ISAIAH FOR TOMORROW CHAPT. 44 - 46

 

Isaiah For Tomorrow!

There is None Like the Almighty - the Future is His!

Chapters 44 - 46   CHAPTER 44:28 - 45                 The prophecy about Cyrus  The new chapter should start with chapter 44:28. The Eternal gives a prophecy regarding Cyrus, to command the re-building of Jerusalem, the foundations being laid. This prophecy was fulfilled as can be seen from 2 Chronicles 36:22 and the first verses of Ezra. This was a prophecy given YEARS BEFORE Cyrus was born. Of course the scoffers will not admit the book of Isaiah was written before the days of Cyrus, but then again scoffers of the Bible will not admit the Bible Scriptures are inspired. One day the scoffers will be silenced into having to bow the knee before the Lord Jesus Christ. Cyrus was even called by God with his name in advance, way before his birth on earth (verse 4). God thus declares His majesty and power and that there is no other greater than He (verses 5-6).            GOD CREATES EVIL Verse 7 is a mind-bender of a verse! A shocking verse if you please! You will notice God says He is not only the creator of light but of EVIL also! How can that possibly be? The apostle James in his letter tells us that the Lord God temps no one with evil. God does not sit down and deliberately tries to think up ways to create evil! The Most High is PERFECT, HOLY, SINLESS, RIGHTEOUS, JUST, MERCIFUL .... He does not think evil, say evil, do evil. Yet because He created ALL things, He created FREE AGENCY, He created people and angels with the ability to decide to do evil or to do good, to keep His way of life or to go in the opposite direction from His holy ways. The Eternal is the governor of the universe and all in it. There truly is NO other power greater than He. Hence EVERYTHING GOOD OR EVIL, HAPPY OR SAD, RIGHT OR WRONG, IS ***ALLOWED*** by Him to take place. He does not decide to "intervene" and stop all evil things that come on this earth, or evil people from doing evil things. In that decision He has made, to ALLOW evil, He can then be correctly appraised to have created evil. For this age (from Adam to the coming of the Messiah in glory) God has created good and evil by creating "free choice" in mankind and angel kind. When the new age of the Kingdom of God on earth arrives, God has chosen to allow very very little evil on this planet. Satan will be bound up and he and his helpers will not be allowed to send forth deception. We have seen already that when someone is going to sin, do evil, there will be a voice saying to them, "This is the way, walk you in it." It is written people will no more "learn war" and there will also be the very changing of the wild beasts, the lion shall walk with the lamb and a little one shall lead them (refer to Isaiah 11). It will be a time of figuratively, the skies dropping down righteousness, the earth bringing forth salvation (verse 8). It will be a time that will be a "woe" to him that strives with his Maker. The clay should not strive with the potter. It will be a time of "no questioning" the hands of the potter. God is the great CREATOR, AND IS WORKING HIS WORK.   IT IS GOD WHO HAS CREATED THE EARTH AND MANKI/ND ON IT. THE HEAVENS ARE THE WORK OF HIS HANDS (verses 8-12). The prophecy slips back to the man Cyrus, in verse 13. He would do the work of God's purpose. For a while God may be said to be hiding Himself, but the day is coming when He will not be thought of as a God hiding Himself. It will be the day when Israel shall be saved, when they shall never again be confounded or ashamed. The man called Cyrus was to be a leading figure in the restoration of part of Israel after their 70 year captivity in Babylon (which started for Judah in 604 B.C.). In a larger way this Cyrus man stood for the Messiah who would come at the end time to save Israel (all 13 tribes) from captivity, restore them to the Holy Land, and to build THE Temple that Ezekiel talked about, and to restore the Kingdom to Israel that the disciples inquired about from Jesus - Acts 1 (verses 14- 17). HOW THE EARTH WAS CREATED The next few verses give are valuable information on HOW THE EARTH was CREATED! The earth was NOT created in CONFUSION, the same Hebrew words as in Geneses 1:2 "without form and void." It was created to be INHABITED! There was most definitely an age of the "dinosaur." There was an age of HUGE animals and plants. That age DID come to a quick and MASSIVE destruction, even as secular science now admits did happen. There was a space wars on a scale the human mind cannot really understand. The one we now