YAHWEH, A Hidden GOD

Hello! and happy good Tuesday to all of us, GUYS.  Our "food for the soul" today:

THE GOOD NEWS (20 December 2016)

"Thus YAHWEH spoke to me when HIS hand grasped me and HE warned me not to walk in the way of these people:

'Do not speak of conspiracy whenever these people dread conspiracy; do not fear what they fear nor be in dread.  Only YAHWEH Sabaoth must you hold in veneration, only HIM must you fear, only HIM must you dread.

HE will be a sanctuary and at the same time a stumbling-stone, the rock that brings down, for both houses of Israel.  HE will be like trap and snare for the people of Jerusalem.  Many of them will stumble, many will fall and be broken, be trapped and captured.'

YAHWEH added: 'Bind this testimony and seal it in the midst of MY disciples.'

So I will wait for YAHWEH who hides HIS face from the people of Jacob.  I will hope in HIM.  Here am I and the children HE has given me.  We are signs and portents in Israel from YAHWEH Sabaoth, who dwells on Mount Zion." - Isaiah 8:11-18 

(When HIS hand grasped me.  Isaiah is referring to one of those decisive encounters when GOD made him HIS prophet and he was under the wing of GOD's Spirit.

Do not speak of conspiracy!  GOD acts in HIS prophets and frees them from fear.  They are no longer paralyzed by the fears of the society in which they live.  They are able to see and to show new ways.

We are  signs in Israel.  Isaiah has concluded his interventions and they have not listened to him.  All he can do now is to wait in silence for the events to occur.  His two sons, to whom he gave symbolic names.  Quick to plunder-Booty-is-Close and A remnant-will-return remind everyone of his predictions.  The first of these names refers to the near future; the second, to the end of the crisis.

Only YAHWEH Sabaoth is holy: only HIM must you fear.  For Jerusalem, it is a privilege to have GOD in its midst.  Rather than being frightened by human dangers, the Jews should look to GOD and obey HIM.  In their midst, GOD is like the stone which hardly emerges from the ground but causes a fall for those who do not see it.  JESUS will appear as a stumbling stone [Matthew 21:44].

GOD hides HIS face from the people of Jacob.  Humanly speaking, the people of Jerusalem have good reasons for not following YAHWEH's command given through Isaiah, and GOD does not work a miracle to persuade them at that time.  GOD "hides" because faith relies on HIS word and does not demand miracles.)

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