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Thursday, October 29, 2015
Isaiah 51:11
Therefore the redeemed
of the LORD 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.
For further study - Isaiah 51:1-23
This chapter in the prophetic book of Isaiah is like a "songbook" that contains great songs with lyrics, made up of Bible doctrine.
Our key verse is a prime example. Read slowly verse 11 and you can almost hear the melody that has been assigned to these words. In fact, the words of the verse speak of "singing and joy" as the way those that have been redeemed will return to Zion, to Jerusalem.
Notice the "joy", it is "everlasting joy", joy that is forever. This is
not "happiness" which is based upon "happenings" but instead "joy" that
comes from the Lord. When you have "Godly joy", joy that comes from the
Lord, "sorrow and mourning" shall flee away.
The One that gives us that "joy" along with a "song" for us to sing is the Creator of all things, verses 13 & 15.
He is the "Lord thy maker". "The One who stretched forth the heavens
and laid the foundations for the earth, the One who divided the seas."
As the Creator, He can give us a song to sing and "everlasting joy". The Creator is the same One who will protect His people, verses 16 & 23.
The phrase "cup of trembling" is speaking of those who are "intoxicated
with power", the ones the Lord will bring back to reality through
judgment.
Before we leave this passage, look back to verse 3 and
let me explain the "truth" found in this passage. This verse is
speaking of the most sacred piece of real estate in the world, "Eden,
the Garden of the Lord".
The Temple Mount in Jerusalem is the original sight of the "Garden of
Eden". (See my audio series, "Return to Eden".) This fact has been known
by all Orthodox Jewish academic scholarship from the "beginning," 5,776 years ago.
Judaism believes that the original Garden of Eden is on the location of
the Temple Mount in Jerusalem today. God's Word says that this is where
all joy, gladness, thanksgiving, and the "voice of melody," singing,
emanates from in our old world.
But notice the verse again, the Lord will return this spot to the Jews in the last days, Ezekiel 36:35 and Joel 2:3. This of course is the reason for Islam's strong desire to take control of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
Where the Lord began all things, the Temple Mount, He will return there
in the last days. It will be the restored "Garden of Eden" on the
location of the Creator's Kingdom headquarters, the Temple Mount in
Jerusalem.
Islam’s continuing effort to explain away the Jewish presence on the
Temple Mount, at anytime in history, and it’s effort to keep Jews off
the Temple Mount in Jerusalem is evidence Bible prophecy is moving
closer to being fulfilled.
PRAYER THOUGHT: Thank you Lord for the Word of God that explains current events in light of Biblical prophecy.