Scripture Blog

This weblog is my personal online scripture journal. I try to read the scriptures each morning as I exercise on my cross-trainer. It has a great impact on my life and my testimony of the Savior and his restored church. The journal is really for my own benefit but I have set it up as a web log in hopes to benefit anyone else that may be interested. "For he that diligently seeketh shall find; and the mysteries of God shall be unfolded unto them, by the power of the Holy Ghost..." 1 Nephi 10:19

Friday, May 30, 2014

Isaiah 18

As Isaiah saw the great missionary effort that would administered from this land, Isaiah recorded -

"WOE [hark or greetings] to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:
2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled..."  (Old Testament | Isaiah 18:1 - 2)

Per the footnote, I understand that the word "WOE" was a mistranslation and I inserted proper interpretations.  One would have to believe that this land is protected by "wings" or the hand of the Lord and is far from the rivers of Ethiopia.  Missionaries or "messengers" in the latter day have traveled swiftly to scattered Israel.

And in these last days, all of scattered Israel and -

"All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye."  (Old Testament | Isaiah 18:3)

In our day, the trumpet soundeth in the form of missionary voices that is distinct and clear to all that will hear.  And in Holy Temples -

"...I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest."  (Old Testament | Isaiah 18:4)

"Clear heat" in my mind would be symbolic of  rays of enlightenment.  For it is in the temples or mount Zion that -

"In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion."  (Old Testament | Isaiah 18:7)

All the righteous will be gathers to mount Zion or its stakes.