WHO HAS BELIEVED?

Isaiah 53v1:
Who has believed our message
and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?

Romans 10v16 But not all the Israelites accepted the good news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our message?”[h]17 Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word about Christ.18 But I ask: Did they not hear? Of course they did:

“Their voice has gone out into all the earth,
their words to the ends of the world.”[i]

It is a deeply troubling thing that often the very people that should believe, that is, the chosen of God, do not believe the things that God speaks about the future. Even the good news of the coming Messiah was rejected by those that Isaiah preached to in the Old Testament (Is 53). It is likely that they rejected it because of the hardness of the message:

Is 53v...2+3: He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
3 He was despised and rejected by mankind,
a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.
Like one from whom people hide their faces
he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.

The messengers that God sends are likewise held in low esteem, and the message that they hold from the Lord, that offers good news of salvation if accepted, is likewise rejected because of how they and the message itself appears. 99% of the time the Bible shows us that the prophetic message is ignored and rejected:

Luke 4v24 “Truly I tell you,” he continued, “no prophet is accepted in his hometown. 25 I assure you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and there was a severe famine throughout the land. 26 Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow in Zarephath in the region of Sidon. 27 And there were many in Israel with leprosy[g] in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed—only Naaman the Syrian.”

Just as it was in the Old Testament, where just about everyone rejected Elijah's message, so is it in the New quite simply because people refuse to accept the reality of such things. There were many that would've benefited from the ministry of Elijah in his day; both hungry, starving and dying, and many that were sick, but to only two was he sent because EVERYONE ELSE rejected him (but really not him but God). So it is now. Barely anyone has read the posts I've put up, barely more than two, so it seems that nothing has changed in that regard.

In the New Testament in 1 Thess 5v9 it is written; 'Do not quench the Spirit. 20 Do not treat prophecies with contempt 21 but test them all; hold on to what is good, 22 reject every kind of evil.' But not only is prophecy held in contempt, even worse, it is ignored!

In the Romans scripture above, it says that faith comes from hearing the message of Christ. But it only comes by hearing it if you allow yourself to be open to it. The Lord is now speaking of things to come, so the question is who is hearing? Who is storing up as it were, stores of faith for the coming times? But also, how many are choosing to ignore the message of the Lord right now? It is likely that it is more than 99% of people out in facebook land are in that category. But in my heart of hearts, I really hope that's not the case. If there are those out there that are in that category, please pray and ask that the Lord would confirm these messages about the future, because He is faithful and He will confirm His Word.