Being1inChrist

Isa 8:1  Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man’s pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz.(“swift is booty, speedy is prey”) 

Isa 8:2  And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah (“Jehovah (Yahweh) is my light (flame)”) the priest, and Zechariah (“Jehovah remembers”) the son of Jeberechiah. (“Jehovah blesses”)

Isa 8:3  And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name Mahershalalhashbaz. (“swift is booty, speedy is prey”)

Isa 8:4  For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus (“silent is the sackcloth weaver”) and the spoil of Samaria (“watch mountain”) shall be taken away before the king of Assyria (“a step” (in the sense of successful) to be straight (used in the widest sense, especially to be level, right, happy); figuratively to go forward, be honest, prosper: – (call, be) bless (-ed, happy), go, guide, lead, relieve.). 

Damascus and Samaria are our old man’s thoughts of being prudent and searching everything out through his own knowledge, weaving a covering, a perceived safe place for his world – a covering that is actually a sackcloth – a covering of mourning. It brings only despair for the elect. The old man silently weaves his own sackcloth, that which holds his goods, like Judas who held the money bag. The old man thinks it is by his understanding and a lot of knowledge and experience does he succeed in life. By his own watching from his mountain of pride does he become successful or succeed in life. His Samaria and Damascus are familiar spirits and wizards. He despises waiting for the soft calm waters of Christ leading us and strives for his own knowledge through much searching and carnal learning. The old man rejoices in a “firm” (Rezin) understanding of God as austere and it is through this false knowledge does the old man believe he is “decked” or “bedecked” by God, the meaning of the name “Remaliah”. Because of this false understanding of God the old man is destroyed by the very opposite, which is the overflowing river of success by simply waiting on Christ as our guide, our Way. The name Assyria has a positive meaning to the new man who waits on Christ and that meaning is H804 -“a step”, from H833 (in the sense of successful) to be straight (used in the widest sense, especially to be level, right, happy); figuratively to go forward, be honest, prosper: – (call, be) bless (-ed, happy), go, guide, lead, relieve.” There is nothing the old man can claim as his because it is not through wisdom or carnal knowledge do we come to be successful in anything that God has us do. Like when we brought Rocky home and he took off running. We both felt at a loss on how we were going to get him in the pen. Then Christ had me scratch on trees and make mooing sounds which led him right into the pen. It wasn’t my knowledge or experience, a famaliar spirit gained by experience, but Christ leading me to do what He had me do to show His power in controlling all things and it becoming a success. Before we have the knowledge to even cry out to God, the success comes, “swift is the booty” and Christ is glorified, (For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.) Our own knowledge, as parabalized in Damascus and Samaria, are taken away and we are successful because God has heard us before we even know to cry out to Him. Assyria is the parable of the knowledge of truth that Christ is all wisdom and He, as an overflowing river overtakes our own wisdom and knowledge. Christ is our power and might, He and He alone is all we need. “All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers. And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what wasin thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no. And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every wordthat proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live. Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years. Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee. Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. For (remember that word ” FOR” in what comes after in the next verses) the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey; A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thingin it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass. (remember the word “FOR”? This is why.) When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the LORD thy God for the good land which he hath given thee.  Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day: (the way He has us dress, walk, talk, and everything starts and ends with each other and no one else is allowed between us.) Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein; And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied; Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage; Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint; Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end; And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth. But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is He that giveth thee power to get wealth, that He may establish his covenant which He sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day. And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish. As the nations which the LORD destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God.” 

Isa 8:5  The LORD spake also unto me again, saying, 

Isa 8:6  Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that go softly (gently, secretly, softly), and rejoice in Rezin (H7526-Probably for H7522; Retsin, the name of a Syrian and of an Israelite: – Rezin.H7522-From H7521; delight: – (be) acceptable (-ance, -ed), delight, desire, favour, (good) pleasure, (own, self, voluntary) will, as . . . (what) would. ) and Remaliah’s son; (From an unused root and H3050 (perhaps meaning to deck); Jah has bedecked; Remaljah, an Israelite: – Remaliah.) What is being said is that the old man delights himself in his own self, his own voluntary will and he calls this his god that has decked him with fine gold and riches. The name “Remaliah” means “protected by Jehovah but it is the same as when Christ said many will use His name and in the end He will say I never knew you. Like the man trying to use the word “lord” as his success yet he was not successful in selling us anything. His lord was himself and his sheep’s clothing was torn off to show a wolf claiming a title of lord.

Isa 8:7  Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks: (Christ is overflowing over everything we ever thought was our wisdom or knowledge and causing us to submit to His plan. According to carnal wisdom we are fools but according to Christ our King we are the blessed and He alone is our sanctuary. It is easy to see Christ as the Assyrian king overtaking the things in us that trust in ourselves when you remember these words , “These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets (Isaiah 8 about Assyria), and in the psalms, concerning me.”)

Isa 8:8  And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel. (My old world praises itself and calls it god, the meaning of the name Judah. And it thinks that God is with it, the meaning of the name Immanuel. But, my old man’s Judah and Immanuel will be taken and overcome.)

Isa 8:9  Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces. (When my old world, who thinks it’s godly, tries to assemble together or clothe itself it will be broken to pieces. Any counsel of my old world or the world out there that takes counsel against solely trusting in Christ will come to nothing and will not stand.)

Isa 8:10  Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us. 

Isa 8:11  For the LORD spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying, 

Isa 8:12  Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid. (The Lord’s hand is strong against me in making an alliance with the world in me and the world out there. I don’t have to fear their fear and do what they do because as the next verse says The Lord is my fear and dread. My alliance is to Christ and to Christ alone. I will wait upon The Lord and not my own knowledge or the knowledge of the world.)

Isa 8:13  Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread. 

Isa 8:14  And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. (Christ is our sanctuary and we are to trust in Him and Him alone. Faith in Christ as Creator is a stone of stumbling to the world in me and the world out there and a gin and a snare. It is a crime against my world and the world out there to soloely trust in Christ and not go to the world for their advice.)

Isa 8:15  And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken. 

Isa 8:16  Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. (The Elect of God are sealed with this testimony and the law of the spirit to trust in Christ and Christ alone.)

Isa 8:17  And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him. (Christ hides His face from the supplanter in me that tries to supplant its own wisdom for the wisdom of God in Christ.)

Isa 8:18  Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion. 

Isa 8:19  And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: (going to the world for their advice about our livestock or land. Being confederate with the world. This is what it says about a wizard: “through the eyes one experiences his world and learns from it”. Seeking knowledge from what my fleshly eyes see, from my experience.) should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead? 

Isa 8:20  To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. 

Isa 8:21  And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward. 

Isa 8:22  And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness. (There is no knowledge in my world, it’s all peeping and muttering. No truth only darkness.)