Isaiah 12:1
1 And in that day [yowm] thou shalt say, ['amar] O
LORD, [Yahovah] I will praise [yadah] thee: though thou wast angry ['anaph] with me, thine anger ['aph]
is turned away, [shuwb] and thou comfortedst [nacham] me. KJV-Interlinear
1 Then you
will say on that day, "I will give thanks to Thee, O Lord; For although
Thou wast angry with me, Thine anger is turned away, And Thou dost comfort me. NASB
In that day, is a
reference to the previous chapter, wherein the Messiah, the Lord, has defeated
evil and all enemies of good and truth, and has delivered all who have looked
to Him in those desperate days with never-ending confidence.
And despite obvious and
overwhelming odds against them, they were kept alive by Christ, in order to be
delivered by Christ, and enter into the Millennium, which is the promised
Kingdom of God on earth.
It is those people who
will witness the most dramatic events of all of human history. Never having seen past history, but only
knowing about what they have read in the history books and such, and most
probably not giving much of even a second thought to the past events of history,
but now will have seen first hand, the rise of an anti-christ, and the fall of
humanity and the entire world, in just seven brief but seemingly long years.
They will be witness to
the dramatic geological changes in the planet.
They will be witness to the dramatic changes in the animal life. They will be witness to the dramatic changes
in a world that no longer has the influence of an imprisoned Satan.
And the thoughts of all
people will now be ones of praise and appreciation and love and deep
thoughtfulness for all that the Lord has accomplished for them and for everyone.
And it is this twelfth chapter,
though just a short six verses, which will demonstrate the incredible song that
will exist within the hearts of those who have been delivered from the worlds
worst period in all of human history.
When most did not look to
Christ, when most will probably fall away in their despair and anxiety driven
fears and worries, when most will not learn doctrine and grow up in their spiritual
life and spiritual faith as counseled in the first few verses of chapter eleven,
when most will lack doctrine and therefore will give up in their life and on
life because the pressures and terrors of the world are too great, and their faith
in Gods plan and deliverance was too small or non-existent.
It will be a time when
everyone, without exception, during that period of Tribulation, will never know
what tomorrow will bring, when all around them there is nothing but destruction
and death and starvation and violence, and absolutely no reason to believe that
tomorrow will be any better, but most likely will be far worse.
But there will be a few,
a remnant, who will look to God after living in unbelief, and will turn their
lives totally to His promise, and they will persevere through until the very
end, until He returns at the Second Advent, and established His Kingdom and
rule.
And the changes will be
so dramatic that there will not be words to express oneself, except these few
words or praise. Words and confidences
that should be in all of us regardless of when we live in history.
