Isaiah 9

Isaiah 9 by Rubel Shelly: What the Zeal of the Lord Will Do (Isa.9-11). We will look at Isaiah 9 in contrast to the view that Scripture is not inspired. Rubel Shelly believes that Scripture is available as fragments from which we must build our own NARRATIVE. When Matthew recorded what Jesus is supposed to have literally spoken, Rubel sees this as the same "taking liberties" of inspired Scripture to tell his own VERSION. Rubel says that he also believes that Isaiah is speaking of a kingdom but his words agree with previous teachings that the kingdom HAS NOT COME. This is a quick study and we will correct and add at time permits. Sorry that I am late.

Because there is only One Lord God, there can be none equal to Him. If there is any one equal to Him then He cannot be the One Lord God:

To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One. Isaiah 40:25

God became His own Intercessor because there was no man capable of interceding. Failure happened when truth failed and truth failed when the prophets and priests began consulting one another (undoubtedly at workshops) and making up their own songs and sermons thinking that their words were superior to God's Word:

Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey. And the Lord saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment. Isaiah 5:15

The nature of God's intercession is based upon the failure of truth and the fact that there was no person to intercede by delivering the Words of God to the people. The offense was against God. Therefore, it must be God Himself being His own Rock, Lord, Arm or Intercessor to be the "door" or "interface" between Himself as the Spirit "interior" and to mankind as His "exterior."

In transgressing and lying against the Lord (Jehovah), and departing away from our God (Elohim), speaking oppression and revolt,

conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. Isaiah 59:13

And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm (power or seed) brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him. Isaiah 59:16

For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak. Isaiah 59:17

According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompense. Isaiah 59:18

So shall they fear the name of the
(1) Lord from the west,
(2) and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood,
(3) the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him. Isaiah 59:19
And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the Lord. Isaiah 59:20

There are MANY Elohim (Moses was one) but only Jehovah is our ONE True Elohim. He is both Lord and God as Thomas confessed Jesus the Christ in Whom dwelled full Deity. He is the ONE Intercessor qualified only because He is the ONE Redeemer. An earthly priest or preacher of musician CANNOT stand between us and God:

As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seeds seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever. Isaiah 59:21

This Intercessor would come in the name (singular) of Father, Son and Spirit. However, these are not names but works or offices. His one name would be Jehovah-Saved, Joshua or Jesus. For instance, when Jesus said that He had all authority and we could baptize in the name (singular) or the full authority of Father, Son and Holy Spirit, Peter baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Therefore, what Peter actually did is a commentary upon Christ's command. After Christ sat down beside the glory He laid aside to become human, there is no longer Father, Son and Spirit. Jesus is:

	Father
Jesus	Son
	Spirit

Rubel Shelly: Perhaps Good King Hezekiah is in view here. He was the upright and faithful son of corrupt and disobedient King Ahaz.

He came to the Davidic throne with a heart very different from his father's. He became Yahweh's agent for Jerusalem in the face of Assyrian power.

Justin Martyr addresses many of Rubel Shelly's false teachings in contending with Trypho. For instance, the Jews also claim that Psalm 110 spoke of Hezekiah.

Chapter XXXIII.-Ps. CX. Is Not Spoken of Hezekiah. He Proves that Christ Was First Humble, Then Shall Be Glorious.

"And," I continued, "I am not ignorant that you venture to expound this psalm as if it referred to king Hezekiah; but that you are mistaken, I shall prove to you from these very words forthwith. "The Lord hath sworn, and will not repent, 'it is said; and, "Thou art a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek, 'with what follows and precedes.

Not even you will venture to object that Hezekiah was either a priest, or is the everlasting priest of God; but that this is spoken of our Jesus, these expressions show.

But your ears are shut up, and your hearts are made dull. For by this statement, "The Lord hath sworn, and will not repent: Thou art a priest for ever, after the order of Melchizedek, 'with an oath God has shown Him (on account of your unbelief) to be the High Priest after the order of Melchizedek; i.e., as Melchizedek was described by Moses as the priest of the Most High, and he was a priest of those who were in uncircumcision, and blessed the circumcised Abraham who brought him tithes, so God has shown that His everlasting Priest, called also by the Holy Spirit Lord, would be Priest of those in uncircumcision.

