4. Path of the Kinsmen

4.  -Romans Chapter 9: 2 - 33.

Path of the Kinsman. 

Verse 3:- "FOR I WISH THAT MYSELF (Paul) WERE ACCURSED FROM CHRIST FOR MY BRETHREN, MY KINSMEN ACCORDING TO THE FLESH".
Verse 4:- "WHO ARE ISRAELITES; (kinsmen)TO WHOM PERTAINETH THE ADOPTION (by choice and approval) AND THE GLORY,(honourable fame) AND THE COVENANTS, (a contract bond of union) AND THE GIVING OF THE LAW, (legal procedure laid down) AND THE SERVICE OF GOD, (duty) AND THE PROMISES". (A declaration in the Old Testament made between one person and another).
Verse 5:- "WHOSE ARE THE FATHERS, (the written previous contract of verse 3, belonging to the Kinsmen of this family) AND WHOM AS CONCERNING THE FLESH CHRIST CAME, (to redeem His Kinsmen of the flesh) WHO IS OVER ALL, (who is the greatest son of the nation of Israel) GOD BLESSED FOR EVER, AMEN". (all these things, with Jesus, stand always)!
Verse 6:- "NOT AS THOUGH THE WORD OF GOD HATH TAKEN NONE EFFECT. (Or all the promises and covenants on many paths, which have seen many years gone by without fulfilment). FOR THEY ARE NOT ALL ISRAEL, WHICH ARE OF ISRAEL; (The 2 nations of Israel are in all nations of the earth to this day, but they all will "not" answer the "call", but only those Israelites who feel it is their duty to find God and their Kinsmen).
Verse 7:- "NEITHER, BECAUSE THEY ARE THE SEED OF ABRAHAM, ARE THEY ALL CHILDREN; (verse 7 repeats the sentiments of verse 6. The seed of Abraham, as Hebrews, are in many nations and this bloodline is not the only reason many are called and saved as Kinsmen) BUT, IN ISAAC SHALL THY SEED BE CALLED". (The "called kinsmen" are on a different path of understanding. Isaac is the path of the "second child's" blessing and sons of God. Isaac brought forth the nation of Israelites; Yet, these Israelites were sifted and sifted throughout history and at the end of time will bring forth 2 holy remnants out of these Israelites. They of many nations are all of the "Israelites". But it is the "holy seed" of the Israelites who fulfil the law, promises, covenants, service and approval of God, which are set down in verse 4). Abraham also had children (seed) through his wife Keturah.
Verse 8:- "THAT IS, THEY WHICH ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE FLESH. (Or bloodline of Abraham in many nations from Hagar and Keturah) THESE ARE NOT THE CHILDREN OF GOD; BUT THE CHILDREN OF THE PROMISE ARE COUNTED FOR THE SEED". (Who are Israelites as stated in verse 4 and these children are under a "strict law" of supervision fulfilling many paths. They are "not" in a turbulent state, whereas many Christians out of many known churches believe that their whole congregations fulfil this role, of the "Called Seed" under a promise. The Law of Promise is enacted out by God alone, no other. Mankind cannot know "who" they are, even though some of this "seed" of Isaac/Israel is within them. Verse 11 tells one this chosen seed will stand and be counted, because God has ordained it to be so!
Verse 9:- "FOR THIS IS THE WORD OF PROMISE, (the declaration in the Old Testament) AT THIS TIME WILL I COME, (the Lord appeared to Abraham in the shape of angels, Gen.18), AND SARAH SHALL HAVE A SON".
Verse 10:- "AND NOT ONLY THIS; BUT WHEN REBECCA ALSO HAD CONCEIVED BY ONE, EVEN BY OUR FATHER ISAAC". (The special lineage of the seed of the kinsman was kept).
Verse 11:- "FOR THE CHILDREN BEING NOT YET BORN, (those children out of Jacob/Israel's loins and onto and into the holy seed of our modern times) NEITHER HAVING DONE ANY GOOD OR EVIL, (Or children not yet alive to these promises) THAT THE PURPOSE OF GOD ACCORDING TO ELECTION MIGHT STAND, (Or that grand design God had set to be accomplished at the beginning, in an agreeable manner towards His choice of children of predestination; With great power and ability these children will be set in an upright position to be seen and understood), NOT OF WORKS, (not because these children have done good by themselves, or performed in a physical or mental way) BUT HIM THAT CALLETH". (Or they are summoned to a divine communication to affirm God's purpose and vision for the earth, Saint Paul himself who wrote these words, is an example of a wilful man in his youth, who changed later in life, not through his own desires, but God had predestined him for greater things)!
Verse 12:- "IT WAS SAID UNTO HER, (Rebecca) THE ELDER SHALL SERVE THE YOUNGER". (Or the "second choice" of sons and daughters is in the predestined children to come, through the Israelite nation).
Verse 13:- "AS IT IS WRITTEN, (and is the law that cannot be altered only fulfilled, even if it takes thousands of years)JACOB HAVE I LOVED (father of the special people, Israelites) BUT ESAU HAVE I HATED". (Father of the Edomite people and hated because he was carnal and wilful).

