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Isaiah 5 - Woe Unto Them That
Make Right Wrong
Book of Isaiah
Isaiah 5:1 Now will I sing to my well beloved a song
of my beloved touching his vineyard. My well beloved hath a vineyard in a
very fruitful hill:
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God's vineyard
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Vineyard is Israel
2 And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones
thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the
midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it
should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
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Wild grapes = poison-berries
3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of
Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.
4 What could have been done more to my vineyard,
that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should
bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
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Wild grapes = poison-berries
5 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to
my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten
up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned,
nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also
command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
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Rain = the word of God
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Latter rain = the word of God to His very elect,
to those that will be delivered up and help God
from in the Millennium age.
7 For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the
house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked
for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a
cry.
8 Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay
field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in
the midst of the earth!
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Woe to those, that can't get enough land =
they're money hungry
9 In mine ears said the Lord of hosts, Of a truth
many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.
10 Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath,
and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
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A lot of land and a lot of seed, you're not
going to only bring a little return
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Because they don't do it God's way
11 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning,
that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine
inflame them!
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They drink until they are blind drunk
12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and
pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the
Lord, neither consider the operation of his hands.
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All they think about is partying
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These don't care about God
13 Therefore my people are gone into captivity,
because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished,
and their multitude dried up with thirst.
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Amos 8:11 Famine in the end times = hearing the
word of God
14 Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened
her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and
their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
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These are = Spiritually dead
15 And the mean man shall be brought down, and the
mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:
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It's better to humbled yourself, than the Lord
to humble you
16 But the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in
judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.
17 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner,
and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
18 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of
vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:
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Third woe: they sin = by the cart load
19 That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his
work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel
draw nigh and come, that we may know it!
20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good
evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put
bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
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They turn God's natural order of things upside
down.
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Falsehoods become truth, and truth becomes
falsehood.
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They put false hook for truth, they turn things
upside down
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He uses adultery to illustrate Idolatry
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Now, when the Holy Spirit uses one thing to
describe or explain another.
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He does not choose the opposite word or
expression.
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If He speaks of night, He does not use the word
light.
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If He speaks of daylight, He does not use the
word night.
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He does not put "sweet for bitter, and bitter
for sweet"
21 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes,
and prudent in their own sight!
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These think = they know better than God
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They are so caught up in self that they think
they are wiser than God.
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They think their ways are right, and God's ways
are wrong.
22 Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and
men of strength to mingle strong drink:
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After a few drinks, they think they're better
and stronger than anyone
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They are willing to acquit the guilty for a
bride.
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In their world, truth and righteousness mean
nothing.
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Isaiah prophecies the people would be turning
things upside down in another place.
23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take
away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
24 Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and
the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and
their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law
of the Lord of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
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Why?
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Because they have cast away the law of the Lord
of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One
of Israel.
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For what?
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They turn everything upside down
25 Therefore is the anger of the Lord kindled
against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them,
and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases
were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not
turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
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He's Talking about, the spiritually dead
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He's saying turn back to me
26 And he will lift up an ensign to the nations
from far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and,
behold, they shall come with speed swiftly:
27 None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none
shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be
loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:
28 Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent,
their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a
whirlwind:
29 Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall
roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey,
and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.
30 And in that day they shall roar against them
like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold
darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.
• 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.
• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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