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"FROM THE SUNRISING I SHALL BRING YOUR SEED,
AND FROM THE SUNSET
I SHALL COLLECT YOU
YOU TOGETHER". BUT HOW? (Isaiah 43:5).
JEHOVAH IS
GATHERING HIS PEOPLE.
The beloved people of God the "great crowd" will
have "the glorious Eternal as (their) river, a river never raided by a galley,
sailed by no ships of war". (Isaiah 33:21 Moffatt. Rev 7:9-17). Our Heavenly
Father Jehovah is about to flood the earth with the Spirit of His righteousness;
Spirit "waters" that will arouse His people to begin the journey that will lead
them to their ultimate destination: Spiritual "Jerusalem." But these
"waters" will not flood over His people, for it says: "In
case you should pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through
the rivers, they will not flood over you." (Isaiah 43:2).
NAVIGATION.
Navigation will be by God's Spirit. These Spirit
"waters" of God flooding over all the earth will create in His people a
spiritual need to go where His Spirit wills. (Matt 5:3). That is why His
people are instructed not to resist the Will of God for them, but that
(symbolically): "Your ropes must hang loose; their mast they will
not hold firmly erect; they have not spread a sail". (Isaiah 33:23).
'VEHICLES' BY
WHICH PEOPLE WARRED AGAINST GOD.
As for the "war chariot", the "military force"
and the "strong ones" so often used by satan's tyrants to subdue the nations
(Isaiah 14:6): "They will lie down. They will not get up. They will
certainly be extinguished. Like a flaxen wick they must be put out." (43:17).
"LOOK! I AM DOING
SOMETHING NEW."
What is it that Jehovah will do that is deemed
"something new" and that His people "will know"? It
is that "through the wilderness I shall set a way, through the
desert rivers." (43:19). The "great crowd" are being gathered from a
"wilderness" condition and set upon the "Way of Holiness"
(35:8-10), just as it is written: "because I shall have given water even
in the wilderness, rivers in the desert, to cause My people, My
chosen one, to drink, the people whom I have formed for Myself, that they should
recount the praise of Me." (43:19-21).
THE LEGAL CASE OF
ZION IS AGAINST APOSTATES.
"Jehovah has a day of vengeance, a year of
retributions for the legal case over Zion." (Isaiah 34:8).
"Jehovah will certainly be put on high, for He is residing in the height.
He must fill Zion with justice and righteousness. (33:5). To
apostates Jehovah says: "Your own spirit, as a fire, will eat you up. And
peoples must become as the burnings of lime. As thorns cut away, they will be
set ablaze even with fire… In Zion the sinners have come to be in dread;
shivering has grabbed hold of the apostates: 'Who of us can reside for
any time with a devouring fire? Who of us can reside for any time with
long-lasting conflagrations?'" (From Isaiah 33:10-14).
A COVENANT.
"Yes, I do establish My covenant with you:
No more will all flesh be cut off by waters of a deluge, and no more will there
occur a deluge to bring the earth to ruin." (Gen 9:11). Flooding the earth with
the Spirit of His righteousness will be like the "days of Noah" only in a
spiritual sense. (Matt 24:36-39). For the intended purpose of these Spirit
"waters" is not to cut off all flesh, nor are they intended "to bring the earth
to ruin."
(Cont. on Page
23/12/83).
22/12/83.
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