Isaiah 6:13

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Isaiah 6:13

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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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Isaiah 6:12

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Isaiah 6:12

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12 And the LORD [Yahovah] have removed [rachaq] men ['adam] far away, [rachaq] and there be a great [rab] forsaking [`azuwbah] in the midst [qereb] of the land. ['erets]KJV-Interlinear

12 "The Lord has removed men far away, And the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land. NASB

There have been several deportations with regard to Israel.  Assyria, and Babylon both initiated massive deportations, moving people out of Israel and Judah, as well as the Romans many hundreds of years later.

But this is not the end of Gods disciplinary policy against a spiritually negative nation.

We know that the nation of Israel is symbolic of the nation of believers which God calls His nation.  And when Gods own nation falls away from truth, then these judgments fall on the believing population in order to get them back on track with doctrine.

Nevertheless, this judgment also points to the last and final great judgment against Israel, which will occur in the Tribulation. 

We know from our studies of Revelation, that at the mid-point of the Tribulation, there will be a great abomination occurring when the newly rebuilt temple is dedicated.  At that time, the Bible warns all to leave immediately, if they have not yet already left Jerusalem and the nation.  One would think that if people are aware of this prophecy they would have left, but then there will be many who will disregard the prophecy and warning, but then the warning is not really for them, but for our understanding of this event.

  

For it will be followed by an unleashing of the single most violent period in all of Israel's history.

And we have those days being revealed in these verses.

The violence will be phenomenal, the arrests will be massive, the movements or deportation of people out of the area will be thorough.  None will remain, except a very, very small number.

But remember that there is a three and a half year window between the mid-point of the Tribulation and the Second Advent of Christ. That is a very long time for the suffering and atrocities that will be occurring.  And this verse ends with the description that the suffering will be great.

Great desolation or forsaking, means desertion, emptying out, vanishing.  And in that regard, people will be vanishing because they will be dead, dying, carted off for death sentences and worse.

  

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Isaiah 6:11

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Isaiah 6:11

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11 Then said ['amar] I, Lord, ['Adonay] how long? And he answered, ['amar] Until the cities [`iyr] be wasted [sha'ah] without inhabitant, [yashab] and the houses [bayith] without man, ['adam] and the land ['adamah] be utterly [shamamah] desolate, [sha'ah] KJV-Interlinear

11 Then I said, "Lord, how long?" And He answered, "Until cities are devastated and without inhabitant, Houses are without people, And the land is utterly desolate, NASB

The strong language of destruction and utter desolation, continues in these verses.

And even though Judah and the nation of Israel have suffered great destructions before in history, their destruction will continue up and until the last generation of history of human rule, namely the Tribulation.

Nebuchadnezzar let the poor remain when he deported nearly all of the Jewish people out of the land, but the land was not totally desolated.  This verse describes a judgment that will leave the cities and homes completely and totally without people.  This is utter destruction, and the destruction will come not only from natural disasters, but also at the hand of foreign invaders.

The reasons for these various destructions, is due to the lack of truth, due to the lack of interest in learning truth, in the population.  And so history repeats itself, over and over again, even until that last generation in which the last destruction will take place.

And as we will see soon enough in the last verse of this chapter, ninety percent of the population will perish and only ten percent will survive in this last and final series of judgments.

  

This is not to say that ten percent of the population at the time of the Rapture will be the surviving number, but it emphasizes that at the time of the final destructions at the end of the Tribulation, then only ten percent of that group will actually survive.  By then the total population will have diminished substantially, as well over half of the entire world will have died.  And, the punishments and atrocities against the Jewish people as well as believers in Christ, will be ongoing right up until the very end.  Review the Revelation study.

So, the population in Judah and Jerusalem, will have been reduced substantially already, when the last and greatest of judgments will fall on that nation.

The primary purpose of these verses is to make it very clear that because of the massive extent of negative volition toward God, Christ and doctrine, the suffering and anguish and destruction will be massive.

  

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Isaiah 6:10

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Isaiah 6:10

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10 Make the heart [leb] of this people [`am] fat, [shaman] and make their ears ['ozen] heavy, [kabad] and shut [sha`a`] their eyes; [`ayin] lest they see [ra'ah] with their eyes, [`ayin] and hear [shama`] with their ears, ['ozen] and understand [biyn] with their heart, [lebab] and convert, [shuwb] and be healed. [rapha']  KJV-Interlinear

10 "Render the hearts of this people insensitive,, Their ears dull, And their eyes dim, Lest they see with their eyes, Hear with their ears,, Understand with their hearts, And return and be healed." NASB

Long ago we studied (Ephesians) the scar tissue of the soul. Look at your Charts on the soul online. The soul of the unbeliever and the soul of the negative believer will be similar in that their continued negative attitude toward God and their spiritual lives will generate a scar tissue over the soul. And as the soul becomes more and more callous, then the person becomes more and more insensitive toward others and life, and truth.

