Isaiah - Chapter 43
[Isaiah 43:1] BUT NOW THUS SAITH THE LORD THAT CREATED THEE, O JACOB,
AND HE THAT FORMED THEE, O ISRAEL, FEAR NOT: FOR I HAVE REDEEMED THEE, I
HAVE CALLED THEE BY THY NAME; THOU ART MINE.
Jacob and Israel when juxtaposed often represent both Judah (the Jews) and
Israel (the Ten Tribes): Which is which is not so simple and appears to be
controversial. When Judah and Israel are juxtaposed then it is clear that
Israel represents the 10 tribes and Judah the Jews. It should therefore follow
that when Jacob and Israel are juxtaposed and the two entities are being
discussed that Israel be the Ten Tribes and Jacob be Judah. The Malbim however
claims the opposite whereas earlier commentaries disagree with him.
We should make a detailed study of this subject.
[Isaiah 43:2] WHEN THOU PASSEST THROUGH THE WATERS, I WILL BE WITH
THEE; AND THROUGH THE RIVERS, THEY SHALL NOT OVERFLOW THEE: WHEN THOU WALKEST
THROUGH THE FIRE, THOU SHALT NOT BE BURNED; NEITHER SHALL THE FLAME KINDLE
UPON THEE.
Many nations shall come against you like walls of fire and water (Targum Yehonatan) but shall not overcome you.
[Isaiah 43:3] FOR I AM THE LORD THY GOD, THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL, THY
SAVIOUR: I GAVE EGYPT FOR THY RANSOM, ETHIOPIA AND SEBA FOR THEE.
“ETHIOPIA” in Hebrew “Cush”. The term “Cush” could be applied to Ethiopia
and the Sudan, to all of Africa, to India, or to Central Asia. Here as will
be explained we believe the reference is to India.
“ETHIOPIA AND SEBA FOR THEE” in Hebrew the word translated as “FOR
THEE” is “tachtecha” literally “underneath you” also implying subjected
to you.
“Seba” represents the mighty Negro nations that from Saba in the Sudan branched
out at a late date and overran most of Black Africa intermingling with, conquering,
and/or replacing the previous dark peoples of the area.
We will see Isaiah predicted that the Lost Tribes would gain possession of
India and Egypt and transport slaves from Africa. This is what the British
did.
[Isaiah 43:4] SINCE THOU WAST PRECIOUS IN MY SIGHT, THOU HAST BEEN
HONOURABLE, AND I HAVE LOVED THEE: THEREFORE WILL I GIVE MEN FOR THEE,
AND PEOPLE FOR THY LIFE.
WE have been very bad and the Prophets frequently tell us why. Even so there
is also a good side to our character and looking back we have achieved something.
God too recognizes this.
[Isaiah 43:5] FEAR NOT: FOR I AM WITH THEE: I WILL BRING THY SEED FROM
THE EAST, AND GATHER THEE FROM THE WEST;
from both east and west.
[Isaiah 43:6] I WILL SAY TO THE NORTH, GIVE UP; AND TO THE SOUTH, KEEP
NOT BACK: BRING MY SONS FROM FAR, AND MY DAUGHTERS FROM THE ENDS OF THE EARTH;
north and south.
[Isaiah 43:7] EVEN EVERY ONE THAT IS CALLED BY MY NAME: FOR I HAVE
CREATED HIM FOR MY GLORY, I HAVE FORMED HIM; YEA, I HAVE MADE HIM.
[Isaiah 43:8] BRING FORTH THE BLIND PEOPLE THAT HAVE EYES, AND THE DEAF THAT HAVE EARS.
[Isaiah 43:9] LET ALL THE NATIONS BE GATHERED TOGETHER, AND LET THE
PEOPLE BE ASSEMBLED: WHO AMONG THEM CAN DECLARE THIS, AND SHEW US FORMER
THINGS? LET THEM BRING FORTH THEIR WITNESSES, THAT THEY MAY BE JUSTIFIED:
OR LET THEM HEAR, AND SAY, IT IS TRUTH.
God tells us where the Lost Ten Tribes are and what they will do. It is written in the Bible.
[Isaiah 43:10] YE ARE MY WITNESSES, SAITH THE LORD, AND MY SERVANT
WHOM I HAVE CHOSEN: THAT YE MAY KNOW AND BELIEVE ME, AND UNDERSTAND THAT
I AM HE: BEFORE ME THERE WAS NO GOD FORMED, NEITHER SHALL THERE BE AFTER
ME.
