Woe of Isaiah 5

 

What is the meaning of Woe? Woe means great sorrow, distress, regret, misery or heartache.

It is almost like "Oh no!"

Woe is a warning of judgment to those who are partaking in wickedness. Woe is used six times in Isaiah 5 and all six times Yahuah expresses heartache.

 

Woe 1: to those who seek to possess many or large houses and purchase farm after farm until they have very huge land and displace other people (want all for themselves much may include possessions/want status and be in high positions) - verse 8.

Woe 2: to those who become intoxicated (wine/strong alcohol/drugs/demons/witchcraft/porn) at early hour of the morning and then carry on till late night including wild parties and music - verse 11-12. 

Woe 3: to those who increase in sin, evil, falsehood or deceit and just keep on growing with sin, provoking Yahuah to anger (who mock Him and His creation) - verse 18.

Woe 4: to those who say evil is good and good is evil who put falsehood, crime, error above truth, piety and knowledge = right from wrong (abortion, gender change,child sex trafficking, etc is called good) - verse 20.

Woe 5: to those who see themselves better, wiser, smarter than others. Which lead to pride and unwilling to listen to others (knows all, cannot forgive, harden heart) - verse 21.

Woe 6: to those who become mighty when intoxicated and then boast of their power, richness and influence. They turn to bribes for wrong and change or influence what is right to wrong - verse 22-23.

Do you not see the same “Woe” in the times we living in.

Can you see why judgment is coming.

 

We are doing exactly what the people did in Isaiah's time.

Trust you and I are not part of these wrong doings.

If you are, repent and turn back to Yahuah, and be righteous.

Search my heart O Yah! I do not want to be part of the “woe!”

As believers in Yahusha (Jesus) we do not have time to play around. Stay in His path as those who endure to the end shall be saved.

Isaiah's calling

Yahuah called Isaiah to go and warn the believing people that judgment is coming upon them because of their harden heart and blindness of mind - Isaiah 6:9.

Yahuah tells Isaiah to make the peoples heart fat, their ears heavy and shut their eyes - verse 10.

This means so-called believers shall be told the truth (Yahuah's word) by the prophet but their heart, hearing and sight shall be dull (closed or stupid), other words they will not accept the truth because their sin is greater than their belief.

How many people today hear the truth but do not do or live the truth.

History repeats itself!

Why? Because people do not study the scriptures for example the book of Isaiah to understand what happened in his time and thereby preventing these same mistakes to repeat again.

If only we can open our heart, ears and eyes to the truth and proclaim truth so we can be restored (healed) back Yahuah.

Then Isaiah asks Yahuah, how long will this last and Yahuah says until the land (cities) is wasted (judgment) and houses stand empty. Until the land is given over and everyone is taken to another place - Isaiah 6:11-12.

Now here is the mercy of Yahuah! Even with all the sin done by the believers, Yahuah shows mercy to those who truly turn back and follow Him.

Verse 13, Yahuah says He will save a tenth of the people.

You see that! Not all who say they believe are saved but, in this case, a tenth is saved.

Meaning they will still go through the judgment and the punishment but they will trust Yahuah and survive the period of struggle.

Isaiah uses a beautiful parable on how they will return in verse 13; “But still, there is a tenth part in it, and it shall again be for a burning, like a terebinth tree and like an oak, whose stump remains when it is cut down. The holy (set-apart) seed is its stump!”

Meaning the leaves and branches shall be destroyed by the fire but the tree trunk will survive the fire and after the fire (punishment) grow again.

 

These are those who endure till the end.

Are you and I one of them?

What are we called to do! 

Jerusalem - Revelation 21

Revelation 21 talks about the new Jerusalem and how it will look like one day.

John saw the new set-apart city Jerusalem come down all prepared as a bride - Revelation 21:2.

Verse 3 is the amazing part: “See, the Booth (Tabernacle) of Elohim is with men, and He shall dwell with them,and they shall be His people, and Elohim Himself shall be with them and be their Elohim.

 

This is also written in Leviticus 26:12 And I shall walk in your midst, and shall be your Elohim, and you shall be My people. Written in many other places.

