This One Who Was To Come, was to come as a sacrificial offering according to the prophet Isaiah!
This One was to suffer silently, and it says, not just in the New Testament, but also in the Old Testament that the Lord Our God was “pleased” to bruise or crush this One, to put Him to grief.
Then the Old Testament prophets say both that He will be murdered, and that He will yet live forever! Thus implying some sort of resurrection from the dead! Even in the Old Testament!
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Astonishingly, God tells us that this One Who Is To Come will be, yes truly God, but also a very rejected men. A man so disfigured that people did not really even want to even look at look at Him.
But this Messiah of the Jews would come as a sacrificial offering for your sins and mine, not only of the Jews, but also of us of the nations.
And all of this is foretold in the Old Testament prophets.
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Of course the Jews have long and adamantly rejected the One and Only Savior of the World. So much so that many think the Jews will never turn around to their God. Scripture however says that this will for sure happen. Rabbi Jesus of Nazareth goes even further and says, “For most assuredly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished.” Mtt 5:18
That means that those Old Testament promises of the Jews turning to their Messiah will YET happen.
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In a time of stress, way before the Second Coming, persecution will start world wide on the church first. This will this spread to persecution of the Jews, and in some extreme circumstances the Jews will at last turn to their One and Only True Savior, Jesus the Christ The results will bring about tremendous changes for the good world-wide, for the Jews, for the church, for the gospel, and for the world.
We saw in Part 1 that this Messiah, this Christ who was to come, was to actually be “God.”
The the question comes up, well what sort of “God” is this who was to come to Judea and in the wilderness. The answer in Isaiah 40 is that this is the God who created heaven and earth, stretching out the heaven all by Himself, and measuring dust for the mountains and hills, and on and on.
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Astonishingly, Isaiah chapter 40 tells us very clearly that the Messiah, the Christ, The One Who Wast To Come, was to be God Himself. And It tells where He was to come, that is in the wilderness (unpopulated places) and in, of all places, Judea! And that this would be “good news.”
Further Isaiah 40 tells us that the way would be prepared for God, by one crying in the wilderness!
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Before the end of this present world, even though most miss it, the entire world will turn to the worship of Satan, and his special man, who also called “the beast” and “the man of lawlessness” and “the corpse” and “the abomination of desolation.” IT WILL BAD TIMES FOR THE ENTIRE WORLD, with the surviving Christians who will not worship the beast being protected in “the wilderness.”
But then Jesus will finally come to rescue His own, and bring Judgment on the universe.
So there is also joy among the Christians because they know their deliverance is near.
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God has many ways to make our sins come down on our own ears. One those, which is prominently addressed in Isaiah 24 is the land, the earth, being cursed because of our sins, which of course has been the case from the first.
Of course another way that God sometimes uses to bring the fruits of our sins down on us is of war. Both the gospels of Matthew and Luke make it clear that Jerusalem will be destroyed because of the sins of the Jewish nation in rejecting their own Messiah, Jesus the Christ.
But the gospel discussions of the Destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD also kind of slides into a discussion of the end of the world. Many seem to miss the point, but it seems that the Destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD is also symbolic of the way it will be at the end of this present world.
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Of course these are terrible things that have happened to the Jews, even though significant numbers have been converted to Christ down through the Christian age.
In the end there will be a complete turnaround of the Jews. Jeremiah pictures a day when,
“At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of ALL the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.” Jer 31:1
Of course, that day has not happened YET! It will only happen after a time of severe stress for both Christians and Jews, and of that day it says.
“Thus saith the LORD, The people which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.” Jer 31:2.
This is not about a so-called millennial kingdom, but rather of the time when a very stubborn people at last turn to their own Messiah, and bring about a complete world turnaround for the church of Jesus of Nazareth the Christ of God. Then will be fulfilled what it says in Dan 2:35, that the church/kingdom will “fill the whole earth.”
The full story, of both how the Jews got side tracked, and how at last they will be turned around, is told in my third book, Jewish Chronicles. Available from your book seller.
Many view carbon or carbon dioxide, or “fossil fuels” as the greatest threats to our environment, things demanding immediate action, and a complete turnaround in how mankind thinks and works.
In truth, the greatest threats to our environment are spiritual, not chemical.
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In truth the outlines of our age are much different than what is presented in our propaganda mills.
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Isaiah 24 is called by many “The Apocalypse of Isaiah.” Apocalypse refers to “Apocalupsis” the Greek title of the New Testament Book of Revelation.
In truth, Isaiah 24 does overlap the book of Revelation and other prophecies of the end of this universe.
Isaiah 24 starts off by talking the earth, the entire world, being ruined by its inhabitats.
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It is true that mankind’s sins have always affected our environment.
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