THE BOOK
ASPECTS OF PROPHETIC ROLE
Related elements that connect strongly to Isaiah’s purported death, his prophetic legacy after his death, all the way to what we must declare to be the ‘miraculous’ discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, are vital aspects to be further examined.
What is truly amazing to this writer is that in the context of this Work and its Title, the remarkable journey of Isaiah’s Scroll from Qumran, across oceans to the U.S., to finally return to the land of its inception and end up in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, can only be described as profound, for such a series of events is surely ‘more-than-coincidental’. The Book of Isaiah, clearly Divinely- ordained never to be lost, is now housed in exactly the right place --- its “place of reckoning” --- for this rapidly-closing age. The Great Prophet’s Scroll is thus exactly where it is meant to be and, for the sake of Israel, Jewish religious scholars would be wise to delve far more deeply into this warningly-miraculous event. For all of you, this Work very clearly explains why!
THE ASCENSION OF ISAIAH
According to the Ascension of Isaiah, the prophet’s martyrdom consisted in being sawn in two by a wooden saw; the story most likely based upon a Jewish written source. According to this legend, Isaiah was killed by King Manasseh who, instead of serving God, served Beliar Sammael, chief of the evil spirits. Isaiah, with his followers had fled to the Wilderness, but upon being captured, was martyred, and his followers fled to the region of Tyre and Sidon. The original Martyrdom of Isaiah was written probably in Hebrew or Aramaic before the 1st century A.D.
PARALIPOMENA OF JEREMIAH.
Jeremiah, the “Weeping Prophet”. In the last chapter of the Greek text of the Paralipomena (additional stories) of Jeremiah, there is a hint of the Christian part of the Ascension of Isaiah: the people stoned Jeremiah to death because he, like Isaiah before him, prophesied the coming of Christ. (***) (Basic info: Sheldon H. Blank: ‘Encyclopaedia Britannica Online’.)
(***) According to Blank, Jeremiah’s prophecy about ‘the coming of
Christ’ in his Scripture of 31:22 clearly signifies a “virgin birth”. Yet Ed
Rickard at ‘Bible Studies At The Moorings’ (online), though opining
that Jeremiah’s prophecy is similar to the earlier Isaiah prophecy of 7:14,
he says that this ‘puzzling verse’ [Jeremiah 31:22] has produced
‘conflicting interpretations’ among ‘liberal critics’. Of the differing views,
he says:
“The only interpretation that dispels the fog recognizes that Jeremiah is
foreseeing the Virgin Birth.”
The “virgin birth” belief is central to a correct understanding of Matthew’s great blunder in his non-understanding of Isaiah’s primary prophecy about a ‘virgin birth’. Matthew’s text about the birth of Jesus, which we must closely examine further on, will finally clarify the serious nature of his error. Therefore, the “virgin birth” that Matthew refers to occupies a singularly important place in the reason for this particular Discourse. Rickard’s commentary on the two Scriptures of the moment reinforces the standard Christian doctrine about the ‘virgin event’.
‘...as if the latter was intended as a companion to the earlier. Both announce a great wonder to be wrought by the Lord. Isaiah says, “The Lord himself shall give you a sign: Behold.” Jeremiah says, “The Lord hath created a new thing in the earth.” Both presage a man’s novel dependence on a woman. Isaiah says, “A virgin shall conceive and bear a son.” Jeremiah says, “A woman shall compass a man.” ‘Compass means ‘encompass or ‘surround’. The reference is evidently to an unborn male child in the womb of his mother.’ He continues:
“...the mysterious [words] of the prophet foresee a creative miracle, not simply an unusual event in the natural course of things. His subsequent statement implies that the new thing will appear when a woman holds a male child in her womb. We are thus led to understand that the child will be conceived by an act of divine creation. The word for woman is neither of the common ones, ishshah or nashim, but rather neqebah. Often used of animals, neqebah means simply “female”. The word for man is also not the usual one, but rather geber, which connotes a mighty man. So, Jeremiah’s prophecy says in essence that a mighty man will be conceived in the womb of a mere female. In light of Isaiah’s more explicit prophecy, we understand what Jeremiah means. He is also predicting that an unworthy mortal will be the mother of Almighty God in the flesh.” (Italics mine.)
