​This week we’ll pause our review of Isaiah Decoded and observe Passover. At first glance, we might just consider Passover as God’s freeing Israel from Egyptian bondage. But this story has deeper and more powerful implications. The first concept we should see is God restoring His relationship with His Chosen People, which is a type and shadow for Israel’s Endtime restoration. The second concept we should see as God restores His relationship with Israel are the covenants that underpin this relationship. Moreover, we’ll integrate Messianic elements in with our Passover observance as we prepare for the Endtime restoration of Israel and the Messiah’s Millennial reign. 

​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, 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 Gospel.

​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.