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Isa 54-9-17 – Every Tongue That Shall Rise Against Thee In Judgment Thou Shalt Condemn

[Study Aired February 23, 2020]

Isa 54:9 For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.
Isa 54:10 For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee.
Isa 54:11 O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.
Isa 54:12 And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.
Isa 54:13 And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children.
Isa 54:14 In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near thee.
Isa 54:15 Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me: whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake.
Isa 54:16 Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.
Isa 54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.

In our last study we learned that Christ is called by His Father “a wife of youth” as well as “the Son of God”:

Isa 54:5 For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.
Isa 54:6 For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.
Isa 54:7 For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.
Isa 54:8 In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer.

Dan 3:25 He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.

This 54^th chapter begins by encouraging Christ’s elect ‘wife’, “Jerusalem above, the mother of us all” (Gal 4:26), the mother whose sons are being freed from the bondage of sin and death, to rejoice because the time is coming when, after so many years of being barren, she will have more children than Babylon “who is in bondage with her children” (Gal 4:25-27).

Referring to these very verses of Isaiah 54, Paul declares that we are the children of both “Jerusalem which is above [and] the children of the freewoman [who] as Isaac was, are the children of promise… the son of the freewoman” (Gal 4:21-31).

Gal 4:21 Tell me those desiring to be under law, do ye not hear the law?
Gal 4:22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one from the servant girl, and one from the freewoman.
Gal 4:23 But in fact, the man from the servant girl was born according to flesh, but the man from the freewoman through promise.
Gal 4:24 Which things are allegorized, for these are two covenants, indeed one from mount Sinai giving birth for bondage, which is Hagar.
Gal 4:25 For Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and it corresponds to the present Jerusalem, and is in bondage with her children.
Gal 4:26 But the Jerusalem above is free, which is mother of us all.
Gal 4:27 For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren woman not giving birth. Burst forth and shout, thou not suffering birth pains, because many more are the children of the desolate than of her who has the husband. 
Gal 4:28 Now we, brothers, who correspond to Isaac, are children of promise. 
Gal 4:29 But just as then, the man who was born according to flesh persecuted the man according to Spirit, so also now.
Gal 4:30 Nevertheless, what does the scripture say? Send away the servant girl and her son, for the son of the servant girl will, no, not inherit with the son of the freewoman. 
Gal 4:31 So then, brothers, we are not children of a servant girl, but of the freewoman. (ACV)

This again demonstrates, for all who have been given “eyes that see”, that just as Christ is called “the wife of [His] maker… a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused”, at the same time He is also called “the son of God” (Dan 3:25 and 1Jo 5:20). Because we are informed that “as He is so are we in this world” (1Jo 4:17; 1Jo 5:20; Rev 19:7), we are also called both “the sons of God” and “the Lamb’s… bride:

1Jn 3:1 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

1Jn 5:20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.

Rev 21:9 And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb’s wife.

1Jn 4:17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.

Verse 5, speaking of Christ as the sacrifice for sins, reads, “Your Maker is your husband.” This statement is preceded by these words in the previous chapter:

Isa 53:7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
Isa 53:8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.

Chapters 53 and 54 are both all about Christ. There in chapter 53 He is referred to with a masculine pronoun, and here in this 54^th chapter He is referred to as, “woman forsaken… a wife of youth.”

Isa 54:6 For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.

What we have here is a very clear statement that Christ is a wife to His “Maker”, the Father, and He is therefore a created being who is not the same as “the Father, of whom are all things”:

1Co 8:6 But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and [besides this “one God, the Father, of whom are all things” there is also] one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

This verse is telling us that, like we are, Christ is “of the Father”, and that would indicate that Christ was created just as we were. Is there a ‘second witness’ to the creation of Christ? Yes, as a matter of fact there is just such a statement in:

Rev 3:14  And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;

Here we have Christ Himself telling us that He is “the beginning of the Creation of God, and then we have this:

Col 1:15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: 
Col 1:16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: 
Col 1:17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

The final verse which demonstrates that Christ is the wife of the Father and the mother of all His creation is this verse in 1^st Corinthians:

1Co 11:3 But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

The head of the woman is the man because the man is the husband of the woman:

Eph 5:22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Eph 5:23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.

In the same manner, Christ did nothing of Himself but only what His Father… “the head of Christ”… His husband taught and commanded Him:

Joh 8:28 Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things.

Joh 15:10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.

It is in the context of Christ as a ‘barren, forsaken, refused wife’ and with the understanding that “as He is so are we in this world” (1Jo 4:17), that we begin our study today with these words:

Isa 54:9 For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.

