—The "Gentiles" and "those in bondage" in Isaiah 49:6-9
Many “Christians”, demonstrating themselves to be very-poor scholars and even-worse thinkers, build an entire theology from a singular passage; and one taken out of context—and in denial of and in contradiction to the rest of Scripture. They try to conform Scripture to what they want to believe, as if putting on an oversized garment and then trimming off the “waste” (which in the case of the Scriptures, they consider to be about 80% of the Word of God).
However, we are to use Scripture to interpret Scripture, not liberal modern notions. We are to rightly divide the Word of Truth—and those who don’t will indeed experience shame. God is Immutable, Holy, Just, Perfect. He never changes. His Word does not change. Morality does not change. We are to conform to Him. He will not—cannot compromise. What He established as “good” and “evil” and what He commanded and what He declared to be abominations 4,500 years ago still are today and always will be.
Like the U.S. Constitution, the Bible is to be interpreted according to the spirit of the times in which it was written and what it meant in the mind of the author when written—and it is not to be contorted and twisted to please the polluted minds of modern society (either its destroyers or its pawns). The original spirit and intent never change. God’s Mind and Will never change. God’s Plan takes progressive steps and twists and turns—but the goal is ever the same and matters of substance (morality, holiness, truth, being, purpose) never change.
First of all, God’s people, the true peoples of Christendom are those who are actually oppressed. When we ruled the world there was far-less oppression. Liberal, socialist destroyers of society cry “Imperialism, oppression, exploitation”. However, communism is far-more guilty, than Imperialism ever was, of “oppression” or “exploitation”; yet they consider communism to be a euphoric utopia, a Nirvana to which we should all float upwards (just ignore history and the laws that God established, including those of gravity and the Laws of the Harvest).
Before Christendom surrendered her colonies, the local savages did not freely oppress their own people. The Law was enforced on all. When Colonialism ended, barbarism took its place and real oppression, tyranny, and exploitation began. A little “exploitation” (if that is what you choose to call it*) is the price-tag for civilization (law, order, infrastructure, electricity, water, technology, hospitals, etc.).
[* It’s funny that all the socialists—without authority in philosophy or law or theology—claim that it is the duty of those who have worked to earn what they possess to submit to endless taxation to provide for the comfortable lifestyles of those who refuse to work (including the politicians). How odd that they don’t call that “exploitation”, or what it is: theft and tyranny. The politicians and Big Business are the new plantation owners who exploit everyone else. Why is it that since we surrendered entire nations, whose infrastructure we developed, because those nations demanded “liberation”, why is it that ever since we granted them liberty, we have had to support them continually? save them from their own people who oppress them? save them from Acts of God? save them from dirth, famine, disease? deliver them from stone-age ignorance by continually propping them up with billions of dollars, and armies of doctors, educators, and civil engineers? Who is exploiting whom? Under Colonialism they benefitted by having civilization provided for them. Under the current system what do we get out of the deal other than hateful invaders still demanding more, who commit crimes on the way in and then throughout their lives, while at the same time having their lives funded by a taxpayer-funded breeding program?]
As the nations of Christendom have been subverted, we are more exploited than the indigenous peoples of the former colonies were. For nearly two decades since the end of white rule, photos have been circulated of blacks and coloreds demonstrating in South Africa with signs declaring that life was better under white rule.
[Below: In case the lettering on these cardboard signs is not easy to read, the sign on the left reads, “AWB* was better than ANC” and the one on the right, “We vote for better life. not for worse. We live like pigs.”
* A.W.B. (Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging, “Afrikaner Resistance Movement”), that is, white rule under the Apartheid government; even though the AWB never actually ruled anything. The sign is more of a “statement” than reality.]
South Africa’s wealth has been plundered by the black government officials and the nation has reverted to barbarism while the elite blacks live in king-like luxury. Zimbabwe (former Rhoedesia) is now begging the whites to come back and farm since the blacks cannot even feed themselves. I say, “Don’t go!” They wanted “liberation from white ‘oppression’,” let them enjoy it to the very end. Any white who goes back is a traitor and a fool. Why don’t all the blacks in South Africa who want freedom from oppression by the whites, why don’t they move to Zimbabwe, the ‘black utopia’...? or let them move to former Portuguese colony Mozambique or former German East Africa? The sub-70 I.Q. South African blacks, when asked, “Where will you get your food if you kill all the white farmers?” reply, “from the grocery store just like we always have”. Yes, and money grows on trees but the white people stole all those trees for themselves. Liberals have a love affair with stupidity and it ends in death.
[I for one hope they (the liberals and the savages) will be quite happy together. When they begin to reap what they have sown I will applaud and congratulate them and celebrate. Don’t expect everyone else to share what you heaped up unto yourself on the Day of Judgment—it’s all yours. You earned it!]
