Luke & Isaiah

I do not know the prevailing thoughts of those who read Scripture 100, 200 or 1900 years ago. I’m not talking about the themes and truths of Scripture or theology or doctrine. I am referring to how the vast majority in these times, if they read Scripture at all, are prone to extracting at most one verse perhaps two and using them out of context or from a translation that is so perverse from the true Word of God it is nothing but an echo of every other worldly message.

There is not one word of Scripture which is not interwoven with all the other words. Every account; every story, every parable, every teaching, every lineage description is interwoven with every other. There is nothing separate or isolated in all of Scripture.

In these times of dominant false teachers and false teachings, of corrupted translations for every splinter group and abomination on earth from ones which are perverted expressly for homosexuals and lesbians, to the latest versions – one called Chrislam to incorporate Islam and Muslims into the fold of Christianity allowing large herds of goats in among the sheep, to one in which Jesus Christ the Lord will not be refered to as the Son of God anywhere throughout the translation – the apostate church grows darker and more sinful and alien to God, Christ the Lord and the inerrant Word of God (try a King James Version and stop using the excuse you don’t like the thou’s, comest, knoweth, ye’s and thee’s and be honest you don’t like the truth and prefer the perverted worldly translation to soothe and appease) the distancing of those professing to be Christians from the true Word of God and possessing understanding, discernment and wisdom of the Word is not only appalling and disgraceful – it is a glaring sign that we are indeed on the last page of the history of this earth as it has been known.

For, because of this…

Luke

Chapter 8

Parable of the sower and the soil

(Matthew 13: 1-23; Mark 4: 1-20)

4 ¶ And when much people were gathered together, and were come to him out of every city, he spake by a parable:

5 A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it.

6 And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture.

7 And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it.

8 And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit an hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he cried, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

9 And his disciples asked him, saying, What might this parable be?

10 And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.

11 Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

12 Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.

13 They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.

14 And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.

15 But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.

Parable of the lighted lamp

(Matthew 5: 15-16; Mark 4: 21-23; Luke 11: 33-36

16 ¶ No man, when he hath lighted a candle, covereth it with a vessel, or putteth it under a bed; but setteth it on a candlestick, that they which enter in may see the light.

17 For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad.

18 Take heed therefore how ye hear: for whosoever hath, to him shall be given; and whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he seemeth to have.

We will have this…

Isaiah

Chapter 13

Prophecies concerning the Nations

The Lord summons an attacking host

The day of the Lord’s judgment upon Babylon,

picturing God’s future judgment on Gentile nations

6 ¶ Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.

7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man’s heart shall melt:

8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.

9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.

10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.

11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.

12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.

13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.

14 And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land.

15 Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword.

16 Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.

Isaiah

Chapter 24

Isaiah’s “little apocalypse” (verses 24-27):

desolate Palestine after Babylonian

invasion distress in the

tribulation

1 Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.

2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.

3 The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word.

4 The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.

5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.

6 Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.

7 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.

8 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.

9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.

10 The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

11 There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.

12 In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.

13 ¶ When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.

A spared remnant rejoices

14 They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea.

15 Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the fires, even the name of the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea.

16 ¶ From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.

Distress of nations climaxed by God’s judgments during the tribulation

17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.

18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.

19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.

20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.

21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.

22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.

23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.

The prophecy concerning Babylon in chapters 13-14 announces the doom of the nation and city at the hands of the Medes (13: 17-22), but applies the word “Babylon” to the totality of Gentile world power beginning with Nebuchadnezzar (Daniel 2: 31-32, 37-38) and culminating in the fourth world empire (Daniel 2: 34-35, 40-45) at the return of Jesus Christ the Lord to the earth as the Smiting Stone. See Times of the Gentiles (Luke 21: 24 and Revelation 16: 19).

Verses 12-16 in chapter 13 of Isaiah look forward to the apocalyptic judgments (Revelation 6-13), verses 17-22 of Isaiah chapter 13 have a near and a far view. they predict the destruction of the literal Babylon then existing, while the verse also look forward to the destruction of both political Babylon and ecclesiastical Babylon in the time of the beast (see Revelation 18: 2).

While consuming evil pushing aside righteousness and the truth brings this about it would not be possible except for the fact the vast majority professing to be Christians and believers in Christ are in truth like the first 3 examples in the parable of the sower…and few seeds are on good ground who in an honest and good heart, having heard the Word keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience. Few will enter in. Few can abide the truth. Thus…the end which comes quickly. Contrary to the prevailing thought in this world among churches and those professing to be believers it will be because of the great apostasy, the great falling away and turning to the evil of this world while proclaiming to be Christian, to bowing to the Antichrist and false prophet and not having a solid foundation thus allowing the wayside, the rocks, the thistles and thorns to consume them that all prophecy and every interwoven word within the Word of God is fulfilled