Written by,
Robert Johnson
This blog is my understanding of Isaiah 34:16. The word of God reveals His will for His children. Isaiah 34:16 King James Version (KJV) 16 Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them. I am learning to find the witness of the prophetic voice of God. Jesus was and is the witness of Gods word.
We just want to define one word from within our Subject, witness.
Witness is defined as …> “1 : attestation of a fact or event : testimony. 2 : one that gives evidence specifically : one who testifies in a cause or before a judicial tribunal.”
Jesus was and is the witness of Gods word while in human flesh.
His death on the cross was the witness to God prophetic promise in Isaiah 53:10 (KJV) where God through the spirit writes;
“10 Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; {he hath put him to grief:} when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.”
When we except Christ and become citizens of His word, we become witnesses of the testimony of Jesus Christ which is from Genesis to Revelations.
John 5:37 King James Version (KJV)
“37 And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape.”
The Book of Acts 1:8 (KJV)
“Acts 1:8 King James Version (KJV)
“8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.”
Isaiah 34:16 – speaks that if it is found in the Law it must be reveal in the spirit, (The New Covenant.)
2 Corinthians 3:6 (KJV)
“5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.”
The spirit is the witness to the letter….
Without the spirit (the witness) the law brings death.
Matthew 5:17 King James Version (KJV)
“17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.”
John the Baptist The representative of the law would Baptize the one who would verify all that was written in the old covenant bringing the Both together in the spirit through his death, burial, and resurrection.
Hebrews 10 King James Version (KJV)
For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.
3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.
4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;
9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Example of a witness found in the Law and in the spirit verifying the word of God based on the prophetic statement written in Isaiah 34:16.
(A) The Law –
Zechariah 4 King James Version (KJV)
2 And said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof:
3 And two olive trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof.
4 So I answered and spake to the angel that talked with me, saying, What are these, my lord?
5 Then the angel that talked with me answered and said unto me, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord.
6 Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts
Now I clearly understand Habakkuk 2:1
“I will stand upon my watch and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what He will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.”
“What do you see?” In the spirit – Zachariah and John both witness the gospel of Jesus Christ in the Spirit.
A. John was to share with the seven (7) churches the mysteries that the spirit reveal while he was in a trance or caught in the spirit.
B. Zachariah can only reveal to Israel the covenant promise of Redemption that they would receive by faith. He could write nothing else.
Zachariah is the Old Covenant witness to the prophetic witness found in
{Revelations chapter 1}
You might say the words are alike true, the prophetic must have a witness as the confirmation to what was written {spoken by God}
(B) The Spirit –
Revelation 1 King James Version (KJV)
9 I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.
10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,
11 Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.
12 And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks;
13 And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
14 His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
15 And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.
16 And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.
17 And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. (John states he fell as dead, in other words when he gave up his life for the cause of the gospel he became as dead to live as Christ witness. Jesus had to die to be the revealed witness of his word.) And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:
18 I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
19 Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter;
20 The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches.
In closing, Gods word witness comes from his spirit which searches the deep things of God, the mysteries of His kingdom. 2 Corinthians 2:15 (KJV)
“What sees thou?”
In Zachariah and Revelations – what do you see? They were witnesses to the spirit of Gods word. This is that fulfillment that Jesus told John the Baptist about.
Both are center in the completeness of the gospel.
The only thing that can separate the witness is sin, thus God is against.
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