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Prophecy of Isaiah – Isa 65:1-6 I am Found of Them That Sought me Not

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Isa 65:1-6  I Am Found of Them That Sought Me Not

[Study Aired August 30, 2020

Isa 65:1  I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name.
Isa 65:2  I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;
Isa 65:3  A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;
Isa 65:4  Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine’s flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;
Isa 65:5  Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day.
Isa 65:6  Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,

The first verse of this chapter is a prophecy of the gospel being taken from the Jews and going to the Gentiles.

Isa 65:1  I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name.

Here is what the apostle Paul makes of this verse of scripture:

Rom 10:19  But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you.
Rom 10:20  But Esaias is very bold, and saith, I was found of them that sought me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me.
Rom 10:21  But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.

Paul points out that Moses himself had told the Lord’s people that he was taking His offer of salvation in this age to the Gentiles, who were not even seeking after Him:

Deu 32:21  They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

In its fullest and final application, this prophecy speaks of the Lord’s elect, the despised of this world who have been called out of the established churches of the Babylonian system which holds sway over the kings of this earth.

Here is the ultimate meaning of “those which are not a people… a foolish nation”:

1Co 1:26  For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
1Co 1:27  But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
1Co 1:28  And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:
1Co 1:29  That no flesh should glory in his presence.

In time even we, the Gentile Christians, have done the exact same thing ancient Israel did and placed the idols of their heart instead of the Truths of the Lord’s word and false doctrines for the doctrines of Christ. Ancient Israel typifies the great whore out of whom all of God’s elect must come:

Rev 18:4  And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.

A mere three days after being miraculously brought through the half-mile deep waters of the Red Sea, Israel was murmuring against the Lord for trying their faith with thirst:

Exo 15:22  So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.
Exo 15:23  And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah.
Exo 15:24  And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?

In the same way, the very churches which were raised up by the apostles before they had physically died, had apostatized and had turned their backs on the Lord’s apostles and had rejected their doctrines… the doctrines of Christ:

2Ti 1:15  This thou knowest, that all they which are in Asia [“the seven churches of Asia” (Rev 1:4)] be turned away from me; of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.

3Jn 1:9  I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not.
3Jn 1:10  Wherefore, if I come, I will remember his deeds which he doeth, prating against us with malicious words: and not content therewith, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and forbiddeth them that would, and casteth them out of the church.

The ministers of Babylon were “casting [the faithful] out of the church” before the apostles Paul and John had even died. As Paul had prophesied, the apostasy of the New Testament church was an accomplished fact just that early:

Act 20:28  Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
Act 20:29  For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
Act 20:30  Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
Act 20:31  Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.

Not one word of this is addressed to apostatized ancient Israel or to the apostate Christian church. Every word is addressed only to those who have been given eyes that see and ears that hear these words:

Rev 18:4  And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.

Every one of the Lord’s elect must first become this whoring, unfaithful wife before we will be granted to “come out of her…”

Rev 17:1  And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
Rev 17:2  With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
Rev 17:3  So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.

The angel interprets the meaning of the waters this whore is sitting upon:

Rev 17:15  And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.

This woman is a whore because she has forsaken her husband and has given herself to other men, which is exactly what the Lord tells us His people have done to Him:

Isa 1:21  How is the faithful city [Jerusalem (vs 1)] become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.

If there is anything to be learned from knowing the story of the gospels, it is that the established apostate Jewish religion of Christ’s day typifies the established religions of our day, which will always be found rejecting the words of our Lord:

Joh 15:20  Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.

The word ‘they’ of this verse is speaking of those who “will also persecute you”. That the Lord is referring specifically of the established religious leaders is made clear when He tells us:

Mat 10:17  But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues;
Mat 10:18  And ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles.
Mat 10:19  But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak.
Mat 10:20  For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.
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 10:23  But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.
Mat 10:24  The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord.
Mat 10:25  It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household?

It was not the Romans who persecuted our Lord. Christ was, and He is, speaking specifically of the religious leaders of that day, and the religious leaders of our day and of every generation of mankind from Christ’s death and resurrection until the time of the resurrection of “His Christ… the first resurrection”, when the Lord will establish His kingdom over the kingdoms of this world. The Romans typify this secular world in which we live, and they certainly were no fans of Christ. However, they did not have the visceral hatred for Christ the religious leaders had, simply because they did not feel threatened by a carpenter from Galilee. In the same manner, the secular governments of today, while they have nothing in common with us, do not have the visceral hatred of the doctrines of Christ which the apostatized church has toward Christ and His Christ. Even more insidious is that, like Judas who betrayed the Lord to the Jews, it is “of your own selves [that] men… shall… arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.”