The rest of the 9th chapter of Romans explains this situation of Chosen children and "why" these children should be in such a privileged position, Saint Paul tells us God is not unrighteous because of it, but rather merciful and compassionate instead. By this means "He" is proving to us He's very much alive and so are "all" his promises and covenants. Despite our evil ways and self-will amongst we Israelites, some of our brothers and sisters will fulfil all prophecy as written!

No man or woman with little understanding can say to God "why have you treated us all in an uneven manner"? We Israelites are the "clay" in the Potter's hands and it is enough!

The remaining verses of Roman's Chapter 9 have enormous impact, taking us through many paths of Scripture which explain in detail that we must be "kinsmen, under the law" whether the nation of Israel is in the Jew or Gentile.

These latter verses will be explained in another chapter.

Let us walk some more along the path of the "Kinsman" at this moment of writing. The path of kin folk is in many ways similar to the "second child" and "birthright" lineages. In as much that it is another piece of identification to set into the Israelite jigsaw. It leads us with a chain for the family tree from one generation to the next. Telling us all we must be relatives under the Law to be redeemed and towards the purpose of the Redeemer, the Lord Jesus Christ.

The law of the "Kinsman" was established in Leviticus 25:47-55.
Verse 48:- "AFTER THAT HE IS SOLD HE MAY BE REDEEMED AGAIN; ONE OF HIS BRETHREN MAY REDEEM HIM".
Verse 49:- "EITHER HIS UNCLE, OR HIS UNCLES SON, MAY REDEEM HIM, OR ANY THAT IS NIGH OF KIN UNTO HIM OF HIS FAMILY MAY REDEEM HIM; OR IF HE BE ABLE, HE MAY REDEEM HIMSELF".

On the face of it this law of "redeeming the kinsman"- like many of the other laws in the Old Testament- seem to be irrelevant in our modern way of thinking. They seem to be old-fashioned laws to be shaken off, as if we must only adhere to the teachings of the New Testament in the Bible. But not so! If one is looking for truthful "roots" to cling to in our chaotic societies, one cannot separate the Old from the New Testament, for the "Old" is the foundation of the house to be built in the New.
Too many churches call themselves "spiritual Israel" and ignore "factual fleshly Israel" and the promises, covenants and laws brought about especially for this nation. If a church exalts itself to the position of spiritual Israel, or the holy "chosen seed" of God, then that church must show us a "family tree" dating back to the first principles and the laws of God. Otherwise, those established laws within the Bible, are not worth the paper they are written on, making God's words of easy usage for anyone who wishes to manipulate them on his own behalf.