Christ, the Personification of Wisdom declared,
“But he that sinneth against Me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate Me love death.” (Proverbs 8:36)
Hate Jesus, Christendom, white Christians...? —embrace death!
However, because we rejected God’s Command to be separate from and not learn the way of the heathen (all alien peoples, or our pagan kinsmen), and because we sinned against God and surrendered the scepter to them and because we let the savages have a say in how we rule ourselves! —we are now reaping what we have sown. Those who reap carelessly, rebelliously to the wind, shall reap a whirlwind [tempest, hurricane]. Christ commanded,
“Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.” (Matthew 7:6)
[In English, a play on words is possible. Sow, as in sowing seed, grain, etc., is pronounced “sew” or “so”. However, the word for a female pig or swine is called a sow, but it is pronounced with the o sound as in “now” or “cow”. Thus, those who cast pearls before swine will reap what they sow (swinal judgment).]
Christ was not talking about animal husbandry. It was not merely a “nice idea” (it doesn’t sound warm and fluffy) or a “suggestion”. It was a Command. Even as was and is—
“Occupy till I come” (Luke 19:1);
as also is—
“...have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove [rebuke] them” (Ephesians 5:11).
The Law of the Harvest is not “immediate”. But it is certain.
“Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” (Galatians 6:7)
“...the curse causeless shall not come.” (Proverbs 26:2)
“...be sure your sin will find you out.” (Numbers 32:23)
We are now the oppressed in our own lands because we gave up the rule we had, and disobeyed God, and now the entire Third World is hatefully attacking us from within and without (believing the Zionist, Communist lies* that they are oppressed and poor because someone else stole everything from them)—and our traitorous politicians are the ones who created this “perfect storm”.
[* Michael Davitt, M.P., Anglo-Irish Member of Parliament visited South Africa to see first hand the nature of the Anglo-Boer War. He saw everywhere the Boers carry themselves with honesty, dignity, and humanity, and the British behave shamelessly. He resigned from Parliament in protest, and wrote The Boer Fight For Freedom (1902) 600+pp., (inquire). In it he reported that the “troubles” were stirred up primarily by British and German Jews. He also said that the “oppressed” mine workers said that they often had to read the daily newspapers “to learn what their grievances were”. Oppression (and “exploitation”) were and are largely ideas put into simple minds by communist agitators pretending to be their friends, to subvert the nation, gain rule, and then gain control of the gold and diamond mines (which they did). The issues stirred up by Black Lives Matter and Antifa, the destruction of U.S. monuments, NFL whore-mongering, drug-using, “athletes” with rap sheets and who are guilty of all sorts of violent crimes, “taking a knee” instead of standing for the national anthem, etc., are all the work of communist agitators. Football players with multi-million dollar salaries and endorsement contracts, multiple multi-million dollar homes, expensive sports cars, boats, planes, servants, closets full of expensive clothes, shoe closets that look like a shoe store... crying “oppression” is not really hypocritical—it is a bold-faced criminal lie! Why don’t they share all their wealth with their “bruthas and sistus the hood” and then all go back to Africa and then they can all learn what true oppression is. No police to protect them from their own people. No welfare checks. No rights. The law of the jungle. Most women are raped at least once before they become a teenager. AIDS and other sexual diseases rampant. Little-to-no sewage or garbage removal or clean water (and the disease this brings). Corrupt black politicians, gangs, and banditos. That’s all your people and “culture” are capable of. That’s your “contribution” to society. GO ENJOY IT!]
Anglo-Irish Christian Stateman Edmund Burke said,
“All that is required for evil to triumph over good, is for good men to do nothing.”
However, I add, if good men do nothing in the face of evil, then they are not really good. It is evil to be passive in the face of active evil.
“...to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.”" (James 4:17)
Another Irishman, John Philpot Curran, stated:
“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.”
—so it is with holiness. That which is not guarded and preserved becomes common and polluted. Salt preserves meat because it kills bacteria. Salt must remain separate to remain salt. If not sealed off it will absorb pollutants from air (the environment) and may be reminiscent of salt or “salt-like”; but it is no longer salt once it is polluted. So Christ said of us,
“Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.” (Matthew 5:13)
“Lost its Savour” here is a poor rendering. The Greek word means, “to become insipid” [foolish]. When the Bible speaks of fools, the word is used synonymously with “wicked”. It has nothing to do with “flavour”. It has to do with becoming polluted and worthless. For that reason it is to be cast out and trodden under foot of man (similar to Christ cursing the fig tree that bore no fruit). The trampling of the worthless salt parallels Christ declaring:
“Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.” (Matthew 7:6)
Interestingly, Hebrews 5:11 refers to being “dull of hearing”, but the word translated “dull” in Greek is derived from a word that means a spurious, illegitimate, bastard child (which itself shows that the word bastard does not merely mean a child out of wedlock, but its traditional meaning was “a child born of an unlawful mixed-racial union”). A mind filled with illegitimate ideas—brainwashed, polluted with lies is useless, even as salt itself that is no longer salt; even as the destruction of ones family tree causes that branch to rot, and the whole tree will be threatened if it is not pruned away.
