The Great Victory
the Messiah Brings
Book of Isaiah 25
As Christians it
seems that sometimes as we read and try to understand Bible prophecy,
we come away with more questions than we have answers but in reality
we need to spend more time in the Scriptures and we certainly must
not listen to old wives fables and vain things that can amount to
nothing nor to anyone who has already rejected the Word of God!
In truth, we need to
see the fulfilled prophecies of God and how they relate to Bible
history and our own history and then, we can begin to understand what
God is saying. Prophecies that have been fulfilled are now behind us,
history!
2Ti 2:15 Study
to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be
ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
2Ti 2:16 But
shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more
ungodliness.
The thing we should
clearly understand is, the fact that in the Lord Jesus Christ there
can be no loss at all, and the other side of that is, outside of the
Lord Jesus Christ there can be no long term victory at all!
All things we will
see, even in our own future, will reveal the plans and the purposes
of God, if we pay attention and be obedient to the Word of God!
If we keep the main
thing, the main thing, we will realize that God has a plan and He
just wants us all to be part of His plan!
It should be clear
to us that the Lord wants us to know about Him or He would have never
revealed Himself to us, so He certainly will never try to hide
anything from us!
We should also
understand that the "terribleness" of God is another very
good reason to place our trust in Him!
What should we know
of those who continue to follow in the works of Satan?
Isa 24:5 The
earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they
have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the
everlasting covenant.
Isa 24:6
Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell
therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are
burned, and few men left.
Isa 24:17
Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the
earth.
Isa 24:19 The
earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth
is moved exceedingly.
Isa 24:20 The
earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed
like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it;
and it shall fall, and not rise again.
These are all the
results of works of Satan!
God does not do bad
things, God only does "righteous" things!
But we should
clearly understand, it is a righteous thing for God to chastise His
believers!
It is a righteous
thing for God to "Judge" all unbelievers and destroy them
out of His land!
The non-believer may
see these things as unrightous but if they repented it would changed
their attitude!
When the Messiah
returns, all those who have rejected Him will only be able to imagine
a world that is coming to an end but in reality it will only be the
Lord doing what He said He would do to bring new life into this world
for a period of time of at least 1000 years and after this eternity!
The Church will
already be in Heaven, our victory won, but the Church will then
return with the Lord at His Second Coming.
It is during this
time of destruction known simply as "Jacob's Trouble"(The
Seven Years of Tribulation) that the Jews will repent and return to
the Lord and that victory is soon to be in the making.
And God's redeemed
Jews, will then sing a new song:
Let's Begin:
*****Isa 25:1
O LORD, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name;
for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are
faithfulness and truth.
We should be able to
see that the relationship of Jehovah to His people has now become
personal!
God is seeking a
close and personal relationship with each of us and with all of His
creation!
God's people, the
Jews will have realized that the Lord has done exactly what He said
He would do.
They will realize
what Moses had said, was true.
They will realize
what all the prophets had said, was true.
They will realize
that all those Psalms they had sung regularly in their worship
services, were are true.
They will then
realize, that the Lord Jesus Christ is exactly who He said He was!
They will connect
their selfishness with the history of their own nation all these
years and repent and return to the Lord!
Rev 7:12
Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and
honour, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever.
Amen.
Rev 15:3 And
they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the
Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty;
just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.
The world is fast
approaching the 8 Billion mark in population but at the end of
Jacob's Trouble only a few will have survived. Even if it is Millions
it will be a far cry from those Billions!
Those that remain
will praise the name of the Lord and we already know that Jehovah God
will at this time, fulfill all the promises He made to the Jews!
There may also be a
few Gentiles who had never gotten the opportunity to hear the
"Gospel" and accept it or to reject it, they will then at
that time also get that opportunity.
Most all those,
probably all those, who have rejected the "Gospel" during
the "Church Age" will be destroyed, as in the days of Noah!
1Th 2:15 Who
both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have
persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:
1Th 2:16
Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to
fill up their sins alway: "for the wrath is come upon them to
the uttermost".
Many prophecies of
the Bible have already been fulfilled and are now history but many
more are to come, though most of them concern the promises to the
nation of Israel.
The truth is,
whether we know true faith or not, God will always be "faithful"
to Himself and to all of His Scriptures!
1Co 1:9 God is
faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus
Christ our Lord.
