The Christian Mind

“Sing, O barren,
You who have not borne!
Break forth into singing, and cry aloud,
You who have not labored with child!
For more are the children of the desolate
Than the children of the married woman,” says the Lord”  (Isaiah 54:1)

Now as you read this verse for understanding, you can either take the commentary of Paul on it, the ASPI of II Peter 1:21, or you can go with men’s commentaries that ignore the ASPI and the Apostles who give the authorized interpretation of the Old Testament.  Many of us enjoy the New International Commentary, considered conservative; but some of the commenters like John Oswalt in the NIC for Isaiah writes:

“While Paul’s use of Isaiah 54:1 in connection with in his exposition of the meaning of Hagar and Sarah (Gal 4:27) manifests a greater freedom than most modern exegetes feel comfortable with, his interpretation is still within the fundamental sense of the verse.”

1.  Page 416, The New International Commentary on the Old Testament, the Book of Isaiah Chapters 40-66 by John N. Oswalt.

Well, lah di dah, these “modern exegetes” do not feel comfortable with Paul, the Word of God according to Paul in Galatians, and specifically the only authorized interpretation of Isaiah 54:1.  This is both a commentary on what can be called conservative especially by:  (1) the feud mentalists of the fundamentalists (like graduates of DTS with their many Study Bibles), (2) theology over Bible; and (3) a difficult task for any continuing student of the Bible desiring to both count on the learning of the past and the present in Bible study, and proper exegesis of the Bible itself with the hermeneutics of the Bible {rules in the Bible Itself for proper understanding}.

The crux of the problem on distorting the meaning of the Bible by ignoring Paul and the other Apostles as they were moved in the proper interpretation and application by God the Holy Spirit is:  THEY CHOSE ACADEMIC RECOGNITION AND ACCREDITION OVER THE WORD OF GOD, that especially includes Jeffress and other DTS graduates with their new Study Bibles (promoted by Lifeway) that mirror the “doctrines of devils” of Scofield.  What you really have in their commentaries and Study Bibles is the wisdom of the world, not the wisdom of God and of the ASPI Interpretation of the Bible.

Let us go back to the New King of the New Israel interpretation of the Literal Bible, the ASPI of II Peter 1:20,21.

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3-11:  The New King of the New Israel

1. Jews and Gentiles as fellow citizens in the new kingdom.

Isaiah 54-66.

COMMENTS:  Those know it all’s that are more educated than the Apostle Paul and more scholarly and literal than the literal Bible would object to this beginning statement of the Literal Bible, that “Jews and Gentiles are fellow citizens in the new forever kingdom, the only kingdom on the new heaven and new earth, the only not on earth kingdom at all.  (In other words this eliminates a short 1000 year kingdom of a false “Millennium” (not a word found in the Bible).

1. The unmarried have more children that the married, the Gentiles have more children of God than the Jews: Isaiah 54:1 and Galatians 4:27.
2. None comes to the Father except as drawn by the Father, and all those who are taught by the Father: Isaiah 54:13 and John 6:45.
3. God gave in the Temple to the Jews a House of Prayer, but they had turned it into a den of thieves by the time of Jesus: Isaiah 56:7 and Matthew 21:13 and Luke 19:46.
4. All the nation of Israel that is really the Israel of the children of God will be saved: Isaiah 59:20,21 and Romans 11:26.
5. Characteristics of the New King of Israel.
6. The message to Zion is that your new King comes meekly, riding on a donkey: Isaiah 61:11 and Matthew 21:5.
7. Jesus told them in Nazareth of how the Spirit of God was upon him: Isaiah61:1,2 and Luke 4:17,18.

                  (1). God anointed Him to preach the gospel to the poor. {A King especially for the poor people.}

                  (2). God sent Him to start the release of captives, and to make provisions that the blind might be able to see.

                  (3). To provide freedom for the downtrodden.

                  (4). To make a Proclamation as to when is the Acceptable Year of the Lord (the last days) that leads to the One Day of the LORD and Lord.

