In the past several days, if not weeks, this passage of scripture keeps bobbing to the surface of my mind like a floater on the fishermen's line. The fish beneath the waves is nibbling, and the bobber keeps going under and resurfacing. That is the ebb and flow of the Spirit, for the waves of the future are lapping the former shorelines and the erosion of that shoreline makes for barely discernable change. But do you not sense a spiritual "tidal wave? A volcanic eruption? A hurricane force? Seas tossed to and fro? Wild fires and tempest?

But there is also peace. Sometimes that peace seems to have as it's derivative a form of "letting go" to the inevitable, like a man clinging to a ledge until strength is gone. Not fatalistically and yet apparently ready to take the plunge as it is the only last thing to be done when all else fails.

Isa 46:9 Remember the former things of old: for I [am] God, and [there is] none else; [I am] God, and [there is] none like me, Isa 46:10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times [the things] that are not [yet] done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure: Isa 46:11 Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken [it], I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed [it], I will also do it. Isa 46:12 Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that [are] far from righteousness: Isa 46:13 I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.

You have an interesting way of putting things......... almost poetic.

Isa 46:11 Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken [it], I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed [it], I will also do it. Isa 46:12 Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that [are] far from righteousness: Isa 46:13 I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.

I am having a potential light bulb moment. The ravenous bird mentioned first could refer to the hordes from the east and how Israel will be surrounded and it will look like it is all over. But the all important comma....separating a thought into two parts? Jesus refered several times in parables about how he was going to do thus and so and He went into a "far country." The intent was to leave certain husbandmen to manage His affairs while He was gone. But He is to return and offer both rebuke and reward according to the performance of those husbandmen. I think it may be that verse 13 refers to Christ as He comes back at the last possible moment to save Israel and us. He is to rule from Jerusalem for a thousand years. I like the way this verse institutes a perception of that..."I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory."


Maybe I am like "Poe" (Edgar Allen) Maybe He had a "tic." Or maybe I am a heretic. Just having fun with words.