Mon.’s Devo - Revelation

Read: Isaiah 43:-45:10; Ephesians 3:1-21; Psalm 68:1-18; Proverbs 24:1-2
Isaiah is set up like the sum total of the whole Bible so the first 39 chapters of Isaiah represent the Old Testament and the next 27 represent the New. You can tell the shift of prophesy in Chapters 40-66. They give hope and promise of good things to come. Today we read things like, “forget the former things; do not dwell in the past. See, I am doing a new thing!” That sounds just like Paul teaching that in Christ you are a new creature. Old things are past away, behold all things have become new.
Isaiah proclaimed that God gives us water in the desert so we can proclaim his praise. God does give us his Spirit in times of our greatest need.
In 43:26, God told Israel to examine themselves and their fathers. God had to punish them because they forsook the Lord, but to the sons, God was promising to pour out his Spirit on them and bless them. But, the ones who caused Israel to fall into idolatry would be judged and brought down.
Isaiah told Israel to remember that it was God that formed them and He would blot out all their transgressions if they turned to Him.
When they did that, God promised them the secret things that he had hidden away. Verse 7 of Chapter 45 says that God forms the light and creates darkness. He makes peace, and creates evil. That word “creates” in both places means “to cut down”. So what he is really saying is that God molds the light and peace as a potter, but his cuts down the evil and darkness like a woodsman cuts wood. In the next verse, God calls the heavens to come to earth and pour down righteousness so that salvation can shoot up from the earth. But, he gives a woe to the one who resists what God is doing on the earth.
In Ephesians, Paul is bringing forth a totally new concept that has never been taught or thought of and that is that the Gentiles are heirs together with Israel. They are all one in God’s eyes. God sent Paul to the Gentiles to welcome them in. It was written in the Old Testament, but their eyes had been blinded to its meaning until now. There is so much revelation in the Bible that God opens up when it is time. Revelation is one of those books that continues to open up to the body of Christ as it is time for us to understand it.
Lord, your wisdom is unfathomable. Thank you for your revelation and your truth. Open up to us the mysteries hidden in darkness and show us who you are and what the kingdom is doing on the earth today.