ISAIAH 1


1 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

Isaiah's prophetic work spanned the lives of 4 kings of Judah

2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for Yahweh hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.

Rulers and people rebelled against the Law given through Moses.

3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.

An ox is a stubborn creature, yet it recognises the providence of its owner. Ungrateful Israel though blessed by Yahweh dishonoured their contract with Yahweh...

'All that the Lord hath said will we do, and be obedient' (Ex 24: 7).




4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken Yahweh, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.

Ah sinful nation


Why do not brethren reflect more before they take their pen in hand? And when their errors are plainly pointed out, why do they not pause and own up instead of wriggling? Why are brethren so ignoble, so flippant and daring when dealing with the great and solemn truths of God?

These are questions that arise as one looks upon a pile of saddening, distracting, faith-killing printed matter-leaflets, pamphlets, and magazines-that has emanated from various brethren since the days of Dr. Thomas.

Words, words, words-rash assertion, spiteful controversy, self-justification, without rhyme or reason. Dr. Thomas, whom these foolish writers essay to correct and explain, has opened our eyes to the sublime truths of the gospel, and these brethren, by their illogical and unscriptural arguments, tend to shut them up again.

Oh! that brethren would realise that, if ever there is a time for man to abase himself, exhibit humility, carefulness, straightforwardness, and caution, it is when undertaking the task of setting forth the Word of God. Would that brethren would realise more keenly the sacred place that the truth of God holds in His estimation-that He esteems it of infinitely greater value than flesh and blood.

If they did so, many would hesitate and shake before writing as they do. We may be quite sure of this-that if we tamper with the truth, oppose it, deal with it dishonestly or wrongly, we shall, sooner or later, be ruthlessly brushed aside.

With the sad havoc caused by Renunciationism, Partial-inspirationism, and other unscriptural notions of the last thirty years, before us, let us think many times before we commit a novel exegesis or doctrine to writing.

Bro AT Jannaway

The Christadelphian, Oct 1906



5 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

Such was declared to be Israel's state in the midst of a busy system of worship which had no sincerity,‭ ‬and which was loaded with observances of their own invention of which God said,

"‬Who hath required this at your hands‭?"

‭TC 10/1887



6 From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.

7 Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.



9 Except Yahweh of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah [Amora].

He predicted that Judah would turn his back upon Him; and that if "a very small remnant" had not been left, the nation would have become like Sodom and Gomorrha, and would have partaken of their fate.

This "remnant" is that portion of the Jews which accept Jesus of Nazareth as "the Holy One of Ail;" who in Apoc. i. 18, says, "I am the First and the Last and the Living One; and I was dead, and behold I am living for the Aions of the Aions: the Amen." This is the AIL GIVBOR, the Hero-Power, or "Mighty God," to whom Shearyahshuv, or the "remnant shall retum," called the remnant of Jacob, "which shall stay upon Yahweh the Holy One of Israel " (Isa. x. 20, 21).

Eureka 3.2.1

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10 Hear the word of Yahweh, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our Elohim, ye people of Gomorrah.

11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith Yahweh: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.

12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?

13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.

14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.

15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.



16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;

Literally this is done by subjecting the mind to the influence of the word of God. The word of God is always spoken of as the cleansing power (John 15:3; Psa. 119:9; Eph. 5:26), and, in actual experience, it is found to be so. Kept clean by the word, we shall be qualified for admission into the holiest, in the change to the incorruptible.

Law of Moses Ch 16.


17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.


18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith Yahweh: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Though your sins be as scarlet.

But the difficulty with some is how to associate such an ingredient with the sinless Son of God. There ought to be no difficulty if the whole case is kept before the mind. It is not the whole case that "he was without sin": it is part of the case that he was "made sin for us" (2 Cor. 5:21); that he was made of a woman in the likeness of sinful flesh (Gal. 4:4; Rom. 8:3), and that by a figure God hath laid on him the iniquities of us all (Isa. 53:6), and that he bore our sins in his own body to the tree (1 Pet. 2:24).

These are the testified facts; they need have no difficulty for us in view of the historic fact that he was born of a mortal woman who was under death because of sin. As we contemplate the babe of Bethlehem, born after nine months' gestation, built out of his mother's blood, and nourished by his mother's milk, we cannot resist the conclusion forced on us by the words of Paul, that "he partook of the same flesh and blood" as those he came to redeem, and that he was made in all points like unto his brethren (Heb. 2:14-17).

He was palpably and before our eyes thus made subject to the sin-constitution of things that has prevailed on the earth "through one man's offence", which enables us to understand the otherwise unintelligible statement of Paul that, when he died, "he died unto sin once" (Rom. 6:10).

A sinless man made subject to the consequence of sin: this is the combination of the fine-twined linen and the scarlet. There is no difficulty when each element in the case is allowed its place. The difficulties arise from looking too exclusively at one or two elements. Rome has created difficulty by her doctrine of immaculate conception, in which she has latterly included Mary herself. This doctrine has gone through the world by tradition, and breaks out here and there in unsuspected places. 


Renunciationism has troubled us with it in a special shape, and well-meaning minds perpetuate the trouble by their superficial partiality for a view that seems more honouring to Christ than the truth.

Law of Moses Ch 14.


19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:

20 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of Yahweh hath spoken it.

21 How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.

22 Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:

23 Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

24 Therefore saith Yahweh, Yahweh hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:

25 And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:

26 And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.

27 Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.

28 And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake Yahweh shall be consumed.

29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.

30 For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.

31 And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.