During Care group meeting on Fri, I suddenly had this word flash across my mind. It just came out of nowhere. The word was abundance. Nobody mentioned it during the meeting and soon I forgot about it. It was only when I saw a Facebook post that said today is 10/10/20, the day of abundance that I realised God was trying to point me to John 10:10. Jesus has come to give us life more abundantly! Praise God for the abundance!
I googled the meaning of abundance. It says a very large quantity of something. The state or condition of having a copious quantity of something. Plentifulness of the good things of life, prosperity. The Hebrew word is marbeh. Strong’s concordance 4766. It comes from a root word rabah which means to become much, many or great. To be increasing. Isaiah 33:23 was mentioned in the Hebrew word abundance so I checked out the commentary.
Continuing the allegory in Isaiah 33:21, he compares the enemies' host to a war galley which is deprived of the tackling or cords by which the mast is sustained and the sail is spread; and which therefore is sure to be wrecked on "the broad river" (Isaiah 33:21), and become the prey of Israel. The tackling, "hold not firm the base of the mast."
This is when the Assyrian host shall have been discomfited. Hezekiah had given Sennacherib three hundred talents of silver, and thirty of gold (2 Kings 18:14-16), and had stripped the temple of its gold to give it to him; this treasure was probably part of the prey found in the foe's camp. After the invasion, Hezekiah had so much wealth that he made an improper display of it (2 Kings 20:13-15); this wealth, probably, was in part got from the Assyrian.
The metaphor is taken and carried on from Isaiah 33:21, where mention is made of a galley with oars, and a gallant ship. Tyrannical governments are thought by some to be compared to ships; a king to the mast; princes to ropes, cords, and tackling; and their army in battle array to sails spread; but here all is in confusion, distress, and unavoidable ruin.
So this may very well be applied to the anti Christian states, when the vials of God's wrath shall be poured out upon them; especially when the second vial shall be poured out upon the sea, and all shipping will suffer, as under the second trumpet the third part of ships were destroyed, there being a correspondence between the trumpets and the seals, Revelation 8:8.
Isaiah 33:21 was given to me by a prophetic sister in Nov 2011. ‘But there the majestic Lord will be for us. A place of broad rivers and streams, in which no galley with oars will sail, nor majestic ships pass by.’ Today I saw the continuation of this word in Isaiah 33:23 in the context of our enemies. ’Your tackle is loosed, they could not strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail. Then the prey of great plunder is divided; the lame take the prey.’
I think the Lord is trying to tell me that He is bringing us to a broad place, a place of abundance and fulfilment in the new era. Where the enemy cannot prevail against us because the Lord is for us. God has turned the enemy’s camp into confusion so we can take down the enemy and collect the spoils. The spoils were so great that it reminded me of the spoils which took 3 days to collect during King Jehoshaphat’s time.
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