Isaiah 49
“1Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels* of my mother hath He made mention of my name.
[* —bowels is a terrible translation. The bowels of a ship mean the inner-most cavities; but bowels in a human usually refer to intestines (which is certainly not where children are incubated). It should be “belly” or more technically “inward places or chambers” (since the word is used only in the plural). The Hebrew word comes from an unused root meaning, “to be soft”, so it is rather generic. Here we also see God’s Predestination and Sovereignty. God does not merely “know” the name of an unborn infant, a fetus—He determines it. God is not a passive spectator in His own universe—He is the Master of it. A common Hebraism is to repeat the same concept in different ways, so womb and whatever #4578 mey-aw actually intends. It seems to me that the second, intensifies the meaning of the first (womb), possibly even “womb-of-wombs”. Regardless, in this verse, the import is the parallelism: God will call His scattered people, who are “lost” in the world—unseen by those who don’t know what to look for; even ignorant of their own being (identity), even as God calls an infant from the darkness and obscurity of the womb.
Again, Scripture interprets Scripture:
“Hear the Word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock.” (Jeremiah 31:10)
“Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will save My people from the east country, and from the west country...” (Zechariah 8:7)
“Therefore fear thou not, O My servant Jacob, saith the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid.” (Jeremiah 30:10)
“27But fear not thou, O My servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O Israel: for, behold, I will save thee from afar off, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be in rest and at ease, and none shall make him afraid. 28Fear thou not, O Jacob My servant, saith the LORD: for I am with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.” (Jeremiah 46)
“For the Promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call [of Israel].” (Acts 2:39)
The Promise is to your [Israel’s] children (those in the land of Israel) and to all afar off (the dispersed of Israel whom God promised to regather)... as many as the Lord shall call. The phrase “even as many as the Lord shall call” is an emphatic clarification of God’s Promises within Israel; it is not in reference to any other people. It specifies to a greater degree that specific group (the elect) within Israel that shall be called and saved.
“Hearken unto Me, O Jacob and Israel, My called...” (Isaiah 48:12)
“For Jacob My servant’s sake, and Israel Mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known Me.” (Isaiah 45:4)
“And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of My mountains: and Mine elect shall inherit it...” (Isaiah 65:9)]
[Isaiah 49]
“2And He hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of His Hand hath He hid me, and made me a polished shaft [arrow]; in His quiver hath He hid me;
[Here, “shadow of His Hand” and “quiver” parallel “womb” of v.1. A Hebraism referred to the number of children a man had as his “quiver” (which of course came from his wife’s womb, which the man himself put there, then draws forth); the same applies to a sword, which is placed in and drawn from a sheath.]
3And said unto me, ‘Thou art My servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified’.
[It is not “serving God” to violate His Commands: to come out and be separate from aliens; to give not that which is holy to the dogs; to love not whom He hates and who hate Him—to commit national suicide and self-genocide by amalgamating into Babylon (“confusion by mixing”)—which God forbade!
Yet most people who think that they are “Christians” are not really Christians. Christ said that MANY on the Day of Judgment, who thought that they were good Christians, doing “wonderful things” in His Name, will hear that Christ never knew them, and will be rejected and delivered unto Judgment. If they were actually Christians, they would not follow the voice of a stranger, or the world, and they would not follow a false christ by believing blasphemies, such as, it pleases the Master for His children to breed with the dogs and give their inheritance to the dogs. Israel is God’s “Servant Nation”, but we are not to serve God’s enemies (which violates His Law and Holiness)—but we are to serve God by honoring Him through obeying Him. Christendom is not being destroyed for no reason: “the curse causeless shall not come”. We are reaping what we have sown and will continue to reap death until we sow repentance and obedience.]
[Isaiah 49]
“4Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work with my God.
5And now, saith the LORD that formed me from the womb to be His servant, to bring Jacob again to Him, Though Israel be not [yet] gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the Eyes of the LORD, and my God shall be my strength.
