Post by Bud on May 22, 2013 6:43:38 GMT -6
The multitude of all the nations who fight against Ariel,
Even all who fight against her and her fortress,
And distress her,
Shall be as a dream of a night vision.
It shall even be as when a hungry man dreams,
And look—he eats;
But he awakes, and his soul is still empty;
Or as when a thirsty man dreams,
And look—he drinks;
But he awakes, and indeed he is faint,
And his soul still craves:
So the multitude of all the nations shall be,
Who fight against Mount Zion.” (Isaiah 29:7-8)
Yes the children of Jacob are being drawn back to the land of their fathers.They are an independent nation and have the desire to be like all the other nations.But there is a hatred for them that is just unexplainable in human terms,even though they are going back in unbelief as far as their relationship to God is.Their religious leaders are in blindness and don't recognize their Messiah but there is still this hatred and desire among many nations that this race of people must be destroyed.We as Christians that are in God's Word and have a desire to know the truth should know why.God is preparing this nation to fulfill His plans for her and Satan knows this so he is trying to confuse this issue as much as he can among Christians and with the world system.He thinks that if he can destroy this people then God won't be able to finish His plans and Satan will have won.
Then there is Jerusalem,the city that God has chosen.Here it is referred to as Ariel,a symbolic name for the city.The nations will fight against her.Satan knows God has plans for that city and he is trying to stop it.He will use any tactic he can to try and accomplish this.He is using the nations now to try and divide the city and make it a universal religious center for the whole world.
But look at what Isaiah say's.It is like a dream for the nations to do this.Have you ever dreamed you were hungry and were eating but couldn't get full or dream you were thirsty and was drinking but your thirst wasn't quenched.That is what it is like for these nations that have all this concern for Jerusalem.It's a dream that is not real and their desire and need in this dream will not be satisfied.
“Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of drunkenness to all the surrounding peoples, when they lay siege against Judah and Jerusalem.And it shall happen in that day that I will make Jerusalem a very heavy stone for all peoples; all who would heave it away will surely be cut in pieces, though all nations of the earth are gathered against it."(Zechariah 12:2-3)
Therefore the Lord said:
“Inasmuch as these people draw near with their mouths
And honor Me with their lips,
But have removed their hearts far from Me,
And their fear toward Me is taught by the commandment of men, (Isaiah 29:13)
This is the religious Jews there today in unbelief.They listen to the commandments of their religious leaders and are performing a religious ceremony but their hearts are far from God.
"But their minds were blinded. For until this day the same veil remains unlifted in the reading of the Old Testament, because the veil is taken away in Christ. But even to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart.Nevertheless when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty." (2Corinthians 3:14-17)
Yes they have a veil and even though they are reading God's word,they aren't grasping it.But that veil is taken away once they see Christ but until they do they are blinded.
They were and are blinded to the Law that was given them in Moses,that was a condemnation to death and they were and are veiled to the Law's purpose.But when they turn to the Lord that veil is lifted and many have and are now part of the Church.
"For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in." (Romans 11:25)
Yes the veil is there in part because some have believed and one day when the fulness of the Gentiles is complete and the Church is taken out,God will turn to Israel,the veil will be lifted and a nation of believers will go into the Kingdom when Jesus comes to rule this earth from His chosen city and with His chosen nation.
I do believe He is preparing that city and nation for that now,because the fulness of the Gentiles could be almost complete.
"Wise in your own opinion."This is what the ones caught up in replacement theology (ones that believe that God is finished with Israel and that the church has replaced Israel)have done.Wise in their own opinion and ignorant of the truth of God's Word.Many preachers,churches and denominations today are caught up in this heresy and are siding with Islam in their determination to wipe Israel from off the face of the earth.To side with Islam in this is being "willing ignorant"or to state it more bluntly,"dumb on purpose."