Isaiah
29:22
22 Therefore thus saith ['amar] the LORD [Y@hovah], who
redeemed [padah] Abraham ['Abraham], concerning the house [bayith] of Jacob [Ya`aqob], Jacob [Ya`aqob] shall not now be ashamed [buwsh], neither shall his face [paniym] now wax pale [chavar]. KJV-Interlinear
22 Therefore thus says the LORD,
who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob: “Jacob shall no more be
ashamed, no more shall his face grow pale. ESV
Therefore, is a reference to all that has just been
said. Therefore, is the consequence of
the happy and fulfilling changes that will be made, subsequent to the
oppressors being removed, the victims will celebrate and rejoice, when all that
lack doctrine will be taught doctrine and therefore learn it because they will want
to learn.
And therefore, because of all of this, in those final
days of history and the beginning of the new era in the millennium, then, the
house of Jacob will no longer be disappointed, no longer be pale with fear or
disappointment or shame brought about by all of the failures of the descendants
of Jacob.
The same Lord, who is Jesus Christ, who saved or redeemed
or delivered Abraham out of the land of idols and into a new land.
The house of Jacob further identifies the true people
of God, and specifically the Israelite race, due to the faith they have in the
Messiah, and thus eliminates all other brothers or descendants of Abraham, who
are not a part of the chosen line because of their unbelief.
When Abraham turned to God and left the idols of his former
land, behind him, he crossed over the river into the new land. This crossing over also represents his
crossing over from idolatry, to faith in Christ. He thus acquired the name of Hebrew, or one
who crossed over.
Then from Abrahams descendants which designates the
line of Christ, from Abraham through Isaac, to Jacob, this eliminates all other
children of Abraham and focuses on the Israelites, which is what the nation was
called after Jacobs name was changed to Israel.
So, Abraham represents the pattern of faith. Jacob represents the line of faith. His children represent the nation of faith,
or Israel. And then many centuries
later, the residents of Judah later called Judea, were called Jews and
represented the departure from faith in preference for the burdensome regulations
and works of Judaism.
And that departure pattern has continued through the
many centuries even up and until our present day, and will continue until the Tribulation,
when then and only then, the Jews of that future time, will turn to
Christ. Up until that time of their
great repentance, they will suffer numerous times in history, which we have already
seen in history and they will continue to suffer right up to the bitter end of
history until they finally repent, as a race that is.
And then once all of history has been accomplished,
once the Second advent has occurred, once evil has been defeated and the
Kingdom of God has been established, then the habits of old will be no longer,
and the habits of faith and learning and spiritual growth will be established.
Until those final days, these changes will not occur,
in mass, because people and specifically the Jewish people, will stubbornly
refuse to change. And that refusal is
the main reason why all of the hardships of the past, present and future, have,
and will occur.
And note one important principle. When people change and repent and obey and
learn and grow in their spiritual life, then changes, dramatic changes, in life,
do occur. But when people insist on
doing things their own way, thus rejecting Gods way, then trouble is always
just around the next corner.
These
studies are a part of the massive daily study web site at DailyBibeStudy.Org,
and are written, so that you can come to Christ if you have not done so
already, and therefore not be lost forever.
And
if you have already believed in Christ, then these studies are written so you
can learn and understand and grow in your spiritual life, so that you can come
to the full knowledge of Christ, so that you can fulfill your meaning and
purpose in life as God intended for you, and so you can qualify for a
phenomenal eternal reward which you will have forever.
To
ignore this opportunity to pursue a daily study means you will be incomplete,
unfulfilled and you will lose out, big time.
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