Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Isaiah 12:4

Copyright Ó 2013 J. Neely
Isaiah 12:4ues

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.

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