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Isa 52:1-8 They Shall See Eye to Eye, When The LORD Shall Bring Again Zion.

[Study Aired January 12, 2020]

Isa 52:1  Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean. 
Isa 52:2  Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion. 
Isa 52:3  For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money. 
Isa 52:4  For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause. 
Isa 52:5  Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed. 
Isa 52:6  Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I. 
Isa 52:7  How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth! 
Isa 52:8  Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD shall bring again Zion.

The first verses of this chapter are meant to be contrasted with these last two verses of chapter 51:

Isa 51:22  Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again: 
Isa 51:23  But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.

The Lord’s people, His very bride, have for so long been despised of the world and all its religions. They have been lying as dead ‘in the streets of that great city… wherein our Lord was crucified’ in the sense that we “reckon [ourselves]… to… be dead with Christ”, and in the sense that we are “the savor of death unto death” to this world:

Rom 6:6  Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. 
Rom 6:7  For he that is dead is freed from sin. 
Rom 6:8  Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: 
Rom 6:9  Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him. 
Rom 6:10  For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. 
Rom 6:11  Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

And this is the symbolic ‘death of the two witnesses’ of:

Rev 11:7  And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them. 
Rev 11:8  And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. 
Rev 11:9  And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves. 
Rev 11:10  And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.

This is actually a description of what happened, and what is happening to Christ, because “as He is so are we in this world” (1Jo 4:17). 

With no spiritual understanding it appears that a time will come when we will ‘finish our testimony and then be killed by the beast’ just before Christ returns to this earth. However, with the mind of the spirit we know that neither Christ nor we stop testifying against our own old man and this world until we draw our last physical breath.

Christ’s testimony, just as our own testimony, was “finished” the moment it was rejected of “His own”:

Joh 1:10  He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. 
Joh 1:11  He came unto his own, and his own received him not.

He, too, “counted [Himself] as… dead in the streets of that… city” long before He was nailed to the cross, and the scriptures themselves tell us that He did as He tells us to do:

Luk 9:23  And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily [“die daily” 1Co 15:31), and follow me.

Rom 6:6  Knowing this, that our old man is [spiritually] crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. 
Rom 6:7  For he that is dead is freed from sin. 
Rom 6:8  Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: 
Rom 6:9  Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him. 
Rom 6:10  For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. 
Rom 6:11  Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

He that is ‘dead’ has ‘finished [his] testimony’ and is “lying dead in the streets of that great city where also our Lord was crucified”:

Isa 51:22  Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again: 
Isa 51:23  But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.

Rev 11:8  And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. 

Christ “reckoned [Himself] to be dead… from the foundation of the world”:

Rev 13:8  And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

Outwardly, our witness against this world is the light of our lives in a dark dying world, as explained by Christ Himself:

Mat 5:14  Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. 
Mat 5:15  Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.
Mat 5:16  Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

Our ‘light’ is seen as “good works” only by “all that are in the house” of God in “this present time” (Rom 8:18). In time, seeing Christ in us, the world also will ‘glorify [our] Father which is in heaven’, but in the meantime, they do no such thing, and instead we are to them as dead men in the streets of spiritual Babylon. “The streets of that great city…” symbolize the ways of the harlot system which rules over the kings of this world. In those ‘streets’ we are as dead men:

Rev 11:7  And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them. 
Rev 11:8  And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.

“When they shall have finished their testimony”, and “where also our Lord was crucified”, are both in the aorist tense, and are continuing in our lives. “Make war against them… overcome them… and kill them”, are all in the future tense, telling us that what is happening in the aorist tense will continue to happen into the future until the end of this age.

Our witness is ‘finished’, and we are to this world ‘killed… the savor of death unto death’ at the moment our witness is rejected just as it was with Christ:

Luk 9:23  And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.

Joh 10:30  I and my Father are one. 
Joh 10:31  Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.

Christ considered Himself to be on the cross “daily” as He served His Father and spoke His Father’s words. As such He was, to this world and to our own ‘old man’, “the savor of death unto death”:

2Co 2:16  To the one [our old man] we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other [the new man within us] the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?

The very fact we are on the cross and rejected by this world is to this world proof positive that we are not favored of God:

Mat 27:39  And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads, 
Mat 27:40  And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross. 
Mat 27:41  Likewise also the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes and elders, said, 
Mat 27:42  He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him. 
Mat 27:43  He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will have him: for he said, I am the Son of God.

