Isaiah 58 THE FINAL WARNING 1 CRY ALOUD, spare not. Lift up your voice like a trumpet and declare to My people their transgression and to the house of Jacob their sins! Ezekiel 3:17 Son of man, I have made you a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me. Jeremiah 6:10 To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken (Or listen): behold, the word of Yah is unto them a reproach (Bad word); they have no delight in it. Hosea 1:7 But I will have love, pity, and mercy on the house of Judah and will deliver them by Yah their God and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by equipment of war, nor by horses, nor by horsemen. Hosea 1:7 (New Living Translation) 7 But I will show love to the people of Judah. I will free them from their enemies not with weapons and armies or horses and charioteers, but by my power as Yah their God. Page 1 of 8 Introduction: It s the end of April 2014 if we are going by the calendar that most people in the world use today. Too many of the Hebrew Israelite people seem to have blinders or a veil covering their eyes. The following world events and signs in the heavens have happened or are coming with people taking little notice; 1. Blood Moon on Passover 2014 (April 15) 2. A rare Solar Eclipse where the Sun will be black April 29, 2014 3. Severe above normal lack of water (drought) for 100% of California 4. The State of Florida is scrambling against time because of a little Asian bug that is killing the citrus, - oranges and limes, etcetera, right on the vine, and it has now spread to six (6) other Southern States, and scientists can t stop it.
5. Washington State has a 65 foot crack in the Wanapum Dam that forced officials to lower the water level on the Columbia River causing farmers existing water pipes and pumps to be too short; and it threatens to devastate the crops of Eastern Washington; cherries, apples, wheat, and whatever is grown there and dependent on the Columbia River. 6. Famine has hit America. 7. Yellowstone Park had a 4.8 earthquake, 15 cubic ton rock slide, and the Bison and Elk are running out of the park that some people are trying to explain away as mating season. 8. Huge earthquakes in various regions of earth; Canada 6.6, Mexico,7.5 and 7.2, 8.0 off the west coast of South America 9. Airplane disappearance, ferry boat sinking, and murders and killings everywhere. 10. Livestock depleted in record levels because of drought and weather conditions. 11. The possible beginning of the last 7 years of man s rule of earth better known as Daniel s 70 th Week with the possible visit to the Holy land of President Obama in May 2014, followed by the Pope in June 2014. 12. Wars or conflicts in many regions of the earth, including the rise of Russia. 13. The breaking off of a piece of ice 5 times the size of Manhattan and 1/3 mile thick into the warmer southern ocean. 14. The cuts in social programs with joblessness and hunger in America. The citrus fruit alarm if unchecked could put 76,000 people out of work. 15. The real possibilities of hyperinflation; gas and food prices are rising at an alarming rate. These are just a few things happening, so what do we as Hebrew Israelites do? Page 2 of 8
We look to Yah s word for the answer while examining Solomon s prayer of dedication of the Temple he built for the Almighty Yah. 2 Chronicles 6:36-40 36 If they sin against you and who has never sinned? you might become angry with them and let their enemies conquer them and take them captive to a foreign land far away or near. 37 But in that land of exile, they might turn to you in repentance and pray, We have sinned, done evil, and acted wickedly. 38 If they turn to you with their whole heart and soul in the land of their captivity and pray toward the land you gave to their ancestors toward this city you have chosen, and toward this Temple I have built to honor your name 39 then hear their prayers and their petitions from heaven where you live, and uphold their cause. Forgive your people who have sinned against you. 40 O my Yah, may your eyes be open and your ears attentive to all the prayers made to you in this place. 2 Chronicles 7:12-16 Yah s answer 12 Then one night Yah appeared to Solomon and said, I have heard your prayer and have chosen this Temple as the place for making sacrifices. 13 At times I might shut up the heavens so that no rain falls, or command grasshoppers to devour your crops, or send plagues among you. 14 Then if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and restore their land. 15 My eyes will be open and my ears attentive to every prayer made in this place. 16 For I have chosen this Temple and set it apart to be holy a place where my name will be honored forever. I will always watch over it, for it is dear to my heart. Page 3 of 8
17 As for you, if you faithfully follow me as David your father did, obeying all my commands, decrees, and regulations, 18 then I will establish the throne of your dynasty. For I made this covenant with your father, David, when I said, One of your descendants will always rule over Israel. 19 But if you or your descendants abandon me and disobey the decrees and commands I have given you, and if you serve and worship other gods, 20 then I will uproot the people from this land that I have given them. I will reject this Temple that I have made holy to honor my name. I will make it an object of mockery and ridicule among the nations. 21 And though this Temple is impressive now, all who pass by will be appalled. They will ask, Why did Yah do such terrible things to this land and to this Temple? 22 And the answer will be, Because his people abandoned Yah, the God of their ancestors, who brought them out of Egypt, and they worshiped other gods instead and bowed down to them. That is why he has brought all these disasters on them. Everything but the above scriptures seems to be on our minds these days; most people would rather choose to follow their our own ways and vices. Please read the proof of this below; Isaiah 1 1 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. 2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for Yah hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. 3 The ox knows his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. Page 4 of 8