This is our current verse, verse ten. The eyes do not see the spiritual side of life even though they see the physical things in life. The ears do not hear the spiritual side of life even though they hear the physical things in life. The soul becomes deadened slowly.

The real danger to the life of an indifferent person is in their becoming convinced that their beliefs are the truth, and that the Bible isn't as good, or isn't good enough for their life, or is inadequate for their particular life style.

'Lest they see and hear ...,' from their own understanding.

When Gods counsel is rejected or modified to the convenience of the individual, then the individuals beliefs become their primary focus in life. People decide that they can accomplish all things on their own. People come to the belief that they can solve problems on their own. People become convinced that they can make their own way through life.

Ultimately, habitually negative people think they can heal themselves.

They look to philosophy for interpretation. The look to religion for access to a higher existence. They look to government for life's solutions. They look to technology for conveniences. All of these things being external to the soul.

In short, people no longer need God, all they need is a bit more time and a bit more money, to solve or accomplish whatever it is they want. That becomes the focus in life and that becomes ultimately the trap that blinds and destroys.

  

2 Thess. 2:10

10 and with all the deception of wickedness for those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved. NASB

2 Thess. 2:11-12

11 And for this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they might believe what is false,

12 in order that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth, but took pleasure in wickedness. NASB

Habitually negative people choose of their own free will to chase after the lies of life. God allows them to do just that.

Lest they see and hear, is a reference to the arrogance approach and attempts to resolve life's secrets, apart from the truth of God.

A long time ago, humanity tried to build a tower all the way up to heaven.  God sent them confusion in the form of languages in order to preserve humanity.  Everyone was pursuing the same thing and no one was looking to God or truth.

God uses many forms of separation in order to protect humanity.  Separations such as in individuals, families, nations, geographical regions, continents, oceans, languages, cultures and so forth.  When man tries to make everything one thing, then the danger to humanity becomes very real, because no human or group of humans can escape the sin nature and no human and no group of humans can run the world with fairness, righteousness or justice.

That will of course be in part, the downfall of humanity in the Tribulation as currency, languages, national entity identities, and such all become of one mind or state.  That direction is trending even now during our current dispensation, laying the framework for what is to come.  This continues in our current day under the pretext of progressivism, or liberalism, or social justice philosophies.

And just as in times past, people brought this problem onto themselves, so too, in our future, these spiritually negative attitudes will bring about the arrogance syndrome of accomplishment without God, as humanity can see all around, the evidences of God, can hear the many arguments of truth in public opinions, but reject truth in preference for their own delusional ideas.

Lest they see and hear, emphasizes that humanity cannot see or hear truth, nor rise to the level of God, by means of their own effort or ability.  Sin cannot achieve perfection, but it keeps trying.

All that the sin nature will accomplish is to make the soul fat on its own values and the heaviness of the lies of life will weight their souls down such that no truth can enter.  And this, all, is due to an attitude of arrogance and rejection of truth.

  

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Isaiah 6:9

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Isaiah 6:9

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9 And he said, ['amar] Go, [yalak] and tell ['amar] this people, [`am] Hear [shama`] ye indeed, [shama`] but understand [biyn] not; and see [ra'ah] ye indeed, [ra'ah] but perceive [yada`] not. KJV-Interlinear

9 And He said, "Go, and tell this people: 'Keep on listening, but do not perceive; Keep on looking, but do not understand.'  NASB

Voluntary blindness leads to judicial blindness. People have the Word of God and have had access to it since Adam and Eve. People have Gods Word in all of its clarity. There is no one on earth who has not heard something regarding Jesus Christ who is probably the most known name on the planet. Not only that, but everyone has heard of the various stories that are in the Bible from the Garden of Eden, to Noah and the Ark, to the parting of the Red Sea, to the birth of Christ, to the Lake of Fire, to heaven and much more.

How many of you know anything of the Koran, or of the writings of Buddha? Probably very few of you.  How many can recite their opening words?  Very few.  How many can recite the opening words of the Bible?  Nearly everyone.

People hear these Bible stories and they hear the doctrines that are in the Bible regarding marriage, and family, and so forth. They keep on hearing, but ... because of their indifference, because of their disinterest in God, because they see little value in their spiritual life as defined by the Bible, they just don't formally recognize what the Bible teaches as being the only real truth and reality.

People lean on their five senses. What they can see and smell and feel mean more to them, than something intangible like faith.

People are driven by their sin nature. The sin nature is emotion driven. The emotions are driven by the needs, and wants, and desires of the soul that lacks Bible doctrine.

Not that people are trapped in a trap which they cannot break free from, because people have volition and they can always say no to their selfish drives. But, people choose with open eyes, to keep their desires of the flesh rather than change to the spiritual needs of their soul.