Such words are logical carnal reasoning to our old man. If the Christ we believe in is so powerful why is He not ruling this world with a rod of iron right now?

The answer to that question, posed by the Jews and their leaders, symbols of the religious leaders of this day, is that if Christ had come down from the cross before His death, we would have no propitiation for our sins. The price would not have been paid, and our faith would not have been tried. It is not simple faith, that saves us. “The devils also believe and tremble”. 

Jas 2:19  Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble. 
Jas 2:20  But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works [without being tried in the fire] is dead?

What saves us is “the trial of [our] faith… [which is as precious as] gold tried in the fire”:

1Pe 1:7  That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it [our faith] be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:

Rev 3:17  Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: 
Rev 3:18  I counsel thee to buy of me gold [faith] tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.

The fact that it has been almost 2,000 years since the death and resurrection of Christ, and the fact that the religions of this world appear to be so firmly ensconced in their rulership over the kings of this world, and the fact that so very few can see and hear the voice of the True Shepherd, all serve as fiery trials of our faith, and it is few indeed who have been given to believe these words:

Hab 2:2  And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. [Heb 12:1]
Hab 2:3  For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry. 
Hab 2:4  Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith [tried in the fire].

“The vision is yet for an appointed time” and the last thing any of us should do is to tell ourselves it is all spiritual and it is all within and “all [outward] things continue as they were from the fathers”:

2Pe 3:3  Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, 
2Pe 3:4  And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. 
2Pe 3:5  For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: 
2Pe 3:6  Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: 
2Pe 3:7  But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

We are to see our old man as ‘chief of sinners’, and as ungodly as anyone who is cast into the lake of fire at the great white throne judgment. But we are also given the faith to see our old man as being given the gift of faith which is “tried with fire… in this present time” (Rom 8:18), and therefore, by the sovereign hand of God made to be “the first to believe on Him… (Eph 1:12) the firstfruits unto God and the Lamb… (Rev 14:4), the church of the firstborn [Heb 12:23], [to be in] the resurrection to life” as opposed to “the resurrection of judgment”.

Heb 12:22  But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, 
Heb 12:23  To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven [the book of life], and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, 
Heb 12:24  And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel. 
Heb 12:25  See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape [the lake of fire], if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:

It is all because the Lord Himself, “after the counsel of His own will” (Eph 1:11), has chosen us as His people through whom He will “fill all in all” (Eph 1:23):

Isa 51:22  Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again: 
Isa 51:23  But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.

Rev 11:8  And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. 

Any and all who are faithful to Christ’s doctrine have been walked on “as the street” by the rulers and religious leaders of this age. 

The time will come, and it is here in earnest even now, that we are no longer to see ourselves in that way:

Isa 52:1  Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean. 
Isa 52:2  Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion. 
Isa 52:3  For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money. 

“Shake yourself from the dust; arise and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose yourself from the bands of your neck, O captive daughter of Zion…” That is the peace of mind which, at this very moment, is the fruit of being sealed with His spirit and knowing God and His Son, even as we are to this world “the savor of death”. 

The best is yet to come in the form of “the redemption of the purchased possession”:

Eph 1:3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: 
Eph 1:4  According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: 
Eph 1:5  Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, 
Eph 1:6  To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. 
Eph 1:7  In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace; 
Eph 1:8  Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence; 
Eph 1:9  Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself: 
Eph 1:10  That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him: 
Eph 1:11  In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: 
Eph 1:12  That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ. 
Eph 1:13  In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, 
Eph 1:14  Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.

‘Firstfruits’ are not the only fruits, and ‘the first to trust in Christ’ who are given to be “to the praise of His glory” are not the only people who will “trust in Christ”.

Notice the similarity between these words here in chapter 52, addressed to “Jerusalem… the daughter of Zion” and the words of the previous chapter addressed to the “Arm of the Lord”:

Isa 51:9  Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon? 
Isa 51:10  Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over? 
Isa 51:11  Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away. 
Isa 51:12  I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass;

Again in this same chapter:

Isa 51:16  And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people. 
Isa 51:17  Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.

‘Jerusalem… the daughter of Zion… the Arm of the Lord’ are one and all symbols of the same thing. They all symbolize those who are called “overcomers” through “the sufferings of this present time… this present evil world” to whom the Lord is here saying “You are My people”. This is how we are to regard “the sufferings of this present time”:

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.

Gal 1:4  Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:

Rev 2:17  He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.