Verse 4, one of the prophets (Isaiah) spoke about the pain and suffering that will be taken away.

Again, John sees the new Jerusalem and its beauty with the 12 tribes, 12 gates and 12 stones (verse 10 to 21; And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the great city, the set-apart Jerusalem, descending out of the heaven from Elohim, having the esteem of Elohim, and her light was like a most precious stone, like a jasper stone, clear as crystal, and having a great and high wall, having twelve gates, and at the gates twelve messengers, and names written on them, which are those of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel: three gates on the east, three gates on the north, three gates on the south, and three gates on the west. And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the names of the twelve emissaries of the Lamb. And he who spoke with me had a golden measuring rod, to measure the city, and its gates, and its wall. And the city lies four-cornered, and its length is as great as its breadth. And he measured the city with the rod: two thousand two hundred kilometres – the length, and the breadth, and height of it are equal. And he measured its wall: sixty-five metres, according to the measure of a man, that is, of a messenger. And the structure of its wall was jasper. And the city was clean gold, like clear glass. And the foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with all kinds of precious stones: the first foundation jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald, the fifth sardonyx, the sixth ruby, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst. And the twelve gates were twelve pearls – each one of the gates was a single pearl. And the street of the city was clean gold, like transparent glass.

 

Verse 22, there is no temple in the new Jerusalem. Why, because it will be the same as it was in the beginning when Elohim walked with His people - Yahuah is its temple, and the Lamb.

Verse 27 says only the clean and those whose name is written in the Lamb's Book of life (also in Daniel 12.1) will be allowed into this new Jerusalem - only the true 12 tribes of Israel together with those who joined with Israel.

The false ones will not enter - verse 8 “But as for the cowardly, and untrustworthy, and abominable, and murderers, and those who whore, and drug sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the false, their part is in the lake which burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death” and verse 27 And there shall by no means enter into it whatever is unclean, neither anyone doing abomination and falsehood, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life. Plus, Revelation 2:9 “I know your works, and pressure, and poverty – yet you are rich – and the blasphemy of those who say they are Yehudim and are not, but are a congregation of Satan.

 

This is the Jerusalem I'm waiting for; trust you are too!

“He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies (community). 

Isaiah forgiven

 

Isaiah the prophet had a vision of the greatness of Yahuah in Isaiah 6:1-4.

Was this Yahusha (Jesus) sitting on His throne that Isaiah saw in his vision?

And many Angels around Him were shouting out "Set-apart, set-apart, set apart is Yahuah!" Other words the Almighty Creator is Holy, Holy, Holy!

Do we understand “Holiness!”

Now remember Isaiah was a chosen prophet by Yahuah, because Isaiah walked the path of the Heavenly Father.

When Isaiah saw the Almighty sitting on His throne in this vision (I believe Isaiah saw Yahusha) and the angels saying He is Holy, he immediately realized that his life was not as clean as he thought it was.

Isaiah recognizes the words from his mouth (unclean lips - sin) is not pure and also the people around him had unclean lips (sin) - verse 5.

 

Why did Isaiah know that his words from his mouth was still in sin? It was because he came face to face with the Most High and saw the glory of the Holy One - the pureness of Him.

This is what happened next; An angel flew to Isaiah with a hot coal and touched the mouth of Isaiah with the coal and said to him, your sins (unclean lips) are been removed and been forgiven - verse 6-7.

 

Isaiah repented of his sin and he was forgiven.

Is this any different from what we need to do today!

Yahuah asks the following "Whom do I send, and who would go for Us?" Take note of the word “Us.”

Isaiah stuck his hand up and said "Here am I! Send me" - verse 8.

 

After this event, Isaiah became a mouth piece (prophet) for Yahuah.

Can you imagine what Isaiah must has seen that changed his whole life.

To you and me as believers the question is? Are the words we speak from our lips still in sin!

Let's look at ourselves and make sure whatever comes out of our mouth, that it is clean and good words.

Once we understand how Set-apart (Holy) the Almighty is, will we understand what it takes to walk in His path.

In His Words only!