Isaiah 63: God’s Day of Vengeance and Redemption
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Who is this coming from Edom, from Bozrah, with his garments stained crimson?
Who is this, robed in splendor, striding forward in the greatness of his strength?
“It is I, proclaiming victory, mighty to save.”
2 Why are your garments red, like those of one treading the winepress?
3 “I have trodden the winepress alone; from the nations no one was with me.
I trampled them in my anger and trod them down in my wrath;
their blood spattered my garments, and I stained all my clothing.
4 It was for me the day of vengeance; the year for me to redeem had come.
5 I looked, but there was no one to help, I was appalled that no one gave support;
so my own arm achieved salvation for me, and my own wrath sustained me.
6 I trampled the nations in my anger; in my wrath I made them drunk and poured their blood on the ground.”
This is the Lord, correct.
Here is the same thing being said again, almost verbatim;
Rev.14:
20And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.
What is wrong with this picture through?
I’ll tell you… the Lord is the one doing the trampling in Isaiah and it is an angel who is swinging the sickle in
Rev.14:
17And another angel came out of the temple, which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.
18And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
19And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
20 The grapes were trampled in the winepress outside the city, and blood flowed from the winepress in a stream about 180 miles long and as high as a horse’s bridle
Hmmm.
Now who is it that is executing the wrath of God?
God.
IF I was to do a service for Father, like say, call fire down out of heaven to consume the wet sacrifices of false prophets.
Was it me or God that did it, when the fire came down out of heaven?
It is God.
SO, as the Word tells us that in;
Rev.1:
13 And standing in the middle of the lamp stands was someone like the Son of Man. He was wearing a long robe with a gold sash across His chest. 14 His head and his hair were white like wool, as white as snow. And His eyes were like flames of fire. 15 His feet were like polished bronze refined in a furnace, and his voice thundered like mighty ocean waves. 16 He held seven stars in his right hand, and a sharp two-edged sword came from his mouth. And His face was like the sun in all its brilliance.
17 When I saw him, I fell at his feet as if I were dead. But he laid His right hand on me and said,
“Don’t be afraid! I am the First and the Last. 18 I am the living one. I died, but look—I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and the grave.
We KNOW that it is Lord Jesus here.
BUT we don’t know that it is the Lord for sure here…???
COME ON.
Rev.14:
14 Then I saw a white cloud, and seated on the cloud was someone like the Son of Man. He had a gold crown on His head and a sharp sickle in His hand.
Of course it is Lord Jesus.
This is the abbreviated version of Rev.1:13.
It is like this.
Once I define a subject in a letter, if I refer to that subject again later on in the letter, do I have to reiterate all the specifics all over again?
Of course not.
Example… Yesterday I came up with the chemical solution to
polytetrafluoroethylene, which is a
synthetic fluoropolymer of
tetrafluoroethylene that finds numerous applications.
PTFE is a
fluorocarbon solid, as it is a high-
molecular-weight compound consisting wholly of
carbon and
fluorine. PTFE is hydrophobic: neither water and water-containing substances are wet by PTFE, as fluorocarbons demonstrate mitigated
London dispersion forces due to the high
electronegativity of fluorine. PTFE has one of the lowest coefficients of
friction against any solid….
Once I established the base word of
polytetrafluoroethylene there is no reason for continuing to us the long version of that word when I can simply say PTFE after the initial use.
The angel in the scene of Rev.14: 15
Then another angel came from the Temple and shouted to the one sitting on the cloud, “Swing the sickle, for the time of harvest has come; the crop on earth is ripe.”
Is like an alarm clock going off.
Lord Jesus is sitting on a cloud (not a great multitude either) and Father signals Him with an angel.
Matthew 24:36
“But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
The SAME writer has already established who the one is that is like the Son of Man here;
Rev.1: 13
And standing in the middle of the lamp stands was someone like the Son of Man. He was wearing a long robe with a gold sash across His chest. 14 His head and his hair were white like wool, as white as snow. And His eyes were like flames of fire. 15 His feet were like polished bronze refined in a furnace, and his voice thundered like mighty ocean waves. 16 He held seven stars in his right hand, and a sharp two-edged sword came from his mouth. And His face was like the sun in all its brilliance.
Hence, the same writer reverences Lord Jesus here in the abbreviated term;
Rev.14: 14
Then I saw a white cloud, and seated on the cloud was someone like the Son of Man. He had a gold crown on His head and a sharp sickle in His hand.
Whose work is being done here in all of the above scripture…God’s work.
Are we taken or left behind…
IF one is in the Lord, it does not matter, does it…
SIDE NOTE on growth in Him;
Spiritual strength is the ability to carry an enduring heart that follows after God even when His calling or message is not popular at the time (Numbers 14:24).
It is the capacity to live in hard spiritual climates when those around you give up, break rank and run from their faith in God.
It is the capability to cart the fire of God’s glory according to His will and not your own. Spiritual strength is the endurance beyond the “norm” of moderate Christian living that comes out of pressing into Jesus for more of Him.
Jesus said,
“Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled” (Matthew 5:6, emphasis added).
Get HUNGRY and develop a deep THIRST for righteousness and you will be filled.
Love in Him,
[FONT="]Brother Jerry[/FONT]
has reminded us though, we simply cannot allow these misunderstandings to cause us ANY resent. ANY anger. ANY contempt. ANY fear. ANY grief or sorrow.
