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Isaiah
Chapter 45
{Isaiah
Talks About Cyrus the Great and the Fall of Babylon and the
Fall of the Chaldean Empire}
1~~
Thus said Jehovah/God
to
his anointed,
to
Cyrus . . .
whose
right hand I have held,
to
subdue nations before him.
And
I will loose the loins of kings,
to
open before him the two leaved gates
and
the gates shall not be shut.
{Note: The first gate was where the Euphrates River flowed in protecting King Belshazzar, the king of Chaldea in Babylon - See Daniel 5. Isaiah is prophesying about the fall of the Chaldean empire BEFORE it even became a great empire!}
2
I will go before you,
and
make the crooked places straight.
I
will break in pieces the gates of brass,
and
cut in sunder the bars of iron.
3
And I will give you the treasures of darkness,
and
hidden riches of secret places,
that
you may know that I, Jehovah/God,
Who
call you by your name,
am
the 'Elohiym/Godhead of Israel.
4
For Jacob My servant's sake,
and
Israel My elect,
I
have even called you by your name.
I
have surnamed you,
though
you have not known me.
5~~I
. . . {am} Jehovah/God . . .
and
there is no other 'Elohiym/Godhead except Me.
I
girded you, though you have not known Me
{to gird means to strap on - like strapping on the armor of the
Lord}.
6a~~That
they may know from the rising of the sun,
and
from the west,
that
there is none beside Me.
6b-7~~I
am Jehovah/God {Jehovah},
and
there is no other . . . 7~~
forming/sculpting
{yatsar} the light,
and
'creating out of nothing' {bara'} darkness.
I
am the One 'manufacturing out of something' {'asah} prosperity . . .
and
'creating out of nothing' {bara'}
the
evil one {Satan}.
I
. . . {am} Jehovah/God . . .
the
One creating {'asah - out of something else}
all
these things.
{Note: There are four Hebrew verbs for making something:
1) bara' - means to create something out of nothing -
instantaneously. So is a true beginning. See Genesis 1:1. The
Universe and man's soul (Genesis 1:27) were also bara'ed out of
nothing.
2) 'asah - means to construct or manufacture something out of
something else. In Genesis 1:25, God made animals out of
something else.
3) yatsar - means to form or design or sculpt. In Genesis 2:7, God
'sculpted' man's body.
4) banah' - which means to be built or constructed. The woman's
body was banah'ed. She was built out of the man.}
{Note: So here, God created out of nothing both darkness and Satan (bara). Satan, the Prince of Darkness, is the cause of all darkness. So indirectly, God created (bara') . . . darkness. God formed the creature and controls him and what the creature creates. But, Satan from his own free will, is the author of evil.}
8
Drop down, you heavens, from above,
and
let the skies pour down righteousness.
Let
the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation,
and
let righteousness spring up together;
I
Jehovah/God have 'created it out of nothing' {bara'}.
9
Woe unto him who strives with his Maker!
Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth.
Shall
the clay say to him who fashioned/molded/formed {yatsar} it,
What
do you 'make out of something else' {`asah}?
Or your work, 'He has no hands?'
10
Woe unto him who said unto his father,
'Who
do you beget?
Or
to the woman {mother},
'Who
have you brought forth?'
11
Thus said Jehovah/God,
the
Holy One of Israel, and his Maker,
Ask
me of things to come concerning My sons,
and
concerning the work of My hands command you Me.
12
I have 'manufactured the earth out of something else' {`asah},
and
'created man out of nothing' {bara'} upon it.
I,
even my hands,
have
stretched out the heavens,
and
all their host have I commanded.
13
I have raised him up in righteousness,
and
I will direct all his Ways.
He
shall build My city,
and
he shall let go My captives,
not
for price nor reward,
said
Jehovah/God of the armies/hosts.
14
Thus said Jehovah/God,
The
labor of Egypt,
and
merchandise of Ethiopia
and
of the Sabeans,
men
of stature,
shall
come over unto you,
and
they shall be yours.
They
shall come after you;
in
chains they shall come over,
and
they shall fall down unto you,
they
shall make supplication unto you, saying,
Surely
'El/God . . . {is} in you;
and
there is none else,
{otherwise}
there is no 'El/God.
15
Verily . . . {you are} a 'El/God
Who
conceals Yourself,
O
'Elohiym/Godhead of Israel . . . the Savior.
16
They shall be ashamed,
and
also confounded,
all
of them.
They
shall go to confusion together
who
are makers of idols.
17
But Israel shall be saved in Jehovah/God
with
an everlasting salvation.
You shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.
18
For thus said Jehovah/God
Who
'created out of nothing' {bara'} the heavens;
God
Himself Who formed/molded {yatsar} the earth
and
'manufactured it out of something else' {`asah}.
He has established it {kuwn}.
He
'created it out of nothing {kuwn}
not
in vain.
He formed/molded {yatsar} it to be inhabited.
I am Jehovah/God . . . and there is none else.
19
I have not spoken in secret,
in
a dark place of the earth.
I
said not unto the seed of Jacob,
'Seek
you Me in vain/emptiness.'
I Jehovah/God speak righteousness.
I declare things that are right.
20 Assemble yourselves and come.
'Draw
near yourselves' together,
you
who are escaped of the nations.
They
have no knowledge
who
set up the wood of their graven image,
and
pray unto a 'el/god who cannot save.
21 Tell you, and bring them near.
Yes, let them take counsel together.
Who has declared this from ancient time?
Who has told it from that time?
Have not I Jehovah/God?
And
there is no 'Elohiym/Godhead else beside Me . . .
a
just 'El/God and a Savior . . .
there
is none beside Me.
22
Look unto Me, and be you saved . . . .
all
the ends of the earth.
For I am 'El/God, and there is none else.
23~~'By
Myself {God},
{from Romans 14:11 we learn this is a Jewish idiom
- meaning 'I (God) keep on living' - referring to the Perfect
integrity of Eternal God}
I
have sworn.
The
word is gone out of My mouth . . . in righteousness
{Integrity of God - He said it and it WILL be done - veracity},
and
shall not turn back,
that
unto Me {Jesus Christ here}
every
knee shall bow,
every
tongue shall swear.
{Note: See Romans 14:11. This is a prophecy of the Rapture of the Church.}
24
Surely, shall one say,
in
Jehovah/God
have
I righteousness and strength . . .
even
to Him shall men come;
and
all who are incensed against Him shall be ashamed.
25
In Jehovah/God shall all the seed of Israel be justified,
and
shall glory.
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