For only God's known reason, I have been focusing the past days on one of my beloved Prophets, Isaiah.There are three true poetic souls expressed from God Himself in the Scriptures, showing the beauty of God's Mind, and they are the Word, Jesus, King David in the Psalms and the most prolific of seers in Isaiah son of Amos.
If you ever attended the Christmas services where children recite the verses of the Christ in all their beauty, those are from Isaiah moved by the Holy Ghost.
Christ, Himself, quotes Isaiah, as that is how important the Prophets recordings were in God's Promise of Salvation.
The well known healing verse of, "By His stripes, we are healed", comes from Isaiah in speaking of Christ being scourged by the Romans and in that horrid whipping healing was given to humanity.
In that, the most beautiful of souls with God's Spirit infused in them, Isaiah would see Christ literally in the pageant of His execution. The visions were detailed and horridly true, but in the matter of fact way which they are recorded, the lilt of prose overcomes the most heinous of acts with a gentle beauty which stills the savage and gives to it that meaning, "All things work together for them who love the Lord".
Isaiah would live before King Hezekiah who was a good King, and then face his horrid son, Manasseh, who was pure rebellion and evil. It is astonishing that Manasseh would repent as the longest ruling king, but it was still because of this leaders national sins that the nation of Judah was divorced from God and exiled.
It was said that not a day went by in Manasseh's reign when the righteous were not slaughtered.
The chief among these which grieves the soul and Spirit is the beauty of Isaiah. For while the Israelites made a profound habit of murdering the Prophets God sent in various forms of butchery in using Roman crucifixion in Christ to the last recorded in the martyr Stephen stoned to death and his seeing the heavens opened to him, what Manasseh did to Isaiah was particuarily sickening.
Manasseh had Isaiah sawn in two using a wood saw.
For those who do not comprehend the details of that or recoil from the image, it is something that unless you have experience with forensics, butcher shops, torture........and just plain dynamics of iron on bone and flesh anatomy, one can not appreciate what Isaiah was put through.
It is said he "never cried aloud nor wept, but his lips spake with the Holy Spirit until he was sawn in twain", much like the beloved Joan D'Arc was praying in her heavenly sent voice with eyes looking to heaven until the fires of the stake engulfed her with one wicked lick.
To put this into understanding, people know a paper cut as it burns literally. Steel knives feel electric in pain when they slice skin. The blade of the saw is jagged, with points and shaving points meant to clear the wood away. They are the most horrid of cuts from handsaws to pit saws as they are meant for wood and not human flesh nor bone which is the mineral calcium.
Isaiah was not sawn across the middle like a magic act, but sawn lengthwise. As the ancient recordings hint at him being taunted by his executioner as Joan was, it must have been a pelvis cut which started the murderous state execution.
In forensics, that means as the pelvis would be cut, there are no major arteries and the femoral to slice into on each side of the pelvis in the legs. The bowels of compassion are there and it is a most tender location, which a saw would jump against on the bone and heat up as more force would be used to try to make headway.
Modern bone saws will still take minutes to separate the bone structures in animals when done by hand, so this is not a fast operation, but one which would be quite gruesome.
Once gaining the pelvis, the area of least resistance would be followed on the side of the spine, which one would feel, the entrails with human feces would now be the scent of the air as executioners beginning to sweat would push for a more leverage weight to get to the task at hand.
It would not be until the stomach was reached after minutes that the first artery of real damage would be reached, but with the various organs of liver to clog things up, bleeding out into a blissful end would not be a quick 30 seconds.
Reaching the sternum would be the first of the last and a Saint would need the Holy Ghost to be in bliss as He would in mercy grant, because with the spine in tact, one would fell every thrust of the saw and it would be slow work separating the ribs in the front from the back of the spine.
It would be estimated 2 minutes for this point until that rather bouncing muscle of the heart would be clipped, but then the major arteries and veins are on top of that organ, so that would be the longest 3 inches in one's life.
Even with severing a main artery or vein, the heart would still struggle to pump, but by this time the pain mechanisms would have overloaded and pain is pain at that point, but in merciful end, the body deprived of oxygenated blood would soon loose pressure and Isaiah would give up the ghost before the saw finished it's work in the throat and would split the skull in two.
Humanity has devised some of the most tortuous ways of exterminating each other. There is torture and then there is what is torture. Beating a person has a shut down mode when the pain will no longer break nor essentially be felt.
The reason Joan D'Arc was not tortured on the rack was because the religious authorities knew she could not be broken, and even if broken would recant.
The Indians of America were particularly brutal in carving on people and the use of fire. The Dutch perfected water torture which was real water torture of filling baskets with water and slowly drowning the person to the confession as their head swelled up to twice the size. The Vietnamese would cut off eyelids and spit local chewing tobacco into the eyes of an American or put a basket on their head and fill it with rats which would eat the head off before chewing their way out.
One of the reasons Americans put clauses in about cruel and unusual punishment as the British gutting, hanging and quartering Americans to scourging Ministers to death was torture Americans knew first hand of.
Oh yes children, for all the whining you hear that white people never have been harmed, white Americans have had deployed against them the most barbaric of genocidal methods since coming to America, sometimes from Indians and sometimes from European empires.
Isaiah though, this beautiful poetic voice, was silenced as a Martyr for God. The Bible says numbers of Martyrs are going to be exterminated in the coming years.
For those who fear that, I soothe with the ointment of Truth, that those who die that way have chosen to die that way..........and it is the living which is hard and the dying easy, even if Saints do not die that easy.
A little moment, and the pain shuts down, one looks to God and the valley of the shadow clouds, and then the Light of Christ illuminates.
God is always there for His own. The hard work is for those who suffer till the end for Christ's return, while those in Paradise can no longer be touched and have become the nemesis in prayer demanding "How long till we be avenged!"
The national sins now committed, established and prospered will be judged for upon all nations for their rebellion. It is but a hint of the mysts to come in Janet Napolitano listing Christians as terrorists on her lists from the dark side.
Christians are in holy company though in being set apart and having nothing to fear as this world is not home. We have come from God and to Him we will return.
Blessed be the Lord God and Keeper of His own. In Jesus Name. Amen
That went better than I thought as usual.
agtG 238
gratiae exsisto ut Sanctus Phasmatis of Deus
