Isaiah 12:4
4 And in that day [yowm] shall ye say, ['amar]
Praise [yadah] the LORD, [Yahovah] call [qara'] upon his name,
[shem] declare [yada`] his doings [`aliylah] among
the people, [`am] make mention [zakar] that his name [shem] is
exalted. [sagab]KJV-Interlinear
4 And in that day you will say,
"Give thanks to the Lord, call on His name. Make known His deeds among the
peoples; Make them remember that His name is exalted." NASB
In that day, is still referring
to a future time from Isaiah’s perspective, and since these things have not yet
occurred, it is still future from our perspective as well.
That day refers to the
time when God will establish His kingdom here on the earth. We know that, that will occur at the Second
Advent, which is the event that will bring the Tribulation to its end, and from
there, the Millennium, or the one-thousand year reign, the Kingdom of God on
earth, will begin.
This is the song, the
thoughts, the emotions that the people who will endure and survive through the
Tribulation, will be having within themselves.
The gratitude, the
thanks, the emotions will be overwhelming, to near beyond their capability to experience
them.
The one thought will be
on the Lord, who is Jesus Christ, about who this entire Bible is written.
The religions, the
philosophies, the invented ideas of humanity will fade into non-existence, as
the reality of the Tribulation and its ending will be in the forefront of everyone's
mind.
Jesus Christ will be
right there in the flesh, and all will see Him, and their thoughts will not be
on their things, or on their losses, or on some government program, or even the
things of old that might be remembered as to how they were, but really weren’t.
The conversation will
be on the work of Christ, the ending of evil, the Kingdom of God.
The entire focus will
no longer be on earthly things or beliefs, no longer on celebrities, no longer
on the things of old, but on Christ and the reality that Christ is now all that
matters.
And with the world
pretty much destroyed, there will be no industry, no shopping, no toys or
trinkets, no malls, no utilities, no internet, virtually nothing, and people could
easily get depressed with such a dismal future still before them. But those are worldly views, not Gods views.
Instead people will
look to the one and only person who will turn it all around, and pretty quickly,
and with no thoughts of poor me, the world is ending, woe is me and such.
In that day, people
will look forward with confidence, to the hope that Christ will provide, and to
Christ Himself.
No views will be of a
world that will recover on its own, for it cannot and will not.
The views will be on
Christ, who is life and the sustainer of life and the infinite and endless
source of all things.
