Isaiah 51:6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens and look upon the Earth beneath. For the heavens shall vanish away like smoke and the Earth shall wax old like a garment and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner, but salvation shall be forever and righteousness not abolished.

Isaiah 51:9 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord. Awake as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Are yhou not it that has cut Rahab.(what Rahab was this?).wounded the dragon?

Isaiah 51:12 I, even I, am he that comforts you. Who are you that you should be afraid of a man that shall die who is made as grass.

Genesis 3:19 "...for dust you are and unto dust you return."

Isaiah 51:13 And.(why should you be afraid to the point of forgetting God?).forget the Lord your maker that has stretched forth the heavens and laid the foundations of the Earth and yet you fear continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor.(you see the oppressor's power every day, but forget about God's ability), as if he were ready to destroy? And where is the fury of the oppressor?

If God is protecting you, you won't be harmed by any oppressor:.1Peter 3:13.

Isaiah 51:16 And I have put my words in your mouth and I have covered you in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens and lay the foundations of the Earth and say unto Zion, You are my people.

Isaiah 52:1 Awake, awake; put on your strength, O Zion. Put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city, for henceforth there shall no more come into you the uncircumcised and the unclean.

The uncircumcised and the unclean today are those of low consciousness causing negatives and burdens in the lives of others.

Isaiah 52:3 For thus says the Lord, You have sold yourselves for nought and you shall be redeemed without money. For thus says the Lord God,

Such are they not valuing themselves much to give themselves to such stupid things as idols made with their own hands:.Hosea 10:5. Stupid because they went into idolatry with nothing but a hope that they'll get some benefit, but they'll come out of it with nothing:.Isaiah 55:1-3.

Isaiah 52:4 My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause. 

The Israelites ended up here in Egyptian bondage.

Isaiah 52:5 Now therefore, what have I here.(what have I got to do here?), says the Lord, that my people is taken away for nought?.(there was no reason for them to have been taken away captive).They that rule over them make them to howl.(there was no reason to be as cruel as they were to them), says the Lord and my name continually every day is blasphemed.

The captives probably were taunted with words like, Where is your God now to help you?).

Isaiah 52:6 Therefore my people shall know my name. Therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that does speak; behold, it is I.

Isaiah 52:7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that brings good tidings, publishes peace and salvation and says unto Zion, Your God reigns!.(reigns where? and is God even real?)

Isaiah 52:8 Your watchmenshall lift up the voice. With the voice together shall they sing, for they shall see eye to eye, when the Lord shall bring again Zion.

Isaiah 52:9 Break forth into joy, sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem, for the Lord has comforted his people, he has redeemed Jerusalem.

Isaiah 52:10 The Lord has made bare his holy arm.(what's this mean?.Ezekiel 4:7).in the eyes of all the nations and all the ends of the Earth shall see the salvation of our God.

God now is going to handle the situation.

Isaiah 52:12 For you shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight, for the Lord will go before you and the God of Israel will be your rereward.

Isaiah 52:14 As many were astonished at you. His visage was so marred more than any man and his form more than the sons of men.

This is an Old Testament.prophecy of these happenings recorded in the New Testament:.Matthew 26:66-68; 27:22-31.

Isaiah 52:15 So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him. For that which had not been told them shall they see and that which they had not heard shall they consider.

Isaiah 53rd chapter Who has believed our report? And to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?

Isaiah 53:2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant and as a root out of a dry ground. He has no form nor comeliness and when we shall see him there is no beauty that we should desire him.

Isaiah 53:3 He is despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief and we hid as it were our faces from him. He was despised and we esteemed him not.

