When Jesus Christ returns for judgment He will wear the same helmet of salvation and breastplate of righteousness He provides for you now!

This study is very personal. The study is meant to provide you with material to study Jesus Christ’s information the Holy Spirit will use to guide you to truth. Remember you are uniquely designed and created by Jesus Christ (Psalm 139:13-16), Who has a specific purpose (Ephesians 2:10) and specific plan (Jeremiah 29:11) for your life. Jesus Christ is intimately concerned and actively involved in the details and circumstances of your life (Isaiah 64:8). May Jesus Christ richly bless your study!

Look how Zechariah’s prophecy (520 – 470 B.C.) describes Him in Chapter 9:
9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.

What are the King’s qualities? Just, having salvation, lowly

Remember at the time of this prophecy Israel had no king. Rehoboam, the son of Solomon split the kingdom into Israel (10 tribes, conquered by Assyrians in the 8th century B.C.) and Judah (2 tribes, Judah and Benjamin, conquered by the Babylonians in the 7th century B.C. and returned to Jerusalem in Ezra and Nehemiah’s day).

Let’s examine Isaiah’s prophecy of the Messiah returning in vengeance recorded by Isaiah 740-680 B.C. in chapter 59. What are the conditions on earth? There is no justice, truth or peace

1) There is no peace
4 None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
5 They hatch cockatrice’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
6 Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.
7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
8 The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.

What is a cockatrice? born from an egg laid by a chicken and incubated by a toad or snake
What is peace? Freedom from strife or dissension; freedom of the mind from annoyance,
distraction, anxiety or obsession

Do you see any correlation between these verses and the circumstances of your life?
What do these verses tell you about what matters to Jesus Christ?

2) There is no justice or salvation
9 Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.
10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.
11 We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
12 For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;
13 In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
14 And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.

What is justice? Conduct, dealing, treatment conforming to the law
Do you see any correlation between these verses and the circumstances of your life?
What do these verses tell you about what matters to Jesus Christ?

3) There is no truth or judgment
15 Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.

What is truth? John 14:
6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Do you see any correlation between these verses and the circumstances of your life?
What do these verses tell you about what matters to Jesus Christ?

What will Jesus Christ do about the situation?
16 And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.
17 For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke.
18 According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence.
19 So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.
20 And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.
21 As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed’s seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.

Let’s look again at the armor Jesus Christ provides for you in Ephesians 6:
14Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;

Questions for Reflection
1) Looking at Isaiah’s description regarding the lack of salvation, how can you use the helmet of salvation in your daily life?

2) Looking at Isaiah’s description regarding the lack of righteousness, how can you use the breast plate of righteousness in your daily life?

3) Why do you think Jesus Christ wears these two pieces of armor rather than all the pieces He gives you?

4) What is the significance of Isaiah’s prophecy to you personally?

Paul’s advice
1 Thessalonians 5:
1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.
2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
10 Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
11 Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.

Hebrews 12:
1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Let us run with patience the race He has set before us, looking unto Jesus,
Coach Patti