Copyright Ó 2012 J. Neely
Isaiah 4:5
5 And the LORD [Yahovah] will
create [bara'] upon every dwelling place [makown] of mount [har] Zion, [Tsiyown] and upon her assemblies, [miqra'] a cloud [`anan] and smoke [`ashan] by day, [yowmam] and the
shining [nogahh] of a flaming [lehabah] fire ['esh] by night: [layil] for upon all the glory [kabowd] shall be a defence. [chuppah] KJV-Interlinear
5 then
the Lord will create over the whole area of Mount Zion and over her assemblies
a cloud by day, even smoke, and the brightness of a flaming fire by night; for
over all the glory will be a canopy. NASB
The key to this verse is
found in the word, create, ‘bara,’ which means to create out of nothing.
In other passages, God
created, ‘bara,’ the universe out of nothing.
God created, ‘bara,’ human life out of nothing. And here, God creates, ‘bara,’ a dwelling
place out of nothing.
This does not mean that
God is going to build a bunch of homes or put up a bunch of tents, but it simply
means that God is going to make the dwellings, not man. The source of homes and safety and comfort is
God, not man.
Man cannot create anything,
out of nothing.
There is nothing that man
can make, or invent, or imagine, that will provide any of these things.
The dwelling place is of
Mt Zion. Zion is the representation of
the vast expanse of Gods truth or doctrine.
Doctrine in the soul to the maximum, since it must be learned and used
and applied by the believer, means spiritually mature believers.
Remember that the term,
Israel, represents the nation of believers.
The term, Jerusalem, represents the residence of mature believers, the
city of peace. The city is inside of the
nation, obviously. Only believers can
advance to spiritual maturity. The term,
Mt Zion, represents the vast source of truth, or doctrine. Zion is the mountain that is inside of the
city of Jerusalem, and this represents that mature believers are mature, not
because they enter into a city, but because they have learned and retained
doctrine.
So, the dwelling place of
safety, comes from doctrine, which comes from God, who creates this new
spiritual species, namely the believer, and especially the believer who
advances to spiritual maturity through learning doctrine.
Her assemblies, is a
reference to all of the interactions that the believer has with God, through
doctrine resident in the soul. The
mature believer who is in fellowship is in constant contact, spiritually
speaking, with God. That is the ultimate
perpetual assembly.
Your Bible study, when
you are in fellowship, is an assembly.
Your prayer is an assembly. All that
you do on a daily basis is an assembly, when you are in fellowship. Any and all spiritual assemblies whether
between you and God or when with others, is a spiritual assembly only when you
are in fellowship. Your location, your
building, your posture, your health, etc., are irrelevant.
The symbolism of the cloud
of smoke by day and the pillar of fire by night, comes from the time when the
Israelites were wandering in the desert.
These symbols made it very clear to all that saw them, that this people,
Gods people, all believers, belong to God and He alone protects them and there
is nothing and no one who can interfere with that which belongs to God. God watches over His people, around the
clock, everyday.
In that day, in the end
times, after God has returned and destroyed all evil, the entire world will be
totally devastated. It will take Gods
help and provision to keep all survivors alive and moving forward into the
Millennium.
In past history, when
peoples migrated from one region to another totally new region, many did not survive. They did not have the resources or the wherewithal
to make it on their own. And when the
Millennium begins, people on their own could not survive. But with Gods help, they will all survive and
thrive and return the world to a phenomenally huge population, far greater than
anything that the world will have prior to the Millennium.
For by this glory, ‘kabowd,’
weight, glory, honor, which all comes from God alone. By means of Gods essence and power and so
forth, everyone who enters into the Millennium will survive and thrive.
By the same token, all people
who enter into spiritual maturity, regardless of their position or time in
history, will survive and thrive and succeed in Gods care.
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