Those too in circumcision who approach Him, that is, believing Him and seeking blessings from Him, He will both receive and bless. And that He shall be first humble as a man, and then exalted, these words at the end of the Psalm show: "He shall drink of the brook in the way, 'and then, "Therefore shall He lift up the head.'

Ezekiel said that "God gave them a king in His anger and took them away in His anger." Hezekiah was the king and kings are God's agent to control the lawless. In Hezekiah's life the temple had become a den of thieves and was so polluted that not even animals could be sacrified in the COURTS.

Hezekiah was healed and given another 15 years: his response was that captivity would be acceptable as long as "it does not come in my lifetime." He responded by claiming to play instruments in the temple all of the time. Of course, no musical instrument could be brought into the real temple. The result was Manasseh and Hezekiah's flaunting his wealth by showing the enemy where it was stored. Isaiah condemned Hezekiah rater than seeing him as a PATTERN for MESSIAH.

Hezekiah was hoping to defend Jerusalem against certain capture by becoming ECUMENICAL. That is, he had to clean out the garbage from the temple left from idolatry so vile that God would not even accept animals being burned. Hezekiah needed to collect all of the LITTLE ALTARS or "congregations" into one national worship in order to keep everyone close to Jerusalem.

However, not in the most vile pagan temples could singers or musical instruments be brought into the holy precincts or "into the presence of the gods." That means that the Leviticial Warrior musicians under the KING and COMMANDERS OF THE ARMY could not enter into the TYPE of the church of Christ even to clean out the garbage.

While Hezekiah was at it he destroyed ALL of the "denominational churches" and their priesthood.

Rubel Shelly: So the language of hyperbole is used of his status -- Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, etc. It is hyperbole -- exaggeration for the sake of emphasis.

A human agent will perform God's will. His presence will not only give hope but relief. The child who is the rightful heir to the throne will become the man who honors Yahweh, fulfills the expectation of the people for justice and righteousness, and honors the royal office entrusted to him. He will be God's gift of grace to the people.

It is a fact that Jesus spoke in parables to HIDE the truth from the Jewish clergy who had no love for the Words of God "as they had been written." They were the Pharisees (preachers), Scribes (book writers) and Hypocrites (actors: performing preachers or musicians).

And it seems that Rubel has OVERSHOT and exaggerated fancifully through excitement or FOR EFFECT.

Hyperbole, an overshooting, excess, fr. Gr. ? to throw over or beyond; "ype`r over + ? to throw. See {Hyper-}, {Parable}, and cf. {Hyperbola}.] (Rhet.) A figure of speech in which the expression is an evident exaggeration of the meaning intended to be conveyed, or by which things are represented as much greater or less, better or worse, than they really are; a statement exaggerated fancifully, through excitement, or for effect.

huperbolê, hê, ( [huperballô] ) a throwing beyond others, diskôn huperbolais Philostr.Im.2.19 : in intr. sense, altitude of a star, Arist. Mete.342b32.

2. overshooting, superiority, cherôn huperbolais E.Fr. 434 ; stratias Th.6.31, exceed reasonable bounds.... pushed on their extravagance in revolutionizing,

Jesus ekballo-ed the musical minstrels who wanted to TEAM up with Him in a religious ritual for the "dead" girl. Jesus cast them out "more or less violently" as one CASTS OUT DUNG. This same term is used of Lucifer who was CAST OUT of heaven using a word which includes "play the flute, pollute or prostitute."

The nation, Jerusalem, the temple and the clergy were so polluted that God would not even accept sacrifices. By allowing FELLOWSHIP with paganism--the idolatrous musical kind--the temple was filled with garbage and the priests had set up altars throughout the country. Now, if you are going into the DEFENSIVE mode you need everyone to huddle around Jerusalem.

God took no initiative: as David had made a deal with God hundreds of years earlier, Hezekiah had a deal for God: they would clean up the temple and DESTROY all of those 'ecumenical buddy' churches.

