The Kingdom of Christ
Isaiah 14:1: “For the LORD will have
mercy on Jacob,” [The father of the 12 Tribes of Israel,
see Genesis 32:28 and Genesis 35:10-12]
“and will yet choose Israel,” [The 12 Tribes of Israel,
see Jeremiah 23:5-8] “and set them in their
own land:” [The Land of Israel, see Numbers 34:1-15] “and the strangers”
[The other nations who refuse to accept the teachings of
Christ/The New Testament, see Ephesians 3:1-7
and Acts 17:24-31] “shall be joined with them,”
[12 Tribes of Israel/The people of God/The Elect and the
144,000/Saints of the Most High, see Revelation 20:4-5]
“and they” [The other nations] “shall cleave”
[Be joined] “to the house of Jacob.”
Isaiah 14:2: “And the people” [12
Tribes of Israel/The people of God/The Elect and the
144,000/Saints of the Most High] “shall take them,”
[The other nations] “and bring them” [The other
nations] “to their place:” [The Land of Israel, see
Numbers 34:1-15] “and
the house of Israel shall possess them” [The other nations]
“in the land of the LORD” [The Land of Israel, see
Numbers 34:1-15] “for
servants and handmaids:” [Slaves] “and they” [12
Tribes of Israel/The Elect and the 144,000/Saints of the Most
High] “shall take them captives,” [The other nations]
“whose captives they were; and they” [12 Tribes of
Israel/The Elect and the 144,000/Saints of the Most High]
“shall rule over their oppressors.” 12 Tribes of Israel
will rule over all nations that ruled over them, this includes
the time they entered into their land until their deliverance by
Christ. This history is found in
the Bible from the book of Judges 2:11 unto
Revelation 20.
Isaiah 14:3: “And it shall come to pass in
the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and
from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made
to serve,” The time of rest starts with the Kingdom of
Christ, see Daniel 7:14, 18, 22,
Revelation 14:1 and Revelation 20:4-6.
The Proverb: King of Babylon and Satan
A proverb is a taunting speech. An example is found in
Jeremiah 31:29: “…The fathers have
eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on
edge.” The answer/explanation to that proverb is
found in Jeremiah 31:27-40.
The answer to the proverb in verse 4
below, “How hath the oppressor ceased! The golden
city ceased!” is explained in verses 5-23.
In order for anyone to understand this proverb, they
must first understand how sin entered the
world, see Genesis 3:1-24 and 2
Esdras 4:30; and how sin will be taken out of
the world (the destruction of the Devil/Satan and his
followers), see Daniel 12:1-2,
Revelation 12:7-17, Revelation 13:1-4,
Revelation 19:11-21 and
Revelation 20:1-3, 7-10, 12-15. For example in
Isaiah 14:3: “…In the day that the
LORD shall give thee rest…,” that time period is
the Kingdom of Christ, see Daniel 7:14, 18, 22,
Revelation 14:1 and Revelation
20:4-6, this is the time period when the People
of God shall take up the proverb against the king of
Babylon/the Beast, and his golden city/that great city
Babylon, see Revelation 18:9-10. The
People of God will fulfill Jeremiah 23:5-8,
by talking about the events that took placed to deliver
the Elect and the 144,000 from Satan and the kingdom of
the Beast. The book of Revelation contains Bible
prophesies concerning the rise and fall of the Beast,
and his false prophet. Revelation 13:4
explains that the dragon/Satan gave them their power and
authority. The downfall and destruction of the Beast,
false prophet, and Satan is also prophesied/foretold in
the book of Revelation.
Isaiah 14:4: “That thou” [12 Tribes of Israel/The Elect and the 144,000/Saints of the Most High] “shalt take up” [Talk about] “this proverb against the king of Babylon,” [The Beast, see Revelation 13:3-8] “and say, How hath the oppressor” [The Beast/little horn, see Daniel 7:25 and Revelation 13:5-8] “ceased!” [Or how was the oppressor destroyed] “the golden city” [Babylon] “ceased!” See Revelation 18:7-19.
2 Esdras 4:22: “Then answered I” [Esdras]
“and said,
I beseech thee, O Lord, let me have understanding:”
2 Esdras 4:23: “For it was not my mind to be curious of
the high things, but of such as pass by us daily,
namely, wherefore Israel is given up as a reproach to
the heathen, and for what cause the people whom thou
hast loved is given over unto ungodly nations, and why
the law of our forefathers is brought to nought, and the
written covenants come to none effect,”
2 Esdras 4:24: “And we” [Israel]
“pass away out of the
world as grasshoppers, and our life is astonishment and
fear, and we” [Israel] “are not worthy to obtain mercy.”
