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| 1 'Who [is] this coming from Edom With dyed garments from Bozrah This that is honourable in his clothing, Travelling in the abundance of his power ' 'I, speaking 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 [is] thy clothing red And thy garments as treading in a wine fat ' |
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| 3 'A wine-press I have trodden by myself, And of the peoples there is no one with me, And I tread them in mine anger, And I trample them in my fury, Sprinkled is their strength on my garments, And all my clothing I have polluted. |
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 [is] in my heart, And the year of my redeemed hath 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 look attentively, and there is none helping, And I am astonished that there is none supporting, And give salvation to me doth mine own arm. And my wrath it hath supported 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 tread down peoples in mine anger, And I make them drunk in my fury, And I bring down to earth their strength. |
Drunk – Intoxication of error, false doctrines and theories. R4287:3
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| 7 The kind acts of Jehovah I make mention of, The praises of Jehovah, According to all that Jehovah hath done for us, And the abundance of the goodness to the house of Israel, That He hath done for them, According to His mercies, And according to the abundance of His kind acts. |
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| 8 And He saith, Only My people they [are], Sons they lie not, and He is to them for a saviour. |
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| 9 In all their distress [He is] no adversary, And the messenger of His presence saved them, In His love and in His pity He redeemed them, And He doth lift them up, And beareth 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 And they have rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit, And He turneth to them for an enemy, He Himself hath fought against them. |
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| 11 And He remembereth the days of old, Moses his people. Where [is] He who is bringing them up from the sea, The shepherd of his flock Where [is] He who is putting in its midst His Holy Spirit |
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| 12 Leading by the right hand of Moses, the arm of His glory, Cleaving waters from before them, To make to Himself a name age-during. |
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| 13 Leading them through the depths, As a horse in a plain they stumble not. |
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| 14 As a beast into a valley goeth down, The Spirit of Jehovah causeth him to rest, So hast Thou led Thy people, To make to Thyself a glorious name. |
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| 15 Look attentively from the heavens, And see from Thy holy and beauteous habitation, Where [is] Thy zeal and Thy might The multitude of Thy bowels and Thy mercies Towards me have refrained themselves. |
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| 16 For Thou [art] our Father, For Abraham hath not known us, And Israel doth not acknowledge us, Thou, O Jehovah, [art] our Father, Our redeemer from the age, [is] Thy name. |
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| 17 Why causest Thou us to wander, O Jehovah, from Thy ways Thou hardenest our heart from Thy fear, Turn back for Thy servants' sake, The tribes of Thine inheritance. |
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| 18 For a little while did Thy holy people possess, Our adversaries have trodden down Thy sanctuary. |
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| 19 We have been from of old, Thou hast not ruled over them, Not called is Thy name upon them! |
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