A Commentary on Isaiah, Part 37: The Comfort in Judgement

Isaiah 40:1-31

A Commentary on Isaiah, Part 37: The Comfort in Judgement

As we had explained in our last presentation of Isaiah, which was titled Pride and Humility in reference to the character and experiences of king Hezekiah of Judah, this 40th chapter of Isaiah concludes the mainly historical portion of his prophesy, which is the portion that coincides with events that had occurred during Isaiah’s own lifetime. But only because at this time, Jerusalem still stands, and its inhabitants are destined to continue for another hundred and fifteen or so years, and therefore the prophecy of this chapter has an immediate or near-vision fulfillment as well as an over-arching far-vision fulfillment, would I even count the message of comfort in this chapter with that historical aspect of Isaiah which we have seen thus far. 

In that manner, this chapter also serves as a bridge to the prophetic portion of Isaiah which we shall encounter in the final twenty-six chapters of the book. While there are many far-vision prophecies interspersed among the historic events of these first forty chapters of Isaiah, the last twenty-six chapters are entirely prophetic of from Isaiah’s future, addressing Israel and Judah in captivity as well as containing many promises of their preservation, and their future redemption and reconciliation to Yahweh their God. So while there are also references to things which had already occurred, there are no further descriptions of any other historical events subsequent to what we have already seen here at this point in Isaiah. There are no further mentions of Isaiah himself, or of Hezekiah, or any other historical figure of Judah who had lived in that time, which is now about 700 BC. So if Azariah, or Uzziah, the first king under whom Isaiah had prophesied, had lived until 743 BC, since Isaiah began prophesying while Uzziah was still king, as he attested in the opening verses of this book, then the prophet has already been prophesying for at least 43 years at this point, and he could easily be as old as seventy-five or eighty years.

A Commentary on Isaiah, Part 36: Pride and Humility

Isaiah 38:1 - Isaiah 39:8

A Commentary on Isaiah, Part 36: Pride and Humility

As we proceed with our commentary on Isaiah, it is fitting to note that at this point there are only three chapters left to what we would consider the historical portion of Isaiah, which is that portion which pertains to the events of the prophet’s own time. From Isaiah chapter 41 and through to the end of Isaiah in chapter 66, the entire purpose of the prophet is to relate the will of God concerning the children of Israel in captivity, and their future preservation, along with their redemption and ultimate salvation in the coming of their Messiah, who is indeed revealed as the incarnation of Yahweh God Himself in the words of the prophet. But for now, the first two of these last three chapters describe events in the life of Hezekiah had apparently occurred both during and after the failed siege, and then chapter 40 contains a message of comfort for the remaining inhabitants of Judah in Jerusalem. 

In our last commentary on Isaiah, where we had left off at the end of chapter 37, Yahweh had defended Jerusalem As Birds Flying, as He had promised in a prophecy found in Isaiah chapter 31, a promise which had been uttered no more than a few years earlier than the failed Assyrian siege. Now we are at Isaiah chapter 38, and Hezekiah is described as having been deathly ill “in those days”, which also seems to be a reference to the time of the Assyrian siege, and as the chapter progresses it becomes evident that this chapter actually contains an account which is parallel to chapter 37, that it describes events which had transpired at the same time as the events of the later portion of chapter 37. However while the people of Jerusalem had every reason for the celebration and praise of Yahweh their God, having been threatened by and delivered from the hand of the Assyrians, the narrative following the last verses of both 2 Kings chapter 19 and Isaiah chapter 37, where Sennacherib was described as returning to Assyria, only focuses on Hezekiah’s concurrent illness. There is nothing recorded of the mood in Jerusalem following the lifting of the siege and the withdrawal of Sennacherib, and nothing concerning the attitude of Hezekiah immediately after the delivery of Jerusalem from the hand of the Assyrians. 

European Fellowship Forum, June 2025

The following topics had been discussed with our friends, both European and American: 

  • Origin of Africans, Anthropology and origin of Whites, science vs. Scripture.

  • The olive trees and the grafting of Romans chapter 11.

  • Scriptural exegesis and attitudes towards Scripture.

  • The Mark of the Beast and how to see it in the world today.

  • Aliens in White countries who require financial support are pets and not people.

  • The caterpillars, locusts, palmerworms, cankerworms of Joel and the gathering of nations against the Camp of the Saints.

  • Aliens in the West as isolated colonies engaging in criminal activities. The idolatry which repeats the inevitable. Lack of humanity in non-White races. Nigger fatigue. The effects of aliens on Western society.

  • How the presence of aliens divides Whites against themselves.

