Isaiah 55

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This week we’ll be hearing again from Isaiah for the first mass reading. I do believe, in the wake of this week’s past events concerning the missiles launched by Iran which threatened Israel, that the whole chapter 55 should be pondered and prayed about.

This is the chapter that ends with “This shall be to the Lord’s renown, an everlasting imperishable sign.”
The ‘sign’ isn’t any evergreen tree starting to grow in place of another kind of plant mentioned a sentence before. This vs identification was labeled wrong. The original manuscript didn’t have vs and chap indications. This was added later during the Middle Ages. It makes a reader think that the ‘sign’ is the evergreen tree. The everlasting imperishable sign mentioned here is THE LOGOS, Greek for The Word.

Then flash back to Jeremiah 31:31-34 "I will place my law within them, and write it upon their hearts…No longer will they have need to teach their friends and kinsmen how to know the Lord. All, from least to greatest, shall know me…for I will forgive their evildoing and remember their sin no more. "

Even though Jews may not believe in Jesus…Jesus is within them written on their hearts. He graciously will remember their sin no more as Jesus died for them as he died for all.
Jesus, The Word, is the completion of the Law from the time of the Decalogue. Jesus is the New Covenant which is imperishable.

 

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I have a ministry where I provide the Mass Readings with commentary from the Church Fathers and Doctors of the Church. I have the Isaiah reading here with commentary
litteralchristianlibrary.wetpaint.com/page/thirteenth

 

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I realize that I am not a Church Father. I just wanted mass goers to contemplate the entire chapter of Isaiah 55 and pray about it in the wake of the missiles shot off by Iran this past week.

The liturgy only is giving an ‘introduction’ to the message this weekend.

In my prayer life, I was led to Isaiah 55 and Jeremiah 31 both for personal answers and, now, that the news reported these shootings, I can see where these chapters point to the question…How can the Jews possibly be saved if they do not profess Jesus as their personal savior? The Jewish religion (culture) are God-fearing, God’s law abiding people. They are the ones that most of the Old Testament bothers with. How can now God not be committed to them as He once was?

The answer is in Isaiah 55 and Jeremiah 31.

We, as professing Christians, should realize “Christians” come in many "shapes and colors and sizes, " all because Jesus is written on ALL hearts, The LAW, THE WORD is written on ALL hearts.
In a sense, Jews that do not actively profess Jesus as their personal savior, are, in fact ‘Christians’ anyway. They really can’t do anything about it. They are ‘unrealized Christians.’
Jesus came for the Jews, just as He came for you and me!

This is the Good News and the Gospel that speaks today says, ‘we should carry this to all we meet’ !

Thus, my private realization, and thus why I registered to this site, and thus why I wrote this thread.