Christ made it clear that, though He was indeed a king, His kingdom was not of this world. He never once said, “My kingdom will never be of this kosmos”… this world. The fact is that He taught the exact opposite when He told Pilate, the Roman representative:

Joh 18:36  Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.

The Greek word translated as ‘world’, which appears twice in this verse, is ‘kosmos’ and means:

The Greek word translated as ‘now’ in “now is my kingdom not from hence”, now “not of this world” is the Greek word ‘nun’:

Telling Pilate that His kingdom is not at this “present time… of this kosmos”, certainly intimates that a time is coming when His kingdom will indeed be of this world, of this kosmos. Is there scripture which would confirm that the day is coming when Christ’s kingdom will be over this entire world, “this kosmos”? That is exactly what we are told will take place, and all the preterist doctrines in the world will not spiritualize away the fact that:

Rev 11:15  And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world [Greek: kosmos] are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.

Notice what this verse does not say. It does not say that “the kingdoms of this world are within you” which is what is said of the kingdom of God in:

Luk 17:20  And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:
Luk 17:21  Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

“The kingdom of God comes not with observation” is a statement the Lord made to the Pharisees who “demanded of [Him] when the kingdom of God should come.” He assuredly was not saying, “The kingdom of God is within” those apostate Pharisees who wanted Him dead. Christ was not attempting to convert those who were appointed to be His murderers. When He told them “The kingdom of God is within you” He was speaking of those in “this present time” into whose lives He would come after His death and resurrection which He knew was imminent.

Notice what Christ said immediately after revealing that for “this present time… [if Christ is within you] the kingdom of God is within you. This is the very next verse:

Luk 17:22  And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it.
Luk 17:23  And they shall say to you, See here; or, see there: go not after them, nor follow them.
Luk 17:24  For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.
Luk 17:25  But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.
Luk 17:26  And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
Luk 17:27  They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
Luk 17:28  Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
Luk 17:29  But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
Luk 17:30  Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.

When speaking to the Pharisees, Christ spoke exclusively of the kingdom of God which would be within those in whom he would come to dwell and to live out His life of being rejected by “this generation”. During that time, while His kingdom is within His elect, He tells us not to believe anyone who attempts to tells us that His kingdom is an outward kingdom. Nevertheless, notice what He says of the time when “the kingdoms of this world… become the kingdom of our Lord and His Christ” (Rev 11:15). Just for the purpose of making it clear that an outward kingdom will indeed rule over the kingdoms of this world, this ‘kosmos’, Christ makes this statement:

Luk 17:24  For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.

Does this 24th verse have an inward spiritual application for you and for me? Of course, it does; just as “the first man Adam” (1Co 15:45) has an inward spiritual application to our carnal-minded old man. However, 1 Corinthians 10 and Revelation 11 both reveal that there is a consummation of this age and the beginning of a new age in which “My servants [shall] fight that I be not delivered unto the [religious leaders of] this generation”:

Joh 18:36  Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.

1Co 10:11 Now all this befalls them typically. Yet it was written for our admonition, to whom the consummations of the eons have attained. (CLV)

Christ did not tell Pilate, “My kingdom will never be of this world, this ‘kosmos’. Instead He said that if His kingdom were of this kosmos, then His servants would fight. We need to know that there is coming a time when Christ’s servants will fight literal warfare against the kingdoms of this world, and we need to know that when:

Rev 11:15  …the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.

Notice again what this verse does not say. It does not say…’The kingdom of God within you is become the kingdom of our Lord and His Christ’, rather it actually affirms, “the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ.” The Greek word translated as ‘world’ here is ‘kosmos’, the same Greek word which Christ used when telling Pilate that if His kingdom were of this ‘kosmos’ then His servants would fight for Him. Christ makes clear that before this outward kingdom is established on this earth, He must physically die and be rejected by the religious establishment of “this present time… this generation”:

Luk 17:22  And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it.
Luk 17:23  And they shall say to you, See here; or, see there: go not after them, nor follow them.
Luk 17:24  For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.
Luk 17:25  But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.