If we are to believe God and His Christ, then, we must believe Jesus came to "fulfil" those same laws. (Matthew 17:18, Romans 3:29-31). When Romans Chapter 3 speaks of Jews and Gentiles under the law in the same breath, one must not forget that the "House of Israel" are in the Gentiles, in their millions, as the sands of the sea which cannot be counted. (Genesis: 22:15-18). And those same Gentile Israelites must learn of God through faith, whether they went through the Greeks, Romans, or are in British stock.

Indeed, one acknowledges there "are" also strangers joined to these Israelite Gentiles, because Abraham's seed is in all nations, whose "price" has been paid through the blood of Jesus Christ. But they are not counted as direct "Kin folk". The price to redeem Israel's kin folk was set in the Old Testament and carried out to its fullest extent in the New Testament and the "price" which the Redeemer paid is with us unto the end of time!

A dictionary will tell us that a "Kinsman and Kinswoman" are persons of the same family and race, they are of the same bloodline, no matter how many generations have come and gone.

A "Redeemer" is one who buys back or recovers by payment those persons, which belonged to his own family, freeing them from captivity and bondage. So, if Jesus is the "Redeemer" of a family's possessions of people "who" did He buy back in the Gentiles?

And "where" is that family of kin folk that is His bloodline? Though Jesus was of the nation of Israel and of Judah, -called Jews- this bloodline is also polluted with other nations, just as all Israel's bloodline, so, where are His kin folk?

The Bible tells us that Jesus came to fulfil the law down to the last dot and tittle, (or double description at the beginning of a book as the word tittle implies in Matthew 5:17,18).

Therefore, we must understand from the beginning of learning truth that it is really God the Father who is the Real Redeemer of His people, His son Jesus the Christ came to earth instead of Him and paid the price of redemption on earth for God, because God cannot set His foot on the earth when it is so full of corruption, otherwise all would be destroyed by the purity of His presence. (Exodus 33:20, Isaiah 63:16,17).

God is a consuming fire- (Matthew 12:29).

The "surname" of God's family and "kin folk" is Israel, which is God's family name. (Isaiah 44:5,6).

Too many churches misunderstand the role of the Redeemer with Israel and themselves. Christian Churches teach that we only have to accept Jesus as our Saviour and be christened, or baptised and we are Christians, all saved and then those same Christians can usurp the authority of the laws written in the Bible; Replacing both houses of Israel to receive the "promises" upon those same Christians. In other words, these so-called Christians close the door on the Old Testament and its people who are all subject to laws, promises, covenants, etc; and then put those great words into the, "too hard basket" not to be understood! Then these Christians smugly sit back and indulge themselves in their man-made rituals, soft spoken words, "holier than thou" attitudes and go straight to heaven when they die!

Well! I have got news for you so-called Christians! To be an "heir" to the promises set by the Almighty God in the Old Testament, one must have many years of striving and learning, from the lower stages in education to the higher levels of learning. That learning in the "elements of the world" teach you one thing, which may bring you to God through trials and tribulations. But "then" your education in the ways of God must again begin in a sound manner, being taught that we are children and heirs of the promises set for all Israel from our father Abraham and we are all under those laws! As Christians being taught these things, Saint Paul explained these roads of truth in Galatians Chapter 4. Let us read a few verses therein.

Verse 4:- "BUT WHEN THE FULNESS OF THE TIME WAS COME, (a distinct age already fixed) GOD SENT FORTH HIS SON, (through the Holy Spirit upon Mary) MADE OF A WOMAN (Mary, the lineage of the "second choice" who brings forth sons of God) MADE UNDER THE LAW". (The rule of action laid down and prescribed by authority from the Old Testament).
Verse 5:- "TO REDEEM THEM THAT WERE UNDER THE LAW, (or to pay a price for "Kinsmen" who are in bondage in the world; Yet! Are Israelites of the Old Testament under laws, promises and covenants) THAT WE MIGHT RECEIVE THE ADOPTION OF SONS". -(A cross-reference to this line we read in Ephesians 1:4,5) "ACCORDING AS HE HATH CHOSEN US IN HIM "BEFORE" THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD, THAT WE SHOULD BE HOLY AND WITHOUT BLAME BEFORE HIM IN LOVE".
Verse 6:- "HAVING "PREDESTINATED" US UNTO THE ADOPTION OF CHILDREN BY JESUS CHRIST TO HIMSELF, ACCORDING TO THE GOOD PLEASURE OF HIS WILL".

