April 21, 2023
(part 1) When the enemy comes in like a flood, The Spirit of the LORD will lift up a standard against him. Isaiah 59:19b
Yahweh’s people were told way ahead of time that His enemy will continuously seek to gain followers. Such followers are deceived and serve as instruments to deceive others. History of the last two thousand years only reconfirms the accuracy of divine prophecy. There is a war that began in heaven before our world was created. It is soon to be concluded on the earth.
The earth mourns and fades away. The world languishes and fades away. The haughty people of the earth languish. The earth is also defiled under its inhabitants, Because they have transgressed the laws, Changed the ordinance, Broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, And those who dwell in it are desolate. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, And few men are left. Isaiah 24:4-6
Isaiah’s prophecy was a vision of the end-times. He understood that the vast majority would be deceived, thus “buying into” an altered, counterfeit version of the covenant, the Ten Commandments. This is what is meant by the breaking of the everlasting covenant. All ten are essential and all are interconnected.
For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all. James 2:10
Because of the advance notice we have in God’s word, the pending disaster described by Isaiah does not have to include you and me. The simile, like a flood, implies that there is an ark of safety. It is the ark of the covenant, the lone article of furniture in the second compartment of the tabernacle proper. This ark contains the perfect law of Yahweh, His Testimony.
Your way, O God, is in the sanctuary; Who is so great a God as our God? Psalm 77:13
Our recent tour of the tabernacle/sanctuary led ultimately to the Most Holy Place where the ark of the covenant is located. The earthly copy was a representation of the true throne of God, for the purpose of leading us wholeheartedly back to Him. Notice that the only way to be shielded by the mercy seat is to be in the ark!
…the ark of the Testimony…the mercy seat that is over the Testimony, where I will meet with you. Exodus 30:6