Isaiah 53:3 He is despised and rejected of men.(rejected by the ruling Jews at the time; by the rich; by the so-called great and the learned; by the mass of people of every grade and age and rank; everyone wants to follow a hero; the people believed His claim to be a king but they all thought it was to be in their time and when they saw Him crucified, well then, they figured it was all from a deluded individual, one who fooled himself into believing he was the son of the Creator and well, when they saw him get crucified with criminals, he was regarded then as one of them, a loser), a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief and we hid as it were our faces from him.(he's just a nut case, leave him alone; they no longer had interest in Him). He was despised and we esteemed.(valued, thought about Him).him not.

Isaiah 53:4 Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows, yet we did esteem him stricken.(viewed as always having been a loser), smitten of God and afflicted.

We figured that when we saw what was happening to Him (Matthew 27:41-44), that God must have been against him.

Isaiah 53:5 But he was wounded for our transgressions.(our transgressions, but these are also the ones we really are not responsible for, why?), he was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace was upon him.(what he went through was so we wouldn't have the kind of life that leads down the road to suicide and instead would have peace).and with his stripes we are healed.

Isaiah 53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray.(a prediction about the disciples in the time of Emmanuel, that they would leave Him; fulfilled:.Matthew 26:56). We have turned every one to his own way.(when did each of us do this?:.Proverbs 14:12: Jeremiah 44:16,17).and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

This prophecy about the coming of Emmanuel some 700 years later, is about how He would take upon Himself all sins for all time for everyone, all past, all present and any future sins would be looked after by His death, His death that was.once for all:.Galatians 3:13; Hebrews 10:10; that's how much we are loved by God and why we could be reconciled to God and why sin no longer counts and didn't even count before, as it was in God's plan that all sin be looked after by Christ.

Isaiah 53:7 He was oppressed and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth. He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth.

Didn't argue angrily and talk back to His persecutors.

Isaiah 53:8 He was taken from prison and from judgment and who shall declare his generation? For he was cut off out of the land of the living. For the transgression of my people was he stricken.

Isaiah 53:9 And he made his grave with the wicked and with the rich in his death.(Matthew 27:57-60), because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.

Creator-Father completed this part of His plan when Emmanuel was surrendered to those who would kill Him and to the powers of the world to do with him what they would.

Isaiah 53:10 Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him. He has put him to grief and determined that his soul be an offering for sin.(2Corinthians 5:21). God shall see his seed.(Matthew 1:18).and prolong his days so that the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.

Why did this please God the Father? Because now all humanity would be blessed and that time is now for all the world. Creator-Christ will carry out the plan of Creator-Father involving all humanity.

Isaiah 53:11 He shall see of the travail of his soul and shall be satisfied.(God probably thought 'Thank you Son for doing this'). By his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many.(note it.doesn't say.'by knowledge of how to more perfectly keep the parts of the Mosaic Law'. He'll teach you, so your do's and don'ts will be perfect), for he shall bear their iniquities.

Isaiah 53:12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he has poured out his soul unto death.(*). And he was numbered with the transgressors.(this prophecy, some 700+ years before its occurrence in New Testament times, shows how true the plan of God is).and he bare the sin.of many and made intercession for the transgressors.

Isaiah 54:1 Sing, O barren, you that did not bear. Break forth into singing and cry aloud, you that did not travail with child, for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, says the Lord.

Cross reference Galatians 4:27.

Isaiah 54:4 Fear not, for you will not be ashamed, neither be you confounded, for you'll not be put to shame, for you shall forget the shame of your youth and shall not remember the reproach of your widowhood any more.

Isaiah 54:5 For your Maker is your husband. The Lord of hosts is his name and your Redeemer the Holy One.(the One of wholeness).of Israel.(a spiritual Israel it is today). The God of the whole Earth shall he be called.

Isaiah 54:6,7 For the Lord has called you as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit and a wife of youth, when you were refused.(ever felt like this?), says your God. For a small moment have I forsaken you, but with great mercies will I gather you.

This was the whole history of the Old Testament and the story of Job.

God is good and wants good for all:.Psalms 34:19.

Isaiah 54:8 In a little wrath I hid my face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on you, says the Lord your Redeemer.