Though Saint Paul was a Jew and knew he was of the tribe of Benjamin, Yet! He wrote his words to "we Israelites and Kinsmen", most of us subject to some form of Christianity through the ages of history, within Gentile nations.

Let Saint Paul's verse in Galatians 4:21, mill around in your brain until the words gel in some sort of understanding;

Verse 21:- "TELL ME, YE THAT DESIRE TO BE UNDER THE LAW, DO YE NOT HEAR THE LAW"?

All the dead and the living of Israel must be "redeemed" and their name remembered, which understanding we read in the book of Ruth 4:7-10.

"The World-wide Church of God" under the late Herbert Armstrong always taught that we were all meant to be part of the family of God from the beginning even during the advent of Adam and Eve, -so we were- but it all went wrong because the strength of the flesh was paramount!

The "path of the kinsman" is then all-important to fulfil prophecy and to give identification to God's people on earth.

Again, on this path we will be faced with how important the roll of Joseph was and is, to Israel's children. The "lament" in the law for Joseph "must always be" acknowledged and understood by all. Which we read of in Amos 6:1-7, which tells us that from the beginning the "house of Israel's" trust was in their kingdom and city of Samaria; Whose holy seed Zion are all named together as the "Chief of the Nations". They, of nation-kingdom, take their "ease" -or freedoms, from toil, mental pain and anxiety in their lives, as if that freedom was brought about by their own labours. They trust in their own secular vanities, without thanking God for those freedoms! This nation in its richness of living, its apathetic lifestyle, its search for the almighty shekel, and its craving for luxury without God, who do "not" stand up against evil and violence in their midst who make apathetic attempts to control lawlessness, who are lulled by the sounds of sweet music, pamper themselves with food, drink and sweet smelling perfumery. Even in this modern day this picture painted by Amos, of the old "House of Israel", today in the Western nations hasn't changed much has it? Because our pampered freedom loving nations can identify themselves therein!

Never once does all Israel in the Gentiles, think seriously of dear Joseph who was afflicted many years in Egypt and was separated from his brethren for their sakes! Joseph suffered much "for" his kinsmen and "because" of his kinsmen. It is "his" standing in the sight of God, -"holding birthright and blessing" promises also- who have kept the "House of Israel" from want and who gave them those freedoms to this day. "He" standing security for this Israelite nation, shoulder to shoulder with the Lord Jesus Christ, -Amos 6:6.

Verse 6 - "THAT DRINK WINE IN BOWLS, AND ANOINT THEMSELVES WITH THE CHIEF OINTMENTS; BUT THEY ARE NOT GRIEVED FOR THE AFFLICTION OF JOSEPH".

Amos wrote these words of explanation approx: BC 776-763, during the time when the Northern Kingdom of Israel was at its greatest power. That kingdom fell to the Assyrians within the following 50 years and was utterly destroyed. That judgement and warning still rings true to this day for all Israel, -both houses- in our modern world. Nothing has altered only the steady count-down of years, which are marking off our days on the destruction clock!

To understand fully we must go back to the "first principles" of the law, at the beginning of our Bible. For those words to enlighten us "why" the "price" set was only 30 pieces of silver for the Redeemer Jesus Christ, for His kinsmen.

We read in Leviticus 27:2-5, that the estimation (valuation) of a man between the ages of 20 years to 60 years old was set at 50 shekels of silver, according to the shekels of the consecrated place, (sanctuary) of worship, where God had received these shekels as a tithe offering. A man was not valued with silver shekels of daily usage as his worth, but special shekels of the sanctuary, thereby proving the man's value in the sight of God.

