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Isaiah
Chapter
51
{Chapter
51 and 52 Are Great Messianic Passages
Subject - Encouragement to the People of God}
{Verses
1-3: Encouragement by the Foundation of the Jewish Race}
1~~'Hear,
listen and obey' {shama`} to me
{demand for the function of GAP - study and intake of divine
viewpoint},
you
who are pursuing/'following vigorously' vindication {tsedeq}
{tsedeq - means righteousness when vindication calls for
righteousness}.
You
who intensively seek
{strong, definite concentration}
Jehovah/God
{all of this then refers to a believer whose thirst for the Lord and
His Word is strong},
focus
on the Rock
{occupation with the person of Jesus Christ}
from
which you are cut/hewn
{today we are 'hewn' from the Rock and are the Royal Family of
God},
and
on the quarry from which you were dug
{SuperGrace Occupation with the Person of Jesus Christ}.
2``
Look unto Abraham your father,
and
unto Sarah who bore you.
For
I called him alone,
and
blessed him,
and
increased him.
3``For
Jehovah/God shall comfort Zion
{encouragement by comfort from God}.
He
will comfort all her waste places.
He
will make her wilderness like Eden,
and
her desert like the garden of Jehovah/God.
Joy
and gladness shall be found therein,
thanksgiving,
and
the voice of melody.
{Verses
4-8: Encouragement through the Word - GAP}
4``'Hear,
listen and obey' {shama`}
unto
me, my people;
and
give ear unto me, O my nation.
For
a law shall proceed from Me,
and
I will make my judgment
to
rest for a light of the people.
5``
My vindication/righteousness is near;
My
salvation/deliverance is gone forth,
and
My arms shall judge the people.
The
isles shall wait upon Me,
and
on My arm shall they trust.
6
Lift up your eyes to the heavens,
and
look upon the earth beneath.
For
the heavens shall vanish away like smoke,
and
the earth shall grow/wax old like a garment,
and
they who dwell therein shall die in like manner
but
My salvation/deliverance shall be for ever,
and
My vindication/righteousness shall not be abolished.
7~~Listen/'Hear,
listen and obey' {shama`} to me,
you
who understand {yada`}
{the
principal of} vindication {tsedeq}
{maximum doctrine producing the SuperGrace life},
the
people in whose heart/'right lobe'
is
My law/doctrine
{meaning those who have doctrine/'divine viewpoint' resident in
their souls do not need any vindication/justification from any
'creature'}.
Fear
you not the reproach/criticism {cherpah} of men,
and
be not dismayed
by
their denunciations denunciations/naggings/
bullying/revilings/condemnations
{gidduwph}
{A SuperGrace believer could care less about the criticism of
others you have nothing to 'prove' or to 'show' to anyone
else -
you are in a higher league - all that stuff is childishness - you
live every day as unto the Lord!}.
8
For the moth shall eat them up like a garment,
and
the worm shall eat them like wool.
But
My vindication/righteousness shall be for ever,
and
my salvation/deliverance from generation to generation.
{Verses
9-16: Encouragement by Divine Essence}
9~~Wake
up! Wake up!
{`uwr `uwr - Qal imperative - an order -
this is an anthropopathism - a trick of public speaking - Isaiah is
ordering God to WAKE UP! - totally shocking - that made his
listener's blink! this is 'left-handed' humor - wake up the people,
by telling God to wake up. God does not sleep - it is the people in
bible class who need the jolt!}
Be
'clothed with'/'put on'
Your
Omnipotence/strength {`oz},
O
'arm of Jehovah/God'
{a Title for Jesus Christ - see also Isaiah 40:10, 52:10, 53:1, 59:16,
63:5 used for the Hypostatic Union - arm represents His humanity
and Jehovah for His deity this is a prophetic representation of
Jesus Christ in His future Hypostatic Union}.
Wake
up! As in the 'days of old' . . .
in
the generations of the past
{referring to the Exodus Generation specifically} . . .
are
you not the same One
Who
has cut in pieces {chatsab} Egypt
{Rahab (not Rahab the prostitute)-means 'insolence or pride'
and is a word used for - see Psalm 89:10},
and
pierced the crocodile {Pharaoh}
{tanniyn - referring to the Pharaoh of the Exodus see
Ezekiel 29:2-3}?
10
Are you not it which has dried the sea,
the
waters of the great deep
who
has made the depths of the sea
a
way for the ransomed to pass over?
11``
Therefore the redeemed of Jehovah/God shall return,
and
come with singing unto Zion;
and
everlasting joy shall be upon their head.
