Tag: HIS Promises

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Isaiah 26, Come MY people enter your chambers!

Isa 26:1-2, IN THAT DAY THIS SONG WILL BE SUNG IN THE LAND OF JUDAH: “WE HAVE A STRONG CITY; GOD WILL APPOINT SALVATION FOR WALLS AND BULWARKS. OPEN THE GATES, That the righteous nation which keeps the truth may enter in.

This is the coming of the new city of Jerusalem; the city not made by man, but by GOD HIMSELF!

Rev 21:2, THEN I, JOHN, SAW THE HOLY CITY, NEW JERUSALEM, COMING DOWN OUT OF HEAVEN FROM GOD, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 

This is the same city that Abraham waited for.

Heb 11:10, FOR HE WAITED FOR THE CITY WHICH HAS FOUNDATIONS, WHOSE BUILDER AND MAKER IS GOD. 

Isa 26:3-4, YOU WILL KEEP HIM IN PERFECT PEACE, WHOSE MIND IS STAYED ON YOU, BECAUSE HE TRUSTS IN YOU. TRUST IN THE LORD FOREVER, FOR IN YAH, THE LORD, IS EVERLASTING STRENGTH.

Israel had times of peace, but they were watchful for the enemy. Now, with the LORD in their mist, PERFECT PEACE WILL REIGN!

Isa 26:19, Your dead shall live; Together with my dead body they shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in dust; For your dew is like the dew of herbs, And the earth shall cast out the dead. 

It’s interesting the Isaiah now has a vision prior to the great tribulation; the rapture of the church is seen here! 1Thes 4:13-16

1Th 4:16, For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. AND THE DEAD IN CHRIST WILL RISE FIRST. 

Isa 26:20, Come, my people, enter your chambers, And shut your doors behind you; Hide yourself, AS IT WERE, FOR A LITTLE MOMENT, UNTIL THE INDIGNATION IS PAST. 

The bride will be hidden from the tribulation which will come to the world!

Rev 3:10, BECAUSE YOU HAVE KEPT MY COMMAND TO PERSEVERE, I ALSO WILL KEEP YOU FROM THE HOUR OF TRIAL WHICH SHALL COME UPON THE WHOLE WORLD, TO TEST THOSE WHO DWELL ON THE EARTH. 

Isa 26:21, FOR BEHOLD, THE LORD COMES OUT OF HIS PLACE TO PUNISH THE INHABITANTS OF THE EARTH FOR THEIR INIQUITY; THE EARTH WILL ALSO DISCLOSE HER BLOOD, AND WILL NO MORE COVER HER SLAIN. 

Re-read Isaiah 24 & 25, the great tribulation! AS FOR ME AND MY HOUSE WE WILL SERVE THE LORD; FOR WE DON’T WANT ANY PART OF THE TRIAL WHICH IS TO COME!

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Isaiah 21, What HE has said will come to pass!

Isa 21:1-2, THE BURDEN AGAINST THE WILDERNESS OF THE SEA. As whirlwinds in the South pass through, SO IT COMES FROM THE DESERT, FROM A TERRIBLE LAND. A DISTRESSING VISION IS DECLARED TO ME; The treacherous dealer deals treacherously, And the plunderer plunders. Go up, O ELAM! Besiege, O MEDIA! All its sighing I have made to cease.

Babylon is called the wilderness of the sea because the great plains of the land! Also Elam and Media are ancient names for modern day IRAN! 

Isa 21:9, … “BABYLON IS FALLEN, IS FALLEN! AND ALL THE CARVED IMAGES OF HER GODS HE HAS BROKEN TO THE GROUND.

Babylon did fall to the Medes, but in the near future will fall again! Rev 14:8, 18:2

Isa 21:10, Oh, my threshing and the grain of my floor! THAT WHICH I HAVE HEARD FROM THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL, I HAVE DECLARED TO YOU. 

Isaiah tells Israel what the LORD has declared to him, GOD gave him a vision of the future. SOMEONE ONCE TOLD ME THAT GOD DOESN’T KNOW THE FUTURE; OBVIOUSLY THAT PERSON NEVER READ SCRIPTURE!