  • Paganism lacks morality and glorifies sins such as Sodomy and transgenderism.

  • Open race-mixing in Western society.

  • Uselessness of preaching in modern churches, restricted by tax exemptions, evils of no-fault divorce.

  • The Israeli-Iranian circus and possible underlying motivations.

  • The division between Trump and Musk facilitated the silencing of DOGE in the media.

  • David Irving’s current medical condition, his early work on Dresden, and his Hitler’s War.

  • Telephone communications, Signal and message security.

  • Once again, where is the list of “bad words” in the Bible?

  • Effect of casinos on American society.

  • Liberals from California turned Colorado Gay.

  • Food as a poor excuse for “diversity”. The folly of British-Israel Dominion Theology.

  • Why the Tartaria theory is quackery, a rant from history and archaeology.

  • The systematization of deception found in modern churches.

And more!

On Biblical Exegesis, Revisited

On Biblical Exegesis, Revisited

Back in 2009, I wrote an essay titled On Biblical Exegesis. Then in July of 2011, I presented that paper in the opening portion of an Open Forum, and I do not know whether or not I had at that time expanded on the original essay. Knowing my own impulses, I probably did, but I left nothing in writing. So here I am going to expand on the essay, as there is much to add to the subject, and I have been wanting to revisit it for a long time, but at the present moment I feel a necessity to revisit this subject. So I will also state that, although I will speak for Identity Christians in general, my methods of Biblical Exegesis are just that, mine, and I cannot force them on other Identity Christians. These methods I began to develop at least twenty-five years ago, they were not taught to me, and I would not try to impose them on anyone else. But I would only suggest that others consider them, and perhaps they may even be improved. While I worked closely with Clifton Emahiser for many years, his methods were far different.

As far as I can tell, Identity Christians are the only Christians who seem to have a care for every word of God, and who also seek to reconcile with every word of God their faith, and what they believe about Scripture, and their worldview, and how they conduct themselves on their path through life. None of us can do that perfectly, but that is the endeavor to which we aspire, or, to which we all should aspire. If we do not have such an aspiration, we should not even call ourselves Christians. As Christ Himself had said, as it is recorded in Matthew chapter 4, “4 … Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.” If we seek to live by every word which comes from the mouth of God, we had better have such an aspiration.

A Commentary on Isaiah, Part 35: As Birds Flying

A Commentary on Isaiah, Part 35: As Birds Flying 

In 2 Samuel chapter 24, a census ordered by David had been conducted by Joab, and Joab had counted eight hundred thousand men of fighting age in Israel, and five hundred thousand in Judah. But it seems that the numbers of the children of Israel who had remained within the bounds of the kingdom had been diminished during the period of the Davidic Kingdom, and there may have been several reasons for that. So only two generations later, after the dividing of the kingdom, Rehoboam raised only a hundred and eighty thousand men out of Judah to fight against Israel, as it is described in 1 Kings chapter 12. However in the time of David, Israel had subjected all of the lands from the River of Egypt which was south of Judah and northwards as far as the “entering in of Hamath”, which is evident in the description of the feast of Solomon that is found in the closing verses of 1 Kings chapter 8.

During his time of conquest, David placed garrisons of troops all throughout the subjected neighboring territories, which would have been necessary to maintain control. So, for example, in 2 Samuel chapter 8 we read “6 Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus: and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought gifts. And the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went.” Then a little further on in the same chapter: “14 And he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom put he garrisons, and all they of Edom became David's servants. And the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went.” In subsequent chapters of the books of Kings and Chronicles, very little is said about these garrisons, but they must have remained so long as Judah maintained control over those subject nations, and there must have been many other garrisons throughout the lands which he had subjected or he would not have been able to keep those lands. That would be one factor affecting the ability of Rehoboam to raise troops from Judah, because many of them had evidently been relocated to garrisons throughout the subject states.

A Commentary on Isaiah, Part 34: The Assyrian Captivity of Judah

Isaiah 36:1-22

A Commentary on Isaiah, Part 34: The Assyrian Captivity of Judah 

As we hope to have illustrated in our last two presentations of Isaiah, discussing chapters 34 and 35, the wrath of Yahweh shall come upon Edom on account of the controversy of Zion, and the consequences of that controversy today are reflected in the fact that for the last 2,000 years and longer, the children of Edom have been masquerading as the children of God, pretending to be Judah, or even Israel, when they certainly are not of Judah or Israel. So now, for the most part, the prophecies against Judah and Israel which had warned them of the coming Assyrian captivities are completed, and Isaiah becomes more historical in nature, in chapters 36 through 39. These chapters contain Isaiah’s record of the Assyrian captivity of Judah and the siege of Jerusalem, which failed because Yahweh had promised to defend Jerusalem “as birds flying” in an earlier prophecy found in Isaiah chapter 31. These chapters also record some of the prophet Isaiah’s personal interactions with Hezekiah the king, and in the course of those interactions Isaiah makes a prophecy of the future captivity of the remnant of Judah in Babylon, something which happened about a hundred and fifteen years later. So there were two captivities of Judah, or actually three, because the later captivity is also divided, and this is only the first of them, but it is often overlooked, that a significant portion of Judah had been taken by the Assyrians, and therefore never went to Babylon.

