Amazing Prophecy!!!

I read this this morning. It hit me like a ton of bricks. This was the first time I read this and it blew me away. This is about Jesus Christ, and what strikes me is that those who read it back then would be wondering what it meant. The would not clearly see it as we do today. Not only does it use historical references as metaphors but it speaks of future history using those metaphors.

This is multi-leveled and could be read multiple ways if we lived back then when it was written. However we are blessed to live after the fulfillment of this prophecy. So we can admire and see the different levels within this prophecy. All I can say is amazing!!! It was written by Isaiah between 739 and 680 B.C. that is almost 800 years before it came to pass!!!!

I'll put in parenthesis colored blue what I got out of it. However let me say I am no Scholar nor a historian and I am not to proud to say I am wrong. So please point any errors you may see. Again what is in blue is what I got out of it. I do not claim it to be accurate but I think I am pretty close. The can be much written and talked about all of this. I just hit the tip of the ice burg I believe.



Isaiah

CHAPTER 52

Deliverance for Jerusalem

1 Wake up, wake up, O Zion! Clothe yourselves with strength. Put on your beautiful clothes, O holy city of Jerusalem, for unclean and godless people will no longer enter your gates. 2 Rise from the dust, O Jerusalem. Remove the slave bands from your neck, O captive daughter of Zion.

(Above is the promise of salvation. Jerusalem is not only literal but also a metaphor for those who accept Christ as savior as well as the new Jerusalem that ascends from heaven to Earth in the book of Rev.)

3 For this is what the Lord says: “When I sold you into exile, (Reference to Adam and Eve being cast out from The Garden Of Eden as well as the Jewish people exiled in the book of Exodus.) I received no payment. Now I can redeem you without paying for you.”(Saying he owes Satan nothing.) 4 This is what the Sovereign Lord says: “Long ago my people went to live as resident foreigners in Egypt. Now they have been oppressed without cause by Assyria. 5 And now, what is this?” asks the Lord. “Why are my people enslaved again?(This again refers to Adam and Eve as well as Mosses and the Exodus. Assyria is not only literal but also a metaphor for Satan and the oppression of sin.) Those who rule them shout in exultation. My name is being blasphemed all day long. 6 But I will reveal my name to my people, and they will come to know its power.(Obviously Jesus Christ is the name he speaks of.) Then at last they will recognize that it is I who speaks to them.”7 How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news of peace and salvation, the news that the God of Israel* reigns! (I think this is a way of symbolizing the Crucifiction of Christ on Golgotha.) 8 The watchmen shout and sing with joy, for before their very eyes they see the Lord bringing his people home to Jerusalem.* 9 Let the ruins of Jerusalem break into joyful song, for the Lord has comforted his people. He has redeemed Jerusalem. 10 The Lord will demonstrate his holy power before the eyes of all the nations. The ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God.11 Go now, leave your bonds and slavery. (By accepting Christ as savior we do this.) Put Babylon (The World) behind you, with everything it represents, for it is unclean to you. You are the Lord’s holy people. Purify yourselves, you who carry home the vessels of the Lord. (The Holy Spirit within us.) 12 You will not leave in a hurry, running for your lives. For the Lord will go ahead of you, (Jesus ascending into heaven after Crucifiction and the resurrection.) and the God of Israel will protect you from behind.The Lord’s Suffering Servant13 See, my servant will prosper; he will be highly exalted. (Jesus) 14 Many were amazed when they saw him* —beaten and bloodied, so disfigured one would scarcely know he was a person. (During Crucifiction)15 And he will again startle* many nations. Kings will stand speechless in his presence. For they will see what they had not previously been told about; they will understand what they had not heard about. (Referring to the teachings of Jesus Christ. As well as the Kings who stand before him on the day of Judgement.)

How wonderfully multi-leveled is this prophecy!!! If what I got out of it is right I am awed!!!