This interpretation of Isaiah by Bro. Gileadi is sobering:
http://isaiahreport.com/?paged=15
73. Two Wives—The Deserted One and the Espoused
Isaiah compares God’s covenant relationship with his people to a
marriage in which they are the wife and he is the husband. When they
keep the terms of the covenant, Isaiah depicts them as a faithful wife,
but when they break the covenant, as an adulterous wife. When their
unfaithfulness becomes resolute, God divorces her and casts her off. Or,
rather, she and her children cast themselves off by alienating
themselves from him: “Thus says Jehovah: ‘Where is your mother’s bill of
divorce with which I cast her out? Or to which of my creditors did I
sell you? Surely, by sinning you sold yourselves; because of your crimes
was your mother an outcast’” (Isaiah 50:1).
In reality, God marries two wives: (1) an end-time wife, who turns adulterous, who is the one cast off; and (2) his first wife, whom he remarries: “‘Sing, O barren woman who did not give birth; break into jubilant song, you who were not in labor: the children of the deserted wife shall outnumber those of the espoused,’ says Jehovah. . . . ‘Jehovah calls you back as a spouse forsaken and forlorn, a wife married in youth only to be rejected,’ says your God. ‘I forsook you indeed momentarily, but with loving compassion I will gather you up. In a fleeting surge of anger I hid my face from you, but with everlasting charity I will have compassion on you’” (Isaiah 54:1, 6–8).
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In reality, God marries two wives: (1) an end-time wife, who turns adulterous, who is the one cast off; and (2) his first wife, whom he remarries: “‘Sing, O barren woman who did not give birth; break into jubilant song, you who were not in labor: the children of the deserted wife shall outnumber those of the espoused,’ says Jehovah. . . . ‘Jehovah calls you back as a spouse forsaken and forlorn, a wife married in youth only to be rejected,’ says your God. ‘I forsook you indeed momentarily, but with loving compassion I will gather you up. In a fleeting surge of anger I hid my face from you, but with everlasting charity I will have compassion on you’” (Isaiah 54:1, 6–8).
1. 11. 2012
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