So Isaiah had lived to record the fulfillment of some of his own prophecies, just as Jeremiah and Ezekiel had later spent many years warning the people of Judah concerning the Babylonians, and both prophets had lived to record the destruction of Jerusalem. Yet Isaiah, like Jeremiah and Ezekiel, had also prophesied many things which he did not live to see, such as the destruction of Tyre in Isaiah chapters 23 and 24, and the destruction of Assyria in Isaiah chapter 10, or the rise of the empire of the Babylonians, in Isaiah chapter 14, and their taking of Judah into captivity in Isaiah chapter 39. However the subsequent history of the region had also proven the credibility of those prophecies, and his Messianic prophecies had mostly been fulfilled in the first ministry of Christ. While we still await the fulfillment of those which have not yet been fulfilled, they are prophesied again by Christ Himself in the Revelation. Therefore we may rest assured that everything which Isaiah had prophesied which has not yet come to pass, either in history or in our own time, such as the destruction of Edom for the controversy of Zion, certainly shall come to pass at some point in the future. 

A Commentary on Isaiah, Part 33: Consequences of the Controversy of Zion

Isaiah 35:1-10

A Commentary on Isaiah, Part 33: Consequences of the Controversy of Zion 

Commencing with our Commentary on Isaiah, this evening we are going to do something different. Just last week, May 28th, a prerecorded podcast I had done for Jerm Warfare earlier in the month was published at UKColumn.org, and until now I had not mentioned that here. Yet the interview is very pertinent to this subject which we are discussing at this point in Isaiah because it considers the very consequences of the Controversy of Zion which is first mentioned in prophecy here in Isaiah chapter 34, and while the controversy persists through the time of Christ and down to this very day, in Scripture it is only described by that term here in Isaiah. Therefore we will present our commentary for Isaiah chapter 35, which is still discussing the consequences of the Controversy, and then we shall present the interview, which discusses its historical consequences in our modern world. 

In Isaiah chapter 34, Yahweh is portrayed as having called all nations to Himself, and then announced that on account of His indignation, they are all utterly destroyed. With all certainty, this is a far-vision prophecy, as Israel, or at least much of what remains in Judah, is about to be taken into captivity, and in the later words of Jeremiah the prophet we read, in Jeremiah chapter 30: “11 For I am with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee: though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished.” In the context of that chapter, the Word of Yahweh speaks of the “time of Jacob’s trouble”, and in the opening verses of Jeremiah chapter 31 it is followed by the promise that “1 At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people. 2 Thus saith the LORD, The people which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.” That is a reference to the Assyrian captivities of Israel, because when Jeremiah wrote those words, the Babylonian captivity of the remnant of Judah in Jerusalem had only been about to happen, it had not yet happened.

May 2025 Open Forum Discussion

What follows is a brief list of some of the topics discussed in the Forum:

  • Who was Paul referring to in 2 Corinthians chapter 12 where he said “I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago”? Not to himself!

  • The recent Jerm Warfare interviews.

  • Study and belief, the necessity of study in order to support belief.

  • Why Wikipedia says William Gale was a jew, an email message of which I had lost track.

  • The “nigger fatigue” phenomenon and the plagues of locusts, caterpillars, palmerworms and cankerworms of Joel chapter 3.

  • South African refugees, Christian Identity among the Boers.

  • Irish slaves in colonial America and the Caribbean.

  • DNA testing and 23&Me.

  • Is Salome the daughter of Mary? Discussing the Greek grammar, she is not.

  • The words of Christ in Acts Chapter 1, why did He profess not knowing the time when He would return? The Will of God is not revealed to the flesh until God wills.

  • What are bad words and filthy communications? The obstacle of self-righteousness is overcome in the revelation that only God and His law are righteous.

  • The Lake of Fire, a physical place or an allegory for a cessation of existence?

  • The Christian Identity perspective of the Bible assures that the Bible is true within the context of ancient history.

