All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee,
the rams of Nebiah shall minister unto thee,
they shall come up with acceptance on mine altar,
and I will glorify the house of my glory.
Who are these that fly as the cloud,
and as it does to their windows?
Surely the Isle shall wait for me,
and the ships of Tarshish first,
to bring thy sons from far,
their silver and their gold with them,
unto the name of the Lord thy God,
and to the Holy One of Israel,
because he hath glorified thee.
And the sons of the strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee.
For in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favor have I had mercy on thee.
Therefore thy gates shall be opened continually, and shall not be shut day nor night.
That men may bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought.
For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish, and those nations shall be utterly wasted.
The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir tree, the pine tree, and the bogs
together to beautify the place of my sanctuary, and I will make the place of my feet glorious.
The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee, and all they
that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet, and they shall
call thee the city of the Lord, the Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated, so that no man went through thee, I will make
thee an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations.
Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shall suck the breast of kings, and thou
shalt know that I the Lord am thy Savior, and thy Redeemer, the mighty one of Jacob.
For brass I will bring gold and for iron I will bring silver and for wood brass and for stones iron
I will also make thy officers peace and I an exacter's righteousness
Violence shall no more be heard in thy land wasting nor destruction within thy borders
Thou shall call thy wall salvation and thy gates praise
The Sun shall be no more thy light by day either for
Neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee,
but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light,
and thy God thy glory, thy Son shall no more go down.
Neither shall thy moon withdraw itself,
for the Lord shall be thy everlasting light,
and the days of thy mourning shall be ended,
thy people also shall be all righteous.
They shall inherit the land forever the branch of my planting the work of my hands that I may be glorified a
Little one shall become a thousand and a small one a strong nation
I the Lord hasten it in his time. Let's pray father God. We thank you dear Lord for your
Everlasting promises dear Lord. Thank you for this wonderful church. You've given us and we thank you for our pastor
Please bless him as he preaches your word in Jesus name. We pray amen
Amen. Okay, we are in Isaiah chapter 60 this evening and we are nearing the end of the book of Isaiah
and so a lot of these chapters towards the latter end of Isaiah deal focus mainly excuse me on the subject of the
Millennial rain and the new heaven and the new earth and so tonight we're gonna take a glimpse into that Millennial rain and the new earth
And I'm sure as we're reading through chapter 60 tonight,
there's some things that popped out at you
that kind of reminisced or reminded you of that new earth.
And so this is something that's majorly focused
towards the latter end of the book of Isaiah here.
And of course, this is mainly geared towards Judah, right?
Judah in Israel.
We obviously know that collectively,
this is also addressing the nations
because nations will also participate
in that millennial reign to also participate in the new earth as well, but the promises
are immediately given to Judah and so this is very much important for those of the nation
of Judah, specifically those who have been saved, those who have believed on the Lord,
these promises are obviously given to them.
And that's important to note because of the fact that, you know, you have a false doctrine
out there called dispensationalism and along with that you have Zionism.
the fact that they take these promises of the Old Testament and just kind of apply it to every single
Israelite, every single person of Judah, regardless if they believe on the Lord or not. And obviously,
that is a major misrepresentation of the text because the promises that are given here are given
to those who have the God of the Bible as their God, right? Those who have believed on the Lord.
And what they'll do is they'll apply it
to the modern state of Israel which is a Christ rejecting nation
and they think that these promises apply to them meaning that when that millennial reign takes place
they're going to be the ones inheriting that land, they're going to be the ones
who are ruling and reigning with Christ but that's not true at all
and in fact those who are going to be ruling and reigning with Christ
in that millennial reign and will be in the new heaven and the new earth
are those who were saved from the Old Testament and a lot of times people disregard
the saints of the Old Testament.
They just kind of forget about them
and place the emphasis on the modern state of Israel,
not really take into account
that there were millions and millions of saved Israelites
and saved Judahites from the Old Testament
that the promises apply to.
And so...
I love these portions of scripture that prophetically refer to Israel inheriting the land
because to me I know that it's referring to that saved Israel of the Old Testament,
those who actually deserve the land, right, those of Judah who actually deserve the land as well.
So let's get into it here.
We're going to look at the light of God's kingdom and of course the kingdom that's being referred to here
can be referred to the millennium reign,
but it's also referring to the new heaven and the earth.
Now, let me just say this before we get into it,
is when we look at passages in the Old Testament,
dealing with that very distant future,
You know sometimes we can get confused it's like is this talking about the millennial rain or is it talking about the new earth and the
Answer is yes
Because of the fact that sometimes in the Old Testament specific as we go through the book of Isaiah
They kind of overlap, you know
You'll get Isaiah talking about the new earth and then the the the very next verse
He's talking about the millennial rain, and then you think to yourself. Whoa. I thought this is about the new earth
Well, it's about both and it's essentially not given it to us in
chronological order
is just kind of giving these prophetic statements regarding that future, those future events,
that future place. And so it's referring to both and the way we can tell or the way we can distinguish
both is based upon other portions of Scripture specifically in the book of Revelation that
make those things clear. Look at verse number one. It says,
and gross darkness to people, but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon
thee, and the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising." Now,
I do believe these first three verses
is prophetically referring to the darkness that will cover the earth in the end times if you study
end times prophecy and daniel 70th week you see a lot of darkness involved in that like literal
darkness right not just god's judgment upon the earth but literal darkness that takes place during
the wrath of god towards the latter end of those three and a half years and so obviously if you
have darkness upon the land you have destruction and judgment and wrath being poured upon
the people on the earth along with the the trumpets that are being sounded you
know obviously people and earth and the creation and believers are going to be
looking for that light right which is at the end of Daniel 70th week so when he
says behold darkness shall cover the earth
Gross darkness upon the people the Lord shall arise upon thee and his glory shall be seen upon thee
This is referring to that revelation 19 event where Jesus Christ descends with all believers
for the battle of Armageddon, okay?
