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

Monday, July 21, 2014

Isaiah 54

Again, Isaiah relates the Lord as the husband, Israel or Judah as the married wife, and children as His righteous seed where Israel in the latter days -

"...shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited."  (Old Testament | Isaiah 54:3)

And with the desolate cities being inhabited with righteous seed, Israel is to -

"Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes..."  (Old Testament | Isaiah 54:2)

Were some may consider these words to be in regards to the millenium, I believe that Isaiah's description of the latter days in this chapter is in regards to current Zion, stakes of Zion, and families of Zion where the Lord promises -

"...behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.
12 And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.
13 And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children.
14 In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near thee."  Old Testament | Isaiah 54:11 - 14)

Where -

"....whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake." (Old Testament | Isaiah 54:15)

And -

"No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper..."  (Old Testament | Isaiah 54:17)

I believe that because in modern day, the Lord said -

"...that the gathering together upon the land of Zion, and upon her stakes, may be for a defense, and for a refuge from the storm, and from wrath when it shall be poured out without mixture upon the whole earth."   (Doctrine and Covenants | Section 115:6)