Isa 54:1-8 In A Little Wrath I Hid My Face From You For A Moment
[Study Aired February 9, 2020]
Isa 54:1 Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.
Isa 54:2 Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;
Isa 54:3 For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
Isa 54:4 Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more.
Isa 54:5 For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.
Isa 54:6 For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.
Isa 54:7 For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.
Isa 54:8 In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer.
Isaiah chapters 52-54 are the most quoted chapters of the Old Testament which concern the prophesied sufferings endured by our Lord to “bear the sins of many”. The scriptures of the prophets, who were of Abraham’s own physical seed, prophesied that just as they had hated and sought to kill Joseph, David and all the prophets, they would also hate and even kill their own messiah, the Christ.
Luk 13:34 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not!
Here are the last two verses from our last study in chapter 53:
Isa 53:11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
Isa 53:12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
“He shall… bear their iniquities… and He shall bare the sin of many… because He has poured out His soul unto death”. This sacrifice which is the subject of these three chapters of Isaiah, is not being offered for the iniquities of the Gentile nations who are sinning against and persecuting the Lord’s people, as the Jewish scholars would have us to believe. These chapters are not speaking of the iniquities of the Gentiles committed against the Lord’s people.
This is the specific iniquities and transgressions for whom this sacrifice is being made:
Isa 53:8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
In the anti-type, Isaiah is telling us that it is those who have for so very long considered themselves to be the Lord’s spiritual bride who have “rebelled against [Him]” and have gone after other gods and have believed the doctrines of other gods. It is they for whom this sacrifice is primarily being made.
The Lord is a jealous God and will not share His wife with another:
Exo 20:5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
Exo 34:14 For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:
Deu 4:24 For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.
2Co 11:2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
We must therefore be made aware of what became of all the churches in Asia which Paul had been given to raise up. This is what happened to the apostle Paul and to the apostle John before they died:
2Ti1:15 This thou knowest, that all they which are in Asia be turned away from me; of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.
“All they which are in Asia” include “the seven churches of Asia” to whom the apostle John addresses the book of Revelation (Rev 2-3). ‘Seven’ is the number which signifies completion, which is why we are told “He that hath an ear let him hear what the spirit says to the [seven] churches”. A link to a study on the number 7 is here.
Rev 1:4 John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne;
The reason John addresses the book of Revelation to the seven churches is that they, too, had forsaken him. Notice what the Lord reveals to us:
3Jn 1:9 I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not.
3Jn 1:10 Wherefore, if I come, I will remember his deeds which he doeth, prating against us with malicious words: and not content therewith, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and forbiddeth them that would, and casteth them out of the church.
It is the Lord’s own people, it is you and I, those who have known Him and then have lost our first love, that have fallen prey to the doctrines of Balaam, the doctrines of those who Lord it over the Lord’s flock. We have all fallen for the false doctrine of the Nicolaitans, the doctrine of Jezebel, and those who have committed spiritual fornication, all the while telling ourselves that we are spiritually rich and in need of nothing.
Rev 3:17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
Rev 3:18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
Rev 3:19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
That is what “Judah and Jerusalem” typify at the very beginning this prophecy:
Isa 1:1 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
Isa 1:2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
Israel, just like Christians, considered themselves to be the Lord’s wife. A rebellious wife has become a harlot and has come to be the very people whom the Lord has sent to carry them away from Him. His own people have become “Babylon the great”. His own people are a “great whore”, and in spiritual anti-type, in spiritual reality it is the Lord’s own people who kill His prophets and His witnesses.
Rev 11:3 And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
The Lord’s faithful witnesses are at this very moment dead in the streets of Babylon the great:
Rev 11:8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
Who is “spiritual Sodom”? We need not guess:
Isa 1:1 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
Isa 1:10 Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
Who is the great whore of Revelation 17 and 18, who kills the Lord’s prophets? Again, we need not guess:
Isa 1:21 How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers
The Lord died “for the transgressions of His [own] people”, but as Isaiah reveals to us:
Isa 44:18 They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.
It is the Lord’s own spiritually blinded people, those who want His spiritual name but do not at first want to eat His spiritual food or wear His spiritual apparel, you and I who are the very people who have killed and offered up our own sacrifice for our own sins:
Isa 53:8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
Isa 4:1 And in that day seven women [The ‘seven churches’ of Rev 2-3] shall take hold of one man [Christ], saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel [our own doctrines and our own works]: only let us be called by thy name [‘Christians’], to take away our reproach.
These “seven women” typify the entire nation who, as the Lord’s wife, have turned on Him and have become a harlot (Isa 1:21). They are the unfaithful wife which persecutes the righteous men and the prophets who are sent to the Lord’s apostate people. The other side of the same coin is the few faithful righteous men and faithful prophets who typify ‘the barren wife’, which is typified by all the barren wives of scripture, by Abraham’s beloved wife, Sarah, Jacob’s beloved wife Rachel, Samson’s mother, and Hannah the loved but barren wife of Elkanah, the father of Samuel (1Sa 1:5). All these women were beloved by their husbands but were at first barren and could not conceive children.
