Blessed Coincidence

In my daily Bible reading this Saturday morning, I happened to read a portion of scripture that included Isaiah chapter 25. I noted the Isaiah's magnification of the LORD's faithfulness, "O LORD, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful thing; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth." (Isaiah 25:1) I made a note in the margin of my Bible, "GOD IS FAITHFUL!", as I've been reminded of this over and over again, while teaching through the Old Testament to our Karen believer's Sunday School class.

I also noted the reference in Isaiah 25:8 which is picked up and amplified by the Apostle Paul in 
1 Corinthians 15:54, and the Apostle John in Revelation 21:4.

After a time of prayer, I hit the shower, and listened to an interview with T.A. McMahon and Dr. Randall Price. And in the interview, Dr. Price, who is a Biblical archeologist, described something that they found while excavating around Qumran, the site of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

You can listen at www.oneplace.com/ministries/search-the-scriptures-daily/.

What was a blessed coincidence to me is that he related what they found in these excavations to the verses in Isaiah 25:6-9: how that the group of people at Qumran were likely anticipating what Dr. Price called "the Messiah's Banquet", the feast after the victorious battle of Armageddon, a feast which is described in other places including the New Testament (i.e. Matthew 8:11). I thought it was really neat to just happen to hear that this morning, and get an extra blessing from the reading of God's Holy Word. I had penned the note about God being faithful, and this was just another small confirmation of that eternal truth.