We are witnesses of God.
[Isaiah 43:11] I, EVEN I, AM THE LORD; AND BESIDE ME THERE IS NO SAVIOUR.
[Isaiah 43:12] I HAVE DECLARED, AND HAVE SAVED, AND I HAVE SHEWED,
WHEN THERE WAS NO STRANGE GOD AMONG YOU: THEREFORE YE ARE MY WITNESSES, SAITH
THE LORD, THAT I AM GOD.
[Isaiah 43:13] YEA, BEFORE THE DAY WAS I AM HE; AND THERE IS NONE THAT
CAN DELIVER OUT OF MY HAND: I WILL WORK, AND WHO SHALL LET IT?
[Isaiah 43:14] THUS SAITH THE LORD, YOUR REDEEMER, THE HOLY ONE OF
ISRAEL; FOR YOUR SAKE I HAVE SENT TO BABYLON, AND HAVE BROUGHT DOWN ALL THEIR
NOBLES, AND THE CHALDEANS, WHOSE CRY IS IN THE SHIPS.
[Isaiah 43:15] I AM THE LORD, YOUR HOLY ONE, THE CREATOR OF ISRAEL, YOUR KING.
[Isaiah 43:16] THUS SAITH THE LORD, WHICH MAKETH A WAY IN THE SEA, AND A PATH IN THE MIGHTY WATERS;
[Isaiah 43:17] WHICH BRINGETH FORTH THE CHARIOT AND HORSE, THE ARMY
AND THE POWER; THEY SHALL LIE DOWN TOGETHER, THEY SHALL NOT RISE: THEY ARE
EXTINCT, THEY ARE QUENCHED AS TOW.
Here he is talkng of the miracle of the parting of the Red Sea.
Some say this will repeated at the Bosporus where a narrow sea strait divides the European part of Turkey from Asia.
Extract from “Ephraim” chapter five in the 2nd edition and chapter six in the first edition.
The Bosporus Straits were spoken of by Jerome (d. 420
CE). He was the first to translate the Bible into Latin and had consulted
with Jewish sages. These scholars reported to Jerome the tradition that Israelites
exiled by the Assyrians had reached the Bosporus Straits and passed over
them to the north into Europe.
Jerome says: [on ZECARIAH 10;11: "AND HE SHALL PASS THROUGH
THE SEA..." ] "The Hebrews say that the Assyrians and Chaldeans took the
Jews into captivity not only to Persia and Media but also to the Bosporus
and the north; and at the end of days God in his mercy will call them back
from there:"
By "Jews" taken into captivity by the Assyrians Jerome
is actually referring to Israelites from the northern Ten Tribes. Strictlyspeaking
these were not "Jews" which appellation refers to Judaeans from the
southern kingdom dominated by Judah. Jerome was therefore recording the tradition
that the Ten Tribes or part of them had reached the Bosporos Traits and from
there passed into Europe.
At all events within fifty years of the north Israelites' exile the Bosporus
had become a Cimmmerian centre5 and was to remain so for about 150 years.
Welsh tradition6 claimed that their ancestors the Cymry (i.e. "Cimmeri")
led by Hu Gadarn of the Sons of Don had come across the "Lazy Sea" (i.e.
Mediterranean) to Defen in the British isles. He had arrived from Defrobane
which was just opposite Byzantium. In other words Defrobane stood on the
Asiatic side of the Bosporus in the place where the port of Defen had been.
Defrobane may be some kind of linguistic derivation of Daphne. The BritishWelsh
who came from DEFROBANE opposite Byzantium called themselves Cymry and the
Scandinavian peoples contained an underlying ethnic stratum from the similarlynamed
CIMBRI of Celtic culture. In Scandinavian mythology one version (reported
by Saxo Grammaticus7) concerning the origins of their ancestral gods said
that they too came from the area of Byzantium, and that one of their ancestors
ruled over a city in the nearby Hellespont called Dana8!
