This verse repeats the past as if God told His children that He will rewind the DVD. Then we see the repeated stories of Israel departing the Egypt in deliverance, reclaiming the land of Canaan, and continuing in prosperity when God appointed the judges after Joshua to keep them in order. No, our God, who is full of surprises, just installed a Platnium Edition Isaiah 1:26 DVD into our DVD player. Who would ever force their kids to watch the same dull movies? Disney created the Platnium Editions to give us a thorough restoration and remastering, moreover Disney expects to release all its Diamond Editions by 2016! God wouldn't want us to watch the same old 500 B.C. Isaiah 1:26 DVD edition again, so He expects Diamond Edition Isaiah 1:26 to be released sometime soon!
God will restore us to our judges when the Messiah came. In Matthew 19:28, Jesus said to them, "Truly, I say to you, in the new world, when the Son of Man will sit on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel." Jesus will be our Judge and we will be the judges and counselors beside him through the Holy Spirit as a co-heir with Jesus. It's awesome!
"It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it, and many peoples shall come, and say: 'Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.' For out of Zion shall go the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide disputes for many peoples... neither shall they learn war anymore."
In blue and gold, the Gallaudet seal fingerspells "E-P-H-P-H-A-T-H-A" around the book, which says Mark 7:34 in the Hebrew writing.
I love the Diamond Edition of Isaiah 1:26! I can see how the tangible stories just turned into the intangible stories. I wonder what the Diamond Edition of Mark 7:33-37, which is also known as Ephphatha would look like. When Jesus healed a deaf man he was "looking up to heaven, he sighed and said to him, 'Ephphatha,' that is ,'be opened.' And his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he spoke plainly." Is that it? No there's more! Jesus "charged them to tell no one. But the more he charged them, the more zealously they proclaimed it. And they were astonished beyond measure." When Jesus is telling them to be quiet it triggers them to say more! Why did it trigger them to say more? I believe that Jesus didn't just physically heal the man, but he also released the dunamis inside them. Once the dunamis was released, they couldn't stop! They reached to their fullness of heavenly-self that they couldn't not praise their true God like the children of God!
In the Diamond Edition, Mark 7:33-37 will turn into thousands of spiritual Ephphatha! Jesus told us that we will accomplish even greater works than he. Can you imagine the latter days when the Lord shall release the dunamis in all of us!
Lord, may You turn this Gallaudet seal into LIVE among us and may great things that haven't come out of Gallaudet yet shall come.
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