Remember that Hezekiak planned to play the harp around the temple all of his life but he SPILLED THE BEANS when he gave the enemy a guided tour of his CHURCH PLANT. He also failed to train Manasseh who would musically burn babies. Click for Hezekiah's Reform to see that singers, musicians or preachers could not go into the type of the church of Christ or body of Christ EVEN to clean out the garbage.

The New Testament says that the Spirit of Christ was the same SPIRIT Who inspired the prophets. He was the source of WATER which Rubel Shelly calls a LEGEND. The same SPIRIT inspired the apostles to use this as prophetic of Jesus Christ as Isaiah 7 was prophetic of the Virgin Birth.

The Spirit of Christ informed the Old Testament Prophets

Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 2 Co.3:17

Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. 1 Peter 1:11

And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. 1 Peter 19:10

Isaiah 9:1 NEVERTHELESS the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.

Isaiah 9:2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.

Rubel Shelly: Yet the apostles taught and the early church believed that this Isaiah text looked beyond Jerusalem, Hezekiah, and the people of eight centuries B.C. to the ultimate heir to David's throne who would be in fact and not merely in hyperbole "Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace" who would establish and uphold justice and righteousness forever.

They believed it ultimately foreshadowed the coming and coronation of King Jesus. So do I.

When Jesus comes and the fullness of the kingdom is realized,
we will know it was "the zeal of the Lord Almighty" which made it so. Not human achievement. Not national conquest.

Not even the zeal of a Hezekiah -- who could only foreshadow the Christ -- or an apostle Peter -- who could only announce his presence.

But the zeal of the Lord Almighty would accomplish it as an act of grace to his people.

Peter said that it was the Spirit of Christ who inspired the prophets. Rubel Shelly would discount the "disunity by the apostles in the epistles." John agreed saying that this TESTIMONY is the Spirit of Christ.

This same Spirit fully indwelling Jesus Christ did not speak of a NOW BUT NOT YET kingdom. Rather, He spoke of a kingdom coming with power on the day of Pentecost or anytime Jesus was present. After Pentecost Jesus said of the ANOTHER Comforter "I will come to you" in John 14:16-18.

Therefore, wherever Christ the Spirit dwells the Kingdom is fully established. Jesus further said that this is not an EXTERNAL kingdom which can be built by a Community church movement. Whatever the Lion and Lamb prefigure dwell in peace in the individual hearts. The Old man of Sin is now at peace because he has been REGENERATED by God giving him A new, holy spirit. Remember that the COWS OF BASHAN were the WOMEN in Israel who wanted a religion out of NEW WINESKINS and MUSIC to silence the voice of God. The Book of Enoch as well as the Bible uses animals to speak of kinds of people.

Whatever Isaiah prophesied, God in Christ totally fulfilled. Those of the FIRST ADVENT also failed to understand that the Kingdom of God has no VISIBLE component to MARK its presence but the ekklesia or synagogue of Christ which assembles (synagogues) to "teach that which is written." It is a visible witness AGAINST the SIGN SEEKERS every time the Word is lifted up and read JUST the way the Spirit of Christ left it. Jesus forsaw the total fulfilment.

Rubel Shelly says that "Yet the apostles taught and the early church believed that this Isaiah text looked beyond Jerusalem."

This is the same Matthew who tells us about the temptation of Christ. The Israelites were given the 40 DAY SCHEME to test them. They failed by rising up to PLAY in musical idolatry. This was the CAUSE of the lose of the covenant of Grace and the burden of the law and a human PRIESTHOOD. Yet, Shelly etal can see the Old Testament as PROOF TEXT for approving instrumental music.

This is the same Matthew who RECORDS the Sermon on the Mount. Matthew and all of the apostles were hand picked and trained to take the WHOLE message of Jesus into the world. Rubel Shelly would have you believe that John belatedly decided to write his gospel account from old fragments and probably a poor memory.

But the same Matthew records Jesus as ACTUALLY saying that Isaiah prophesied of Messiah. How could he not if Isaiah prophesied by the Spirit of Christ.