Here Rickard further “locks-in” the standard Christian mantra about the ‘virgin birth’ of Jesus. And then there is invariably the “other bit” as accompaniment: that He was ‘Almighty God in the flesh.’ In the whole of His recorded ministry, did Jesus Himself ever state that He was “God the Father” -- on earth in the flesh? Nowhere is there any such inference recorded as being from Him. His serious admonition was always; “... everything to the Father”. Even the very first line of “The Lord’s Prayer” says it very plainly: “Our Father Who art in heaven ...”, not “I Who am on earth”.
It is all nauseating and fatuous ‘Christian-religious’ foolishness, completely devoid of any knowledge of The Divine Laws of Creation. The necessary and factual separation between foolish religious man of earth and GOD in His Unsubstantiate Omniscience is wonderfully described in the works of Rev. Richard Baxter. From his “Practical Works”; in brutal truth he says:
“You cannot endure to gaze upon the sun, which is God’s creature (****); should you approach too near it, you would be consumed by its heat. And dare you to be so bold with the highest Majesty? It were not greater folly to imagine that you can span the earth in your hand, or, that you can reach the sun with your finger, than to imagine that you are meet to expostulate with God, and that all must be unreasonable in his word or works where your wit is not able to discern the reason. Surely, “his thoughts are not as our thoughts, nor his ways as our ways: but as far as the heaven is above the earth, so far are his thoughts and ways above ours.” (Isai. Iv. 7-9.)
“Therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I know not.” (Job xlii. 3.)
‘Consider, also what we ourselves, as well as what that God is with whom we do expostulate. The Lord knows we are silly creatures for such an undertaking. Can such breathing lumps of earth, such walking dust, such bags of filth, be fit to enter into a dispute with God?’ (p. 423-4. Italics mine.)
(****) Baxter’s “recognition” of the sun being God’s creature resonates with Bible Scripture, i.e., “...and making the winds His messengers, flames of fire His servants.”
“Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:” (KJV) --- And:
“His Couriers are the storms! His Agents flames of fire!”
(Respectively; Psalm 104:4, Holman Christian Standard Bible.) and (Stanza 1,
Fenton.)
In terms of what we are examining here, vis-à-vis: Who actually Comes as The Spirit of Truth, it is refreshing to find such a clear-thinking scholar as Baxter. His reference to we humans in our earthly bodies as ‘walking dust’ and ‘bags of filth’ perfectly describe the separation aspect of the human body from its actual ‘life-force’. [We will explain –- no, clearly elucidate –- this separative aspect in the later Discourse on our actual origins about Genesis/Creation!]
Moreover, he clearly understands that the incalculable power of the “Forces of Nature” we take for granted represent and are far more than objects to be scientifically described in dry tomes. Isaiah is the Prophet who understands that spiritual reality and differentiation, and states so in Isaiah 18, Verse 3, (KJV):
“All ye inhabitants of the world, AND dwellers on the earth, see ye, when He lifteth up an ensign on the mountains” (Emphases mine.)
Despite Isaiah’s great “spiritually-prophetic” life, the very nature of Encyclopaedias’ means that content about him translates to a dry, historical/intellectual treatise. Though representing only a small fraction of the available information about him, what we have sourced from Britannica is vital for the key point that is his legacy for our End-time!
Our next section of necessary ‘Isaiah-knowledge’ is derived from what is considered by some academics to be a lesser authoritative source than Britannica. Nonetheless, in order to fully underscore Isaiah’s primary place as “the far-seeing one”, Wikipedia provides the further essential information to add to Britannica’s contribution; for fact is fact no matter which “authority” serves as its repository.
The following elements, together with the previous section, thus ‘build’ the framework of Isaiah’s “unassailable concrete structure” of clear and unchallengeable prophecy about The Spirit of Truth.