Daily Word: Is GOD Doing a New Thing in 2025? Isaiah 43:18-19

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“Do not remember former things,
nor consider things of the past.
Here I am, doing a new thing;
Now it is springing up—
do you not know about it?
I will surely make a way in the desert,
rivers in the wasteland.” Isaiah 43:18-19, TLV

 

Is GOD Doing a New Thing in 2025?   Are you ready for 2025? I would be surprised if you said, “yes”. Actually, I would be impressed. Here’s to hoping to sow some encouraging seeds for the upcoming New Year.

Today’s verses are pulled from a mixed bag of prophecy God gave to Isaiah. A love letter, a reprimand, a reminder of who God called Israel to be. The thing about prophecy is that it generally has immediate fulfillment, a future fulfillment, and has spiritual symbolism. These verses are especially relevant, especially the “Here I am, doing a new thing …”

For I do not want you, brothers and sisters, to be ignorant of this mystery—lest you be wise in your own eyes—that a partial hardening has come upon Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in … Romans 11:25, TLV

Upon Yeshua’s ascension and the Holy Spirit fell upon the His disciples (Acts 2), God did a new thing. He opened His adoption through Jesus’s atonement, to the Gentiles.

The Gentiles?

Who Are the Gentiles?

Simply, Gentiles are anyone who isn’t Jewish. From every nation in the world. The Bible prior to Yeshua’s arrival depicted a history of the Jewish people and the Gentiles. Most were not the most helpful folks to the tiny nation of Israel. Not all, but most.

They worshiped other “gods” and some even sacrificed their children. As a result, God had forbidden the Jewish people to yoke themselves with them. For thousands of years.

Now, they are invited to join the family? That’s the new thing?

Honestly, if I were living back then, I would have been confused, too.

What’s the Big Deal?

But for us today, this may not seem like such a big deal. After all there are over 2.5 billion Christians in the world. How many Messianic Jewish people—Jewish people who believe Yeshua was the promised Messiah?

I’m talking about those whose ancestors crossed the desert, walked on dry land when the sea parted, maybe even saw Yeshua heal the sick or walk on water? Statistics believe there could be as many as 1.7 million. That’s quite a minority compared to the Gentile Christian population.

It’s important to remember that our faith was not adapted from Judaism, it is true Biblical Judaism. The fulfillment of prophecy. The mystery of that new thing God was doing among the nations.

“I, ADONAI [the LORD], called You in righteousness, I will take hold of Your hand, I will keep You and give You as a covenant to the people, as a light to the nations … Isaiah 42:6, TLV

Thus says ADONAI-Tzva’ot [the LORD of Hosts], “In those days it will come to pass that ten men from every language of the nations will grasp the corner of the garment of a Jew saying, ‘Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’”  Zechariah 8:23, TLV

Is this saying for every Jewish believer in Yeshua, there will be ten people from the nations? That Christians will outnumber Jewish believers? Looks like it to me.

So, What was the New Thing?

The New Thing, the mystery, was prophesied throughout the “Old Testament.” But God’s timing wasn’t truly revealed until Yeshua prepared His disciples for His return to His Father, and the coming of the Holy Spirit. Although Yeshua did give a “sneak peek” into the fulfillment of the prophecies to the Samaritan women at the well and the town of Shechem (John 4:1-42).

Prior to that, fellowship or association with Gentiles was forbidden by God. This was not just tradition or a form of racism. He wanted the Jewish people to be a nation “set apart” from the world. But a new thing was coming.

Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, immersing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Ruach ha-Kodesh [Holy Spirit] … Matthew 28:19, TLV

But you will receive power when the Ruach ha-Kodesh has come upon you; and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, and through all Judah, and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” Acts 1:8, TLV

Jesus “flipped the switch” for the fulfillment of these ancient prophesies. He was saying, “Now is the time for this new thing.”

Still, some couldn’t accept the “new thing.” As a result, they caused problems outside and inside the family of new believers.

So, What? What Does that Mean to Me?

What this could mean for us is that if we’ve been living with the status quo for some time, it is time for change. Things have altered these last few years in the way we live. COVID. Political decisions going against Biblical principles. Families struggling with abuse and poverty.

We may think this was outside what God would know would happen. It’s not.

That means, my friend, we must be watchful. In 2025, God may be preparing to do a new thing in our life, our community, the world. Where we’ve only seen a wasteland of opportunities, He has already begun to redirect His Living Waters to prepare the soil for seeding—for a coming harvest.

Are we ready to move when He says, “Now!”?

Think More About It

Do you have a “sense” that God wants you to perhaps make an alteration to your life? What might that be?

Until tomorrow, may we be ready to move in 2025.

 

Praying for Israel

“What great nation is there that has statutes and ordinances that are righteous—like all of this Torah [Law] that I am setting before you today?

“Only be watchful and watch over your soul closely, so you do not forget the things your eyes have seen, and they slip from your heart all the days of your life. You are to make them known to your children and your children’s children.” Deuteronomy 4:8-9, TLV

Being watchful also means gaging our walk with the foundational precepts found in the Bible. Statutes and ordinances from thousands of years ago that are still relevant for us. As we prepare for 2025, let’s remember that our Messiah gave us Master courses in how to live these out (Matthew 6-8). Shall we agree in prayer that as we pray in preparation, we pray in gratitude to the Jewish people for being keepers of the Word for thousands of years? To speak blessings over them? Yes? Happy New Year and God bless!

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