ISAIAH
CHAPTER 1
· To
o Isaiah 1:2 (NASB) 2 Listen, O heavens, and hear, O earth; For the LORD speaks, “Sons I have reared and brought up, But they have revolted against Me.
· PZ-Even in the middle of all the rebellion, which deserves God’s judgment, God always reserves for Himself a remnant.
o Isaiah 1:9 (NASB) 9 Unless the LORD of hosts Had left us a few survivors, We would be like
· God: Because of your rebellion, I won’t hear your prayers.
o Isaiah 1:15 (NASB) 15 “So when you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; Yes, even though you multiply prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.
· So what is God’s counsel to you rebellious son’s?
o Isaiah 1:16 - 17 (NASB) 16 “Wash yourselves,
o make yourselves clean;
o Remove the evil of your deeds from My sight.
o Cease to do evil,
o Seek justice,
o Reprove the ruthless,
o Defend the orphan,
o Plead for the widow.
· The ultimate counsel—Let’s be reasonable:
o Isaiah 1:18 (NASB) 18 “Come now, and let us reason together,” Says the LORD, “Though your sins are as scarlet, They will be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, They will be like wool.
· Your conditions:
o IF YOU – Then you will …:
§ Isaiah 1:19 (NASB) 19 “If you consent and obey, You will eat the best of the land;
o BUT IF YOU – Then you will … :
§ Isaiah 1:20 (NASB) 20 “But if you refuse and rebel, You will be devoured by the sword.” Truly, the mouth of the LORD has spoken.
· You (the faithful city:
o Have become a harlot (unfaithful)
o Have become murderers
o Your silver to dross
o Your wine to water
o You love bribes
o You do not defend the fatherless or protect the widow.
· THEREFORE THE LORD SAYS—I will:
o Get rid of My adversaries
o Turn My hand against you
o Restore your judges
· THEN YOU:
o Shall be called the city of righteousness, the faithful city.
CHAPTER 2
· To
· PROPHECY: Later days ßThis is key to understanding: this is yet future.
o Mountain of the Lord’s house will be raised up
o The nations shall flow to the mountain of the house of the Lord
o People will say:
§ Let us go to the mountain of the Lord (house of God) =
§ HE WILL:
· Teach us … and we shall walk
· Judge … and they shall beat their swords into plowshears…
· COUNSEL TO
o God: Let us walk in “light of the Lord” … But God, You have forsaken Your people….WHY?
o You (
§ Filled with eastern ways
· Soothsayers like the Philistines
· Pleased with children of foreigners
· Land is full of silver and gold
· No end to their treasures
· Land is FULL OF HORSES
· No end to chariots
· Land is full of idols
· They worship the work of their own hands
· The “day of the Lord of hosts” shall come upon everything proud and lofty
· The Lord alone will be exalted in that day (but idols will be abolished)
· In that day (of the Lord)
o Man will cast away idols
· PZ: … when He arises to shake the earth mightily (more about this is in Revelation)
CHAPTER 3
· To
· Bad times coming
o Children will be princes
o Babies ruling over them
o A CHILD WILL BE INSOLENT TOWARD THE ELDER
· Why? ...
o Because their tongue and their doings are AGAINST THE LORD
· MESSAGE TO:
o THE RIGHTEOUS:
§ Isaiah 3:10 (NASB) 10 Say to the righteous that it will go well with them, For they will eat the fruit of their actions.
o BUT TO THE WICKED:
§ Isaiah 3:11 (NASB) 11 Woe to the wicked! It will go badly with him, For what he deserves will be done to him.
· NOTE: There are things we receive based on “what we deserve”
§ Children are their oppressors (God is saying this is wrong…but this will be the way it is)
§ Women rule over them (again God is saying this is wrong … but this will be the way it is)
· Note: This is clearly presented as NOT God’s plan, but the results of man rebelling against God. Man not taking up his God given responsibility under God; and woman rejecting God’s role for her and usurping her man’s God given role. This is the ultimate in role reversal and is NOT LOOKED ON FAVORABLY BY GOD.
CHAPTER 4
· PZ: “In that day”
o 7 women shall take hold of one man saying:
§ Isaiah 4:1 (NASB) 1For seven women will take hold of one man in that day, saying, “We will eat our own bread and wear our own clothes, only let us be called by your name; take away our reproach!”
o COMMENT: It appears a time will come when men will reject women to the point that good women will be under a reproach because men will not marry them. At that point good women will be coming to men and asking them to just let them “take their name” and these women will provide all their own support…this is a pathetic conclusion to the direction we see even today in our society where men do not take up their responsibilities…mainly because women will have either usurped their roles or refused to take up God’s clear design for them to submit to their husbands.
o Isaiah 4:2 (NASB) 2In that day the Branch of the LORD will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth will be the pride and the adornment of the survivors of
§ Branch of the Lord = Jesus. Jesus will finally be called “beautiful” by the Jewish people…this is yet future.
o Isaiah 4:3 (NASB) 3It will come about that he who is left in
§ This is surely a time to look forward to. It appears there are going to be those in
o Isaiah 4:4 (NASB) 4When the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and purged the bloodshed of Jerusalem from her midst, by the spirit of judgment and the spirit of burning,
§ This will occur when the Lord has finally cleaned
o Isaiah 4:5 - 6 (NASB) 5then the LORD will create over the whole area of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud by day, even smoke, and the brightness of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory will be a canopy. 6There will be a shelter to give shade from the heat by day, and refuge and protection from the storm and the rain.
