ISAIAH 1: Explanatory Foreword.

FOREWORD TO ISAIAH ONE.
The prophet’s vision and prophecies encompass all that Jehovah, or JAH’S view of the fallen, but divided State of Israel. More importantly he focuses on the southern kingdom of Judah ( with Benjamin) and its hallowed capital of Jerusalem. God speaks through the mouth and pen of Isaiah to apostate Judah fallen into idolatry, and wicked perversion. Nauseated over the impenitent descendants of Jacob and David he expresses his frustrated fury over the depraved degradation of its citizenry. Particularly is he indignant over the hypocritical false piety and the worship of worship.

However, he in wrath remembers mercy because of his everlasting merciful kindness and restrains his full retribution. Why? Because of the faithful remnant who adamantly refuse to worship the cult of Baal and faithfully adhere to the true God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. References: Isaiah 1:9; 18; 25-27; 6:10.

The latter’s name was changed by the angel to Israel and his son Joseph preserved his descendants in Egypt, and 430 years to the day Moses led them in them away to the Promised Land they now occupy. The general description of Judah’s abject immorality is interlaced with the hope of mercy and redemption under the condition of their repentance. The darkness of Jerusalem’s doom hovers like Damocles’ Sword held by a hair’s breadth and it seems that the rank impenitence of the stiff-necked people will bring inevitable judgment. Seeing no hope of that happening the tone of mercy becomes an intermittent, spasmodic recurring theme. . Thus three future events are foreshadowed:

1. the Return of the remnant from seventy years Babylonian captivity led by Ezra and Nehemiah;
2. the arrival of Christ, the prophesied Immanuel, or First Advent’s efficacious blood covenant, (v 18); and
3. the Second Coming of Christ, the Messiah, to reign in Jerusalem: a post apocalyptic event of the end days.

Isaiah 1:
Isaiah’s visionary insight into the corruption of Judah & Jerusalem.
1 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the Lord hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.

3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.

4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.

5 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
6 From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.

7 Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.

9 Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.

10 Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.

11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.

12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?

13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.

14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.

15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;

17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:

20 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

21 How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.

22 Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:

23 Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

24 Therefore saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:

25 And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:

26 And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.

27 Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.

28 And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the Lord shall be consumed.

29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.

30 For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.

31 And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.

*[Extract of Holy Scripture KJV from biblegateway.com Public Domain]

FOOTNOTES:
Samaria: describes the region occupied by ten of the twelve tribes of Israel. Confusing to the reader can be the three names used to describe them: Israel, Ephraim, and Samaria. Samaria is the region (between Judea and Galilee), occupied by the rebel ten tribes that had ceded from the kingdom of Israel after Solomon’s death leaving a split kingdom of Israel in the north and Judah in the south with neighbouring Benjamin. The two books of Kings and the other two books of Chronicles describe the constant conflicts and incessant civil wars between the north and the south. Samaria is also the name of the city.

Foreword, Chapter Heading, Chapter Sub-Headings, and Footnotes by John David.
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ISAIAH 1: Explanatory Foreword.

ISAIAH 4: Explanatory Foreword.

FOREWORD TO ISAIAH 4.
Verses 1-4 speak of the judgment that came particularly under Ahaz and then Manasseh, who passed the point of no return. But the rest of the chapter envisions the post apocalypse period when, with the Second Coming of Christ he will reign in Zion. This is an intermittent theme throughout the book in which the reader continually gets six glimpses of Jerusalem, one in present real time of Isaiah’s writing, and six time periods of the future.

Isaiah’s divine insight into the future often sees both the godly remnant and God’s wrathful purge of past nations which have opposed the Semite descendants of Jacob over the centuries. E.g.: he envisions the remnant that would remain with Jeremiah after the final siege of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar the Babylonian king. (Cp. 2 Chronicles 36:17-21) In wrath upon the dissolute city of Zion Yahweh preserves some of the faithful as he did in the time of Noah and the Flood. Zion, its city and temple were shallow shells without the righteous. Thus, even during his vengeance against the wicked he preserves a tenth of Judah maintaining the Messianic BRANCH by his promise to David.

Six glimpses of Jerusalem describing Judah’s capital are not necessarily in any chronological sequence and there can be more than one time frame in a given chapter. This together with the array of unknown geographical references can be quite distracting from the main theme of each segment.

