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| 1 Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, marching 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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From Edom – Edom is Esau. Esau sold his birthright for a mess of pottage. He therefore fittingly represents Christendom who sold their birthright (the High Calling of God in Christ Jesus) for a mess of pottage (membership in earthly organizations aligned with the kingdoms of earth.)
Our Lord is here described as coming "From Edom," i.e., coming from Christendom. This prophetic picture is after He has already trodden the winepress. It is for that reason that He is described as coming "From Edom."
With dyed garments – Dyed red from the blood coming from the winepress (Rev. 14:20).
Bozrah – The capitol city of Edom (Christendom).
Glorious in thine apparel – Christ in His glory at His second advent.
The greatness of His strength – The strength of the right hand of Jehovah, as His general. The strength of the Divine Nature.
I – Jesus.
That speak in righteousness – "There was no deceit in his mouth." Isa. 53:9
Mighty to save – Having provided the Ransom and now having returned with all power in heaven and in earth. Matt. 28:18 |
| 2 Wherefore art thou red 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 there was no man with me: yes, I trod them in mine anger, and trampled them in my wrath; and their lifeblood is sprinkled upon my garments, and I have stained all my raiment. |
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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In mine anger – This is Jesus, as the general of Jehovah, carrying out the Father's will. Why is He angry? It is because of the treatment of His people at the hands of the false systems, the counterfeit kingdom which called itself Christendom (Christ's Kingdom.) |
| 4 For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and the year of my redeemed is 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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Day of vengeance – Another name for the Battle of Armeggeddon.
Year of my redeemed – See additional comments on Isa. 34:8. |
| 5 And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my wrath, 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 trod down the peoples in mine anger, and made them drunk in my wrath, and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth. |
Drunk – Intoxication of error, false doctrines and theories. R4287:3
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| 7 I will make mention of the lovingkindnesses of Jehovah, and the praises of Jehovah, according to all that Jehovah hath bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses. |
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| 8 For he said, Surely, they are my people, children that will not deal falsely: so he was their Saviour. |
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| 9 In all their adversity he was no adversary, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare 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: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and himself fought against them. |
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| 11 Then he remembered the days of old, Moses and his people, saying, 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 in the midst of them? |
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| 12 that caused his glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses? that divided the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name? |
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| 13 that led them through the depths, as a horse in the wilderness, so that they stumbled not? |
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| 14 As the cattle that go down into the valley, the Spirit of Jehovah caused them to rest: so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name. |
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| 15 Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where are thy zeal and thy mighty acts? the yearning of thy heart and thy compassions are restrained toward me. |
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| 16 For thou art our Father, though Abraham knoweth us not, and Israel doth not acknowledge us: thou, O Jehovah, art out Father; our Redeemer from everlasting is thy name. |
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| 17 O Jehovah, why dost thou make us to err from thy ways, and hardenest our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance. |
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| 18 Thy holy people possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary. |
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| 19 We are become as they over whom thou never barest rule, as they that were not called by thy name. |
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