In this study we are being given a promise from the Lord Himself telling us that the words… “the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused… For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee. In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer”… those words, once they are fulfilled in our lives, are all “as the waters of Noah” unto  the Lord, inasmuch as He has “sworn that [He] would not be wroth with [us] nor rebuke [us]”, ever again, after judging us in “this present time” (Rom 8:18).

The Lord is honest and upfront with all to whom He gives His calling to follow in His steps in this age. He does not speak smooth enticing words of deceit. He tells it as it is:

Mat 10:21 And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
Mat 10:22 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.

Mat 10:34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
Mat 10:35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Mat 10:36 And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household.
Mat 10:37 He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
Mat 10:38 And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.
Mat 10:39 He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.

Luk 12:51 Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division:
Luk 12:52 For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.
Luk 12:53 The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

Mat 20:23  And he saith unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father.

It is in speaking of all these very trying experiences that Christ then tells us this of His “very elect”:

Isa 54:10 For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee.
Isa 54:11 O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.

Our mountains are departing, and our hills are being removed. Our fiery trials in this life are “as the waters of Noah unto [our Lord]”. However, He goes on to promise and assure us that once this is done, “I… have… sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee… neither will the covenant of my peace be removed…”

Let’s examine the covenant God made with Noah and his seed” concerning “the waters of Noah”?

Gen 9:11 And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.

It is important for us to notice that the Lord nowhere says simply “neither shall all flesh be cut of any more”, period. No, that is not the Lord’s covenant with Noah. His covenant is “neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood”.

If indeed “all flesh… shall [not] be cut off any more by the waters of a flood”, how then is it possible ever to “destroy… death”?

1Co 15:25 For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.
1Co 15:26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.

The only way death can be destroyed is for the Lord to destroy the source of death, and this is the source of all death:

1Co 15:50  Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

Rom 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Is it possible to “destroy… death” without again destroying all flesh? Death was not destroyed at the flood because Noah and his family were spared as types of our baptism while yet in bodies of flesh and blood:

1Pe 3:18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
1Pe 3:19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
1Pe 3:20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
1Pe 3:21 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
1Pe 3:22 Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.

Did you catch what the spirit is telling us? It is telling us that water baptism, the baptism of John and the Old Testament, does “not put away… the filth of the flesh”, whereas “The answer of a good conscience toward God… by the resurrection of Jesus Christ… does also now save us.” It requires the death and resurrection of Christ to accomplish the Lord’s goal of destroying death and giving every man who has ever lived, or ever will live, “a good conscience toward God” by the miracle of Christ living His life within us. That is the mystery which has been hidden from the ages:

Joh 16:7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.

Col 1:26 Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:
Col 1:27  To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

“The Comforter” is the holy spirit:

Joh 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

The Father has given everything He has to Christ, just as Pharaoh gave everything but the power of the throne to Joseph:

Gen 41:40 Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou.

Joh 16:13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
Joh 16:14 He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.
Joh 16:15 All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you.

Christ just told us that His Father’s spirit has been given to Him, and He can now give it to whomsoever He wills. Christ certainly did not consider His Father’s spirit to be a person His Father was giving Him.

Now notice what the scriptures do with this situation. Remember Christ told us that the Comforter is the holy spirit:

Joh 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

The Greek word translated as ‘comforter’ is:

G875
παράκλητος
paraklētos
par-ak’-lay-tos
An intercessor, consoler: – advocate, comforter.
Total KJV occurrences: 5

Now let’s look at how the King James Version translates this Greek word, ‘parakletos’:

G3875
παράκλητος
paraklētos
Total KJV Occurrences: 5
comforter, 4

Joh_14:16, Joh_15:26 (2), Joh_16:7
advocate, 1
1Jo_2:1

The translators consistently translate this word ‘parakletos’ as comforter four of the five times it appears in the New Testament, but for some strange reason, they translate it as ‘advocate’ in 1John 2:1.

Why would they do that? When we read that verse it will become very clear why they made an exception. Here is:

1Jn 2:1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

Now it is very clear why the translators did not translate the word ‘parakletos’ as comforter in this verse. If they had done so, this verse would have revealed that the comforter is “Jesus Christ the righteous” and not a third person of the God-head. Let’s be consistent and translate 1Jn 2:1 correctly and see how it reads:

1Jn 2:1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have a comforter with the Father [which “comforter is the holy spirit” (Joh 14:28)], Jesus Christ the righteous:

Now this verse is also much clearer:

Eph 4:30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

“The holy spirit” is “the holy spirit of God… the Father, of whom are all things” (1Co 8:6). The Trinity doctrine is debunked as just one more false unbiblical doctrine and yet that doctrine is beyond question in all the churches of the daughters of the great whore.