When we are given the understanding that Christ identifies with His body, just as His Father identifies with Him, then we are able to spiritually apply these words to ourselves and know that we, too, must “suffer many things and be rejected of this generation.” When we do apply these words spiritually and when we acknowledge that we, too, must “first… suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation” we still must also acknowledge Christ is telling us that this suffering and being rejected is just the “first” step toward the day in which the outward kingdom of the Son of Man will be revealed to this world “as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven”. That is how the Lord describes the appearance of “the Son of man… in His day”. It is “His day” because He is given outward “power over [all] the kingdoms of this world” (Rev 11:15).

Luk 17:24  For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day
Luk 17:25  But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.

The “kingdom of heaven” is given to very few in “this present time”. The rulers of “the kingdom of God”, who will rule the nations of this world a thousand years, are not ruling over spirit beings during that thousand years. That period of time is not “within you”. It is a literal, outward kingdom which, along with the “short season” of rebellion which follows the thousand years, separates the first resurrection and that blessed and holy few who are given part in that “resurrection of life”, from the second resurrection which is the great white throne judgment/lake of fire/second death. Those who are granted the honor of being in the first resurrection are “given power over the nations”, and we are told we will rule the nations with a rod of iron.

The “pattern of sound words” which describes the same experience, the “one event” of those who are in the blessed and holy first resurrection is:

Joh 6:44  No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw [Greek: helkuo, drag] him: and I will raise him up at the last day.

No one being ruled over by the Lord’s Christ during that thousand-year reign is ever referred to as being “dragged” to Christ. When we attempt as the ‘amillennialists’ (meaning there is no literal thousand-year reign) to spiritualize away this literal thousand-year reign, it has the same effect as spiritualizing away the creation and the flood of Noah. Such an insidious doctrine removes any fear of losing our “crown of life”. Such a doctrine has the effect of removing the incentive of being blessed to rule with Christ over the nations for a thousand years and then judging angels in the great white throne judgment. That false doctrine disallows all the incentives of all the promises we are given to have a part in that “blessed and holy first resurrection” and “not be hurt of the second death/lake of fire/white throne judgment”. It denies that God is a God of order and that each man is saved “in his own order”:

1Co 15:22  For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
1Co 15:23  But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.
1Co 15:24  Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.
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 [via the lake of fire/second death].

The last words of the previous chapter were:

1Co 14:40  Let all things be done decently and in order.

God is a God of order, and those who say, “If you see anything in scripture in an ordinal manner then you can and you will miss the spiritual message” or denying that “every man… shall be… made alive… in his own order,” that person’s eyes are blinded by the Lord Himself to the words “then… when… till… [and] the last enemy…” found there in 1st Corinthians 15:22-26.

It is the greatest blessing of all time to be given to be of those “few chosen” who are promised a “crown of life” and the power of “a rod of iron” to rule this outward world for a thousand symbolic years:

Rev 2:26  And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations [“of this world” (Rev 11:15)]:
Rev 2:27  And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.

Rev 20:1  And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
Rev 20:2  And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
Rev 20:3  And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
Rev 20:4  And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
Rev 20:5  But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
Rev 20:6  Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

The Lord tells us that our resurrection, “the resurrection of life”, is contrasted with another resurrection which cannot take place “till the thousand years should be fulfilled”, after which there is “a little season” of rebellion against ‘the camp of the saints and the beloved city’:

Rev 20:7  And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
Rev 20:8  And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
Rev 20:9  And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.

“The camp of the saints… and the beloved city” are those who were given by the Lord Himself to “have a part in [that] blessed and holy… first resurrection” and who have no part, and will not be hurt, of the second death, which is the lake of fire into which everyone who was not in “the resurrection to life” is cast at the white throne judgement:

Joh 5:27  And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man.
Joh 5:28  Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,
Joh 5:29  And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life [to reign with Christ over the nations of this world for a thousand years]; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation [Greek: krisis, judgment – following the short season of rebellion which takes place “when the thousand years are expired” (Rev 20:7)].