Isa 46:9-10, … FOR I AM GOD, AND THERE IS NO OTHER; I AM GOD, AND THERE IS NONE LIKE ME, DECLARING THE END FROM THE BEGINNING, AND FROM ANCIENT TIMES THINGS THAT ARE NOT YET DONE, SAYING, ‘MY COUNSEL SHALL STAND, AND I WILL DO ALL MY PLEASURE,’ 

Isa 21:13-14, The burden against Arabia. IN THE FOREST IN ARABIA YOU WILL LODGE, O YOU TRAVELING COMPANIES OF DEDANITES. O INHABITANTS OF THE LAND OF TEMA, BRING WATER TO HIM WHO IS THIRSTY; WITH THEIR BREAD THEY MET HIM WHO FLED.

Isaiah sees refugees fleeing Arabia thirsty and hungry hiding in the forest.

Isa 21:16-17, FOR THUS THE LORD HAS SAID TO ME: “WITHIN A YEAR, …, all the glory of Kedar will fail; and the remainder of the number of archers, the mighty men of the people of Kedar, will be diminished; FOR THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL HAS SPOKEN IT.”

Remember, GOD is not a man that HE should lie; if HE said it then it shall come to pass!

Eze 12:25, FOR I AM THE LORD. I SPEAK, AND THE WORD WHICH I SPEAK WILL COME TO PASS; IT WILL NO MORE BE POSTPONED; FOR IN YOUR DAYS, O REBELLIOUS HOUSE, I WILL SAY THE WORD AND PERFORM IT,” SAYS THE LORD GOD.’ ” 

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Isaiah 19, Wait and see, for it will surely come to pass!

Isa 19:1-2, The burden against Egypt. BEHOLD, THE LORD RIDES ON A SWIFT CLOUD, AND WILL COME INTO EGYPT; The idols of Egypt will totter at His presence, And the heart of Egypt will melt in its midst. “I will set Egyptians against Egyptians; Everyone will fight against his brother, And everyone against his neighbor, City against city, kingdom against kingdom.

As the LORD struck the land of Egypt with the 10 plagues, HE will strike them again!

Isa 19:3-4, The spirit of Egypt will fail in its midst; I will destroy their counsel, And they will consult the idols and the charmers, The mediums and the sorcerers. And the Egyptians I will give Into the hand of a CRUEL MASTER, And A FIERCE KING WILL RULE OVER THEM,” Says the Lord, the LORD of hosts.

Often the LORD strikes a nation by destroying their wise counsel and by giving a bad leader! This looks like the United States today!

Isa 19:14-15, The LORD has mingled a perverse spirit in her midst; And they have caused Egypt TO ERR IN ALL HER WORK, As a drunken man staggers in his vomit. NEITHER WILL THERE BE ANY WORK FOR EGYPT…

Egypt’s economy will be completely crushed, and the fear of the LORD will come upon them!

Isa 19:20b, …for they will cry to the LORD because of the oppressors, and HE WILL SEND THEM A SAVIOR AND A MIGHTY ONE, AND HE WILL DELIVER THEM. 

Egypt, currently a Islamic country, will come to know the LORD!

Isa 19:21, THEN THE LORD WILL BE KNOWN TO EGYPT, AND THE EGYPTIANS WILL KNOW THE LORD IN THAT DAY, and will make sacrifice and offering; yes, they will make a vow to the LORD and perform it. 

NOT ONLY EGYPT, BUT ALSO ASSYRIA!

Isa 19:24-25, IN THAT DAY ISRAEL WILL BE ONE OF THREE WITH EGYPT AND ASSYRIA—A BLESSING IN THE MIDST OF THE LAND, WHOM THE LORD OF HOSTS SHALL BLESS, SAYING, “BLESSED IS EGYPT MY PEOPLE, AND ASSYRIA THE WORK OF MY HANDS, AND ISRAEL MY INHERITANCE.”

This may seem impossible today, but wait, just wait; for it will surely take place! HE KNOWS THE END FROM THE VERY BEGINNING!

