Isaiah

A Feast for the Mind

Marlene Hales Holley

• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Year: 2021
• ISBN:
  9781639615643
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christian Education

Most importantly, you need to know that Satan has deceived us and blinded us. When you study scriptures, ask who is talking and to whom are they talking to. Know that there are seven dispensations of time. What is law in one may not be law in another. Do not be afraid of Isaiah! "Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross" (Col. 2: 15).

When Jesus died on the cross, he set the gospel of the Jews aside until his Second Coming. When Jesus appeared to Saul on the road to Damascus, he changed his name to Paul and sent him to the Gentiles with the gospel of grace. We follow the apostle Paul because he is following the Lord Jesus Christ. The Apostle Paul is for us in this dispensation of grace. We must study Paul's epistles diligently. The gospel of Jesus Christ is his death, burial, and resurrection. God wants us to find his truth. I pray for all humanity to know God.

Isaiah

A Feast for the Mind

Marlene Hales Holley

Copyright © 2021 by Marlene Hales Holley

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Table of Contents

New Chapter on Symbolism

I dedicate my book to Diane, Marilyn, Kathy, Bradford, Jennie, Russell, and Susan

Finding Truth

There are many religions today. They all try to make us better people and to help us find God. There are a lot of good people on the earth today trying to find the truth. There are also a lot of people who do not care about God’s truth in the Bible. I don’t want to offend anyone.

This book is about my new understanding of the Scriptures. It will seem strange at first but will become easier later on. If you have an open mind, it is going to awaken you from a deep sleep that you have not even realized you were in. You will not be walking in darkness at noonday anymore. I did not know I was in the dark, until I woke up. Did we ever realize or were we taught that we have been under a curse from Satan? I will talk about this in Job later. The one way to come out from under the curse is by studying Isaiah long enough to get his eyes and ears. There may be other ways also. I took many classes on Isaiah at the BYU Education Week, but nothing clicked until I found Avraham Gileadi’s Isaiah class. I am using Isaiah to unlock other scriptures in the Bible. I do not intend to teach Isaiah. I am not qualified to teach the most complicated and wonderful book in the Bible. What I want to teach you is that Isaiah’s eyes and ears will help you unlock truths that Satan has tried to deceive you about. This takes hard work, desire to know all truth, faith in Jesus Christ. I will be going from one scripture to another one you would not easily be able to find. This is how Les Feldick taught me. The Bible answers all questions. It takes a lot of work and teachers to show us how to conquer the Bible.

The most important thing I can teach you is to understand that the Bible is divided into seven dispensations of time in which God used dispensations to separate Jews and Gentiles, laws and grace. We need to know what happens in each dispensation. You need to ask who is talking and to whom are they talking to. A good example which is used a lot is James 2:26, For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. James was talking to the Jews only and in their dispensation. James’s dispensation of law ended at the cross or shortly after. We need to learn all scriptures, but we need to know what dispensation we are in. There are seven dispensations of Bible time. We are not under law. Although we are now living in the sixth dispensation of grace, we do not discard the former five dispensations. We need to know what they are and to respect them, but we are not living under them at this time. So James 2:26 does not apply to us today.

Here is another scripture I have just become aware of. It was retold to me by a friend that put too much pressure on herself to be perfect that it made her very ill. “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect” (Matt. 5:48). The church has to be responsible for putting this on our plate. We have been taught that Jesus was the only perfect one. So again, these last two scriptures I mentioned are in the last dispensation of law. They are not for us. All the Scriptures are for our learning but not all of them are for us to live under. I will repeat subjects more than once just to show how important they are. Just because I am writing this book about truths I have found does not mean I am judging you.

Les Feldick also taught me about two timelines. One is how the Old Testament and the four gospels looked at the future. They knew that Jesus was the Son of God.

The second timeline, we see today in the church age. They are the same up until the ascension of Christ. The first one thinks it will be a short time before the seven-year tribulation, and then the Second Coming. The second chart shows that after the ascension, there will be two thousand years of church age. This is where Paul is given the gospel of grace. It will last until the fullness of the Gentiles.