Therefore, it is a great blessing to be “rejected of this generation” with our Lord. If indeed we are given that honor, then we will in “this present time [be] hated of all men”:

Mat 10:16  Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
Mat 10:17  But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues [The word translated ‘councils’ is the Greek word ‘sunedrion’];
Mat 10:18  And ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles.
Mat 10:19  But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak.
Mat 10:20  For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.
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.

If we know Christ, then we will be treated as He was treated. It is as sure as the rising of the sun because it is the Lord Himself who tells us unequivocally:

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.

Christ is not suggesting that some people might hate us if we sincerely subscribe to His doctrines. This is an assurance from Christ Himself that “[we] shall be hated of all men for My name’s sake”. ‘His name’s sake’ is a matter of simply being faithful and obedient to His words, which policy the religious leaders of this world simply hate, just as much or more than they did when our Lord was here on this earth in a body of corruptible flesh and blood:

Just as it was in the days of Jephthah and King David, it will be by the hand of those who are rejected of this world that the Lord will deliver His people, and later all mankind:

Jdg 11:1  Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he was the son of an harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah.
Jdg 11:2  And Gilead’s wife bare him sons; and his wife’s sons grew up, and they thrust out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father’s house; for thou art the son of a strange woman.
Jdg 11:3  Then Jephthah fled from his brethren, and dwelt in the land of Tob: and there were gathered vain men to Jephthah, and went out with him.

1Sa 22:1  David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father’s house heard it, they went down thither to him.
1Sa 22:2  And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.

Being rejected by the Lord’s anointed makes David, a shepherd boy, not at all seeking to be a king the typical fulfillment of our first verse:

Isa 65:1  I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name.

As King David himself, who despised the words of the Lord and took another man’s wife, we must acknowledge that we all first fulfill these words concerning our own apostasy:

Isa 65:2  I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;
Isa 65:3  A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;

Bricks are made by men, who put clay into a fire and produce a product which is vastly inferior to stones which are made by God Himself. Bricks and “slime for mortar” were the building materials for the tower of Babel:

Gen 11:3  And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.

In such a spiritually inferior state, we are the dead burying their dead, and our food is all unclean flesh which is sure to keep us in our spiritually defiled dying condition:

Isa 65:4  Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine’s flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;

This is the Hebrew word translated as ‘monuments’ in this verse:

“Keep, keepeth, kept, keeper, keeping, observe, preserve”, etc. This word means the same as the Greek word ‘tereo’, as in “If you would enter into life, keep (tereo) the commandments (Mat 19:17) …keep (tereo) the sayings of the prophecy of this book” (Rev 22:9).

Isaiah 65:4 is telling us is that until we are judged, we all “lodge in [the things we keep… eating] swine’s flesh and abominable things”

Isa 65:5  Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day.

When we keep and observe false doctrines, at first we will and do hate those who refuse to do so, and we put them away from ourselves because we think we are more righteous than they are. The scriptures call that ‘making yourself righteous’ and thereby condemn Christ and His Christ:

Job 40:8  Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?

Here is the “smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all the day” as these words apply to you and me in the New Testament:

Rev 15:7  And one of the four beasts gave unto the seven angels seven golden vials full of the wrath of God, who liveth for ever and ever.
Rev 15:8  And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled.

It is the wrath of God against the rebellious kingdom of our old man which works His righteous judgments within the lives of every one of His elect because:

Isa 65:6  Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,

The revelation of Jesus Christ within the lives of each of us as His elect includes the reading, hearing and keeping of chapters 14-16. We, too, must be judged. It is the greatest blessing the Lord can give any of us to make us to be judged first in “this present time”:

1Pe 4:17  For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?

If you do not see the order in which the Lord is doing His work with mankind, “first beginning at us”, then you can and will miss the spiritual message concerning His kingdom which must rule until all enemies are put under His feet, the last enemy to be destroyed being death itself.

1Co 15:22  For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
1Co 15:23  But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.
1Co 15:24  Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.
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.

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.
Rom 8:20  For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
Rom 8:21  Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

That is our study for today. Here are the verses we will cover next Sunday, Lord willing:

Isa 65:7  Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the LORD, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom.
Isa 65:8  Thus saith the LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants’ sakes, that I may not destroy them all.
Isa 65:9  And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.
Isa 65:10  And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for the herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me.
Isa 65:11  But ye are they that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that troop, and that furnish the drink offering unto that number.
Isa 65:12  Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted not.

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