The six glimpses of Jerusalem given by Isaiah in the sixty six chapters of his book are:-

1. The present at the time of writing under one of the four kings: Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Josephus thinks Isaiah was martyred in King Manasseh’s reign, the fifth but most evil of all Judah’s monarchs.
2. Immediately after the city’s sacking by Babylon.
3. Seventy years later when Cyrus allows the return of the captives to the city.
4. Jerusalem hundreds of years later with the First Advent: Christ’s birth.
5. Jerusalem in the modern day ingathering of the Diaspora in 19th-20th C
6. Jerusalem after the apocalyptic judgment of the nations at the Second Coming of Christ.

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Isaiah 4
Isaiah predicts high war casualties will deplete the male generation.

1 And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.
2 In that day shall the branch of the Lord be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel.
3 And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem:
4 When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.
5 And the Lord will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence.
6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the day time from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.
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FOOTNOTE
Isaiah 4:1. Under King Ahaz and then Hezekiah’s son Manasseh their evils led to a significant imbalance of the two genders. Abductions by foreign powers, including the raids of the northern Kingdom on Jerusalem, and massive casualties in battle were responsible for the inevitable reduction of the male population. Thus ‘seven women shall take hold of one man’, reflects Jerusalem’s dilemma envisioned by the prophet, if not witnessed in real time.

ISAIAH 4: Explanatory Foreword.

ISAIAH 3: Explanatory Foreword

FOREWORD TO ISAIAH THREE (by John David) –
Isaiah predicts the imminent destruction of Jerusalem & Judah.
Isaiah describes in his discerning vision a Jerusalem abandoned to wickedness and corruption with Judah’s governors acting with the folly of a child’s behavior. Law and order is imploding with immorality. Abject women rule in pomp and pride, consumed with the vanities of fashion.

Men have willingly abandoned their male lechery lusting instead for one another. Sodomy is prolific and the other gender have painted themselves like Jezebel in the vanity of attracting their own kind. On the other hand, the remnant of remaining god-fearing disciples of Yahweh are oppressed and persecuted for their peculiar faith by the apostate descendants of David.

Healthy heterogeneity has been exchanged for homogeneous iniquity pervading the city and its environs. The righteous remnant are seen as a threat because of their peculiarities. One wonders what Isaiah would say to any modern day city in his preaching if he were alive today.

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CHAPTER THREE.
1 For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water.
2 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,
3 The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.

4 And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.
5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.
6 When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand:

7 In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people.
8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of his glory.
9 The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.

10 Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
11 Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
12 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

13 The Lord standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people.
14 The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
15 What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord God of hosts.

16 Moreover the Lord saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:
17 Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will discover their secret parts.
18 In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon,

19 The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
20 The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,
21 The rings, and nose jewels,

22 The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins,
23 The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.
24 And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.

25 Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.
26 And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.

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ISAIAH 3: Explanatory Foreword

ISAIAH: Explanatory Preface.

PREFACE: by John David
The book of the prophet Isaiah is a problem to the first reader without some prefatory comments to orient the reader not used to its unusual style. The difficulties of language and parlance are explained hereunder:

1. The imagery, and oblique allusions to the main historical actors of the time;
2. The combined influence of the Hebrew language and the later Septuagint’s Greek manuscripts consulted;
3. The metaphors, metonyms, and pseudonyms without the reader’s historical knowledge from the books of Samuel, Kings and Chronicles can be puzzling or even an enigma;

4. The allegories and similes can, at times, be off-putting, because they are based upon the historical scenario of Israel’s surrounding environs;

Considering the above factors the reader may find the text abstract and without much further thought miss the treasures of the prophecies, the promises, their later fulfilment, and glorious description of the end times which are corroborate with other major and minor prophetical books of Scripture end times’ predictions on the second coming of Christ, called the Second Advent.

The book’s historical sequence in prophecy, promise and narration is consistent and cohesive. However, it can be difficult to discern between Isaiah’s own convictions and his direct revelations from God.

Seven centuries before Christ’s birth Jehovah was about to remove the ten rebel idolatrous tribes from the north alluded to under the pseudonyms of Israel, Samaria, or Ephraim. The two apostate but opposing segments of Solomon’s kingdom of David were Judah (& Benjamin) in the south, and the ten confederate rebel tribes of Israel in the north. Despite faithful prophets over multiple decades who had warned them they were both ripe for destruction and captivity by Syria, Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, the Medo-Persian usurping empire and the sufferings of increasing civil war between each other.
John David

ISAIAH: Explanatory Preface to the Book

ISAIAH 2: Foreword

Isaiah’s future hope: the 1st & 2nd coming of Christ.
Having described Jerusalem’s decadence and its self-inflicted woes, God’s voice through Isaiah his mouthpiece, calls Jerusalem a wayward woman. Albeit, the prophet sees Jerusalem through the eyes of the distant future. He encompasses both the First Advent and the Second Coming of Christ (the Second Advent) to planet Earth. Prior to the second advent he foresees the apocalyptic judgment of Earth by a wrathful God acting in vengeance for its endemic wickedness and rejection of his entreaties offering merciful forgiveness to genuine penitents. Whether from prophets, apostles, evangelists or saints the resistance was impenetrable.

