Our Text today, please read it carefully. God is speaking …

“For this is as the waters of Noah unto Me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee. For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but My kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of My peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee.” Isaiah 54:9-10

Yes, God has disciplined Israel, at times severely. But she has been such an erring nation! God even laments in Hosea 11:7, “My people are bent to backsliding from me.” This verb “bent” means “to cling to” something!

Nonetheless, overall … God intends to BLESS Israel! And today’s Passage proves such in no uncertain terms!

In fact, looks to me like the Abrahamic Covenant is unconditional! Show me any “ifs” in it, please. Here it is …

God to Abraham, once Abram left Ur of the Chaldees, which he certainly did … “I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: and I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.” Genesis 12:2-3

And so today (back to Isaiah 54:9-10) look what God has promised (again) to the Jewish people, to the Nation! There is coming a day when God “will no longer be wroth” with them! No longer “angry, displeased!”

A day when God will no longer “rebuke” His people!

“So have I (the Lord) sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.” Verse 10b, King James Version! (The Hebrew verb “to swear” literally means “to say something seven times!”)

And how sure is that Word, that Commitment from God? A Divine Illustration now: God says: “As the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth.” That’s absolute, isn’t it?

Then in verse 10 God adds that His Word to Israel is a stable as the “mountains” and the “hills!” In fact, more so! (“For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but MY KINDNESS shall NOT depart from thee.”)

God will also honor His “Covenant of Peace” with the Jews! Sounds like Salvation to me! And it will be guaranteed “secure!” I’d say “eternally secure!” (Verse 10b … “Neither shall the covenant of My peace be removed.”)

Wow!

What MERCY!

Now, take a few seconds and read this again, our Meditation this morning: “For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee. For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee.” And do note it is authoritatively signed “saith the Lord!”

Now let’s go and pray for Israel!

Psalm 122:6 … “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.”

Psalm 51:18 … David praying … “Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.”

Psalm 137:6 … If I do not remember thee (that City, Jerusalem), let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.”Surely this includes “remembering” that city in prayer!

The previous verse too … “If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.” Forget to pray for her? (Psalm 137:5)

And even Jeremiah 51:50 has some advice in this area: “Stand not still: remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.” Wow!

— Dr. Mike Bagwell

Praying a Petition God is sure to answer!

Folks, God is going to DO, PERFORM what He has said, promised! But sill, He asks us “to pray” for those Results!

Proof?

Ezekiel 36:36-36 … “Then the heathen that are left round about you shall know that I THE LORD build the ruined places, and plant that that was desolate: I THE LORD have spoken it, and I will do it. Thus saith the Lord GOD; I WILL YET FOR THIS BE ENQUIRED OF (pray for it) BY THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL, to do it for them; I will increase them with men like a flock.”

Amen!

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