Prophetic meaning in numbers & Symbols tested.

Prophetic meaning in the Bible can be put under test on a simple passage to decipher what God is trying to say to us.

YOU BE THE JUDGE

Isaiah 4:1 And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.

what was Isaiah talking about. POLYGAMY ?

Certainly not ! Isaiah the Prophet was foretelling what would happen with Religion in the last days.
Lets analyze the verse bit by bit using the principles prescribed in the bible" line upon line ,precept upon precept ,here a little there a little" using bible symbolic meaning to decipher this message above Isaiah 4:1

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Isaiah 28:10
Isaiah 28:13

OK analyzing the text ( this is so much fun)

Isaiah 4:1 And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.

Prophetic meaning:

That day _ the end time. just before Jesus comes. Mark 13:32,Luke 6:23,Luke 17:31
Seven 7 – represents perfection,completions or all of a group. Genesis 2:1–4, Psalm 119:164.
Woman, Pure = True Church Jeremiah 6:2; 2 Corinthians 11:2; Ephesians 5:23-27.
Woman, Corrupt = Apostate church Ezekiel. 16:15-58; 23:2-21; Hos. 2:5; 3:1; Rev. 14:4.
One man=Christ the Bride Groom. Revelation 18:23,Matthew 25:6 inthe parable.
Bread=Word of God or doctrine, teachings John 6:35,51,52,63.
Apparel= life style=Clothing = Character Isaiah 64:6, Isaiah 59:6.
Call by thy name=Followers of Christ="Christians",Acts 2:38 ,Acts 3:6,1Corinthians 5:4
reproach=sin,disdain,costly mistakes.Genesis 30:23,Psalms 69:7

So using the above we can paraphrase the verse now :

Isaiah 4:1 And in that day seven(all) women(churches) shall take hold of one man( Jesus), saying, We will eat our own bread(have our own doctrine), and wear our own apparel ( show our own righteousness): only let us be called by thy name(let us be called Christians), to take away our reproach (to take away our shame or sins).

Are not many "churches holding on to Christ's name,but teaching according to their own intelligence avoiding what the Bible says .These same churches feel good in their own righteousness,works.
Many are going there to feel good ,having a form of Godliness but denying the power there of as the Bible says in 2 Tim 3:5 .

God word does not need interpretation.It comes self explanatory we just have to search.
Now try decoding more profound symbols that relate to the end of the world in Revelation click here

Note couple things
1. God has always had a church,a pure bride . Revelation 12:17 defined by commandments (all of them)and testimony of Jesus Christ. History testifies that God always had a pure representative on earth His True bride.See Noah ,Enoch,Elijah,Job,Waldensian and others leading up to our time .

Daniel Augsburger concludes his chapter, "The Sabbath and Lord's Day During the Middle Ages," by writing: "But also, all throughout that period there were groups of people who, either through the example of the Jews or because of their study of the Scriptures, attempted to keep the day that Jesus and the apostles had kept. For obvious reasons we know little about their number or their names, but their presence shows that in every age there were some who attempted to place the Word of God above the traditions of men."(45) He mentions, for example, the Passagini in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. In 1420 a group of Sabbathkeepers in northern France were dealt with by the authorities. Also some of the Bohemian "Picards" were Sabbathkeepers. In the fifteenth century some of the English Lollards (followers of John Wycliffe) and certain Christians in the Scandinavian lands kept the Sabbath.This proves that God is never without a pure representative body on the earth.

2. The women mention in Isaiah 4:1 does not includes God's true Church. It includes churches that are so called Christians but those who refuse to take and live by the unadulterated Word of God(Mathew 7:22,23) due to the fact that they wear there own apparel and eat there own bread ( they do not where the apparel of Christ's righteousness) and they want there own doctrine. Not what Christ taught and lived but rather the traditions of men .

God's Word is the Truth.
He predicted what would Happen Through Isaiah.