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| 1 Who is this that cometh from Edom, with deep-red garments from Bozrah, this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? --I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save. |
Who is this – The Prophet takes his standpoint down at the end of the Harvest of the Gospel age. D14
That cometh from Edom – Christendom. D15
Corresponding to the symbolic Babylon of Revelation, Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel. D17
An appropriate symbol for a class who, in this age, have similarly sold their birthright for a consideration as trifling as the mess of pottage which influenced Esau. D15
From Bozrah – The capital of Edom. The word means "sheepfold." It is even yet noted for its goats. Hence a type of ecclesiasticism. D17
Glorious in his apparel – Clothed with authority and power. D14
I that speak – The King of kings and Lord of lords, our blessed Redeemer and Lord Jesus. D17
Mighty to save – Jesus was such because he was sinless. E96
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| 2 --Wherefore is redness in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winevat? |
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| 3 I have trodden the winepress alone, and of the peoples not a man was with me; and I have trodden them in mine anger, and trampled them in my fury; and their blood is sprinkled upon my garments, and I have stained all mine apparel. |
I have trodden – This work has already (1915) begun in the present European war which is growing in severity and awfulness day by day. R5698:1
The winepress – The last work of this eventful "Harvest" period, the last feature of the great time of trouble. D18
The great conflict is before us. R5697:6
Alone – Divine, not human power, is to overthrow the nations. There will be no human Alexander, Caesar or Napolean to bring order out of the confusion. D18
None with me – In our Lord's saddest hour it was not possible for even his closest earthly friends to enter into his feelings. R3886:4, R2467:2, R4428:6, R4701:3, R5550:6
Not one who understood the circumstances and conditions and who could share his grief by offer of sympathy, encouragement or consolation. F438, F478
With us it is different--we have the fellow-members of the Body. F478
Because he alone had been begotten of the holy Spirit. SM218:3; R4707:5; Q703:2
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| 4 For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and the year of my redeemed had come. |
Day of vengeance – "It is the day of the Lord's vengeance and the year of recompence for the controversy of Zion." (Isa. 34:8) R3841:5
The time of trouble. D11
The natural result of not heeding the Lord's instructions. A309
The pulling down of the old dispensation. B222
The Day of Wrath is included in the Gospel Harvest, in the closing ministry of Christ. R115:6*
From this text Hebraists evolve, by what they term "Raise Teboth," the sentence: "All Judah shall hear and behold the fall of Nicholas, emperor of Muscovy, on account of the oppression of the children of Judah, and after happening our fall will happen our real redemption, and near at hand for the children of Judah will be the good tidings of the Tishbite prophet." R615:6*; C264
And the year – Or time. R3841:5
Of my redeemed – "For the year of my redeemed is come"-vengeance follows immediately upon the completion of the "Little Flock." R247:5
The establishment of the new dispensation. B222; R1385:6
At the same time destruction comes to one class redemption comes to the other. R1385:6
Hebraists evolve, "When Nicholas reigns redemption comes." C264
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| 5 And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: and mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me. |
Mine own arm – My own power. D18
Salvation – God's sympathy was manifested in the promise to Abraham, that one of his posterity would be the Savior of the world. R4963:6
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| 6 And I have trodden down the peoples in mine anger, and made them drunk in my fury; and their blood have I brought down to the earth. |
Drunk – Intoxication of error, false doctrines and theories. R4287:3
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| 7 I will record the loving-kindnesses of Jehovah, the praises of Jehovah, according to all that Jehovah hath bestowed upon us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel which he hath bestowed upon them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses. |
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| 8 And he said, They are indeed my people, children that will not lie; and he became their Saviour. |
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| 9 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the Angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bore them and carried them all the days of old. |
He was afflicted – The Lord's consecrated people belong so completely to him that in all their afflictions he is afflicted. R5173:3
Our Lord was not sick with ordinary maladies. His perfect organism was proof against special diseases. It would appear that his healing of diseases exhausted his vitality, leaving upon him the weight of our sicknesses. R4138:3
Saved them – Applies merely to the overcoming Church of the first-born, typified by the first-born of Israel spared at the time of the first passover. R2911:6
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| 10 But they rebelled and grieved his holy Spirit: and he turned to be their enemy; himself, he fought against them. |
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| 11 But he remembered the days of old, Moses and his people: Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? Where is he that put his holy Spirit within him, |
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| 12 his glorious arm leading them by the right hand of Moses, dividing the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name, |
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| 13 --who led them through the depths, like a horse in the wilderness, and they stumbled not? |
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| 14 As cattle go down into the valley, the Spirit of Jehovah gave them rest; so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name. |
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| 15 Look down from the heavens, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory! Where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy tender mercies? Are they restrained toward me? |
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| 16 For thou art our Father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, Jehovah, art our Father; our Redeemer, from everlasting, is thy name. |
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| 17 Why, O Jehovah, hast thou made us to err from thy ways, hast hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance. |
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| 18 Thy holy people have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary. |
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| 19 We have become like those over whom thou never barest rule, those not called by thy name. |
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