Now when Jesus had heard that John was cast into prison, he departed into Galilee; Matt 4:12

And leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is upon the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and Nephthalim: Matt 4:13

That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Matt 4:14

The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles: Matt 4:15

The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up. Matt 4:16

From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Matt 4:17

If the kingdom was not at hand and if it was not going to come with power in Jerusalem during the life of the Apostles then Jesus--in the hands of Matthew--actually lied. Isaiah 6 and 29 speaks of the clergy as blind and deaf and Isaiah 48 shows that the Sprit of Christ spoke in parables to hide the mysteries of the kingdom from the people who would 'water the wine' and retail the free water of the Word. Jesus is the ONLY source of light and if the epistles are divided writings of divided writers ten Paul also lied. But, Paul used his totally sacrificial live devoid of any comfort or glory as the MARK that he spoke for God in Christ. When Christ returns everyone will bow before the king but His coming will mark the END of His reign and he will never be the KING of secular kingdoms.

I give thee charge in the sight of God, who quickeneth all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession; 1 Tim 6:13

That thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukeable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ: 1 Tim 6:14

Which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; 1 Tim 6:15

Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen. 1 Tim 6:16

Isaiah 9:3 Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.

Isaiah 9:4 For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.

Isaiah 9:5 For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.

For your time and place:

Tŭmultus , Caes. B. G. 7, 47: “tumultu armorum et cantuum truces,” Tac. A. 4, 47: “verborum,” id. H. 1, 85

A. Disturbance, disquietude, agitation, tumult of the mind or feelings: “tumultus Mentis,” Hor. C. 2, 16, 10; Luc. 7, 183: “pulsata tumultu pectora, Petr. poët. 123: sceleris tumultus,” Hor. S. 2, 3, 208.—

B.  Of speech, confusion, disorder: “sermonis,” Plin. 7, 12, 10, § 55: “criminum,” Quint. Decl. 1, 4.

Raash (h7494) rah'-ash; from 7493; vibration, bounding, uproar: - commotion, confused noise, earthquake, fierceness, quaking, rattling, rushing, shaking.

Raash (h7493) raw-ash; a prim. root; to undulate (as the earth, the sky, etc.; also a field of grain), partic. through fear; spec. to spring (as a locust): - make afraid, (re-) move, quake, (make to) shake, (make to) tremble.

Jl.2:10 The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:

Am.4:11 I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.

See Isaiah 30 in the LXX

And there shall be upon every lofty mountain and upon every high hill, water running in that day, when many shall perish, and when the towers shall fall. Isaiah 30:25

And the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be seven fold in the day when the Lord shall heal the breach of his people, and shall heal the pain of thy wound. Isaiah 30:26 LXX

Behold, the name of the Lord comes after a long time, burning wrath; the word of his lips is with glory, a word full of anger, and the anger of his wrath shall devour as fire. Isaiah 30:27 LXX

And his breath, as rushing water in a valley, reach reach as far as the neck, and be divided, to confound the nations for their vain error; error also shall pursue them and overtake them. Isaiah 30:28 LXX

Must ye always rejoice, and go into my holy places continually, as they that keep a feast? and must ye go with a pipe, as those that rejoice into the mountain of the Lord, to the God of Israel Isaiah 30:29 LXX

and the Lord shall make his glorious voice to be heard and the wrath of his arm, to make a display with wrath and anger and devouring flame: he shall lighten terribly, and his wrath shall be as water and violent hail. Isaiah 30:30 LXX

For by the voice of the Lord the Assyrians shall be overcome, even by the stroke where with he shall smite them. Isaiah 30:31 LXX

And it shall happen to him from every side, that they from whom their hope of assistance was, in which he trusted, themselves shall war against him in turn with drums and with harp. Isaiah 30:32 LXX

David was a carnal man and a secular king. The king, kingdom and temple-state was the result of the elders FIRING God and insisting on a King like the nations. God knew that to mean "so that we can worship like the nations." Jesus was the Spiritual king and this SAME MATTHEW says that this is MIGHTY JEHOVAH embodied in a little child who could tame the ASP and defeat the secular LIONS:

Matthew 1:21 And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.

