Agenda

1. Overview of Isaiah
2. Dive Deeper
   1. Call to Reason over Escapism
   2. Gender & Sexuality
   3. Response to Wars and Rumors of Wars
   4. Confidence in Salvation
   5. Social Justice with the Sabbath will bring Joy
3. Hairs, Knives, and Heaven

Isaiah Overview

• Chap 1-5: God identifies his people as Rebellious and lists out their sins
• Chap 6: God calls Isaiah
• Chap 7-11: Message for King Ahaz, prophecies of Jesus and New Earth
• Chap 12: A song about heaven
• Chap 13-24: Messages for 9 heathen nations, offering each hope if they come to the city of Zion
• Chap 25-26: Songs of the second coming
• Chap 27: Prophecy of destruction of Satan and New Earth
• Chap 28: Outline of how God gives us knowledge, teaches doctrine, provides us counsel
• Chap 29-33: Woe or Warnings to different segments of God’s people, including rebellious children
• Chap 34-35: Second coming, judgment, no fear for redeemed
• Chap 36-39: Story of Hezekiah, the state of the dead
• Chap 40-41: Confidence in Salvation
• Chap 42-45: Jesus example of God’s servant, we created to be His servants, promise of our sins being blotted out
• Chap 46-47: God only can predict future. Babylon identified with witchcraft
• Chap 48: God refines us in furnace of affliction. Wicked are afflicted but have no
  peace
• Chap 49: God creates us in the womb, life begins there, do not abort!
• Chap 50-52: God will teach us every morning, joy and gladness is the result, heaven focus again
• Chap 53-55: Suffering of Jesus, safety, joy, and gladness promised to God’s servants
• Chap 56-58: Sabbath identified as mark of God’s servants
• Chap 59: God has no limit to save us, except our choice to continue in iniquity. His Spirit will defend us, he covenants to put his word in our mouth
• Chap 60: Details of heaven, 1000 yr millennium
• Chap 61: Joy and gladness because covered by God’s righteousness
• Chap 62: God seeks us out, gives us a new name
• Chap 63: God judges wicked, the saved praise him for mercies
• Chap 64: Heaven unimaginable, our righteousness is filthy rags
• Chap 65-66: Contrasts fruit of rebellion against God, verses being his servant. New heaven and earth prophesied. Sabbath always identifies God’s people even in eternity Dive Deeper – Call to Reason over Escapism
• Isa 1:18-19—Come let us Reason together, saith the Lord…If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the fruit of the land
• Isa 5:11-13—Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine in ame them! And the harp, and the viol, the tablet, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the Lord, neither consider the operation of his hands. Therefore, my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honorable men are famished

Dive Deeper – Gender & sexuality, Isa 3

• “For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water, the
  mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, the prudent, and the ancient, the captain of fifty, and the honorable man, and the counsellor, and the
  cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator. And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.
• “And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honorable…
• For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of his glory. The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe
  unto their soul! For they have rewarded evil unto themselves…
• “As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths. The Lord standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people. The Lord will enter into
  judgement with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.”

Dive Deeper – Response to Wars & Rumors of Wars

• King Ahaz – rejects God 1
• 120k might men killed in one day
• 200k women and children taken captive
• King Hezekiah
• 185k Assyrians destroyed in 1 night by an Angel
• Shows off his wealth and armor to Babylon
• Happy there is peace in his day
• Ignores his son – creates the worst king in history

Dive Deeper – Response to Wars & Rumors of Wars

• Isa 22:10,13—And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall…and behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we shall die
• Prov 19:13—A foolish son is the calamity of his father…
• Isa 26:3-4—Thou will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee; because he trusteth in thee. Trust ye in the the Lord forever: for in the Lord JEHOVAH is everlasting strength.
• Isa 35:3-4, 10—Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompense; he will come and save you…and the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and morning shall flee away.
  
  

Dive Deeper – Confidence in Salvation

• Isa 40:29-31—He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with
  wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk and not faint.
• Isa 41:10, 13—Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee, yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness…For the Lord they God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear
  not; I will help thee.
• Isa 45:17, 18, 21, 22—But Israel shall be saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end. For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the Lord; and there is none else…a just God and a Savior; there is none besides me. Look unto me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.
• Isa 43:25—I, even I, am he that blotteth out they transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
• Isa 44:22—I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, they transgressions, and, as I cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
• Isa 59:1—Behold the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear.
• Isa 65:24—And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

Dive Deeper – Social Justice with the Sabbath will bring Joy

• Isa 56—Thus saith the Lord, keep ye judgement, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed. Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layette hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil…For thus saith the Lord unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant; even unto them will I give in my house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.
• Isa 56—“Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the Lord, to serve him, and to love the name of the Lord, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant; even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer…
• Isa 58—Is not this the fast that I have chosen? To loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? When thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thy own flesh? Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily…
• Isa 58—if thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honorable; and shalt honor him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord.
• Isa 61—The spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound…to comfort all that mourn…to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for morning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness…I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness.