Devotion 801
"He Called The Generations From The Beginning"
Reference: Isaiah Chapter 41
If I take one apple seed and plant it, the apple seed will grow into an apple tree with many apples. If I take all the new apple seeds of the tree and plant them, soon I'll have a whole farm of apples. If I continue to take all the seeds of the farm and plant them, soon I'll have a whole town of apples. If I continue sowing all the seeds in the town of Apples, we'll have a whole nation of Apples. If I continue sowing all the seeds of the nation of Apples, we'll have a whole world of Apples. That means every apple that grew from the very first seed was already in that first seed from the beginning. That very first seed is who the first Adam is, and everybody on earth was called in Adam from the very beginning.
Isaiah writes.
Let's read.
Isaiah 41:1-3 "Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment. [2] Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? He gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow. [3] He pursued them, and passed safely; even by the way that He had not gone with his feet."
God knew Abraham before he was formed in his mother's womb and called a righteous man from the east to be his servant even before Abraham was born, he had been called.
Before Jacob and Esau were born, God said, "Jacob have I loved."
Romans 9:10-13 "And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac; [11] (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;) [12] It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. [13] As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated."
God called Jacob even before he was conceived in his mother's womb. Jacob was called in the seed of Adam before the fall of Adam. Every man or woman was called in the seed of Adam before the fall of Adam.
We continue our reading.
Isaiah 41:4 "Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am He."
He called the generations from the beginning as seeds in Adam before the fall of Adam. That means if you are a male, you were a male in the loins of Adam, and if you are a female, you were a female in the loins of Adam. Your gender was not determined in your mother's womb by the selection or coming together of chromosomes. God knew you and called you before you were in the womb of your mother, before the fall of Adam.
We continue our reading.
Isaiah 41:5-7 "The isles saw it, and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and came. [6] They helped every one his neighbour; and every one said to his brother, Be of good courage. [7] So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved."
Without the knowledge of God, Who is a first and the last, men and women turn to the work of their hands. They make idols and worship them.
We continue our reading.
Isaiah 41:8 "But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend."
God knew Jacob before he was in his mother's womb. God knew Jacob when he was a seed in the loins of his grandfather, Abraham. God knew Jacob when he was a seed in the loins of his great-grandfather, Adam, even before the fall.
We continue our reading.
Isaiah 41:9-11 "Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away. [10] Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. [11] Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish."
He knew you when you were in the loins of the first Adam before the fall. He called you, and He will uphold you with His righteous hand if you will trust Him.
We continue our reading.
Isaiah 41:12-15 "Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought. [13] For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee. [14] Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. [15] Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff."
That sharp threshing instrument having teeth is the Word of God. The Word of God will defeat every mountain, every situation, every obstacle, every devil, anywhere, at any time.
We continue our reading.
Isaiah 41:16-19 "Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel. [17] When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them. [18] I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water. [19] I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together."
He, the Lord, hears them. He, the Lord, forsakes them. He, the Lord, opens rivers in high places. He, the Lord, makes the wilderness a pool of water and dry land springs of water. He, the Lord, plants in the wilderness the cedar, myrtle, and oil tree. He, the Lord, sets in the desert the pine tree and box tree together. It is all of the Lord and not of man.
We continue our reading.
Isaiah 41:20-23 "That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the LORD hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it. [21] Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob. [22] Let them bring them forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them shew the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come. [23] Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together."
Without the knowledge of God, the first and the last, the beginning and the end, man has no knowledge of the past, the present, or the future.
We conclude our reading.
Isaiah 41:24-29 "Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you. [25] I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon morter, and as the potter treadeth clay. [26] Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime, that we may say, He is righteous? yea, there is none that sheweth, yea, there is none that declareth, yea, there is none that heareth your words. [27] The first shall say to Zion, Behold, behold them: and I will give to Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings. [28] For I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, and there was no counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word. [29] Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion."
There is no other counsellor. There is no man that has an answer for God. Man without God is molten images and confusion at best.
He called you in the loins of Adam before the fall, and will keep you with His righteous right hand. BELIEVE and confess Jesus Christ, the second Adam, as we've revealed Him from the first Adam. He has called the generations from the beginning, in Christ!