And people will mistake this and say
that that's the second coming,
but if we know how to count,
obviously that's the third coming, right?
The second coming would be the rapture
that takes place during the midpoint,
a little after the midpoint of Daniel 70th week.
Revelation 19 is when Jesus Christ comes
on a white horse with all of his saints,
and he comes to wage war against the Antichrist,
against his army,
and whoop them and essentially establish his millennial reign on this earth.
You see, where is he going to establish it in the United States of America?
No, he's going to establish it in Jerusalem.
And obviously, once he destroys the Antichrist and the False Prophet,
he takes both of them, he casts them into the Lake of Fire,
he destroys the army with the sword of his mouth,
and he basically just takes over that temple, okay?
Which is probably one of the reasons why
The New Testament refers to it as the temple of God,
not because it's sanctioned by God,
because God is essentially gonna take it from
the Antichrist, okay?
And so he is that light that comes in a dark world,
and it's not only gonna be physically dark,
but if you just think about it,
from the time of Christ up until now,
the world has been very dark, spiritually speaking.
And of course, Christ comes and he shines the light.
But in verse one, he says, arise and shine.
Now that's pretty interesting because he's saying look arise and shine for thy light is come and what this is referring to is the fact that
you know
God is the light of his people and we simply reflect that light and so when God comes and
To Israel he comes to Judah now. It's Israel's time now
It's Judah's time to essentially reflect that light to a lost and dying world
And you know the same can be said about us in the New Testament we have the same command
let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father which
is in heaven you know your light has come salvation has come to you the light of the glorious gospel
of Christ has come to you you have the light of the word of God that has uh has shined in your
hearts not just through the gospel but through just biblical truths well now you need to reflect
We want to make sure that we don't become Christians,
that we have all this light, but we never turn it on, right?
We have all this light dwelling within us.
We have the light of the glorious gospel of Christ,
but then if our gospel be hit, it's hit to them that are lost.
We're not letting our light shine by preaching the gospel.
We're not letting our light shine by being a good testimony
to our neighbors, to our coworkers,
to other Christians, to the world.
We're not letting our light shine
by doing good works for God, right?
You know, it's a blessing to be a Christian.
It's a blessing to know the Bible.
It's a blessing to know doctrine.
It's a blessing to know the right gospel.
But hold on a second, to whosoever much is given,
of him shall be much required.
You know, God often blesses you.
in order for you to be a blessing to someone else, okay?
If he's made you rich, it's because he wants you
to use those riches for the benefit of someone else,
not just for the benefit of someone else,
but you know, that's included.
If God has blessed you with talents and gifts,
he wants you to use that for to be a blessing
to other people, not to become famous,
not to become to have all the acclamations of the world,
the applause of the world,
he wants you to use it for the glory of God, right?
to let your lights so shine.
And so he says,
arise and shine for thy light is come
and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.
I'm gonna read to you from 2 Corinthians chapter four,
verse three, I quoted some of it already,
but it says, if our gospel be hid,
it is hid to them that are lost
and whom the God of this world
had blinded the minds of them, which believe not,
lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ,
who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
Now, when it says that if our gospel is hid,
It's referring to the fact that we are essentially hiding our light under a bushel,
meaning the light is shining. You can't really stop the light from shining unless you just
hide yourself, right? You're not actually going out there and preaching the gospel.
You're not actually allowing the Word of God to live through you. Well, then obviously,
the gospel is hit to those who are lost. He goes on to say in verse 5,
For God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness has shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God
In the face of Jesus Christ and I like this part in verse number seven it says
But we have this treasure what treasures are referring to the light the gospel the word of God, right?
We have this treasure in earthen vessels
that the excellency of the power may be of God and not of us.
In other words, we have something very valuable
within this earthen vessel known as our body.
And why does he say it in that form?
Why does he say it in that manner?
Well, because of the fact that when the world looks at us,
we're not very impressive to the sight.
The world looks at our church, not very impressive.
The world looks at our building, not that impressive.
The world looks at our brand of Christianity,
not that impressive, but that's okay though.
Why?
Because then the glory of Christ, God gets all the glory
from the results of the work that's being put forth.
So the reason that this treasure is in this earthen vessel
is so that people may glorify God
when they see our good works.
when they see the people getting saved,
when they see people's lives being transformed,
when they see the baptisms,
when they see that people are repenting,
they're getting right with God,
they're being influenced by Christianity,
they look at you and look at me and they're like,
okay, obviously it's not this guy.
Obviously it can't be from this church.
No way that God can, yeah, well keep saying it
because we want to glorify God.
So I rather be in the earthen vessel.
I rather look like and be a part of a church that doesn't look like much so that God gets more glory in the long term
because of the fact that that's really what's most important, okay?
So he says he places that treasure in an earthen vessel that the excellency of the power may be of God and out of us.
You know, if we were silver vessels, golden vessels,
that we can glory in the work that's being accomplished.
Well, of course we're getting that many people saved.
You know, look at us.
You know, of course we're turning so many people to rest.
Just look at us.
Whereas because we're earthen, frail, fragile, right?
Not something of valuable substance.
You know, God gets all the glory if the results come forth.
And so, let's continue to be that earth and vessel that possesses the power of God, which
is the gospel of Christ, by getting other people saved, okay?
Look at verse number four, so he tells them to rise and shine.
Verse 4 says, Lift up thine eyes round about, and see all they gather themselves together.
They come to thee, thy son shall come from far, and thy daughter shall be nursed at
thy side.
Now, the immediate interpretation of these first four verses is obviously referring to
either the inauguration of the millennial reign or just the new heaven and the new earth.
in general because he's saying you know the light has come and obviously we see in Revelation 21
and 22 that God dwells with mankind right God the father descends and he dwells with mankind
and he becomes the light of the world like in a literal sense to the point where the light of the
moon the light of the sun is no longer necessary because God is that light and so when he's telling
Judah hey you know a rise and shine for that glorious come he's referring to the fact that
in that future event.