Hab 2:3, FOR THE VISION IS YET FOR AN APPOINTED TIME; BUT AT THE END IT WILL SPEAK, AND IT WILL NOT LIE. THOUGH IT TARRIES, WAIT FOR IT; BECAUSE IT WILL SURELY COME, IT WILL NOT TARRY.

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Proverbs 25, The volume of the book is written of ME!

Pro 25:1, These also are proverbs of Solomon which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied: 

Solomon was the wises man, beside JESUS, to have walked this earth, Yet not all of what he wrote was preserved.  Hezekiah, added other proverbs of Solomon that to this collection.

1Ki 4:30-32, Thus Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the men of the East and all the wisdom of Egypt. For he was wiser than all men… He spoke three thousand proverbs, and his songs were one thousand and five.

Pro 25:2, IT IS THE GLORY OF GOD TO CONCEAL A MATTER, BUT THE GLORY OF KINGS IS TO SEARCH OUT A MATTER. 

GOD conceals a matter, not to keep us from finding out, but that we would search out its secrets! It’s HIS way to draw us closer to HIM! It is said that if we search we can find JESUS in every page in the OLD testament!

Heb 10:7, THEN I SAID, ‘BEHOLD, I HAVE COME—IN THE VOLUME OF THE BOOK IT IS WRITTEN OF ME—TO DO YOUR WILL, O GOD.’

Rom 11:33, OH, THE DEPTH OF THE RICHES BOTH OF THE WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE OF GOD! HOW UNSEARCHABLE ARE HIS JUDGMENTS AND HIS WAYS PAST FINDING OUT!

Pro 25:11-12, A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold In settings of silver. Like an earring of gold and an ornament of fine gold Is a wise rebuker to an obedient ear.

The right word at the right time has the power to heal, strengthen, to guide, and rescue!

Isa 50:4, “THE LORD GOD HAS GIVEN ME THE TONGUE OF THE LEARNED, THAT I SHOULD KNOW HOW TO SPEAK A WORD IN SEASON TO HIM WHO IS WEARY. HE AWAKENS ME MORNING BY MORNING, HE AWAKENS MY EAR TO HEAR AS THE LEARNED. 

Pro 25:25, As cold water to a weary soul, SO IS GOOD NEWS FROM A FAR COUNTRY. 

Hearing good news from a far away family member is great for the heart, Yet the best news comes from the LORD! HE HAS PAID THE PRICE FOR OUR SINS, AND HAS GIVEN US A WAY TO THE FATHER! IT’S A FREE GIFT, TAKE IT IS YOURS IF YOU WANT IT!

Joh 1:12, BUT AS MANY AS RECEIVED HIM, TO THEM HE GAVE THE RIGHT TO BECOME CHILDREN OF GOD, TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN HIS NAME: 

Are you HIS? Call out to HIM for HE is waiting on you; for the time is near and the door is about to close!

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Proverbs 23, Life is short, and Eternity is long!

Pro 23:1-3, When you sit down to eat with a ruler, Consider carefully what is before you; And put a knife to your throat If you are a man given to appetite. Do not desire his delicacies, FOR THEY ARE DECEPTIVE FOOD.

If a rich man has placed a banquet before you consider, why is he doing this? The rich do not give away their favors for free, but want something more valuable from you!

Dan 1:8, BUT DANIEL PURPOSED IN HIS HEART THAT HE WOULD NOT DEFILE HIMSELF WITH THE PORTION OF THE KING’S DELICACIES, NOR WITH THE WINE WHICH HE DRANK;…

Daniel would have ruined his relationship with the living GOD by eating defiled food offered to idols and demons!  

Pro 23:9, DO NOT SPEAK IN THE HEARING OF A FOOL, FOR HE WILL DESPISE THE WISDOM OF YOUR WORDS. 

A while back I was talking to some co-workers of mine about the LORD and HIS word. One of them mocked me over and over again for several weeks! HE was a fool!

Pro 23:13-14, DO NOT WITHHOLD CORRECTION FROM A CHILD, FOR IF YOU BEAT HIM WITH A ROD, HE WILL NOT DIE. YOU SHALL BEAT HIM WITH A ROD, AND DELIVER HIS SOUL FROM HELL.

