Isaiah 52:1-6

The righteous remnant in Babylonian captivity know that God is about to deliver them from their 70 years of bondage. Yet in spite of their knowledge and faith, God commands them in the strongest of terms to wake up. Why? Because our tendency is to sleep. The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.The righteous remnant of today knows according to the scriptures that the return of Christ is at hand. We eagerly anticipate His return. Yet this command applies to us as well. We need to wake up and live for Jesus knowing that His return is truly imminent.Romans 13:11-14 puts it best. And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelry and drunkeness, not in in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.Maranatha

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1 Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.

2 Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.

3 For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.

4 For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.

5 Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed.