As I read our chapter earlier today, this verse stood out so clearly. This is Israel talking, in the last days, the coming days of great Tribulation I suspect …

“Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.” She is praying here in Isaiah 63:16. At one of her lowest points in all her history!

Look!

She feels she has been torn from her roots! “Father Abraham no longer knows us.” (“Though Abraham be ignorant of us.”) Her heritage is shattered, or at least shattering, she believes. (Her history has been rewritten. A perversion today called “revisionism.” It is happening in America every week, too. They are indeed trying to rob us of our history!)

Israel is also lamenting the fact that her very own people are no longer loyal to her! “Though Israel acknowledge us not.” I am told that in Israel today so many Jewish people despise their own government! And many seem to be against the very preservation (and defense) of the Homeland! And in the United States, some of the most liberal of all politicians and entertainers and Judges (etc.) are ultra liberal, pro PLO, anti-Semitic advocates! Yes, this battle is spiritual, not just intellectual or philosophical, demonic forces are evident!

Things look extremely dark for Israel, in our Text verse today! Again: “Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.”

Wow!

But … though everything human and even familiar seems to be AGAINST her … she has finally realized GOD IS FOR HER!

“Doubtless thou art our father.”

Astounding!

But more than just Father, great as that Relationship is!

“O LORD, art our father, our REDEEMER; thy name is from everlasting.” Redeemer too! This is Salvation, Jesus, Eternal Life … Israel being born again!

And even more good news … God as Father and Redeemer WILL NEVER CHANGE! “Thy Name is from everlasting!”

Amazing! One might even say “eternally secure!”

Folks, there is a verse David penned that “fits” this Text precisely, amplifies and illustrates it so very well! “When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.” Psalm 27:10

Wow, the LORD Who never fails! !

Israel … finally, trusting Jesus!

THAT DAY WILL COME!

God’s Word is sure.

— Dr. Mike Bagwell

I am glad to be a Christian!

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