GOD DEMANDS ALLEGIANCE SOLELY TO HIM TO THE END
We are clearly reaching the end of history when Christ will return to earth. Anti-semitism as well as Christian persecution is on the rise even in Christian countries...
Therefore hear the word of the LORD, you scoffers who rule this people in Jerusalem. You boast, “We have entered into a covenant with death, with the realm of the dead we have made an agreement. When an overwhelming scourge sweeps by, it cannot touch us, for we have made a lie our refuge and falsehood[b] our hiding place.”
So this is what the Sovereign LORD says: “See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone for a sure foundation; the one who relies on it will never be stricken with panic. I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the plumb line; hail will sweep away your refuge, the lie, and water will overflow your hiding place.
Your covenant with death will be annulled; your agreement with the realm of the dead will not stand. When the overwhelming scourge sweeps by, you will be beaten down by it. As often as it comes it will carry you away; morning after morning, by day and by night, it will sweep through.” The understanding of this message will bring sheer terror. The bed is too short to stretch out on, the blanket too narrow to wrap around you.
The LORD will rise up as he did at Mount Perazim, he will rouse himself as in the Valley of Gibeon— to do his work, his strange work, and perform his task, his alien task. 22 Now stop your mocking, or your chains will become heavier; the Lord, the LORD Almighty, has told me of the destruction decreed against the whole land. ISAIAH 28：14－22.
In the passage quoted at the beginning, God’s wise plans are being contrasted with the schemes of foolish human leaders. The issue here is whether the leaders of Judah will rely on Egypt or on the Lord in the face of a growing threat posed by the ever-increasing power of Assyria, whose invasion of Judah was imminent and from whom Jerusalem would not be able to escape, but for a miracle.
Isaiah’s point in the message was the same as in the past: If ungodly rulers in Jerusalem thought God’s judgment would pass them by as it had with their ancestors, they were mistaken. At Perazim God gave the victory to David by breaking through his enemies like a bursting flood and also at Gibeon He defeated Israel’s enemies by raining down hailstones on them from heaven because of their allegiance.
Isaiah argues that God’s foremost desire is to lead His people to victory, if the leaders stop their scoffing and mocking. However, if they do not listen, God must turn His judgment with hail and flood on His own people and what is more, He will use their enemies as His instrument to punish them. While God demolishes all that is false and distasteful from Zion, His ultimate purpose is not to destroy but rebuild and renew her:
I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone for a sure foundation; the one who relies on it will never be stricken with panic.
In other words, God will leave a faithful remnant who continues to solely trust in Him against the tide of the world, and who collectively represents all those faithful to Him to the end of the world.
By Christ’s First Coming, the prophecy:
He will be a holy place; for both Israel and Judah he will be a stone that causes people to stumble and a rock that makes them fall. And for the people of Jerusalem he will be a trap and a snare. Many of them will stumble; they will fall and be broken, they will be snared and captured (Is.8:14-15) ,
has been fulfilled.
Christ Himself also proclaimed:
…I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to turn “a man against his father… – a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.” Anyone who loves their father or mother more than me is not worthy of me…Whoever does not take up their cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it (Ma.10:34-39),and the prophesied bipolarization between the faithful and the compromisers is currently spreading globally.
We are clearly reaching the end of history when Christ will return to earth. Anti-semitism as well as Christian persecution is on the rise even in Christian countries such as the US, UK and the European Continent.
In a recent video, Rabbi Pinchas Winston referred to the benefits of making aliyah for the Jews before the Messiah sends out the final call, and noted the recent anti-Semitic mass shooting in Jersey City on 10 Dec. as an “end-of-days wake-up call for Jews to come home to Israel” and he explained:
Until recently, history went along logically like a movie that needs a long time to set up the conclusion. As the movie comes near to the end, the plot gets more dramatic because it is wrapping up the story. Everything in the news is dramatic because we are getting close to the end. Anyone with the eyes to see understands that what is happening now, every detail, every attack against the Jews, everything that happens to Israel, actually began hundreds of years ago. We are at the wrap up, the end. The pace is picking up.
Henceforth, all believers of God in the Bible must be alerted not to compromise with this world’s schemes and alliances, or even peace agreements, as Isaiah warned.
Since Pope Francis met with an imam and signed a covenant on 8th Feb. 2019, the establishment of a one-world religion seems to have accelerated. Mark Biltz, the author of “Decoding the Antichrist and End Times” exposes how the Antichrist will use a one-world religion, political globalism and frightening new technology to accomplish his goal of worldwide dominance, all three of which he claims are beginning to converge in our days.
The Jerusalem Municipality adopted the words of Isaiah: ‘my house will be called a house of prayer for all nations’ as a “reflection of the city’s vision and aspirations to be a center for all cultures, faiths and nations on earth” and the city’s modernised old train station provides a great atmosphere, welcoming every visitor from all over the world with large posters depicting people of different religions unifying in bowing to visitors. Source