Jehowshuwa (h3091) yeh-ho-shoo'-ah;from 3068 and 3467; Jehovah-saved; Jehoshua (i. e. Joshua), the Jewish leader: - Jehoshua, Jehoshuah, Joshua. Comp. 1954, 3442

Isaiah 9:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called (1) Wonderful, (2) Counsellor, The (3) mighty God, The (4) everlasting Father, The (5) Prince of Peace.

Isa 22:22 And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.

Isaiah prophesied of the composite nature of the One God:

For unto us a child (seed) is born,
unto us a son is given:

Now, that is not two "people"-

Isaiah 9:6 and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God (El), The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

Isaiah 9:7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this. 

	King	Thus saith the Lord the King of Israel, and his redeemer the Lord of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God. Isaiah 44:6
	Wonderful Counselor	Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord, or being his counsellor hath taught him? Isaiah 40:13 ---For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; 1 Timothy 2:5
The Son is	Mighty God	And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God. Jn.20:28 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty. Revelation 1:8
	Ever- lasting Father	Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O Lord, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting. Isaiah 63:16 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. John 14:10 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works sake. John 14:11 Art thou not from everlasting, O Lord my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O Lord, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction. Revelation 1:12
	Prince of Peace	Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins. Acts 5:31

There was no failure of religious ritual or ceremony; of gifts and sacrifices. Rather, the first cause of the problem was the failure to teach God's truth. Therefore, to be consistent with the prophecy, the Intercessor and Redeemer must come as the Word of God. Therefore, the Arm of God or the power required to make spiritual changes is contained within His incarnated seed.

And the Redeemer (to buy us back) shall come to Zion, and
..........unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the Lord. Isaiah 59:20

The Hebrew Shuwb (h7725) in the Latin translation is:

Red-eo
I. To go or come back; to turn back, re turn, turn around (freq. and class.; syn revertor).
B. Trop., to go or come back, to return, I recollect, call to mind, he returns to his natural bent, to come to one's self, i. e. to recover one's senses,

Deut 30: [2] reversus fueris ad eum et oboedieris eius imperiis sicut ego hodie praecipio tibi cum filiis tuis in toto corde tuo et in tota anima tua

Latin revorto and revortor used with

Na-ti-vitas , a-tis, f. [nativus] ,
I. birth, nativity (post-class.; cf. ortus): municipem aut nativitas aut adoptio facit, Dig. 50, 1, 1 : janua nativitatis, Tert. Anim. 39 : vultum nativitatis, natural face, Vulg. Jacob. 1, 23 . --

(b). Plur., Tert. Spect. 30.--
2. A generation: usque ad quartam nativitatem, Tert. adv. Marc. 4, 27 fin.

Adoptio

Similar Greek: Katant-aô , 5. of an inheritance, k. eis tina fall to one's share, 1 Ep.Cor.10.11, POxy.75 (ii A.D.), etc.

The old failure was priests and prophets ignoring God's words and speaking their self-composed songs and sermons. Therefore, the New Covenant demands that those who have the Seed, Word or Arm of God as His power, continue tospeak that seed or word or the covenant is broken. To throw away the Seed is to throw away Jesus. Jesus even went so far as to equate His Words (seed) to both Spirit and Life (John 6:63):

As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord;

My spirit------that is------------------upon----thee, and
my words----which I have put ---in ------.-thy mouth,

shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seeds seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.  Isaiah 59:21

When the words of Christ depart out of the preachers, singers or book writers the Spirit of God has been cast down and God is made into a liar.

Earlier, Isaiah showed that the Spirit would not be a "person" but the Spirit of or mental dispositions all related to the Words of God. There is not a single prophecy of "spirit" as a person who superceded the Word and who puts into us hand-clapping, singing, dancing, drama or out-of-control body movements. Now, listen carefully to Isaiah who prophesied of the seven-fold spirit of God as Messiah.