The next truth is,
that it is impossible for God to lie! So the Scriptures are all the
truth. We must rightly divide the Word of God! We must understand
clearly who the Lord is talking too, while also realizing that we are
to learn from all the Word of God.
Heb 6:17
Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of
promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
Heb 6:18 That
by two immutable things, "in which it was impossible for God to
lie", we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for
refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
It boils down to, do
you believe what God says or not? The Bible is "an all or
nothing book"!
The "Bread of
Life" is not some cafeteria style plan, to pick and choose the
meal that suits you and then reject the part you do not like!
2Ti 3:16 "All
scripture" is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for
doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in
righteousness:
2Ti 3:17 That
the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good
works.
By the end of the
Tribulation Period, the world will have witnessed the truth of God in
full view and those that are left will be in agreement, "O LORD,
thou art my God; I will exalt thee".
*****Isa 25:2
For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a
palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
Isa 25:3
Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the
terrible nations shall fear thee.
As often as we see
the term Babylon in the books of the prophets, we should clearly
understand that in prophecy this Babylon is not just some ancient
city that is to be destroyed but in reality it is the seat of the
Antichrist!
It is the seat of
his false religion.
It is the seat of
this world he has influenced.
The seat of the
Antichrist will be destroyed by the end of the 7 years of
Tribulation, also called the time of "Jacob's Trouble".
Jer 51:37 And
Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an
astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.
A clear
understanding can be realized in the Book of Revelation chapter 18.
In fact the old city
of Babylon and Nineveh stand in that condition today!
Babylon was the
metropolis of the pagan world and God has destroyed it as He said! It
has never been rebuilt in that same location!
But Babylon, the
seat of the Antichrist, is the same world Satan used to entice the
Lord Jesus Christ.
Mat 4:8 Again,
the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth
him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;
Mat 4:9 And
saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall
down and worship me.
Mat 4:10 Then
saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou
shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
This is the seat of
the Antichrist, the spirit of the Babylon of our day, that will cease
to exist when the Lord returns!
Isa 13:19 And
Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees'
excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
Isa 13:20 It
shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from
generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there;
neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.
One day in the near
future in our world where the spirit of Babylon has become the seat
of the Antichrist, there will be a sigh of relief at the fall of this
sinful and evil thing that has brought ruin to God's creation.
What glorious thing
will happen because of this ruin?
These same Jews who
will have already witnessed the "Rapture" of the Church
will at that time also witness the fall of the Antichrist.
The Jews will then
be stirred up to worship the Lord and see the promises to Abraham and
to David fulfilled, but even much more than that.
Psa 66:3 Say
unto God, How terrible art thou in thy works! through the greatness
of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee.
Psa 66:4 All
the earth shall worship thee, and shall sing unto thee; they shall
sing to thy name. Selah.
Even many Gentiles
will repent of their sins and begin worship the Lord!
This will not
included those that have rejected the Lord in the Church Age for they
will have all been destroyed!
*****Isa 25:4
For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in
his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when
the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
Isa 25:5 Thou
shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place;
even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible
ones shall be brought low.
We certainly may not
understand all the things in the time of "Jacob's Trouble"
but we can be sure there are those who are poor and in need through
no fault of their own. They may have been led astray or many other
things but God will never totally forsake such people until He as
allowed His own time of repentance!
Even today God feeds
this entire world and only a small portion of this world truly loves
Him!
When the Jews would
not accept the "Bread of Life", the Word of God, God still
fed them with the "Manna" from Heaven!
Isa 41:17 When
the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue
faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel
will not forsake them.
But God always
warned them:
Mat 4:4 But he
answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone,
but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
So in reality there
will be many souls saved out of the Great Tribulation!
Rev 7:14 And I
said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they
which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and
made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Notice, most of all
of the new Gentile believers after the "rapture" of the
Church, had been murdered for their beliefs!
BUT, God will have
silenced all those who have made such great noise against
Christianity!
The persecution of
believers is sometimes compared to dry heat as it has parched the
grasses but God will bring a cloud that will provide shade and even
moisture as He protects those who have not had the opportunity to
know Him!
It is true, that the
goal of the "Gospel" is to reach every individual before
this time arrives but we can also know that this may not actually
take during the Church Age.