Well, verse number four, he says,
lift up thine eyes round about
and see all they gather themselves together,
referring to the daughters and the sons,
and I believe this is referring
to just the converts of Israel, okay?
And I don't mean the converts to Judaism.
I'm referring to the converts to Christianity, right?
You know, the descendants, the spiritual descendants
of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,
We are those Gentiles, we are those sons, we are those daughters who are essentially get to join Israel, join Judah in that millennial rain and in that new earth.
And in fact earlier in the book of Isaiah, Isaiah chapter 54, it says,
Sing O barren, thou that didst not bear, break forth into singing and cry out loud, thou that didst not travail with child.
For more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife sayeth the Lord.
He goes on to say in verse number three,
for thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left,
and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles
and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
And obviously this is a promise to Judah saying,
hey, you know, you're gonna break forth on the right hand
and on the left because not because you're gonna have
a physical descendants,
but because of the mere volume of spiritual descendants.
Well, the only way they can happen is if the gospel goes to the Gentiles because there's more Gentiles than there are Jews
More Gentiles than there are Israelites. And so in order for this promise to go into effect
You know Gentiles have to be reached
And so the sons and the daughters who are nursed at thy side in the millennial reign or the new earth is
Referring to those Gentile converse and the point that I want to make here is the fact that you know Gentiles is not an afterthought
in the New Testament, right
It's not like, oh man, you know, God only loved Israel.
He only loved Judah.
No, obviously unto them were committed the oracles of God
and he wanted them to be a light unto themselves.
No, a light unto the Gentiles.
He wanted to use them as that what?
Earth and vessel.
in order to win others to Christ,
to win the Gentiles to Christ,
not to have a sense of entitlement and superiority
over the Gentiles, but to love the Gentiles,
to reach the Gentiles, to get the Gentiles saved,
to convert them to being sons and daughters
who will nurse at thy side in the long term.
And you know what, thank God, a lot of them did.
You know, there's a lot of pastors,
there's a lot of prophets,
I guess you could call some of them pastors,
in the Old Testament,
that went far and wide and preached the word of God.
You know, the Bible doesn't specifically say
what regions they went to,
but the New Testament specifically says in Romans chapter 10
that their sound went into all the world.
And you can say the known world
or the world just entirely, it doesn't really matter,
obviously it's referring to anything
that's outside of Israel.
Anything outside of Israel are Gentiles, right?
That's what Gentile means.
It means other nations.
And so you have prophets of the Old Testament who understood these scriptures they understood the prophecies of Isaiah
They understood the prophecy they understood the command to be a light unto the Gentiles and they they took a hold of that
They went and they went out of this to Christ and obviously the work on the Gentiles was
Exceedingly much in the New Testament, right because in the New Testament
obviously you have the Apostle Paul starting churches and that's when Christianity really began to spread but
Gentiles are not an afterthought you know there is saved Gentiles in the Old
Testament and in fact there Gentiles who are part of the lineage of Christ okay
who got saved right have been one of them you know there's there's many of
them who
became they were greatly used of God in the Old Testament so they're not an
afterthought God loved the Gentiles he still loves the Gentiles and so this was
God's plan from the beginning look at verse number five it says then thou
shall see and flow together and thine heart shall fear
And be enlarged, because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee."
Now, this seems a little cryptic. You're like, what is this talking about, you know?
Well, let me try to explain what I believe this is referring to.
First of all, it says that thine heart shall fear and be enlarged. What is that talking about?
Well, fear obviously means to be afraid, right?
But it's also another way of saying to be amazed or to be astonished, right?
You're just kind of like astonished, you're astonished at it.
You wonder, right, with great amazement of something that's taken place.
So it's saying here that they shall fear and that their heart shall be enlarged.
And this is the part I want you to notice here.
It says the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee.
The forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee.
Now, I believe that this is probably referring to the fact that in the New Earth,
The Bible specifically says in Revelation 21 that when the new earth takes place, there shall be no more sea.
You know right now we have, the earth is filled with 70% water, is that correct?
Eggheads out here, you know, okay, everyone look at it.
Yeah, I'm 70% water, right?
Well, in the new earth, that's not gonna be a thing.
There might be pockets of water throughout the world,
but Revelation 21 specifically says
that the seas would no longer exist.
And why is that?
Well, the obvious reason would be that, you know,
we need more space to inhabit all believers from all time.
So if you have saved people from Adam all the way up until the end of time, you know, we need
You know vacancies
You know on this earth and so I don't believe that everyone who's ever existed that has gotten saved can fit in
The current land that we have right now. So it's for that reason that God is gonna dry up a lot of the seas
to create more real estate, so to speak,
for believers to inhabit.
And it specifically says in Isaiah
that the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee.
And I think this is a reference to the fact
that once the seas are dried,
the land will essentially present itself.
Somehow God's gonna raise up the land
that's under the ocean right now.
In order for the forces of the Gentiles to come unto them.
So you think of Israel being there, well if you dry up the ocean, now you have land where Gentiles can essentially make their pilgrimage to Jerusalem to the tabernacle that descends.
You know, it's there not just to create vacancies in real estate for believers to dwell in, but it's also there to create bridges, right?
So the Gentiles can make their pilgrimage to Jerusalem.
and the land raising up, what would that cause you to do?
To be in fear and to have your heart to be in large,
to be amazed, right?
Of that great wonder of all these Gentiles
coming to Israel to hear the word of God
from Jesus Christ himself and God the Father.
And so this is a great event here
that it's prophetically referring to,
and that is the abundance of the seas
being converted unto them.
Now, obviously, you know, another interpretation could be that when it talks about the abundance of the seas, it's just referring to the Gentiles.
Because there are instances where, you know, Gentiles or a large mass of people can be referred to as a flood, as the sea, right?
