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LESSON 1 * PART 3 * BOOK 63
ISAIAH 63:7 – 66:24
In our last lesson we got through Isaiah 64 verse 1. Then we get into chapter 65; we’re going to see Jehovah, or the LORD, respond to the prayer of the remnant. All right, but Isaiah 64 verse 1, we’re still in the words of the remnant.
God will have to do that if He’s the righteous God that He claims to be. Nothing is going to escape God’s wrath.
Even as Israel knew it was going to come on all except the remnant.
Jeremiah 25:31b
Death.
Jeremiah 25:32a
"Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation,…" Jeremiah 25:32b
Jeremiah 25:33a
There’ll be no funerals. Jeremiah 25:33b
All right, back to Isaiah 64 and the remnant is still pleading to God when He comes and raises his wrath and vexation against the unbelieving world, all right, verse 3.
Isaiah 64:3-4
"When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence. If I don’t finish Isaiah today, why we’ll do it later.
I Corinthians 2:6-8
"Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: (or spiritually mature) yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought: 7. But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, (or a revelation of secrets) even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our (or I think the apostle could have written, ‘my’) glory. I Corinthians 2:9
Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that (what?) love him." Glorious! We cannot begin to comprehend the glory that is awaiting the true child of God.
I Corinthians 2:10-12
"But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. 11. For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. The Scripture limits us to the fact that the eternal state is glorious. I remember a couple of years ago, she said, "Daddy, do you suppose it’s possible the Lord will give me a horse barn a half a mile long? I hope that there will be animals in glory, because I love animals. Wait for him. Now you know, the first time I caught that verse years ago, I thought, well, now what in the world? Because, after all, if you’re a believer God’s got things for you to do. Don’t get so busy doing the Lord’s work that you haven’t got time to contemplate – What’s the next big event on God’s calendar? The return of Christ! Well, all right, I Thessalonians chapter 1 and I’m going to start at verse 8 in this series because Paul is commending these Thessalonian believers, fresh out of paganism, remember, they’ve been idol worshippers. They’ve been moon-god worshippers. They’ve been the mythological gods and goddesses worshippers. There they are – trophies of God’s Grace! Verse 8:
I Thessalonians 1:8
"For from you (the Thessalonian believers) sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia (Northern Greece) and Achaia (which was Southern Greece) but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing." In other words, Paul didn’t have to tell people about these Thessalonian believers. I Thessalonians 1:9
I Thessalonians 1:10
Waiting for this great event. What was the remnant of Israel doing? Waiting for that great event. Okay, back to Isaiah 64. All right, verse 5, now this is a verse we took off from in one of our last programs, in our last taping, and I jumped up to the New Testament because of all the language here that prepared this remnant for their salvation. All right, verse 5:
Isaiah 64:5
"Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways; behold, thou art wroth; (Now remember, the Tribulation is raging all around them. God is supernaturally protecting them out in that wilderness.) Anyway, where it says, "that all Israel shall be saved." Romans 11:26
Zechariah 13:8-9
All right, so this is the conclusion you have to come to when Paul says, "yet all Israel shall be saved." The Old Testament says it’ll only be a remnant. Only the remnant is the "all Israel" of Romans 11:26, simply to indicate that in that remnant there are members of every tribe. No tribe will be left out in that remnant.
So it will, for that time, be the "all Israel." When it says all Israel shall be saved, it doesn’t mean the fifteen million Jews on the planet today. Back to Isaiah 64, and verse 6, this is why we know this is the believing remnant, because they recognize their need. What about the rest of Israel? Isaiah 64:6a
All right, reading on.
That first step for salvation is to recognize that we are nothing in God’s sight. Our own righteousness is nothing more than filthy rags.

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