Answer 25 of Opening the Remnant Age (Isaiah 49:5-6) 8/6/2023
Answer 25 of Opening the Remnant Age (Isaiah 49:5-6) 8/6/2023
Things will progressively get worse. It is just as the bible prophesized. The whole earth will be covered in darkness (Isaiah 62:2), and people will face suffering (2 Timothy 3). With global climate changes, the earth is burning up, and people are becoming more and more evil and corrupt. If we do not have the answers to save our fields, church, and posterity, those sufferings will one day become our own. Israel completely crumbled. Why did it have to crumble? It is a message that God gives to all the generations that come and go. Not only did God tell us about the coming problems and suffering, but also gave us the answer. God used many prophets, especially prophet Isaiah to give us the conclusive answer. We call the book of Isaiah the Gospel of the Old Testament.
- What is God’s answer?
1) In verse 6 of the passage, He says He has kept us and remained us. This is the covenant of a Remnant.
① This is an answer that is repetitively given in the entire book of Isaiah (Isaiah 6:13, 10:20-21, 28:5). Isaiah prayed to God to end his suffering, but God told him the world will become even more deserted and destroyed. That began from the greed of mankind, and it is the work of darkness that covered the earth with the fall of Adam.
② The ones that God has protected and left behind in the midst of all this are the remnants. They have been chosen since they were in their mother’s womb. God said He will raise them up to be glorified. God will become their strength (5). God has engraved them on His palms. Their walls (entire life, bartizan) are ever before Him (16).
2) God will make them a light for the Gentiles, to the ends of the earth. This is the age of Remnant.
① No matter how much the darkness has covered the earth, all we need is light. God said He will come as light Himself. That is Christ (Isaiah 60:1, John 1:1-5). Darkness cannot overcome God, who is the light. That is why we have nothing to fear.
② God said we who accepted that Christ are also the light (Matthew 5:14), the children of light (Ephesians 5:8). God will save us with that light, our family line, the church, as well as the 237 nations that he will send us out to. Thus, He will make us the light for Gentiles and reach the ends of the earth.
⓷ The system that gathers, proclaims, and relays this light is the bartizan, and the ones used for that work are the watchmen. Why must we prepare and devote ourselves for the opening of the Remnant Age? It is because that is God’s conclusion, and the conclusion of all the answers and blessings that we will enjoy. If not, we will all live as captives of this world. When the remnants rise, they will hasten back, and those who laid you waste will depart (17). Those remnants will raise a banner for all nations. God is gathering those remnants (21-22).
- If so, what must the first generation do for those people and these remnants (2023 WRC message)?
1) Hold onto God’s accurate covenant. Hold onto God’s absolute plan for His remnants.
① God has given the remnants the authority to overcome darkness. This is what He emphasized to His disciples (Luke 10:19, Mark 16:17). In Christ, we are the light, the children of light, and the ones to proclaim this light to all the world (1Peter 2:9). To have held onto the covenant accurately means to have surely held onto the identity and authority that God has given us.
② There is a future of the remnants that come from this. If the covenant is clear, the future also becomes clear. No matter what hardships the world faces, or our lives in that world face, there are separate answers we will receive (Isaiah 43:18-19). No matter how small we are, God will make the least of us a thousand, and the smallest of us a mighty nation (Isaiah 60:20-22).
⓷ There is a mission that comes from this that we must hold onto. That is the mission of a watchman. It is the prayer of a watchman that saves ourselves (Isaiah 62:6-7). We are the watchmen that will save our families, church, and the field (Isaiah 62:8). It is a prayer that prepares the highway and raises the banner for all nation (Isaiah 62:10). Here, the bartizan that saves the 237 nations is formed.
2) Walk the way of spiritual summit. In whatever situation and environment, there are blessings that remnants can enjoy. Turn everything into prayer and enjoy the blessing of a spiritual summit (David’s confession in Psalm 23).
① Become the spiritual summit in the field where you are now. Joseph enjoyed this in his place as a slave, prison, and even in the palace just the same (he enjoyed the blessing of With, Immanuel, and Oneness).
② Become the spiritual summit as you do your chores. David enjoyed the blessing of uniqueness and recreation as he did his chore of tending his father’s sheep (Psalm 78:70-72). He went into the battlefield as a chore for his father and experienced the work of defeating Goliath. At that point, he was already at the spiritual summit (1Samuel 17:36).
⓷ Challenge toward the summit in the work and studies that you are doing now. Do it in the name of Christ and look upon God’s power. No small thing is a small thing. No hard work is hard work. If you do them for God’s glory as you enjoy His power, you will ultimately stand before the King and the world.
3) Raise up the absolute bartizan (system) that will never shake or crumble.
① Enjoy the 5 powers that God promised through 24 (scheduled prayer, continuous prayer, breathing prayer). The power of the triune God, the power of the throne (God’s governance), the power that saves the 3 ages (transcending the flow of the age), power to restore the kingdom of the air (spiritual victory), and the 5 powers that can transcend everything (spiritual power, intellectual power, physical power, interpersonal power, financial power).
② This is when you can experience and enjoy the 5 blessings (bartizan of CVDIP). God gives us the Word that will be accurately fulfilled (bartizan of the covenant). We will see the vision of 25 in all environments and disastrous realities (bartizan of vision). We will begin to dream as we look upon eternity (dream). We will illustrate the picture of recreation that comes from the work of the Holy Spirit (image). The work that we do will become the masterpiece of the throne (restoration of economy of light).
⓷ With this bartizan (system), we must restore the three courtyards (237 multiethnic system, remnant system, healing system). God has allowed us to prepare for this system in our church. We must enter into a time of strengthening this sytem.
Conclusion – We are the ones who hold onto the covenant of the Remnant in this age (Romans 11:5). We are walking the path of the remained. We are walking the path of a pilgrim that will grow our strength to transcend all things. Satan is moving the controlling of the air and is attacking the church and its believers, but we are walking the path of victory. May we all hold onto the accurate covenant, challenge today for the spiritual summit, and raise up a bartizan that will not shake.