September 28th
Isaiah 6
1:
In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a
throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. 2:
Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he
covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain
he did fly. 3:
And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD
of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory. 4:
And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and
the house was filled with smoke. 5:
Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of
unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips:
for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts. 6:
Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his
hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar: 7:
And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy
lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged. 8:
Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and
who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me. 9:
And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand
not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. 10:
Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and
shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their
ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
11:
Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be
wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land
be utterly desolate, 12:
And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great
forsaking in the midst of the land. 13:
But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be
eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them,
when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance
thereof.
Isaiah 7
1:
And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of
Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the
son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war
against it, but could not prevail against it. 2:
And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with
Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the
trees of the wood are moved with the wind. 3:
Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and
Shear-jashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in
the highway of the fuller's field; 4:
And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be
fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the
fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah. 5:
Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil
counsel against thee, saying, 6:
Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach
therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, even the son of
Tabeal: 7:
Thus saith the Lord GOD, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to
pass. 8:
For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin;
and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it
be not a people. 9:
And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is
Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be
established. 10:
Moreover the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying, 11:
Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God; ask it either in the depth, or
in the height above. 12:
But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD. 13:
And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for
you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also? 14:
Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin
shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. 15:
Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil,
and choose the good. 16:
For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the
good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her
kings. 17:
The LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy
father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim
departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria. 18:
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall hiss for
the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for
the bee that is in the land of Assyria. 19:
And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate
valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon
all bushes. 20:
In the same day shall the Lord shave with a rasor that is hired,
namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head,
and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard. 21:
And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a
young cow, and two sheep; 22:
And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall
give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat
that is left in the land. 23:
And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be,
where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall
even be for briers and thorns. 24:
With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the
land shall become briers and thorns. 25:
And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall
not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for
the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.
Isaiah 8
1:
Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in
it with a man's pen concerning Maher-shalal-hash-baz. 2:
And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest,
and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah. 3:
And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son.
Then said the LORD to me, Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz. 4:
For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my
mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be
taken away before the king of Assyria. 5:
The LORD spake also unto me again, saying, 6:
Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that go
softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son; 7:
Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of
the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his
glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all
his banks: 8:
And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he
shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings
shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel. 9:
Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces;
and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall
be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in
pieces. 10:
Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word,
and it shall not stand: for God is with us. 11:
For the LORD spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me
that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying, 12:
Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say,
A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid. 13:
Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let
him be your dread. 14:
And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for
a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a
snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 15:
And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be
snared, and be taken. 16:
Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. 17:
And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of
Jacob, and I will look for him. 18:
Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me are for signs
and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in
mount Zion. 19:
And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar
spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a
people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead? 20:
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this
word, it is because there is no light in them. 21:
And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it
shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret
themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward. 22:
And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness,
dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.
Today we are reading
Isaiah 6, 7 & 8. In chapter 6 Isaiah states that in the year that
King Uzziah died he had a clear vision of the LORD Adonai sitting on
his throne in the temple. (This we later come to understand to be
Christ himself in his Millennial temple. There is no throne in any
previous temple) He is described as high and lifted up. There is no
greater position that Christ could ever hold over this world. The
train of his garments fill the temple floor and above him six
seraphims each with six wings cry to each other saying Holy, Holy,
Holy is the Lord of hosts the whole earth is full of his glory. This
is a temple with a throne from which the glory of God extends from
sea to sea. (It describes a time when the glory of the Lord will fill
the earth as the waters cover the sea. This can only be in the
Millennial kingdom.) The temple door posts tremble at the voice of
those who speak and the whole house is filled with smoke. The Prophet
who in the Spirit is transported right into the future to see this
amazing sight is struck with a sense of his own unworthiness. He says
Woe is me, because I am undone or unworthy. Then he gives his reason
because I have unclean lips and my eyes have seen the King, The LORD
of hosts. Then a seraphims flew to touch his lips with a live coal
from the altar and touched him and thus covered his iniquity and
cleansed him of his sin. Then the Lord said, who will I send and who
will go for us? Isaiah said I am here – send me. (Isaiah’s
mission was not a divine fate it was an invitation accepted.) Then
The LORD commissions Isaiah to go to tell the people so that they
would hear but not understand they would see by not comprehend. This
was a message that would bring the judgment of God on the hearers.
The message would make them lazy and blind so that they will not
respond to the Lord and the Lord would convert them and they would be
healed. Isaiah then asked how long this would continue and the Lord
answered that it would be until the cites of Israel were totally
destroyed. And all the people had forsaken the Lord. Yet a tenth of
the holy seed would be secured and would return. From Chapter 7v1 –
ch 12v6 Isaiah gives us a series of historical events and prophesies
during the time of Ahaz. In 7v1-9 he describes the confederacy
between Syria and Israel. This union will not stand v7. The Syrian
invaded Israel but were unable to conquer the land. Then when the
house of David heard of the confederacy they were greatly moved.
Isaiah was sent by the Lord to Ahaz to warn him and to comfort him in
his hour of danger, because the union will not stand. From 7v8 –
8v8 The Lord tells the king that he will intervene in the day of
danger. The Lord invited Ahaz to ask for a sign but he said I will
not tempt you. The Lord would give Israel a sign – A Virgin will
conceive and bear a son and his name will be Immanuel. And so we
think immediately of Matthew ch 1. Israel’s ultimate hopes will be
in the child of Bethlehem. He will be a man of moral character. There
will come a day (yet future) when the Lord will call for the flies of
Egypt and the bees of Asia to come and they will come into the land.
In ch 8 we have very remarkable prophesies that focus on Isaiah’s
own son. Isaiah is told to write in the language of the ordinary man
in the street. Isaiah is to write about his own son
Maher-shalal-hash-baz. His name means, Haste, spoil, speed, prey. And
his name given from the Lord was a sign of coming judgment. The
Assyrian army will haste to take the spoil and with speed will fall
on the nation as a prey. Then from v5-8 he describes the actual
invasion. From v9 the call will go out make friends with one another
because the invaders will be smashed because God is with us v10. From
v11-9v7 Isaiah says that the LORD will intervene. The false
confederacy will be destroyed but trust in God will be rewarded. The
Lord will bring signs and wonders on the earth and all the mediums
and wizards and those that mutter will cease. If they do not speak
according to the word of the LORD it is because there is no light in
them. Judgment will come on the false prophets.
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