The "branch"
of the "terrible ones", is any "power" that those
who are in direct support of the Antichrist, had over God's people.
This "branch" represents the false power of Satan which in
fact was no power at all, at least over the Messiah.
Rev 18:9 And
the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived
deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they
shall see the smoke of her burning,
God will always
bring down the enemies of His people in every age!
*****Isa 25:6
And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a
feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full
of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
This mountain would
be Mount Zion but it could also be a "type" of the Church,
as all God's people, Jew and Gentile alike will sit down together to
the "the Great Supper in God's Kingdom".
Luk 14:16 Then
said he unto him, A certain man made a great supper, and bade many:
Luk 14:17 And
sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden,
Come; for all things are now ready.
Luk 14:18 And
they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto
him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it:
I pray thee have me excused.
Luk 14:19 And
another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove
them: I pray thee have me excused.
Luk 14:20 And
another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.
Luk 14:21 So
that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master
of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the
streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the
maimed, and the halt, and the blind.
Luk 14:22 And
the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet
there is room.
Luk 14:23 And
the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges,
and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.
Luk 14:24 For
I say unto you, That none of those men which were bidden shall taste
of my supper.
We must also realize
that the difference in providing food for the needy, compared to
providing the "Gospel" to the lost, is like a meal that has
become a "feast"!
1Co 2:14 But
the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for
they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they
are spiritually discerned.
Truth, mercy,
assurance, pardon, peace, and "Grace" become a feast of fat
things.
The doctrines of God
are well refined and abundant in Spirit and in purity and cetainly in
holiness!
Jer 31:12
Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall
flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine,
and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and
their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow
any more at all.
Jer 31:13 Then
shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old
together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort
them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.
God will have put
down all the evil in this world!
*****Isa 25:7
And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast
over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations.
Isa 25:8 He
will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away
tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take
away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it.
What is that
covering that is cast over all people? It is the vail that Satan has
cast over the human heart.
When the Five books
of Moses were read, the veil was upon the heart of God's people, not
upon Moses.
2Co 3:15 But
even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their
heart.
When the Old
Testament was read in the time of Christ Jesus, the veil was upon the
heart of most all the Jews, not upon Christ Himself. In fact Christ
removed that veil of the eyes but the veil of Satan remained cast
over the hearts of the unbelievers.
2Co 3:14 But
their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail
untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done
away in Christ.
It is only in those
who have repented and returned to the Lord, that this veil has been
removed!
2Co 3:16
Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken
away.
What is that veil?
The veil of human depravity and/or natural corruption, the veil of
blindness, caused by Satan!
Rom 3:20
Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified
in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
Rom 3:21 But
now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being
witnessed by the law and the prophets;
Rom 3:22 Even
the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all
and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
Rom 3:23 For
all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
At the end of the
Tribulation Period, there will also be a veil of sorrowing.
We know that the
Jews would cover their heads when they felt shame and were
confounded. They will now feel ashamed and sorrowful for having
rejected the Lord Jesus Christ all these years!
Jer 14:2 Judah
mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the
ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
Jer 14:3 And
their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to
the pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty;
they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads.
Jer 14:4
Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the
plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.
In fact the veil of
sorrow and shame, will have covered all nations that have survived
this terrible time of God's Wrath!
God's plan also
includes removing the one thing that every human fears and that is
"death".
What did God say to
Adam?
Gen 2:16 And
the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden
thou mayest freely eat:
Gen 2:17 But
of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of
it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof "thou shalt surely
die".
Adam had never heard
the word "die" but the consequences of his actions have
remained with all humans, all animals, and even all God's creation
from that point forward.
Rom 8:21
Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage
of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
Rom 8:22 "For
we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain
together until now".
Rom 8:23 And
not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the
Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the
adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
Death has always
been a covering of gloom over all people!
Death will be
conquered for all God's people at the Second Coming of Christ Jesus,
the Messiah!
There probably have
been more tears poured out over the sorrow of death than any other
thing in the human life.
SO, What God has
done for the Church will be improved on, when the Messiah returns!
1Co 15:53 For
this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put
on immortality.
1Co 15:54 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.
1Co 15:55 O
death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
1Co 15:56 The
sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
1Co 15:57 But
thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus
Christ.