[“Israel be not yet gathered” because those are the people in the isles [and coastlines], in the west, afar off, whom He shall call once again to return unto Him. This is the teaching of the Book of Hosea. It is not some “new” people whom God shall call [that would violate His Promise and Covenant and Vow and God is not an adulterer]; it is the same people called by a different name—called forth from a different place (whither God had scattered them)—whom He shall call: the true Israelites of the dispersion (the Anglo-Saxon, Celtic, Baltic, Scandinavian, Slavic peoples of Christendom who have not corrupted their seed and amalgamated with and into Babylon).
It should be noted that the Jews and Israelis are not and never were Israel. They are cursed, alien enemies who infiltrated and then took over the land and stole true Israel’s name and identity—even as they have infiltrated all of Christendom and then opened the gates to the barbarians to come and steal, destroy, and kill and likewise, take over our land and steal our names and identity (Third-world aliens are now called “Americans”, “Germans”, “British”, “Swedes”, “Norwegians”, etc.—and no one bats an eye or thinks it perverse—it is an abomination and it is confusion).
The Jews are the Edomite-Canaanites of the Bible, who have also absorbed the blood of all nations—hence, they want to destroy us because we are God's people and because we have retained the heritage that He gave us. God promised to preserve a remnant, and if Satan can destroy that remnant then he will have proved that God can fail and if God can fail, even once, in any area, then it is possible that He can be defeated entirely, eventually. Thus, Satan is in an all out, last ditch attempt to destroy the true peoples of Christendom (white people who hold to traditional moral values are considered “enemy number one”, whom the whole world hates—and the reason, of which they are ignorant, though spurred on by Satan, is that we are God's people. THIS is the fulfillment of all nations turning against true Israel—not the nations of the world turning against the bastard State of Israel, which imposters are the ones orchestrating the all-out invasion and subversion and destruction of Christendom.
We are seeing all of Christendom invaded and changed before our eyes. In another 20 years if things don’t change, they will overthrow and rewrite history and that history will claim that Swedes have always been Iranians; Norwegians have always been Iraqis; Germans have always been Turks, etc. What is happening before our very eyes happened in the land of Israel over a period of 500 to 700 years (from the deportation to the time of Christ and then a few centuries after the Apostolic Age).
The Anglo-Saxon and related peoples appeared Europe at the same time that the true Israelites left captivity in Assyria and Babylon. See my books: Uncovering the Mysteries of Your Hidden Inheritance; God’s Chosen People: Who Is and Who Isn’t?, and smaller booklets, Confessions of An Anesthetized Person Known as Jewish; and Are You An Anti-Semite? We are seeing the fulfillment of the prophecy of Revelation of the Dragon / Serpent who spews forth a Flood (Third-world immigration) to drown the woman and her child. We are seeing the fulfillment of Nebuchadnezzar’s great dream image of the Statue whose feet (which represent the last kingdom of this earth’s age) that are made of iron mingled with clay—which represents integration. God still calls His people to “come out of her My people that you share not in her plagues”. God please send the plagues...! —soon! and spare Your people who repent and obey You and confess Christ and separate themseleves from the world. Send a pestilence throughout the world—cause the earth to help the woman and her child and receive the flood (which will absorb them after they fall from pestilence and are eaten by scavengers and reduced to dung). Spare Your people and decimate all those who are not Your people who hate You and Your people and who are trying to destroy and replace us. May 10,000 fall at our right side, but may it not come nigh unto us, because we have recognized You as Lord and endeavor to obey, please, and honor You. Pour out Your Holy Spirit to convict Your people of Truth—that You did not abolish Your Law, that morality never changes, that ignorant sin is still sin and needs to be repented of—and to “come out from among them and be ye separate and touch not the unclean people (not “things”—people are the topic of the passage in II Corinthians 6:18,19 and the passage in Isaiah 52:11 from which it is quoted) and then [indeed] I will [continue to] be a Father to thee and ye shall [continue to] be My sons and daughters”.
To be a friend of the world is to be the enemy of God. Jesus said if you love Me keep My Commandments and if ye keep My Commandments ye shall abide in My Love even as I have kept My Father’s Commandments [the very same commandments, Jesus didn’t have any of His own and did not abolish God’s Law—not one jot or tittle] and abide in His Love. John, in his epistle, wrote that those who don’t keep God’s Commandments don’t even know God and twice in Revelation tells us that the only ones of God’s people (the elect remnant) who will survive the end-of-days Wrath will be those who have the Faith / Testimony of Christ Jesus and who obey the Commandments of God. Scripture admonishes us: “Ye who love the Lord hate evil” and informs us, “to love the Lord is to hate evil”; as David expressed, those who were God’s enemies, David considered his own enemies, and hated them with a perfect hatred. Christ said that His sheep know His Voice and follow (obey Him) and the voice of a stranger they will not follow. Christ said that He did not abolish the Law and that not one jot or tittle shall pass from the Law; therefore, those who believe the opposite of what Christ said, who believe that Christ (or anyone) abolished God’s Law, follow a false shepherd, a false christ, and therefore, are not Christ’s sheep—even as those who do not obey, even as those who do not hate evil (what God declared to be evil, not what a sinful world claims is “evil”, perverting what God forever declared).
