“I have trodden the winepress alone; from the nations no one was with me. I trampled them in my anger and trod them down in my wrath; their blood spattered my garments, and I stained all my clothing.”
– Isaiah 63:3
Hi James and Ellen,
Do you know what it means to see red? To become visibly angry is to see red. Have you ever seen red? If you have ever maliciously said something out of anger, you have seen red. If you have ever rashly thrown something out of anger, you have seen red. If you have ever viciously hit something out of anger, you have seen red. If you have a tendency to see red, what triggers you to see red? If you have a proclivity to see red, do you default to chaotic yells or random flings and/or indiscriminate wallops? If you have a penchant to see red, how do you justify impetuously spewing unkind words or impulsively hurling innocent objects and/or capriciously smiting chance recipients? Per what God – as God the Father, through God – as God the Spirit, breathed on Isaiah to include in his Isaiah Book, God is going to see red – again. Even though no one knows when God – as God the Son, will once again effect in a providential or in a calamitous way the lives of the guys, gals and kids who will be living on planet Earth when He returns, God – as God the Spirit, prompted Isaiah to clearly write that the impending return of God – as God the Son, to planet Earth will be driven by a raging, wrathful emotion. The return of God – as God the Son, to planet Earth is prophesized in Isaiah 63. Verse 3 articulates the imminent reaction of God when God – as God the Son, finds a sin polluted planet Earth on His return to planet Earth, ““I have trodden the winepress alone; from the nations no one was with me. I trampled them in my anger and trod them down in my wrath; their blood spattered my garments, and I stained all my clothing.” God – as God the Spirit, explicitly had Isaiah write that the town or city of Bozrah, Edom will be the battleground where He – as God the Son, will have His day of vengeance and His year of redemption. The country of Edom symbolizes Lucifer’s trope of guys, gals and kids who have an internalized hatred of God’s specially chosen and elected guys, gals and kids. The town or city of Bozrah – which was located in what is now the country of Jordon, no longer exists. The town or city of Bozrah was settled by Esau. Esau was Jacob’s older twin bro. With the aid of his conniving ma – who was Rebekah, Jacob stole the family’s birthright that a sight challenged Isaac – who was Jacob’s dad, thought that he was passing on to Esau. While Jacob’s twelve kids morphed into twelve tribal clans of guys, gals and kids – which became known as the Israelite people group guys, gals and kids, Esau’s extended family of guys, gals and kids became cliff dwellers. The Israelite people group guys and gals fulfilled a covenant promise that God made to Abraham – the Israelite people group’s patriarch, that he would be the father of an expanding nation of guys and gals who would be His specially chosen guys and gals on planet Earth while Esau’s extended family of guys and gals – which was the Edomite people group guys and gals, wallowed in bitterness towards Jacob’s extended family of guys and gals. What your grandpaa finds intriguing the most about the Bozrah, Edom battle site is that it is not far from the birthplace of a cancerous, performance based religion called Islam that attempts to counter the belief that God – as God the Spirit, prompts guys, gals or kids to pass a blood stained cross on which Jesus – as God the Son, was crucified on and then to and through the faith/grace door into a growing family of Christ-follower guys, gals and kids. Even though the Muslim (Islamic) people group of guys and gals have a direct lineage to Abraham through Ishmeal – who was fathered by Abraham through Hagar – who was his wife’s handmaid, your grandpaa would not be surprised at all if the day and the year when God sees red that it will be the Muslim people group of guys and gals who will take the major blunt of God’s fearful fury.
Have you ever thought about what it will be like when God – as God the Son, returns to planet Earth? The words that God – as God the Spirit, breathed on Isaiah to record in his Isaiah Book, says that God – as God the Son, will return in righteous splendor and that with His mighty strength, He will save through His redeeming power His specially chosen and elected guys, gals and kids. Because God has given planet Earth to Lucifer to have dominance over for a season, Lucifer will have had plenty of time to assign his minion battalion of former angelic beings – who had joined Lucifer in Lucifer’s pride driven attempt to be equal to God, into every nation of guys, gals and kids that will be on planet Earth with the specific goal of getting every guy, gal and kid to reject accepting God’s promise of eternal life through acquiescing to the Living Words that make up the Bible.
If you are concerned right now that you just may be on God’s list of rebellious kids who have been grieving Him – as God the Spirit, ask yourself if being driven – as sheep have to be herded, by God – as God the Spirit, is something that is giving you hopeful assurance or does being guided – as cattle are led, by God – as God the Spirit, is something that grinds against your desire for doing whatever it is that you want to do. When a guy, gal or kid has God – as God the Father, – through God – as God the Spirit, prompt him or her to ask Him why He would make him or her to wander away from His ways and to harden his or her heart from revering Him, your grandpaa is convinced that God is in His sovereign way opening the eyes of that adopted guy, gal or kid to the cold darkness of his or her inherited DNA that is being replaced by the warm presence of God – as God the Son, as He lives in his or her heart.
Isaiah 63 (1184)