When we read in the New Testament of Judas Iscariot being paid 30 pieces of silver by the priesthood, (Matthew 26:3-16) then that priesthood would have been fully aware of the laws of Leviticus and the value of a man of Jesus' age, (approx. 33) being worth 50 silver shekels. The priesthood even downgraded him to a manservant worth 30 shekels. (Exodus 21:32).

So, with that very act of downgrading the worth of Jesus as a man of the tribe of Judah, it was against the laws of God set up for the whole nation of Israel. That bond of brotherhood previously set up between the 2 houses of Judah/Israel was consequently broken from that moment. The Messiah was cut asunder from the Jew of Judah, and "He" went to Israel in the Gentiles. This we read in, Zechariah 11: 7-14.

Zechariah tells us that the 2 staves, or peoples, called "Beauty" (Israel) and "Bands" (Judah) were to be further slaughtered by 3 shepherds to come upon them, namely, Persia, Greece, and Rome.

Because, when Zechariah wrote he was then amongst the remnant who had returned to the land of Israel, from the captivity of Babylon.

The 2 staves (memory sticks) for the covenant with God, were "broken" because of the sin of the house of Ephraim/Israel, (1 stick) and the sin of the house of Judah (1 stick). Both these houses were to be given another chance through Jesus. However, the Jew of Judah were failed by their priesthood, who, ignoring the law upon which all depended on for the people to be weighed in the balances and redeemed, sold Jesus for 30 pieces of silver. And, the brotherhood between Jew and Israel in the Gentile was severed and a gulf of misunderstanding and distrust between them would be forged in secular and spiritual history in those years ahead!

However, despite their evil ways and the machinations of these 2 houses, God nevertheless brought about the redemption of these "kinsmen", Joseph of the "house of Israel" also helped in their salvation.

We read in Genesis 37:2,28, that Joseph was only 17 years old at the time that he was eventually sold to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. Though the selling of Joseph in the book of Genesis was "before" the establishing of the Levitical laws for each man's worth, nevertheless, Joseph's price had been taken note of by God and written down for our learning. Joseph's price in Leviticus 27 verse 5 was estimated at 20 shekels, -set between the age of 5yrs and 20yrs old. The price of 20 shekels covered Joseph's age group and he too was sold as a slave, to be traded to suit the jealousies of men.

Joseph was a "prince" bearing the surname of God, as son of Israel beloved of his father, chosen and predestined by God to "redeem" the nation of Israel from want and hunger; Allowing those people time to grow into a nation in Egypt, giving them protection under the auspices of Joseph's great name!

Jesus and Joseph, who were both under a "singular vow" before God (Leviticus: 27:2) were weighed by man, and eventually they paid the 50 shekels of the sanctuary required, -between them- neither were to be left in limbo as slaves.

Jacob's dying "singular vow" or "solemn promise before God" for Joseph in Genesis 49:22-26, stands "absolute" in history for all time.

Verse 22:- "JOSEPH IS A FRUITFUL BOUGH, EVEN A FRUITFUL BOUGH BY A WELL; WHOSE BRANCHES RUN OVER THE WALL".
Verse 23:- "THE ARCHERS HAVE SORELY GRIEVED HIM, AND HATED HIM".
Verse 24:- "BUT HIS BOW ABODE IN STRENGTH, AND THE ARMS OF HIS HANDS WERE MADE STRONG BY THE HANDS OF THE MIGHTY GOD OF JACOB; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel).
Verse 25:- "EVEN BY THE GOD OF THY FATHER, WHO SHALL HELP THEE; AND BY THE ALMIGHTY, WHO SHALL BLESS THEE WITH BLESSINGS OF HEAVEN ABOVE, BLESSINGS OF THE DEEP THAT LIETH UNDER, BLESSINGS OF THE BREASTS, AND OF THE WOMB".
Verse 26:- "THE BLESSINGS OF THY FATHER HAVE PREVAILED ABOVE THE BLESSINGS OF MY PROGENITORS UNTO THE UTMOST BOUND OF THE EVERLASTING HILLS; THEY SHALL BE ON THE HEAD OF JOSEPH, AND ON THE CROWN OF THE HEAD OF HIM THAT WAS SEPARATE FROM HIS
BRETHREN".

