David Journal

Tag: Isaiah

  • Repent to be cleansed

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    The Lord wanted Israel to repent so that their offerings could have any beneficial effect. Keeping the feasts without turning to the Lord leaves then no better than heathen nations. I just realized that the Lord telling Isaiah to make the ears of Israel heavy with prophecy was a fulfillment of the prophecy that he…

  • Speaking apparently

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    For all the talk of men not seeing the face of God – the promise of there that the Lord will speak to those who accept his covenant “apparently, and not in dark speeches.” While we may not see his face He promised that there should be no need to struggle to understand him. Jesus…

  • Below all things

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    It was necessary for Christ to be mocked and mistreated in order for Him to descend below all things.

  • Purify the sons of Levi

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    I wonder about the Lord purifying the sons of Levi. Part of me thinks He has begun that process and another part feels like that is something he will do openly after he comes. As I think about it, and considering what I know of devout modern Jews, I believe the process has started but…

  • No hidden truth

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    There is nothing about the plan of salvation which was done in the dark. While no man may know the hour of His coming, yet He was openly declared before, during, and after his mortal mission.

  • A solid place

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    Christ is the solid place upon which men can build safely. He alone is the destination upon which they can land in the seat of spiritual storm and not be sweet away if they will cling to Him. Any other foundation will crumble in the storm sooner or later.

  • He shall rise the third day

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    I wonder if there is any specific project more repeated than the fact that Christ would be killed and ride again on the third day after His death. That says something about how central that act was to the plan of salvation and how uniquely it identified Christ.

  • One who redeems

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    Christ is quite literally the one who paid our impossible debt.

  • The central figure of prophecy

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    Yesterday only scratched the surface of the best of sources prophesying of Christ.

  • King of Kings

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    All things and all people are subject unto Christ and eventually all will acknowledge that to be true.