This is what Zecharia said:
[ZECHARIAH 10:6] AND I WILL STRENGTHEN THE HOUSE OF JUDAH, AND I WILL SAVE
THE HOUSE OF JOSEPH, AND I WILL BRING THEM AGAIN TO PLACE THEM; FOR I HAVE
MERCY UPON THEM: AND THEY SHALL BE AS THOUGH I HAD NOT CAST THEM OFF: FOR
I AM THE LORD THEIR GOD, AND WILL HEAR THEM.
This is the re-union of the LTTs with Judah.
[ZECHARIAH 10:7] AND THEY OF EPHRAIM SHALL BE LIKE A MIGHTY MAN, AND THEIR
HEART SHALL REJOICE AS THROUGH WINE: YEA, THEIR CHILDREN SHALL SEE IT, AND
BE GLAD; THEIR HEART SHALL REJOICE IN THE LORD.
[ZECHARIAH 10:8] I WILL HISS FOR THEM, AND GATHER THEM; FOR I HAVE REDEEMED
THEM: AND THEY SHALL INCREASE AS THEY HAVE INCREASED.
[ZECHARIAH 10:9] AND I WILL SOW THEM AMONG THE PEOPLE: AND THEY SHALL REMEMBER
ME IN FAR COUNTRIES; AND THEY SHALL LIVE WITH THEIR CHILDREN, AND TURN AGAIN.
[ZECHARIAH 10:10] I WILL BRING THEM AGAIN ALSO OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT,
AND GATHER THEM OUT OF ASSYRIA; AND I WILL BRING THEM INTO THE LAND OF GILEAD
AND LEBANON; AND PLACE SHALL NOT BE FOUND FOR THEM.
Egypt and Assyria could apply to areas in Europe.
Gilead means Syria and Lebanon means Lebanon. These areas will be re-populated by the LTTs.
[ZECHARIAH 10:11] AND HE SHALL PASS THROUGH THE SEA WITH AFFLICTION, AND
SHALL SMITE THE WAVES IN THE SEA, AND ALL THE DEEPS OF THE RIVER SHALL DRY
UP: AND THE PRIDE OF ASSYRIA SHALL BE BROUGHT DOWN, AND THE SCEPTRE OF EGYPT
SHALL DEPART AWAY.
[Isaiah 43:18] REMEMBER YE NOT THE FORMER THINGS, NEITHER CONSIDER THE THINGS OF OLD.
[Isaiah 43:19] BEHOLD, I WILL DO A NEW THING; NOW IT SHALL SPRING FORTH;
SHALL YE NOT KNOW IT? I WILL EVEN MAKE A WAY IN THE WILDERNESS, AND RIVERS
IN THE DESERT.
[Isaiah 43:20] THE BEAST OF THE FIELD SHALL HONOUR ME, THE DRAGONS
AND THE OWLS: BECAUSE I GIVE WATERS IN THE WILDERNESS, AND RIVERS IN THE
DESERT, TO GIVE DRINK TO MY PEOPLE, MY CHOSEN.
[Isaiah 43:21] THIS PEOPLE HAVE I FORMED FOR MYSELF; THEY SHALL SHEW FORTH MY PRAISE.
[Isaiah 43:22] BUT THOU HAST NOT CALLED UPON ME, O JACOB; BUT THOU HAST BEEN WEARY OF ME, O ISRAEL.
[Isaiah 43:23] THOU HAST NOT BROUGHT ME THE SMALL CATTLE OF THY BURNT
OFFERINGS; NEITHER HAST THOU HONOURED ME WITH THY SACRIFICES. I HAVE NOT
CAUSED THEE TO SERVE WITH AN OFFERING, NOR WEARIED THEE WITH INCENSE.
[Isaiah 43:24] THOU HAST BOUGHT ME NO SWEET CANE WITH MONEY, NEITHER
HAST THOU FILLED ME WITH THE FAT OF THY SACRIFICES: BUT THOU HAST MADE ME
TO SERVE WITH THY SINS, THOU HAST WEARIED ME WITH THINE INIQUITIES.
We have not rebuilt the Temple even though with a little effort we may have been able to.
[Isaiah 43:25] I, EVEN I, AM HE THAT BLOTTETH OUT THY TRANSGRESSIONS FOR MINE OWN SAKE, AND WILL NOT REMEMBER THY SINS.
God will forgive us.
[Isaiah 43:26] PUT ME IN REMEMBRANCE: LET US PLEAD TOGETHER: DECLARE THOU, THAT THOU MAYEST BE JUSTIFIED.
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