If we are given to endure the rejection of the great harlot and her daughters and remain faithful to the Lord’s words, we are told:

Isa 54:11 O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.

The Lord has given His bride “great and precious promises”, but contrary to another false doctrine, the doctrine of a physical “bodily resurrection”, the fact is that it is not possible for flesh and blood to inherit life eternal. Here is a verse which makes this point very clear:

1Co 15:50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

Contrary to the false doctrine of ‘the fall of man’, a doctrine never once mentioned in all of scripture, flesh and blood is called “corruption”, and it is likened to a “vessel of clay… marred in the hand of The Potter”.

Jer 18:4 And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

Our “marred” condition is a work of “the Potter’s hand”. In the final analysis, even our sins are all a part of the things He is working to bring about His purpose for first creating mankind in these marred vessels.

Adam could well have asked this same question which we find in:

Isa 63:17 O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants’ sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.

Not in the Garden of Eden nor anywhere in the Old Testament nor anywhere in the New Testament did Christ or any of His apostles ever once threaten Adam or his children with eternal torment for erring from the Lord’s ways which He makes us to do. Instead we are threatened with:

Rom 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

While it is definitely true that the curses for our sins occupy most of the pages of scripture, it is also true that the Lord incentivizes us to overcome our weaknesses and sins and to strive for the “great and precious promises” He has given us if He gives us to have respect to the recompense of His reward for our repentance and obedience to His commandments.

2Pe 1:3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
2Pe 1:4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

Here are just a few of those exceeding great and precious promises by which we are made partakers of His divine nature:

Isa 54:12 And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.
Isa 54:13 And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children.

Our “children” will be few indeed in this present time, but in time they will be more than the married wife who has so many children in this age.

We are even now being “taught of the Lord” and enjoying His great peace of mind:

Mal 2:5 My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for the fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid before my name.

Joh 14:27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. 

Joh 20:21 Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.

His exceeding great and precious promises continue to give us peace:

Isa 54:14 In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near thee.

We have no “fear of terror” because we are past being brought to our wits’ end, and “as the waters of Noah” covenant, the Lord promises us “you shall have no fear… terror… shall [never again] come near you”. These promises are obviously being made to the firstfruits of Christ through whom all the rest of mankind, as our children, will be shown the same mercy the Lord is presently showering upon us with the blessings such as these here in Isaiah 54:

Isa 54:15 Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me: whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake.
Isa 54:16 Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.

The Lord’s plan for mankind requires a “waster to destroy”, so He made Himself one. The ‘waster’ is tasked with destroying our new man and opposing Christ within us. He was given this task in the Garden of Eden with these words from our Lord:

Gen 3:14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
Gen 3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

Because we are merely dust, it is we whom the adversary is given for his lunch, and without the mercy of the Lord that is all we are until the day comes when the Lord says, “Whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake…” “The waster” is just a tool in His hand as the book of Job so graphically demonstrates.

It is the Lord who is working virtually everything, including our very thoughts, “after the counsel of His own will”:

Pro 16:1 The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD.

Pro 16:4 The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.

Isa 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

So, our trials of life are really a work of the Lord even if He Himself is sending evil spirits to effectuate His plan and purpose for each of us.

1Sa 16:14 But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him.
1Sa 16:15 And Saul’s servants said unto him, Behold now, an evil spirit from God troubleth thee.

The story of Job is a perfect example of how the trials given to the Lord’s elect through evil spirits are used by the Lord to try our faith in the fire of His words, and we can all rest in this promise if indeed we are His elect in “this present time”:

Isa 54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.

While the weapons formed against us may seem insurmountable at times, we can rest in the truth of these words:

Rom 8:18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
Rom 8:19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.

Paul calls “us… the manifest… sons of God” for whom all men are waiting to be shown the mercy we are even now receiving:

Rom 11:30 For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:
Rom 11:31 Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.

It is even now that the words of Christ in our mouths condemn every tongue that rises against us in judgment. The final fulfillment of this verse of Isaiah will be in the lake of fire/second death. It is then that these words in Malachi will be fulfilled in their finality:

Mal 3:16 Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.
Mal 3:17 And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.
Mal 3:18 Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.

That is our study for today, and these are the verses we will be covering next Sunday, Lord willing. We will be learning more about the covenant the Lord has with His elect and the exceeding great and precious promises of that covenant:

Isa 55:1 Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. 
Isa 55:2 Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. 
Isa 55:3 Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David. 
Isa 55:4 Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people. 
Isa 55:5 Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee. 
Isa 55:6 Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: