God's Promise To The Bride Of Christ

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!