  • Corrupt politicians, Epstein, child trafficking, no forthcoming justice even when guilt is understood. We should not expect Epstein’s papers to ever released, or any further arrests to be made.

  • The challenges of persuading our brethren to the truths expressed in Christian Identity.

  • The experience with the League of the South and the debacle at Charlottesville.

And more…

A Commentary on Isaiah, Part 32: The Controversy of Zion

Isaiah 34:1-17

A Commentary on Isaiah, Part 32: The Controversy of Zion

In our last presentation we discussed The Treachery of the Spoilers, in relation to the reasons for which Jerusalem and Judah had been judged and ultimately destroyed by Yahweh their God through the hands of the Assyrians and Babylonians. In Isaiah chapter 33, it is evident that there were men within Jerusalem who were spoilers, who had oppressed the people, and especially the poor and vulnerable. That is evident where the people had prayed for grace, as they had been portrayed in the words of the prophet in the first half of the chapter, and then Yahweh had responded to their prayer. As they had prayed, they had been characterized as not having made any admission of sin nor any expression of repentance, and all they wanted were the spoils of their enemies. Then when they were answered, Yahweh had rejected them as hypocrites who would conceive chaff, and bring forth stubble. So they were warned once again, and their character is revealed where the Word of Yahweh had explained to them the nature of those among them who would survive the impending trials, where the Word had described: “15 He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil; 16 He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.”

Where Yahweh had told the people that the survivors would be those who walk righteously and speak uprightly, He is describing men of just judgment as opposed to men of corrupt judgment. Therefore the men whom He called hypocrites must have had corrupt judgment, and they must have also loved the gain of oppressions, they must have taken bribes, they must have conspired in murder, and they must have relished, or at least accepted, evil. However in the time of Isaiah, the advent of such spoilers in government or among the rulers of Judah was not a recent phenomenon in Jerusalem. By then it had existed already for at least two hundred years, and had begun around the same time that the kingdom was divided. This is found in 1 Kings chapter 12, at the time of the death of Solomon:

New Version July 5th! A Handbook Against Heresies for Identity Christians

A friend has created a Christian Identity: Handbook Against Heresies which seeks to compile and explain from Scripture a collection of basic Christian concepts which is meant to be a quick witness to help address and combat basic heresies and misunderstandings. This may also serve as a good primer for those wanting an overview of our general Christian Identity professions.
 

The Handbook was updated and a new copy posted July 5th, 2024. We expect this to happen periodically.

Download the PDF handbook here. There is also a clean version formatted for printing without any underlined cross-references and no highlighting. Another version without highlighting removes all background color from the text, but it has underlined cross-references. here you may also download the clean version, the version without highlighting, or now for a combined version which contains both highlighted and clean copies of the text.

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The Scorpion and the Frog, from Aesop's Fables

A scorpion and a frog meet on the bank of a stream and the scorpion asks the frog to carry him across on its back. The frog asks, "How do I know you won't sting me?" The scorpion says, "Because if I do, I will die too."

The frog is satisfied, and they set out, but in midstream, the scorpion stings the frog. The frog feels the onset of paralysis and starts to sink, knowing they both will drown, but has just enough time to gasp "Why?"

Replies the scorpion: "Its my nature..."

Never expect anyone to act contrary to their nature.

Addendum: The Wisdom of Solomon - An English Translation by William Finck

 

A completely new translation by William Finck of Christogenea.org, based on the text of the Rahlfs-Hanhart Septuaginta, but not necessarily following the punctuation of that edition. Download the PDF here. There is also a navigable chapter-by-chapter Greek-English Interlinear Version.

The Wisdom of Solomon is a profound and inspired work of literature, which, with all certainty, should have been included in the canonical Scriptures alongside the other works of Solomon, regardless of the fact that there is no extant Hebrew manuscript. The work is found in early lists of church canon, such as the Muratorian Canon, and it was included alongside the other Biblical books of wisdom in the Old Testament in the 4th century Codices Sinaiticus (א) and Vaticanus (B) and in the 5th century Codex Alexandrinus (A). While there have been contrary claims, for example at the Israeli website deadseascrolls.org, no supporting evidence has been presented, and therefore the work has evidently not been found among the Dead Sea Scrolls. However we must wonder if those examining the Scrolls would even recognize it, since there is no known Hebrew text against which to reference any possible fragments.

Passages from the Wisdom of Solomon were alluded to by Paul of Tarsus, and had obviously been an influence on him in his writings. For example, the “whole armor of God” analogy is very close to a description of the wrath of God found here in Wisdom chapter 5. In Romans chapter 8, Paul had used the term for creation in the same fashion as it was described in Wisdom chapter 19, in verse 6. Yet Wisdom also presages many of the illustrations which Yahshua Christ had employed in various of His parables in the Gospel, especially where Solomon spoke of races of men and their generations as trees and branches.

