In the past few days, I have been doing a private study on Judah and those who are called, according to John 4, to be true worshippers. They are those who will worship in Spirit and in Truth. True Judah will be led to true north on their life’s compass.
To review, we know that when we go to be the “true Judah” – worship is a place where self (who we are) goes to die… and in the prayer of our Gethsemane we find the place where our will (what we desire) goes to die.
There are two enemies that have come to invade, compromise and destroy the true JUDAH. We are warned about these enemies in Isaiah 7. It deals with two assassins of anointing… Pride for Fame and Compromise for Prosperity.
I will comment in the midst of the passage in all caps:
Isa 7:1 And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah that Rezin (DELIGHTING IN ONE’S SELF OR SELF SEEKING) the king of Syria, (HIGH AND MIGHTY) and Pekah (EYES wide-open – PRIDE OF THE EYE, LUST OF THE EYES) the son of Remaliah, (TO BECOME LIKE GOD – DECKED OUT LIKE A GOD) king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem (A SAFE PLACE WHERE GOD’S WORD AND GOD’S ANOINTING FLOW UNENCUMBERED) to war against it, but could not prevail against it. (THERE ARE SPIRITS THAT WORK WITHIN THE HOUSE OF GOD TO FIGHT AGAINST WORSHIP – STATEMENTS COMING FROM A WORSHIP TEAM SUCH AS… “DID I SOUND GOOD?” OR “DID I LOOK OK?” OR “DID YOU SEE WHAT HAPPENED WHEN I WORSHIPPED?”)
Isa 7:2 And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria (pride) is confederate with Ephraim. (prosperity) And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind. (WHEN PRIDE IN THE LORD AND PROSPERITY OF THE SOUL ARE EVIDENT – IT WORKS OPPOSITE TO WHAT WE SEE HERE – BOTH SYRIA AND EPHRAIM CONFEDERATE TO FIGHT AGAINST TRUE WORSHIP. ONE OF THE WAYS TO STIFLE TRUE WORSHIP IS TO SCRIPT IT, MAKE IT REPETATIVE, OR TO DO IT AS TO MAKE A HUMAN BEING LIFTED UP OR TO MAKE A PERSON “STAND OUT”)
Isa 7:3 Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, (PROPHETIC) Go forth now to meet Ahaz, (ROYALTY) thou, and Shearjashub (A REMNANT) thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller’s field; (THE PROPHETIC REMNANT MUST MEET THE KING FACE TO FACE)
(WHAT TO DO WHEN IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD ON BEHALF OF TRUE WORSHIP)
Isa 7:4 And say unto him, Take heed and be quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah. (BE CAREFUL. COME IN A SENSE OF REVERENCE AND AWE… AND BE QUIET… AND BE CAREFUL TO LISTEN. REMOVE ALL FEAR AND BE OF GOOD COURAGE)
Isa 7:5 Because Syria, Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying, (HUMAN PRIDE, MATERIAL PROSPERITY, ACT OF SIN BY WAY OF THE LUST OF THE EYES, COME AGAINST WORSHIP TO “VEX” IT)
Isa 7:6 Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, (THIS LITERALLY MEANS TO “CUT OFF THE HARVEST” THAT TRUE WORSHIP YIELDS) and let us make a breach therein for us, (LET US RIP TRUE WORSHIP TO PIECES) and set a king (LET’S MAKE WORSHIP A PLACE WHERE SELF IS GLORIFIED AND HUMAN BEINGS HAVE THEIR OWN WAY – LET’S SET A HUMAN KING OVER HUMAN WORSHIP) in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal: (A CHEERLEADER. A god IN THE MIDST OF MEN. A CELEBRITY. LET’S MAKE OUR WORSHIP LEADERS CHRISTIAN IDOLS… CELEBRITIES… FAMOUS.)
Now… I have thus far only commented on the first six verses of this great assault on true worship. It is so infamous that it makes me sick to my stomach when I see the direction that worship travels in dead churches… and sometimes in live churches.
Worship is a place where fallow ground must be broken up so that the seeds of the Word can come forth and be planted in good, tilled soil. It is also like the place of threshing in times of harvest, separating the human from the supernatural… the power of man from the power of God… the faux from the genuine… the wheat in your life from the tares.
Isa 7:7 Thus saith the Lord GOD, it shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass. (THIS IS A GREAT PROMISE FROM THE LORD – AND WHEN JUDAH IS ATTACKED BY PRIDE AND COMPROMISE – IT cannot STAND, NOR WILL IT BE SUCCESSFUL!)
Isa 7:8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken that it be not a people. (THOSE THAT ATTACK AND INSULT WORSHIP WILL NOT COME TO FRUITION)
Isa 7:9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established. (IF YOU BELIEVE THAT YOU NEED EITHER OF THESE TO BUILD A WORSHIP TEAM OR A BIGGER CHURCH – YOUR WORSHIP WILL NOT BE ESTABLISHED)
Isa 7:14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
Isa 7:15 Butter and honey shall he eat that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
Isa 7:16 For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhors shall be forsaken of both her kings.
Isa 7:17 The LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father’s house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria. (WHEN THE CHURCH DEPARTS FROM TRUE WORSHIP – TROUBLED TIMES WILL ARISE. BELOW YOU WILL SEE ANOTHER VERSION OF THIS TEXT FROM ISAIAH)
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