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LESSON 2 * PART 4 * BOOK 62
ISAIAH 61:1 - 10 - Part 2
We like to teach verse by verse, most of the time comparing Scripture with Scripture. Isaiah, 61:6a
the Priests of the LORD:…" Priests. Israel has just come out of Egypt. Moses has now gone up unto God.
Exodus 19:3-4
"And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, thus shall you tell the children of Israel; (Now, here it comes.) Exodus 19:5
If Israel will be obedient to that.) then ye shall be a peculiar treasure (something of intrinsic value) unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:" God is Sovereign. Now verse 6:
Israel is to be looking forward to a Kingdom in which every Jew would be a priest, or a go-between, between their God and the non-Jewish world.
Now, most people miss that, but that was Israel’s prospect. Wash! Not just Levi, but the whole nation was to become a kingdom of priests and a holy or set apart nation, just like Levi was in the nation of Israel. All right, now, if we can come back to Isaiah 61 verse 6 again. Reading on in verse 6.
Isaiah 61:6b
Ministers of our God: (That’s the role of every Jew when they come into this glorious Kingdom.) ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory ye shall boast yourselves." Now, has Israel ever been able to do that? Never! Never! All right, good idea.
This bottom timeline is how the top timeline actually unfolded. You see, all the way through the four gospels, as we’ve been showing all afternoon, God is dealing only with the nation of Israel. A nation-changing event takes place. All right, Acts, chapter 7 verse 51. Stephen is addressing the religious leaders of Israel.
All right, now chapter 8 verse 1.
Acts 8:1
"And Saul was consenting unto his (Stephen’s) death. Now, as a result of Israel rejecting and rejecting and rejecting everything connected to these Old Testament promises, God’s going to do something totally, totally different. On the other end of the fork in the road is God turning to the Gentile world without Israel. Israel is not going to be a go-between. Israel is not going to have the role of Priests of Jehovah to bring in the Gentiles. But God’s plan for the Gentiles will be accomplished through the teaching of one man, the Apostle Paul.
Acts 9:15
Gentiles,…" A Jew going to Gentiles?
After the nation of Israel kept rejecting, God turned to the Gentiles with Paul, and as a result has now pushed the seven years of Tribulation and the 1000-year kingdom out into the future by nearly 2000 years.
It will not mix with Israel. Anybody that tries to teach the Church in the Tribulation will not look at the aspect that Paul never implies that the Body of Christ has anything to do with Israel’s prophetic program. Okay, Isaiah 61 where we just left off that Israel is to be a nation of priests in verse 6, and they’re going to enjoy all of the good things of the Gentile world, now verse 7.
Isaiah 61:7-8a
8. For I the LORD love judgment,…" Isaiah 61:8b
Jeremiah 31:31. This has never happened to Israel, but it’s going to. This covenant is not for the Church Age. Jeremiah 31:31a
God has said it. Now, when you look at Israel tonight, you’d say this will never, never happen. Jeremiah 31:31a
"Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel,…" Now, we enjoy all the things that God has done to make this covenant possible, of course, but we’re not a covenant people.
"…that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: 32. Jeremiah 31:33a
Jeremiah 31:33
My, what a relationship Israel is finally going to have with their Creator God.
Jeremiah 31:34a
Israel is finally going to come to the place where God will not have one iota of fault against them. All right, now then, verse 35. If these people think that God is all through with Israel, then, you see, they have to throw these verses away. Jeremiah 31:35
Jeremiah 31:36
There are no great catastrophic events, because, after all, God is all through with Israel. Isaiah 61:9a
Men and women having children, having families. But, Israel will be the apple of God’s eye. Isaiah 61:9
Isaiah 61:10
Now, what’s Isaiah doing? Isaiah is giving a picture of his own spiritual relationship with his Creator God, which every Jew in the Kingdom economy will enjoy. His personal testimony is a picture of Israel’s future.
They’ve sinned. They’ve been separated in their fellowship with God. All right, now remember, they’re naked, and they’ve been wearing nothing but fig leaves, which God had nothing to do with. "Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins,…" Romans 3 says that the moment we believe The Gospel of Salvation found in I Corinthians 15:1-4, what does God do?God clothes us with His righteousness!

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