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Isaiah 40
Book of Isaiah
Isaiah 40:1 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
2 Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is
accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the Lord's
hand double for all her sins.
3 The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the
Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low:
and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:
5 And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it
together: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
6 The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and
all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
7 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the Lord bloweth
upon it: surely the people is grass.
8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand
for ever.
9 O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O
Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it
up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!
10 Behold, the Lord God will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for
him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.
11 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his
arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with
young.
12 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven
with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed
the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
13 Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord, or being his counsellor hath taught
him?
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No one! In fact, quite the opposite is true. He
sent you this Word to counsel you how to be wise
and successful in your flesh body, if you do
things His way
14 With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path
of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of
understanding?
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Christians, all too often,
seem to doubt the Power of God. Our Father is
able to change entire nations.
15 Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small
dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
16 And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for
a burnt offering.
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The cedars of Lebanon, nor
the beasts found there are sufficient to offer
Him. Do you know why? He doesn't want your burnt
offerings. He wants your love.
17 All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than
nothing, and vanity.
18 To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?
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Some men think they are
able to create some awesome things. The
creations of men can't compare to the creation
of our Father.
19 The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with
gold, and casteth silver chains.
20 He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will
not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that
shall not be moved.
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Man always tries to create
his own salvation. There is only one salvation,
and that is of your Father. Do things His way,
and you will prosper.
21 Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the
beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?
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God has told you about the
foundations of the world In His Word. How many
"Bible Thumpers" will tell you the earth is
6,000 years old in their ignorance of the Word.
You who have studied His Word know that the 1st
world age began millions of years ago, and God's
Word documents this fact to those who have read
it with understanding.
22 It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants
thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and
spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
23 That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as
vanity.
24 Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock
shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they
shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.
25 To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.
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Look to the heavens on any
clear night, you can feel the awesome power of
our Father in His creation.
26 Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that
bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness
of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.
27 Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the
Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God?
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Don't ever be guilty of
thinking that God doesn't judge fairly, when it
is you that has messed up. When you mess up, get
into His Word and figure out what it is that you
did wrong. His Word is His counsel.
28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord,
the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is
no searching of his understanding.
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Do you ever feel faint and
weak? Don't forget this last verse. If you are
doing His work, God will strengthen you.
29 He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth
strength.
30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly
fall:
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If you aren't doing God's
work and receiving His strength, even the young
will fail.
31 But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount
up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk,
and not faint.
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Absorb God's truth, and you
will never be spiritually frightened, worried,
or scared. You will never grow weary or faint.
Now, the reason we came to this Scripture.
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It is critically important
that you clearly understand something so
important as renewing your strength.
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What does this word "wait"
mean? "Wait" in Hebrew, a prime root which can't
be translated any other way than "to bind by the
means of twisting together".
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Bind, or entwine, yourself
with God in His Word. You aren't going to gain
strength by waiting. Those that bind themselves
to the Lord, and His Word, shall renew their
strength.
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
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The first tribe to be
conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh,
in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually
breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.
He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would
be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them
among the heathens (like lost sheep)
• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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