Isaiah, Chapter 42:
The Servant of the LORD
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(One of the important conclusions from applying Biblical prophecies to modern times is that God will make a new contract or "covenant" with humanity, when we try to live according to Revelation chapter 21 and 22 in the future. Since St. Augustine traditional theology wants to make us believe that this happened about 2000 years ago and that the traditional church is already the "New Jerusalem". Obviously, this is wishful thinking ignoring the facts of our destructive disaster ridden world.)
(7) to open eyes that cannot see, to free prisoners from detention and to release from their cells those who sit in darkness. (8) "I am the LORD; this is my name! I will not allow another god to share my greatness or idols to have some of my honour. (Jesus was certainly a great teacher and disregarding his teachings is the main reason for disasters today. Nevertheless, from his Jewish point of view it is not acceptable to worship him or his image on the cross as a god.)
(9) What I predicted has happened and I also tell you the future; I let you know these things even before they begin." (See Isaiah 46:10.)
(10) Sing a new song to the LORD, honour him in the distant parts of the world, you Islands and their inhabitants, sailors and all the creatures of the sea praise him. (Singing a new song means adopting a new attitude and a new way of life, see Revelation 14:3.)
(11) Let the desert and its towns let the villages of Kedar praise him. Let the people of Sela shout for joy from the mountaintops. (Kedar is a desert area nowadays part of Jordan and Saudi-Arabia. Names of places in Biblical prophecies are mainly a way to hide the place and time they apply to.)
(12) Let them honour the LORD and praise him in the Islands. (See Isaiah 41:1.)
(13) The LORD will march out like a mighty man, determined to fight like a warrior he will scream, shout and defeat his enemies. (14) The Lord says, "For a long time I have kept silent, I have been quiet and patient. But now like a woman in labour, I will cry out, gasp and pant. (15) I will turn mountains and hills into deserts and dry up all their vegetation; I will dry up the rivers and the pools of the Islands. (Bad maintenance of leaking water pipes due to profiteering has lead to a shortage of water and low levels in reservoirs in Britain in the last couple of years.)
(16) I will lead the blind by ways they don't know, along unusual paths I will guide them; I will turn their darkness into light and correct their errors. I have said so and I will do it; I will not abandon them. (A new way of thinking will be established in the near future. This book is part of that process.)
(17) But those who believe in idols, who say to images, 'You are our gods,' 
(This applies to Catholics worshipping pictures of saints, e.g. Jesus on the cross, "Virgin" Mary, etc., and worshipping saints through these pictures. Other examples where worshipping pictures had the predicted consequences were Adolf Hitler and Princess Diana, see Revelation 9:20, 14:9.)
(18) Listen you deaf people; watch, you blind and see! (19) Who is as blind as my servant, and deaf like the messenger I send?  |
(Devastating criticism of traditional theology and the church, see Revelation 2:2.)
(20) You have seen so much, and don't take any notice; your ears are open, but you cannot hear." (Traditional theology has been designed to justify the privileged position of church establishments. Therefore they stubbornly have to ignore literal fulfilment of Biblical prophecies in our time. Their explanations have been established centuries ago, and can never change no matter what happens in the world.)
(21) For his justice the LORD wanted to make his law great and famous. (22) But these people are plundered and looted, locked up in pits and hidden away in prisons. 
The Holocaust and other Historic Disasters in Jewish History
(23) Which of you will listen to this or pay close attention in the future?(Isaiah anticipated that the following prediction would generally be ignored not only today.)
(24) Who made Jacob ("Jacob" symbolizes the Jews, because they supposedly descended from Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.)
become loot and handed Israel over to the destroyers? 
(Like the ancient Babylonians and Romans, the Nazis killed many Jews and plundered their possessions.)
Was it not the LORD himself against whom we have sinned? (Apparently many Jews have reacted to the Holocaust with anti-German feelings and propaganda. They also think that these things happened against the will of God. Nothing in this world happens against the will of God! Especially nothing that affects "his chosen people" like the Holocaust.)
For they would not follow his ways; they did not live by his law. (Something that people who say they are Jews have in common with other faiths of Jewish origin: "Christians" and "Muslims". Jews have dominated banking for centuries even though lending money for interest fundamentally contradicts the principles of Judaism, Christianity according to the Torah and is also forbidden by the Koran, see Bible, Exodus 22:25, Leviticus 25:36, Deuteronomy 23:19, Ezekiel 18:8, ff..)
(25) So he poured out on them the force of his anger and made them suffer the violence of war. (In the 20th century as well as in ancient times according to many fulfilled prophecies from Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Jesus and other Jewish prophets.)
It totally incinerated them, (in the furnaces of Auschwitz and other concentration camps)
yet they did not understand; (The policies of the State of Judah known as "Israel" towards the Palestinians do not suggest they did. Looking at the role of Jews within Anglo-American political and financial institutions today it is the tragedy of our time that the warning from the Nazi Holocaust was not understood. What next? ... see Habakkuk 2:4, Revelation 14:19.)
it burned them up, but they did not realize why.