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THE FULFILMENT OF ISAIAH 48:1-21 (NEB).

(According to the vision from God on 4th Jan 1990 concerning the "neck stiff as iron").

Isaiah describes those claiming to be of the spiritual house of "Israel" but who in their stubborn rebellion have necks "stiff as iron". (48:4 NEB). They have neither heard nor known the "new things" of God, because Jehovah knew these stubborn ones to be "untrustworthy, treacherous, a notorious rebel from your birth." (48:8 NEB). This prophecy also describes those who have been worshipping these stubbornly rebellious ones and fashioning them into false gods* through their* apostate teachings. (48:5 NEB). Only when worshippers "Come out of Babylon" and "admit the truth" of what they had been doing, will they be shown "new things" of God that were once "hidden" from them. (48:6 & 20 NEB. Rev 18:4).

The idols they have been fashioning for themselves are the unsealed 'elders' of the composite "man of lawlessness" standing up in rebellious authority in a holy place in the spiritual "land" of "Israel". (Matt 24:15. 2 Thess 2:1-12). One of these false gods seen in the vision, J.S. of Cwmbran UK, typifies thousands of apostates with necks "stiff as iron" who have been fashioned as idols by their congregation members. This was especially so when these false gods removed the "constant feature" (Holy Spirit) by their expulsion of faithful anointed sons of God. (Dan 11:30-32. 2 Thess 2:4).

THE "NEW THINGS". (Isaiah 48:6 NEB).
In readiness for those escaping from "Babylon", these "new things" were recorded in the "Little Scroll" during a period when anointed sons of God (human visionary channels of Spirit communications from God) were being purified in the "furnace of affliction". (48:10 NEB). But to those who usurped the spiritual authority of anointed ones in the spiritual "land" of God, the contents of the "Little Scroll" are closed, because they have stubbornly rebellious natures as "stiff as iron". (Rev 10:8-11).

Jehovah says that, "For the sake of My own Name I was patient, rather than destroy you I held Myself in check... For My own honour I defer My anger, I gain praise for My pity, sparing you". (48:9 NEB & Moffatt). To those who "Come out of Babylon" the opportunity to learn these "new things" is open. (48:20 NEB). But the "Little Scroll" is also bitter, in that it is a record of their shameful acts. (Rev 10:10,11). With reference to these "new things", those learning of them cannot possibly say, "I know them already", because until now they have been "hidden things which you did not know before". (48:6 & 7 NEB). Therefore, they cannot credit the knowledge of these "new things" to dungy idols of the "man of lawlessness" or the 'governing body' of JWs. The "Little Scroll" exposes and denounces human dungy idols of the sect falsely calling themselves Jehovah's Witnesses as those "who swear by the Name of the Lord and boast in the God of Israel, but not in honesty or sincerity". (48:1 & 5 NEB).

The message from Jehovah is that before this new knowledge is issued to those who "Come out of Babylon", they must first "admit the truth" of having fashioned false gods* for themselves when they subjected themselves to their* apostate teachings. Jehovah will then give to those coming out of "Babylon" true spiritual seeing to understand His "new things" that by their obedience they may inherit spirit immortality in the heavenly paradise of God. This is the intended purpose of God for all those He creates in spirit. This reality is quite different to the shameful apostate teachings fashioned by the "final rebellion against God", the composite "man of lawlessness". (2 Thess 2:3,4 NEB & NWT).

4/1/90.