Of course, while we cannot imagine that Christ was inspired by Wisdom, His use of so many similar allegories in the same contexts certainly elucidates the fact that Solomon was inspired by Him. So in Wisdom we find rebukes of the lawless, the godless concept that “might is right”, the wandering of the impious into the corruption of their seed through miscegenation, and the fact that bad trees cannot produce good fruit, along with an exposition of some of the beginnings of idolatry. Finally, there is an analogy portraying the world of the wicked and of sin as Egypt and Sodom, much like the Revelation also attests, and the reordering of the creation of God in the organization of the children of Israel, which is how the history of the children of Israel had begun, and how Revelation also concludes. The Wisdom of Solomon is indeed a masterpiece of Christian theology, and a philosophical bridge between the Old and New Testaments which no true Christian should be without.

The Latin word GENTILIS in 1927 Junior Classic Dictionaries

Here we have several images from the Junior Classic Latin Dictionary. In his later papers, after he had found this definition, Clifton Emahiser cited this lexicon in relation to the meaning of the Latin word gentilis, which is "of the same clan or race", and how that true meaning of the word may affect one's view of Scripture, since with that meaning the truth of the nature of the covenants of God is revealed.

The word gentilis is the Latin word that Jerome had employed to represent the Greek word ἔθνος, or nation, in his Latin Vulgate, and that is the underlying word where the King James Version has gentile or gentiles in the New Testament. Jerome may have used any one of several other more general Latin words which may mean nation, but he purposely selected this more specific term. 
 

The word gentilis never meant "non-Jew" to any Roman!

Christian Identity: What Difference Does it Make?

Christian Identity: What Difference Does it Make?

It is no mistake that 2000 years ago, Christianity spread and was accepted by tribes of White Europeans as they encountered it. It is no mistake that for the last 1500 years Europe has been predominantly Christian. Christianity had spread not only to both Greece and Rome, but also to Britain and other points in Europe as early as the middle of the first century. Tribes in Gaul were converting to Christianity in the second century. By the third century, if not sooner, Germanic tribes of the Goths and Alans had accepted Christianity. All of this was long before the official acceptance of Christianity began with Constantine the Great, the Edict of Toleration and the Council of Nicaea.

To mock Christianity today is to mock a hundred generations of our ancestors. People who mock Christianity think they know something better about our past than their own ancestors, the people who actually lived in those times many centuries ago. The truth is that the people who mock Christianity know little-to-nothing about the world of the past and the circumstances under which their ancestors ultimately accepted Christianity.

There are many incongruities in the perception of the people who mock Christianity today. On one hand they claim that it is a “cuck” religion, and on the other they complain that their ancestors were forced into Christianity by Christians. So they admit that their own ancestors were weaker than the “cucks” they despise. On one hand they claim that Christianity is an effeminate religion, and a Jewish religion, but then they complain that their ancestors were forced into it by Christians. So they admit that their ancestors were weaker than effeminates and Jews. All the while, they proclaim the “might is right” mantra of their own neo-paganism, while professing that their weak ancestors, forced to subject to Christianity, were somehow treated unfairly! Those who mock Christianity are simply too stupid to realize all of these cognitive disconnects, and there are many more that we won’t get into here. We already presented them here a few years ago, in two podcasts titled White Nationalist Cognitive Dissonance.

Classics Corner

Here we will periodically feature one or more of our older program episodes. Sometimes they will be pertinent to other events at Christogenea.

The alien hordes currently pouring into Europe, and also into America and other White nations, are fulfilling Biblical prophesies made many centuries ago. The proof is in a history which few now know, because Classical literature is irrelevant to modern churchmen, and the Bible is alien to classicists. Interpretations of archaeological discovery are seen through a Jewish worldview, and that worldview is also based on falsehoods. But when we come to love the truth of our God, we can no longer be blinded by the satanic Jews.

 

The Immigration Problem and Biblical Prophecy - 2011-11-05

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No Safe Haven: Stripped Bare and Naked - 2013-08-16

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New to Christogenea? Start Listening Here...

This is a series of four podcasts which William Finck pre-recorded in June of 2016 for the Weekend Report.

It is our hope that these recordings provide a good overall portrait of the Christian Identity worldview: what we believe about our origins, and what we perceive of our destiny.

Beginnings and Ends, Part 1

Beginnings and Ends, Part 2

Beginnings and Ends, Part 3

Beginnings and Ends, Part 4