SPELLING EDITED O-19. WHO IS THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL? The phrase “The Holy One of Israel” is found 31 times in the Old Testament and 25 of those times are in the book of Isaiah. And the phrase “Holy One” is found 6 times in the New Testament. And 5 of those times in the New Testament, the phrase “Holy One” is clearly speaking of Jesus as being the Holy One of God. In Luke 1:35, Jesus is called that “Holy thing” in the womb of the Virgin Mary. And in Acts 4:27,30, our Lord and Savior is called the “Holy child” Jesus. So then, since the New Testament is the fulfillment of the Old Testament prophecies let us read the five verses in the New Testament first with the phrase “Holy One” is definitely referring to Jesus. And then we will read some of the prophecies in the Old Testament where we see Yahweh and the Holy One of Israel. Mark 1:24. “Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with you, you Jesus of Nazareth? Are you come to destroy us? I know you who you are, the Holy One of God.” Luke 4:34. “Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with you, you Jesus of Nazareth? Are you come to destroy us? I know you who you are; the Holy One of God.” Acts 2:27. “Because You will not leave my soul in hell, neither will You suffer Your Holy One to see corruption.” Acts 3:14. “But you denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you;” Acts 13:35. “Wherefore, he says also in another psalm, You shall not suffer Your Holy One to see corruption.” The sixth time that the phrase Holy One is found is in 1 John 2:20 which could be interpreted as being Jesus as well, but most Christians interpret that verse as referring to the Holy Spirit. But in truth, Jesus teaches us THROUGH the Holy Spirit. So then, the UNCTION form the Holy One could very well be that the unction is actually FROM Jesus speaking to us through the Holy Spirit. And thus, Jesus is also the Holy One being referring to in this verse as well. Let us go ahead and read 1 John 2:20. 1 John 2:20. “But you have an unction from the Holy One, and you know all things.” Now let us read the prophecies in the Old Testament of Jesus being the Holy One of God. We will start with Psalm 16:10 but let us read the context as well. Some prophecies of Jesus read as the Messiah Jesus doing the speaking in the first person to his God and Father. It is like God prophesying that His Messiah will speak the prophecy back to Yahweh as a prayer or promise of God in the future to let us know that this prophecy is speaking of Jesus as the one prophesied to come. Psalm 16:5-11. “The LORD is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup: You maintain my lot. 6. The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage. 7. I will bless the LORD, who has given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons. 8. I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. 9. Therefore. my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices: my flesh also shall rest in hope. 10. For You will not leave my soul in hell; neither will You suffer Your Holy One to see corruption. 11. You will show me the path of life: in Your presence is fullness of joy; at Your right hand there are pleasures for evermore.” So then, clearly, Jesus is the Holy One of Yahweh but is Jesus being the Holy One OF God means that Jesus is the Holy One of ISRAEL? Logic would say yes because Jesus if OF Israel by being born OF the tribe of Judah. In other words, Jesus was prophesied to be OF the tribe of Judah which is a tribe OF Israel. And Jesus was prophesied to be Holy and clearly, Jesus is called the Holy One. So again, logically, Jesus is prophetically the “Holy One of Israel”. Let us read some prophecies of the coming of Jesus and find out if this logic agrees with the Scriptures. Keep in mind that Yahweh GAVE the Son of MAN, Jesus a NEW NAME after the cross so that AT the NAME of Jesus every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess that Jesus is Lord TO the glory OF Almighty God the Father as you read these PROPHECIES of Jesus. In other words, the NEW NAME of Jesus is “Yahweh”, as in, Yahweh our righteousness. Or more precisely, the new name of Jesus is “Yah”. And, therefore, while some passages of Scriptures are easy to see two separate persons, Yahweh and His prophesied Son, Jesus, other Scriptures can be incorrectly interpreted as the name Yahweh being Almighty God the Father Himself as being the Holy One of Israel if you are not aware that Jesus was given a NEW NAME higher than any other name after the cross. Let us start with one of the easier verses of Scripture first. Please read Psalm 89:3,4,18-20,27-34. “I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant, 4. Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up your throne to all generations. (Prophetically speaking, David is a FIGURE of Jesus, according the Acts 2:25-36) Selah (Or pause and THINK on this truth)... ...18. For the LORD is our defense; AND the Holy One of Israel is our king. 19. Then You spake in vision TO Your holy one, and said, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people. (And Jesus is most certainly one of the people OF Israel and Jesus is HOLY) 20. I have found David my servant; with My holy oil have I anointed him:... ... 