We have no record of Hannah conceiving again after the birth of Samuel. All we know for certain is that she had one child, and yet this is what she is inspired to say when she dedicates her only son to the service of the Lord:
1Sa 2:1 And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in the LORD, mine horn is exalted in the LORD: my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies; because I rejoice in thy salvation.
1Sa 2:2 There is none holy as the LORD: for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God.
1Sa 2:3 Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.
1Sa 2:4 The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength.
1Sa 2:5 They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.
“The barren has born seven” is a spiritual statement because Samuel was just weaned when Hannah gave him to the service of the Lord’s tabernacle under Eli, the high priest.
According to Matthew, Christ’s generation was the 42nd generation from Abraham. Christ was not physically married, and He was crucified having no physical offspring. In the previous chapter Isaiah therefore poses this question concerning the Lord’s family:
Isa 53:7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
Isa 53:8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
Isaiah 53 is the section of Isaiah the Ethiopian eunuch was reading when he was approached by Philip:
Act 8:32 The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth:
Act 8:33 In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: and who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken from the earth.
Hannah’s words are the answer to the question, “Who shall declare His generation? for His life was taken from the earth.”
1Sa 2:4 The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength.
1Sa 2:5 They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.
“The barren… desolate” wife is the bride of Christ who is plainly stated to be the antitype of the barren wife of Abraham:
Gal 4:21 Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
Gal 4:22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
Gal 4:23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.
Gal 4:24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
Gal 4:25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
Gal 4:26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
Gal 4:27 For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.
Gal 4:28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
Gal 4:29 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
Gal 4:30 Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.
Gal 4:31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.
There it is again in verse 27-29:
Gal 4:27 For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.
Gal 4:28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
Gal 4:29 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
Those ‘Christians’ who demonstrate their love for their fellow man by being obedient to Christ’s commandments to ‘speak evil of no man” (Tit 3:2); love your enemies (Mat 5:44); resist not evil but turn the other cheek (Mat 5:39), will never be found speaking evil of, persecuting or killing or crucifying anyone but themselves, and that is being done daily in the spiritual manner we are commanded to consider ourselves (Rom 6:1-4; 1Co 15:31; Gal 2:20, Col 1;24, and Heb 12:1).
Galatians 4 tells us Christ has a wife whose son is bound by the law for the lawless (1Ti 1:9-10), by the fear of what men might think of him, and by the flesh, and cannot be heir with the children of the wife whose children are of faith and of promise and are not children of the works of the law for the lawless:
1Ti 1:9 Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
1Ti 1:10 For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;
A righteous man will never, under any circumstance ever hate, speak evil of, or murder his fellow man. Those who claim Christ but are willing to murder those they deem worthy of death are the children of the bondwoman. The righteous man, on the other hand is the son of the freewoman and is free of the fear of men. However, the son of the freewoman is comparatively barren in this age. Nevertheless, the son of the free woman, the righteous man, in the end, will have far more children than “she that has a husband” and bears many children in this age, because she is the bride of Christ “who will have all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the Truth” (1Ti 2:4), through the mercy which the children of the free woman, the righteous man, will be given to pour out on all men of all time:
Rom 11:30 For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:
Rom 11:31 Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.
As the mother of the few in this age, we are encouraged:
Isa 54:1 Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.
Isa 54:2 Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;
Isa 54:3 For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
Judaism was the church of Christ’s day, and the church of Christ’s day typifies the church of today which would, and still does, spiritually crucify Him and His doctrines until this very day.
When I say that ‘Christendom would and does crucify Christ today’, that is easily demonstrated by the fact that all the leading ministers of all the major churches, both Protestant and Catholic, encourage their members to get involved in the affairs of this age and join the militaries of their respective nations and be willing to die physically fighting to preserve the lives of their families and their countries, knowing that these words are the doctrine of our Lord:
Joh 12:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
Joh 12:25 He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
Those who are faithful to Christ are indeed truly few, fulfilling the Lord’s Words:
Mat 20:16 So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.
Mat 22:14 For many are called, but few are chosen.
Mat 24:37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Mat 24:38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
Mat 24:39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.Luk 17:28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
Luk 17:29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
The Lord’s children are also called His wife. We are betrothed to “one husband”:
2Co 11:2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
Rev 19:7 Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.
We are also called “the sons of God”:
1Jn 3:1 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
“The world” which did not know Christ was the deceived religious world of His day, and things certainly have not gotten any better:
2Ti 3:13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
Christ and His followers were very few and greatly despised. The church of His day was in deep dark deception, and here He is telling us that the deception of that time would only get worse and worse. In spite of these very clear words of warning, our flesh tells us that all these very educated religious men leading the churches of our day cannot all be wrong. What we are taught is that instead of getting “worse and worse” the Christian world grew to dominate most of the world and is even today the largest religion on earth.