Every tree is known by its fruit. Obedience does not save or “make” anyone a child of God or a Christian, because one is a child of God and truly regenerated, he will obey because of the dynamic Presence of the Holy Spirit (“walk in the Spirit and ye shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh” [the violation of all that God commanded]) and therefore he will obey / keep the Law of God / do good works / bear fruit (all synonyms) and demonstrate that he is an honorable son.
God is sending Judgment—the very worst of the heathen—because we God’s people refused to obey and refused to be separate from such aliens. But we allowed such aliens to be put on a pedestal and did not shun those who bred with them, so God is sending a flood of that after which God’s sinful people lusted (even as they lusted after quail in the wilderness—instead of humbling themselves and asking, they grumbled, murmured, complained, and lusted—and God innundated them with quail 3 feet deep and for miles on any side of the camp; and that had so much that they soon loathed it and some even died from it). So now, because God’s people did not remain separate as God commanded, God is innundating Christendom with the very thing they lusted after—aliens: but “the honeymoon is over” (for all but the most mind-perverted and deluded) and those few left who are pure are beginning to realize the utter myth of the “noble savage”. Wake up! Come out! Seek God with all your heart (which means putting aside everything else and recognizing Him alone as Supreme) while He may be found. Christendom is not being destroyed because God is “happy” with us. Those who don’t think that it is being destroyed— “We now return you to your previously scheduled program... nighty night, pleasant dreams, while they briefly last until the rude awaking of Judgment”. Christendom is being destroyed because of our rebellion, spurning God’s Commands, taking advantage of His Blessings, and defiling ourselves in numerous ways (see numerous poems of mine that vividly deal with this topic, rendering numerous passages of Scripture into powerful verse, in my Bittersweet Impressions & Inspirations).
God did not abolish His Law. That is an impossibility. Only those who cannot think, those devoid of God’s Spirit, those who believe in a sterile “doctrineless” Christianity (which is merely humanism with a false label attached and a very thin veneer of Christian “inspirational thought” as a “distraction” and sinful man’s creating God after sinful man’s own image and then projecting that “worship” onto the pseudo-God of man’s own imagination) can believe such nonsense. Only those who are not Christ’s sheep follow after a stranger! The Law was never given for salvation (salvation was never its purpose and it cannot save; we are born stained with a sin nature and no amount of “nonsinning” can “unsin” sin)—it is the “House Rules” by which God commands His children to live. “If ye sin...” [“sin is transgression of the Law”—so John wrote in his epistle, written even after the Book of Revelation] “...and be without chastisement [from God] ye are not His children but bastards! Those who don’t wish to share in Judgment need to return to what He commanded. Mull this over, again and again, until it sinks in: There is no repentance without turning from what God forbade and turning to what God commanded. Anything less is pseudo-spiritual delusion. See my, What’s Keeping God From Delivering America, Britain, and Europe From Destruction...? and Ten Commandments For Youth.]
[Isaiah 49]
“6And He said, ‘It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles [nations], that thou mayest be My salvation unto the end of the earth.
[The “tribes of Jacob and preserved of Israel” refers to Israel in the land of Israel; “the Gentiles” are the dispersed of Israel. The preserved in the Land of Israel (at that time of Jeremiah’s prophesy, the small residue of the poor not deported and Jerusalem which had not yet been conquered) and are called Jacob and Israel (they are not merely called “Judah” because the entire land of Israel would not come to be known as Judea until Roman times when it became the Roman Province of Judaea); in time, the dispersed of Israel and Judah would lose sight of their heritage and become “Gentilized” or Hellenized and also be known by new names as God foretold.
“For I am with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee: though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished.” (Jeremiah 30:11)
It should also be pointed out that Israel in dispersion would also establish their own new nations, as well as being scattered among other nations (Assyria, Babylon, Persia, Parthia, etc.).
“3For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee. 4Since thou wast precious in My Sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life. 5Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west; 6I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth; 7Even every one that is called by My Name: for I have created him for My glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him. 8Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears.” (Isaiah 43)
[Note that God gives the lives of alien peoples as a ransom for the lives of God’s (judging the alien nations in destruction and instead preserving God’s people and forgiving them upon repentance). This is quite different from the Apostate “Christian” Church’s notion of evangelization of the dogs and making the dogs family members.