We need to rightly divide the scriptures and the two gospels. “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman needed not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth” (2 Tim. 2:15). We have moved on to the next dispensation of grace by the power of the Lord Jesus Christ. This is a big deception that Satan uses. He tries to keep us in both dispensations at the same time. I will talk about this later; it is called the blender. The seven dispensations are:

• Innocence (Gen. 1:28–3:6, creation to fall of man)
• Conscience (Gen. 3:7, 4:1–8:14, fall of man to flood, 4000–2400 BC)
• Human government (Gen. 8:15–11:32, flood to Tower of Babel, 2400–2000 BC)
• Promise (Gen. 12:1–Exod. 18:27, Abraham to Mount Sinai, 2000–1400 BC)
• Law (Exod. 20–Acts 1)
• Spirit (Grace, Pentecost to Christ’s Second Coming, all of Paul’s Epistles)
• Kingdom (1,000–year reign, Satan’s final deception)

Now I know Isaiah is very important in the last dispensation. We need his knowledge and prophecy of the last days. God has used his Prophet Isaiah to bring us to this new understanding of his word. Isaiah is full of codes, symbolism, parables, etc. They are so complicated that only a God could put his sealed message, to be opened at a later time, into his Scriptures. In the 1600s, when men were trying to change some of the Bible by throwing some books out, they could not understand Isaiah (God’s plan), and so they did not throw it out. If Isaiah had told his story plainly, exposing the wicked and Satan, his book would have been destroyed. Because it is written in code, the wicked did not have enough knowledge to throw it out. In other words, because they were wicked, their eyes were closed to the symbolism and higher meanings of the message. Thank goodness! Isaiah was warning the children of Israel that they were not worshipping God. They were all going astray. Satan had power over all of us to blind us and deceive us. This was God’s plan to protect Isaiah for us. Isaiah has the keys to open all the Scriptures to a higher level. When that time comes that God wants us to see and understand his sealed Scriptures, they become easier. Isaiah is quoted fifty-seven times in the New Testament.

I want to show you, or rather share with you, how this book came to be. I found out that there is more than one level of meanings to the Scriptures. The higher level tells us of our present day, that Satan has deceived us and many, if not all, of the churches. In the book of Job, chapter 1, verses 7–8, and the Lord said unto Satan, “Whence comest thou?” Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, “From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.” And the Lord said unto Satan, “Hast thou considered my servant Job?” God has given Satan the power to blind and to deceive us. This will last until the Second Coming. We do not have to wait that long. We can study Isaiah. This is God’s plan. “For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits: that blindness in part has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles comes to an end” (Rom. 11:25). Paul gives us another warning in 2 Corinthians 4:3–4, “But if our gospel be hid (veiled) it is hid to them that are lost: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.” So the Gentiles were also blinded, and we know that Satan is at this time, and probably from the beginning, the god of this world. One difference is that the Lord Jesus Christ is over the Gentiles (through the Apostle Paul), and the Jews have been without the Lord Jesus Christ for over two thousand years, but they are not aware of it. At this point, there will only be the seven-year tribulation left before the Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. This puts us in the dark and in apostasy because of our own ignorance (which means we have not yet been taught) to understand Isaiah and other scriptures. Isaiah’s prophecy to the Jews at Jerusalem was you are walking in darkness at noonday. This means we have higher knowledge but cannot see it. The Jews did not believe Jesus was the Son of God. The same is for our day. “Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show My people their transgressions” (Isa. 58:1). Notice God says “My people.” There are many times in the Bible that they say “these people.” They are not believing in God. If you study what is going on, when God says this, you can know who God’s people are. I remember in the Mormon temple God using “My people” and “these people.” That was before I had my eyes open.

Isaiah plays a very important role in waking us up. He gives us the eyes and ears spoken of in the Scriptures to wake up. We have a great responsibility to find this, and we need help from others. It is not going to be taught to us by a church. I had the opportunity to ask a member of the twelve apostles, “How come the church doesn’t teach Isaiah?” His reply was “I do not know 80 percent of Isaiah myself.” At least he was honest. If this one apostle does not know Isaiah, chances are the eleven other apostles do not know Isaiah either. This is almost a repeat of history.

Then he took unto him the twelve, and said unto them. Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of man shall be accomplished. For he shall be delivered unto the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and spitefully entreated, and spitted on: And they shall scourge him, and put him to death: and the third day he shall ri...