GOD WITH US

Christ Jesus, Emanuel, God with us,

Omnipresent, Present Everywhere

Sovereign God over His Finished Work of Creation;

Who stands outside of Time in Eternity.

Christ in us our Hope of Glory;

Christ living In and Through those who have received Him.

(Colossians 1:27)

(Isaiah 9)

But [in the midst of Judgment

There is the Promise and Certainty of the Lords Deliverance]

There shall be no Gloom for her who was in anguish.

In the Former Time the Lord brought into contempt

The land of Zebulun and the land of Naptali,

BUT IN THE LATTER TIME

He will make it Glorious,

By the way of the Sea of Galilee,

The land beyond the Jordan,

Galilee of the Nations.

2 The people who walked in Darkness

HAVE SEEN A GREAT LIGHT;

Those who dwelt in the land of Intense Darkness

And the Shadow of Death,

Upon them has the Light Shined.

[Matt. 4:15, 16.]

3 You, O Lord have multiplied the Nation

And increased their Joy;

They Rejoice before You like the Joy in Harvest,

As men Rejoice when they divide the Spoil of Battle.

4 For the Yoke of [Israel's ] Burden,

And the Staff or Rod for [goading] his shoulder,

The Rod of his Oppressor,

You have Broken as in the day of [Gideon with] Midian.

[Judg. 7:8-22.]

5 For every tramping warrior's war-boots

And All his armor in the battle tumult

And every garment rolled in blood

Shall be burned as fuel for the fire.

6 FOR UNTO US A CHILD IS BORN,

TO US A SON IS GIVEN;

AND THE GOVERNMENT SHALL BE UPON HIS SHOULDER,

AND HIS NAME SHALL BE CALLED WONDERFUL COUNSELOR,

MIGHTY GOD, EVERLASTING FATHER

(Of Eternity),

PRINCE OF PEACE.

[Luke 2:11; Matt. 28:18; Heb. 1:8; Eph. 5:14.]

7 OF THE INCREASE OF HIS GOVERNMENT

THERE SHALL BE NO END,

Upon the Throne of David and over His Kingdom,

To Establish it and to Uphold it with Justice

And with Righteousness from that Latter Time forth,

EVEN FOR EVERMORE.

THE ZEAL OF THE LORD OF HOSTS WILL PERFORM THIS.

[Dan. 2:44; 1 Cor. 15:25-28.]

(Isaiah 9:1-7, AMP)

Today, the Government of God

Is upon Christ Jesus' shoulder,

As it has been from Eternity Past.

Mankind is working itself through God's Finished Work,

With the Free Will He has given them.

Fulfilling every Scripture that has Foretold the Future;

A Few in Obedience to Him and His Word

And Most in Disobedience to Him

And in obedience to the “god” of this Age, Satan.

In this Last of the Last Day of Time,

Mankind is working its way to the End of Time;

To the Great Apostasy (2 Thessalonians 2:1-12);

To the Receiving of the son of Satan,

The Beast of Revelation, the Antichrist as their “god,”

Whom they will worship and receive his “mark.”

(Revelation 13)

Yet, the Faithful are lifting up Christ Jesus before the World,

Proclaiming the Good News of His Gospel;

Inviting all the Willing to Faith in Him.

At the end of the Three and One-half Years

Of God's Great Tribulation,

Christ Jesus will return

To Defeat the armies of the World, gather against Him;

To Establish His Kingdom on Earth as in Heaven,

In Jerusalem, on Mount Zion for a Thousand Years;

GOD'S DAY OF REST.

And those who Love Him,

Will enter into that Rest.