Isaiah 6:13
13 But yet in it shall be a tenth, [`asiyriy] and it shall return, [shuwb]
and shall be eaten: [ba`ar] as a teil tree, ['elah] and as an oak, ['allown]
whose substance [matstsebeth] is in them, when
they cast [shalleketh] their leaves: so the
holy [qodesh] seed [zera`] shall be the substance [matstsebeth] thereof. KJV-Interlinear
13
"Yet there will be a tenth portion in it, And it will again be subject to
burning, Like a terebinth or an oak Whose stump remains when it is felled. The
holy seed is its stump." NASB
And so history is
destined to repeat itself. But for
Israel, the nation, for Judah, the nation, for believers that span history,
this pattern will always be there.
God chooses those who
believe in Him, blesses them above all others who reject Him, and the enemies
of God rise up against His people, try to destroy them, even to small numbers,
and yet God raises up yet another generation or generations, and history
repeats itself.
Adam was promised a
savior who would be born of woman, making the savior, who is God, both God and
man, together in the same person.
Abraham was promised a
savior that would be one of his descendants.
Jacob was promised an eternal
nation. David was promised an eternal
dynasty.
And the world has tried
and tried again to destroy all of these promises, but each time that Gods people
are destroyed, yet another generation rises up.
And so it will be, from the ruins of the Assyrian empire, to the Roman
empire, to the final generation in the Tribulation.
Israel and Judah are both
the genetic selections of God as well as the symbolic believers of faith
selection of God.
And even when God is rejected
by His own genetically selected people, Jewish people, He is faithful and
maintains them as a race and will continue to maintain them as a race, when
finally in the last generation, in the Tribulation, they as a race, will turn
in huge numbers to Christ.
During that last terrible
seven years, well over ninety percent of the population of Israel will be
destroyed. Even of the final ten
percent, our current passage, the terrible destruction will continue as evil will
attempt to eliminate the race entirely.
But at the Second Advent,
when Christ finally returns to earth, the numbers of Jewish people, who by the
way will be believers in Christ, will have diminished to an extremely low
number, and yet those will survive to be rescued, and will enter into the Millennium
to repopulate the world.
The trees mentioned are
cut down with virtually no stump remaining, and yet a shoot, and little stem,
that is virtually insignificant by comparison to the once whole tree, will
survive to grow again and thrive into a new era.
A small shoot, is nothing
when compared to the giant tree it comes from.
The surviving numbers of Israel, will be very small when compared to the
total population that will not survive, but yet in the face of horrendous odds
and destruction, God will preserve His people, while all others will die.
Pursuit of anything and
everything in this world will come to a bitter end. Pursuit of doctrine as God has intended, will
come to a phenomenal destiny.
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