27. Also, I will make him, My firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth. (This was fulfilled after the cross when Yahweh highly exalted His human Son Jesus and gave Jesus a NAME higher than any other name, according to Philippians 2:8-11) 28. My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and My covenant (Speaking of Yahweh’s New PERPETUAL Covenant established in the shed blood of Jesus) shall stand fast with him. 29. His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven. 30. If his children forsake My law, and walk not in My judgments; 31. If they break My statutes, and keep not My commandments; (Speaking about the TWO commandments under the New PERPETUAL Covenant) 32. Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. 33. Nevertheless, My loving kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer My faithfulness to fail. 34. My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.” So then, in Psalm 89 we can clearly see that Jesus was prophesied to become the Holy One of Israel, that he was prophesied to become God’s firstborn Son, and that he was prophesied to be EXALTED above the kings of the earth. We also see that Yahweh will establish His permanent covenant with Jesus. And we see a prophecy of the second coming of Jesus with a ROD to visit the transgressions and sins. But some Christians are not aware that Yahweh is coming WITH Jesus at his second coming. Here is a prophecy of God coming WITH His Son Jesus, the Holy One. Habakkuk 3:3. “God came from Teman, AND the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. (Selah means to pause and THINK about this) His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise.”
Here is another passage of Scripture in Habakkuk that is a prophecy of Jesus as being the Holy One. Habakkuk 1:6,11,12. “6. For, lo, I (Or I, Yahweh shall) raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwelling places that are not theirs... ...11. Then shall His mind change, and He shall pass over, and offend, (Or Yahweh will convey over to Jesus the judgment of the guilty) imputing this His power unto His God. (This is a prophecy of Yahweh COMMITTING all JUDGMENT to His God, the Son of MAN, Jesus that was fulfilled in John 5:26,27) 12. Are you not from everlasting, (Or were you not prophesied from everlasting to come to pass) O LORD My God, My Holy One? (Speaking of Yahweh making His human Son Jesus BECOME both Lord and Christ, according to Acts 2:36) We shall not die. (Or we shall not not be judged unworthy) O LORD, you have ordained them for judgment; (Or you My Yahweh whom I have given My NAME Yah Yahweh have been ordained to judge them) and, O mighty God, you have established them for correction.” We can see TWO different persons NAMED Yahweh that are translated as LORD in this passage of Scripture. The Yahweh highlighted in orange is referring to Almighty God the Father and the Yahweh or O LORD highlighted in blue is a prophecy of Jesus being made Lord and God after the cross. So this verse could read as, you O My Mighty God have been established to correct them. For you see, he prophecy in Isaiah 9:6,7 teaches us that WHEN the government shall be laid upon Jesus that his NAME shall be called the Mighty God. Now let us read where Jesus is prophesied to be called Yah, Yahweh which is translated as LORD Jehovah in the King James Version. Please read Isaiah 12:1-6. “And in that day (Speaking to the Seventh 1000 year long day of Yahweh’s Sabbath rest in the world to come when Jesus will rule FOR Yahweh in the NAME OF Yahweh) you shall say, O LORD, (Or in the world to come you, the children of Israel will say, O Yahweh) I will praise you: though you were angry with me, your anger is turned away, and you comforted me. 2. Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; (Or behold I now see that God is my salvation, truly, Yah Yahweh is my strength and my song) he ALSO is become my salvation. 3. Therefore, with joy shall you draw water out of the wells of salvation. 4. And in that day shall you say, Praise the LORD, call upon his NAME, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his NAME is exalted. 5. Sing unto the LORD; for he has done excellent things: this is known in all the earth. 6. Cry out and shout, you inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of you.” God will bring His firstborn Son into the world at the coming of Jesus to rule as the King of kings and the Lord of lords, according to Hebrews 1:6. And AT the NAME every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess that Jesus is Lord TO the glory OF Almighty God the Father, according to Philippians 2:8-11. Now let us read a verse of Scripture in Psalm 68:4 where Jesus is again called Yah Yahweh which can be interpreted as Yahweh Jr. and Yahweh Sr. In other words, Yah refers to Jesus and Yahweh refers to the God and Father OF Yah. Psalm 68:4. “Sing unto God, sing praises to his NAME: extol him that rides upon the heavens by his NAME JAH, and rejoice before him.” Yahweh asked TWO questions in Proverbs 30:4. Question one is “what is his name?” And question two is “what in my Son’s name?” In other words, Almighty God, the Creator is asking