​This week in our review of Isaiah Decoded we’ll continue with our look at Chapter 1 – The Ladder to Heaven. Another concept that we see in Isaiah’s Gospel is a pattern of descending before ascending, which Dr. Gileadi sees in his seven-part structure.  The type of descending here is not going into wickedness but is a temporary condition of suffering as God tests our loyalty to Him under distress. In the New Testament and the Book of Mormon, this concept is called the Baptism of Fire.

This week in our review of Isaiah Decoded we’ll continue with looking at Chapter 1 – The Ladder to Heaven.  Dr. Gileadi introduces how the discovery of a seven-part structure of opposite themes in Isaiah forms the basis for recognizing the concepts of ascension or descension to or away from God.  Additionally, we’ll see him identify various kinds of people in Isaiah that provide examples of what people did to merit a particular category. Finally, we’ll expand on Dr. Gileadi’s analysis as we survey the whole of scripture to uncover additional spiritual categories of people; and, then apply these concepts to our Three Keys of the Gospels.

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​This week in our review of Isaiah Decoded we’ll begin looking at Chapter 1 – The Ladder to Heaven. Dr. Gileadi gives us an overview of Isaiah’s Gospel through the convention of a ladder to heaven or a sequential process that takes us into God’s presence. The first topic that we see in chapter one is his discussion with a teaching on a higher and lesser law suggesting that a lesser law leads us to a higher law but is that really the message of the Bible. When we step away from the religious tradition we know and look the Bible as one cohesive narrative, what is the message that we should see? When our mother Eve partook of the fruit of knowledge to be like God, isn’t that really our context!

​This week in our review of Isaiah Decoded we’ll wrap up the topic of religious truth that we see in the Introduction.  Previously in our last post, we saw that the Law was and is the foundation of the Gospel. This week we’ll examine the cycle of apostasy and restoration when religious truth was corrupted and then restored.  We’ll also look at messianic servants who restore religious truth, who bring salvation to humanity. Then we’ll take what we have learned and put it into an Endtime context.

​This week in our review of Isaiah Decoded we’ll continue with the topic of religious truth that we see in the Introduction. Dr. Gileadi really spends the rest of the Introduction on the topic of expanding our knowledge of God by looking “outside of centuries-old traditions” and “obtaining new insights about God”. When we step back from what we have traditionally accepted as true and survey the whole of God’s Word, what we see is a huge doctrinal puzzle. As believers it’s not our job to make up new doctrines, our job is to assemble what we already have, which is a sizeable task.

​This week in our review of Isaiah Decoded we’ll continue with our topic of religious truth that we see in the Introduction.  The next points that Dr. Gileadi presents in the Introduction are persecution and responding to truth.  Both of these points can be evaluated under the broader context of man’s natures. Though as human beings we all have great similarities, but what defines each person is our own motives, desires and attitudes that is based on how and what we think and feel, and then act. 

​This week in our review of Isaiah Decoded we’ll look at the Introduction, which focuses on religious truth. Religious truth is at the heart of having a relationship with God, because if we don’t understand the truth of having a relationship with God, Yeshua has declared, “Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me,” - Matt 7:22,23. So let’s unpack the topic of religious truth.

​This week in our review of Isaiah Decoded we’ll set out a study sequence, which we plan to accomplish in a year.  So this will give us plenty of time to add depth and breadth to Dr. Gileadi's analysis of Isaiah’s Gospel. Central to our study of Isaiah is to include a system of law. Though Dr. Gileadi has set out a lot of marvelous philosophy about the types of relationships one can have with God, there is a dearth of law that makes achieving these relationships a reality. 

This week in our review of Isaiah Decoded we’ll consider the main aspect of why understanding Isaiah is important and introduce a foundation to Isaiah’s Gospel. First and foremost, many of us need to become righteous enough to obtain favor with God so that we can receive His protection when the calamities of the Endtimes come upon us.  In other words, we need to become the saviors of men. Ultimately, what determines having favor with God is the type of relationship that we have with Him, and that special relationship with God requires a series of ascensions – going from glory to glory - 2 Cor. 3:18.  As we will see, Isaiah’s Gospel sets out the various kinds of relationships that one can have with God depending on the types of laws one lives. This blog will expand on Dr. Gileadi’s analysis of a Hebrew Gospel in his book Isaiah Decoded to include a system of law that facilitates a realization of these relationships. 

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