Part 2/2 of Who is the Servant? There is a significance and relation of TEACHING to the former and latter rain prophecied in the Scripture. Zechariah 10:1 💕Ask the Lord for rain In the time of the latter rain. The Lord will make flashing clouds; He will give them showers of RAIN, Grass in the field for everyone. What is the rain? The literal meaning of rain is the pouring out of water from above that can give nourishment for everyone like showers that watered the earth. There are many literal raining season coming to us every year and it all watered down the earth, but there is the specificity of the Scripture in highlighting the former and the latter rain and pointing out the significance of this in our life Joel 2:23 💕“Be glad, O children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God, for he has given the early RAIN for your VINDICATION; he has poured down for you abundant rain, the early and the latter rain, as before. What is vindication? Vindication is clearing out from any accusations or blame or suspicions; as being justified. So the literal rain cannot cause vindication that is why the former rain and the latter rain has much more deeper and spiritual meaning than pouring down water from above. This is further explain in...PART 2/2 Deuteronomy 32:1-4 💕“Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; And hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. Let my TEACHING drop as the RAIN, My speech distill as the dew, As raindrops on the tender herb, And as showers on the grass. For I PROCLAIM the NAME of the Lord: Ascribe greatness to our God. He is the Rock, His work is perfect; For all His ways are justice, A God of truth and without injustice; Righteous and upright is He. The 'RAIN' implied by the Scripture is the TEACHING of the Word or the proclamation of the name of our Lord. And this RAIN has come from above, for it is our LORD who would come to us as the RAIN. This is seen in Hosea 6:3 💕Then shall we know, if we follow on to KNOW THE LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and HE SHALL COME UNTO US as the RAIN, as the LATTER and FORMER rain unto the earth. Who is this Lord who will come to us as the rain sent by our Lord Yeshua? It is the Lord Yeshua, Jesus Christ, who would come thru the Spirit of God who would help us in knowing the Lord. Isaiah 44:3-4 💕For I will POUR WATER on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground; I will POUR my SPIRIT upon your offspring, and my blessing on your descendants. They shall SPRING UP among the grass like willows by flowing streams. The RAIN (TEACHING) is proclaiming the name of the Lord through the Spirit of God bestowed unto us. This coincides with Acts 2:17 💕‘In the last days, God says, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams. For the Spirit that had been poured out in former rain is also the same Spirit that had been poured out in the latter rain Joel 2:28-29 💕 “And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions. Even on the male and female servants in those days I will pour out my Spirit. 8. That is why Isaiah 42:1-13 is NOT about the people Israel but is about the Lord. (take note of the verse) Isaiah 42:6-7 💕“I, the Lord, have called You in righteousness, And will hold Your hand; I will keep You and give You as a covenant to the people, As a LIGHT TO THE GENTILES, To open blind eyes, To bring out prisoners from the prison, Those who sit in darkness from the prison house. There is only one who can give a light to the Gentiles, and that is the Lord Jesus Christ whom Father gave as a covenant to the people seen in Isaiah 53. This is confirmed in Isaiah 42: 1-13( read the verses) where the chapter verses is talking about the Lord who became man, the Servant of God whom the Spirit of God dwelt. This coincides with Isaiah 11:10 💕“And in that day there shall be a Root of Jesse, Who shall stand as a banner to the people; For the GENTILES SHALL SEEK HIM, And His resting place shall be glorious.” Are your resting place "glorious" today or before? Who can have a resting glorious place? You? Even if it is in the future, the verse is talking about the Messiah literally who will dwelt in the midst of Jerusalem whose glorious resting place belongs to Him. WHILE in ( take note of the verses) Isaiah 42:18-20 💕“Hear, you deaf; And look, you blind, that you may see. Who is blind but My servant, Or deaf as My messenger whom I send? Who is blind as he who is perfect, And blind as the Lord’s servant? Seeing many things, but you do not observe; Opening the ears, but he does not hear.” This servant in verse 18-20 is described as the 'people Israel.' The servant from verse 1-13 is DIFFERENT from the servant described in verses 18-20 for the purpose of the first servant who had the Spirit of God is to 'OPEN THE BLIND EYES' while the second servant in verse 18 is considered already as 'BLIND SERVANT.' This is one confirmation of the difference of the servant called "MESSIAH," and the servant people Israel called "BLIND." The first servant is the Arm of the Lord while the second servant is the people Israel. These servants mentioned are with different description and purpose from each other. And the Servant who had the Spirit of the Lord had been testified by Jesus Christ in Luke 4:16 -21 💕And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. And as was his custom, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and he stood up to read. And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written, “The SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS UPON ME, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.” And he rolled up the scroll and gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him. And he began to say to them, “TODAY THIS SCRIPTURE HAS BEEN FULFILLED IN YOUR HEARING” You are the 'BLIND' who cannot see nor wanted to see the works of God. You cannot even stand up for him, the one that saves and took off your iniquities. And this all start because you cannot believe that God had sent to be a man and SUFFERED for the forgiveness of your sins as testified by the "seed of the woman" in Genesis 3:15 The 'people Israel' or all created man are DISQUALIFIED for the works in
