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LESSON 3 * PART 4 * BOOK 61
ISAIAH 54:1 – 57:1 - Part 2
All right, let’s go back into chapter 55 where we left off in the last lesson and begin with verse 8, where God says:
"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD." That’s why we can’t outguess God. God has a reason for everything that He permits. Well, God has His reasons. He has His purposes. Now, verse 9:
Isaiah 55:9
One old Rabbi was praying one day, and he says, "God, I know we’re your chosen people. Matthew 24:9
Again, this is the reason - Satan knows they are God’s people. Satan knows that nothing can finalize prophecy if Israel is gone. If Satan can destroy the Jewish people, then God is defeated and He cannot fulfill the prophecies.
Isaiah 55:10a
Now, when it comes to purpose, I can’t help but jump up to Paul and to Ephesians where he uses the same words, "the Divine purpose."
Ephesians 1:11
"In whom (speaking of Christ) also we (as believers of this age of Grace - you and I today. This is Paul writing to Gentile believers.) Ephesians 1:12
Ephesians 1:13
Everything that happens, God has a purpose. Who (God in verse 8) hath (already) saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace,…" You’re a believer tonight because this is part of God’s purpose for this day and time. We’re all members of the Body of Christ, if we’ve believed Paul’s Gospel for salvation, and we are now on the same team. "…which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began." All right, let’s come back to Isaiah chapter 55 and verse 11.
Isaiah 55:11
Because it’s God’s purpose. All right, verse 12, for the believer then, even in Israel. Never lose sight of the fact that this is God dealing with Israel. We have to jump up to Paul to find His dealing with us Gentiles, but for Israel it was still the same God. It’s still the same grace of God. All right, verse 12.
Isaiah 55:12
Isaiah 55:13
I wonder if you’ll catch it as I read it?
Isaiah 57:1
"The righteous (the believers) perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: (They don’t care if a believer dies because the world would just as soon be rid of us.) The Rapture. "Merciful men are (what?) I Thessalonians 5:9
"For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,"
Romans 5:9b
What’s the wrath to come? The Tribulation. It’s got to go into the Tribulation and suffer all the things with Israel. We may suffer yet as believers. Only Paul knows anything of the Body of Christ. You cannot find the term the "Body of Christ" anywhere in Scripture, except Paul.He is the only one that had the revelation of this outcalling of believers in this Age of Grace that would come into what we call, the Body of Christ, totally insulated from that prophetic program for Israel. Consequently, it has to be removed before God can finish that prophetic program. All right, let’s start with Romans chapter 16 and verse 25. Romans 16:25
That Christ died for our sins, was buried, and rose from the dead.) and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began." That Paul’s Gospel is part of a revelation of things that no other portion of Scripture knows anything about. It has been kept secret in the mind of God all through the Old Testament prophecies.
All right, how in the world, then, can anybody try to put the Church up into the book of Revelation when God never did? God never did. Insulated from all the prophecies of Israel.
I Corinthians chapter 15, but now let’s go to the last part of the chapter instead of the first, chapter 15 verse 51. I Corinthians 15:52
It’s God.) Isaiah said, "that the righteous would be removed before the wrath to follow." Paul had never heard of it before, but it becomes part of his revelation of these things kept secret.
I Thessalonians 4:13-14
14. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, (we have salvation, we’ve been brought into the Body of Christ) even so them also which sleep [have died] in Jesus will God bring with him." All right, but they’ve got to have a body. It’s going to be a resurrected body for the dead and new body for those who are alive.
I Thessalonians 4:15-16a
Not an angel’s trumpet. Big, big difference.
I Thessalonians 4:16b
"…and the dead in Christ shall rise first:" Those believers who have died since Saul’s conversion and who are now going into the Body of Christ, one by one. Turn to II Thessalonians chapter 2 and we might as well start at verse 1.
II Thessalonians 2:1
"Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, (that is for the Body, not the Second Coming for prophecy, for Israel, but for the Body) and by our gathering together unto him."
The anti-Christ. So, the anti-Christ cannot be revealed.

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