As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter antimatter.....
So this is the 6th thing I am moved to write today and a 7th will follow as it is 1:36 pm and I have been hosing the blog down since 6 am, but have to do the Liberal Imperialist as one writes when one is Inspired as more Inspiration piles up and will require writing.
The Viking asked if I had read any good books lately. I guess they were good books of head hunters, but all I do now is just glean information as a conduit from God to educate people. Last book I think I read for any pleasure was Horn of the Hunter by Robert Ruark and that was several years ago.
Ruark and his wife were quite not nice in the way they joked with each other, but it was Africa all the same.
In the late 1800's the ladies and gents used to after dinner, go into the parlor and fire off 22 shorts into things for entertainment. No one got killed or injured, but how have times changed. An air rifle in basement, pumped to one pump, fired into cardboard boxes filled with telephone books might do with some eye protection from ricochets if they might happen.
Mothers do not change though and still require permission.
This was about Isaiah though as the Viking mentioned about him and his being the Shakespeare of the Bible.
It is odd how one good quote turns people into Shakespeare in Abraham Lincoln said, "Never turst anything on the internet". In reality, Isaiah has several wonderful verses of prose which people remember due to their being Christ oriented, but this morning TL and I had a Bible reading from Isaiah in the first part, and it was a chapter about the descriptive overthrow of Israel, which had in this dual sense the overthrow of the current American regime.
Isaiah was more "feel" than anything, as Ezekiel is harsh, Jeremiah matter of fact, in the same way that St. Luke is the Christmas Gospel of Linus on Charlie Brown and St. John is what one turns to for comfort like Psalm 23. If you want a kick in the right direction James is very good and if one appreciates proofs than St. Matthew fulfills that.
Isaiah was a most successful Prophet. He was a gifted Seer who survived numerous kings, except Mannaseh who decided to saw him sterm to stem with blade on the Altar.
The thing about Isaiah is, he just says things softer than Joel, but it is still just as deadly. He was the most prolific of writers and was the last major Prophet for both houses of Israel, before the final judgments were carried out. That is what one must comprehend in there still was splendor and power in Israel and Judah in his days, and it was why there was an arrogance and joining to the sins America is enjoined to in adultery, child killing, sodomy, other religions, witchcraft and just a haughty debasing of the entire nations.
When Isaiah was murdered in the Temple, it was the beginning of judgment and when Zechariah was slaughtered in the Temple, it was the end of judgment.
You consider that in Isaiah was murdered by the rulers in the Temple and there was not any outcry against it from the people. For those who think that is heinous and could not happen in America, I would remind all that the rulers murdered Andrew Breitbart, not a Prophet, but a public figure and nothing was done but the covering up of that crime.
Isaiah appears when judgment has started just as Noah appeared. Before Isaiah, the Prophets were Judges like Samuel or Prophets like Elijah and Elisha. They did not write books Inspired for the Temple or what would become the Bible. David composed the Psalms, and Solomon the books of Wisdom and wisdom, but Isaiah was recording judgment and divorce of Israel, with the Promise of a Second Covenant.
Isaiah is a mix of the Law and the first book in the Bible which starts the Gospel of the New Testament.
Isaiah pinpoints as the first Who Jesus is as the Messiah, and the Old Testament ends with the promise of John the Baptist coming in the Spirit of Elijah.
There were not any Prophets save for Daniel in exile in Babylon until John the Baptists, because God was not with the people as the Covenant was finished. The Prophets appeared again when the New Covenant was about to be initiated by Jesus the Christ.
Isaiah was a product unique in a place of sodom artistic expression. He was at liberty to notice the bloom of the rose as the land still bloomed as America does, compared to a seiged land like Ezekiel where only thorns pricked at his heart.
Perhaps some might even find in their pricked hearts of wondering why the are here, that maybe the Holy Ghost placed them in the Bible centuries ago........
18 Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.
19 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?
Signs and wonders from God eh? Signs and wonders from God.
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