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The question of, “Who are the Jews?” is not easy to answer. They are not all of one ethnic group. Some of them are descended from Israelites. Others are descended from Persians, Idumeans, Khazars, and the many ethnicities in the Roman Empire.

I find these verses very fitting for what we are going through today. We need comfort while waiting for our Lord. A note in my Bible says, “This section of Isaiah’s prophecy (40:1—48:22) is often called the Book of Consolation.

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The Bible indeed warned us in an end-of-age prophecy that a time of tribulation would come: “Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.

These dark days will not last forever as a new dawn is approaching. In reality the nights do not really get darker before the dawn as dark is dark until the sun begins to rise, and we see the dawn. The Lord hears our cries, and He will soon intervene on our behalf.

President Trump has made it known publicly that he never asked God for forgiveness because he could handle things himself and that when taking communion at church, he guessed that was a form of forgiveness and that he does that often as possible so he can feel cleansed.

In our text, the people of God lamented their pitiful state. They were a conquered people and had lost their homeland to foreigners and found themselves in a strange land. Gone were the good old days, and they saw little prospect of them ever returning — and they were very sad.

Hard work produced much fruit for the worker for the worker honored the Lord with his wealth and with his first fruits of all his crops so his barns would be filled to overflowing and vats would brim over with new wine. This was God’s promise to the hard worker if he would follow God’s laws and work by the sweat of the brow.

I can’t help but believe that this is what is happening now. It seems especially since this COVID crisis that we have completely changed our behaviour. As a society we are now believing and doing things that we never would have put up with, even a year ago.

We are about to enter the year 2021. Is it an important year? After what we went through in 2020, the pandemic, the lockdown, the violence in the great cities of Israel lands and the loss of freedom amongst our people, you would have to believe more frightening events are about to unfold.

The Eagle reminds us that our blessed Redeemer, after He hath redeemed us, bears us up on eagle’s wings. We can do absolutely nothing without Him. The object of His affection is pitiful and helpless.

Knowing this, and because of His great love for us, He carries us. I am so glad.