Isaiah 27 used against every collective picture of the end. We are called and redeemed one by one, so redemption is not something that takes place as the world has been taught to believe, suddenly, where billions of us are brought to the end together: the play is on and we are playing it, and we go through the obstacle race. The reason he gives at 1483 is the strongest form of it - you are too wonderful, you are unique and you cannot be duplicated, so you cannot be called in pairs. At 1351 it is the eschatological trumpet of the same chapter, gathering the dispersed out of Assyria and Egypt; at 1979 it is what happens when the plan unfolds within you; at 1981 it is the answer to anyone who hears 'one being' and imagines a single person - it is one being made up of all. He pairs it with Isaiah 48, where the calling is by name: you are not known as humanity, you are known singly, individually. About five lectures, and it is the verse that keeps his universalism (M-no-one-can-be-lost) from becoming a crowd.
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Isaiah 27:12 | We are called and redeemed one by one
Isaiah 48 | I call you by name
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The door is narrow and only one can get through
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LectureThe Supreme Ideal
Then he brings one out, one by one; for we’re not brought in pairs, we aren’t brought in groups, we’re too precious.
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LectureOn the Book of Revelation
You are loved by God. You are not known as humanity, you are known singly, individually. “I call you by name” as told us in the 48th chapter of Isaiah, just where the name and all of these are brought together.
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LectureOn the Book of Revelation
So redemption is not something that takes place as the world has been taught to believe, suddenly, where billions of us are suddenly brought to the end.
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He doesn’t draw me in a pair. I’m unique in the temple. I cannot be replaced in the temple. You cannot be replaced in the temple.
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