what is His own name, AND also asking what is His Son’s name? Proverbs 30:4. “Who has ascended up into heaven, or descended? (The answer is the Son of man, Jesus ascended up into heaven after the cross and Jesus will descend down from heaven at his coming as the highly exalted Kong of kings and Lord of lords) Who has gathered the wind in His fists? (The answer is Almighty God the Father who will put all enemies under the feet of Jesus in the world to come) Who has bound the waters in a garment? (Again, the answer is Almighty God the Father) Who has established all the ends of the earth? (And yet again, the answer is Almighty God the Father who alone and by Himself created all things) What is His name, (The Creators name is Yahweh) and what is His son's name, if you can tell?” Now, all Christians know that the name of God’s Son of Jesus. But not all Christians know that Jesus was given a NEW NAME after the cross. Here is the prophecy of the NEW NAME of Jesus. Isaiah 62:1-5. “For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burns. 2. And the Gentiles shall see your righteousness, and all kings your glory: (So just as a side note, Yahweh will not rest UNTIL the 1000 year reign of Jesus) and you shall be called by a NEW NAME, which the mouth of the LORD shall name. (Or you shall be PIERCED and called by a NEW NAME. Again, as a side note Zechariah 12:10 should have never been translated as they shall look upon “me” who they have pierce. The pronoun “me” in Zechariah 12:10 is translated from the Aleph and the Tav the first and the last letters of the Hebrew alphabet and the Aleph and Tav are rarely translated. Out of over 7000 times that the Aleph and Tav appear in the Old Testament they are translated only a few times. So in my opinion, Zechariah 12:10 should have been translated as follows. “And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon (Aleph Tav Messiah Jesus) whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.”) 3. You shall ALSO be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God. 4. You shall no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall your land any more be termed Desolate: but you shall be called Hephzibah, (Or my delight) and your land Beulah: for the LORD delights in you, and your land shall be married. 5. For as a young man marries a virgin, so shall your sons marry you: and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.” Now let us read a prophesy where the new name of Jesus shall be called Yahweh our RIGHTEOUSNESS. Jeremiah 23:5,6. “Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. 6, In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.” In other words, Yahweh gave His human Son, Jesus, His very own name Yahweh after the cross so that in the world to come Jesus will rule as Yahweh’s King of kings and Lord of lords in Yahweh’s NAME. And in that day Yahweh’s name will be ONE NAME. Please read Zechariah 14:9. “And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.” In other words, Jesus will be ruling FOR Yahweh in the NAME OF Yahweh having been GIVEN Yahweh’s very own NAME and his authority to rule AS the God of Israel over the whole earth. And once you see that Jesus has been given the NAME Yahweh then the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in the rest of these verses of Scripture can also be seen as prophecies of Jesus being the Holy One of Israel. Please understand that I am NOT dogmatically demanding that every single phrase “the Holy One of Israel” always refers to Jesus. I am simply showing other ways to interpret the verses that seem to be saying that Yahweh Himself is the Holy One of Israel. It might be that some verses are indeed referring to Yahweh Himself ALSO being called the Holy One of Israel. But, to me, most of the verses refer to Jesus as being the Holy One of Israel. Isaiah 1:4. “Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.” Isaiah 5:19,24. “That say, Let him make speed, and hasten His work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!... ...24. Therefore, as the fire devours the stubble, and the flame consumes the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the (Aleph Tav Messiah Jesus) law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.”
Isaiah 10:17. “And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and His Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;” Isaiah 17:7. “At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.”
Isaiah 29:19,23. “The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel... ...23. But when he sees his children, the work of My hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify My name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.”
Isaiah 30:11-15. “Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us. 12. Wherefore, thus says the Holy One of Israel, Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon: 13. Therefore, this iniquity shall be to you as a BREACH ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly at an instant. 14. And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit. 15. For thus says the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and REST shall you be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and you would not.”