These blind and deaf of Israel refer to those Israelites of the dispersion whom God prophecied would become blind to their true identity, as they were “gentilized” or “Hellenized” (as were those who migrated to the Greek city states along the entire Mediterranean coastline, as well as isles. [See also Ezekiel 37 for the “Vision of Dry Bones”.] The word “gentile(s)” is a bastard word and should never be used. It is a miscarriage of translation from the Hebrew goy / goyim and Greek ethnos / ethney which are generic collective nouns that simply mean, “nation, people” with no racial connotation at all (which is solely derived from context). The word “gentile” comes from improper use of the Latin Vulgate in translation, from the Latin word gentilis, which was simply Anglicized. Some times in the New Testament (such as in John 7:35) the KJV and other English versions mistranslate the word Greek(s) [ Helleyn ] as “Gentiles”.]
“I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven, saith the LORD.” (Zechariah 2:6)
“I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds.” (Ezekiel 5:10)
If the whole remnant was scattered who is in the land now...? —the imposters (see Revelation 2:9; 3:9). However, God said that He would regather—not everyone—but whom He scattered:
“And He shall send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.” (Matthew 24:31)
See also the parable of the tares, and the parable of the fishes (the vile were thrown into a furnace of fire) that follows it.
“10Hear the Word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock. 11For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he [Jacob].” (Jeremiah 31)
Again, God regathers whom He scattered. He regathers His sheep (not pigs, dogs, wolves, serpents, scorpions, etc.). See also my S.T.E.Commentary on Jeremiah 31, 328pp., pb., 18.00 + P&H.]
[Isaiah 49]
“7Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation [people] abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is Faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and He shall [yet] choose thee.
[God does not choose any other people. He is not an adulterer. He covenanted an unconditional perpetual Covenant and promised never to utterly forsake His people, but chastise them if they sin—even give the bulk of them up to destruction if they did not repent; but He promised to preserve an elect of His people—and no one else. He is Faithful and True, even thought the majority of “Christians” make nonsense of His Word by humanistic interpretations and making God conform to human notions, and make God to be untrue, and unfaithful, and a liar. “I am Yahweh and I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.” (Malachi 3:6) Christians who don’t know the Word of God properly (or reject sound doctrine in favor of a nice-feeling humanistic delusion—for as long as it lasts) feel the need to smash open the walls God made and to include everyone, in violation of God’s Word, because in their blindness, they don’t realize that they are Israel, and that is the only way (and via a perverse interpretation of “adoption”—see other Ruminations dealing with this, and my S.T.E.C. on Romans) that they can include themselves. Also, whether out of “Survivor guilt syndrome” or as a result of their sinfulness in marrying or allowing their family to marry aliens, they feel a perverse need to include everyone—and violate the Word of God in both theory and practice; and thus, they are accomplices in the theft and destruction of Christendom.]
[Isaiah 49]
“8Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish [thee] the earth, to cause [thee] to inherit the desolate heritages;
[If true Israel is going to inherit the desolate heritages, what happens to those kings and princes and other people of those desolate heritages? —nothing, if those people themselves are the Israelites of the diaspora. True Israel refers to the true peoples of Christendom (who are the only legitimate descendants of Biblical Israel), not the imposters: the Jews or Israelis (who are Edomite-Canaanites and mingled blood of all nations). Desolate means, “ruined”. Heritages refer to that which is passed on as an inheritance (that is, to family members). Thus, God’s people who have destroyed their heritage, their inheritance will pass to other family members who have not destroyed theirs. We are told that God will make a full end of all others. God is not forced to conform to modern notions of “fairness” and “equanimity”. God drove out the Canaanites and told His people to utterly destroy or drive them out. “The earth is the Lord’s and the fulness thereof, the world and all they that dwell therein.” Liberal “Christians” don’t have a clue what that actually means. All that exists God owns and He is free to do with it as He wills. Now, most probably, the Canaanites had themselves displaced and / or absorbed or killed the Hebrews who had lived there before the Canaanites (history does repeat itself); but even were that not the case, God owns and determines all.]
[Isaiah 49]
“9That thou mayest say to the prisoners, ‘Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Show yourselves.’ They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.
[Don’t lose your focus on God’s Plan of Scripture by “trigger words” or “hot buttons” (taken out of context, merely applied haphazardly in the form of “free association”) —words that modernist liberal “Christians” twist (or those who are well meaning, but have been seduced by worldly false doctrine masquerading as Bible doctrine) in the attempts to apply those words to their special interests for their own gain (the destruction of Christendom). Words like “adoption, whosoever, “gentiles”, etc. In this verse, the word is “prisoners”.