Reference: Isaiah Chapter 41
If I take one apple seed and plant it, the apple seed will grow into an apple tree with many apples. If I take all the new apple seeds of the tree and plant them, soon I'll have a whole farm of apples. If I continue to take all the seeds of the farm and plant them, soon I'll have a whole town of apples. If I continue sowing all the seeds in the town of Apples, we'll have a whole nation of Apples. If I continue sowing all the seeds of the nation of Apples, we'll have a whole world of Apples. That means every apple that grew from the very first seed was already in that first seed from the beginning. That very first seed is who the first Adam is, and everybody on earth was called in Adam from the very beginning.
Isaiah writes.
Let's read.
Isaiah 41:1-3 "Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment. [2] Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? He gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow. [3] He pursued them, and passed safely; even by the way that He had not gone with his feet."
God knew Abraham before he was formed in his mother's womb and called a righteous man from the east to be his servant even before Abraham was born, he had been called.
Before Jacob and Esau were born, God said, "Jacob have I loved."
Romans 9:10-13 "And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac; [11] (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;) [12] It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. [13] As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated."
God called Jacob even before he was conceived in his mother's womb. Jacob was called in the seed of Adam before the fall of Adam. Every man or woman was called in the seed of Adam before the fall of Adam.
We continue our reading.
Isaiah 41:4 "Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am He."
He called the generations from the beginning as seeds in Adam before the fall of Adam. That means if you are a male, you were a male in the loins of Adam, and if you are a female, you were a female in the loins of Adam. Your gender was not determined in your mother's womb by the selection or coming together of chromosomes. God knew you and called you before you were in the womb of your mother, before the fall of Adam.
We continue our reading.
Isaiah 41:5-7 "The isles saw it, and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and came. [6] They helped every one his neighbour; and every one said to his brother, Be of good courage. [7] So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved."
Without the knowledge of God, Who is a first and the last, men and women turn to the work of their hands. They make idols and worship them.
We continue our reading.
Isaiah 41:8 "But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend."
God knew Jacob before he was in his mother's womb. God knew Jacob when he was a seed in the loins of his grandfather, Abraham. God knew Jacob when he was a seed in the loins of his great-grandfather, Adam, even before the fall.
We continue our reading.
Isaiah 41:9-11 "Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away. [10] Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. [11] Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish."
He knew you when you were in the loins of the first Adam before the fall. He called you, and He will uphold you with His righteous hand if you will trust Him.
We continue our reading.
Isaiah 41:12-15 "Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought. [13] For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee. [14] Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. [15] Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff."
That sharp threshing instrument having teeth is the Word of God. The Word of God will defeat every mountain, every situation, every obstacle, every devil, anywhere, at any time.
We continue our reading.
Isaiah 41:16-19 "Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel. [17] When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them. [18] I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water. [19] I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together."
He, the Lord, hears them. He, the Lord, forsakes them. He, the Lord, opens rivers in high places. He, the Lord, makes the wilderness a pool of water and dry land springs of water. He, the Lord, plants in the wilderness the cedar, myrtle, and oil tree. He, the Lord, sets in the desert the pine tree and box tree together. It is all of the Lord and not of man.
We continue our reading.
Isaiah 41:20-23 "That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the LORD hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it. [21] Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob. [22] Let them bring them forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them shew the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come. [23] Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together."
Without the knowledge of God, the first and the last, the beginning and the end, man has no knowledge of the past, the present, or the future.
We conclude our reading.
Isaiah 41:24-29 "Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you. [25] I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon morter, and as the potter treadeth clay. [26] Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime, that we may say, He is righteous? yea, there is none that sheweth, yea, there is none that declareth, yea, there is none that heareth your words. [27] The first shall say to Zion, Behold, behold them: and I will give to Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings. [28] For I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, and there was no counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word. [29] Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion."
There is no other counsellor. There is no man that has an answer for God. Man without God is molten images and confusion at best.
He called you in the loins of Adam before the fall, and will keep you with His righteous right hand. BELIEVE and confess Jesus Christ, the second Adam, as we've revealed Him from the first Adam. He has called the generations from the beginning, in Christ!
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