Thank you for this wonderful commentary and website. I love the resources that have been gathered here and elsewhere on your website. The words give me so much hope and peace that our Creator is with us and can make peace ( Isaiah 27:5.)
Look at verse 11 where the women (which is just a term to indicate those making bad choices) taking the withered and broken boughs or branches once destroyed and rekindling the flames of idolatrous practices. Small wonder the Father ends this verse with mercy being denied them.
27:10 is revealing but you have to look at verse 9 first. The stones of the altar beaten in sunder with the groves and images undone. This is symbolic of idolatrous practices hated by the Father which are destroyed by him. Now go to verse 10 where the calf or the offering on these idolatrous altars or within these groves is eating the branches or arms of these idolatrous practices. Very funny.
"When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour." There is a generation which the LORD has rejected, and will not have mercy when He comes: what began with a city and a tower, and crucified the Lord.
Verse 3 is a wonderful promise that is repeated in psalms 121:4. He (Jesus) that watcheth over Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps. Leviathan/ Satan (also mentioned in psalms
I think the leviathan represents a submarine that weaves its way through the oceans. It is long like a serpent. Its power is immense and it is in the sea, not on it, as stated in verse 1, and travels unseen. There are writings that say the leviathan is 300 miles long but that fits a submarine also because the missiles it fires travel easily that distance and more.
I think this chapter goes back to Esau and Jacob and explains why there is so much conflict over the land that should rightfully be Israel. There will be conflict until the Temple of Jerusalem is built and even Israel 's enemies will ultimately bough to worship God as supreme.
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