Bible ~~- Older Testament ~~- IsaiYAH ~~- chapter 45 of 66 (25 verses.)

IsaiYAH 45Wrench

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Isaiah Predicts The World-Dominion Of Cyrus
1 YHVH says of his anointed [Emperor] Cyrus {Sun}, β€œI uphold your right hand. I subdue nations before [you]. I strip the privates of kings. [Ruined royals stream to cower naked before your face.] Before you I open double doors: gates that will never be shut.
2 I go before you. I level [your crooked, hilly] road. I break in pieces the gates of brass [that block your advance]. [I] cut in two the bars of iron [that hold you back, πŸ˜‡].
3 I give you, πŸ˜‡, the treasures of darkness, including hidden riches [stored] in secret places, so you can know that I, YHVH, who call you by your name, am Israel's Sovereign.
4 πŸ˜‡, I call you by name for one reason: to help [the children of] my obedient [son] Jacob: [spiritual] Israel, my elect [people]. I gave you [a great] name [before] you ever knew Me.
5 I am YHVH, [which means,] β€˜the [only] being who self-exists’. No Elohim {Authority} exists apart from me. πŸ˜‡, I equipped you [to rule long before] you knew me.
6 [I chose you, πŸ˜‡,] so [all the world,] from the rising to the setting of the sun, will see that separate from me, no power exists. I am YHVH. No one else creates-himself.
Jesus did not beget himself. YHVH begat Jesus. Jesus is an electric lamp. YHVH is the electricity in the wall-socket.
YHVH Is The Only Self-Existent Being
7 I form the light. I create darkness, πŸ˜‡. I make peace. And I dispatch adversity [to improve you]. I, YHVH, [ultimately] cause everything [that ever happens anywhere].
8 I, YHVH, pour justice down from heaven like rain. [Earth's] skies fly open. The [earth] sprouts salvation. [It] buds righteousness, πŸ˜‡.
YHVH is not a clockmaker set-and-forget god as Deists imagine. YHVH is constantly intimately involved in our lives, working for our good.
Your Arms Are Too Short To Box With God
9 Woe [comes] to anyone who fights his Maker! [A human being is] a broken shard of a clay pot [lying in a] wreckage of [other] shards of clay pots on the earth, πŸ˜‡. Can clay say to the [potter] who fashions it, β€œWhat are you making?” Can a [piece of] artwork [claim that its painter] has no hands?”
10 Woe to whoever challenges his father, β€œWhat [makes you think you're] a [good] father?” Or [who] asks [his mother], β€œWhat [right] do you have to birth [babies]?”
11 YHVH, Israel's Sacred Sovereign, [your] Maker, asks, β€œDo you [think you have the right to] interrogate Me about how I'm going to [raise] my sons, πŸ˜‡? [Do] you [think you can] order Me [what to do with] the work of My hands?
That's what you need to tell the atheistic state that wants to dictate rules for the education and health-care of your children.
12 I [YHVH] make the earth, πŸ˜‡. Me. I create man upon it. My hands stretch out the heavens. I command [heaven's entire] army [of stars].
YHVH Predicts Emperor Cyrus' Coming Reign
13 I rightly raise up [emperor Cyrus {Sun}]. I direct all his paths. He comes to build my city. He sets my captives free, without price or reward," foretells YHVH-Commander-Of-Armies.
If you work for YAH, you work without regard to payment. Your every move is a labor of love. From the homeless street-evangelist to World-Emperor.
14 YHVH predicts, β€œThe workforce of Egypt, and the markets of Cush {Ethiopia}, and the giant [Nubian] Sabeans, migrate over to you, [Cyrus {Sun} of Persia]. [Africans] become your [slaves]. They stream walking in chains after you. [They trudge] across [the earth]. They fall down on their faces pleading to you: β€˜Elohim lives in you. There is no other power [in the universe].’”
Isaiah Extols YAH and Denounces Idolatry
15 [Isaiah continues,] β€œTruly you, Elohim of Israel, [our] Savior, are the hidden power [behind the universe].
16 The [pagans die] ashamed and confounded. All makers of idols eventually [fall] together into confusion.
17 But YHVH always and eternally saves the [people] who will rule with [Him]. Throughout [all] ages, [YAH] rescues us [saints] from shame and confusion, πŸ˜‡.
Israel = β€œthose who will rule with El”. Spiritually-speaking, true Israel is only loosely associated with the U.N. member-state that calls itself 'Israel'.
18 For YHVH creates the heavens, πŸ˜‡. [YHVH] Elohim himself makes and forms the earth. He establishes [the universe]. He's not fabricating [reality] in vain. He forms [creation to be] inhabited [by us, his holy beings]. [YAH] declares, β€œI am YHVH. No one else self-exists.
The universe outside of earth lies empty, waiting for us redeemed humans to colonize its planets. But first we have to get free from the prison of our ruinous sins.
19 β€”I never speak [my messages to humans] in secret, in dark, [occult] place[s] of the earth. I don't say to Jacob's seed-children, β€œSeek me in vain.” I YHVH speak straight-up [facts], πŸ˜‡. I [only] declare things that are true.
20 β€”Come join the [Hebrew] family-hug, πŸ˜‡. Unite, you [believers]. Escape the beast-nations. [Flee] those ignorant populations who erect wooden carved images. [Never associate with fools] who pray to β€˜gods’ who can't save anyone.
21 Challenge [all beast-nationals, πŸ˜‡]. Bring them into your gatherings. Advise them in groups. Declare to them the ancient reality that only I, YHVH, [accurately foretell futures]. I'm the one righteous El {Power}. I'm your only savior.
22 β€”[Everyone,] to all the ends of the earth, look to me, and be saved. For I [alone] am El {Power}. Everyone else is [just a figment of my imagination].
23 I swear by Myself. [This] decree flows straight from my flawless lips. I never take back [my words], πŸ˜‡: [In time,] to me every knee bows, every tongue fully [submits].”
Shaba = to signify full intent to honor. Often rendered by the misleading oath-word, β€˜swear’. Jesus bows to YHVH.
24 [History's trillions of] people eventually confess, β€œYHVH gives me righteousness and strength.” [All] humans eventually stream to [YAH], πŸ˜‡. Everyone who rages against [YAH] ends up suffering shame.
25 YHVH eventually fixes all Israel's [true] seed-children, πŸ˜‡. They rave [HalleluYahs]! [They sing crazy-praise!]
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