God showed Isaiah some future event. Someday they would be ashamed of themselves. They had been God’s chosen and peculiar people (Deut 14:2) because they were the seed of Abraham. They were people of the Covenant and as such were blessed. Because Abraham was willing to sacrifice His only son, God blessed him and his progeny:
Because thou hast done
this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son: that in blessing I
will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of
the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall
possess the gate of his enemies; And in thy seed shall all the nations of the
earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice. (Gen 22:16-18)
Going hardly noticed is that both
Abram and Sarai, in the Hebrew, had a “heh” added to their names. Heh
means “here is.” In this case, “here is the seed.” God planted His Seed in
both Abram and Sarai to ostensibly make them a new, peculiar kind. Since “heh”
was planted in them both, that points toward God fathering Isaac. Isaac would
have been a divine human in the manner of Jesus but came short of the glory of
Jesus.
Sarai was barren and surely Abram
was impotent; that is assumed because Sarai most certainly laughed at the
thought of the old man becoming alive again more so than that she was barren…
or perhaps she laughed at both situations.
Isaac was a subsequent “Abel” to
Abraham’s “Adam.” Yahweh extended grace to them in the form of genetics.
Why are Jews so hated? Because
they are a very different kind. They were a new creation that has gone
bad in the manner of Adam’s progeny.
So, along comes Isaiah and God showed him their future:
The lofty looks of man
shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the Lord
alone shall be exalted in that day. For the day of the Lord of hosts shall be
upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up;
and he shall be brought low. (Isa 2:11-12)
That time would come on the Day
of the Lord of Hosts. That implies a warring army when Jesus would come again. It
is the time when every knee shall bow as Paul wrote, “That at the name of Jesus
every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things
under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is
Lord, to the glory of God the Father” (Phil 2:10-11).
Has that happened yet? Paul said
to the Phillipians the same thing he said to the Romans. That warning came from
God through the words of Isaiah, “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” (Isa 45:23). Father God spoke of the “Word’”
that is Jesus. Everyone would bow to Jesus, and that day would be thousands of
years later, likely when the armies of Jesus shall win the war to end all wars
at the battle of Armageddon.
That time is coming, revealed in Psalm 91; it is when Jesus shall save the righteous that remain on Earth. In the battle of all battles for those Christians who remain, no harm will come to them as they will be under the safety of Jesus and His heavenly armies, to wit:
On my servants and on
my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of My Spirit; and they shall
prophesy: And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth
beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke: The sun shall be turned into
darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and notable day of the Lord
come: And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the
Lord shall be saved. (Acts 2:18-21)
God revealed to Isaiah that everyone
would bow to Jesus and be saved. That would be the day of salvation for the
Jews as well as the Gentiles who are alive when Jesus comes to rule. That
battle precedes the millennial reign of Jesus when everyone living recognizes
Jesus as King of kings and Lord of lords.
In the end, the battle is won by our Savior: “These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for He is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with Him are called, and chosen, and faithful” (Rev 17:14). Everyone — Jew and Gentile — all the seed of Abraham shall be saved. As Jesus said it:
Because iniquity shall abound, the love of
many shall wax cold, but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be
saved. And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a
witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come. (Mat 24:12-14)
Ye are a chosen
generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye
should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into
his marvellous light; which in time past were not a people, but are now the
people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. (1 Pet 2:9-10)
That Christians are Jews inwardly
(Rom 2:29), then what goes for the Hebrew pertains to the Christian. The
exception is the 144,000 Jews from the tribes of Israel that get their reward
by demonstrating the faith of Abraham and the faith of Christians before the Battle
of Armageddon.
The Hebrews would need to wait
for salvation until the end is endured. God revealed that to Abraham, but Christians
are of the seed of Abraham as well, not by genetics but by faith. Any who have
faith in the atoning blood of Jesus, just like Abraham, are the seed of Abraham.
It is written, “Avoid foolish
questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for
they are unprofitable and vain” (Tit:3-9). That anyone is from the seed of
Abraham is now vanity, just as Isaiah foresaw way back then. That Jewish genes
are from Abraham is non-consequential because the Jews have been as haughty as
the Gentiles. That the blood of Abraham runs in your veins and that his genes
are yours, is insignificant; you must have the faith of Abraham, both Jew or
Gentile, to be saved.
God is no longer a respecter of
persons (Acts 10:34). Regardless the source of your blood, unless it is
the blood of Jesus that you trust; you are damned.
At another time, I will write a
commentary on the false assumption that salvation is at the time of first
belief, or not. Think on the dangers of that! It is a satisfying feeling, but
is it true? Or is it that Satan wants you to believe it is true? What doctrine
would you propagate to lessen the sobriety and vigilance if you thought like
Satan?
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