised, and we did not care. 4 Yet it was our weaknesses he carried; it was our sorrows* (Or 'it was our sicknesses he carried; it was our diseases') that weighed him down. And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God for his own sins! 5 But he was wounded and crushed for our sins. He was beaten that we might have peace. He was whipped, and we were healed! 6 All of us have strayed away like sheep. We have left God's paths to follow our own. Yet the LORD laid on him the guilt and sins of us all. 7 He was oppressed and treated harshly, yet he never said a word. He was led as a lamb to the slaughter. And as a sheep is silent before the shearers, he did not open his mouth. 8 From prison and trial they led him away to his death. But who among the people realized that he was dying for their sins - that he was suffering their punishment? 9 He had done no wrong, and he never deceived anyone. But he was buried like a criminal; he was put in a rich man's grave. 10 But it was the LORD'S good plan to crush him and fill him with grief. Yet when his life is made an offering for sin, he will have a multitude of children, many heirs. He will enjoy a long life, and the LORD'S plan will prosper in his hands. 11 When he sees all that is accomplished by his anguish, he will be satisfied. And because of what he has experienced, my righteous servant will make it possible for many to be counted righteous, for he will bear all their sins. 12 I will give him the honors of one who is mighty and great, because he exposed himself to death. He was counted among those who were sinners. He bore the sins of many and interceded for sinners." YOU NEED TO READ AGAIN THIS CHAPTER! Let the words sink DEEP into your heart. Meditate on them. Jesus Christ DID ALL THIS FOR YOU AND ME! This is a prophecy concerning the Messiah's FIST coming as SAVIOR of all people, as the REDEEMING SACRIFICE of God, to bring salvation to as many who will BELIEVE and turn to the Eternal ONE in FAITH through Christ. For it is ONLY by GRACE and FAITH that you can be saved. You need to study carefully my study on my website called "Saved by Grace." Through the work and life and death and resurrected interceding work of Christ, MANY can be the VERY LITERAL CHILDREN of God. All this GLORIOUS truth you will find on my website in many various studies. Future Glory for Jerusalem CHAPTER 54 1 "Sing, O childless woman! Break forth into loud and joyful song, O Jerusalem, even though you never gave birth to a child. For the woman who could bear no children now has more than all the other women, says the LORD. 2 Enlarge your house; build an addition; spread out your home! 3 For you will soon be bursting at the seams. Your descendants will take over other nations and live in their cities." After Israel and Judah are depleted in the end time Great Tribulation (as another prophecy says only one in ten will live to see the end of the age), God will give them again children and they shall become many indeed, bursting at the seems, going forth and spreading abroad once more during the new age of the 1,000 years. This has never happened, it is for the new age to come! 4 "Fear not; you will no longer live in shame. The shame of your youth and the sorrows of widowhood will be remembered no more, 5 for your Creator will be your husband. The LORD Almighty is his name! He is your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, the God of all the earth. 6 For the LORD has called you back from your grief - as though you were a young wife abandoned by her husband, says your God. 7 For a brief moment I abandoned you, but with great compassion I will take you back. 8 In a moment of anger I turned my face away for a little while. But with everlasting love I will have compassion: on you, says the LORD, your Redeemer. 9 Just as I swore in the time of Noah that I would never again let a flood cover the earth and destroy its life, so now I swear that I will never again pour out my anger on you. 10 For the mountains may depart and the hills disappear, but even then I will remain loyal to you. My covenant of blessing will never be broken, says the LORD, who has mercy on you." Truly when Christ comes these promises will become reality. For that time forth the bond between Israel (all 12 tribes) and God will be unbroken, as it is recorded in the 34 to 36 chapters of Ezekiel. God's Spirit will be poured out on them and they will have a new heart - a heart of flesh and not stone; the law of the Lord will be written and stamped on their heart and mind. They shall never again go away from the Lord, but shall be faithful servants forever - out into eternity. 11 "O storm-battered city, troubled and desolate! I will rebuild you on a foundation of sapphires and make the walls of your houses from precious jewels. 12 I will make your towers of sparkling rubies and your gates and walls of shining gems. 13 I will teach all your citizens, and their prosperity will be great. 