Isaiah 31:1. “Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, NEITHER seek the LORD!” Isaiah 37:23. “Whom have you reproached and blasphemed? And against whom have you exalted your voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? Even against the Holy One of Israel.” Isaiah 40:25. “To whom then will you liken me, or shall I be equal? says the Holy One.” Isaiah 41:14-16,20. “Fear not, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel; I will help you, says the LORD, AND your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. 15. Behold, I will make you a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: you shall thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shall make the hills as chaff. 16. You shall fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and you (The children of Israel) shall rejoice in the LORD, AND shall glory in the Holy One of Israel… ...20. That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand, TOGETHER, that the hand of the LORD has done this, AND the Holy One of Israel has created it.” In other words, SEE, KNOW, CONSIDER and UNDERSTAND that TOGETHER, Yahweh and His human Son, Jesus have done this. Working together, Yahweh and His human Son created it. The Hebrew word translated as created also means to cut down or to destroy. It also means to dispatch. And Jesus was given all authority and power to JUDGE. Jesus will be dispatched to execute the WRATH of Almighty God. Here is how E-Sword defines the Hebrew word “bara” that is translated as created in verse 20. H1254 בָּרָא bârâ' baw-raw' A primitive root; (absolutely) to create; (qualified) to cut down (a wood), select, feed (as formative processes): - choose, create (creator), cut down, dispatch, do, make (fat). Total KJV occurrences: 54, Isaiah 43:3,4,14,15. “For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior: I gave Egypt for your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for you. 4. Since you were precious in My sight, you have been honorable, and I have loved you: therefore, will I give men for you, and people for your life… ...14. Thus says the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their nobles, and the Chaldeans, whose cry is in the ships. (Or thus says Yahweh your redeemer, for your sake I have sent the Holy One of Israel to Babylon and have brought down all their nobles and the Chaldeans whose cry ins in the ships) 15. I am the LORD, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King.” Verse 15 can be translated as “I am Yahweh the creator of Israel, your Holy One is your King” The literal reading says the “creating” of Israel and Jesus was given all power to give eternal life to whosoever he judges to be worthy. And in that way Jesus will create new creatures in righteousness. Or verse 15 can read, as the fulfillment of this prophecy, where Jesus could be saying. “I bear the name Yahweh given to me to rule for Yahweh, I am your Holy One OF the creator of Israel my God and your God and, I am your King.” Personally, I believe that Yahweh will INTRODUCE Jesus as being the King over the earth in the world to come as opposed to Jesus introducing himself. Perhaps Jesus will be announced as a voice from heaven like Yahweh introduced His Son at his baptism saying this IS My beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. In other words, verse 15 could be interpreted as Yahweh speaking saying, I am Yahweh and here is your Holy One, your King, Messiah Jesus. Or it might be that is verses 14 and 15 is speaking of Yahweh the Father Himself is the Holy One of Israel. Isaiah 45:11. “Thus says the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command you me.” The King James Version uses the old English style of speaking which sounds backward to the way we speak today. So to me, this verse is saying, “Thus says Yahweh, ask me of things to come concerning my sons, the Holy One of Israel and his Maker and concerning the work of my hands command you me.” Isaiah 47:4. “As for our redeemer, the LORD of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel.”
This literally reads, “Our redeemer Yahweh, His NAME, the Holy One of Israel.” In other words, Yahweh chose to redeem us by using a MAN and that redeemers NAME is the Holy One of Israel. Isaiah 48:17. “Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; (Or thus says Yahweh, your redeemer is the Holy One of Israel and) I am the LORD you God which teaches you to profit, which leads you by the way that you should go.” Isaiah 49:7. “Thus says the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, AND his Holy One, to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, AND the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose you.” Again, every knee will bow at the NAME of Jesus and every tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord TO the glory OF Almighty God the Father. Isaiah 4:5. “For your Maker is your husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; AND your Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.” Again, it is prophesied in Isaiah 9:6,7 that WHEN the government shall be laid upon his shoulders in the world to come that his NAME shall be called the Mighty God. Isaiah 55:5. “Behold, you shall call a nation that you know not, and nations that knew not you shall run unto you because of the LORD your God, AND for the Holy One of Israel; for he has glorified you.” Isaiah 60:9,14. “Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring your sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the