Erasmus
New Member
Dear Friends,
My understanding of Isaiah 4 runs pretty much with Weltan’s remarks. I believe that the Old Testament scriptures were always to be taken literally unless there were strong and obvious reasons not to. It is also my view that the church age, had God has His way, would have never taken place and Israel would have entered into the millennium at Christ’s first coming. Hence, any spiritual meanings applied to this church age are of a secondary nature and almost never the main thrust of the Old Testament.
For example, when God says that the Messiah would be born of a virgin he meant exactly and literally that.
Having said that, I am wondering why this scripture would even be relevant to our day and age except for making the point that in the future circumstances will be such that this phenomenon will take place.
On a side note: I once knew a guy that told his 3 wives that they should be happen to support themselves and be happy he was doing his marital duty. I think that this unwise man was wresting the scriptures to his own destruction...smile.
(Note, I am not talking about types and shadows for those are obviously in the scriptures)
Blessings,
Erasums
My understanding of Isaiah 4 runs pretty much with Weltan’s remarks. I believe that the Old Testament scriptures were always to be taken literally unless there were strong and obvious reasons not to. It is also my view that the church age, had God has His way, would have never taken place and Israel would have entered into the millennium at Christ’s first coming. Hence, any spiritual meanings applied to this church age are of a secondary nature and almost never the main thrust of the Old Testament.
For example, when God says that the Messiah would be born of a virgin he meant exactly and literally that.
Having said that, I am wondering why this scripture would even be relevant to our day and age except for making the point that in the future circumstances will be such that this phenomenon will take place.
On a side note: I once knew a guy that told his 3 wives that they should be happen to support themselves and be happy he was doing his marital duty. I think that this unwise man was wresting the scriptures to his own destruction...smile.
(Note, I am not talking about types and shadows for those are obviously in the scriptures)
Blessings,
Erasums