Devotion 808

"He Declares The Former Things From The Beginning"

Reference: Isaiah Chapter 48

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. God also created man. His creation was simply an extension of Himself. God has no beginning. He is life. His creation is an extension of life. Creation has a beginning, but life does not. Many point to creation as the origin of life, but if you take a good look, you will see creation is simply an extension of Life, not the beginning.

Life has no origin. Life has no beginning. Life has always existed, and Life will always exist. Life has no end. Life is eternal. For life is God.

Isaiah writes, "He declares the former things from the beginning."

Let's read.

Isaiah 48:1-3 "Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by the name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness. [2] For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; The LORD of hosts is his name. [3] I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I shewed them; I did them suddenly, and they came to pass."

Every child born in the whole world was in Adam before he fell. God knew everyone on this earth when they were in Adam before the fall.

We continue our reading.

Isaiah 48:4-10 "Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass; [5] I have even from the beginning declared it to thee; before it came to pass I shewed it thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them. [6] Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare it? I have shewed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst not know them. [7] They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them. [8] Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb. [9] For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off. [10] Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction."

God knew Israel would be a stiff-necked, disobedient child who would go astray and even follow after heathen gods. But He had a furnace of affliction for them, and that was Babylonian captivity. God has a furnace of affliction for His children if we go ithe way of unbelief.

We continue our reading.

Isaiah 48:11-12 "For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another. [12] Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am He; I am the first, I also am the last."

He is the first and the last.

Revelation 1:8 "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."

He has no beginning. He has no end. His name is Jesus Christ, the second Adam. He is Life.

We continue our reading.

Isaiah 48:13 "Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together."

When He speaks, even dead things come alive. When He speaks, disease has to flee. When He speaks, His creation stands at attention. When He speaks, storm returns to peace. When He speaks, the lame leaps. They said no man spoke like this man.

John 7:46 "The officers answered, Never man spake like this man."

He spoke like God. He acted like God. He healed like God. He raised the dead like God. He resurrected like God because He is God.

We continue our reading.

Isaiah 48:14-17 "All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them hath declared these things? The LORD hath loved him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans. [15] I, even I, have spoken; yea, I have called him: I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous. [16] Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me. [17] Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go."

He was the Rdeemer, the Holy One of Israel. Today He is the Redeemer, not just of Israel, but of the whole world.

We continue our reading.

Isaiah 48:18-21 "O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea: [19] Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me. [20] Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth; say ye, The LORD hath redeemed his servant Jacob. [21] And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: He clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out."

He followed them as a rock, and that Rock was Jesus. Christ, the second Adam.

We conclude our reading.

Isaiah 48:22 "There is no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked."

The wicked is the man or woman who remains outside the blood of Jesus Christ, the Second Adam. The wicked is the man or woman who is in the blood of the First Adam. There is no peace in the blood of the First Adam. Peace is only in the blood of the Second Adam.

Exit the blood of the first Adam. BELIEVE and confess Jesus Christ, the second Adam, as we've revealed Him from the first Adam. He declares the end from the beginning, in Christ!