God
made an astounding, magnificent promise to The Israel Of God,
To
Zion, Who is The Bride Of Christ. This Promise is for today!
God
declares this promise to all nations. It is Isaiah 49:
Listen
to me, you islands; hear this you distant nations:
Before
I was born the Lord called ME [Christ
Jesus];
From
my birth He has made mention of MY name.
He
made MY mouth like a sharpened sword,
In
the shadow of His hand He hid ME;
He
made ME into a polished arrow and concealed ME in His quiver.
He
said to ME, 'You are my servant, Israel
In
whom I will display My splendor.'
But
I said, 'I have labored to no purpose;
I
have spent MY strength in vain and for nothing.
Yet
what is due ME is in the Lord's hand, and MY reward is with MY God.'
And
now the Lord says—He who formed ME in the womb to be His servant
To
bring Jacob back to Him and gather Israel to Himself,
For
I am honored in the eyes of the Lord
And
MY God has been MY strength—He says:
'It
is too small a thing for YOU to be MY servant to restore the tribes
of Jacob
And
bring back those of Israel I have kept.
I
will also make YOU a LIGHT for the Gentiles,
That
YOU may bring My salvation to the ends of the earth.'
This
is what the Lord says--
The
Redeemer and Holy One of Israel--
To
HIM who was despised and abhorred by the nation,
To
the servant of rulers:
'Kings
will see YOU and rise up, princes will see and bow down,
Because
of the Lord, who is faithful,
The
Holy One of Israel, who has chosen YOU.'
This
is what the Lord says:
'In
the time of My favor I will answer YOU,
And
in the Day Of Salvation I will help YOU;
I
will keep YOU and will make YOU to be A COVENANT for the people,
To
restore the land and to reassign its desolate inheritances,
To
say to the captives, 'Come Out,'
And
to those in darkness, 'Be Free!'
'THEY
[The “Woman” of Revelation 12, The Bride Of Christ]
Will
feed beside the roads
And
find pasture on every barren hill.
THEY
will neither hunger nor thirst,
Nor
will the desert heat or the sun beat upon THEM.
He
who has compassion of THEM will guide them
And
lead THEM beside springs of water.
I
will turn all My mountains into roads,
And
My highways will be raised up.
See,
THEY will come from afar—some from the north, some from the west,
Some
from the region of Sinim.'
Shout
for joy, O heavens; rejoice, O earth; burst into song, O mountains!
For
the Lord comforts His PEOPLE [The
Bride Of Christ]
And
will have compassion of His afflicted ONES.
[The
Bride Of Christ will suffer affliction.]
But
ZION said, 'the Lord has forsaken ME, the Lord has forgotten ME.'
'Can
a mother forget the baby at her breast
And
have no compassion of the child she has borne?
Though
she may forget, I will not forget YOU!
See,
I have engraved YOU on the palms of My hands;
YOUR
walls [The walls of the City of
God, The Bride Of Christ]
Are
ever before Me. YOUR sons hasten back,
And
those who laid YOU waste depart from YOU.
Lift
up YOUR eyes and look around;
All
your sons [Those who came to Christ through YOUR ministry]
Gather
and come to YOU.
'As
surely as I live,' declares the Lord,
'YOU
will wear them [Those who came
to Christ through YOUR ministry]
All
as ornaments;
YOU
will put them on, like a BRIDE. [Because
YOU are The Bride Of Christ]
'Though
you were ruined and made desolate and YOUR land laid waste,
Now
YOU will be too small for YOUR people,
And
those who devoured YOU will be far away.
The
children born during YOUR bereavement will say in YOUR hearing,
'This
place is too small for us, give us more space to live in.'
Then
YOU will say in YOUR heart, 'Who bore ME these?
I
was bereaved and barren; I was exiled and rejected.
[The
“Woman” of Revelation 12 was taken into the desert and safety, by
God, out of the reach of Satan and his hoards; rejected by the
world.]
I
was left all alone, but these—where have they come from?'
[These
are the remnant of HER seed; those who come to Christ during The
Great Tribulation because of HER ministry.]
This
is what the Sovereign Lord says:
'See,
I will beckon to the Gentiles,
I
will lift up My BANNER [Christ] to the peoples;
They
will bring YOUR sons in their arms
And
carry YOUR daughters on their shoulders.
Kings
will be YOUR foster fathers, and their queens YOUR nursing mothers.
They
will bow down before YOU with their faces to the ground;
[What
is left of humanity will not only bow to Christ Jesus
But
also to His BRIDE.]
They
will lick the dust at YOUR feet.
Then
YOU will know that I am the Lord;
Those
who hope in Me will not be disappointed.'
Can
plunder be taken from warriors, or captives rescued from the fierce?
But
this is what the Lord says:
'Yes,
captives will be taken from warriors,
And
plunder retrieved from the fierce;
I
will contend with YOU, and YOUR children I will save.
I
will make YOUR oppressors eat their own flesh;
They
will be drunk on their own blood, as with wine.
Then
all mankind will know that I, the Lord, am YOUR Savior,
YOUR
Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.' (Isaiah 49 NIV)
As
God has written, so shall it be! Hallelujah! Maranatha!
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