America and the Covenant of Grace

     Isaiah had 20-20 spiritual vision; he saw through the transparent sea of glass between the Earth and Heaven (Rev 15:2). He saw Jesus's hand saving; the same "hand" that John saw creating (John 1:3). 

     Jesus is God in the flesh. His hand is symbolic of that flesh. What is so important is that Jesus's hand created and it also saves or re-creates. The people brought little children unto Jesus, and he laid his hands on them and prayed (Mat 19:30). Jesus put his hand on the leper, and said, "I will; be thou clean" and as soon as he had spoken, the leper was clean (Mark 1:40-42).

      Jesus heals by willing it, and his hand (or flesh) transmits the healing immediately. His hand defied time as healing ordinarily takes time. As quickly as Jesus willed and touched, everyone became healed. The transmission of health is "virtue" which flows from him to others and other things (Mark 5:30).

     What is virtue? The goodness of God (Mat 19:17). When God created the heaven, the Earth, and life; it was all "very good." (Gen 1:31). The hand of God - Jesus by name - allowed his virtue to flow and goodness generated material and life. That "virtue" is the Holy Spirit of God. 

     When Jesus's flesh died on the cross, he was drained of virtue as he gave up the Ghost (Luke 23:46). Jesus, as he died, felt that his Father had forsaken him. The loss of virtue was that great! The draining of virtue had commenced at his agony, when he sweated blood for mankind. (Luke 22:44). His virtue was emptied when Jesus gave up his Spirit, making that Spirit which had dwelled within him his "Ghost." That was the plan all along; regeneration of mankind was when Jesus's water and blood flowed from the Lord in Heaven through the cross onto the Earth's ground (Mark 19:34).

     Salvation was by water and the blood (1 John 5:6). Jesus on the cross, was the "lightning rod" between the Heaven and the Earth when Light came down, turned to water, mingled with Jesus's blood, and propitiated the Lord Himself for the sins of mankind. 

     Light turned to water? Yes, it became dark when it occurred (Mat 27:45). Of what significance is that? When Jesus began to preach, Gentiles beyond the Jordan toward the sea saw a great light. (Mat 415-17). That Light was Jesus (John 1:5) and the Gentiles to the West saw the Shekinah of God aglow on the Earth.

      Isaiah saw that same light. He saw the affect that Jesus would have on the people of the West. Examine what Isaiah saw. Perhaps he saw the Gentiles to the West - Europe and the Americas - seeing the Light of Jesus:

1 Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: 2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear... 11b We look for judgment, but there is none; but salvation, but it is far from us. 12 For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them... 16 And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him. 17 For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak... 19 So shall they fear the name of the Lord from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him. 20 And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the Lord. 21 As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever. (Isa 59)

     Isaiah saw that there was no Intercessor. Jesus is the "one Mediator" between  Heaven and Earth - between mankind and God (1 Tim 1:5). Heaven is his throne and the Earth his footstool (Isa 66:1). The cross bridged that space when Jesus died on it. It was not only "Jacob's (Israel's) Ladder" between the Earth and Heaven, but "Japtheth's ladder" as well with Canaan holding the ladder!
     The cross is the ladder for all mankind to reach unto the heavens as the people of Babel tried to do with their tower!
     In verse seventeen it is written, Isaiah saw Jesus put on the whole armor of God as Christians would later be called to do (Eph 6:14-17). I believe that David had long before declined Saul's armor, and put on the whole armor of God. David's five stones represented God's armor, and the one that killed Goliath, the sword of Word of God!
     Isaiah saw God's plan for me (Jer 29:11). I'm referring to the people of the West of which Isaiah spoke in verse nineteen above. The Redeemer - Jesus - would come to Zion - Old Jerusalem to those who would turn from the Jews transgression (Jacob or Israel).
     Isaiah saw Jesus on the cross as he was crucified for "whosoever" (John 3:16). Isaiah saw the Covenant of Grace on Calvary and explained it in verse twenty-one: (1) God put His Spirit onto whosoever believes in Him and His Word, (2) to those who never forsake Him, (3) nor their household, and (4) that the covenant is forever (eternal).
     The "seed" and "the seed's seed" are important. Jesus not only heals individuals but heals the nations as well (Rev 22:2). The prophets judged not only individuals but more so, the nation of Israel. God chose the nation of Israel as His. In the Covenant of Grace, he also chose the Gentiles, and specifically us to the West.
     It is important for everyone to remain faithful, but it is also imperative for the nations to do so as well.  America will perish when it loses its soul. That day will come when the people of this country trade their souls for the things of the world. Isaiah saw that day of judgment as well, choosing not to hear those whose sins (iniquity) are great (verse 11-12). Today the West is there; how much longer will God be patient with the iniquity of this wicked nation? It depends on us Christians, and how faithful we are.
     The East has concluded that the West will be destroyed from within. I believe Isaiah saw that, but he also saw Jesus interceding for the West. Not only will Jesus heal those western nations at Armegeddon, but will save them as well when he reigns for a millennium. Isaiah not only heard, but he saw. At a minimum, we are expected to hear (verse 2).