LORD you God, AND to the Holy One of Israel, because he has glorified you... ...14. The sons also of them that afflicted you shall come bending unto you; and all they that despised you shall bow themselves down at the soles of your feet; and they shall call you, The city of the LORD, The Zion OF the Holy One of Israel.” Jeremiah 50:29. “Call together the archers against Babylon: all you that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she has done, do unto her: for she has been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.” Now, in almost all of these passages of Scripture it can be seen that the Holy One of Israel is speaking of the prophesied Messiah Jesus. But in a few of these passages of Scripture, the King James Version makes it seem as if Yahweh is the Holy One of Israel. And it might be that the original text “intended” for those passages of Scripture to mean that Yahweh Himself is ALSO called the Holy One of Israel. Yahweh is called the Eternal King and Jesus is called Yahweh’s King. Yahweh is called God and Jesus is called God. Yahweh is called Savior and Jesus is called Savior. So by no means am I dogmatically saying that every time we read the phrase “Holy One of Israel” that it is always referring to Jesus. One of the reasons that I wrote this study was Isaiah 1:4 where I believe that BOTH Yahweh and His Holy One are being PROVOKED by not only the unsaved Jews but also by seventh day of the week Sabbath-keeping Christians by rejecting the NEW COVENANT by their KEEPING of the Old Covenant. Please read Isaiah 1:4 again. “Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have PROVOKED the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away BACKWARD.” Unsaved Israel has rejected Yahweh’s New Covenant by their continuing in the Old Covenant. The context of verse 4 here is the WRATH of God. And in verse 9 we read that Israel would have been completely wiped out had not Yahweh LEFT Himself a REMNANT. And then, in verses 10-14 we see WHY Israel will suffer the WRATH of Almighty God at the coming of Jesus in a flaming fire. Please read Isaiah 1:10-14. “ Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; give EAR unto the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah. (Or hear you who I have kept alive through My WRATH the word of Yahweh, and UNDERSTAND the true meaning of the law. Remember that the very first disciples of Jesus were all Jews and at first they did not truly understand that Jesus was the Messiah until Jesus expound all the Law of Moses to them after his resurrection) 11. To what PURPOSE is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? (Or WHY were the commandments of sacrifice ADDED until Jesus came) says the LORD: 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. (WHY? Why is God FULL of animal sacrifices? Because the PURPOSE of the animal sacrifices was a SCHOOLMASTER to lead the children of Israel TO the TRUE sacrifice of sins, the Messiah Jesus. And God has given the children of Israel 2000 years to DISCERN that the Scriptures testify of Jesus as being their Messiah. And during the true Seventh 1000 year long day of Yahweh's Sabbath rest, Almighty God will cause the keeping of the weekly Sabbath and resting on the feast days to CEASE, according to Hosea 2:11) 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.”
So then, Yahweh makes it perfectly clear in chapter 1 in Isaiah that He is fed up with the keeping of the weekly Sabbath DAY as a DAY of rest because it was a SIGN pointing to the true rest IN Jesus for holiness to enter into Yahweh's New PERPETUAL COVENANT established in the shed blood of Jesus. Therefore, we must interpret all of the other verses in the book of Isaiah to AGREE with this passage of Scripture in Isaiah 1:1-20.
Now let us read Hosea 2:11.
“I will also cause ALL her mirth (Or all her DELIGHTS) TO CEASE, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and ALL her solemn feasts.”
Again, we who KNOW the TRUTH of the gospel know and understand that all the handwriting of ORDINANCES in the Law of Moses have been FULFILLED by Jesus as being SHADOWS pointing to Jesus. And thus, we who OBEY the TRUE gospel of Jesus Christ do not allow the seventh day of the week Sabbath-keeping Christians to judge us for NOT resting on the seventh day of the week. We know and understand that the dietary laws of Moses, the yearly feast days, the new moon festivals and the weekly Sabbath days are all SHADOWS pointing to Jesus. They are all a SCHOOLMASTER to lead the children of Israel to Jesus. Paul teaches us that we are DELIVERED FROM the law and NOW, under the New Covenant, we keep the NEWNESS of the SPIRIT and NOT the OLDNESS of the LETTER of the law. And thus, under the New Covenant we are to REST IN Jesus for our Holiness and righteousness by CEASING from the works of the law of commandments contained in ORDINANCES that Jesus ABOLISHED at the cross. Please read the studies “DID THE EARLY CHURCH KEEP THE SABBATH DAY?”, “WHAT DOES CONTAINED IN ORDINANCES MEAN?”, and “WHAT DOES COLOSSIANS 2:14-17 TRULY MEAN?” And for links to all the studies that I have on why the keeping of the weekly Sabbath as a day of rest is not binding on Christians please read the studies under the heading >>>WHAT IS THE TRUTH SABBATH?<<< Thanks for reading and may God bless you richly as you continue to seek the TRUTH of the WHOLE word of Almighty God.
Your brother in our Lord Jesus Christ, Brother Mark.
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