Isaiah 54:9 For this is as the waters of Noah unto me. For as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the Earth, so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with you, nor rebuke you.

And why?

Isaiah 54:10 For the mountains.(what does 'mountain' mean?).shall depart and the hills be removed, but my kindness shall not depart from you, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, says the Lord that has mercy on thee.

Isaiah 54:11,12 O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours and lay your foundations with sapphires. And I will make your windows of agates.(quartz with lines or fibres in it, like a marble; a hard stone used to make jewelry).and your gates of carbuncles.(a precious red stone).and all your borders of pleasant stones.

Isaiah 54:13 And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord and great shall be the peace of your children.

Isaiah 54:14 In righteousness you'll be established. You'll be far from oppression, for you shall not fear and from terror, it shall not come near you.

Isaiah 54:15 Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me. Whosoever shall gather together against you shall fall for your sake.

Original."Gathering together, their ends.(purposes).fail. Whomever gathers together.(words, 'against you', implied).fails."

Isaiah 54:16 Behold, I have created the smith that blows the coals in the fire and that brings forth an instrument for his work and I have created the waster to destroy.

The great Infinite Intelligent Energy, the real true Father of all creation, the good God, is standing up for you and He has the power to ensure nothing gets in front of His good purpose toward you:.1John 3:2; Galatians 4;7. Just keep on the right side of life.

Isaiah 54:17 No weapon that is formed against you shall prosper.(that is, if God is active in you; how would you know? well,.Matthew 11:27).and every tongue that rises against you in judgment, is condemned.(if accused sincerely, but wrongly, you will be able to convince them of errors {Luke 21:14,15} and if accused maliciously, these weapons of others will fizzle out to nothing). This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord and their righteousness is of me, says the Lord.

Isaiah 55:1.Ho, every one that thirsts.(spiritually speaking), come to the waters and he that has no money, come you, buy and eat. Yea, come, buy wine and milk.(original for 'milk' is 'fat', 'cheese').without money and without price. 

Isaiah 55:2 Wherefore do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfies not?.(Hosea 10:5).Hearken diligently unto me and eat you that which is good and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

Isaiah 55:3 Incline your ear and come unto me. Hear and your soul shall live and I will make an.everlasting.covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

As Creator did with David:.Psalms 89:2-4; Creator was merciful to David and likewise to us:.Hebrews 13:5 "...for he has said, I will never leave you, nor forsake you."

Isaiah 55:4 Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people. 

Isaiah 55:5 Behold, you shall call a nation that you know not and nations that knew not you shall run unto you, because of the Lord your God and for the Holy One of Israel, for he has glorified you.

Isaiah 55:6 Seek you the Lord while he may be found.(2Peter 3:14), call you upon him while he is near.(Revelation 20:12)..(?)

It's saying, 'These other nations (verse 5 above) are turning to the Creator because they have seen you are a people of the true God. They are seeking Him while they have opportunity to'.

Isaiah 55:7 Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts.(note that it's the thought that take one away from God:.Psalms 10:2-11; Proverbs 10:2,3,18; 1Peter 2:11).and let him return unto the Lord and our God.(the Father).and he will have mercy upon him and our God will abundantly pardon..(*)

Isaiah 55:8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, says the Lord..(what's the 'Lord'?)

"Thoughts are spiritual forces that come to us. There are positive and negative thoughts.(*). It's up to us to focus on the good thoughts and separate permanently from the negative ones."....Bruno Gröning..Proverbs 14:12 "There is a way which seems right unto humanity, but the end thereof are the ways of death." Philippians 2:15 "That you may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation among whom you shine as lights in the world."

Isaiah 55:9 For as the heavens are higher than the Earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Hebrews 3:10.

Isaiah 55:10,11 For as the rain comes down and the snow from heaven and returns not thither, but waters the Earth and makes it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goes forth out of my mouth. It shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

Is this only talking about the Creator, the source of all?

....continues to Chapters 56-57

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