Vision of Isaiah, the ox knows its owner but Israel does not know theirs.

Isaiah 1:1-3

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“The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.” Isaiah 1:1

Through the 66 books of Isaiah, by the Spirit of God, he speaks about the Israelites, the Jewish people of today, prophecies about the coming of the Christ [Jesus], and about Christianity. Also, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah are spoken about in Micah 1:1. Uzziah was the father of Jotham. Jotham was the father of Ahaz. And Ahaz was the father of Hezekiah. A brief description of those kings gives light to the circumstances during the time of Isaiah’s vision.

• Uzziah: Initially, Uzziah lived with a desire to please to God, but after becoming powerful, He decided it was his place to burn incense in the Temple, a role reserved only for priests. This is like human beings trying to do the role of the Priest Jesus Christ within the temple of God, our body. More specifically, it is like the beast “...who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.” 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4. The “he” in this verse is referring to the “man of sin” Click here for a post on the “Man of Sin”. The beast sets within our body, the temple of God, by its power over physiology to give people what to speak, do, think, and feel.
• Jotham: Jotham was faithful to the Lord, but the Jewish people continued in their corrupt practices, and the places of worship to a false god were not removed. We all know the difficulty of trying to uphold belief in God and Jesus Christ in a culture that opposes the Gospel of Jesus.
• Ahaz:  Ahaz did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord. He followed the ways of the nations all around him and ignored the Ten Commandments and the laws of sacrifices. The Ten Commandments made the Jewish people so much different than the world around them. For example, the nations around them believed in human sacrifices but the Israelites respected human life and sacrificed bulls, goats, and other animals instead. However, Ahaz literally sacrificed his son in the fire to appease the false gods of the other nations. We live in a global culture where nations everywhere gives their sacrifice and devotion to the beast that gives them what to speak, do, think, and feel.
• Hezekiah: Hezekiah is remembered as one of Judah’s most faithful kings, doing what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as David had done. Hezekiah showed the Babylonian envoys all his treasures, a decision that Isaiah prophesied would lead to future Babylonian captivity. Babylon symbolizes the global government of today, and as we know, the global economy and all the treasures of the world are to be under the control of the one world government. We live in a world where the treasures and wealth of every country in this world are an open book, for other countries to see. The global government of the United Nations knows exactly how much income to expect from other nations. That is evident in the graph below.
  
  

“Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth! For the Lord has spoken: “I have nourished and brought up children,
and they have rebelled against Me…” Isaiah 1:2

Isaiah’s vision is a global message for all the people to hear. That message is that the Lord brought up the Israelites as His children. The birth and origin of the Israelites is described in Ezekiel 16:1-22. However, the Jewish people have rebelled against Him by rejecting His Son Jesus as the Christ.

The Lord wants the world to see His judgment against Israel for profaning His name for all the world to see, “When they came to the nations, wherever they went, they profaned My holy name—when they said of them, ‘These are the people of the Lord, and yet they have gone out of His land.’ But I had concern for My holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations wherever they went. Ezekiel 36:20-21

“Therefore thus says the Lord God: ‘Because you have all become dross, therefore behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem. As men gather silver, bronze, iron, lead, and tin into the midst of a furnace, to blow fire on it, to melt it; so I will gather you in My anger and in My fury, and I will leave you there and melt you. Yes, I will gather you and blow on you with the fire of My wrath, and you shall be melted in its midst.” Ezekiel 22:19-21

“The ox knows its owner and the donkey its master’s crib; But Israel does not know, My people do not consider.” Isaiah 1:3

We all know how animals of every type recognizes their owner and where their place of rest is. However, the Jewish people do not understand that their place is with God through Jesus Christ in the presence of the Holy Spirit. If they understood that, they would have rest from the constant conflicts they have suffered by trying to maintain a Jewish culture and a Jewish state [such as the State of Israel]. Since the Jewish State of Israel was established in 1948, they have been in 18 wars, including one in 1948. Click here for a list of those wars.

If the Jewish people would have said “Yes!” to Jesus as the Christ 2000 years ago, the Jewish culture and Jewish State of Israel would never have existed. That’s because they would be Christian, and as Christians we do not have a country on this earth to call our own. We Christians are in every nation around the world, all different ethnicities, and many different earthly languages. As Christians, our country is the New Jerusalem in the new heaven and earth.

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:1