Immanuel, Christ would first come as a Lamb, and then return at the end of the age as King of Kings to rule and reign with a rod of iron from Zion. The millennial reign of Jesus Christ would be from Jerusalem where he is due to return on the Mount of Olives, from which he ascended not Galilee as the 4th C amended Matthew 26; 28; Mark 14; & 16 purport. As Luke, John, and Acts declare: His passion, resurrection, and ascension was not from Galilee’s unnamed mountain, but Jerusalem near Bethany on the Mt. Olivet. The major prophets and the minor prophets agree with John and Luke that the second advent return of Immanuel will be to Jerusalem. Importantly and precisely Zechariah 14 correlates with Luke where (in Acts 1) before the apostles the angel heralds the eventual returning descent of Christ to the very same Mount of Olives. This made the apostles of Christ beholden to proclaim that same message as harbingers of the Second Coming.
John David
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ISAIAH 2: Explanatory Foreword

EXPLAINING ISAIAH: A PROLOGUE

PROLOGUE TO THE BOOK OF ISAIAH.

Isaiah the prophet of Judah, was born at the end of King Uzziah’s reign. He was to serve the Lord as His main spokesman through the last days of Uzziah and the ensuing reigns of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah before his rumoured martyrdom by Manasseh, righteous Hezekiah’s wicked son, whose idolatrous evil acts exceeded Ahaz, his grandfather.

Isaiah’s call to the ministry seems to have been precipitated by his vision in an encounter with God in chapter six when he is anointed with fire and appointed to be the prophet of God in Jerusalem. Sinful Isaiah is purged, anointed and commissioned to be His spokesman to a rebellious populace, whose ears would be shut to his entreaties. The Lord’s seraphic messenger forewarns him that in the final days of Jerusalem only a tenth of the people would remain after successive attacks invasions, sieges, and wars by Samaria ; Egypt; Syria; Assyria, Ammon; Edom; and Babylon .Isaiah, however, can use ‘Ephraim’ to denote the tribe, territory, or area given by Joshua to the 12 tribes of Israel after crossing Jordan River to first settle the Promised Land of Canaan. It is important for the reader to make these distinctions which the text, syntax, scene and footnotes help determine.

EXPLAINING ISAIAH: A PROLOGUE

BIBLE HIGHLIGHTS FOR STUDENTS: Jerusalem’s last days.

THE LAST DAYS OF THE OLD KINGDOM OF ISRAEL.
Judah’s last days under puppet kings of Egypt & Babylon.
2 Chronicles 36 (KJV-Public domain).
1. Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father’s stead in Jerusalem .
2 Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
3 And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and condemned the land in an hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
4 And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and turned his name to Jehoiakim. And Necho took Jehoahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt.
5 Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord his God.
6 Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
7 Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of the Lord to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.
8 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.
9 Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord.
10 And when the year was expired, king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of the Lord, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.
11 Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
12 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord his God, and humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the mouth of the Lord.
13 And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto the Lord God of Israel.
14 Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the Lord which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.
15 And the Lord God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:
16 But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, till there was no remedy.
17 Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand.
18 And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes; all these he brought to Babylon.
19 And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.
20 And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia:
21 To fulfil the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her Sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.
22 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,
23 Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath the Lord God of heaven given me; and he hath charged me to build him an house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all his people? The Lord his God be with him, and let him go up.
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STUDENT’S FOOTNOTE.
Jerusalem’s days were numbered, ninety to be exact, before the beginning of the end. After three months Pharaoh invaded, plundered, and took a host of the populace prisoners of war. What he had left undone Nebuchadnezzar destroyed, including the city walls and the temple, when he also took most of the remaining citizens away to Babylon.
POSTSCRIPT:
This is a salutary warning to any Judeo-Christian nation which turns its back on the God of peace and becomes so aggressive and violent in getting its own way that the civil unrest is tantamount to civil war. Beware the end is nigh for God will use the atheistic nations and the religious enemies of Christ to judge and destroy it.
To whom much is given shall much be required. The greatest sin of such a nation today is not the violence or the puritanical hypocrisy, but its abandonment of public prayer amid its worship of worship by its churches.