God warns, and warns, and warns again. How many times do we see mentioned in this Bible, the need for pursuing ones spiritual life? We read it nearly every day. It can get kind of tedious I suppose. All of the repetition and such.

But then when you consider what is really on the table and what you risk losing, then this repetition is nothing more than what a soldier does on his hourly rounds. Day after day, night after night, he makes the rounds checking that everything is secure and accounted for, that there is no enemy on the horizon. And in times of peace then this alertness finds no danger anywhere.

A person can become lax in their spiritual duties and risk missing a breach in the security of the soul.

  

Be grateful if your life is rather uneventful with respect to the hardships that can come at you from life. Why risk major pains when you don't have to endure them. A major pain is losing a very close loved one, losing ones home with no insurance, losing ones health, losing ones livelihood, losing ones business or way of life. Many big things can come along and ruin your life, but why should one have to go through that before they wake up to the realities of life and God and doctrine?

Yet here is Isaiah who is now commissioned to tell the people of their ruin, and the people (anyone who hears Isaiah's words), will actually hear him, but they will not believe him. They will see the point that Isaiah is making, but they will not acknowledge that it has anything to do with them.

They will use their senses to take in all that Isaiah has to say, but that information will never become a reality in their soul. All the letters and numbers will simply trickle out of their ears and fall onto the ground.

This is continued negative volition. This is a continued negative attitude habit. People will have better things to do with their lives. People will have better ideas regarding their life. People will place their own beliefs before those presented in the Bible. And their lifestyles will be shaped around the lies that they have made into their homes.

Then one day, God will say, 'Ok.' God will then stop giving out the warnings because they are rejected anyway. God will stop giving sound doctrines because they will be ignored anyway. God will stop protection because it is not wanted anyway.

What is left? The jungle.

People will hear, but they will not understand, because they choose to not understand.  Also, when a person lacks a functional spiritual mechanism within their soul, then spiritual phenomena evades them.  But that too is not Gods fault but their own, because the lack of a functioning spiritual mechanism has been actively rejected as well.

Disinterest in doctrine, means failure in the development of a spiritual life, and a person needs a functional spiritual life in order to have a relationship with God.  Lacking that relationship, means Gods grace and favor likewise are going to be lacking.

And in order to survive even for a minute in this world, Gods grace in some form, is required.

Without Gods help, Adam and Eve would not have survived once out of the Garden.  Noah would not have survived through the flood.  Pioneers would not have survived in their pioneering.   And you cannot survive even in your life were it not for some grace provision from God.  There is even some grace in Gods patience in waiting on you to get your life together.  But that patience won’t last forever.

So, throw away God and Christ and doctrine and what is left for you?  Nothing.

  

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Isaiah 6:8

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Isaiah 6:8

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8 Also I heard [shama`] the voice [qowl] of the Lord, ['Adonay] saying, ['amar] Whom shall I send, [shalach] and who will go [yalak] for us? Then said ['amar] I, Here am I; send [shalach] me. KJV-Interlinear

8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?" Then I said, "Here am I. Send me!" NASB

The Temple filled with smoke preventing the view of the Lord, Isaiah now hears His voice. Just because we cannot see God, does not mean that we cannot hear Him, and in our case we hear God through His written word. No one in our current day can hear the spoken voice of God ... unless they have missed taking their medication that is.

Christ poses a simple question and counsels Himself. 'Whom shall I send?' God is in no need of advice from anyone. He knows everything. This counsel is for our benefit as well as that of Isaiah.

God uses prepared believers. Prepared believers are those who have advanced to some level of spiritual maturity. Mature believers are not perfect. We saw Isaiah's reaction when he saw the glorified Christ, but then none of us are perfect. Our first orientation in life is to come to an understanding that as people none of us have anything to boast about. Isaiah understood this principle.

Isaiah spoke up and volunteered without hesitation. It is an honor to be called upon by God to participate in any way which God chooses to use us. God doesn't need any of us of course, but He does utilize us in this life as an active part of His plan.

The people in Judah were in general anti-God. They were not interested, so God was going to give them a message, a message of ignoring them. They have ignored God for so long, and they have been warned time and time again, but the vast majority were indifferent toward God. Now their time was up and God was going to turn His back on them.

It is not a good thing for your life if God turns His back on you and basically does with you what you (as a negative person) are doing toward Him, namely becoming indifferent toward Him, and remaining indifferent. God is the only one who holds our life together. None of us can do that for ourselves. If God stops doing that for us, then our life literally falls apart and the jungle of the world has its way with us.

Go into a large city and walk alone down a dark alley night after night, in a high crime area, and see how much control you will have over your own life. The odds will be against you. In this life you live in that dark alley when you ignore God in your life. The odds are far worse for you.