AND there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: Isaiah 11:1

And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him,
(Which is) the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord; Isaiah 11:2

And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears: Isaiah 11:3

When God or pure Spirit rules in the physical world He is the Lord. This intercession between the Spirit and physical world is done with His Word, breath (spirit) or arm. We can see from the following illustration that man cannot bridge the great gulf between the Spirit world and the "earth" world. Therefore, God "reaches through" with His Arm and connects us to Him through His Arm in the person of Lord, Jesus Christ.

Spiritual World God Great Fixed Gulf- You Cannot Get There Physical world Man Father As Arm stretched out to mankind Son God in man, Christ in man, man in Christ, Citizenship in Heaven

The throne is not a chair but primarily a covering:

Kicce (h3678) kis-say'; kis-say'; from 3680; prop. covered, i. e. a throne (as canopied): - seat, stool, throne

Kacah (h3680) kaw-saw'; a prim. root; prop. to plump, i. e. fill up hollows; by impl. to cover (for clothing or secrecy): - clad self, close, clothe, conceal, cover (self), (flee to) hide, overwhelm. Comp. 3780.

The SEVEN SPIRITS which would rest upon the Branch in Isaiah 11 were all related to forms of DIVINE KNOWLEDGE. Christ the ONE Teacher proves that the King is reigning and the kingdom is working when the LIONS of Dionysus and the LAMBS of Orpheus could abandon their PREFERENCES about meats and drinks and INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC to force the "gods" to descend or the "worshipers" to ascend up to the godhead. Then, in Romans 15 the kingdom could bring peace if the glorified God with ONE MIND and ONE VOICE by speaking "that which is written." Both the Lambs (vegetarians) and Lions (meat eaters) could REST together and "come learn of me."

For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea. Hab.2:14

All religions as opposed to the Synagogue of Christ believed that MADNESS was proof that the gods were PARTNERNING with them to reveal NEW KNOWLEDGE. Music was used to induce madness proven by the "spiritual" feelings trafficked as being "worship." As David believed that God dwelled in the Ark of the Covenant and could be transported to his NEW tent in the Jebusite High Place, he tried to awaken his HARP so he could awaken the DAWN. All pagans believed that the gods spoke through music and the musical sounds were from the gods.

What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols? Hab 2:18

Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it. Hab 2:19

But the Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him. Hab 2:20

God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise. Hab.3:3

Zechariah said of the Branch:

It is he who will build the temple of the LORD, and
he will be clothed with majesty and

1. will sit and rule on his throne. And he
2. will be a priest on his throne. And
3. there will be harmony between the two.' Zechariah 6:13

If Jesus is not on His throne now then He is NOT a priest on His throne. If we have to await a visible kingdom so that Jesus will sit on a literal throne then we utterly deny that the Death of Christ who (is recorded) took His blood into the heavenly sancturary is NOW able to MAKE INTERCESSION for us. That may be why Shelly teaches that music can "help lead the worshipers into the presence of God."

Jesus is the name in which the Holy Spirit comes. He is the ONE Comforter and Counselor and Rubel Shelly is not:

And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; John 14:16 (Not different but another: more of the same kind, fuller)

Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive,
because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him;

for he dwelleth with you,
and shall be in you. John 14:17

I will not leave you comfortless:
I will come to you. John 14:18

If this history is just an application of the prophecy rather than the fulfillment then there is no prophecy and you have lost the PRIMARY method of proving that God is God and the mercinaries are not.

If all of this prophecy and the claims of Jesus is just the "application" by the Bible writers long after memories began to fade, they what is there in the Bible which gives them the right to claim that THEY are going to partner with God to get the REAL truth?

When God sends HIMSELF it is as the Christ or Spirit Anointed. He sends Himself as the WORD. As Thought God plans, as Word He executes, Spirit is what exists between the Beginning and End, the Alpha and Omega: God sent forth His WORDS as great LAMPS and this light is SPIRIT in the words of God in Christ: "My Lord and My God."

Isaiah 9:8 The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.