If you love your child then correct him/her with the rod of correction! BUT IF YOU REFUSE, DON’T WORRY FOR THE STATE PENITENTIARY WILL CORRECT HIM FOR YOU!

Pro 23:17-18, DO NOT LET YOUR HEART ENVY SINNERS, BUT BE ZEALOUS FOR THE FEAR OF THE LORD ALL THE DAY; FOR SURELY THERE IS A HEREAFTER, AND YOUR HOPE WILL NOT BE CUT OFF.

The world says, “LIFE IS SHORT, ENJOY IT”, but HIS word tells us, “ETERNITY IS LONG PREPARE FOR IT”! Don’t envy sinners for their eternal reward will be found in the pit! Seek the LORD and live!

Isa 38:18, NLT, For the dead cannot praise YOU; they cannot raise their voices in praise. Those who go down to the grave can no longer hope in YOUR faithfulness. 

Rev 20:15, And ANYONE NOT FOUND WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE WAS CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE. 

IS YOUR NAME WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE?

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Psalm 135, the GOD of the living!

Psa 135:1-2, Praise the LORD! Praise the name of the LORD; Praise HIM, O you servants of the LORD! You who stand in the house of the LORD, In the courts of the house of our God,

The LORD GOD is worthy to be praised, is worthy to be glorified! HIS name is above all names!

Php 2:9-10, Therefore God also has highly exalted HIM AND GIVEN HIM THE NAME WHICH IS ABOVE EVERY NAME, THAT AT THE NAME OF JESUS EVERY KNEE SHOULD BOW, OF THOSE IN HEAVEN, AND OF THOSE ON EARTH, AND OF THOSE UNDER THE EARTH, 

Psa 135:3-4, Praise the LORD, for the LORD is good; Sing praises to His name, for it is pleasant. FOR THE LORD HAS CHOSEN JACOB FOR HIMSELF, ISRAEL FOR HIS SPECIAL TREASURE.

HE has chosen Israel, not because they deserve it, but because HE loves them and because of the promise HE made to Abraham!

Deu 7:7-8, The LORD did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any other people, for you were the least of all peoples; but because the LORD loves you, and BECAUSE HE WOULD KEEP THE OATH WHICH HE SWORE TO YOUR FATHERS,…

Psa 138:2, … FOR YOU HAVE MAGNIFIED YOUR WORD ABOVE ALL YOUR NAME. 

The name of the LORD is to be revered among men, BUT THE LORD MAGNIFIES HIS PROMISES ABOVE HIS NAME! FOR HE IS FAITHFUL AND CAN NOT LIE!

Tit 1:2, IN HOPE OF ETERNAL LIFE WHICH GOD, WHO CANNOT LIE, PROMISED BEFORE TIME BEGAN, 

IF HE SAID IT THEN YOU CAN COUNT ON IT!

Isa 14:24, The LORD of hosts has sworn, saying, “SURELY, AS I HAVE THOUGHT, SO IT SHALL COME TO PASS, AND AS I HAVE PURPOSED, SO IT SHALL STAND: 

Psa 135:5, For I know that the LORD is great, AND OUR LORD IS ABOVE ALL gods. 

It is sad to see people lifting up their god made by their own hands? IT’S A DEAD OBJECT MADE BY SPIRITUALLY DEAD PEOPLE!

Psa 135:16-18, They have mouths, but they do not speak; Eyes they have, but they do not see; They have ears, but they do not hear; Nor is there any breath in their mouths. THOSE WHO MAKE THEM ARE LIKE THEM; SO IS EVERYONE WHO TRUSTS IN THEM.

Trust in the LORD who made heaven and earth, who created you and me! HE IS FAITHFUL AND KEEPS HIS PROMISES! HE IS THE GOD OF THE LIVING NOT OF THE DEAD!

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Psalm 119:129-144, HIS word is pure!

Pe פ, 129-136

Psa 119:129-130, YOUR TESTIMONIES ARE WONDERFUL; Therefore my soul keeps them. The entrance of Your words gives light; IT GIVES UNDERSTANDING TO THE SIMPLE.

