SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 9/26/2013
9:29 AM
My Worship Time Focus: The Glorious
Kingdom Will Be Established
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Isaiah
35:1-10
Message of the
verses: “1 The wilderness and the
desert will be glad, And the Arabah will rejoice and blossom; Like the crocus
2 It will blossom profusely And rejoice
with rejoicing and shout of joy. The glory of Lebanon will be given to it, The
majesty of Carmel and Sharon. They will see the glory of the LORD, The majesty
of our God. 3 Encourage the exhausted, and strengthen the feeble. 4 Say to
those with anxious heart, "Take courage, fear not. Behold, your God will
come with vengeance; The recompense of God will come, But He will save
you."
“5
Then the eyes of the blind will be opened And the ears of the deaf will be
unstopped. 6 Then the lame will leap like a deer, And the tongue of the mute
will shout for joy. For waters will break forth in the wilderness And streams
in the Arabah. 7 The scorched land will become a pool And the thirsty ground
springs of water; In the haunt of jackals, its resting place, Grass becomes
reeds and rushes. 8 A
highway will be there, a roadway, And it will be called the Highway of Holiness. The unclean will not travel on it, But it
will be for him who walks that way, And fools will not wander on it. 9 No lion will be there, Nor will any vicious
beast go up on it; These will not be found there. But the redeemed will walk there, 10 And the
ransomed of the LORD will return And come with joyful shouting to Zion, With
everlasting joy upon their heads. They will find gladness and joy, And sorrow
and sighing will flee away.”
In yesterday’s SD we looked at the wilderness being
destroyed, but when the Lord Jesus comes back to establish His Kingdom on earth
for 1000 years then He will transform the earth into something like the Garden
of Eden. We can read in chapters 40-48
about how Jerusalem will be expanded at this time and where all of the tribes
of Israel will live, and in the center of it will be where the Lord Jesus will
rule the earth. This chapter is quite a
contrast to the last one.
Romans 8:19 says “For the anxious longing of the creation
waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God.” Psalms 96:11-13 says “11 Let the heavens be
glad, and let the earth rejoice; Let the sea roar, and all it contains; 12 Let
the field exult, and all that is in it. Then all the trees of the forest will
sing for joy 13 Before the LORD, for He is coming, For He is coming to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness And the
peoples in His faithfulness.” One
more and that is Isaiah 55:12-13: “12 "For you will go out with joy And be led
forth with peace; The mountains and the hills will break forth into shouts of
joy before you, And all the trees of the field will clap their hands. 13 "Instead of the thorn bush the cypress will come up,
And instead of the nettle
the myrtle will come up, And it will be a memorial to the LORD, For an
everlasting sign which will not be cut off.’
In verse two Isaiah speaks of Lebanon, Carmel, and
Sharon, which are the three most beautiful places in that region, and yet the
desert will become more fruitful than these in “that day.”
One of the reasons for Isaiah giving this prophecy is
that he wanted to encourage those who were frightened and downhearted during
the time of his writing as seen in verses 3-4.
There will be no more blind people or those with handicaps in the
kingdom of the Lord. When the Lord Jesus
was on earth at His first advent He healed people and took care of those who
had the types of infirmities during that day and when the disciples of John the
Baptist came to find out if He was the chosen Messiah He quoted these verses in
Luke 7:18-23.
I have highlighted the word “highway” in verse eight and
this is one of the themes that is found in Isaiah’s writings for it is seen in
11:16; 19:23; 40:3; and 62:10. We have
seen in the past that when the Assyrian’s were coming against Judah that the
highways will not be safe, but in the millennial Kingdom the highways will only
be for the righteous, and it will be perfectly safe to travel. There will be one special road in the kingdom
and that will be “The Highway of Holiness,” and this is kind of like what
happened in ancient kingdoms as there was a road in which only the kings and
priests could use, “but when Messiah reigns, all of His people will be invited
to use this highway. Isaiah pictures God’s
redeemed, ransomed, and rejoicing Jewish families going up to the yearly feasts
in Jerusalem, to praise the Lord.”
(Warren W. Wiersbe)
During the invasion of the Assyrians the people of
Jerusalem were cooped up because of their fear of them in the city of
Jerusalem, and God promised to deliver them.
He kept His promise to the people then as we will see in the next few
chapters of Isaiah, and just as He kept His promises then, He will keep all of
his promises He has made to us too.
Spiritual meaning
for my life today: It is wonderful
to read verses like this in the Word of God, knowing that the Lord will keep
every promise that He has made in His Word.
I was saved in January of 1974 listening to a man speak of coming prophecies
that have not yet taken place but they will take place in the future. God used this man and His Word to bring me to
a saving knowledge in the Lord Jesus Christ, and because of that I have always
been interested in the prophetic portions of Scripture and have used these
prophetic sections to lead others to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ too.
My Steps of Faith for Today: Trust the Lord to fulfill His promised and
trust the Lord to bring the person that I now have a new renewed relationship
with to a saving knowledge of Christ.
This would mean the world to me.
Memory verses for the
week: 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 be 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 Him who called us by His own 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 reason also, applying all diligence, in
your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge
Answer to yesterday’s Bible
Question: “Jerusalem” (Ezra 1:2).
Today’s Bible
Question: “Who prepared a sacrifice and
then ordered twelve barrels of water poured on it?”
Answer in tomorrow’s SD.
9/26/2013 10:26 AM
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