But I do believe that it's likely referring to the seas being dried up and therefore the Gentiles are able to make their pilgrimage to Jerusalem because we are talking about the New Earth.
It says, the multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah,
all they from Sheba shall come, they shall bring golden incense, and they shall show
forth the praises of the Lord.
All the flocks of Qadar shall be gathered together unto thee, the rams of Nabioth shall minister unto thee,
they shall come up with acceptance on mine altar, and I will glorify the house of my glory.
Who are these that fly as a cloud and as the doves to their windows?" Now,
you know, you look at this like, what in the world are we talking about, your drama dairies and camels?
What's going on here? Well, you know, what this is obviously referring to here, I don't believe that this is
addressing that you know these animals are literally going to be going to the
new heaven or that could be the case but I think you know I don't think it's a
coincidence that it's it's addressing or it's talking about unclean animals okay
Well, what the Old Testament would previously consider to be unclean, right?
A camel was an animal that the Old Testament under the Levitical law, that window of time,
was considered to be unclean.
And often, I mean, you see throughout the Old Testament in the book of Leviticus, the
importance of not eating that type of animal, you know, not plowing with a certain type
of animal, not eating a certain kind of animal.
unclean people, right?
You know, the camel would represent a Gentile
who believed in a false God, so to speak, right?
Who had a false religion.
Well, here it's saying that the camels that was previously considered to be unclean
is now going to come to the house of God, right?
And it specifically says in verse 7
that they shall come up with acceptance on my altar.
In other words, God's saying,
now you can bring the camels to the altar.
Now you can bring the dromedaries.
Now you can bring these flocks.
You can bring these types of animals
that were previously, you know, I told you not to touch.
You know, what God has cleansed,
that count on that comment, okay?
And let me just say this is that, you know,
obviously, if we're in the Old Testament,
we need to abide by those Old Testament dietary laws.
You know, because if we didn't,
that would be considered sin.
Meaning that we can't eat the camels, we couldn't eat the pig, oh man, we couldn't eat bacon and pork and all that, and it would be considered sinful during that window of time.
But here's the thing folks, is that once Jesus Christ died on the cross, those laws were repealed.
Don't believe the Judaizers of this world.
They try to tell you where in the Bible does it say
that these laws work.
And they try to kind of blend in the laws, don't they?
Oh, so you're saying that we can murder.
No, I don't know, what?
Eating pork and murder are not the same thing.
Okay?
You know, and here's the thing is that
either of these Judaizers are just, you know, stupid.
or just extremely wicked or just both.
Because when they say these things,
it's just kind of like, well, I mean,
don't you ever read the book of Hebrews?
You know, it's just like, where in the Bible
does it say there's repeal?
Well, how about Hebrews chapter nine, verse number 10?
That the ordinances of that old covenant,
and it specifically says, it kind of lists it for you.
It gives you each one, it says the meats.
Drinks, diverse washings, carnal ordinances,
in case you just missed any of them, okay?
Says that it was imposed upon them permanently?
No, until, right?
Denoting the fact that there's a window of time
where basically it would not be imposed anymore,
enacted anymore, until the time of Reformation
is not referring to Luther.
What does Reformation mean when something gets better?
Now when did things get better according to the Bible? Once Christ died
Which is why the Bible refers to the new covenant as a better covenant
Establish upon better promises
So therefore if we were to just read the Bible like a five-year-old would
We would say that oh, this is no longer imposed because of the fact that the Reformation has already passed
No, you gotta obey, you gotta observe the Sabbath.
You gotta make sure that you can't eat shrimp,
you can't eat pork.
That's what the Levitical Law teaches.
You know, if you say you can eat those things,
then you gotta say that sodomy is okay as well.
We can't, you know, observe those laws
and murder's fine and lion's fine.
Well, there's a difference between moral laws,
purity laws and dietary laws.
Don't get mixed up just because they're going to call laws, okay?
And
Here is a simple way that I explain to people how we know that the moral laws are still enacted and these others are not
Here's a very simple way to do it
Because Romans chapter 2 talks about the law of God that is written in our hearts
Right
And let me ask you a question
Inherently know, in our heart, is it written in our hearts?
Man, I just gotta keep the Sabbath, man.
I don't know what it is.
I just know I'm not doing it right
but I'll keep it in the Sabbath.
Do we just inherently know like, oh man, I don't know why
but I just feel like I'm sinning every time I eat pork.
I just feel like, no, of course not.
The law that's written in our hearts
is referring to God's moral law, right?
And it wasn't just written in our hearts in the New Testament.
The moral law has been there since before even the Levitical Law was instituted.
It transcends the Levitical Law.
It came before the Levitical Law, it exists even after the Levitical Law.
The Levitical Law was a special window of time that God set forth to the nation of Israel
to set apart a holy people unto Himself and to figuratively represent
Special events and people that were going to come in the New Testament.
Jesus Christ is the fulfillment of those Old Testament laws of meat,
drinks, divers, wastes, and carnal ordinances.
And yes, that includes the Sabbath as well.
And you know, you have these Judaizers.
They're just like, oh man, the Mark of the Beast is a Sunday.
How's the Mark of the Beast today?
You know, oh, you know, it's just wrong to not keep the Sabbath and you hit him with Colossians 2 16
Which no one can explain by the way
The only explanation that I've ever heard and it holds zero water whatsoever
It's extremely ridiculous and stupid
Is they'll say well Colossians 2 is same. Don't let them judge you for observing the Sabbath. Oh
Yeah, that's right. Colossians were just observing the Sabbath
these Greeks, these Gentile believers just so happen to just be observing the Sabbath and
observing dietary laws even though they were literally just one to Christ from pagan religions
But you're trying to convince me that they're observing the Sabbath get real
Colossians 2 16 not only tells us that they don't let anybody judge you and meets drinks and
Respect of a holy day of the new moons in the Sabbath, but verse 17 is very important too
It says, which are a shadow of things to come.
