ISAIAH’S END-TIME TIMELINE

Isaiah’s End-time Timeline Chapter 49

JESUS – SERVANT & PRINCE OF GOD

To Establish Israel and Bring in the Gentiles

Daniel 7:9-14, Psalm 2:8-9, Zechariah 9:9, Luke 1:31-33, Matthew 21:43, Revelation 4:2

ISAIAH 49: JESUS, SERVANT/PRINCE OF GOD
His purpose in coming was to establish Israel and bring in the Gentiles…..

In Isaiah Chapter 49, clearly the speaker is Christ. From the womb the Father has called His Son. It is so declared in the New Testament… “Thou shalt bring forth a Son, and shalt call his name Jesus.” [Luke 1:31] “His name was called Jesus, which was so named of the angel, before he was conceived in the womb.” [Luke 2:21] He is here given the Name “O Israel (Prince of God) in whom I will be glorified.” [Isaiah 49:3]

Having come forth in His humiliation, His work and strength spent, His fruitfulness but little, His life could have been perceived to be spent all for nought and in vain. As the Jews to whom He was sent, so regarded Him not and denied Him, surrendering Him unto death. “Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and my God shall be my strength.” Thus the work was in harmony with His Father’s will, and in that He rested.

He is throughout declared “Holy”; an attribute belonging to God only. He is hidden now in the quiver of the Father’s bow, ready to be shot forward in the Power of His glorious Kingdom; in His time. Though He was rejected at His first coming, it is accepted that in the 6th verse lies the purpose for which He was originally sent. So “….to bring Jacob again unto Him…” would be realized. And that “…as a light thing…” for the Father. He then adds, “I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.”

He is the Seed of Abraham according to the flesh, By Whom we discover His present fruitfulness, in that the Gentiles received the promises of the Spirit by faith (Galatians 3) in the accepting Him as the sacrificial Lamb of God in accordance with His own will. “Therefore doth the Father love me, because I lay down my life.” And though abhorred in His first coming; beaten, crowned with thorns, spit upon and crucified by Jew and Gentile nations, who mockingly shouted, “Hail, king of the Jews!” But certainly “…Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship.…” when He cometh in the glory of His Father with the angels, and sitteth on the throne of glory to judge the living and the dead. And that “in an acceptable time” (Isaiah verse 8 declares), He has heard the Son, He has helped Him, and will preserve Him, and give Him for a New Covenant with His people. There is a very certain time, that Millennial day, wherein the Father will reestablish the earth, to cause His Son to inherit the desolate heritages. That He mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, shew yourselves. In the power of His Resurrection, the faithful shall rise from among the dead and shine forth with the faithful living. “….many should come from the east, and from the west, and sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of God.” (In His Millennial Kingdom) [See Job 10:21,22 with Daniel 12:1-3, and Revelation 7:16,17] These are they who suffered with Him. “If we suffer we shall also reign with him.” (Romans 8)

Paul’s usage of this verse in 2 Corinthians 6:1,2 confirms God has set for everything a time, a season. There was a time for Christ’s humiliation, and there is a soon coming secret time for His investiture as King of kings in the heavens just above the earth. Spiritually, that equates to there being this present TIME of approach, through Christ’s humiliation, unto God’s present Throne to obtain Mercy and Grace. But that Time is closing and a TIME is coming when another Throne will be set up in the heavens. [Revelation 4:2, Daniel 7:9-14] This is the Throne of Justice and Judgment, from where Jesus Christ will administer Judgment in the World. After which He shall restore Judah and Ephraim and fulfill the Millennial promises to Israel, His people, in the earth.

But this Kingdom will seem impossible. For Zion shall say: “The LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me.” Zion here represents both end time tribulation groups representative of His people; the faithful Jews, and the faithful enduring Christians. [Revelations 12:17 14:12] But Christ’s response is stronger than any maternal love. “Can a woman forget her suckling child…..yea they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.” And Jesus Christ’s nail-scarred hands are His eternal reminder of His redeeming Love for His faithfully suffering people.

When that set TIME has come, God will return His favor upon Israel. He shall cast out the Destroyer from their presence. He shall cause those responsible for her destruction to rebuild her. All her scattered sons shall return to her. The Gentiles will discover the preeminence of God’s favored Israel and will willingly restore them back into their Land. The Gentiles will highly honor the Jews and their Nation, as it is the place Jesus Christ’s Glory shall reside.