However, this does not refer to blacks; who lived better under slavery than they do in the ghettos today. See: Some Collected Works of Earnest Sevier Cox [Let My People Go (1925), Virginia Racial Integrity Legislation (c.1925), The South’s Part in Mongrelizing the Nation (1926), The Virginia Memorial to Congress (c.1934), The Price of Failure, Three Million Negroes Thank The State of Virginia (1940), Monument to Herman (1959); with extensive notes by Robert Alan Balaicius, illustrations added, and photos and brief biography of Cox, 232pp., 18.50 + P&H. See also: Who Brought The Slaves To America?, 30pp., 3.00 + P&H.
God promised to regather whom He scattered. God promised to free those whom He gave up unto bondage. At this time (Isaiah’s prophecy) northern Israel had been conquered and deported to Assyria and portions of Judah were being deported to Babylon. Even though the Israelites of the diaspora later were freed to travel wherever they wished, the majority (then, as now) were content simply to amalgamate, blend in, and enjoy life—with no thought of obedience to God in all that He commanded (a mere 613 or so laws*) which included faithfully preserving what God entrusted to them—their very identity—(which is the only way out of Judgment).
* There are over 300,000 Federal “laws” alone, which take up over 17 feet of shelf-space, of large hardback volumes with 6-point or 7-point size print. Yet God’s Law fits in the palm of your hand and mind-polluted “Christians” think that it is “too much” and that God “delivered us from His Holy Law which is perfect and which was given for our good, health, prosperity, etc.
Some Israelites had already begun migration through the earth before the captivity (even as early as the Conquest under Joshua). These people, apart from Christ, apart from the knowledge of God’s Law (which is what one repents of violating; if the Law of God were abolished, there would be nothing to repent of or be forgiven for or be saved from) are still in blindness and bondage. God declared that He would scatter His people throughout the earth, and regather whom He scattered—and the preaching of the Gospel of Christ to Israel in all nations whither true Israel had been scattered is part of that Regathering. That is what the Second Great Commission was for—to find scattered true Israel; which was the beginning of the fulfillment of God sending out many fishers (catch and release specialists, to release in better waters) and hunters (trackers) of Jeremiah 16. God said He scattered Israel as a man scatters (sows) wheat (Hosea 2:23; Amos 9:9: “corn” does not refer to corn on the cob, which is a new world crop; corn is an older English word for “grain”, which in the Bible refers to wheat or barley). When a farmer plants / scatters wheat, at the time of the harvest, he does not gather in the thistles, thorns, rocks, insects, vermin, poison ivy, tares (“darnels”; which are toxic and deadly but look like wheat)—he harvests the wheat. Nowhere in the Word of God are tares, thorns, thistles turned into wheat, grapes, figs, or olives; nowhere are dogs, wolves, and swine turned into sheep; nowhere are serpents and scorpions turned into dove. The very notion of modern “missions” and “evangelism” violates the Word of God; and those who do so are a friend of the world, pursuing the world’s agenda, and thus, the enemies of God; regardless of any warm emotions they feel for God—they reject His Word, except those warm and fuzzy parts that they like, which they take out of context.
Christ came to open blind eyes—of His people Israel—and set prisoners free—that is, His people true Israel, in bondage to sin. Christ declared:
“If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.” (John 8:36)
“18The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He hath anointed Me to preach the Gospel to the poor [of His people Israel*]; He hath sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind**, to set at liberty them that are bruised, 19To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.” (Luke 4)
[* “I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the House of Israel.”
** “19Who is blind, but My servant? or deaf, as My messenger that I sent? who is blind as he that is perfect [self-secure], and blind as the LORD’S servant? 20Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he heareth not.” (Isaiah 42)
“8But thou, Israel, art My servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham My friend. 9Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, ‘Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away.” (Isaiah 41)
Christ was declaring that He was fulfilling the prophecy of—
“10Make the heart of this people fat [complacent, self-satisfied], and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed. 11Then said [asked] I, ‘Lord, how long?’ And He answered, ‘Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate, 12And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.” (Isaiah 6)
[Here we see in this passage God’s Sovereignty. God controls the will. God controls man’s delusions. God made their heart fat, stopped their ears, shut their eyes, stiffened their necks. Other passages make it sound as if they did it themselves; that is, as I call it “the audience view” in God’s Drama—the means by which He accomplished His Will; but all is controlled by God, which is revealed in verses like this that show the “behind the scenes view”. Those caught up in the drama of a movie forget the people on screen are actors and following a pre-written script, and each minute detail is choreographied and controlled by the Director. See my, Does God Repent...? — Can God Change His Mind...?]