However, the Truth still remains:
Gal 4:29 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
“He that was born after the flesh” is not speaking of the pagan world. It is referring to the rejected “seed of Abraham” who hates and mocks the Lord’s elect, and who say of His elect, “We will not have this man to rule over us.” (Luk 19:14) It is the Lord’s rejected elect anointed who hate those whom the Lord has sent to replace their old man and to be used as their saviors:
Rom 11:30 For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:
Rom 11:31 Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.
It was all prophesied here in Isaiah:
Isa 54:4 Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more.
The shame of our youth and the reproach of our widowhood are both from the perspective of the unbelieving, rejected seed of Abraham, “the son of the bondwoman”. We are “not ashamed of the gospel of Christ”, and while the rejected seed of Abraham has physically killed our husband, death could not hold Him, and He rose on the third day to become the propitiation not just for our sins but for the sins of the whole world:
Rom 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
1Jn 2:2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
‘The son of the bondwoman’ is the rejected ‘seed of Abraham’. ‘The son of the bondwoman is also our rejected old man who simply is not given to know Christ and therefore cannot receive His doctrine:
Joh 8:43 Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.
How can we know we do hear His Word and that we are His children and not the children of the bondwoman?
1Jn 2:3 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
1Jn 2:4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
Christ is both our Creator and our Husband:
Isa 54:5 For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.
Isa 54:6 For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.
These words detail the circumstances of our calling. If we are not forsaken, grieved in spirit, and if we have not been refused by the children of the bondwoman, “Jerusalem which now is and is in bondage with her children”, then we are not the freewoman bride of Christ.
If indeed we are that ‘forsaken, grieved in spirit’ son who is refused by the children of the bondwoman, then we will be blessed to endure the excruciating loss of the dominion of our flesh and experience the same feeling of being forsaken even of our husband Himself just long enough to experience His wrath upon the kingdom of our old man and to experience the death of our old man to the fear of what men can do to us and to the fear of what others think of us:
Isa 54:7 For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.
Isa 54:8 In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer.
This experience is what elicited these words from the mouth of our dying Lord as His corruptible flesh and blood were being offered up as the sin offering for the sins of all men of all time:
Mar 15:34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? Which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
A very interesting thing about…
Isa 54:6 For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.
…Immediately followed by:
Isa 54:7 For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.
Isa 54:8 In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer.
…Very clearly demonstrates that just as we have seen we are both “the sons of God” as well as “His bride” who comes out from Him, even so Christ who also “came out from the Father” and is both the Son of His Father, as well as a wife to the Father as His head…
Joh 8:42 Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
Joh 16:27 For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.
Joh 16:28 I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.Rev 3:14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
1Co 11:3 But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.
Just as the first physical ‘wife’ is called ‘the mother of all living’, so we are told that the Father used Christ to be the womb by which He conceived and brought into being everything in heaven and in earth:
Col 1:16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
Col 1:17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
Christ is following the example of His Father who sent Him “that the world through Him might be saved.”
Joh 3:17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
Then, for those who are given to receive it, Christ tells us:
Joh 20:21 Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.
Contrary to all the smooth-talking prophets of Babylon (Isa 30:10), ours is not a calling to a life of ease and luxury, or as I quote one Babylonian minister, ours is not a calling to a life of “coffee and doughnuts”. We are called to “offer [our] bodies as a living sacrifice (Rom 12:1), die daily (1Co 15:31), and to be “crucified with Christ” (Gal 2:20), and “fill up in [our] bodies what is behind of the afflictions of Christ (Col 1:24), but if we are given to endure to the end this is what we are told:
Rom 8:18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
Rom 8:19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
Just as the whole creation has waited for the manifestation of Christ, it now waits for the manifestation of Him and His generation, His Christ:
1Jn 5:20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
I pray we are all given to understand that “knowing Him that is true [includes] we in Him that is true” and that having been given that understanding “is the true God, and life eternal.
John makes this exact same revolutionary statement in:
Joh 17:3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ [and His Christ], whom thou hast sent.
Rev 11:15 And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.
Rev 12:10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
Rev 20:4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
Finally, I also pray we are all granted to “have respect unto the recompense of [our] reward”, because very few indeed do.
Heb 11:25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
Heb 11:26 Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.
That is our study for today, and here are our verses for next week’s study:
Isa 54:9 For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.
Isa 54:10 For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee.
Isa 54:11 O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.
Isa 54:12 And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.
Isa 54:13 And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children.
Isa 54:14 In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near thee.
Isa 54:15 Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me: whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake.
Isa 54:16 Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.
Isa 54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.