The word is DABAR or LOGOS. When God sends His WORD He LIGHTS. When God lights He FALLS ON. In the same way, the seven "spirits" would REST on Messiah or the Branch. The effect is that the People would KNOW that God was at work.

Isaiah 9:9 And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart,

Isaiah 9:10 The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.

Isaiah 9:11 Therefore the Lord shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his enemies together;

Click to see what happens when the VINEYARD is used to create fermented wine which intoxicates. The daily religious festivals eating up the living of the poor have the universal mark of MUSIC which intends to cause the people to forget what God has said and Written.

Isaiah 9:12 The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind;
         and they shall devour Israel with open mouth.
         For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

The Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites as rhetoricians, singers and instrument players in Ezekiel 33 DEVOUR the Widow's and honest wage-earners living making speeches.

Devoro B. To accept eagerly, enjoy: “quid tibi faciam qui illos libros devorasti,” Cic. Att. 7, 3, 2: “os impiorum devorat iniquitatem,” Vulg. Prov. 19, 28: “auscultate et mea dicta devorate,” Plaut. As. 3, 3, 59; cf.: “orationem dulcem (aures),” id. Poen. 5, 2, 9: “verbum ipsum (voluptatis),”
C. ejus oratio, nimia religione attenuata, a multitudine et a foro devorabatur, qs. swallowed but not digested (i. e. heard without being understood), Cic. Brut. 82, 283.

Isaiah 9:13 For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them,
        neither do they seek the Lord of hosts.

The Jews worshipped the STARRY HOST and never the Lord of Hosts

per-cŭtĭo
I. (With the notion of the per predominating.) To strike through and through, to ∫ or pierce through (syn.: percello, transfig
b. To strike, play a musical instrument (poet.): “lyram,” Ov. Am. 3, 12, 40; Val. Fl. 5, 10

The only spiritual worship concept is to seek God through His Word.
quaero A  In gen., to seek, i. e. to think over, meditate, aim at, plan a thing:
3. To seek to learn from any one; to ask, inquire, interrogate (cf.: interrogo, perconto

Isaiah 9:14 Therefore the Lord will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.
Isaiah 9:15 The ancient and honourable, he is the head;
        and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.
Isaiah 9:16 For the leaders of this people cause them to err;
        and they that are led of them are destroyed.

sē-dūco , xi, ctum, 3, v. a. I. To lead aside or apart, to draw aside; to lead away, carry off; to set aside, put by, etc. (syn. sevoco) aliquem paululum a turbā,”

Turba “festaque confusā resonabat regia turbā,” id. ib. 12, 21

bĕātĭfĭco , āre, v. a. beatus-facio,

I. to make happy, to bless (post-class.), Aug. Trin. 14, 14; Vulg. Isa. 9, 16; id. Jacob. 5, 11.

praecĭpĭto , āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. and n. praeceps,I.o throw or cast down headlong, to precipitate (class.; syn.. deicio, deturbo, proruo). o hasten to ruin, destroy one's self, Sall. J. 41, 9: “se in exitium,” Cels. 3, 21:

Isaiah 9:17 Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men,
        neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows:
        for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer,

hypocrĭta or -es , ae, m., = hupokritēs.

I. A mime who accompanied the delivery of an actor by gestures, Suet. Ner. 24; Quint. 2, 17, 12; 11, 3, 7.—

II. In eccl. Lat., a hypocrite, Vulg. Job, 8, 13; id. Matt. 6, 2; id. Luc. 12, 56 al.

Hupokritikos 2.suited for speaking or delivery, actor's art, acting a part, pretending to. Hupokrites 2. of an orator, poikilos  rhapsodist, pretender, dissembler, hypocrite , interpreter, expounder l Epos

A hypocrite is: A. A. Poikilos 2. of Art, p. humnos a song of changeful strain or full of diverse art, Pi.O.6.87; “poikilon kitharizōn” Id.N.4.14; “dedaidalmenoi pseudesi poikilois muthoi” Id.O.1.29; of style, “lexis poiētikōtera kai p.” Isoc.15.47 (Comp.); “skhēmatismoi” D.H.Is.3.

