Day: May 9, 2008

  • The Book of Isaiah Chapter 1 V.1 Part 4.2

    The Book of Isaiah

    Chapter 1 V.1 Part 4.2

     

     

    Ok…I have to explain what I see happening here. First of all, this guy Ahaz was an idiot. He goes and serves Baal and burns incense to him in the “valley of Himnon,” which is the valley of lamentation or sorrow.

     

    This valley separates Mount Zion to the north, which is the mount or symbol of promotion; from the hill of evil counsel’ and the sloping rocky plateau of the ‘plain of Rephaim’ to the south, which means giants.

     

    (Psa 75:6 For promotion 07311 02022 [cometh] neither from the east 04161, nor from the west 04628, nor from the south 04057. It is Strong’s 02022 reference that shows Mount Zion correlating with promotion.)

     

    So he goes and serves Baal and ends up in a place of “sorrow,” looking up to the north at missed “promotion,” and facing “giants” on the south.

     

    This caused God to send the “exalted” people against them because a door had been “opened,” and one of the “protected by Jehovah” was sent to slay those who had forsaken God.  This event was “memorable,” because of the “double ash-heap” Ahaz’ betrayal created; which took away “the work of Jehovah,” his “help against the enemy,” and everything that “God has possessed or God has created” for the people, and sent them into captivity.

     

     2Ch 28:8  And the children of Israel carried away captive of their brethren two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took also away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria.

    2Ch 28:9  But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name [was] Oded: and he went out before the host that came to Samaria, and said unto them, Behold, because the LORD God of your fathers was wroth with Judah, he hath delivered them into your hand, and ye have slain them in a rage [that] reacheth up unto heaven.

     

    Oded = “restorer”

    1) father of Azariah the prophet in the reign of king Asa of Judah

    2) a prophet of Jehovah in Samaria at the time of Pekah’s invasion of Judah

     

    Now God sends in a restorer, because the children of Israel got a little too happy in attacking Judah; and got carried away in their assault, when they weren’t all that clean and above board themselves. It’s just amazing how nasty we can sometimes be to our own siblings.

     

     2Ch 28:10  And now ye purpose to keep under the children of Judah and Jerusalem for bondmen and bondwomen unto you: [but are there] not with you, even with you, sins against the LORD your God?

     2Ch 28:11  Now hear me therefore, and deliver the captives again, which ye have taken captive of your brethren: for the fierce wrath of the LORD [is] upon you.

     2Ch 28:12  Then certain of the heads of the children of Ephraim, Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, and Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, stood up against them that came from the war,

     

    Ephraim = “double ash-heap: I shall be doubly fruitful”

     

    Azariah = “Jehovah has helped”

    18) son of Johanan, one of the captains of Ephraim in the reign of king Ahaz of Judah

     

    Jehohanan = “Jehovah has graced”

    7) an Ephraimite

     

    Berachiah or Berechiah = “Jehovah blesses”

    6) an Ephraimite chief in the time of Ahaz

     

    Meshillemoth = “recompense”

    1) an Ephraimite, one of the chiefs of the tribe in the reign of king Pekah of Israel

     

    Hezekiah or Jehizkiah = “Jehovah has made strong”

    3) an Ephraimite in the time of Ahaz

     

    Shallum = “retribution”

    7) an Ephraimite, father of Jehizkiah

     

    Amasa = “burden”

    2) son of Hadlai and a prince of Ephraim in the reign of king Ahaz

     

    Hadlai = “rest of God”

    1) an Ephraimite