call Satan the Devil, with one third of the angles, REBELLED against God, figured they could take over the heaven of God's throne. This earth came under attack as can hardly be imagined. Exactly all that went on is not revealed to us in detail, but the earth became without form and void, and covered with water ALL OVER! The dinosaurs were extinguished, many buried. The mighty vegetation plants crushed and laid down to be the coal and oil seems of today. It was the time of the WORLDWIDE FLOOD! The worldwide flood was NOT in the days of Noah, but in the days of the star wars between Satan and his angels and God and His angels. All that such books like "The Genesis Flood" "Deluge Story in Stone" and others, have the time OF THE WORLDWIDE FLOOD in the wrong place! The place it should be is in Genesis 1:2, and NOT in the days of Noah. There are many studies I have given to prove that what I've stated above is correct.   The Lord does not always keep silent, He does not always stay hard to find. He has never said to the seed of Israel that to seek Him would be in vain. No, God often does SPEAK UP and does DECLARE things that are right (verse 19). Oh yes, He has done it different ways at different times, but IF you are searching, desiring, seeking Him and His truths, you CAN find Him. It is there to find. Jesus said you shall know the truth and the truth would set you free! You have to do your part, you have to seek righteousness and long with all your heart to be led by the Spirit of God into that which is holy, just and good. God cries out to you, "Look unto Me, and be you saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else. I have sworn by Myself, the word is gone out of My mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto Me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear. Surely, shall one say, in the Lord have I righteousness and strength; even to Him shall men come; and all that are incensed against Him shall be ashamed. In the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be justified and shall glory" (verses 20-25). Indeed, one day all will know God does exist, that He is the Holy One, the Eternal One, the Almighty One, and one day ALL persons that have ever been on this earth shall have to bow the knee to the God of Israel. It is a promise from the Lord and it will be as it is written. There will be no more scoffers one day. God will show Himself and indeed every knee will bow before Him. CHAPTER 46 God tells the house of Jacob and the REMNANT of the House of Israel (remember they are in captivity at the time of the end), those whom He figuratively carried in His womb even to old age. Even now in their time of trouble and captivity shall the Lord bear them up, carry them on, and DELIVER them. The Eternal through Isaiah has said this many times already, but He says it once more (verses 1-4). To give them hope He asks "To whom will you liken Me, and compare Me, that we will be alike?" The nations may set up their gods and idols, maybe even made with pure gold and silver and fall down and worship the things of their hand. They may bear them up and carry them on their shoulders. One may call out to them, but they will not deliver them from the punishment to come and their destruction and captivity. So, in your time of trouble, REMEMBER the FORMER things of old, "For I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like Me. Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I WILL DO all My pleasure ... I have SPOKEN it, I also WILL bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I WILL also DO it! Harken unto Me you bull-headed, that are far from righteousness: I bring near My righteousness; it shall not be far off, and My salvation shall not tarry: and I WILL place SALVATION in Zion for Israel My glory" (verses 5-13). Salvation is NOT in Zion today! Oh, there are some Christians in Jerusalem today, but the Jews STILL by and large, will NOT recognize Jesus Christ as Messiah or as Savior. The day is coming when the whole world will see the glory of God, when He will no longer sit back and mainly watch from the sidelines. It will be a time when surely all will know and see God coming in the clouds of heaven with the angels and resurrected saints. In God's appointed time ALL KNEES WILL BOW BEFORE HIM. All will know He only is the Creator and Almighty. Salvation will go forth from Zion as never before. All that Zechariah wrote about in his chapters 12,13,14, will come to pass. What a blessed day that will be. Come Lord, come! ......................................... To be continued