14 You will live under a government that is just and fair. Your enemies will stay far away. You will live in peace. Terror will not come near. 15 If any nation comes to fight you, it will not be because I sent them to punish you. Your enemies will always be defeated because I am on your side. 16 I have created the blacksmith who fans the coals beneath the forge and makes the weapons of destruction. And I have created the armies that destroy. But in that coming day, no weapon turned against you will succeed. And everyone who tells lies in court will be brought to justice. These benefits are enjoyed by the servants of the LORD; their vindication will come from me. I, the LORD, have spoken!" The beginning of the 1,000 year age may not be all peace and safety per se for everyone. Some nations may try to conquer Israel restored to the Promised Land. We see in Ezekiel 38 and 39 that very event being done. The nations to the East - Russia, China, India, Japan etc. will come against Israel after they have been restored and dwell in complete unprotected towns and villages and cities. God will FIGHT for them! Enemies will be supernaturally destroyed! Many more benefits of being the servants of the Lord will be upon all that will obey and serve Him. Invitation to the LORD'S Salvation CHAPTER 55 1 "Is anyone thirsty? Come and drink - even if you have no money! Come, take your choice of wine or milk - it's all free! 2 Why spend your money on food that does not give you strength? Why pay for food that does you no good? Listen, and I will tell you where to get food that is good for the soul! 3 Come to me with your ears wide open. Listen, for the life of your soul is at stake. I am ready to make an everlasting covenant with you. I will give you all the mercies and unfailing love that I promised to David. 4 He displayed my power by being my witness and a leader among the nations. 5 You also will command the nations, and they will come running to obey, because I, the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, have made you glorious. 6 Seek the LORD while you can find him. Call on him now while he is near. 7 Let the people turn from their wicked deeds. Let them banish from their minds the very thought of doing wrong! Let them turn to the LORD that he may have mercy on them. Yes, turn to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. 8 My thoughts are completely different from yours, says the LORD. And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine. 9 For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts. 10 The rain and snow come down from the heavens and stay on the ground to water the earth. They cause the grain to grow, producing seed for the farmer and bread for the hungry. 11 It is the same with my word. I send it out, and it always produces fruit. It will accomplish all I want it to, and it will prosper everywhere I send it. 12 You will live in joy and peace. The mountains and hills will burst into song, and the trees of the field will clap their hands! 13 Where once there were thorns, cypress trees will grow. Where briers grew, myrtles will sprout up. This miracle will bring great honor to the LORD's name; it will be an everlasting sign of his power and love." What inspiring words to read; what teaching of truth there is in those verses. It is God who sends forth His word, who calls and chooses. All His work will bear fruit. But He teaches that His ways and thoughts are NOT the ways that man thinketh. We are instructed by the apostle Paul to have the MIND of Christ - Phil.2:5. We need to read God's word to learn and to see and to understand what HIS MIND AND WAYS ARE LIKE! We are to put away what we think is right or how we looks at things, and we are to find out, search out, the very mind of God. It is the key to true Christianity. There is MUCH FALSE Christianity out there because too many want to make God into THEIR IMAGE, what they would like the Holy One to be like, so they can continue to do "their own thing" - to serve God in the way it is comfortable to them, hence we have dozens upon dozens of "Christian religions" of which most are based upon what seems right to man. Proverbs 14:12 is so very true today. You are called to NOT fall for the falsehood of "your way" and think it will be acceptable to God. It WILL NOT!! When the earth shall be covered with the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea beds, there will be great peace, joy, happiness, and beauty upon earth. Everything will blossom as never before. The miracles of the age to come are mind-bending to contemplate. This will be upon Jerusalem and all ISRAEL! It has never yet taken place but it will in the new age to come. Blessings for All Nations CHAPTER 56 1 "Be just and fair to all, says the LORD. Do what is right and good, for I am coming soon to rescue you. 2 Blessed are those who are careful to do this. Blessed are those who honor my Sabbath days of rest by refusing to work. And blessed are those who keep themselves from doing wrong." The prophecy is CLEAR - it is the COMING OF GOD TO EARTH! And what is it that the Lord picks to give emphasis. You could and probably would pick MANY commandments of the Lord that are being broken today by our nations and other nations. From abortion to same sex marriage, from immorality to drug abuse, from profanity to lust, from hate to child abuse, from killing to