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“In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden,” Isaiah 14:28.

Although I have already touched upon this, please notice the priority Isaiah has given to the future as planned by the Lord!

I. GOD’S WORD IN A DAY OF APOSTASY UNDERSCORES THE PROPHETIC FUTURE AS REVEALED BY HIM

1. Consider the opening verses of Isaiah 14. “For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob. And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors. And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,” verses 1-3.

Here we have the Lord indicating that a day is coming when He “will have mercy on Jacob.” Furthermore, He “will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land.” See as well that  it will be a day of the concession of the Gentile. “The strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.” Please also note that Israel will be assisted by the Gentiles in their return to their own land. “The people shall take them, and bring them to their place.” Especially note that it will be a day of domination by the former downtrodden Israelite! “The house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.”

I can imagine how comforting and encouraging such word would have been to a believing elect amongst the people of Judah back in the evil days of Ahaz!

Likewise, nothing uplifts the spirits of God’s people in these days than an emphasis upon what is set froth in the Bible regard the triumphant future of the saints of God.

Paul the Apostle followed this principle and practice in the days when the church in Thessalonica was troubled and afflicted. “And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost,” 1 Thessalonians 1:6.

Even though Paul was only amongst them for some three Sabbath days, he still taught the recent converts prophetic truth!

“But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation. For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him,” 1 Thessalonians 5:1-10.

How different were these believers from today’s average Christian! And how different was Paul’s message from today’s weak preaching! (more…)

UK companies linked to payments for small-boat crossings, BBC finds

Doubtless, the headline I have headed this article with will be deemed ‘racist’!

This what the ‘liberals’ and the ‘wokists’ have brought our nation to! Nothing of the truth concerning developments in the nation can be addressed as it truly is. Instead, we are threatened and coerced into a frame of mind akin to that denounced by the Lord long ago.

“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” Isaiah 5:20.

Good has become evil and evil good in the religious, social  and political branches of our national affairs. Further more, we are not only expected to go along with this new definition of acceptable ethics, but we have to be prepared to support such out of the public purse, our purse!

State benefits support to a shocking degree the consequences  of the immorality of a sizeable sections of society. The perverting of the ‘social conscience’ by the godless mandarins, who dictate the direction of the nation from behind the scenes, have brought about multitudes who, without shame, live well on the fruits of their immorality!

Yes, there is a need to support those who find themselves in difficult circumstances. That is a teaching of the Bible. But it is also taught in the Holy Scriptures that immorality, laziness and deceitfulness is not to be rewarded!

“For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat. For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies. Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread,” 2 Thessalonians 3:10-12. (more…)