4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken Yah, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward. 5 Why should ye be stricken anymore? you will revolt more and more: the whole head (Leaders) is sick, and the whole heart faint. 6 From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment. 7 Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers. 8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city. 9 Except Yah of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah. 10 Hear the word of Yah, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our Yah, you people of Gomorrah. 11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? says Yah: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. 12 When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to tread my courts? 13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. 14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them. 15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. Page 5 of 8
16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; 17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. 18 Come now, and let us reason together, says Yah: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. 19 If you be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: 20 But if you refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of Yah hath spoken it. 21 How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers. 22 Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water: 23 Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: everyone loves gifts, and follows after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them. 24 Therefore says Yah, Yah of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies: 25 And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away your dross, and take away all thy tin: 26 And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city. 27 Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness. 28 And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake Yah shall be consumed. 29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen. Page 6 of 8
30 For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, and as a garden that hath no water. 31 And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them. King James Version (KJV) Isaiah 58 1CRY ALOUD, spare not. Lift up your voice like a trumpet and declare to My people their transgression and to the house of Jacob their sins! 2Yet they seek, inquire for, and require Me daily and delight [externally] to know My ways, as [if they were in reality] a nation that did righteousness and forsook not the ordinance of their God. They ask of Me righteous judgments, they delight to draw near to God [in visible ways]. 3Why have we fasted, they say, and You do not see it? Why have we afflicted ourselves, and You take no knowledge [of it]? Behold [O Israel], on the day of your fast [when you should be grieving for your sins], you find profit in your business, and [instead of stopping all work, as the law implies you and your workmen should do] you extort from your hired servants a full amount of labor. (A) 4 [The facts are that] you fast only for strife and debate and to smite with the fist of wickedness. Fasting as you do today will not cause your voice to be heard on high. 5Is such a fast as yours what I have chosen, a day for a man to humble himself with sorrow in his soul? [Is true fasting merely mechanical?] Is it only to bow down his head like a bulrush and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him [to indicate a condition of heart that he does not have]? Will you call this a fast and an acceptable day to Yah? 6 [Rather] is not this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every [enslaving] yoke? (B) Page 7 of 8
7Is it not to divide your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house--when you see the naked, that you cover him, and that you hide not yourself from [the needs of] your own flesh and blood? 8Then shall your light break forth like the morning, and your healing (your restoration and the power of a new life) shall spring forth speedily; your righteousness (your rightness, your justice, and your right relationship with God) shall go before you [conducting you to peace and prosperity], and the glory of Yah shall be your rear guard. (C) 9Then you shall call, and Yah will answer; you shall cry, and He will say, Here I am. If you take away from your midst yokes of oppression [wherever you find them], the finger pointed in scorn [toward the oppressed or the godly], and every form of false, harsh, unjust, and wicked speaking, (D) 10And if you pour out that with which you sustain your own life for the hungry and satisfy the need of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in darkness, and your obscurity and gloom become like the noonday. 11And Yah shall guide you continually and satisfy you in drought and in dry places and make strong your bones. And you shall be like a watered garden and like a spring of water whose waters fail not. 12And your ancient ruins shall be rebuilt; you shall raise up the foundations of [buildings that have laid waste for] many generations; and you shall be called Repairer of the Breach, Restorer of Streets to Dwell In. 13If you turn away your foot from [traveling unduly on] the Sabbath, from doing your own pleasure on My holy day, and call the Sabbath a [spiritual] delight, the holy day of Yah honorable, and honor Him and it, not going your own way or seeking or finding your own pleasure or speaking with your own [idle] words, 14Then will you delight yourself in Yah, and I will make you to ride on the high places of the earth, and I will feed you with the heritage [promised for you] of Jacob your father; for the mouth of Yah has spoken it. (E) Cross references: A. Isaiah 58:3 : Lev 16:29 B. Isaiah 58:6 : Acts 8:23 C. Isaiah 58:8 : Exod 14:19, 20; Isa 52:12 D. Isaiah 58:9 : Exod 3:14 E. Isaiah 58:14 : Gen 27:28, 29; 28:13-15 Page 8 of 8