stealing, from adultery to the lust for money. But it is interesting that God picks SABBATH BREAKING!! Probably the LAST sin that most would pick for the end time, just before Jesus is to return to earth. But there it is. I did not write it. It has been in your Bible for thousands of years. A prophecy for the very end time. God CRIES OUT for us to HONOR HIS SABBATH DAYS!! THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT IS STILL AMONG THE GREAT TEN COMMANDMENTS. IT HAS NEVER BEEN DONE AWAY WITH OR CHANGED FROM THE SEVENTH DAY TO THE FIRST DAY! The world, the nations of Israel are SABBATH BREAKERS! We are to do what is right and good. God is coming to rescue us from the captivity to come at the end time, and we are to REPENT of sin and of not doing what is right. And ONE of those "not rights" is SABBATH BREAKING! 3 "And my blessings are for Gentiles, too, when they commit themselves to the LORD. Do not let them think that I consider them second-class citizens. And my blessings are also for the eunuchs. They are as much mine as anyone else. 4 For I say this to the eunuchs who keep my Sabbath days holy, who choose to do what pleases me and commit their lives to me: 5 I will give them - in my house, within my walls - a memorial and a name far greater than the honor they would have received by having sons and daughters. For the name I give them is an everlasting one. It will never disappear!" Again the SABBATHS of God are mentioned in this wonderful blessing context. 6 "I will also bless the Gentiles who commit themselves to the Lord and serve him and love his name, who worship him and do not desecrate the Sabbath day of rest, and who have accepted his covenant. 7 I will bring them also to my holy mountain of Jerusalem and will fill them with joy in my house of prayer. I will accept their burnt offerings and sacrifices, because my Temple will be called a house of prayer for all nations. 8 For the Sovereign LORD, who brings back the outcasts of Israel, says: I will bring others, too, besides my people Israel." Once more the Sabbaths of God are pin-pointed in this end time prophecy. You will notice this is one of the verses in the prophets that tells us "sacrifices" will again be offered at the Temple of God. The Ezekiel Temple is yet to be built. And the whole priesthood re-instituted for that 1,000 years. We have in- depth studies on my website on that subject. THE SABBATH DAY COMMANDMENT IS NOT UNIMPORTANT TO GOD. THIS CONTEXT ESTABLISHES IT AS VERY IMPORTANT TO THE LORD!! Sinful Leaders Condemned 9 "Come, wild animals of the field! Come, wild animals of the forest! Come and devour my people! 10 For the leaders of my people - the LORD's watchmen, his shepherds - are blind to every danger. They are like silent watchdogs that give no warning when danger comes. They love to lie around, sleeping and dreaming. 11 And they are as greedy as dogs, never satisfied. They are stupid shepherds, all following their own path, all of them intent on personal gain." WOW! I did not say it. The Lord has spoken it! He tells you in no uncertain way what He thinks of the religious leaders of Israel and Judah. It is plain words. I need not expound it, for it says what God means and it means what it says. Your spiritual leaders Oh Israel are blind leaders of the blind, and both they and those who follow them shall fall into the ditch of destruction and punishment. 12 "Come, they say. We will get some wine and have a party. Let's all get drunk. Let this go on and on, and tomorrow will be even better." They teach and preach FALSE HOPE! They tell you, you can get into the Kingdom of God the way YOU choose, doing your will, the way you decide how to worship the Holy One. They tell you all will be well, so party and party. They tell you the RAPTURE of the saints will keep you from the Great Tribulation to come upon this earth. They do not tell you the truths of God, they say His Sabbaths are not important to observe in this modern 21st century. They tell you homosexuality and lesbianism is not sin. They tell you same sex marriage is fine with God. They tell you abortion is not murder, but free choice. More and more of the "religious leaders" are defiling the holy commandments of God and teaching others to do likewise. They tell you to enjoy the party, it will continue! But you have now seen over and over again so far in Isaiah that the party will end, it will stop, in destruction and death, and captivity for those left alive. But YOU as an individual can stop and can turn in the right direction of the Lord, and whether alive or dead at the coming of Christ you can be in that FIRST resurrection of glory and immortality as described by Paul in 1 Corinthians 15. You can be a king and priest and reign with Christ over the nations of the earth, when the Kingdom of God is established upon this plane, that will be so beautiful in that new age to come. God is working! He is still calling out for ones to be His children NOW, to walk with Him, to serve Him in Spirit and in Truth. Accept Jesus as YOUR PERSONAL Savior and be a child of the Holy One of Israel. ....................... 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