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With due respect. I cannot reply to @zaharabardavid in the post "עם ישראל וייעודו הנצחי. הרצאה אגדית של הרב טוביה סינגר ישעיהו כח-לה Rabbi Tovia Singer". Kindly share Who is the Servant?Part 1/2 Servant and the name Israel is applicable to (1)people of Israel and (2) the Messiah, the Arm of the Lord in Isaiah 53. A. They BOTH came from the womb. The difference is the Arm of the Lord is sent to be born from the womb to be the 'Son of Man,' ( The Seed of the woman) but is God, who will prophecied to destroy the devil. B. They can BOTH be termed " Israel" but they CANNOT be both be termed "Messiah". Isaiah 44: 1-5 💕“Yet hear now, O Jacob My servant, And Israel whom I have chosen. Thus says the Lord who made you And formed you from the womb, who will help you: ‘Fear not, O Jacob My servant; And you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen. For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, And floods on the DRY GROUND; I will pour My Spirit on your descendants, And My blessing on your offspring; They will spring up among the grass Like willows by the watercourses.’ One will say, ‘I am the Lord’s’; Another will call himself by the name of Jacob; Another will write with his hand, ‘The Lord’s,’ And name himself by the name of Israel. In verse 5 says that ANYONE ( marked by one, another, Iam, himself) from the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob can NAME HIMSELF by the name of 'Israel.' So the Arm of the Lord in Isaiah 53 who is God became man, the seed of the woman, from the line of Judah in Micah 5:2 is also capable to name himself by the name of 'Israel.' The DIFFERENCE with the people is: The people NEEDS saving while Messiah is the SAVIOUR for salvation belongs to the Lord. Even before in the beginning,in times of Adam and Eve, they cannot even saved themselves from their sin. And as all man sin, then there is only one outcome for all man- that is death. God is God and He hate sin. Man is man and they cannot save themselves from death for man is only a creation and those who sin needs to be judged for sin is the sting of death . It is only from the MERCY of God that man lives. So do not uplift yourselves against your God for the number one identity you have is ' "transgressors" and only forgiven by God(believers).' Humble yourselves from the righteousness coming from God (Isaiah 53). All created Israel is disqualified for the works of the Messiah in Isaiah 53 for all man sinned. The Arm of the Lord, the Messiah who had NO SIN testified by 1. Isaiah 53: 9 💕though he had done no violence,nor was any deceit in his mouth.) 2. Daniel 9:26 💕And after the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself 3. Isaiah 53:8 💕For he was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgression of my people he was punished. How about you or the people Israel. Lay down the Scripture that says you had no sin. And I will reason out with you. C. Another difference is the servant Messiah is with the Spirit of God And the Spirit that had been poured out in Isaiah 44:1-5 had been poured out to a ROD from the stem of Jesse. Isaiah 11;1-2 💕There shall come forth a ROD from the STEM(shoot) OF JESSE, And a Branch shall grow out of his roots. The Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon Him, The Spirit of wisdom and understanding, The Spirit of counsel and might, The Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord. Isaiah 11 is talking about the LORD, the Rod, who had the Spirit of God. This is NOT about the people Israel who comes out from the womb from the stem of Jesse. This is the Lord sent to be a man prophecied from the descendants of Judah in Micah 5:2. For the people Israel CANNOT "strike the earth with the rod of His mouth neither slay the wicked with the breath of his lips" as Isaiah 11: 4 had said. Can you do that? And also in Isaiah 42:1-4 💕“Here is my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen one in whom I delight; I will put my Spirit on him, and he will bring justice to the nations. He will not shout or cry out, or raise his voice in the streets. A bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out. In faithfulness he will bring forth justice; he will not falter or be discouraged till he establishes justice on earth. In his TEACHING the islands will put their hope.” This verses is talking about Isaiah 53. Isaiah 53: 1-2 💕Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? He grew up before him like a TENDER SHOOT, and like a ROOT OUT OF DRY GROUND. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. "In his teaching the islands will put their hope.” Hope will come from the teaching and not from any military action. Peace will come from teaching and not from aggression. The gospel of Christ is the gospel of Peace. This is Isaiah 53.
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