The Divine Appointment of Salvation for Walls and Bulwarks, Part 1

The Divine Appointment of Salvation for Walls and Bulwarks

(Isa. 26:1)

(Part 1)

By Michael Zaucha

Our Great God and Father is revealed as the One “who declares the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it” (Isa. 46:10-11), and Jesus Christ our Lord, God’s Beloved Son, God’s Elect Servant (Isa. 42:1), as Him who was sent to accomplish all of His Father’s good pleasure, and He has and continues to do so is the good news of the Gospel.

It is a Provision of God. “In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks” (Isa. 26.1). The provision of a strong city is God’s appointed work, and praise God, it is an appointment He was faithful to keep. It is being manifested now as true, and will even moreso be shown to be true when Jesus comes again “from heaven with His mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power” (II Th. 1:7-9).

We all had better be in that strong city on that day.

Man is not able to think of such a Provision against what is to come, let alone provide for it. From this perspective, it’s a hands-off work to man. To God alone be the glory for this mighty Provision of a strong city.

With the Provision of God’s appointment made, the prophet cries out unto God: “Open Ye the gates” (vs. 2) – the crying out is unto God to do this for the people, for God is the One who must open the gates to the strong city – so “that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in.” In order for God’s people to partake of the Divine Provision, they must enter into it, and it is only God that can open the gates of entry to the strong city, and then and only then, the righteous nation may enter into it - the righteous being them being those who keep the truth. Jesus spoke of such a nation that keepeth the truth are in a most favored position with God: “Blessed are they which hear the word of God, and keep it” (Lk. 11:28). “Thy word is truth” (Jn. 17:17).

To each of the individuals and the entirety of the body of the righteous nation, “Thou (God) wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on Thee: because he trusteth in Thee.” (vs. 3). With the Provision made of a strong city, and the gates to it opened, again, there is more good news to declare: the promise of God to keep you in that place where He hath brought you in, for it is a place of peace, but know that there is a requirement of the righteous that have entered into it, and that is to stay where God has placed them, and they do so by trusting in God, in trusting and believing in the Provision that He Himself has provided, that it will affect the very thing that God said it would.

So the exhortation is to the righteous nation, both then and now: “Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength” (Isa. 26:1-4). Hear the precision of the revelation to partake of everlasting strength.

The necessary strength to endure to the end is not around the Lord, it is not even by the Lord. It is far more closer and intimate than that - it is “IN” the Lord that is the place of obtainment of everlasting strength found.

(Continued Tomorrow)

 

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