2 Esdras 4:25: “What will he” [The Most High]
“then do
unto his name whereby we” [Israel] “are called? of these
things have I” [Esdras] “asked.”
2 Esdras 4:26: “Then answered he” [Uriel, see
2 Esdras
4:1] “me,” [Esdras] “and said, The more thou searchest,
the more thou shalt marvel; for the world” [This
present
world/unrighteous world, see 2 Esdras 6:1-9]
“hasteth
fast to pass away,”
2 Esdras 4:27: “And cannot comprehend the things that
are promised to the righteous in time to come: for this
world is full of unrighteousness and infirmities.”
2 Esdras 4:28: “But as concerning the things whereof
thou askest me, I” [Uriel] “will tell thee;” [Esdras]
“for the evil” [Sin/disobedience to the Most High/God]
“is sown,” [See 2 Esdras 3:21-22,
2 Esdras 7:11-14 and
Genesis 3:1, 5-7, 14] “but the destruction thereof is
not yet come.” See Revelation 20:10-15 and
Message to
reader: The Kingdom of Christ. The
aforementioned message to the reader, explains the
entire process, which starts with Christ and finishes
with the destruction of Satan and the wicked.
Note: Uriel’s answer to Esdras, in
verse 28-32, encompasses all
scriptures/prophesies of evil/sin/disobedience from the
beginning of the world to its destruction. In other
words, all scriptures must be fulfilled (See
verse 37) in order for the Most High to gather
his people and give them a new heart, see
Ezekiel 36:25-28.
2 Esdras 4:29: “If therefore that”
[Evil/sin/disobedience to the Most High] “which is sown
be not turned upside down,” [See verse 30]
“and if the
place” [The heart/mind] “where the evil is sown” [See
verse 30] “pass not away,” [Be destroyed]
“then cannot
it" [The fleshly heart] "come that is sown with good.” See Ezekiel 36:25-28,
Jeremiah 31:31-34 and Hebrews 8:10-13.
2 Esdras 4:30: “For the grain of evil
seed”
[Sin/disobedience] “hath been sown in the heart”
[Mind, see Jeremiah 17:9-10] “of Adam” [The heart/mind
of Adam is the place where evil was sown] “from the
beginning, and how much ungodliness hath it”
[Sin/disobedience] “brought up unto this time?” [The
time period of the Persian and Media Empire, see 2
Esdras 1:1-3] “and how much shall it” [Sin/disobedience to
God] “yet bring forth until the time of threshing come?”
The Seven Last Plagues of God, see Revelation
16:1-21, the second coming of Christ, see Revelation 19:11-21,
and the last judgment, see Revelation 20:7-15.
Examples of sin/disobedience, is found in Romans
1:21-32.
2 Esdras 4:31: “Ponder” [Think]
“now by thyself,”
[Esdras] “how great fruit of wickedness the grain of
evil seed: [See verse 30] "hath brought forth.”
2 Esdras 4:32: “And when the ears"
[The fruit of wickedness, see verse 31]
"shall be cut down,
which are without number, how great a floor shall they
fill?” See Revelation 19:11-21.
2 Esdras 4:33: “Then I” [Esdras]
“answered and said,
How, and when shall these things come to pass? wherefore
are our years few and evil?”
2 Esdras 4:34: “And he” [Uriel]
“answered me,” [Esdras]
“saying, Do not thou hasten above the most Highest: for
thy haste is in vain to be above him,” [The Most High,
see Matthew 24:36]
“for thou” [Esdras] “hast much exceeded.”
2 Esdras 4:35: “Did not the souls also of the righteous
ask question of these things in their chambers, saying,
How long shall I hope on this fashion? when cometh the
fruit of the floor of our reward?” See Revelation
6:9-11, 2 Esdras 2:38-41
and Message to reader: The Reward of the 144,000.
2 Esdras 4:36: “And unto these things Uriel the
archangel gave them” [The righteous] “answer, and said,
Even when the number of seeds is filled in you:” [See
Revelation 14:1-5] “for he” [The Most High]
“hath
weighed the world in the balance.”
2 Esdras 4:37: “By measure hath he” [The Most High]
“measured the times; and by number hath he numbered the
times; and he doth not move nor stir them, until the
said measure be fulfilled.”
