“Do not fear, nor be afraid; Have I not told you from that time, and declared it? You are My witnesses.”

Isaiah 44:6-8

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“Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts: ‘I am the First and I am the Last; Besides Me there is no God.” Isaiah 44:6

The Lord is God the Father and His Redeemer is our Lord Jesus Christ. All who come to God through Jesus Christ are redeemed. To be redeemed is to be restored everything that sin has taken from us. Sin has taken eternal life from us and our Redeemer restores eternal life to us when we believe in Him. “For God so loved the world that whoever believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life” John 3:16. Sin has taken fellowship away from God, but that fellowship is restored through Jesus Christ who forgives our sin and gives us the Holy Spirit. In the spirit we have fellowship with his Spirit. “Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?” 1 Corinthians 3:16 How can we know if we have the Holy Spirit? If we do not speak against Jesus and say that He is Lord then we have the Holy Spirit, “Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed, and no one can say that Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit.” 1 Corinthians 12:3

The Lord is the King of Israel as their God, and the Redeemer of Israel through His Son Jesus Christ. The Jewish people have rejected Jesus as the Christ and Son of God, but whoever calls on Him through Jesus will be made His children, “He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. “But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” John 1:12-13

Our Lord Jesus is the fulness of the Trinity, He is the Lord God made flesh, and the fulness of the Spirit of God, “For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily;” Colossians 2:9 In the following verse, the “Us” and “Our” refers to God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, “Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness;” Genesis 1:26

Our Lord Jesus is the First and the Last, being the Creator of all things, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.” John 1:1-3

Our Lord Jesus will be the end of all things at His return, “Then the seventh angel sounded: And there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He will reign forever and ever!…the nations were angry, and Your wrath has come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that You should reward Your servants the prophets and the saints, and those who fear Your name, small and great, and should destroy those who destroy the earth.” Revelations 11:15, 18

“Besides Me there is no God.”

“And who can proclaim as I do? Then let him declare it and set it in order for Me, since I appointed the ancient people. And the things that are coming and will come, let them show these to them.” Isaiah 44:7

The Lord has proclaimed to us what would happen and it happened, is happening, and will happen. It happened when the Jewish people were gathered to Israel in 1948, where the Lord unleashes His wrath on them, as prophesied about in Ezekiel 22:19-21. The prophecy of the arrival of the beast, that gives breath/life to the image of the beast to speak by speaking and living through people, is happening today. The United Nations was formed in 1945, immediately after World War 2, and brought the government of the beast with it, as described in Daniel 8:1-14 and also Revelations 17. The word of the Lord will continue to come about in the future as described in the Seven Trumpets of Revelations 8, 9, and 11, the Seven Thunders of Revelations 10, and the Seven Plagues of Revelations 16.

Click for a list of fulfilled prophecy since the 1940’s and scroll about half-way down the page.

Today, people who serve the power of darkness through the beast that gives them what to do, think, say, and feel boast in their attitude and behavior, “Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?” Revelations 13:4 They are those who say, “I see”, or “I know” because the beast empowers them with uncanny knowledge and heightened intuition. But they are blind and do not know what the future holds for them. They reject the word of God who is able to open their eyes through belief in Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit. The “…testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of prophecy…” Revelations 19:10. If we want to see and know where the world is within prophecy we only have to see where Jesus is within the world.

If today’s culture of the beast is able to declare their future destiny, then let them set things in order for the Lord. That is said sarcastically since all prophecy comes from the Holy Scriptures and those who serve the beast that gives them what to say and do opposes the Holy Bible. The Lord has already set in motion future events. The things that are coming will come, and it all hinges on this verse, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son that whoever believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life” John 3:16

All of that is also stated in the post on Isaiah 43:8-13, the post on Isaiah 41:25-29, and the post on Isaiah 41:21-24 “Who has declared from the beginning, that we may know? And former times, that we may say, ‘He is righteous’? Surely there is no one who shows, surely there is no one who declares, surely there is no one who hears your words.” Isaiah 41:26 “Show the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods;” Isaiah 41:23.

“Do not fear, nor be afraid; Have I not told you from that time, and declared it? You are My witnesses. Is there a God besides Me? Indeed there is no other Rock; I know not one.’” Isaiah 44:8

We are the witnesses of God, like John the Baptist urging people to prepare for the return of Jesus, who is the Christ and Son of God, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord; Make His paths straight.’” Matthew 3:3 We are not to fear or be afraid of what is happening in the world and what is to come, but we are to proclaim the prophecies of the word of God, through Jesus Christ, in the presence of the Holy Spirit. It is the Spirit of the Lord who has told us from times past and has declared to us what is happening in the world today and what is to come.

“Is there a God besides Me? Indeed there is no other Rock; I know not one.’” Our Lord Jesus Christ is the Rock on which we stand, He is the hope of the world and the anchor of our soul, “This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast,” Hebrews 6:19 There is no God besides Him.

Jesus is the rock of my salvation,
His banner over me is love.

There’s one way to peace through the power of the Cross,
His banner over me is love.

The Lord is mine and I am His,
His banner over me is love.

He is the vine and we are the branches,
His banner over me is love.
[His Banner Over Me is Love]

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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

Normal Isn’t Coming Back, Jesus Is.