SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 9/23/2013
8:42 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
Jerusalem will be delivered PT-3
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Isaiah
33:17-24
Message of the
verses: Well it is hard to believe
that we will be half way through the book of Isaiah after the completion of
this Spiritual Diary.
Jerusalem ruled by the Messiah during the Kingdom Age
(Isaiah 33:17-24): “17 Your eyes will
see the King in His beauty; They will behold a far-distant land. 18 Your heart
will meditate on terror: "Where is he who counts? Where is he who weighs?
Where is he who counts the towers?" 19 You will no longer see a fierce
people, A people of unintelligible speech which no one comprehends, Of a
stammering tongue which no one understands. 20 Look upon Zion, the city of our
appointed feasts; Your eyes will see Jerusalem, an undisturbed habitation, A tent which will not be folded; Its stakes
will never be pulled up, Nor any of its cords be torn apart. 21 But there the
majestic One, the LORD,
will be for us A place of rivers and wide canals On which no boat with
oars will go, And on which no mighty ship will pass- 22 For the LORD is our judge,
The LORD is our lawgiver, The
LORD is our king; He
will save us- 23 Your tackle hangs slack; It cannot hold the base of its
mast firmly, Nor spread out the sail. Then the prey of an abundant spoil will
be divided; The lame will take the plunder. 24 And no resident will say,
"I am sick"; The people who dwell there will be forgiven their
iniquity.”
The victory that God gives to Israel by defeating the
Assyrians is only a picture or a dress rehearsal for what will come during the Armageddon
War that will take place during the last portion of the tribulation period and
will culminate with the battle of Armageddon in which all the Gentile nations
will be fighting against Israel. “1 Behold,
a day is coming for the LORD when the spoil taken from you will be divided
among you. 2 For I will gather all the nations against
Jerusalem to battle, and the city will be captured, the houses
plundered, the women ravished and half of the city exiled, but the rest of the
people will not be cut off from the city. 3 Then the LORD will go forth and fight against those
nations, as when He fights on a day of battle. 4 In that day His feet will
stand on the Mount of Olives, which is in front of Jerusalem on the east; and
the Mount of Olives will be split in its middle from east to west by a very
large valley, so that half of the mountain will move toward the north and the
other half toward the south. 5 You will flee by the valley of My mountains, for
the valley of the mountains will reach to Azel; yes, you will flee just as you
fled before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the LORD,
my God, will come, and all
the holy ones with Him! 6 In that day there will be no light; the luminaries will dwindle.
7 For it will be a unique day which is known to the LORD, neither day nor
night, but it will come about that at evening time there will be light. 8 And in that day living waters will flow out
of Jerusalem, half of them toward the eastern sea and the other half toward the
western sea; it will be in summer as well as in winter. 9 And the LORD will be
king over all the earth; in that day the LORD will be the only one, and His
name the only one (Zechariah 14:1-9).”
If you compare some of this section with the 19th chapter of
Revelations you will see similar things.
Jesus left this earth from the Mount of Olives as seen in Acts chapter
one and He will return there when He returns to this earth. The holy ones who are with Him will be the
raptured saints who left sometime before the tribulation period began as seen
in 1 Thes. 4:13-18. The Lord will stop the war and will soon after that restore
the earth and begin to set upon David’s throne and rule for 1000 years from
Jerusalem.
We see from the section from Isaiah that during this time
of the 1000 year kingdom that there will be no experience of terror and no army
against Israel like during the Assyrian raids that took place before the Lord
destroyed the kingdom of Assyria.
We see from verses 22-23 that God will save Israel during
both battles, the Assyrian attack and also the battle of Armageddon pictured as
a ship that almost sank and the portion that says that the Lord will save
them. Dr. Wiersbe quotes a note from the
Scofield Reference Bible: “All the functions of government—judicial,
legislative, and executive—will be centered in the Messianic King.”
Verse 24 points out that there will be no sickness during
the Messianic rule and iniquities will be forgiven when the people of that day
will do the same as people are to do today and that is to trust the Lord Jesus
Christ as their personal Saviour believing that they are sinners in need of a
Savior, and that Saviour is Jesus Christ who took their place upon the cross,
dying for their sins and exchanging their sin for His righteousness. See 2 Cor. 5:17, 21.
Spiritual meaning
for my life today: Trust the Lord to
do all that He promises to do, which is to keep me from the hour of tribulation
as seen in Revelations chapter 3.
My Steps of Faith for Today: Continue to trust the Lord to work in the
heart of the person that I had a great reunion with this past Saturday, praying
that the Lord will save her.
Memory verses for the
week: Continue to review 2 Peter 1:1-5
1 Simon Peter, a bond-servant and apostle of Jesus
Christ, to those who have received a faith of the same kind as ours, by the
righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ: 2 Grace and peace by multiplied to you in the
knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord;
3 seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining
to life and godliness through the true knowledge of Hi who called us by His
glory and excellence. 4 For by these He
has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you
may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is
in the world by lust.
5 Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence,
in your faith supply moral excellence,
Answer to yesterday’s Bible
question: “On a rock” (Luke 6:48.
Today’s Bible
question: What did Jesus call the rich
man who wanted to build more barns?”
Answer in tomorrow’s SD.
9/23/2013 9:48 AM
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