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"Be strong": |
In your faith be strong and do
not fear as God comes with vengeance to save His people. Throw off your
anxieties and gain spirit strength through your knowledge of His coming
"Way of Holiness". |
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"At that time": |
When God comes with vengeance
and retribution to save His people. |
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"Eyes of the blind
ones will be opened": |
Spiritually "blind ones"
will be given understanding from God to discern the meaning of the spiritual
language and the Will of God for mankind. |
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"Ears of the deaf ones
will be unstopped": |
Those who previously did not
listen to or obey the Word of God.
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"Lame one": |
Persons whose spiritual progress
has been hindered because they have not been wholesouled in their service to
Jehovah God and His Son Jesus Christ. |
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"Speechless one": |
Those who did not have knowledge
of God will learn and gladly give glory to Him for His mercy and deliverance. |
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"Wilderness" exults: |
God blesses His beloved people
who were sent into a "wilderness" condition and bore the reproach
of Godless ones for their allegiance to God. |
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"Waters": |
Spiritual understandings from
God. Life-giving Spirit "waters".
(Rev 22:17) |
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"Heat-parched": |
No spiritual growth possible. |
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"Abiding place of jackals": |
The "wilderness"
condition thought to be of low worth will be transformed by the Spirit of God
into places for "flocks" of God's beloved people to spiritually
"feed". There
will be no barren apostate teachings there. |
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"Highway": |
Godly teachings and disciplines
of God from "Zion" that give added lifespan on earth, and
everlasting spirit life to those obedient to them. |
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Foolish and unclean ones
"will not pass over it": |
Spiritually unclean and foolish
ones will not be permitted to wander aimlessly on the "Way of Holiness"
administered by servants of God. |
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"It will be for the one
walking on the way": |
Those already spiritually
obedient to the Word of God, and those who will become so when they "see" and
"hear" His Word and understand it. |
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No "lion" or "wild beasts"
"will prove to be there": |
No predatory or rebellious
people will be on the "Way of Holiness".
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"Repurchased ones"
"redeemed by Jehovah": |
Beloved people of God ostracized
into a spiritual "wilderness" condition will return and be
recompensed by God.
(Rev 12:14). |
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"Grief and sighing
must flee away": |
Causes of grief will flee away
as gladness and joy escort beloved people of God to everlasting spirit life, and
where death is reduced to nothing. |
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Important to note: |
Only repurchased ones returning to God will be
walking on the "Way of Holiness". |