The God of Creation
says to every living person
Who rejects His Christ, Jesus:
I called but you did
not answer.
Soon, there will be
no more today; no more calls to the lost.
When Christ Jesus
returns, every knee will bow before Him
And every tongue
confess that He is Lord of all.
Isaiah
65
This chapter has
application in Isaiah's time
And The Time Of The END, our time.
I
revealed myself to those who did not ask for me;
I
was found by those who did not call on my name,
I said, 'Here am I,
here am I.'
(This speaks of the
Gentiles who come to Christ.
Today, millions of
peoples in every nation on earth,
Are coming to the Christ of God.
More than ever before
in the history of the world.)
All
day long I have held out my hands to an obstinate people,
(This speaks of natural
Israel who forsook their God
And the rebellious
Church, TODAY, in The Time of the END, who forsake God.)
Who walk in ways not
good, pursuing their own imaginations--
People
who continually provoke me to my very face,
Offering sacrifices
in gardens and burning incense on altars of brick;
Who sit among the
graves and spend their nights keeping secret vigil;
Who eat the flesh of
pigs, and whose pots hold broth of unclean meat;
Who say, 'Keep away;
don't come near me,
For I am too sacred
for you!'
Such people are
smoke in my nostrils, a fire that keeps burning all day.
'See, it stands
written before me:
I
will not keep silent but will pay back in full;
I
will pay it back into their laps--
Both
your sins and the sins of your fathers,' says the Lord.
'Because they burned
sacrifices on the mountains and defied me on the hills,
I will measure into
their laps the full payment for their former deeds.'
This
is what the Lord says:
'As
when juice is still found in a cluster of grapes
And
men say, 'Don't destroy it, there is yet some good in it,'
So
will I do in behalf of my servants;
I
will not destroy them all.
I
will bring forth descendants from Jacob,
And
from Judah those who will possess my mountains;
My
chosen people will inherit them,
And
there will my servants live.
Sharon
will become a pasture for flocks,
And
the Valley of Achor a resting place for my people who seek me.
But
as for you who forsake the Lord and forget my holy mountain,
Who spread a table
for Fortune and fill bowls of mixed wine for Destiny,
I will destine you
for the sword, and you will all bend down for the slaughter;
For
I called but you did not answer,
I
spoke but you did not listen.
You did evil in my
sight and chose what displeases me.'
Therefore this is
what the Sovereign Lord says:
'My servants will
eat, but you will go hungry;
My servants will
drink, but you will go thirsty;
My servants will
rejoice, but you will be put to shame.
My servants will
sing out of the joy of their hearts,
But
you will cry out from anguish of heart
And
wail in brokenness of spirit.
You
will leave your name to my chosen ones as a curse;
The
Sovereign Lord will put you to death,
But to his servants
he will give another name.
Whoever invokes a
blessing in the land will do so by the God of truth;
He who takes an oath
in the land will swear by the God of truth.
For the past
troubles will be forgotten
And hidden from my
eyes.
Behold,
I will create new heavens and a new earth.
The
former things will not be remembered,
Nor
will they come to mind.
But be glad and
rejoice forever in what I will create
For
I will create Jerusalem to be a delight and its people a joy.
I
will rejoice over Jerusalem and take delight in my people;
The sound of weeping
and of crying will be heard in it no more.
Never again will
there be in it an infant that lives but a few days,
Or an old man who
does not live out his years;
He who dies at a
hundred will be thought a mere youth;
He who fails to
reach a hundred will be considered accursed.
They will build
houses and dwell in them;
They will plant
vineyards and eat their fruit.
No longer will they
build houses and others live in them,
Or plant and others
eat.
For
as the days of a tree, so will be the days of my people;
My
chosen ones will long enjoy the works of their hands.
They will not toil
in vain or bear children doomed to misfortune;
For
they will be a people blessed by the Lord,
They and their
descendants with them.
Before they call I
will answer;
While they are still
speaking I will hear.
The wolf and the
lamb will feed together,
And the lion will
eat straw like the ox,
But dust will be the
serpent's food.
They will neither
harm nor destroy in all my holy mountain,'
Says the Lord. (Isaiah 65 NIV)
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