3. Happiness in this new kingdom will come only to those who first mourn because of their inability to do it for themselves: Isaiah 61:1,2 and Matthew 5:4.

III.    The Method of Citizenship Only That From God, on Gods terms as dictated in the Old Testament and made evident in the New Testament.

1. The New Citizenship found of those who sought it not or who searched not for it (grace): Isaiah 65:1 and Romans 10:20,21.
2. Jerusalem is the city of the Great King: Isaiah 66:1 and Matthew 5:33.

Micah

3. The Christ, the Prophet Messiah, born in Bethlehem, Micah 5:2, Matthew2:5,6, and John 7:42, to be: (1) A ruler of the people; and (2) A shepherd of the people.
4. The sowers of the Old Testament and the reapers of the New Testament will rejoice together in this New Kingdom: Micah 6:15 and John 4:37. IV. The Good News of the Gospel of the Kingdom preached by messengers.

Nahum

1. How welcome across the way on the mountain is the first sight of those who come with the Gospel: Nahum 1:15 and Romans 10:15.

Jeremiah 1-30

2. Yet most do not believe the report, foolish people without the ability to see or hear: Jeremiah 5:21 and Mark 8:18.
3. God established a House of Prayer but the nation of Israel turned it into a den of thieves: Jeremiah 7:11 and Matthew 21:13, and Mark 11:17.
4. Trust in God: (1) Whoever boasts, let him boast only in God: Jeremiah 9:24and I Corinthians 1:31; and (2) Trust only in God: Jeremiah 17:5,7 and II Corinthians 11:9.

You see it is easy to lose sight when confronted with such wisdom of the world from any Bible commentators.  We forgot that Paul, the Apostle of the Gentiles, is writing in Galatians 4 to keep the Gentile Galatian Christians that he has previously led to Christ from reversing to Jewish ways of the Law like both Messianic Judaism and Scofield followers desire to impose over Bible meaning.

Do you have time to re-read Galatians 4, to make sure we have it in context?

Galatians 4 New King James Version (NKJV)

4 Now I say that the heir, as long as he is a child, does not differ at all from a slave, though he is master of all, 2 but is under guardians and stewards until the time appointed by the father. 3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world. 4 But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.

6 And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!” 7 Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir of[b] God through Christ.

Fears for the Church {Fears for the SBC people now under control of the Scofield mites.}

8 But then, indeed, when you did not know God, you served those which by nature are not gods. 9 But now after you have known God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you turn again to the weak and beggarly elements, to which you desire again to be in bondage? 10 You observe days and months and seasons and years. 11 I am afraid for you, lest I have labored for you in vain.

12 Brethren, I urge you to become like me, for I became like you. You have not injured me at all. 13 You know that because of physical infirmity I preached the gospel to you at the first. 14 And my trial which was in my flesh you did not despise or reject, but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus. 15 What then was the blessing you enjoyed? For I bear you witness that, if possible, you would have plucked out your own eyes and given them to me. 16 Have I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth?

17 They zealously court you, but for no good; yes, they want to exclude you, that you may be zealous for them. 18 But it is good to be zealous in a good thing always, and not only when I am present with you. 19 My little children, for whom I labor in birth again until Christ is formed in you, 20 I would like to be present with you now and to change my tone; for I have doubts about you.

Two Covenants

21 Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law? 22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons: the one by a bondwoman, the other by a freewoman. 23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born according to the flesh, and he of the freewoman through promise, 24 which things are symbolic. For these are the[d] two covenants: the one from Mount Sinai which gives birth to bondage, which is Hagar— 25 for this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children— 26 but the Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us all. 27 For it is written:

“Rejoice, O barren,

You who do not bear!

Break forth and shout,

You who are not in labor!

For the desolate has many more children

Than she who has a husband.”

28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise. 29 But, as he who was born according to the flesh then persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, even so it is now. 30 Nevertheless what does the Scripture say? “Cast out the bondwoman and her son, for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.” 31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman but of the free.