Do we anticipate a time of Jacob's trouble?
Future trials of such severity & afflictions that eclipse anything that Israel has previously endured?
Has God allowed the state of Israel not for her current success but as a precursor her necessary failure?
To then deliver her because he delights in her?
Is Israel prepared for Messiah?
Will Israel progressively come into the character appropriate to her call?
Without needing any calamitous dealing with God?
Survival? Calamity? Violence? Purging?
Survivors called holy coming through a process of God?
Video: Dalton Thomas, Presumption // Art Katz excerpted from Art Katz's message on Israel expositing Isaiah chapter 4. Music: Hildur Gudnadottir, Leyfdu Ljosinu.
4 And in that day seven women will take hold of one man, saying, “We will eat our own food & wear [and provide] our own clothes; only let us be called by your name; take away our shame [of being unmarried].”
2 In that day the Branch of the Lord will be splendid and glorious & the fruit of the land will be excellent and lovely to those of Israel who have survived.
3 It will come to pass that he who is left in Zion and remains in Jerusalem will be called holy (set apart for God)—everyone who is recorded for [eternal] life in Jerusalem.
4 When the Lord has washed away the [moral] filth of the daughters of Zion & has cleansed the bloodstains of Jerusalem from her midst, by the spirit of judgment and by the spirit of burning,
5 then the Lord will create over the entire site of Mount Zion & over her assemblies, a cloud by day, smoke, and the brightness of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory & brilliance will be a canopy [a defense, a covering of His divine love and protection]. 6 And there will be a pavilion for shade from the heat by day, and a refuge and a shelter from the storm and the rain.
Isa 4, AMP
Suffering precedes glory.
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