But the body is of Christ.
What is that telling us?
It tells us that the Sabbath, the new moons,
the meats and drinks, where a representation
as symbol, a shadow of something,
not necessarily the real thing, right?
If I'm hitting the corner, you see my shadow,
you're not like, oh, there's,
Pastor Bruce, me right there.
That's him.
I knew you was black
That shows you that something's coming around the corner the real deal is coming around the corner
Sacrifices were a shadow of things to come. That's what that's literally what Hebrews 10 tells us
the Sabbath represents Jesus Christ
Because of the fact that we rest in the finished work of Christ just as the Israelites literally rested on the Sabbath in like manner
We rest in Christ
for our salvation
And obviously there's other spiritual applications to even the dietary loss, right? A lot of application
The one of the main ones was that you know God was teaching separation
From that which is unclean
Now folks, you know, you don't have to go very far in the New Testament to see that it's okay
To eat what was previously considered to be unclean
How about first Timothy chapter 4?
Telling us that false prophets will tell you to abstain from eats which God has created to be received with Thanksgiving of them
Which believe and know the truth
Yeah, but that's not referring to like unclean animals for every creature of God is good and
Nothing to be refused to be refused if it be received with Thanksgiving in prayer
Creature means
You know you want to eat a dog that's on you. I'm not interested
Some of you Asians might be
But yeah, that's your that's your prerogative. That's your thing, you know
Yeah, it would include the rat too
You know it includes any kind of it says every creature of God is good not that I'm interested in having those things
I'm just telling you what the Bible says
Okay
The point that I'm making here is that, you know, it's wrong to teach that it's sinful to eat certain meats that were considered unclean in the Old Testament, but are now have God's stamp of approval to eat in the New Testament.
Okay.
And here's further proof.
Okay.
Straight from the Lord himself.
In Acts chapter 10.
God comes to Peter.
He says, rise, kill, eat.
Very simple instructions, pretty simple.
It's like get up, kill that thing, eat it.
And of course, Peter is just stubborn.
You know, he was a little Judaizer himself.
In fact, Judaizer stems from the Apostle Paul's rebuke
of Peter, by the way, in Galatians 2.14.
When he says, you know, when he talks about him
compelling others to live as do the Jews,
to live as do the Jews is in the original Greek.
I know we're not trying to get into the Greek here,
but just humor, let me humor you for a little bit.
It's Judaizer, that's what it means.
And in fact, in the Spanish Bible,
it just says, who died, said.
It just used that word there, who died, said.
That's what it says.
But he was guilty of that.
And so God comes to him and he's like,
rise, kill, and eat, he's like, not so, Lord.
We mean not so.
Brother, it's like.
You know the Lord is gonna go you know Jesus Christ is gonna go get be crucified be skirted man, and he's like not so Lord
He's like who do you think you are Peter? You just always putting your foot in your mouth
He's like not so Lord for another common or unclean had entered into my mouth
And of course the Lord ends up rebuking him and he says well God cleansed that call not thou common
Now what was the main reason for that vision that he gave Peter obviously it you know initially we think oh now
You can eat these foods which amen you can
Because it was a sheet knit at the four corners. That would just clean not would just unclean animals with clean animals
You're just saying eat both
But the purpose of that is to teach the apostle Peter that the Gentiles are up for grabs too
Stop trying to preach the gospel to the quote-unquote clean animals
Known as the Jews and start going for what you would consider to be unclean animals like Cornelius
Who actually wanted to be saved?
Yeah, that's just the spiritual it's only spiritual applications. Oh, yeah, it doesn't mean you should let actually literally pork or whatever
Get real
We have Colossians 2 16. We have acts chapter 10. We have 1st Timothy chapter 4
We have Hebrews chapter 9 and verse number 10 that says that they're no longer in post
plain and simple
Okay, and you know the this argument that seeks to also invoke the moral laws is a strawman argument
Because of the fact that the moral laws have always existed even even in Genesis
The moral laws existed because God is eternally moral
It's not like he just came up with these, you know,
he's just like, you know what?
Homosexuality is just bad.
You know, murder is just, man, bad.
As soon as he sends Moses to the mountain,
it's just like, that's when he just came to his senses.
It was just like, you know what?
I think I'm gonna outlaw this stuff.
This stuff is really bad.
No, it's always been bad.
It's always been sinful.
It's always been an abomination.
It's always been criminal in God's eyes.
Here's the difference, my friend.
And I know I'm chasing a rabbit here.
But we're talking about animals, so we're gonna skin that thing kill it make rabbits do I
Forgot what I was saying. What was I saying? Someone jogged my memory
Moses you're okay. All right, huh?
Moral laws have always existed. Mm-hmm. Think about the law. What was I talking about?
It'll come to me the the yeah, the rabbits gone
It was a fat one too, you know.
Moral laws, dietary laws, it's gone, the rabbit's gone.
Anyways, the point that I'm making here is the fact that the dietary laws are no longer
instituted.
Okay, obviously that was for a limited time only and it's not something that we
observe today in the New Testament and look in people also mix up mix this up
because they'll often point to Jesus Christ and the disciples observing Old
Testament laws and Jesus Christ did observe Old Testament laws but that's
just ignorance of the timeline of when the Gospels are written right because
obviously we have Matthew, Mark, Luke and John physically chronologically in our
in order to find them.
But the events of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John
are actually still considered Old Testament.
So that's why they're observing the Sabbath.
That's why they're observing the dietary laws
because they're still under that Old Covenant, Old Testament.
Which, by the way, also flies in the face
of dispensational salvation.
Because they'll say, well, in the Old Testament,
Old Covenant, when the thief on the cross died,
it was a different salvation.
It's a different message of salvation.
It was by the sacrifices, it was by the keeping of Moses' law, it was by doing all these things.
Well, that's funny because John 3.16 is in the Old Testament.
John 3.36, Old Testament.
