Prophecy of Isaiah – Isa 50:1-5 The Lord Hath Opened my Ear
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Isa 50:1-5 The Lord Hath Opened My Ear
[Study Aired November 24, 2019]
Isa 50:1 Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.
Isa 50:2 Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.
Isa 50:3 I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
Isa 50:4 The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.
Isa 50:5 The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back.
The fact that the scriptures begin with the story of the physical creation testifies to the theme of all the rest of scripture. That theme is: ‘the vessel… of clay [Adam] was marred in the Potter’s hand, so He is making it again, another vessel, as it seems good to the Potter to make it.’
Jer 18:4 And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
The CLV correctly interprets Jeremiah 18:4 in the Qal stem:
“and marred is the vessel that he is making, as clay in the hand of the potter, and he has turned and he makes it another vessel, as it was right in the eyes of the potter to make.” (CLV)
The Qal stem in Hebrew equates to the aorist tense in the Greek. Both are spoken with no regard to any tense, but rather are a simple statement of fact. In other words, the message being delivered is a simple true statement of fact. In this case, the fact is God “is making” His clay creature, Adam and all in him, into another vessel, a “new man”, made with the spirit and mind of God.
What is not said in Jeremiah 18:4 is that in the process of making the “vessel of clay another vessel” the Lord Himself has made a “day of evil” for “the vessel of clay”:
Pro 16:4 The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.
So, the Truth of the Lord’s Word is purposely contained only in its “sum”, and it cannot be known by quoting only one verse of scripture:
Psa 119:16 0 The sum of thy word is truth; And every one of thy righteous ordinances endureth for ever. (ESV)
If we know and believe the Lord has made all things for Himself, yes, even the wicked for the day of evil, then we must accept the fact that Isaiah 50:1 is part of “the day of evil” for which the Lord’s harlot wife was made:
Isa 50:1 Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.
The words “Your mother” are addressed to this “great harlot” (Rev 17:4). Notice how the holy spirit goes from “your mother” to “I have sold you”. Then it goes from “your transgressions” back to “your mother”. The fact is that these words are being spoken to “whosoever reads” (Mat 24:15 ), and to any of the Lord’s people to whom He has given eyes that see and ears that hear… the things of the spirit” (Mat 13:9-15 and 1Co 2:13-14). This “great harlot” is none other than God’s own first wife, whom He Himself labels as a harlot in this very prophecy of Isaiah:
Isa 1:21 How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
Isa 1:22 Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:
Isa 1:23 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.
Isa 1:24 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:
Isa 1:25 And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:
Has any of this taken the Lord by surprise? Is the Lord wringing His hands because of our adulterous ways? Absolutely not! The Truth is that He is “working all things after the counsel of His own will… for our good (Eph 1:11 and Rom 8:28 ).
After “[He] has made us to err” He will then “return the tribes of His inheritance” by chastening and judging us for our sins, and dragging us back to Himself.
It is all written in each of our books before we were ever born:
Psa 139:16 Thine eyes did see mine unformed substance; And in thy book they were all written, Even the days that were ordained for me, When as yet there was none of them.
Look at the very next few verses which are part of the introduction to this entire prophecy:
Isa 1:26 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.
Isa 1:27 Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.
Isa 1:28 And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed.
The “transgressors and… sinners” are our rebellious carnal mind which is destroyed within us by the fire of His Words. That is accomplished in very few indeed in this age, but through those who are chosen in this age, the carnal mind of “every man” will be destroyed in “the lake of fire… the second death… prepared for the devil and His angels”:
Mat 25:41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
Rom 11:30 For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:
Rom 11:31 Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.1Co 3:13 Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.
1Co 3:14 If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
1Co 3:15 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
The only works which “abide” the fire are works which are purified by fire. All others are burned up by the fire, and the ‘fire’ is the Word of God (Deu 33:2; Jer 5:14 ; Jer 20:9; 23:9, Rev 11:5). Only those who overcome the lies and false doctrines of the adversary during “this present time… shall receive a reward”. This “reward” for those whose works endure the fire is contrasted with the “man [whose] works are burned” who “shall suffer loss” of the reward given to those who are in the first resurrection (Rev 20:1-6).
Contrary to what we have all been taught about those whose works are burned up by the fire, notice what we are told about what that fire does to “every man”:
1Co 3:13 Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.
1Co 3:15 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire [“the lake of fire”, Rev 20:14-15).
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