Isaiah Day 56 - Unconventional but...
18:1 Woe to the land shadowed with buzzing wings,
Which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia,
2
Which sends ambassadors by sea,
Even in vessels of reed on the waters, saying,
“Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth of skin,
To a people terrible from their beginning onward,
A nation powerful and treading down,
Whose land the rivers divide.”
3
All inhabitants of the world and dwellers on the earth:
When he lifts up a banner on the mountains, you see it;
And when he blows a trumpet, you hear it.
4
For so the Lord said to me,
“I will take My rest,
And I will look from My dwelling place
Like clear heat in sunshine,
Like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”
5
For before the harvest, when the bud is perfect
And the sour grape is ripening in the flower,
He will both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks
And take away and cut down the branches.
6
They will be left together for the mountain birds of prey
And for the beasts of the earth;
The birds of prey will summer on them,
And all the beasts of the earth will winter on them.
7
In that time a present will be brought to the Lord of hosts
From a people tall and smooth of skin,
And from a people terrible from their beginning onward,
A nation powerful and treading down,
Whose land the rivers divide—
To the place of the name of the Lord of hosts,
To Mount Zion.
So I kept looking through
commentaries etc… and found nothing. What that means is I'm either way off or I
have seen something not commonly seen or at least published.
I will tell you what(who) I found
and let you be the judge.
Jesus stated quite bluntly and
boldly that the Old Testament is all about Him. The trouble is that it's not
obvious. His name doesn't get repeated over and over. The authors knew someone
was coming but they weren't sure about much beyond that. As a result the Old
Testament references to Jesus are prolific but subtle. When we get to the New
Testament we find Matthew and Peter and many others suddenly seeing Him in
places they never saw before, like the example we already passed by in chapter
7 where a young maiden would give birth and now we know it was a hidden
prophecy of the birth of Jesus. In English class they would have called this
foreshadowing. It's when you are given clues ahead of time as to what is coming
without anything over being said.
Take Hosea 11:1 for example. It
says: "When Israel was a child, I
loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son."
This was true of Jacob. God told
his mother Rebekah that his future was extraordinary before he was ever born.
It was a rough road but in time Jacob figured out his life was in God's hands
not his own and God changed his name to Israel. Here's where it gets
interesting. Jacob was born in Canaan. He moved to Egypt late in life to escape
the famine and be with Joseph. He died in Egypt. So what did Hosea mean when he
wrote "and out of Egypt I called my son"? Well Matthew tells us it
was a reference to Jesus. Matthew says Jesus was taken to Egypt by His parents
as a young child to escape the murderous plot of king Herod and then returned
from Egypt as a fulfillment of Hosea's prophecy.
Are you seeing what I am seeing
yet in Isaiah 18?
The land beyond Ethiopia (it
should say Cush) is Egypt. The land that the rivers divide is Egypt. The land
that was bad from the start was Egypt. Now look at verse 7 again. A gift comes
from Egypt to Mount Zion. I only know of one gift that came from Egypt to Zion
(Jerusalem). His name is Jesus.
Am I crazy. For sure I am but it
was Jesus Himself who said the Book is about Him. :)
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