Spiritual "Zion" and "Jerusalem" symbolize the righteous lives of people of God. They are not literal places, but are those servants of God who have achieved the obedient spirit condition required by God before the commencement of His Rule.  (52:7-9 NEB).

Anointed members of spiritual "Zion" and "Jerusalem" suffer torment and affliction as a result of the detailed Spirit knowledge being channeled through them of the anger of God against mankind's spirit rebellion against the Spirit and Will of Almighty God during the time of the end of the present system of things.  (51:17 NEB).

We are the servants who "were sold but no price was paid" when we were ostracized and cast out of Christ's congregations by evil usurpers who thought they could "trample" on anointed sons of God with impunity. (52:3 NEB.  Rev 11:2). But while we are ransomed by the Lord, all who tormented us shall themselves suffer torment.  (52:9.  2 Esdras 9:7-12 NEB).

Faithful anointed servants have "drunk from the Lord's hand the cup of His wrath, drained to its dregs the bowl of drunkenness". (51:17 NEB). This "drunkenness" is the effect within our spirits after having received knowledge of the seven "bowls" of the wrath of God that cause us to reel from His righteous indignation. (Rev 16:1-21). Soon the prophesied reversal of torments will take place.  (51:22,23 NEB).

The cause of the "affliction" of servants of God recorded in The Opened "Little Scroll" will be prophesied again to all nations.  (51:21 NEB.  Rev 10:8-11).

As we recover from the symbolic "cup of drunkenness" that affected our lives, we rejoice in His promise:  The wrath of God shall leave us and be transferred to our "tormentors and oppressors".  (51:22,23 NEB). We will be completely freed from the "affliction" it brought when we received knowledge of the wrath of  God;  details of which were sent to some of those who had spiritually "trampled" us.  (Rev 11:1-3 & 16:1-21).

When cowardly tormentors with satanic authority hear of the denunciations of God against them through The Christ Michael and his anointed brothers, they will "curl their lips in disgust. For they see what they had never been told and things unheard before fill their thoughts." (52:15 NEB).  To anointed members of "Zion" God has said: "For never shall the uncircumcised and the unclean enter you  again."  (52:1 NEB. See Phil 3:2,3).  For "he is a (spiritual) Jew who is one on the inside, and his circumcision is that of the heart by Spirit". (See Rom 2:28,29). People who have not had the superfluous badness of their heart removed are "uncircumcised".  (James 1:21).

What a steward said to our Lord explains the Way of The Christ during the last days of satan's rule: "Everyone serves the best wine first, and waits until the guests have drunk freely before serving the poorer sort;  but you have kept the best wine till now".  These things we have made known.  (John 2:10 NEB).

13/11/97.
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