Question: With so much craziness in the world, are the prophecies of Isaiah already starting to be fulfilled? Answer: Although Isaiah’s prophecies deal with a specific end-time scenario called the “Day of the Lord”—God’s Day of Judgment upon a wicked world—the backstory of that time period contains elements already familiar in our culture today. Here […]
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Do we sometimes—maybe even often—feel that our burdens are too great to bear? That there is no release from suffering in all its forms: stress, anxiety, sickness, weakness, temptations, pain, misperceptions, disabilities, affronts, evil speaking, persecution, poverty, etc.? Lest we lose our perspective, let’s remember that we consented to bear these very burdens before we
In the redemptive context of the second unit, the burden of suffering that precedes or lays the groundwork for Jehovah’s redemption, although common to all suffering entities, differs from one to the next. First, on the heels of the ideal vassal’s mission to the nations, the wicked—all non-Zion entities—suffer a full measure of covenantal malediction
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Question: How does Isaiah describe the gathering of Israel? Answer: The gathering of Israel is an integral part of Israel’s end-time restoration. It takes the form of a literal, physical exodus of elect remnants of Israel’s twelve tribes from among all nations at the onset of a worldwide destruction: “I will bring your offspring from
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Question: What does the Savior mean when he says, “Then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another” (Matthew 24:10)? What will offend them? Answer: Jesus is speaking of the time shortly before his second coming, of which Isaiah prophesies, when those “who are vigilant for his word” would
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“The people walking in darkness have seen a bright light; on the inhabitants of the land of the shadow of death has the light dawned. You have enlarged the nation and increased its joy; they rejoice at your presence as men rejoice at harvest time, or as men are joyous when they divide spoil.” (Isaiah
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Question: Does Isaiah 20 mean the Lord’s end-time servant will preach to the USA for three years before the great destruction? Answer: Egypt’s function as a codename of America in the Book of Isaiah, and Isaiah’s typifying the servant, suggest that he will indeed give three years’ warning before three years of God’s judgments upon
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Isaiah prophesies an end-time scenario in which the people of the Lord are “taken over without price” by godless political leaders. The Lord responds by sending his servant to herald his coming as the embodiment of his people’s Salvation (yeshu’ah—also the name of Jesus: Yeshua). His people’s coming to know his “name” in that day
Nephi sees that “because of pride, and because of false teachers, and false doctrine”—which “pervert the right way of the Lord”—the endtime Gentiles “have all gone astray save it be a few, who are the humble followers of Christ; nevertheless, they are led, that in many instances they do err because they are taught by
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“Hear me, you who know righteousness, O people in whose heart is my law: Do not fear the reproach of men; be undaunted by their ridicule. For the moth shall consume them like a garment; moths shall devour them like wool. But my righteousness shall endure forever, my salvation through endless generations.” (Isaiah 51:7–8) “Your
Where will we stand in that fateful day? Will we behave badly and end up lower on the ladder, or will we accept the challenges of those times and rise higher? We will either succumb to fear or exercise faith in God and perform nobly. Our beliefs alone won’t save us, nor will the props
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Questions: (1) Is the Savior a type for the servant? Or can someone greater be the type of someone lesser? (2) Could our continual focus on the servant be in some ways eclipsing the Savior himself? Answer: Rather than seeing the Savior as a type of his servant, it is more in line with typological
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