“2The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the Light shined. .... 8The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.” (Isaiah 9)
Even when Christ was conceived, the angel Gabriel told Mary, “Thou shalt call His Name Jesus [Yehoshua, “Yahweh-saves”], for He shall save HIS people from their sin”. Hebrews 8:8ff. repeats Jeremiah 31:31ff. and declares that the New (“Revised”) Christic Covenant of Salvation, being a sub-covenant within the Abrahamic Covenant, was made solely with the same people as the Old Covenant: Israel and Judah.]
[Isaiah 49]
“10They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for He that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall He guide them.
11And I will make all My mountains a way, and My highways shall be exalted.
12Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.
[Again, this is God regathering His people from the four corners of the earth as He promised. “And He shall set up an ensign for the nations [people], and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.” (Isaiah 11:12) See what happens when you relegate the Old Testament to the scrapbin of history...? —you have to invent fiction rather than fulfill prophecy.]
“13Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the LORD hath comforted [built up] His people, and will have mercy upon His afflicted.
14But Zion said, ‘The LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me’. [But God replies to Israel:]
15‘Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee’.
[Note: God will not forget THEE (Israel, Zion); that is, He will not adopt other people to take their place. Verse 14 shows (if anyone has any doubt, that this entire chapter is to Israel.]
“16Behold, I have graven thee upon the Palms of My Hands; thy walls are continually before Me.
[This is powerful. WHO was graven? Israel. WHY? What was the engraving? Was it not the crucifiction? Gabriel announced Christ’s conception: “Call His Name Yehoshua, for He shall SAVE HIS PEOPLE from THEIR sins”. Christ Himself declared, “I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the House of Israel”. Romans tells us, “4Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption [it is lost Israel who is “adopted” or restored, placed once again as an honorable son], and the Glory, and the Covenants, and the giving of the Law, and the Service of God, and the Promises; 5Whose are the Fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came.” (Romans 9) Can it be any clearer? Again, see my Sacred Truth Expository Commentary on Romans.
“The other disciples therefore said unto him, ‘We have seen the Lord’. But he [Thomas] said unto them, ‘Except I shall see in His Hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into His Side, I will not believe’.” (John 20:25)]
[Isaiah 49]
“17Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.
18Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith the LORD, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on thee, as a bride doeth.
19For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.
20The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, ‘The place is too strait [constricted, cramped] for me: give [more] place [room] to me that I may dwell’.
21Then shalt thou say in thine heart, ‘Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been?’
22Thus saith the Lord GOD, ‘Behold, I will lift up Mine Hand to the Gentiles [nations], and set up My Standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.
23And kings shall be thy nursing fathers,* and their queens thy nursing mothers:* they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD: for they [of My people] shall not be ashamed that wait for Me.
[* Nursing fathers is a terrible translation for two reasons: men cannot nurse children; the second reason shall be explained shortly. It should be rendered “foster-provider”. Mothers here is a terrible translation; it should be “nurse-maids”. The concept of conquered and humbled (by God), alien peoples being “mothers and fathers” to true Israelite children, completely perverts the true relationship; these are vanquished foed put to servitude, not family members.]
[Isaiah 49]
“24Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered?
25But thus saith the LORD, ‘Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.
26And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob’.”
[The Saviour, Redeemer, and Mighty One [God] of whom...?]
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Someone emailed me and asked what about one of his friends who believed that Christ returned in a.d. 70 because of Matthew 16:28.
I replied:
It is a very poor “scholar” who builds an entire theology upon ONE VERSE (and that out of context).
All that Christ said would take place has not happened, and the Millennial Kingdom has not been established—1,000 years of Peace and Rest after 6,000 years of sinful wrath on earth... Satan has not been bound, then loosed, then judged again, then the Eternal Kingdom has not been established HERE ON EARTH. The seas still exist and the sun still exists; though they will not in the Eternal Kingdom. “And there will be no more the Canaanite in the House of the Lord”... has not been fulfilled. All tears have not been wiped away. Death has not been defeated; etc.
Regardless, let us look at the passage:
“Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in His Kingdom.” (Matthew 16:28)
Peter, James, and John SAW the TRANSFIGURATION OF CHRIST in Matthew 17 shortly after this declaration of Christ...! They saw Christ in GLORY. They saw His Power. They saw Him, the fulfillment of the Law (Moses) and the Prophets (Elijah).
“Kingdom” in 16:28 does not mean a city or a castle, but “the foundation of power”.
Again, with whom was Jesus transfigured? MOSES and ELIJAH: representing the Law and the Prophets which establish the Authority and the Foundation of the Kingdom.
“Not one jot or tittle shall pass from the Law or the Prophets”, Christ said. The Law tells us God’s Moral Code; the Prophets tell us who God’s people are and what we are to expect before the end.
Christ even then told Peter, James, and John not to tell anyone what they had just witnessed until after His Resurrection! They had a preview of the Coming Kingdom.