They
shall obtain gladness and joy;
and
sorrow and mourning shall flee away.
{Verses
12-13: Jesus' Answer to the Wake Up Paragraph above}
12~~I,
even I,
{always One member of the Godhead - here Jesus Christ}
am
He Who intensively/perfectly comforts you
{nachim - Piel intensive participle}.
Who
are you, that you should be afraid/fear
{of the person or his criticisms of you}
of
a 'mortal man'/'a man who shall die?
{a person comforted by God has NO fear - comfort comes from,
absolute confidence in the Promises of God - who cares what
'man' thinks?}
And
{who are you who is afraid}
of
the son of man who shall be given as grass?
{statement of judgment - all men are mortal and under the
judgment of God}
{Verse
13: His Power to Create is the Same Power that Provides Comfort}
13``And
{who are you who}
forgets
Jehovah/God your maker . . .
Who
has stretched forth the heavens
and
laid the foundations of the earth.
And
{who are you who}
has
'been in awe'/feared continually
every
day because of the fury of the oppressor,
as
if he were ready to destroy?
And where is the fury of the oppressor?
{God
Delivers from the Most Hopeless of Circumstances}
14``
The captive exile is intensively anxious to be set free,
and
that he should not die in the pit,
nor
that his food should run out.
{God
will Do Whatever it Takes to Deliver a Believer}
15``But
I . . . {am}
Jehovah/God
your 'Elohiym/Godhead,
Who
divided the sea . . .
whose
waves roared.
Jehovah/God
of armies/hosts . . . {is}
His
Name.
{His
Deliverance is Given Prophetically through doctrine}
16
And I have put my words/'doctrinal communications' {dabar}
in
your mouth,
and
I have covered you in the shadow of My hand,
that
I may plant the heavens,
and
lay the foundations of the earth,
and
say unto Zion, "You are My people."
{Verses
17-20: Encouragement by Catastrophe and Disaster -
A Result Type of Encouragement - You never Know How Great God's
Grace is without Disasters where Grace is Demonstrated}
17~~Wake
yourself up! Wake yourself up!
{`uwr `uwr - Hithpoel reflexive imperative - an order for you to do
to yourself}
Stand
up/Become Alert! O Jerusalem,
{city filled with believers without doctrine in their souls
told to get back to God and His Word}
which
has continually drunk heavily {shathah}
from
the hand of Jehovah/God the cup of His indignation . . .
the
gauntlet drinking cup of staggering, you have drained it dry.
{under maximum catastrophe and disaster - without doctrine}
18~~There
is none to guide her
{no one has divine viewpoint in their soul from the intake of
doctrine}
among
all the sons whom she has brought forth.
Neither
is there any who take her by the hand of all the sons
that
she has brought up.
{Two
Types of Disaster Categorized}
19
These two things are come unto you;
who
shall be sorry for you?
Desolation,
and destruction,
and
the famine, and the sword . . .
{economic and military categories of disaster}
by
whom shall I comfort you?
20~~Your
sons have fainted,
they
lie at the head of all the streets,
like
a wild bull in a net
{lots of courage but no leadership with doctrine in their souls -
no encouragement from the ultimate source of God}.
They
are full of the fury of Jehovah/God . . .
the
rebuke of your 'Elohiym/Godhead.
{Verses
21-23: Encouragement by Divine Deliverance}
{Verse
21: Under Great Disaster - Drunk But not with Wine}
21~~Therefore
hear, listen and obey
{shama` - imperative mood - an order}
now
this, you afflicted,
and
drunken, but not with wine . . .
{Verse
22: Part of the Divine Cycle - the 4th Cycle of Discipline}
22~~"Thus
said the 'Adown/Lord . . .
Jehovah/God
. . . 'Elohiym/Godhead . . .
Who
pleads the cause of His people,
"Behold,
I have taken out of your hand
the
gauntlet drinking cup of staggering,
even
the dregs of the cup of My indignation;
you
shall no more drink it again."
{Negative
Volition to God and His Word Changed to Positive Volition
and the Result}
23~~"But
I will put it {the cup}
into
the hand of them who afflict you.
{the cup of divine discipline will be taken from Israel and given to
their persecutors God never condones Anti-Semitism}
Who
have said to your soul,
"Bow
down
{means to make them a slave},
that
we may go over.
And
you have laid your body as the ground,
and
as the street, to them that went over."
{means absolute slavery, bullying, abuse of the Jews}
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