“…the isles shall wait for his law.” (Isaiah 42:4)

By Prophet Jacob R. Blandford

This passage of Holy Scripture and the preceding passages are full of prophetic meanings and profoundly deep implications. Firstly, the first 3 verses of this Chapter 42 of Isaiah are without question about Jesus Christ; and this is confirmed in St. Matthew’s Gospel because under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, Matthew quotes these Scriptures in Matthew 12:17-21. Also this is highly prophetic because these Scriptures prophesy of the calling of the Gentiles. The LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob was once only known to the Jewish people; but Isaiah and Matthew both prophesied that through the Son of God, the heathen would soon know the LORD.

And yet we find another hidden prophecy in these sacred passages which relates to the Holy Scriptures God has preserved for us this present day: the King James Bible. Isaiah 42:4 says, “…the isles shall wait for his law.” Keep in mind that this passage is found right in the midst of Isaiah prophesying of the Gentiles’ calling. Therefore the reference to “…the isles…” is also a reference to Gentile regions of the world. Isaiah also said that these heathen areas of the world would “…wait for his law.”, and thus become proselytes to the LORD’S holy religion.

Now more specifically we’ll delve into this spectrum of spectacular prophecy! The law that Isaiah speaks of is undoubtedly the word of God. Now one of these Gentile or heathen isles that waited for the word of God and the Gospel of Jesus Christ was England. England is often called the “Isle”. King James referred to his kingdom as the Isle. As a matter of fact, if any nation could be described as an “Isle” England would come to mind because that’s what it is; it’s surrounded by water. And England did wait sometime to become a kingdom of Christendom and this was made possible by the evangelistic efforts those preaching the Gospel of Christ and the spreading of his word. Some of these men who were vessels of God to distribute His word in England were… the Lollards, Wycliffe, Tyndale, Coverdale, and Matthews. These men and their followers created good translations of God’s word into the English language. Their works were good, but not complete. But God wasn’t done. When King James took the throne of Great Britain he commissioned a new translation of God’s word. With this translation the best God-preserved Received Text manuscripts were used, plus the previous good translations by godly Christian Englishmen were utilized, and God worked through forty-eight incredibly skilled Christian scholars to complete the 1611 translation. Thus “…the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain” (Is. 40:4); the old translations were smoothed over, refined, and precisely articulated. Thus England was blessed by God through faith in Jesus Christ with a clean, perfect Holy Bible! (Keep is mind; this perfect translation was made possible by the Almighty God’s sovereign will and His promise to preserve His Holy Writ. And had he not done it in such a fashion, it is quite possible that the preserved Holy Scriptures would not be accessible to the common man today. They would either be lost and illegible in ancient manuscripts turned to dust, or hoarded and destroyed by the Roman Catholic Church.)

Therefore we say that Protestant England was blessed with the blessing of Psalm 33:12, “Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD: and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.” When England received the word of God, they then developed the wisdom, strength, and fortitude to resist the Catholic Church. When England resisted the Catholic Church this made it possible for Protestantism and Bible-based Christianity to flourish: which sparked the English Reformation. And the English Reformation sparked the reign of the Christian King James VI & I, who was God’s vessel for blessing the end time world with a perfect English Bible! King James is the founding monarch of America and he is saluted in the Mayflower Compact of 1620. Also, his Translation of the Bible would quickly become the Holy Text of Colonial America. And consequently, America became the greatest Protestant and Evangelical nation the world has ever known.

Hallelujah and Alleluia, in Jesus Christ’s Name I pray, Amen & Amen.