We must note very carefully from verse 24 of Joseph's blessing that it is Joseph, -the prince- who stands with the "stone" of Israel, who is Jesus Christ the King and these two great personages paid the "price" for their "kinsmen" of all Israel. The prophet Isaiah tells the people about these "2 arms" of God -Jesus, Joseph- who have saved the people from destruction. Isaiah 51:1-5.

Verse 1: - "HEARKEN TO ME, YE THAT FOLLOW AFTER RIGHTEOUSNESS, YE THAT SEEK THE LORD; LOOK UNTO THE ROCK (Jesus) WHENCE YE ARE HEWN, AND TO THE HOLE OF THE PIT (Joseph) WHENCE YE ARE DIGGED".
Verse 2:- "LOOK UNTO ABRAHAM YOUR FATHER (kinsmen) AND UNTO SARAH THAT BARE YOU; (the "second child" sons of God, from the Israelites) FOR I CALLED HIM ALONE, AND BLESSED HIM, AND INCREASED HIM".
Verse 3:- "FOR THE LORD SHALL COMFORT ZION; (with great words out of the law) HE WILL COMFORT ALL HER WASTE PLACES; (the wilderness, wherever these children go will come to life because of the laws of God) AND HE WILL MAKE HER WILDERNESS LIKE EDEN, AND HER DESERT LIKE THE GARDEN OF THE LORD; (when these children come together and hide, even in the desert God is there also) JOY AND GLADNESS SHALL BE FOUND THEREIN, THANKSGIVING AND THE VOICE OF MELODY".
Verse 4:- "HEARKEN UNTO ME, MY PEOPLE; (try and see, and understand, these great words in the law) AND GIVE EAR UNTO ME, O MY NATION; (listen hard all you modern day Israelites who call themselves Gentile Christians, or Jews claiming their possessions in the land) FOR A LAW SHALL PROCEED FROM ME, (the truth of the "first principles" written at the beginning, will shine forth again, for modern Israelites to understand) AND I WILL MAKE MY JUDGEMENT TO REST FOR A LIGHT OF THE PEOPLE". (That, which makes good wise sense, skilfully discerned as truth. Christ came to be a "light" to the Israelite Gentiles and for all His "kinsmen").
Verse 5:- "MY RIGHTEOUSNESS IS NEAR; (or that which is just and in accordance with what is right and honest) MY SALVATION HAS GONE FORTH, (the "Redeemer" has come into the world to save men form sin and ignorance) AND MINE ARMS SHALL JUDGE THE PEOPLE. (1 arm of Joseph of the Old Testament promises. 1 arm of Jesus of the New Testament promise) THE ISLES SHALL WAIT UPON ME, AND ON MY ARM SHALL THEY TRUST". (within the British Isles were gathered over the centuries the "house of 10 tribes of Israel". Those "isles" waiting in the mists of time for God's plan to fulfil its roll. The "arm" they "trusted" upon in their youth in the "isles" was of Jesus Christ, because they became a Christian nation).

Both the "rock" Jesus and the "pit" Joseph, as great "Kinsmen" saved their people in ancient and modern times, from disaster and death. It's now "our" turn, -as the nation of all Israel- to understand these things and rally to the cause of learning truth and let us find the holy people of Zion and Jerusalem! Awake! Awake! Zion put on your beautiful garments as "factual" Israelites and prepare to meet your long lost "kinsmen", stand up on your feet and be counted! Mark 10:29-31 tells us we will find the family of mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles, brethren and sisters. Pick up the little children, protect them from this evil filled world. Close ranks, no matter what religion you have come "out" of, to be known only from this time forward as the nation of Israel, led by your King, The Lord Jesus Christ!

