The real meaning of fasting is to stop eating all things other than the Lord Jesus and to not have a taste for anything other than Him. God wants us to stop our doing and be replaced by Christ (keep the Sabbath — 56:2) and to keep away from the taste of anything other than Christ (fast). By resting and fasting we can partake of all that the processed Christ has accomplished for us. In totality, what Christ is and has accomplished is just the divine water (Isa. 55:1), which is the consummated Spirit as the consummation of the Triune God for us to drink and enjoy (John 7:37-39; 1 Cor. 12:13).

In their hypocrisy the house of Jacob fasted, but they did many things in pursuit of their own interests. They did not rest in God nor take Him as their nourishment and life supply (cf. 55:1-2). This was their hypocrisy.