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Here, the Lord seems to say, that, just as men sometimes cause the name of someone
dear to them, to be tattooed upon their skin, so He had the walls of Zion continually
before His mind and in His memory.
The sweetness and blessedness of this fact is not limited to Zion or to Israel, it is a
truth that illumines every phase of redeeming love, and every calling of Divine grace.
Let us now examine the letters D and D in the structure previously given:
"Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will lift up Mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up
My standard to the people . . . . . they shall bow down to thee . . . . . and lick up the dust
of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord: for they shall not be ashamed that
wait for Me" (49: 22, 23).
"I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken
with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the Lord am thy
Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob" (49: 26).
The reader will notice the setting of this `knowledge' of the Lord. Israel shall know,
all flesh shall know, but Israel shall know as those who are redeemed. In a period of
awful judgment, all flesh shall know that the Lord is Israel's Redeemer.
The words "They shall know that I am the Lord" are used in the great Redemption
Book, the book of Exodus. If we will but let these passages speak to us, we shall be able
the better to understand the import of the two passages that are quoted above in Isa. 49:
The passages as they occur in Exodus are as follows:
A | "I will take you to Me for a people, and I will be to you a God:
and ye shall know that I am the Lord your God,
which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians" (6: 7).
B | Plagues. | "The Egyptians shall know . . . when I stretch forth Mine hand
upon Egypt" (7: 5).
"In this thou shalt know . . . I will smite" (7: 17).
C | Lord of all. | a | "None like unto the Lord" (8: 10).
b | "In midst of the earth" (8: 22).
a | "None like Me" (9: 14).
b | "The earth is the Lord's" (9: 29).
C | Signs among them. |
a | "Signs done among them" (10: 2).
a | "Difference between Egyptians and Israel" (11: 7).
b | "Honour upon Pharaoh" (14: 4).
b | "Honour upon Pharaoh" (14: 18).
B | Manna. | "Ye shall know that the Lord hath brought you out
from the land of Egypt" (16: 6).
"Ye shall know that I am the Lord your God" (16: 12).
A | "I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God.
And they shall know that I am the Lord your God,
that brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell among them:
I am the Lord their God" (29: 45, 46).