ISAIAH FORSEES COMING MESSIAH
OR
"THY KINGDOM COME"

The term Messiah was never used by the prophet Isaiah. It is a Hebrew word meaning "ANOINTED". This would mean an anointed King, Priest or Prophet.

Christ was, is now, and always will be more than a prophet, to the Christians, and to mankind.

John 18:36

Jesus said, "My kinship is not of this world": if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence..

John 8:58

Jesus said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you,Before Abraham was I am".

John 1:1

In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God.

John 1:7

The same came for witness, that he might bear witness of the light, that all might believe through him.

John 1:29

On the morrow he seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold, the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the world!

1. Singular sin, not sins.
         (This is unbelief)
2. Jesus did not take away, or merely forgive sin. He died for sins.

So then I concur, that the term Messiah crept into the vocabulary of Israel, and confused the meaning of the coming Savior.

Further I concur that, the laity had left to the clergy, the responsibility of the reading, interperting, and praying for them. When this is done the needy one will never have the feeling of the presence of the Holy Spirit of God.

Note Isaiah 11:1-3,10

1. And there shall come forth a shoot out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots shall bear fruit.
2. And the Spirit of Jehovah shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Jehovah.
3. And his delight shall be in the fear of Jehovah; and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither decide after the hearing of his ears;

10.   And it shall come to pass in that day, that the root of Jesse, that standeth for an ensign of the           peoples, unto him shall the nations seek; and his resting-place shall be glorious.

Hosea 4:6

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children.

Isaiah 9:2-7

• Isa 9:2The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
• Isa 9:3 Thou hast multiplied the nation, thou hast increased their joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.

• Isa 9:4 For the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, thou hast broken as in the day of Midian.
• Isa 9:5 For all the armor of the armed man in the tumult, and the garments rolled in blood, shall be for burning, for fuel of fire.
• Isa 9:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
• Isa 9:7 Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of Jehovah of hosts will perform this.

I heard as a boy Gipsy Smith Jr. use this text,He made it live so in my mind that I have never forgotton the event.

This message was given to a people that knew nothing except slavery, hunger, sickness and lack. They were only a couple of generations away from ancestors that ate their own children.

2 Kings 6:28,29

• 6:28 And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to-day, and we will eat my son to-morrow.
• 2Ki 6:29 So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him; and she hath hid her son.

Bishop Herbert Welch;

Was asked at the age of 104, "What would he say was the most basic fact of life in his long venture here on earth"?

His answer
The conviction that the greatest fact in God's Universe is God Himself; and the greatest need of our human race is to know God. And the supreme purpose in all the activities of God is to REVEAL HIMSELF fully to the children of men, in order that beholding the beauty of the Lord, they may be lead to enquire in His temple, and yield themselves to His will.

Isaiah was certainly a realist, of which we need such leaders today. He was quite aware there could be no better government, than it's leaders. He was also aware that Judah was a monarchy, and that the political hope rested upon the shoulders of the monarch. Therefore, if Judah were to exist as a nation, they must be a people led by God.

The kingdom belongs to God, not to a national group of politicans, task masters, and coniveres.

Christians recognize fulfillment only in the life and mission of Jesus, who actually had no opportunity or intention of sitting upon the throne of David.

Rewritten by grandson Drennen Blocker
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