Isaiah 45:15, ‘The Savior, Dear God Hiding Behind Us!'.... and the Interpretation on it

Isaiah 45:15, ‘The Savior, Dear God Hiding Behind Us!'.... and the Interpretation on it


** Even though man thinks, contrives and acts, there is God hiding beyond human behavior, but it is God who plans, proceeds with and attains his own providence of human salvation. This is what 'God hiding behind=the Savior' is for.

Bible writers try to remind their descendants that although hiding in the Bible verses such as today's text Isaiah 45:15, Exodus 2(Story of Moses) and others, there is yet always God's providence in human history.

Through the Isaiah 40~55, one can see God who conceives(Isaiah 44:24), gives birth(42:14), brings up(46:4), prepares(49:1) and create(45:9-10), that is, God who emphasizes the attribute of the mother.

The writer tried to remind readers of God's amazing compassion through the symbol of 'the Savior=God hiding behind man' who is greater than the mother of apprehensive, heartwarming and devoted love.

From 'The Savior, Dear God Hiding Behind Us!' Text P.278-279


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Mark 4:30~32 'Jesus sowed on the earth becomes the seed that shall grow'....Short Sermon

Mark 4:30~32 'Jesus sowed on the earth becomes the seed that shall grow'....Short Sermon


* Spirit or trend of thought(-ism) is a product of the times. It is not inadvertently formed.

It is said that the kingdom of Heaven has begun by Jesus' coming down on the earth. That is, to emphasize the 'presentness of the Kingdom of Heaven' is a product of 'rationalism.'
The word of heaven that Jesus sowed produced seedlings among people. Through the efforts of his disciples and other Christians, the seeds of Heaven have borne fruit as 60-or-100-times-or-more expanded kingdoms. (See Mark 4:8)

The interpretation by rationalism is, the expansion of heaven as well will produce a good result like the seeds that grow into grains through human endeavor and will.
In the meantime, there are rather often cases that man’s wisdom brings any destructive result. (Consider what Genesis 3,4,11 mean.)

Through the cream war in Europe(1854~1856, one that gave motive to the Worldwide Red Cross Movement), through the 'World War I' 1914~1918, and through the 'World War II' 1939~1945, they began to reflect on 'rationalism's opinion that puts importance on man’s reason, or man’s power.

They saw that the man's power and man's wisdom that had been pursued by man resulted not in goodness, but in 'destructiveness.' So people began to reconsider the thinking that the word that Jesus sowed on the earth becomes the seed that shall grow still greater(4:30~32) and more expansive.

From 'Even At Night You Sleeps,' Text P.256-257

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Brief Meditation - Isaiah 62:1-5 "Hephzibah" (My Joy Is In You.)

Brief Meditation - Isaiah 62:1-5 "Hephzibah" (My Joy Is In You.)


** In God's people's eyes, the redemption period didn't dawn since after the exilic period.
The promise of redemption written in Isaiah(down from 40) was certainly not come to pass. Especially the details written of the redemption period to come forth still did not come to pass.

But faith is like this,
'to them crying in the hardships had Yahweh God granted them salvation. Faith is to acknowledge and endure that God lives and acts in the history only in that process of redemption' (See the Exodus 2:23-25)

The Isaiah 61:1-3 is proclaimed again in the Luke 4:16 through reinterpretation.
Though not in the prophet's period, Isaiah's proclamation has eventually been fulfilled through perdurable vitality, which can be told.

The reason why we repeat studying Israeli history through sermon is so that we shall learn their 'perdurable vitality' through the history of hardship that Israel suffered.
For, it is only in the process in which Israel prolongs its vitality with perdurability that we can learn that God of life acts in the history through His word.

The Bible works for us to learn in the middle of principle of dynamics and principle of paradox. What is important is, today's text has influence on up to us through the history of 'reinterpretation.'

If a kingdom of priests or a chosen generation(comparison between Exodus 19:6 and 1 Peter 2:9-10) applies to each of you, the 'Hephzibah' among words of today's text the Isaiah 62:1-5 can be interpreted as 'my joy is in you' to dear you.

Dear everybody! You are the chosen people. Please be proud to be yourself the people of the kingdom!
From 'My Joy Is In You.' Text P.178-179

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Isaiah Chapter 40 and 'In The Strange Land' Short Stories about ...

Isaiah Chapter 40 and 'In The Strange Land' Short Stories about ...


** "Come to think of how many years I've been away from home
My youth days are now gone~ in about ten years since this strange land
~Omission~
The willow at home village might be also green this spring
Yet, I miss those good old days~ blowing the flute with a willow twig"

If Go Boksu sings 'In The Strange Land' passionately, there are women shedding tears here and there in the performance and afterwards even men turning reddish around the eyes.
(What is as similar as Go Boksu's is the part 'Going home' in Dvorak's 'New World Symphony.' A mere difference is, the displaced people in 'Going Home's backdrop are Czech folks, not Korean.)

Their 'weariness in strange lands,' 'bitter tears in strange lands,' and 'desperation and emptiness in the strange lands,' which they had hidden inside their bosoms, were absorbed in the lyrics of 'In The Strange Land,' finally leading to but few of them killing themselves.
That is not the kind of popular song that we now think.

For, Go Boksu expressed the 'life in the strange land' a stranger wished to whine about only too relevantly. Without knowing such bitterness in the strange land, the part which one could not even explain of is Isaiah 40-50.
From 'See Thy God!' Text P.44

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