The entire book of John up until the death of Christ is in the Old Testament.
And what is John 3.16? Believe only, right?
So, I wish I could remember what I was going to say. I was trying to jog my memory right now.
I cannot anyways let's move on here so verse six seven and eight are just
simply referring to the fact that now these animals that were once considered
unclean well they're going to be coming to
Israel they're going to be coming to the temple of the Lord to worship God there and God is the one who sanctions for them to come
They are now cleansed. Okay, and obviously in Acts chapter 10 when he says well God has cleansed that kind of that common
He's not referring to the fact that all Gentiles are saved or something cleanse means like, you know, they're up for grabs
Go get them go preach the gospel to them. They're not unclean to you
Don't be someone who is just they'll be prejudiced against the Gentiles
You should seek to reach them
You're not an unclean person if you seek to reach the Gentiles, which by the way Jews think that we're we're unclean
You know and obviously they they forgot the memo here and they don't believe that but it's in the Bible
And so make sure you reject and are aware of Judaizers.
And you gotta be careful with these Judaizers.
I'm telling you, they're out there.
And they come under the guise of being a Christian.
They're all over social media too.
They'll talk about Jesus Christ and the Bible
and they're against the Roman Catholic Church
and all this stuff.
But when you actually see what they believe,
it's like, oh man, this person.
And in fact, a Judaizer interviewed me
I don't know, it was about a month ago or something.
But I didn't know he was, and he was like,
oh man, I really like your stuff that you're putting out.
Let me interview you.
I said, sure.
And then he said this in the interview,
he goes, now you would actually call me a Judaizer.
One of those, huh?
He said, what do you look like?
I don't know, he never showed his face.
He doesn't show his face.
He's like, you know, he just,
I don't know what he does.
He just doesn't show his, it's just only his voice.
But he's constantly pushing, you know, observing the Sabbath and the dietary laws and the keeping of the law in order to be saved.
Even though the Bible clearly says, therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law, right?
And so they're guilty of doing what the Pharisees did in Acts 15 telling people to obey the laws of Moses, you know, to be circumcised after the manner of Moses in order to be saved.
It's a false gospel.
Alright, look at verse number nine.
He says surely the Isle shall wait for me and the ships of Tarshish first to bring thy sons from far
Their silver and their gold with them unto the name of the Lord thy God and the Holy one of Israel because he hath glorified thee and
The sons of strangers shall build up the walls thy walls and their kings shall minister unto thee for in my wrath
I smote thee but in my favor have I had mercy on thee now go to Revelation 21 if you would Revelation 21
Because what we see here in these two verses is that the nations will bring their glory into the land of Israel
Okay, that's what it's basically saying here is that those from various parts of the world will bring their silver and their gold and
They're gonna glorify God. It says the sons of the stranger shall build up the walls or kings shall minister unto thee
And so forth so it's referring to those nations bringing up bringing their glory into the new Jerusalem look at Revelation 21 verse 24
It says in the nations of them, which are saved shall walk in the light of it and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and
honor into it
And the gates of it shall not be shut out all by day, for there shall be no night there, and they shall bring the glory and honor of the nations into it.
So obviously what Isaiah 60 is referring to is the fact that, you know, kings and those who have done gloriously, who are saved, they're going to bring that glory into the New Jerusalem.
They're going to glorify God by their exploits, by what they've done. That's what that's talking about there.
Isaiah chapter 60 Isaiah chapter 60 my mind keeps like trying to go back and
figure out what I was like lose I'm like oh man if I could just remember what it
was so sad it'll hit me like at midnight tonight look at verse 11
therefore thy gate shall be open continually as we saw in Revelation 21
they shall not be shut day nor night
that men may bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles
and that their kings may be brought.
For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee
shall perish, yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted."
So the way we can interpret verse 12 is, you know,
the Bible tells us that the wicked shall be turned into hell
and all nations to forget God.
So, you know, if you have entire nations
that are just collectively rejecting Jesus Christ,
You know as being God as being the Savior well, the Bible says that they're gonna perish and utterly be wasted, right?
But you know there's also another portion of Scripture. I believe it's towards the latter end of the book of Zechariah
That refers to the fact that you know during the millennial reign
If those who are inhabiting the world at that time,
because obviously during the millennial reign,
there's gonna be unsafe people.
It's not just saved in individuals.
We're gonna be there, we're saved,
we're gonna be in our regenerated bodies at that time.
But the world is also gonna be filled
with unregenerated people, okay?
Meaning they're not saved,
but they get to live a really long time,
and so they're obeying the laws of the land.
They're living in a world
where Jesus Christ is ruling and reigning from.
Well, the Bible also seems to indicate that if they don't make that pilgrimage to Jerusalem to worship God,
then God's not going to allow rain to descend upon that area for their crops.
So it's essentially referring to, you know, there's some like punishment, there's some consequences
to not making that pilgrimage and worshiping God. God's not going to bless that nation.
He says in verse 13,
glorious. Now verse 13 I often use this passage of scripture as a justification for Christmas trees
because it says these you know he's bringing the pine tree the fir tree into the house of God in
order to beautify the sanctuary right so you know all of these Judaizers who don't know what they're
talking they're constantly just like oh Christmas is pagan and Christmas trees are pagan so are you
He's putting fir trees, pine trees, all kinds of trees in the sanctuary of God, and he sees it as a decorative purpose in order to make it more beautiful.
I think that's a great verse to prove that, but I believe the main interpretation of verse 13 is that these trees are actually referring to people.
The glory of Lebanon, when it talks about the fir tree, the pine tree, it's referring to
people or nations, because often in the Bible, you know, there's instances where people are referred to or compared to as trees, right?
You know, the Bible talks about Christians being as a palm tree.
The Bible talks about, you know, that you're planted by the rivers of water bringing forth your fruit and your season,
whose leaf also shone out wither and whatsoever you do shall prosper.
