Isa Msg 46

Truth:
1. As the Servant of Jehovah, He is a covenant to the people and a light to the nations. Both Israel and the nations are fully qualified to inherit Jesus Christ as the covenant and to enjoy Him as the light.
2. The covenant is a matter of righteousness according to the law. If there is no fulfillment of the requirement of the law, the covenant means nothing.
3. God's righteousness binds Him, and His righteousness gives us the ground, the standing, to say, "God, You have to save me."
4. The blood was the very means by which He made for us the new testament with His Father. Redemption, justification, forgiveness, and salvation have all been covenanted by Him through His blood.
5. We can use the buying of a house to illustrate this. The deed is an agreement, a covenant. The house has been covenanted to us, the guarantee of this covenant is the title deed.
6. Before the person who enacted the covenant dies, it is the covenant. After he dies, that covenant becomes a testament. A testament in today's terms is a will.
7. The reality of all the hundreds of bequests in the New Testament is Christ. Without Christ, the Bible is empty, so the real testament, the real will, is Christ. Christ is our title deed, and this title deed is in our spirit as the all-inclusive, life-giving, indwelling, consummated Spirit.
8. God's salvation today is a covenanted salvation.
9. Christ, the Servant of Jehovah as a covenant to the people of Israel and a light to the nations has a source, an origin. This source is in His divinity, in His deity, in His being God.
10. God formed Jesus to be His Servant in the womb with His divinity saturated and mingled together with His humanity.
11. When someone is standing, we may hold him, but when he is falling, we need to uphold him.
12. To be quiet indicates a kind of victory. If a person is condemned and scolded, and yet still remains quiet and does not argue, that is a victory.
13. Some of the Lord's people are like the smoking flax that cannot give a shining light, yet the Lord will not extinguish these smoking ones.
14. When righteousness has been judged, it becomes justice. Justice is the verdict of the judgement on righteousness.
15. We not only have the items of the new testament in our mind, but we also have the reality of the new testament, who is Christ, in our spirit.
16. Christ as the covenant is for God's people to gain God with His riches as their inheritance; whereas Christ as the light is for God's people to receive God as life for their new germination.
17. Why did God, after creating the heavens and earth, form a spirit in man? This was so that man could have a recipient, a receiver, to receive God who is the Spirit to be his inheritance and life.
18. Righteousness in God's justice and life through God's light are the two basic factors of God's salvation.
19. God gives Christ as the covenant to us for justification, and He gives Christ as light to us for life.

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.