Rev 3:12  Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.

“A new name… the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is New Jerusalem” are all speaking of His doctrine, which is “rather to be chosen than great riches”:

Pro 22:1  A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.

There is within us at this very moment, in “the earnest of our inheritance”, a “new heavens, a new earth, and a new name, New Jerusalem”:

Eph 1:12  That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ. 
Eph 1:13  In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
Eph 1:14  Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.

Pro 22:1  A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.

Isa 65:17  For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.

Isa 66:22  For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain. 

2Pe 3:13  Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. 

Rev 21:1  And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
Rev 21:2  And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

The ‘new earth’ is being wed to the ‘new heaven’… “and the two become one”:

Mar 10:8  And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh. 

Christ’s “new name” is nothing less than His “new covenant”… His doctrine, which is “rather to be chosen than great riches”:

Pro 22:1  A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold. 

Son 1:3  Because of the savour of thy good ointments [Your doctrines] thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.

Mat 26:28  For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

These words of Isaiah 52 tell us:

Isa 52:1  Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.

These words are the very foundation for these words in:

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. 
Rev 21:10  And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, 
Rev 21:11  Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal; 

Rev 21:27  And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life. 

These next verses summarize the journey of every man who has ever been dragged to the Lord:

Isa 52:4  For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause. 
Isa 52:5  Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed.

Do not make the mistake of thinking these words about blaspheming the name of God are addressed to those among whom the Lord’s people were scattered. Not so! It is we, the Lord’s own elect, who are the first to blaspheme His name by refusing to be obedient to His doctrine as the Lord makes so very clear concerning our ‘qualifications’, or the lack thereof, as His chosen people:

Eze 36:19  And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them. 
Eze 36:20  And when they entered unto the heathen, whither they went, they profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These are the people of the LORD, and are gone forth out of his land. 
Eze 36:21  But I had pity for mine holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the heathen, whither they went. 
Eze 36:22  Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine holy name's sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen, whither ye went. 
Eze 36:23  And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, saith the Lord GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.

When the world sees how the Lord has been so merciful to you and to me, to a people who have so blasphemed His name by all their rebellious ways… “the heathen shall know that [the Lord] is [indeed] the Lord”. 

We will all “give an accounting” of all our shameful sins and our rebellious ways, but the Lord’s mercy endures forever (Psalm 136), and “He [has] devised means, that His banished be not expelled from Him”.

2Sa 14:14  For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.

We are all separated from the Lord by our own sins:

Isa 59:1  Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: 
Isa 59:2  But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear. 
Isa 59:3  For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.

In spite of the fact that we, the Lord’s chosen people, have “blasphemed His name continually” (vs 5), He has determined that He will still drag us to Himself:

Isa 52:6  Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I. 

The Lord will do the same for all men, “every man in his own order”, but the firstfruits unto God and the Lamb (Rev 14:4) are His firstborn, and the double portion of the inheritance belongs to them (Deu 21:17 and Exo 4:22) , and it is they who will be used of the Lord to bring forth all the rest of the family of God to Himself, and that is truly “the good news of the kingdom of God” brought to us by the Lord Himself:

Isa 52:7  How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth! 

Meaning:

Mar 1:14  Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel [“good tidings] of the kingdom of God,

King David had a great appreciation of a united Israel, which gratitude he expressed in these words:

Psa 133:1  A Song of degrees of David. Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! 
Psa 133:2  It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments; 
Psa 133:3  As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion [The Lord’s elect]: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.

Paul tells us that we are “overseers of the Lord’s flock… watchmen” who should be willing to lay down our lives for the Lord’s sheep:

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.

By this time Paul had already admonished the church at Corinth, and all of us, with these words:

1Co 1:10  Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

The last verse of our study today is the fruit of our obedience to all the scriptures which make 1Corinthians 1:10 possible in our fellowship today:

Isa 52:8  Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD shall bring again Zion. 

If indeed we are ‘Zion’ and ‘holy Jerusalem’ then we will even now “see eye to eye” concerning the doctrines of the Lord, and we will “all speak the same thing, and… there [will] be no divisions among us, but [we will] be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment”.

That is our study for today, and here are the verses for our next study:

Isa 52:9  Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem. 
Isa 52:10  The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God. 
Isa 52:11  Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD. 
Isa 52:12  For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rereward. 
Isa 52:13  Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high. 
Isa 52:14  As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men: 
Isa 52:15  So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they consider.