Is it not written that there are "Watchmen" in the earth to bring all Israel good tidings when the time is right? And will show you truly that your God lives! Isaiah 52:1-15.

Verse 1: - "AWAKE, AWAKE, PUT ON THY STRENGTH, O ZION; PUT ON THY BEAUTIFUL GARMENTS, O JERUSALEM, (2 remnants) THE HOLY CITY; FOR HENCE FORTH THERE SHALL NO MORE COME INTO THEE THE UNCIRCUMCISED AND THE UNCLEAN".
Verse 2:- "SHAKE THYSELF FROM THE DUST; ARISE, AND SIT DOWN, O JERUSALEM; (in the Jew) LOOSE THYSELF FROM THE BANDS OF THY NECK, (captives of other religions and nations) O CAPTIVE DAUGHTER OF ZION". (Prisoners to other vanities and lies).
Verse 3:- "FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD, YE HAVE SOLD YOURSELVES FOR NOUGHT; (Or you have chosen for yourself other ways of living and worship, which will achieve nothing at all) AND YE SHALL BE REDEEMED WITHOUT MONEY". (God has "redeemed" these 2 remnants through the blood of the Lamb-Jesus, as an atonement for their sins, and all Israel is now free).
Verse 4:-"FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD, MY PEOPLE WENT DOWN AFORETIME INTO EGYPT TO SOJOURN THERE; (in times past) AND THE ASSYRIAN OPPRESSED THEM WITHOUT CAUSE". (The "house of Israel" was destroyed by them and the house of Judah thrashed).
Verse 5:- "NOW THEREFORE WHAT HAVE I HERE, SAITH THE LORD, (let us take an inventory of what's been going on) THAT MY PEOPLE IS TAKEN AWAY FOR NOUGHT? THEY THAT RULE OVER THEM MAKE THEM TO HOWL, SAITH THE LORD (because of many injustices they cry with mournful sounds) AND MY NAME CONTINUALLY EVERY DAY IS BLASPHEMED". (Romans 2:24 tells one that God's name is blasphemed among the Gentiles and the "house of Israel" who resides in them is the biggest culprit. If one turns the television or radio on in our modern era, God is reviled and blamed impiously and the usage of His Holy name is used as common swear words).
Verse 6:- "THEREFORE MY PEOPLE (Israelites) SHALL KNOW MY NAME; (which is; The Lord God of Hosts The Most Holy One of Israel) THEREFORE THEY SHALL KNOW IN THAT DAY (of understanding) THAT I AM HE THAT DOTH SPEAK; (through these words of the law from the Bible) BEHOLD IT IS I".
("Yahweh", which is the divine sacred name of absolute existence).
Verse 7:- "HOW BEAUTIFUL UPON THE MOUNTAINS ARE THE FEET OF HIM THAT BRINGETH GOOD TIDINGS, (something that is highly pleasing to the eye, ear and mind, -coming from that which is above the common level of understanding in the earth, which brings an account of events unknown before) THAT PUBLISHETH PEACE; (to make known to the people in general, a freedom from fear and to know a quietness of mind) THAT BRINGETH GOOD TIDINGS OF GOOD, THAT PUBLISHETH SALVATION; (to make known in words a proper useful end to all things, which words bring preservation from destruction and evil) THAT SAITH UNTO ZION. (The remnant of the holy seed from the Gentile Israelites) THY GOD REIGNETH"! (God is not dead, nor is He asleep. Indeed, it is as Daniel wrote, "God rules in the Kingdoms of men)!
Verse 8:- "THY WATCHMEN SHALL LIFT UP THE VOICE (those people within the earth who "know" much more is going on than men allow and they stand guard over the words of God) WITH THE VOICE TOGETHER SHALL THEY SING; (Many watchmen will come forth with great joy knowing their "time" has come); FOR THEY SHALL SEE EYE TO EYE, WHEN THE LORD SHALL BRING AGAIN ZION". (There are many watchmen in the earth, knowing something enormous must happen in the earth that will enable Zion out of the Gentile nations to stand upon their feet. When they read "absolute truth" in God's words and the "comforting words" have come into their hearts, then they will all know the facts)!