Isaiah 14:5: “The LORD hath broken the staff” [Power/ruler ship] “of the wicked,” [The Seven Last Plagues of God, see Revelation 16:1-21 and Revelation 19:1-8] “and the sceptre of the rulers.” Christ and the 144,000 will be set up to rule, see Daniel 7:18, 27 and Revelation 20:4.
As stated above, the People of God will fulfill Jeremiah 23:5-8, by talking about the events that took placed to deliver the Elect and the 144,000 from Satan and the kingdom of the Beast. These events include: the casting out of Satan and his angels from to the earth (See Revelation 12:7-9 and Daniel 12:1), and the binding of Satan for 1,000 years, during the Kingdom of Christ (See Revelation 20:1-4). It should be noted, verses 6-20 refer to Satan and not the Beast, see Revelation 19:19-20.
Isaiah 14:6: “He” [Satan] “who smote the people in wrath with
a continual stroke, he” [Satan, see Matthew 4:8-9]
“that ruled
the nations in anger, is persecuted,” [Chain and bound in the
bottomless pit/hell for a 1,000 years] “and none hindereth.”
Isaiah 14:7: “The whole earth” [The land and the sea]
“is at
rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing.”
Isaiah 14:8: “Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee,” [Satan’s
persecution] “and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou”
[Satan] “art laid down, no feller” [Tree cutter] “is come up
against us.”
Isaiah 14:9: “Hell” [See Message to reader: Hell and Death and
Ezekiel 32:17-24] “from beneath is moved for thee” [Satan]
“to
meet thee” [Satan] “at thy coming:” [To hell/bottomless pit]
“it” [Hell] “stirreth up the dead for thee,” [Satan]
“even all
the chief ones of the earth; it” [Hell] “hath raised up from
their thrones all the kings of the nations.”
Isaiah 14:10: “All they” [The kings and leaders that once lived
and ruled on the earth] “shall speak and say unto
thee,” [Satan] “Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become
like unto us?” With no power, bound in hell!
Isaiah 14:11: “Thy pomp is brought down to the grave,” [Hell]
“and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and
the worms cover thee.” In Hell!
Isaiah 14:12: “How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son
of the morning!” [See Revelation 12:7-9 and
Daniel 12:1] “how
art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken" [With
lies contrary to the truth of God] "the
nations!”
Isaiah 14:13: “For thou” [Satan] “hast said in thine heart, I”
[Satan] “will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above
the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the
congregation, in the sides of the north:” See Revelation 13:4-7.
Isaiah 14:14: “I” [Satan] “will ascend above the heights of the
clouds; I will be like the most High.”
Isaiah 14:15: “Yet thou” [Satan] “shalt be brought down to hell,
to the sides of the pit.” See Revelation 20:1-3.
Isaiah 14:16: “They” [See verses 9-10]
“that see thee shall
narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the
man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;”
Isaiah 14:17: “That made the world as a wilderness, and
destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his
prisoners?”
Isaiah 14:18: “All the kings of the nations, even all of them,
lie in glory, every one in his own house.” In hell, see
Ezekiel
32:17-31.
Isaiah 14:19: “But thou” [Satan] “art cast out of thy grave like
an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are
slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones
of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.” See Revelation
20:1-3.
Isaiah 14:20: “Thou” [Satan] “shalt not be joined with them"
[Those in hell] "in
burial," [An angel of God, will lay hold on Satan, bound
him with a chain, and cast him into bottomless pit/hell, see
Revelation 20:1-3] "because thou” [Satan] “hast destroyed thy land,” [See
verse 4] “and slain thy people:” [See
Revelation 13:4, 8] “the
seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.” See Revelation
14:9-11.
Isaiah 14:21: “Prepare slaughter for his” [Satan’s]
“children" [See 1 John 3:8-12 and
Revelation 13:4, 8] "for the iniquity” [Sin] “of their fathers;"
[Progenitors, an example of this is Cain, see John 8:44]
"that they do not
rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with
cities.”
Isaiah 14:22: “For I” [The Most High]
“will rise up against
them, saith the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the
name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the LORD.” See
Reveation 16:1-21 and Revelation 19:11-21.
Isaiah 14:23: “I” [The Most High] “will also make it"
[Babylon] "a
possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep
it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts.” See
Revelation 18:2, 8-19, Revelation 16:19-21,
Isaiah 13:19-22 and
Isaiah 34:11-15.
