The Branch of the Lord

Isaiah 4:1 (ESV) And seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, “We will eat our own bread and wear our own clothes, only let us be called by your name; take away our reproach." 2  that day the branch of the Lord shall be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land shall be the pride and honor of the survivors of Israel. 3 And he who is left in Zion and remains in Jerusalem will be called holy, everyone who has been recorded for life in Jerusalem, 4 when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and cleansed the bloodstains of Jerusalem from its midst by a spirit of judgment and by a spirit of burning. 5 Then the Lord will create over the whole site of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud by day, and smoke and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory there will be a canopy. 6 There will be a booth for shade by day from the heat, and for a refuge and a shelter from the storm and rain.

     That passage is prophecy. "The Branch of the Lord" is God in the flesh called Jesus. Isaiah reveals the time when Jesus would be glorified. "Glorification", according to most sources, is becoming perfect. Jesus was already perfect in Spirit but retained his "human flesh". Hence, Jesus's glorification was a completion. His human flesh became divine. Just when did that happen? When he came into the presence of God. That is "Glory" or the High Heaven where God resides. It is the Kingdom of God.
     Psychologists write of self-actualization. There is only one person in history who was capable of actualizing Himself. When Jesus was glorified, God was actualized or became complete within Himself. He returned to perfect Mind, Body, and Spirit; not that those were ever imperfect, but they were not together in presence since the Garden of Eden. God's Existence was Actualized when Jesus was Glorified. He was transformed again, in finality what happened to Jesus at the transfiguration, only this time permanent!
     We know that after Jesus's resurrection, that his body changed:

John 20:17 (KJV) Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.

 
     The Law required that the dead not be touched (Num 19:11). Jesus had died, hence he must not be touched. Note that Thomas never touched Jesus, he was only challenged to. He believed without touching. In the case of people, they would be unclean for seven days but for Jesus, he had to remain clean until he was in the Presence of the Father for there he would be glorified. That flesh which Thomas doubted was scarred. In Glory the "flesh" of Jesus would be uncorrupted, and never again were his scars mentioned!

1 Corinthians 15:52 (KJV) In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.

     It then appears that Jesus was glorified when he ascended to God in Heaven where he would be "beautiful and glorious" just as the dead saints will be when they ascend to Heaven! Hence, those things of which Isaiah spoke were coming after Jesus ascended.
     At that time, the Lord would wash away Zion (Israel of more specifically Jerusalem) with a "spirit of burning". I believe that was when Jesus descended after his glorification in the form of the Holy Ghost as can be seen from the following:

Acts 2:2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. 3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. 4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost...

     Jesus came back to wash away the "filth of Zion" of which the seven women (or seven churches of Revelation) were typical as can be seen by the general description of women (Zion) in Isaiah chapter 3. Finally, the Lord would protect Jerusalem with the same presence that He always kept the Hebrew people safe: a cloud by day, and smoke and the shining of a flaming fire by night, just as he had done in the forty-years in the wilderness using the guidance of Moses. That protection is the Comforter - the Holy Spirit!
     Jerusalem is still Holy Ground. It was holy at the Creation because therein was the "foundation of peace" which is the meaning of the word "Jerusalem". Nations don't fight for Jerusalem without a reason; it's because it was where God walked in His Garden. The Voice spoken there was Jesus before he was made flesh, and is the same place as when Jesus's corruptible flesh was replaced by incorruptible. God protects Jerusalem and the Jewish people; for over it is an invisible canopy "for shade by day from the heat, and for a refuge and a shelter from the storm and rain."
     It was noted above that God in the Flesh or Jesus was the Branch of the Lord. In Heaven, that "Branch" was reunited and was the Tree:

Rev 2:7 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.

     In Heaven the "Branch" is reunited and resumes His identity as the Tree of Life, again standing right there in the midst of Paradise. That return to His roots is God self-actualizing. The "peak experience" is when the Branch again has roots and is nourished by living water. I have written before that the Tree of Life represents the Holy Trinity: the Tree represents Jesus, it's root - God, and the water which flows beneath it - the Holy Spirit. The fruits of that "Tree" could be eaten and are the twelve fruits of the Holy Spirit! The "seven women" or churches were cleaned up, so to speak, by partaking of that fruit at Pentecost.