But God will send a prophet yet one more time. Isaiah is prepared, and Isaiah's preparation gives him courage. He will tell it like it is. Note too, that Isaiah was not a great person. He himself stated that he was a mere sinner, like everyone else in this world. God does not send those who would be great, but those who would be humble and prepared spiritually.

The message of the messenger is not of the messenger, but of the one sending it. The message is from God in all things that are spiritual. Isaiah will not invent the message from his own imagination.

The messenger God chooses is prepared because he pursues preparation with an insatiable hunger for wisdom. God does not use those who basically ignore their spiritual lives, or those who invent their own version of a spiritual life. Everything spiritual must be done in conformance with Gods plan, not mans.

2 Cor. 2:16

16 to the one an aroma from death to death, to the other an aroma from life to life. And who is adequate for these things? NASB

No one legitimately goes forth in delivering any message from God unless God sends them. The legitimacy of their appointment becomes clear in the content of their message.

Rom. 10:15

15 And how shall they preach unless they are sent? Just as it is written, 'How beautiful are the feet of those who bring glad tidings of good things!' NASB

Any person who is alive on this earth can potentially be a messenger from God. Perhaps it will be to teach millions, perhaps it will be to teach a single child. Both are infinitely important. But neither messenger will function properly unless they themselves learn the message and that message is the content of the Word of God, of course.

You cannot teach what you do not know. You cannot invent Gods will, but you have to learn it through a daily study program combined with your residence in fellowship and function in the spiritual life.

To ignore these things will, sooner or later, get for you, Gods back, and then who will help you?

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Isaiah 6:7

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Isaiah 6:7

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7 And he laid [naga`] it upon my mouth, [peh] and said, ['amar] Lo, this hath touched [naga`] thy lips; [saphah] and thine iniquity [`avon] is taken away, [cuwr] and thy sin [chatta'ah] purged. [kaphar] KJV-Interlinear

7 And he touched my mouth with it and said, "Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin is forgiven." NASB

The coal that the angel carried, was from the alter of sacrifice.  Sacrifice was the teaching medium for instruction in the work of the Messiah in paying the price for sin and thus making atonement for that sin.

To purge, ‘kaphar,’ means to atone, to cover, to overlay, to expiate, to pardon, to forgive.

It is not the coal, not the touch, not the angel to purges the sin, but the alter from which the coal came, which brought about the removal of sin as a factor in securing eternal life.

The touching, which was a light touching, represents the faith in allowing that hot coal from causing harm, and thus the faith in the work of the alter in securing salvation and the removal of sin. Normally a hot coal touched to the lips which are typically very sensitive, would cause a burn.  This coal did not burn.  Isaiah trusted or had faith that there would be no harm.

So, the alter or Gods work, brought about the covering and removal of sin, or uncleanness from the life of Isaiah, just as it removes all filth from the lives of everyone who believes in Christ.  Christ being the living savior and messiah who placed himself upon that alter, the cross, and paid the debt caused by sin and thus redeeming us into freedom.

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Isaiah 6:6

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Isaiah 6:6

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6 Then flew [`uwph] one ['echad] of the seraphims [saraph] unto me, having a live coal [ritspah] in his hand, [yad] which he had taken [laqach] with the tongs [melqach] from off the altar: [mizbeach] KJV-Interlinear

6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, with a burning coal in his hand which he had taken from the altar with tongs. NASB

The angel quickly retrieves a burning coal, from the alter which was present near the throne.

In the Tabernacle here on earth, there were two alters. The first represents the alter of sacrifice, the brazen alter, and stood for the salvation work of Christ on the Cross. Upon it were offered the animal sacrifices.

The second alter is the alter of incense and on it was offered various incenses representing the pleasant aroma which is the acceptance by God the Father, of the work of Christ as well as the offering of prayers of believers who have first believed in Christ.

Between the two is the brazen laver from which the priests washed their hands and other utensils of the Tabernacle. This laver represents the fellowship principle of confession, of the washing away of sins in the life of the believer. Note that even while saved, the believer still commits sins, and those sins have to be dealt with in order to enter into Gods perfect state. Thus the fellowship principle of confession or the washing away of the believers sins is required before the believer can have a relationship (a prayer relationship, a spiritual relationship) with God.

The coal to the lips of Isaiah represents his belief in Christ as savior, and second his confession, 'I am a man of unclean lips,' as a sinner.

The coal is the work of Christ in its entirety, from sacrifice to faith and salvation, to confession and the maintaining of ones spiritual status.  Mans efforts are never allowed into heaven. Only through the work of Christ will man gain access to heaven and God.

With the touching of the hot coal, the sin is taken away (salvation) and the sin is forgiven (fellowship).

Only God can cleanse and restore.

Neither angel nor man can correct the failures (sin and death) of mankind.

The entire emphasis of life, is on the work of Christ, never on anything that you do.

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