Continuing: when the LORD declares heaven has come on earth do you think the gates of hell can stand against it? First, do we understand what heaven on earth means? It means God has declare His will is being done on the earth and He has raised up his government in men of His choosing.
Isaiah 65
1 I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name.
2 I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walk in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;
3 A people that provoke me to anger continually to my face; that sacrifice in gardens, and burn incense upon altars of brick;
4 Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine’s flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;
5 Which say, Stand by yourself, come not near to me; for I am holier than you. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all the day.
6 Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,
7 Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, says the LORD, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom.
8 Thus says the LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one says, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants’ sakes, that I may not destroy them all.
This last verse tells of the new wine as those who are the remnant that are His kingdom where He reigns. These are the elect of God, and the gates of hell will not stand in their way.
Friends, here and now is where we stand! Everything is just as it should be.
Romans 9
13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
15 For he said to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
16 So then it is not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God that shows mercy.
17 For the scripture says unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
18 Therefore has he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardens.
19 You will say then unto me, Why does he yet find fault? For who has resisted his will?
20 Nay but, O man, who are you that replies against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why have you made me thus?
21 Has not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor?
22 What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
24 Even us, whom he has called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
25 As he said also in Hosea, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.
26 And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, You are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.
27 Isaiah also cried out concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
28 For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the LORD make upon the earth.
29 And as Isaiah said before, Except the LORD of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodom, and been made like unto Gomorrah.
30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.
31 But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, has not attained to the law of righteousness.
32 Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumbling-stone;
33 As it is written, Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling-stone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
The final verses above should be understood in the context of the beginning verses of Isaiah 65.
Here is where we are right now: we know the waters that flow are symbols of the information that flows to the masses. We know in these waters is found death and life; life in the advice and truth that comes direct from God; death in the lies, opinions and deception presented as fact that dominate and corrupts all discourse. We know these waters have been dried up so we are able to plainly see what has always been lurking in the waters.
When we read of this in Revelation 16 we see once the waters are dried up these unclean spirits like frogs, that were before hidden in the waters, now become plainly seen. They are seen as words coming out of the mouth of those speaking for the corrupted governments of church and nation.
This is what we now see in the news media and the false church’s prophets all telling us openly they are on the side that trusts in the power of lies; both wanting to destroy God’s elect remnant that is refuses to submit to their lies. This is context in which Romans 9 above is speaking.
Revelation 16
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
17 And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done.
18 And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.
19 And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
20 And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.
21 And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.
When Romans 9:27 & 28 tells of the remnant that is preserved and delivered it is quoting from Isaiah 10:22 & 23 and what is written in Romans as the LORD finishing His work in the earth. In Romans this ending is defined as “cutting it short,” and the same event is rendered as the “consumption” in Isaiah. The Hebrew word translated “consumption” is kalah, meaning a full end, as in a work completed.
Isaiah 10 tells of this completion ending the tyrannical oppression as being likened to removing the yoke of Egypt. It tells of the deliverance as when, by the sword of the LORD, Gideon with a small remnant put the Midianites to flight, and chasing them to Oreb called all the people to battle in the final total destruction of Midian. It also likens it to the sea covering and totally destroying Pharaoh and his army, when the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart causing his relentless attacks and brought upon him self-destruction.
In our time we see this as what is occurring before our very eyes. The news media and the false prophets think they are about to destroy God’s people, the people He has chosen, and instead they are sowing the seed of their own destruction.
So, I say to them – fight harder, chase on, everyone says your going to succeed, and that we, God’s people, don’t have a chance. Keep your focus right where it is, and in doing miss the coming destruction.
Isaiah 10
21 The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.
22 For though your people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.
23 For the LORD God of hosts shall make a consumption, even determined, in the midst of all the land.
24 Therefore thus says the LORD God of hosts, O my people that dwell in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite you with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against you, after the manner of Egypt.
25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction.
26 And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt.
27 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.
Midian means brawler, as in those that sow strife and argue about everything (news media). Oreb means darkness as a covering, as in the darkness they have brought upon the world.
The word kalah is used one other time in Isaiah in telling of the same overflowing as the hail of Revelation 16, and the waters of Isaiah 10, that wash away the lies and their hiding place; and the passage begins with telling of the stumbling-stone that is quoted in Romans 9.
Isaiah 28
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, you scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus says the LORD God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then you shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goes forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
20 For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.
21 For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.
22 Now therefore be you not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the LORD God of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.
23 Give you ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.
24 Does the plowman plow all day to sow? does he open and break the clods of his ground?
25 When he has made plain the face thereof, does he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?
26 For his God does instruct him to discretion, and does teach him.
27 For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.
28 Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.
29 This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.
When verse 21 above tells us this is Jehovah rising as in mount Perazim it is referring to 2 Samuel 5:20 telling of the LORD breaking forth as waters upon the enemies of God’s people. The name Perazim means to break forth. It is called Baal-perazim in 2 Samuel 5 and mount Perazim in Isaiah 28, both meaning they have risen to be high places of (corrupted) power as created idols.
2 Samuel 5
18 The Philistines also came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim [restoration].
19 And David enquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up to the Philistines? will you deliver them into mine hand? And the LORD said unto David, Go up: for I will doubtless deliver the Philistines into your hand.
20 And David came to Baalperazim, and David smote them there, and said, The LORD has broken forth upon mine enemies before me, as the breach of waters. Therefore he called the name of that place Baalperazim.
21 And there they left their images, and David and his men burned them.
22 And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim [restoration].
23 And when David enquired of the LORD, he said, You shall not go up; but fetch a compass behind them, and come upon them over against the mulberry trees.
24 And let it be, when you hear the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then you shall bestir thyself: for then shall the LORD go out before you, to smite the host of the Philistines.
25 And David did so, as the LORD had commanded him; and smote the Philistines from Geba [their high places] until you come to Gazer [their separation from God’s people].
When Isaiah 28:21 also mentions Gibeon as a pattern of the consummation it is referring to Joshua 10:10 and the slaughter at Gibeon when the LORD cast down great hail from heaven on the enemies, again in the manner of Revelation 16.
Joshua 10
7 So Joshua ascended from Gilgal [as a whirlwind – and the cart wheel of Isaiah 28:27], he, and all the people of war with him, and all the mighty men of valor.
8 And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear them not: for I have delivered them into your hand; there shall not a man of them stand before you.
9 Joshua therefore came unto them suddenly, and went up from Gilgal all night.
10 And the LORD discomfited them before Israel, and slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon [their mount], and chased them along the way that goes up to Bethhoron [house in cave in the mount – where men try to hide from the hail], and smote them to Azekah [until they were fenced in], and unto Makkedah [their mark became apparent].
11 And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Bethhoron, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.
12 Then spoke Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun [church government], stand you still upon Gibeon; and you, Moon [national government], in the valley of Ajalon [humble yourselves to the TRUE power and strength].
13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher [upright – the risen]? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.
14 And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the LORD hearkened unto the voice of a man: for the LORD fought for Israel.
Friends, be not dismayed or shaken by the lies of the wicked. They are blinded by their own lust to destroy us, and have no idea what is coming. The LORD will fight for us. Father, hallowed by your name, your kingdom has come, deliver us from evil. Thank you Father.
