Isaiah 6:8-13 ESV
And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here I am! Send me.” And he said, “Go, and say to this people: “‘Keep on hearing, but do not understand;keep on seeing, but do not perceive.’ Make the heart of this people dull,and their ears heavy,and blind their eyes;lest they see with their eyes,and hear with their ears,and understand with their hearts,and turn and be healed.” Then I said, “How long, O Lord?”And he said:“Until cities lie waste without inhabitant,and houses without people,and the land is a desolate waste, and the Lord removes people far away,and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land. And though a tenth remain in it,it will be burned again,like a terebinth or an oak,whose stump remains when it is felled.”The holy seed is its stump.
The people have become like their idols rather than God. They reap the consequences. They become like the things they worshiped.
The holy seed is the seed of promise, that is Christ. Israel is cut off, though the stump remains. From a branch of that stump the Gentiles find a place for grafting into the tree of life. It is through Christ we are joined to that tree.
The natural branches will return, to the glory of The Lord.
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