§ This is a description of what the new Jerusalem will be like “in that day” yet future..
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CHAPTER 5
OBSERVATIONS
· OWNERSHIP: God planted a vineyard on a “very fruitful hill”
o He tended it well, digging out the rocks, tilling the soil and planting the best vines in it.
· EXPECTATIONS:
o He built a tower (to watch over it);
o Built a winepress (in expectation of coming fruitfulness)
· DISAPPOINTMENT:
o He expected it to bring forth good grapes
o BUT it brought forth wild grapes
· SO The message to
o You judge…
o Q1. What more could I have done to My Vineyard?
o Q2. Why, when I expected it to bring forth good fruit, did it bring forth bad fruit?
· SO, Let Me TELL YOU what I will do to My vineyard…
o I WILL
§ Take away it’s hedge (remove its protection) and it shall be burned
§ Lay it waste (remove its provision) and it shall not be pruned or dug
§ Command the clouds not to rain (take away what it needs for life).
· SO WHO or WHAT is this Vineyard?
INTERPRETATION:
· The vineyard of the Lord of hosts = “the house of
· The pleasant plant = “the men of
7 WOES
· Woe1: Multiply houses and land-desolation coming
o Isaiah 5:8 - 10 (NASB) 8 Woe to those who add house to house and join field to field, Until there is no more room, So that you have to live alone in the midst of the land! 9 In my ears the LORD of hosts has sworn, “Surely, many houses shall become desolate, Even great and fine ones, without occupants. 10 “For ten acres of vineyard will yield only one £bath of wine, And a homer of seed will yield but an £ephah of grain.”
· Woe2: To those who spend a lot of time drinking (alcohol): -- headed to exile and humility.
o Isaiah 5:11 - 17 (NASB) 11 Woe to those who rise early in the morning that they may pursue strong drink, Who stay up late in the evening that wine may inflame them! 12 Their banquets are accompanied by lyre and harp, by tambourine and flute, and by wine; But they do not pay attention to the deeds of the LORD, Nor do they consider the work of His hands. 13 Therefore My people go into exile for their lack of knowledge; And their honorable men are famished, And their multitude is parched with thirst. 14 Therefore Sheol has enlarged its throat and opened its mouth without measure; And Jerusalem’s splendor, her multitude, her din of revelry and the jubilant within her, descend into it. 15 So the common man will be humbled and the man of importance abased, The eyes of the proud also will be abased. 16 But the LORD of hosts will be exalted in judgment, And the holy God will show Himself holy in righteousness. 17 Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture, And strangers will eat in the waste places of the wealthy.
· Woe3: to those who promote evil using lies – God’s coming and knows what your doing.
o Isaiah 5:18 - 19 (NASB) 18 Woe to those who drag iniquity with the cords of falsehood, And sin as if with cart ropes; 19 Who say, “Let Him make speed, let Him hasten His work, that we may see it; And let the purpose of the Holy One of Israel draw near And come to pass, that we may know it!”
· Woe4: to those who call good evil and evil good.
o Isaiah 5:20 (NASB) 20 Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
· Woe5: To those wise in their own eyes, and clever in their own sight.
o Isaiah 5:21 (NASB) 21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes And clever in their own sight!
· Woe6: to heroes at drinking wine
o Isaiah 5:22 (NASB) 22 Woe to those who are heroes in drinking,
· Woe7: to men known for mixing strong drink.
o Isaiah 5:22 - 23 (NASB) 22 Woe to … valiant men in mixing strong drink, 23 Who justify the wicked for a bribe, And take away the rights of the ones who are in the right!
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HERE’S WHAT’S COMING:
· Isaiah 5:24 - 30 (NASB) 24 Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes stubble And dry grass collapses into the flame, So their root will become like rot and their blossom blow away as dust;
o WHY? For they have rejected the law of the LORD of hosts And despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
· 25 On this account the anger of the LORD has burned against His people, And He has stretched out His hand against them and struck them down. And the mountains quaked, and their corpses lay like refuse in the middle of the streets.
o For all this His anger is not spent, But His hand is still stretched out.
· 26 He will also lift up a standard to the distant nation,
· And will whistle for it from the ends of the earth;
· And behold, it will come with speed swiftly.
· 27 No one in it is weary or stumbles,
· None slumbers or sleeps;
· Nor is the belt at its waist undone,
· Nor its sandal strap broken.
· 28 Its arrows are sharp and all its bows are bent;
· The hoofs of its horses seem like flint and its chariot wheels like a whirlwind.
· 29 Its roaring is like a lioness, and it roars like young lions;
· It growls as it seizes the prey
· And carries it off with no one to deliver it.
· 30 And it will growl over it in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land, behold, there is darkness and distress; Even the light is darkened by its clouds.
BAD NEWS COMING…WHY? Because they have rejected the Lord.
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