BIBLE HIGHLIGHTS FOR STUDENTS: Jerusalem’s last days.

The Message of Apostate Christendom in the Last Days.

THE GREAT DECEPTION OF THE LAST DAYS (see Matthew 24 warnings by Jesus)
1. Easy religion = those preachers and churches that evangelise to get the most people responding to their message by eliminating genuine repentance (gift of godly sorrow)
a. Jesus spoke of them in John 10 as thieves and hirelings that do this
b. It is popular today to preach how easy it is to receive Christ, but this error is unbiblical and both Jeremiah and Jesus said that it is not enough to want heaven after death. It is not enough to want to miss hellfire after death. It is not enough to seek the Lord by attending church and/or reading the Bible, saying prayers, or being baptized in water. The prophets and Jesus demand:-
i. wholeheartedness, seeking the Lord with all of one’s heart
ii. that one admits his lack of faith and need of divine faith as His gift
iii. that one admits his heart is deceitful and wickedly self-righteous
iv. that one admits his inability to have faith or grace and that he went astray from the womb under the curse of Adam’s sin passed on through his forbears
v. that one admits, when he is religious, that this is a self justifying motive and not the so-called inner desire to seek the Lord by the promptings of conscience (which is also fallen and corrupted by sin). Paul calls the conscience “evil”.
vi. That one admits that he is made in the image of the earthy (i.e. Adam’s image, not God’s image as he was originally created in his innocence).
“The easy religion offering unconditional acceptance into the Kingdom by SELF FAITH and automated repentance is justified by the moral majority who twist Romans 10:9 away from its context and bibliolatrously venerate it (& verse 13). Then the clergy of easy-religion use them to interpret all other Scriptures. This illogical hermeneutic becomes the arbiter of all New Testament truth and acts as a blocking filter to disallow both the effects of the curse and its legacy of ORIGINAL SIN to deny man’s utter dependence upon the endowment of grace to repent and believe the Gospel.”

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EVANGELISM AWRY

EVANGELISM AWRY.
The hidden humanism of the evangelical churches promotes the easy religion of do-it-yourself salvation. Much of this is achieved by twisting
1. God said it.
2. I said it.
3. I have therefore believed it.
4. I have automatically got it (irrevocable eternal life).

This is he humanistic psychology of New England Theology that pervades America and much of the global outreach in the third world after one hundred years of the Golden Age of Evangelism. Refined as faith by William James, the Father of American Psychology, in his Varieties of Religious Experiences in the 1850’s. This plague of easy religion that wet global in the 1948 B.G. Crusades is a complete distortion of the Reformation’s message of grace.

