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The Birthing of Zion’s Sons
have not borne! Break forth into singing, and cry aloud, you who have
not travailed with child! For more are the children of the desolate
(Great Harlot) than the children of the married woman (Bride of Christ
/ Sarah). Do not fear, for you will not be ashamed or disgraced; for
you will forget the shame of your youth, and will not remember the
reproach of your widowhood anymore. For your Maker is your
husband. The Lord of Hosts is His name; and our redeemer is the Holy
One of Israel; He is called the God of the whole earth. For the Lord
has called you like a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, like a
youthful wife when you were refused.” (vs. 1,4-6) Isaiah then goes on
to encourage her that after her barrenness she will inherit: the promises
of an everlasting Covenant of Peace, children who are taught by the
Lord, and protection from all harm.
Paul continues in Galatians 4: “Now we brethren, as Isaac was, are
children of promise. But, as he who was born according to the flesh
(Ishmael) then persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit
(Isaac), even so it is now (the Harlot persecutes the Bride).
Nevertheless what does the Scripture say? “Cast out the bondwoman
and her son, for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the
son of the free-woman.” So then brethren, we are not children of the
bondwoman but of the free.” (Gal 4:28-31)
Ishmael and Isaac lived together in the same house. Likewise, in the
Church there have been both the sons of the flesh and the sons of the
Spirit living together in God’s house. But, there came a time when
Sarah said, “Cast out this bondwoman and her son (Ishmael); for the
son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son Isaac” (Gen.
21:10-12), and God told Abraham to listen to Sarah. Likewise, after
the Bride of Christ births the child of promise (the mature sons of God),
the time is soon when the sons of the flesh will also be cast out.
Any method that we use to try to birth sons into the kingdom that is not
God’s method is like birthing an Ishmael, who only caused trouble for
Sarah, and causes persecution and “ministry burnout” for us too.
Whatever is started in the flesh must be maintained in the flesh and
makes us weary, but Jesus’ yoke is easy and His burden is light when
we walk in the Spirit. Isaiah rightly testifies of the fleshly methods
which births the wind when he says, “As a woman with child is in pain
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