(Continuing writings from my beach day reading notes)

Woohoo!!!! Made it to a Christmas Miracle in a small package pre-delivered. I don’t mean wrapped gifts but unwrapped prophecy, Isaiah 7 8 9 !!!  Isaiah told the nations of his time and tells us now what we should now know: Jesus is going to be born to save us, a King for judgement and peace. A Savior born savoring butter and honey, a BABY OH BABY, Jesus is a coming!!!

Wonderful Counselor – Mighty God -Prince of Peace – Immanuel – God WITH us !!!

Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good. Isaiah 7:14-15

Ah, BUTTER and HONEY !?! I never read that part until I actually got here, what joy in reading the whole Bible, savoring the study. What amazing TRUST that  Jesus, Son, there from the beginning as the Word, the Light made flesh, must have held in Father God and all the Heavens to protect Him, being born helpless as a baby into a poor family but deep in spirit and estra taught by angel guidance. Butter and Honey – nourishing Him to know good joy. Yes, if Jesus could give up all He did to serve us all, then surely we could give up some things (including our fear and pride) to serve a few and many. And we CAN give up to the Lord our worries and our fear. And we can give over to the Lord our trust. Because if Jesus could, so can we. That’s a gift, Christmas-time and forever – strength to live like Jesus. 

Ah, Isaiah as a prophet had God’s STRONG WARNING to the people in the current divided kingdom of Judah-Jerusalem-Just Anywhere Israel Was Going Wrong. He told them they best fear the Lord and NOT listen to faking spiritualists or mediums. Isaiah as a prophet had God’s Word to announce where their hope was going to come from, a Savior born earthly onto King David’s throne as prophesied to David himself.

“do not fear what they fear, and do not dread it. The Lord Almighty is the one you are to regard as holy...”

God through Isaiah warned against those coming who didn’t speak from the Word, and surely Jesus spoke SO MUCH from the scriptures to clearly visibly be Messiah, yet many then failed to see because they remained in darkness. Many now continue in darkness, illuminated and blinded by fake artificial distracting blitzes of worldly bling. WE NEED TO Consult God’s instruction and the testimony of warning. If anyone does not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn. WE ARE TO SHED LIGHT ON THE WORD AND ON JESUS AS SAVIOR.

If God told Isaiah to tell us, and Jesus told us to tell others, then let’s bring out the baby Jesus, Baby Oh Baby, and celebrate HIS WAY.

Amen and please read the passages:

Isaiah 8:11-15, 19-22

This is what the Lord says to me with his strong hand upon me, warning me not to follow the way of this people:  “Do not call conspiracy everything this people calls a conspiracy; do not fear what they fear, and do not dread it. The Lord Almighty is the one you are to regard as holy, he is the one you are to fear, he is the one you are to dread. He will be a holy place; for both Israel and Judah he will be a stone that causes people to stumble and a rock that makes them fall. And for the people of Jerusalem he will be a trap and a snare. Many of them will stumble; they will fall and be broken, they will be snared and captured.” Bind up this testimony of warning and seal up God’s instruction among my disciples. I will wait for the Lord, who is hiding his face from the descendants of Jacob. I will put my trust in him. Here am I, and the children the Lord has given me. We are signs and symbols in Israel from the Lord Almighty, who dwells on Mount Zion.

The Darkness Turns to Light

When someone tells you to consult mediums and spiritists, who whisper and mutter, should not a people inquire of their God? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?  Consult God’s instruction and the testimony of warning. If anyone does not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn. Distressed and hungry, they will roam through the land; when they are famished, they will become enraged and, looking upward, will curse their king and their God. Then they will look toward the earth and see only distress and darkness and fearful gloom, and they will be thrust into utter darkness.

Isaiah 9:1-2, 6-8

Nevertheless, there will be no more gloom for those who were in distress. In the past he humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the future he will honor Galilee of the nations, by the Way of the Sea, beyond the Jordan – 

The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned.

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For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the greatness of his government and peace there will be no end.

He will reign on David’s throne and over his kingdom, establishing and upholding it with justice and righteousness from that time on and forever. The zeal of the Lord Almighty will accomplish this.