ISAIAH CHAPTER 27, VERSES 6-13
SCRIPTURE: CHAPTER 27, VS 6-9
“He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and but, and fill the face of the world with fruit.
7 Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?
8 In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.
9 By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.”
APPLICATION: CHAPTER 27, VS 6-9
. 6– We have come of Jacob. We are the descendents of Abraham, because of the grafting in spoken of in Romans chapter 11 and blood brothers of Jesus! We will “blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit”–the Fruit of the Holy Spirit!
v. 7– Jesus smote satan at Calvary, but not those that satan smote. God isn’t taking His revenge on people who were lied to by satan, but it is Satan himself who is slain.
v. 8– But some will “debate with it”. They speak of God’s wrath upon His people. God’s love never fails. His wrath is upon satan and His voluntary followers who deceive the people. “He stayeth His rough wind in the day of the east wind.” (See 32:2) God stayed the punishment on the people and let Jesus take it instead. This is the meaning of His Grace. Now the focus is on satan where it belongs, and his trickery blew up in his face at Calvary, because his idea was to force God to punish His people because we have sinned. However, we still need to repent before our Lord and keep our relationship to Him pure, and reliant upon Him. Those who do not accept the Lordship of Jesus will not be able to take part in the Grace and forgiveness bestowed because of Jesus’ sacrifice.
v. 9– By this God’s people’s sins are forgiven, “and this is all the fruit to take away his sin”. This is all we need to have our sins forgiven. The churches have gone so much away from this, and changed their focus on other things. There is nothing else! We have for so many centuries diluted this, and gone to trying to impress God with our goodness. We can never do this, and the churches must now concentrate on breaking down the “stones of the alter .••” that have kept the people from truly realizing the fact spoken in this verse. We are incapable of impressing God, for any goodness in us must come by His Grace.
SCRIPTURE: CHAPTER 27, VS 10-13
“Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.
11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.
12 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the Lord in the holy mount at Jerusalem.”
APPLICATION: CHAPTER 27, VS 10-13
Those who don’t believe in Jesus’ victory, and are keeping their defenses up and not repenting, will be desolate. They will not have Jesus in them and will be forsaken. Their souls will grow up in weeds, as an empty city does. The weeds are the devices of satan to disallusion us and weaken our faith, causing us to miss out on knowing Jesus fully as He so much desires of us.
v. 11– As the people reject God more and more, satan gets more and more of a chance to plant his seeds of iniquity. God will give them every chance to see His Mercy, but in the end, He must respect the free choice He dared to give His people, and the person must, by His own choice, be purged of the evil in him. (Romans chapter 1)
v. 12-13– As He speaks of beating off the stream into the river, He refers to opening the doors of Salvation to all people from the river of His people, Israel. It is like grafting in the olive branches that Paul talks about. All people from the world over can be His people. But at the end
of Days, at His Return, when He is on the “Holy Mount at Jerusalem”, the Chosen people will see Him for whom He is—-their long-awaited and well beloved Messiah!!!!! (See Romans 11:17)
END OF CHAPTER 27