This easy religion offering unconditional acceptance into the Kingdom by SELF FAITH and automated repentance is justified by the moral majority who twist Romans 10:9 away from its context and bibliolatrously venerate it (& verse 13). Then the clergy of easy-religion use them to interpret all other Scriptures. This illogical hermeneutic becomes the arbiter of all New Testament truth and acts as a blocking filter to disallow both the effects of the curse and its legacy of ORIGINAL SIN to deny man’s utter dependence upon the endowment of grace to repent and believe the Gospel.
If the heart of man is as wicked and deceitful as the Psalmist, the Prophets and Jesus maintained, then only grace will enable ‘saving-faith’ unto regeneration, called the RIGHTEOUSNESS OF FAITH.
Only grace can turn worldly sorrow into godly sorrow (repentance).
Only grace can cause the wanton heart to seek the Lord wholeheartedly.
Only grace can awaken the deadened soul to hear the CALL OF CHRIST TO FOLLOW HIM.
Only grace will thereafter cause the awakened soul to HEAR AND LEARN OF THE FATHER.
Only grace can bring a person to face his/her failed and fallen SELF.
Only grace can show the awakened his sin and his RESURRECTED SAVIOUR.
Only grace can instil and infuse the HOPE OF REDEMPTION by opening the eyes of the awakened to Christ in the Scriptures, and INSTANTANEOUSLY regenerate him and translate him from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of HIS dear Son.
Grace has received a bad name from Christendom’s moral majority. Indoctrinators of sectarianism, especially right-wing evangelicals conveniently see only black or white: viz: Calvinism or Arminianism.
Today this allows them to dispense with ORIGINAL SIN, the weakened state of human faculties from sin and the disabled, dysfunctional conscience that universally leads men to WORSHIP SOMETHING OR SOMEONE rather than Christ. Some unwittingly end up worshipping worship itself in a form mystical mesmerisation, which can hold hypnotic sway over the indulging group. This especially takes place where expectation of signs prevail and physical aberrant behaviour is accepted without question.
Even religious worship is merely an expression of a natural universal inborn desire of humanity to worship ‘THEY KNOW NOT WHAT. whether they are born into a Christian or pagan culture. The apostle Paul saw this at Mars Hill, in Athens. It can be regularly observed in among agnostics, so-called atheists, and various religions including spiritism and animism. Worshipping the god of REASON is nonetheless a religion. This includes the sophists spawned by Thomas Aquinas etc.
Eve was brought into Eden’s paradise in a state of innocence (not righteousness) but she, unlike Adam, unwittingly worshipped a paranormal spirit incarnate in the Serpent. She led Adam to succumb to her worshipful desire for KNOWLEDGE of the gods. Part of the curse endemic to mankind, is the NATURAL BENT TO WORSHIP which when indulged will smooth the dying pillow of the indulger, thus placating any fears about life’s temporariness.
America turned away from the message of its Puritan Fathers when the lapsed evangelist Jonathan Edwards in 1746 wrote ‘The Freedom of the Will. He had not only rejected the Puritan Fathers, but re-echoed the humanism of Origen, Pelagius, and Jacob Arminius. What was their root problem that led them into Christian humanism? They rejected both the Genesis account and the Romans 5 description of hereditary original sin and were deluded by Rome’s notion of Adam’s original righteousness. The logical extension of this main error is to misunderstand the image of God in human creation, and then innately arm all humans with the faculty of preserved freewill and an active light of conscience. Implied in this heresy is the notion of a universal residual vestige of inner faith enabling receptivity to God’s overtures.
1. Adam was crated in a state of innocence from which he and Eve fell when they rejected God’s offer of grace through the tree of life by grasping for paranormal knowledge from the Tree of Knowledge.
2. Adam was made in the tripartite image of God with a body-soul-spirit. As such he was unique to the animal kingdom with his reflective capacity to confer with himself, internalize, rationalize and cogitate accordingly beyond mere instinct. Of the trinity God the Father; God the WORD; and God’s Spirit self reflection is manifest in the Scriptures in Genesis and In the Gospel of John etc.
3. God created Adam with a definitive difference. He gave him a LIVING SOUL unique among the animal kingdom.
4. When Adam and Eve fell from their state of innocence their souls ceased to live. From the deadening effect of the fall into ORIGINAL SIN decay and degeneration had begun. The conscience had been seared and cauterized. Where once its light was God centred, it now self righteously became self centred in its link to the corrupted power of FREEWILL. Where once at the beginning of creation it reflected and echoed the voice of God, now it merely became evil in its duplicity, reflecting self-interest and self centredness. This is why the apostle Paul called the conscience ‘evil’.
John 1:9, truly declares the truth that the inner light of Christ’s indwelling is the only light which lights up the recipients of the Gospel throughout the world. Without it the impenetrable darkness of sin’s deadening effect is thus described in the ensuing verses 10 etc. That caused both the world and ‘His own’ to ignore or reject Him (the LIGHT).
Instead of the Puritan Reformation return to biblical faith through grace, we have come the full circle and made access to divine grace through human faith (that Jesus, the apostles and the prophets said we lack in the sceptical human heart of unbelief.)

EVANGELISM AWRY

THE HERESY OF EVANGELICAL MESSAGE TODAY

POPULAR HERESY OF EVANGELICALS SINCE 1948.
The hidden humanism of the evangelical churches promotes the easy religion of do-it-yourself salvation.

1. God said it.
2. You say it.
3. You have therefore believed it.
4. You automatically have it (irrevocable eternal life).

This is the humanistic psychology of New England Theology that pervades America and much of the global outreach in the third world after one hundred years of the Golden Age of Evangelism. This libertine right wing humanism was refined in a redefinition of faith by William James, the Father of American Psychology, in his Varieties of Religious Experiences in the 1850’s. This plague of easy religion that went global, in the 1948 B.G. Crusades, is a complete distortion of the Reformation’s message of grace.