LAYING THE BOOK OF ISAIAH OVER THE BOOK OF REVELATION:

THERE ARE TWO AGES OR DISPENSATIONS ALLUDED TO IN ISAIAH 49. THERE ARE TWO KINGDOMS ALLUDED TO ALSO.

First we note that the Father declares that He will give the Son to be His salvation, not only to the Jews but to the Gentiles in Isaiah 49 verse 6 and in Psalms 2:8,9. Revelation 2:26,27 reveals that the Father gives the Gentiles/ New Man/Overcomers in a very special way to the Son. But in an entirely different way, in verses 22-23, He promises to make the Gentiles to be subservient, as He makes the Jews a light unto them. [Exodus 19:5,6]

The Father “Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things.” [Hebrews 1:2] The Book of Matthew in particular presents Jesus Christ as King. And in Matthew 4:17-7:28, He began to declare that Kingdom of which He is king. (That mysterious Kingdom of heavens seen in Matthew 13:11. The Kingdom is not the Church, nor are the Gentiles being brought into Covenant with Israel a mystery.) And up through Matthew 16:20, His credentials as King are being shown. Also see Zechariah 9:9, “Behold THY KING”. As of verse 21 in Matthew, we see that Christ openly recognizes His being rejected as King.

And in Matthew 21:42 & 43 is the result: “The Kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.”

Demanding His death and His Blood be upon them and their children, the Jews declared to Pilate, “We have no king but Caesar.” And though Israel is a sovereign republic today, it will receive and subject itself once again to that “Roman king”. For the Son has said: “I am come in my Father’s name (as King and Savior of Israel), and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.” [Daniel 9:27, 11:21-23]

See Christ’s instructive prayer: “Our Father Which art in heavens, Hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven.” We find this to be the main prophetic subject of the entire Bible, and is the source of the great conflict of the end times unveiled in the Book of Revelation. For a clear understanding of unfulfilled prophecy seen here in Isaiah and in the Book of Revelation, it is vital to have a correct interpretation of Scripture’s past events and meanings. For God has given the past as a means to interpret the future. [1 Corinthians 10:11]

THE KINGDOM OF heavens is a dispensational term. It has to do with the Messiah’s Kingdom on and over the earth, whose sovereignty or authority comes from Heaven. It was to this end He was born. And because of the Nation of Israel’s rejection of Him, the realization of this Kingdom has been postponed. The mystery was (is) HAVING TO DO WITH this POSTPONEMENT in the realization of the Kingdom of heavens. And its glorious significance in delegated authority has not been revealed. The references to the Kingdom of heavens in Matthew are designed by the Spirit of God to convey and display the Kingdom now in abeyance and dispensational, as it only runs until the end of the Millennium. “…when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.” [1 Corinthians 15:28 with Revelation 21:1-3,22,23] Thus the Kingdom of GOD specifically is not dispensational, it is eternal, and it has always been and will always be.

Revelation chapters 4 & 5 answers to Daniel 7 as it relates to Jesus Christ’s investiture as King in the Kingdom as the Son of God/Son of Man taking His rightful place. This is the burden or meaning of the sealed book and the opening of the seals. And it answers to Matthew 6:10. “Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done in the earth (and its associated heavens) as it is in Heaven.” The rest of Revelation answers to Daniel 7 in its destruction of satan’s heavenly and earthly kingdom to establish His heavenly and earthly kingdom.

Jesus now having received His investiture as King, in the Kingdom of heavens from the Father, has two distinct parts.

  1. The ruling from the heavens associated with this Earth. This is the New Man’s “heavenly calling”. (Hebrews 3:1) These are sons of the resurrection who will reign with Jesus /Son of God as “(first-born) sons of God” in “The Kingdom of His dear Son.” [Luke 20:34-36, 1 Corinthians 15:23, Revelation 20:4-6] These have their portion in as “the saints of the most high (places).” [Daniel 7:18,24]
  2. And then after the Tribulation, Israel finally receives Him as their King, as the “Son of Man” in the earthly aspect of His Kingdom. That is to say on the earth, having to do with Israel as “the people of the saints of the most high.” [Daniel 7: 27]

It is in this understanding the allusions of Isaiah to the Kingdom of heavens is found in the understanding of the Gentiles divided into two groups:

  1. The age of the calling out of a people for His Name. That is to say unto “the fullness of the Gentiles” who shall rule with Jesus Christ from the heavens over the nations of the earth.
  2. When the times of the Gentiles is over; when Israel is restored to preeminence in the earth and Gentiles are then subservient to them.

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