In our study of the barren bride we have now come to the place where she awakens to her profound calling in the plan of God. C0ntinuing on with the last passage we examined from Isaiah we see that this awakening comes just before the return of the LORD.
How beautiful upon the mountains
are the feet of him who brings good news,
who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness,
who publishes salvation,
who says to Zion, “Your God reigns.”
8 The voice of your watchmen—they lift up their voice;
together they sing for joy;
for eye to eye they see
the return of the Lord to Zion.
9 Break forth together into singing,
you waste places of Jerusalem,
for the Lord has comforted his people;
he has redeemed Jerusalem.
10 The Lord has bared his holy arm
before the eyes of all the nations,
and all the ends of the earth shall see
the salvation of our God. (Isaiah 52:7-10 ESV)
We now live in the days when God is calling his Bride to awaken. Very, very shortly his watchmen will sing for joy for they will see the return of the Lord to Zion. But before he begins to govern all the earth from his holy hill he warns his Bride once again,
Depart, depart, go out from there;
touch no unclean thing;
go out from the midst of her; purify yourselves,
you who bear the vessels of the Lord.
12 For you shall not go out in haste,
and you shall not go in flight,
for the Lord will go before you,
and the God of Israel will be your rear guard. (Isaiah 52:11-12)
The continuity, symmetry, and inter-weaving of God’s Word always amazes me. The more one studies the Scripture the more he will grasp the Holy Spirit’s inspiration and directing of all of its writing. We learn to open up almost any book of the Bible and begin to teach concerning profound doctrines and mysteries like 1) food sacrificed to idols, 2) separation of the clean from the unclean (the holy from the unholy), 3) the teaching about righteousness, 4) Immanuel, 5) the sons of God, 6) the Bride of Christ, 7) New Jerusalem, 8) justice, 9) God’s Law, 10) God’s grace, 11) Mystery Babylon, and 12) the resurrection from the dead. We see how these doctrines lead one to another and how each fits into the divine plan. In Isaiah 52:11, for example, we see God repeating the call to his people to come out of Babylon, to come out of the world’s ways of idolatry, harlotry, and sin. Then, in verse 12 we see an allusion to the exodus from Egypt under Moses (In Scripture Egypt represents a type of the world system under Satan’s rule, just as does Babylon), but this coming exodus from the world system will not be in haste or in flight as was Moses’ exodus. The coming exodus will witness the total rout of Satan and his dominions by God’s overcomers, the manifested sons of God.
