Isa Msg 45

Truth:
1. The 39 books of the OT may be considered as the element, and the first 39 chapters of Isaiah are the essence extracted from this element.
2. Revealing means manifesting. The revealing of the Lord Jehovah is the appearing of the very God, and this Lord Jehovah, the very God, is the Lord Jesus Christ. Jehovah, the Lord God, appears as the Lord Jesus Christ, the Savior.
3. The church was not created. The church was built up with something that has come out of Christ.
4. Cyrus was God's counselor and Jehovah's shepherd.
5. God loves Israel, loves His kingdom signified by the city, and loves His house signified by the temple.
6. Cyrus supported the release of captives and provided a way for them to go back to their fathers' land. He charged them to go back to build up the temple of their God.
7. Cyrus was used by God to release God's captured elect, to build His house, His household, and to establish His kingdom on this earth.
8. Israel, as ones chosen by God, they are God's kingdom, God's house, and God's household.
9. Israel typifies Christ as the Witness of Jehovah.
10. Cyrus was not only serving God but also serving Israel. His pleasant service sent them back to their fathers' land and provided for them on the way.
11. Cyrus, the Gentile king, Israel, God's chosen people, and Isaiah, the prophet set up by God, all did the same thing to please God. They served to release God's people, to build up God's house, and to build up God's kingdom signified by the city.
12. We all are God's servants doing the same thing in the universe -- to release God's people, to build up His temple, the house, and to build up His kingdom, the city.
13. Cyrus, Israel, Isaiah, and Christ are one, serving Jehovah God for His good pleasure to make Him happy in releasing and raising up God's elect to build God's temple and God's city and to set up God's kingdom, which will be enlarged to consummate in the New Jerusalem.

Life experience/Application:
1. Each one of us needs to be today's Cyrus. Like Cyrus, we need to be birds of prey who go out to gain sinners for God's kingdom. The saved sinners are our prey.
2. We should not go to speak to others as professors. We should go to speak as learners, as trainees, as instructed and taught ones.