In God's New World,
there will never be one tear shed because of death. In fact there
will no tears in Heaven after this point forever more.
In Heaven there be
nothing to cry about except maybe tears of "JOY".
Rev 21:4 And
God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no
more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any
more pain: for the former things are passed away.
Rev 21:5 And
he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And
he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
We should also be
clear, all those tears that have been shed in grief and sorrow,
because of the work of Satan, will not have been shed in vain!
Psa 30:4 Sing
unto the LORD, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance
of his holiness.
Psa 30:5 For
his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may
endure for a night, "but joy cometh in the morning".
We hear a lot about
guarantees in this world but none are as important as this one that
says "for the Lord hath spoken it"!
When the Lord
speaks, His words are always guaranteed to be true!
There will be no one
left who will rebuke God's people, there will be no one left who will
not love the Jew!
Why?
*****Isa 25:9
And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited
for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for
him, we will be glad and rejoice in "his salvation".
You see, God has
only offered His free gift of salvation and all anyone has ever had
to do was to receive God's gift!
As the nation of
Israel lives in a world of hate and as they see a world on the verge
of total collapse, they will then see Jehovah God, the One they have
waited on all their years, returning according to the Scriptures!
Zep 3:14 Sing,
O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice with all the
heart, O daughter of Jerusalem.
Zep 3:15 The
LORD hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy: the
king of Israel, even the LORD, is in the midst of thee: thou shalt
not see evil any more.
Zep 3:16 In
that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear thou not: and to Zion,
Let not thine hands be slack.
Zep 3:17 The
LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will
rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy
over thee with singing.
What had Jesus, the
Messiah, preached to the Jews?
Luk 13:34 O
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them
that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children
together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye
would not!
Luk 13:35
Behold, your house is left unto you desolate: and verily I say unto
you, Ye shall not see me, until the time come when ye shall say,
Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
We see that Jesus
was actually referring to His return!
*****Isa 25:10
For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall
be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the
dunghill.
Isa 25:11 And
he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that
swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down
their pride together with the spoils of their hands.
Isa 25:12 And
the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay
low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.
Moab was founded by
the incestuous son of Lot and his own daughter.
What had Moses
prophesied?
Num 24:17 I
shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there
shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of
Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the
children of Sheth.
Num 24:19 Out
of Jacob shall come he that shall have dominion, and shall destroy
him that remaineth of the city.
The fact is, that in
this instance, Moab is in fact "a type" of all Satan's
children.
Jer 48:29 We
have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his loftiness,
and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart.
Jer 48:30 I
know his wrath, saith the LORD; but it shall not be so; his lies
shall not so effect it.
No doubt "Moab"
in "type" also represents all the foes of Israel that
remain and all the foes of Israel will be trodden down under the feet
of the Messiah.
Mar 12:36 For
David himself said by the Holy Ghost, The LORD said to my Lord, Sit
thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool.
A dunghill was a
heap of compost. The compost pile was increased by the addition of
straw, which means the straw was left to rot in the dunghill!
When the Messiah
returns, His enemies will be no more than that straw that was
trampled into the dunghill and many will be left to just rot.
The truth is, at the
return of the Messiah, the enemies of God can no more resist the
power of God than water can resist a good swimmer!
Once the enemies of
Israel, the enemies of the Church, all these the enemies of the
Messiah are removed, there will be no opposition to God left on this
earth.
No persecution.
No need for martyrs.
No mocking of God's
people.
Rev 18:6
Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double
according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her
double.
Rev 18:7 How
much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much
torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a
queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
Rev 18:8
Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and
famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the
Lord God who judgeth her.
2Co 10:4 (For
the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to
the pulling down of strong holds;)
2Co 10:5
Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself
against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every
thought to the obedience of Christ;
2Co 10:6 And
having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your
obedience is fulfilled.
God does not ask
many things of us!
Mar 12:30 And
thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy
soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the
first commandment.
Mar 12:31 And
the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as
thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
2Ti 2:15 Study
to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be
ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
2Ti 2:16 But
shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more
ungodliness.
Heb 10:24 And
let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
Heb 10:25 Not
forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some
is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the
day approaching.
The basics are; Love
God above all else, Love each other, Study the Bible, attend a Bible
believing Church, and most important of all "Have Faith"!
Heb 11:6 But
without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to
God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that
diligently seek him.
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