Bible talks about the trees of life in Revelation chapter 22 that bear all
manner of fruit in those 12 seasons right and so you know the Christian life
can be compared to that tree and I believe when he's referring to the fur
tree the pine trees referring to just the glory of different nations of these
trees coming to the house of God to beautify the sanctuary and let me just
say this here's an immediate application to this let's beautify
the house of God by bringing all kinds of trees in here
What do I mean by that?
All kinds of ethnic groups.
Black, yellow, pink, purple, red, brown.
We got too many browns, actually.
Actually, let's take that brown down a little bit.
No, I'm just kidding.
What does it say?
It says it's going to beautify the house of God,
because it's God's will that all nations be saved.
Right, it's all it's God's will that every nation and tongue glorify God. I
Mean think about Revelation chapter 7 when the rapture takes place
You have everyone from every nation and tongue
There before the lamb, you know that pleases God. He wants Chinese people in heaven. He wants Indians in heaven. Yes
He wants you know, Iraq. He's in heaven Russians in heaven Mexicans in heaven
He wants them all why because at the end of the day they are his creation
He's not willing that any should perish, but they're all should come to repentance
You know when we get to heaven, it's not all gonna be you know, just white people
Some of you like I don't know that sounds like heaven, you know
Sound pretty good me
You know according to God he wants
to beautify the place of his sanctuary with all manner of trees,
all manner of people.
He wants the people in the United States of America to be saved,
but he also wants other nations to be saved.
And that's why he says, go there for and teach all nations.
You know, he wants us to reach all people, to preach the gospel to every creature.
It's not referring to your dog, it's not referring to your animals,
creatures just a created person.
He wants all manner of ethnicities to be saved.
And so we need to make sure that we don't become prejudice against a particular, you know, race or whatever, an ethnic group just because of their food or just because of, you know, how bad of a reputation their nation has.
We obviously view people as souls, right?
And those people are people from who Christ died.
His blood was shed to be able to redeem the Brazilian,
to redeem the Central American, to redeem the African,
to redeem the Japanese person, the Chinese person,
the Indian person, to redeem all nations.
You say, what about nations that just completely rejectable
to hell with them then?
Let it be anathema.
Okay, but telling a country to be anathema because they reject Christ isn't racism
It's basically us standing up for Christ and say well if you don't want our Christ our God then to hell with you
Because the wicked shall be turned into hell all nations to forget God, you know
God is extending his hand to all nations. He wants them to be saved
But if a nation collectively says we don't want Christ then to hell with you
Okay, because you are essentially spitting, you know, in the face of God by rejecting
that free gift that he gave through his son Jesus Christ.
And so, you know, God has no issue with sending Mexicans to hell.
He has no issue with sending Indians to hell. He has no issue with sending black people to hell
He will send every single ethnic group to hell on a handbasket if they reject Jesus Christ
Not because of their skin color, but because of what they believe or choose not to believe
plain and simple
And so they can scream racism all they could say it's a white man's religion all they want
But you know what no one's listening to that in hell though
All he hears in hell
Just burning for all of eternity, you know, you can promote you can promote BLM there if you want
You can promote your your political ideologies there all you want
But at the end of the day all God can hear is weeping and willing and that's enough teeth and guess what?
We can't see what color it is
Look at verse 14
He says the sons also
of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee, and all that they that despise thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet, and they shall call thee the city of the Lord, the Zion of the Holy One of Israel."
Now he's basically, he's addressing Judah, he said, those who despise thee.
And obviously we can point to, you know, the Babylonians, you can point to, for Israel, you can point to the Assyrians, you know, but there's also people in Israel that hated Israel.
There's people of Judah they hated Judah
There's people of Judah that persecuted the prophets and the Bible saying here that those that afflicted them
Are gonna come bending their knees unto them as well and we can see a fulfillment of that in Revelation chapter 3
We're not gonna go there, but that's what it's referring to look at verse 15
Whereas thou has been forsaken and hated so that no man went through thee
I will make thee an eternal Excellency a joy of many many generations now. Why is he saying that?
He's gonna make them a joy of many generations. I'll tell you why because they're not a joy right now
Right
It's a pretty simple interpretation there.
It's like when the Bible says in Hebrews chapter eight,
I will be to them a God and they shall be to me a people.
What does that tell us?
It's telling us that he's currently not their God
and they're currently not his people, right?
If he's saying I will be to them a God,
you can reverse that and say,
oh, that means that he's currently not their God.
If he was their God, that verse would make zero sense.
Yeah, but it also says that he's going to make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah.
Yeah, it's called the new covenant!
You ever thought about that?
It's not like some separate covenant from the new covenant.
I don't know what's wrong with these people. You know, it's just like, yeah, he's gonna make this covenant. Yeah, it's called the better testament.
Because they violated the old contract, there's a new contract and the stipulation is that they need to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.
So because here's the thing folks that new covenant. He says if they adhere to it
What's gonna happen? He will be to them a God and they shall be to my people well
Guess what when you believe on Jesus Christ? He becomes your God and he becomes your father and you become his people
It's not hard to understand. There's no like third covenant or something like that
Point that I'm making here is the fact that you know
In verse 15, he's making them a joy of many generations because they're currently not a joy
Verse 16 says thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles and shall suck the breast of kings and
Thou shalt know that I the Lord and the saviour and thy Saviour and thy Redeemer the mighty one of Jacob
No, it's because Israel's great brothers Jude is great. No, it's actually because God is great
One thing we people fail to understand especially Zionists is that you know
God blesses Israel in the Bible and he blesses Jude in the Bible because God is good
Not because they deserve it
And let me say this in the New Testament,
you know what God blesses us?
Not because necessarily there's anything inherently good
with us, it's because God is good.
We can put in all this effort to obey the Lord,
but let's just be honest,
we all fall short of the glory of God.
We all miss the mark.
So anything good that happens in our lives,
it's like glory to God because it's because of God's grace.
Because of God's mercy.