A hypocrite is: B.Epos A. vácas 'word', 'hymn', cf. eipon):
1.  song or lay accompanied by music, 8.91,17.519.
IV. in pl., epic poetry, opp. melē (lyric poetry), iambeia, dithuramboi, etc., “rhaptōn epeōn aoidoi” Pi.N.2.2 ; “ta Kupria epea” Hdt.2.117, cf. Th.1.3, X.Mem.1.4.3, Pl.R.379a, etc. ; “epea te poiein pros luran t' aeidein” Theoc.Ep.21.6 ; “nikēsas epos” IG3.1020 ; poētēs epōn ib.7.3197.9 (Orchom. Boeot.), cf. OGI51.37 (Egypt, iii B.C.).

Pind. N. 1 Sacred place where Alpheus breathed again; Ortygia, scion of renowned Syracuse, bed of Artemis, sister of Delos! From you sweet-voiced [5] song rushes out to give great praise for storm-footed horses, by the grace of Aetnaean Zeus. The chariot of Chromius and Nemea urge me to harness a song of praise for deeds of victory. The foundations of the song have been laid with the gods, and with this man's god-given excellence. [10] The summit of perfect glory is found in good fortune. The Muse loves to remember great contests. 

       The Nicolaitans were always the pagan musical clergy who TRIUMPHED over the Laity.
nikaō , Ion. nikeō Democr.249, Herod.1.51, also GDI1413.16 (Aetol.), SIG265.4 (Delph., iv B.C.), v.l. in Apoc.2.7; Aeol. nikēmi Theoc.7.40, AP7.743 (Antip.); also in impf. nikē cj. in Pi.N.5.5, cf. Theoc.6.46: Ep. impf. 1pl.
2. prevail, be superior, muthoisin, egkhei, Il.18.252; “doloisi” Od.3.121; kallei enika (sc. krētēr) Il.23.742; “pasan aretēn nenikēkōs” Pl.Lg.964c: c. part., “euergetōn n.” X.Ages.9.7.
4. c. inf., succeed in . . , “enikēse skorpisai” Psalm.Solom.4.13.

and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away,
        but his hand is stretched out still.

ex-tendo  “tam immodice epistulam extendi, “famam factis,” Verg. A. 10, 46 “cupiditatem gloriae,” Liv. 28, 43,

Isaiah 9:18 For wickedness burneth as the fire:
        it shall devour the briers and thorns,
        and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest,
        and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.

Succensĕo and suscensĕo , sŭi, sum, 2, v. n. succensus, from succendo, I. to be inflamed with anger, to be angry, irritated, enraged (class.; syn.: irascor, indignor

Impĭĕtas (inp- ), ātis, f. impius,

I. want of reverence or respect, irreverence, ungodliness, impiety, undutifulness, disloyalty (rare but class.): “nihil est quod tam miseros faciat quam impietas et scelus,” Cic. Fin. 4, 24, 66; Ov. M. 4, 4: impietatis duces, of disloyalty, treason to one's country, Cic. Lael. 12, 42: “impietatem punire voluit (legum lator),” i. e. undutifulness to parents, Quint. 7, 1, 52; Suet. Vit. Luc.; cf. Ov. M. 8, 477: “Albucilla defertur impietatis in principem,” of high-treason, Tac. A. 6, 47; Plin. Pan. 33, 3.

Isaiah 9:19 Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts is the land darkened,
        and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother.

Exercĭtus , ūs (: “exercitum conscribere, comparare,” id. ib. 5, 13, 36: “parare,” Sall. C. 29, 3: “scribere,” Liv. 2, 43, 5:

(b).  Poet., in gen., a multitude, host, swarm, flock: “corvorum,” Verg. G. 1, 382; id. A. 5, 824; Sil. 11, 413.—

(g).  A troop, body of attendants, etc.: “huic illut dolet, quia remissus est edundi exercitus,” Plaut. Capt. 1, 2, 50: “remissum imperare exercitum,” id. ib. v. 52.—*

Isaiah 9:20 And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry;
        and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied:
        they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:

Isaiah 9:21 Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

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