Vol. 1 Timely
Greetings No. 33
THE ONLY
PEACE OF MIND
Volume 1
Number 33
Copyright, 1953 Reprint
All rights reserved
V.T. HOUTEFF
THE DISPERSION, THE
TIME,
AND THE DELIVERANCE
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TEXT FOR PRAYER
Our Necessities Supplied
I shall read from "The Mount of
Blessing," p. 190, the paragraph beginning in the middle of the page:
M.B., pg. 190 -- "Every promise in the
Word of God furnishes us with subject-matter for prayer, presenting the pledged
word of Jehovah as our assurance.
Whatever spiritual blessing we need, it is our privilege to claim
through Jesus. We may tell the Lord,
with the simplicity of a child, exactly what we need. We may state to Him our temporal matters;
asking Him for bread and raiment as well as for the bread of life and the robe
of Christ's righteousness. Your heavenly
Father knows that you have need of all these things, and you are invited to ask
Him concerning them. It is through the
name of Jesus that every favor is received.
God will honor that name, and will supply your necessities from the
riches of His liberality."
Let us now summarize what we should pray for
this afternoon. We need to pray for
solid faith in the assurance that regardless what spiritual and temporal
blessings we may need, it is our privilege to go to the Lord with the
simplicity of a child and claim these blessings in the name of Jesus. We need to pray for help to take God at His
word; pray for a realization that He means just what He says when He promises
to honor the name of Jesus and to supply our necessities from His immeasurable
riches.
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THE
DISPERSION, THE TIME,
AND THE
DELIVERANCE
TEXT OF ADDRESS BY V.T. HOUTEFF,
MINISTER OF DAVIDIAN 7TH-DAY ADVENTISTS
SABBATH,
MT.
This afternoon we are to study Isaiah,
chapters 31 and 32. In these chapters we
shall see the cause of
Isa. 31:1-4 -- "Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and
stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen,
because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel,
neither seek the Lord! Yet He also is
wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back His words: but will arise
against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of them that work
iniquity. Now the Egyptians are men, and
not God; and their horses flesh, and not Spirit. When the Lord shall stretch out His hand,
both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail
together. For thus hath the Lord spoken
unto me, Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a
multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, he will not be afraid of
their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the Lord of
hosts come down to fight for Mount Zion, and for the hill thereof."
Though the Lord permitted His ancient
kingdom
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to be taken by the Gentiles, this scripture shows that
He will soon deliver it. Not only will
He deliver His people and
Isa. 31:5, 6 -- "As birds flying, so will the Lord of hosts
defend
Having now come to the time of their
deliverance, the Lord is pleading with His people to turn to Him -- to reform.
Isa. 31:7 -- "For in that day every man shall cast away his
idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you
for a sin."
To turn to Him, He explains, is to cast away
every idol. When such great revival and
reformation takes place among God's people, He continues:
Isa. 31:8, 9 -- "Then shall the Assyrian fall
with the sword, not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall
devour him: but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be
discomfited. And he shall pass over to
his strong hold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the Lord, Whose fire is in
Because of idolatry, the Assyrian was permitted
to take God's ancient people and their pleasant land. And certain it is that the Assyrian will
control the land just so long as God's people continue in idolatry. But, just as soon as all idols are cast
aside, -- yes, as soon as the great revival and reformation takes place
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in the hearts of the people, -- then the Assyrian (the
power that now rules them) shall certainly fall, and God's people shall just as
certainly return. The Assyrian shall
thus fall, not at the sword of a mighty man, and not of a mean man, but
"through the voice of the Lord shall the Assyrian be beaten down, which
smote with a rod." Isa. 30:31.
Isa. 32:1-8 -- "Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness,
and princes shall rule in judgment. And
a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a
covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place; as the shadow of a
great rock in a weary land. And the eyes
of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall
hearken. The heart also of the rash
shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers
shall be ready to speak plainly.
"The vile person shall be no more
called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful. For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice
hypocrisy, and to utter error against the Lord, to make empty the soul of the
hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail. The instruments also of the churl are evil:
he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with
lying words, even when the needy speaketh right. But the liberal deviseth
liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand."
Turning again to his ancient people,
Inspiration declared, that though their kingdom was doomed to fall, yet one day
a King shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment; that
in that day a Man shall be as an hiding place, as water in a dry place, and as
a shadow of a great rock in a weary land (Isa. 32:2);
that though the people were spiritually blind and could not see, yet there is a
day coming
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when those who have eyes
shall clearly see, and those who have ears shall plainly hear; that the heart
of the rash shall then understand knowledge and the tongue of the stammerer be ready to speak plainly; that the vile person
shall then be recognized as vile, and the churl shall no more be called
bountiful; that the vile persons and hypocrites shall be known as those who
speak error against the Lord and who endeavor to cheat the spiritually hungry
and thirsty soul; that, on the other hand, the churl will be seen to be those
who devise wicked means by which to make the poor ever poorer (Isa. 32:7).
Isa. 32:9-14 -- "Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear My voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto My
speech. Many days and years shall ye be
troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall
not come. Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye
careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your
loins.
"They shall lament for the teats, for
the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
Upon the land of My people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon
all the houses of joy in the joyous city: because the palaces shall be
forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall
be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks."
The "women" here referred to are
doubtless "Aholah" and "Aholibah" (Ezek. 23), the figurative names of
Isa. 32:15 -- "Until the Spirit be poured upon us from
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on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and
the fruitful field be counted for a forest."
Here we are told that the people are to be
among the Gentiles, and the land remain desolate until
the Spirit be poured upon them from on high.
Then will they return.
We have now already seen the reason for the
dispersion and that the pouring of the Spirit marks the people's
deliverance. Yes, then no longer will their
land be in captivity, no longer will their houses be desolate. Even the wilderness shall become a fruitful
field, and the fruitful field shall be counted for a forest -- there shall be
then an abundant harvest of souls.
Isa. 32:16-20 -- "Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness,
and righteousness remain in the fruitful field. And the work of righteousness shall be peace;
and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever. And My people shall
dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting
places; when it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be
low in a low place. Blessed are ye that
sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the
feet of the ox and the ass."
Now what have we learned
from these two chapters of Isaiah?
Actually we have had a summary of the subject which the previous
chapters treated. Now even more vividly
than before we see that ancient
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"through
the voice of the Lord shall the Assyrian be beaten down, which smote with a
rod." Isa. 30:31. Hence forth a King shall reign in
righteousness. Then the vile persons and
hypocrites shall be treated as such. In
that day shall there be a great and glorious harvest of souls. Now that we have plainly seen the time, the
need, and the deliverance, let us Brother, Sister, bring that day closer by
parting with all our idols, and turning our hearts fully and unreservedly unto
our God.
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