No, I think it's because like, I'm just built different.
I'm just I'm him
No, it's because he's him
He says thou shalt know that I the Lord am thy savior and thy
Redeemer he's saying when I do good things in your life, and I bless you and you receive abundance and
God blesses them with all types of blessings
overflowing
It should cause you to realize, man,
God is the one who did this.
God is the one who deserves the credit.
God is the one who deserves the glory.
He is my savior and my redeemer,
the mighty one of Jacob.
Look at verse 17, we're almost done here.
He says, for brass, I will bring gold.
And for iron I will bring silver and for wood brass
and for stones iron.
I will also make thy officer's peace
and thy exacter's righteousness.
So I believe what verse 17 is referring to here
is he's comparing these elements to people.
When he says brass, I will bring gold.
I think he's referring to the fact that, you know,
those who were of a lesser quality of leaders
because towards the latter end it says thy officers
and then I die in exacters.
Instead of giving them brass, people who are just of an inferior quality, he's going to replace them with gold.
Someone who is of iron, he will make them of silver.
He's basically referring to the fact that he's going to transfigure the quality of leadership.
And we can say that that is going to be a thing in the millennial reign.
That's when politics really matter.
is in that millennial reign, right?
Because we shall rule with the rod of iron.
It will be perfect judgment and justice
during that millennial reign.
You know, right now, the world is filled with brass,
it's filled with iron, it's filled with wood,
just these inferior leaders that can only do so much.
But there will come a time where the leadership
will transition in that millennial reign
and it'll be leadership of gold,
leadership of silver, leadership of brass, right?
And that's what he says, I will make that officer's peace and that exacter's righteousness.
Exacter's is someone who extorts people.
That's why I know it's referring to politicians.
Verse 18 says violence shall no more be heard in thy land wasting no dish nor destruction within thy borders
But thou shall call thy walls salvation and thy gates praise
So he's obviously referring to the fact that violence shall be removed from the land now this could be referring to the millennial rain
I'm not a hundred percent sure for sure. We can say that it happens in the new earth
But it's possible that violence might exist in the millennial rain just not at the volume that we have it today
because of the fact that in the millennial reign,
it's zero tolerance.
It's not a slap on the wrist, right?
And justice shall be executed immediately
once laws are broken.
That's what it means to rule with the rod of iron.
It means no exceptions.
And you know what?
When you enforce laws immediately,
when you enforce and enact punishments immediately,
people fear.
Before, you know, they fear and they don't want to commit that crime,
then maybe they were tempted to do so in times past,
because justice is being executed immediately.
And so, obviously, that will lower the crime rate right there.
But for sure, violence will just no longer be a thing in the New Earth
because of the fact that sin will be completely removed out of the picture at that point.
Look at verse 19 it says the sun shall be no more excuse me the sun shall be no more thy light by day
Neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee
But the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light and thy God thy glory the sun shall no more go down
Neither shall the moon withdraw itself for the Lord shall be thine everlasting light in the days of thy morning
shall be ended now this is of course referring to that new earth and
I do believe that the sun and the moon will, as it says in verse 20, will remain in the new earth,
excuse me, because of the fact that the Bible says in Genesis, I believe it's chapter 7,
that, you know, the seasons will not cease from then on out, and I believe the seasons will continue
to exist throughout history and throughout eternity. The difference is, is that in the new Jerusalem,
there's not going to be a need for a moon or sun.
because God is there.
So not only is he spiritually glorious,
you know, it seems to indicate and imply
that he's also
Physically glorious as well in other words his light will shine will outshine the Sun
It's like there's no need for the light
It's basically you know the Sun can be compared to a
Flashlight being lit outside when the Sun is shining right you know the Sun can be compared the literal Sun can be compared to
The glory of God and then the flashlight is like the Sun in the new heaven and earth
It's like there's no need for it
You can have a moon you can have a Sun but the God is the glory of it and so he will shine perpetually there
Pretty interesting look at verse 21. Thy people also shall be all righteous
Referring to the fact that they're currently not righteous
They shall inherit the land forever
The branch of my planting the work of my hands that I have that I may be glorified a little one shall become a thousand
And the small one a strong nation I the Lord will hasten it in his time
And essentially this is referring to the fact that Israel will be a righteous nation again one day
You know, they were a righteous nation in times past, but of course they've gone apostate,
they've gone reprobate, and, you know, obviously the current state of Israel right now is not
a righteous nation by any stretch of the imagination.
And so this promise is telling them, hey, one day you will be righteous again.
And it's not because, you know, they're going to see him in the sky and say, oh, I
nation of Israel that's in heaven who's died has been dead for thousands of
years you know they are righteous and they're gonna come into the land during
that millennial reign they're gonna inherit those promises you know and
therefore all Israel shall be saved okay why because iniquity shall be removed
from Jacob
And who is the iniquity? It's referring to the people that are being extracted from that physical nation
in order to have only saved people in the nation of Israel.
And so great stuff there. Let's pray. Father, we thank you so much for Isaiah 16, the promise of the New Earth.
And I know that...
That's way into the future. This is the distant future. It's so long from now Lord
But it's written here for us for our admonition and obviously it's intended
I believe it's intended to help us to be more heavenly minded more eternally minded
So that we are
Aware of our actions today of our service today. It's there to motivate us to stay in the fight to keep serving you
recognizing that our labor is not in vain and it's also there to just kind of
remind us that, you know, we shouldn't dig down our stakes too deep into this
world. We are pilgrims and sojourners in this world, we're strangers, we're just
passing through and so we need to make sure that we don't set our affections
on the things of this earth, that we look towards righteous things,
towards the righteous one and win souls to Christ and live righteously and
glorify you and let our light so shine, Lord.
And so we just constantly need that reminder Lord because we can soon forget and I pray that you bless this as we go on our way
Give us a great weekend Lord. We love you. We thank you pray this things in Jesus name. Amen