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CHAPTER 45
Cyrus shall free the captives of Israel from Babylon—Come unto Jehovah (Christ) and be saved—To him every knee shall bow and every tongue shall swear. |
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1 Thus saith the LORD to his aanointed,
to bCyrus, whose right hand I have
cholden, to dsubdue nations before him;
and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the
etwo leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;
2 I will go before thee, and make the acrooked places straight: I will bbreak in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron: 3 And I will give thee the atreasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the LORD, which call thee by thy bname, am the cGod of Israel. 4 For Jacob my aservant's sake, and Israel mine belect, I have even ccalled thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me. |
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5 ¶ aI am the LORD, and
there is none else, there is no God beside
mea: I girded thee,
though thou hast not known me:
6 That they may know from the arising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else. 7 I form the alight, and create darkness: I make peace, and create bevil: I the LORD do all these things. |
5a I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me Though it need not be done, a removal of the inserted italicized words of the translaters do make it a bit easier to read within the context of what is actually being said here by the LORD God Jehovah. 'I the LORD, and none else, no God beside me.' The context within which this statement is being made is withing the realm of the Second Temporal Estate. Jehovah is not saying that there are not other God in eternity, he is speaking in the 'limited' realm of this temporal creation of our Second Estate. God the Father of Spirits anointed, consecrated and ordained His Firstborn Son Jehovah to be 'The God', 'The Ministering God' of the Second Temporal Estate. It is Jehovah the Son who is the 'temporal creator' of all things in heaven and earth. He did it under the 'direction' of His Father. And within this 'limited' temporal estate there is no other God so given. Salvation come in and through Jehovah, who is Jesus Christ, and none else. This is what is being said and it further explains exactly what is meant by verse 11 (see verse 11). | |
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8 Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies
pour down arighteousness: let the earth open, and let
bthem bring forth csalvation, and let
righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created it.
9 Woe unto him that astriveth with his bMaker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the cclay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands? 10 Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest thou? or to athe woman, What hast thou brought forth? |
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11 Thus saith the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and
his Makera, Ask me of things to
come concerning my asons, and concerning the
bwork of my hands ccommand ye me.
12 I have amade the earth, and bcreated man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their chost have I commanded. 13 I have raised ahim up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall bbuild my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for cprice nor reward, saith the LORD of hosts. |
11aThus saith the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker Does this mean that Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel had a 'Maker'? Of course it does! Jehovah had a 'Maker' of his spirit body, just as all of us, and that is God the Father of Spirits. This 'making' or 'creation' was the 'spirit or spiritual' creation in the 'First Estate' apart from the temporal creation of the 'Second Estate'. This occurred in the realm of the 'preexistence' or the First Estate where Jehovah was the 'Firstborn' of God the Father of Spirits in the spirit. That is were in Jehovah was 'The First', 'The Beginning' even 'The Alpha'. That Realm of Eternity were all our spirits were first born was not of this Second Temporal Estate. And only those who were to pertain unto this Second Temporal Estate could be a part of it and thus be enabled to 'minister' unto it (D&C 130:5). God the Father of Spirits stood in advance of this 'temporal estate' and thus He had to select one from among us His spirit children to act for, in behalf of, and in the stead of Himself in all things pertaining unto this Second Temporal Mortal Estate. And this He did, selecting the rightful heir, the Firstborn Son Jehovah. And He bestowed upon him the fulness of His powers which enabled the Son, the Word, Jehovah, even Jesus Christ, the perform the temporal creation of the Second Estate. This is exactly that which John does speak of in John chapter 1 (See John 1:1-4). As to our relevant discusion here, Jehovah's 'Maker' would be God the Father of Spirits, who was the spirit Father of Jehovah or Jesus Christ in the preexistance. The translated word 'Maker' is a poor tranlation for in today's English it does not seem to imply the 'spirit procreation' of the Father in the spirit birth of the Son, rather it implies creating something manually with one's hands outside of any such 'birthing process'. A better translation in the English of today would have been to use the word 'procreator' meaning the birthing Father of the spirit of Jehovah was God the Father of Spirits. | |
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14 Thus saith the LORD, The labour of
aEgypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia and of the Sabeans, men
of stature, shall come over unto thee, and they shall be thine: they shall
come bafter thee; in chains they shall come over, and they
shall fall down unto thee, they shall make supplication unto thee,
saying, Surely God is in thee; and there is
cnone else, there is no God.
15 Verily thou art a God that ahidest thyself, O God of Israel, the bSaviour. 16 They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together that are makers of aidols. |
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17 But Israel shall be asaved in
the bLORD with an everlasting csalvation:
ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.
18 For thus saith the LORD that acreated the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be binhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else. 19 I have not spoken in asecret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak brighteousness, I declare things that are cright. |
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20 ¶ Assemble yourselves and come; draw near
together, ye that are aescaped of the
bnations: they have no cknowledge that
set up the wood of their graven image, and dpray unto a god
that cannot save.
21 Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a ajust God and a bSaviour; there is none beside mea. 22 aLook unto me, and be ye bsaved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else. |
21a there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me Again, though not actually needed, a removal of the italized tranlator's words help to simplify the explanation. 'no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; none beside me'. So what is being stated by Jehovah is that as far as this entire temporal creation, as far as this earth is concerned from its 'seven day ordering' and Adam and Eve, is concerning; there is no other God set in place over this earth, over the Second Estate, but Jehovah. He is its temporal creator, he is its ministering God, he is its Saviour, and there is no other God or person so placed to act as such. Salvation is in him and none else. He is not stating that God the Father of Spirit does not exist. In verse 11 is has referenced that Jehovah himself did have a 'Maker'. And as explained in the commentary of verse 11, that was stipulated as God the Father of Spirits, a Celestial being who stands in advance of this physical temporal mortality of the Second Estate. The facts of the one simiply do not preclude the other when all is understood and placed into their proper context. There is no error in verse 11 where it states that Jehovah had a 'Maker', a mis- translation perhaps in the word 'Maker'. And there is no fault in Jehovah stating that he and he alone is the God of the Second Estate, for he was even placed as such by his 'Maker', his Father, God the Father of Spirits, even Elohim. There are many such references in the Old Testament which teach that Jehovah had a LORD, Father or GOD above him. Even Jesus in his ministry qoutes one such reference in estalishing himself as the Son of God before the Phrasees of the Sanhedrin (See Psalms 110:1, Mark 12:36, Luke 20:42, Acts 2:34, Hebrews 1:13). And this is what Stephen the Seventy was stoned to death for, seeing the glory of God the Father and Jesus Christ the Son standing beside him as two separate and distinct individuals (see Acts 7). Sadly this became the mindset of the Trinitarians of the Nicene Creed. They would rather kill such believers in God the Father and His Son Jesus Christ as two separate beings just as the Sanhedrin of the Jews so crucified Jesus Christ as so claiming and stating and as Stephen so stated he had so seen in vision. | |
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23 I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my
mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every
aknee shall bow, every tongue shall
bswear.
24 Surely, shall one say, in the LORD have I righteousness and astrength: even to him shall men come; and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed. 25 In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be ajustified, and shall glory. |
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