Verse 9:- "BREAK FORTH INTO JOY, SING TOGETHER, YE WASTE PLACES OF JERUSALEM; (Even the holy seed of Judah, called Jerusalem, will understand all these wonderful words) FOR THE LORD HAS COMFORTED HIS PEOPLE, (with the great knowledge of these words the "comforter" promised to Israel has come) HE HATH REDEEMED JERUSALEM". (Jerusalem, the holy seed out of the Jew will know they "were" indeed "redeemed" by Jesus the Messiah. Who they have for so long searched for).
Verse 10:- "THE LORD HATH MADE BARE HIS HOLY ARM IN THE EYES OF ALL NATIONS, (Remember the previous verses reader and the 2 arms which saved all Israel. The "holy arm" in this verse is the Lord Jesus, who all the nations know about. When the Jew bares his arm to God, he wears an armlet called a phylactery, containing the remembrance of texts from the Old Testament. So, in Isaiah's verse 10 God does the same thing in remembrance of the promises of old) AND ALL THE ENDS OF THE EARTH SHALL SEE THE SALVATION OF OUR GOD". (All men from one end of the world to the other will see with the eyes, truth and understand Jesus our Redeemer fulfilling the laws of God).
Verse 11:- "DEPART YE, DEPART YE, GO YE OUT FROM THENCE, (Leave the corrupt world and go elsewhere leave that place for a reason) TOUCH NO UNCLEAN THING; (shake off the rituals of the world which have chained its people for so long, which is ceremonially impure) GO YE OUT OF THE MIDST OF HER, (the children that are amongst the thickest part of the "Babylonian woman's" religious harlotry in the world today) BE YE CLEAN, THAT BARE THE VESSELS OF THE LORD". (The plate that holds the bread and the cup that holds the wine, as the "sign" of Jesus' death).
Verse 12:- "FOR YE SHALL NOT GO OUT WITH HASTE, NOR GO BY FLIGHT; (Or by urgency and speed, or running away to escape danger) FOR THE LORD WILL GO BEFORE YOU; (As the pillar of fire went before the first Exodus of the Children of Israel out of Egypt, so, the presence of the Lord will be there a "second time" out of the nations of the earth) AND THE GOD OF ISRAEL WILL BE YOUR REWARD". (Then will all Israel know who their God "is" and He will be their "reward" the "second time" which is the compensation for doing and learning good and not evil).
Verse 13:- "BEHOLD, MY SERVANT SHALL DEAL PRUDENTLY, HE SHALL BE EXALTED AND EXTOLLED, AND BE VERY HIGH". (The Lord Jesus Christ, King of Kings, Lord of Lords).
Verse 14:- "AS MANY WERE ASTONIED AT THEE; (surprised and stricken with sudden fear) HIS VISAGE WAS SO MARRED MORE THAN ANY MAN, (the countenance of this human being whose appearance was injured) AND HIS FORM (body and spirit) MORE THAN THE SONS OF MEN". (The external appearance of his body was out of shape through injury and the phantom of His Spirit agonised over the sons of men and His duty to God).
Verse 15:- "SO SHALL HE SPRINKLE MANY NATIONS; (He will scatter in small drops of Himself especially upon the many nations of all the Israelites throughout the world). THE KINGS SHALL SHUT THEIR MOUTHS AT HIM; FOR THAT WHICH HAD NOT BEEN TOLD THEM (through the Bible etc;) SHALL THEY SEE; (Without doubt) AND THAT WHICH THEY HAD NOT HEARD SHALL THEY CONSIDER".
(By careful examination).