A name given to the coming MESSIAH, JESUS is WONDERFUL (Isaiah 9:6). For JESUS is wonderful, and HIS word a light to our path!

Isa 9:6, For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. AND HIS NAME WILL BE CALLED WONDERFUL, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Psa 19:7, The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul; The testimony of the LORD is sure, MAKING WISE THE SIMPLE;

Psa 119:133, DIRECT MY STEPS by Your word, And let no iniquity have dominion over me. 

HE directs those who trust in HIM and HIS promises! Remember, you can be led away by your feelings, lust, friends, circumstances etc. HE wants to lead us by HIS word JESUS!

Pro 3:5-6, Trust in the LORD with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths.

Tsadde צ,  137-144

Psa 119:137-138, RIGHTEOUS ARE YOU, O LORD, And upright are Your judgments. Your testimonies, which You have commanded, Are RIGHTEOUS AND VERY FAITHFUL.

HIS way is perfect, and HIS understanding is without fail! HE knows all and sees all! HE is faithful to HIS promises for us found in scripture! Trust in the LORD for HE can’t lie!

Num 23:19, “GOD IS NOT A MAN, THAT HE SHOULD LIE, Nor a son of man, that He should repent. HAS HE SAID, AND WILL HE NOT DO? Or HAS HE SPOKEN, AND WILL HE NOT MAKE IT GOOD? 

Psa 119:140, YOUR WORD IS VERY PURE; THEREFORE YOUR SERVANT LOVES IT. 

For those that know their GOD, HIS word is pure for HE is HOLY, HOLY, HOLY!

1Pe 2:2  as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby, 

Your either guided by the cares of this world or by HIS word? We need to choose; remember HE is faithful and can’t lie! Trust in HIM!

Pro 30:5  Every word of God is pure; He is a shield to those who put their trust in Him. 

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Psalm 119:49-64, Examine your ways!

Zayin ז, 49-56

Psa 119:49-50, Remember the word to Your servant, Upon which You have CAUSED ME TO HOPE. THIS IS MY COMFORT in my affliction, For Your word has given me life.

HIS word cannot be broken, If HE has said it then it shall come to pass! This is our hope!

Num 23:19, “GOD IS NOT A MAN, THAT HE SHOULD LIE, NOR A SON OF MAN, THAT HE SHOULD REPENT. HAS HE SAID, AND WILL HE NOT DO? OR HAS HE SPOKEN, AND WILL HE NOT MAKE IT GOOD?

David boldly asks the LORD to fulfill HIS promise that HE has spoken to him!

2Sa 7:25, “Now, O LORD God, the word which You have spoken concerning Your servant and concerning his house, ESTABLISH IT FOREVER AND DO AS YOU HAVE SAID. 

HIS word is our hope, HIS word is our guide in life! But, if we don’t read and know exactly what HE has promised how can we have hope?

Psa 119:54-56, Your statutes have been my songs In the house of my pilgrimage. I remember Your name in the night, O LORD, And I keep Your law. This has become mine, Because I kept Your precepts.

The LORD are in his thoughts day and night. HIS word has become part of himself, for his faith and hope can be found in the word!

Rom 10:17, So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. 

Heth ח , 57-64

Psa 119:59-60, I THOUGHT ABOUT MY WAYS, And turned my feet to Your testimonies. I MADE HASTE, AND DID NOT DELAY TO KEEP YOUR COMMANDMENTS.

Hag 1:7, THUS SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS: “CONSIDER YOUR WAYS! 

If we were to examine ourselves through the lens of HIS word we fall short! Are there things we must give up, Pride, dependence on your own strength, and wisdom?  Are we doing things that we shouldn’t? Examine yourself!

2Co 13:5, Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. DO YOU NOT KNOW YOURSELVES, THAT JESUS CHRIST IS IN YOU?—UNLESS INDEED YOU ARE DISQUALIFIED. 

Lam 3:40, Let us search out and examine our ways, AND TURN BACK TO THE LORD;