In 1746 America turned away from the message of its Puritan Fathers with the lapsed evangelist of the First Great Awakening, Jonathan Edwards. After reading the English philosopher John Locke, he wrote, ‘The Freedom of the Will. He had not only rejected the Puritan Fathers, but re-echoed the humanism of Origen, Pelagius, and Jacob Arminius.

What was their root problem that led them into Christian humanism? They rejected both the Genesis account and the Romans 5 description of hereditary original sin and were deluded by Rome’s notion of Adam’s original righteousness. The logical extension of this main error is to misunderstand the image of God in human creation, and then innately arm all humans with the faculty of preserved freewill and an active light of conscience. Implied in this heresy is the notion of a universal residual vestige of inner faith enabling receptivity to God’s overtures.

RE-EXAMINING THE CREATION RECORD.
1. Adam was crated in a state of innocence from which he and Eve fell when they rejected God’s offer of grace through the tree of life by grasping for paranormal knowldge from the Tree of Knowledge.
2. Adam was made in the tripartite image of God with a body-soul-spirit. As such he was unique to the animal kingdom with his reflective capacity to confer with himself, internalize, rationalize and cogitize accordingly beyond mere instinct. Of the trinity God the Father; God the WORD; and God’s Spirit self reflection is manifest in the Scriptures in Genesis and In the Gospel of John etc.
3. God created Adam with a definitive difference. He gave him a LIVING SOUL
4. When Adam and Eve fell from their state of innocence

Instead of the biblical faith through grace, it is now grace by human faith (that Jesus, the apostles and the prophets said we lack). Instead of seeking the Lord wholeheartedly with earnest pleading for the gift of faith hearers are told to use their own faith to claim what rightfully belongs to them so they can miss hellfire in the after-life. This DIY religion claims that:
A. God said it (Romans 10:9)
B. You believe it by saying it.
C. Once you say it too, you’ve got it
D. Now you have received the irrevocable gift of ETERNAL LIFE. (they are assured by the indoctrinator).

However, the psychology of positivist religious humanism can never be a substitute for radical, real, conversion.
Even when the church is apostate and in a state of Ichabod the method of easy religionists will gain converts. More so when the preacher is a powerful speaker full of charisma. But, one may ask: What sort of converts? And: To whom have they been converted? The preacher, the church, or a denomination? It is most doubtful indeed that they have been ushered into the kingdom and translated from the ‘kingdom of darkness’ to which they belong.

Evangelists compass land and sea to make one more convert, but in the above context make them twofold more the child of hell, Jesus claimed.

KNOWLEDGE and the TREE OF KNOWLEDGE has unwittingly been made a replacement for the TREE OF LIFE.
whether EVANGELICAL, LIBERAL, ORTHODOX, OR ROMAN the emphasis is SALVATION BY KNOWLEDGE of creed, doctrine, confession, or sacred writ of Scripture.

There is no doubt that God will use any avenue to attract and arrest souls for He is not willing that any should perish. But the best that can be expected from the evangelicals today is that one might be ARRESTED by the Spirit and awakened, though this rarely occurs where Ichabod prevails where personality cult pulpiteers lead an assembly. However, when such does occur it is unfortunately called conversion and the victim is rushed into indoctrination to such an extent that he/she is brainwashed.

Perhaps pastors, evangelists, and soul-winners should be reminded that there is a Holy Spirit ready to do the work of grace once they stop interfering.

1. The Father will arrest and draw the lost awakened soul towards Calvary and self discovery in the process
2. The Father will ensure that the arrested seeker will HEAR AND LEARN OF THE FATHER so he can later come to Christ.
3. Like the Twelve the lost soul who has heard the CALL TO FOLLOW will be drawn to self distrust, self revelation, and broken readiness for the eye opening ILLUMINATION of the WORD at the hands of the risen Christ Himself. John 20, Luke 24.

The arrested, and slightly awakened soul shows such earnest gravity in his seeking that this disturbs the comfort zone of the hirelings wearing fleeces, who are unaccustomed to such a manifestation. If they cannot soothe the dying pillow of the lost with false hopes they then call for the psychologist or psychiatrist to ease his disturbed mind, because apostate church pulpiteers today have never seen God work before in genuine conversion. They do not know the signs of the godly sorrow or the anguish that a smitten seeking sinner experiences. It is foreign to the religious Protestants of our day and cannot be counterfeited even by paranormal physical aberrations common to mystics and phenomena seeking assemblies who claim to possess the Spirit’s fulness.

THE HERESY OF EVANGELICAL MESSAGE TODAY