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ARE BETTER THAN ONE” MINISTRIES</b></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><b>Jim
& Marie Watt</b></p>
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13 - ISAIAH 24-27 - THE “DAY” AND THE WHOLE WORLD</b></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>1.
24:5 (24:1-12, ESV) JEHOVAH’S DAY: DESOLATION AND JUDGMENT. <font size="3">“The
earth lies defiled under its inhabitants; for they have transgressed
the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant.”
</font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">The rules of Your
Kingdom Father, are righteous rules, worthy to be obeyed, and a
blessing to humble ones. We in contrition repent for our rebellion
and hard hearts, and by Your grace, walk in Your ways! </span><b><i>Hallowed
be your :name!</i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>2.
24:14 (24:13-15) JEHOVAH’S DAY: REJOICING FOR ISRAEL. <font size="3">“They
lift up their voices, they sing for joy; over the majesty of the LORD
they shout from the west.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">When
Your judgments are upon the earth Father, </span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">many</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
shall turn to righteousness. We shall then walk in Your will. </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Your
:kingdom come.</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">3.
24:21 (24:16-23) JEHOVAH’S DAY: ARMAGEDDON AND SIGNS. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“On
that day the LORD will punish the host of heaven, in heaven, and the
kings of the earth, on the earth.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Satan’s
day approaches. He was crippled by Jesus at Calvary, and is now a
squatter, </span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">and
</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">shall
be completely routed and dispossessed! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Your
:will be done, As in heaven, so on earth.</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">4.
25:7-8a (25) JEHOVAH’S DAY: BLESSINGS AND JUDGMENT SUITED OUT.
</span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“And he
will swallow up on this mountain the covering that is cast over all
peoples, the veil that is spread over all nations. </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">8
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">He
will swallow up death forever, and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears
from all faces.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">The
end of a matter is </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">better</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
than the beginning, Father. Righteousness shall be completely
vindicated at the end! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Our
:daily :bread Give us this day.</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">5.
26:3-4 (26) JEHOVAH’S DAY: RESURRECTION SONG. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“You
keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on you, because he
trust in you. </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">4
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">Trust
in the LORD forever, for the LORD GOD is an everlasting rock.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">O
Father, we would evermore see in You the kind of Elohim You are!
Merciful and full of compassion toward us You are! You will not
suffer us to be tested above what we can stand! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">And
forgive us our :debts, As we also have forgiven our :debtors.</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">6.
27:1 JEHOVAH’S DAY: SATAN’S FINAL DEFEAT. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“In
that day the LORD with his hard and great and strong sword will
punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan the twisting serpent,
and he will slay the dragon that is in the sea.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Yes
Father, Satan, pictured by Leviathan, shall finally suffer Your full
judgment! Your righteousness shall be vindicated. </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">And
bring us not into temptation!</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">7.
27:13 (27:2-13) JEHOVAH’S DAY: SONG OF TRIUMPH. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“And
in that day a great trumpet will be blown, and those who were lost in
the land of Assyria and those who were driven out to the land of
Egypt will come and worship the LORD on the holy mountain at
Jerusalem.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">O
Father, how we praise You for the understanding of Your eventual
triumph! And how we thank You that You will cause us to triumph in
</span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">Jesus</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">!
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">But deliver
us from the evil </span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">one!</span></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><u><b>NOTE</b></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>:
26:9 (26) YOU KEEP HIM IN PERFECT PEACE! </b></span><b><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“My
soul year</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">n</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">s
for you in the night; my spirit within me earnestly seeks you. For
when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world
learn righteousness.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Vindication!
vindication for You, Father, for </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">You</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
are worthy and righteous altogether!</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">Our
Psalm for the day: 13:5-6 (13) </span><span style="text-decoration:none">HOW
LONG, O LORD? “</span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">But
I have trusted in your steadfast love (CHEsed); my heart shall
rejoice in your salvation. </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">6
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">I will
sing to the LORD, because he has dealt bountifully with me.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">O
Father, unto You belongs praise because of what You are, and what You
have done! Our trust in You is never misplaced. Because of Your great
promises in Your word and what You are, we </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Hallow
your :name!</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">We
have been wont to call this the “How-Long Psalm.” </span><span style="text-decoration:none">We
had almost said the Howling Psalm, from the incessant repetition of
the cry, “How long?”</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">13:1
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>How long? </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">This
question is repeated no less than four times. It betokens very
intense desire for deliverance and great anguish of heart. And what
if there be some impatience mingled with it; is not this the more
true a portrait of our own experience? It is not easy to prevent
desires from degenerating into impatience. Long sorrow seems to argue
abounding corruption; for the gold which is long in the fire must
have had much dross to be consumed; hence the question “How long?”
may suggest deep searching of the heart. </span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>How
long will You forget me? </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">Ah,
David! how like a fool you talk! Can God forget? Can Omniscience fail
in memory? Above all, can Jehovah’s heart forget His own beloved
child? Ah, brethren, let us drive away the thought, and hear the
voice of our covenant God by the mouth of the prophet, “Behold, I
have graven you upon </span><span style="text-decoration:none">the</span><span style="text-decoration:none">
palms of My hands; your walls are continually before Me.” </span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>Forever.
</b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">Oh, dark thought!
It was surely bad enough to suspect a temporary forgetfulness, but
shall we ask the ungracious question and imagine that the Lord will
forever cast away His people? No, His anger may endure for a night,
but His love shall abide eternally.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">13:2
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>How long? </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">Thu</span><span style="text-decoration:none">s</span><span style="text-decoration:none">
the careful reader will remark that the question, “How long?” is
put in four shapes. The writer’s grief is viewed, as it seems to
be, as it is, as it affects himself within, and his foes without. We
are all prone to play most on the worst string. We set up monumental
stones over the graves of our joys, but who thinks of erecting
monuments of praise for mercies received? We write four books of
Lamentations and only one of Canticles, and are far more at home in
wailing out a </span><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Miserere</span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">
than in chanting a </span><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Te
Deum.</span></i></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">13:5
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>But I have trusted
in Your mercy; my heart shall rejoice in Your salvation.</b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">
What a change is here! Lo, the rain is over and gone, and the time
of the singing of birds is come. David’s heart was more often out
of tune than his harp. He begins many of his Psalms sighing, and ends
them singing. The above Notes are from “The Treasury of David”
by C. H. Spurgeon.</span></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><b><span style="text-decoration:none">What
is Free Will? </span></b></i><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">“There
is no greater mockery than to call a sinner a free man. Show me a
convict toiling in the chain gang, and call him a free man if you
will; point out to me the galley slave chained to the oar, and
smarting under the taskmaster’s lash whenever he pauses to draw
breath, and call him a free man if you will; but never call a sinner
a free man, even in his will, so long as he is the slave of his own
corruptions. In our natural state, we wore chains, not upon our
limbs, but upon our hearts, fetters that bound us, and kept us from
God, from rest, from peace, from holiness, from anything like freedom
of heart and conscience and will. The iron entered into our soul; and
there is no slavery as terrible as that. As there is no freedom like
the freedom of the spirit, so is there no slavery that is at all
comparable to the bondage of the heart.”</span></span></span></font></font></p>
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