ISAIAH

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ISAIAH

• The Fifth Gospel

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Isaiah 11

• The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, concerning
  Judah and Jerusalem which he saw during the
  reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah,
  kings of Judah.

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Authorship of the Book

• The first half of the book deals with judgment
  while the second half of the book deals with the
  glory of Gods future hope
• The latter portion of the book has events during
  the Persian empire as its focus
• Isaiah not mentioned by name in the latter
  portion of the book

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Authorship of the Book

• The unity of the book of Isaiah was not brought
  into serious question until the rise of
  liberalism in the 19th century
• Dead Sea Scrolls showed a unified book
• Josephus speaks of how Cyrus the Great became
  aware of the prophecies about himself that were
  contained in the book of Isaiah (Antiquities
  1112).
• Isaiahs special title for God is the Holy One
  of Israel - used in both sections

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Isaiah the Man

• Evidence of high education and elite society
• A friend and a confidant of King Hezekiah
• From the ranks of the priesthood?

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His Family

• Maher-shalal-hash-baz (Isaiah 83)
• Speedy is the prey
• A promise of coming judgment
• Shear-jashub (Isaiah 73)
• A remnant shall return
• A promise of eventual restoration

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Isaiah 1

• A Microcosm of the Entire Book of Isaiah

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Isaiah 12-3

• 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.
• 3 An ox knows its owner,
• And a donkey its master's manger,
• But Israel does not know,
• My people do not understand.

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Isaiah 14

• Alas, sinful nation,
• People weighed down with iniquity,
• Offspring of evildoers,
• Sons who act corruptly!
• They have abandoned the Lord,
• They have despised the Holy One of Israel,
• They have turned away from Him.

Literally Seed of Evil Ones.
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Isaiah 110-11

• 10 Hear the word of the LORD,
• You rulers of Sodom
• Give ear to the instruction of our God,
• You people of Gomorrah.
• 11 "What are your multiplied sacrifices to Me?"
• Says the LORD.
• "I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams,
• And the fat of fed cattle.
• And I take no pleasure in the blood of bulls,
  lambs, or goats.

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Isaiah 121

• How the faithful city has become a harlot,
• She who was full of justice!
• Righteousness once lodged in her,
• But now murderers.

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Isaiah 126-27

• 26 Then I will restore your judges as at the
  first,
• And your counselors as at the beginning
• After that you will be called the city of
  righteousness,
• A faithful city."
• 27 Zion will be redeemed with justice
• And her repentant ones with righteousness.

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Isaiah 1-35
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Isaiah 61

• In the year of King Uzziah's death, I saw the
  Lord sitting on a throne, lofty and exalted, with
  the train of His robe filling the temple.

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Isaiah 62-4

• Seraphim stood above Him, each having six wings
  with two he covered his face, and with two he
  covered his feet, and with two he flew. 3 And one
  called out to another and said, Holy, Holy,
  Holy, is the LORD of hosts, The whole earth is
  full of His glory. 4 And the foundations of the
  thresholds trembled at the voice of him who
  called out, while the temple was filling with
  smoke.

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Isaiah 65

• Then I said, Woe is me, for I am ruined!
  Because I am a man of unclean lips, And I live
  among a people of unclean lips For my eyes have
  seen the King, the LORD of hosts.

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Isaiah 66-7

• Then one of the seraphim flew to me, with a
  burning coal in his hand which he had taken from
  the altar with tongs. 7 And he touched my mouth
  with it and said, Behold, this has touched your
  lips and your iniquity is taken away, and your
  sin is forgiven.

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Isaiah 71-2

• Now it came about in the days of Ahaz, the son
  of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that
  Rezin the king of Aram and Pekah the son of
  Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to
  wage war against it, but could not conquer it.
• When it was reported to the house of David,
  saying, The Arameans have camped in Ephraim,
  his heart and the hearts of his people shook as
  the trees of the forest shake with the wind.

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Aram
ASSYRIAN EMPIRE
Israel
Judah
Judah
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Isaiah 710-12

• Then the LORD spoke again to Ahaz, saying, 11
  Ask a sign for yourself from the LORD your God
  make it deep as Sheol or high as heaven. 12
  But Ahaz said, I will not ask, nor will I test
  the LORD!

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Isaiah 713-16

• Then he said, Listen now, O house of David! Is
  it too slight a thing for you to try the patience
  of men, that you will try the patience of my God
  as well?
• 14 Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a
  sign Behold, a virgin will be with child and
  bear a son, and she will call His name Immanuel.
  15 He will eat curds and honey at the time He
  knows enough to refuse evil and choose good. 16
  For before the boy will know enough to refuse
  evil and choose good, the land whose two kings
  you dread will be forsaken.

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Child Motif

• Shear-jashub (Isaiah 73)
• Immanu-el (Isaiah 714 88)
• Maher-shalal-hash.baz (Isaiah 83)
• Isaiahs children (Isaiah 818)
• The Royal Child (Isaiah 96-7).

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Isaiah 715-16

• He will eat curds and honey at the time He knows
  enough to refuse evil and choose good. 16 For
  before the boy will know enough to refuse evil
  and choose good, the land whose two kings you
  dread will be forsaken.

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Isaiah 717-19

• The LORD will bring on you, on your people, and
  on your father's house such days as have never
  come since the day that Ephraim separated from
  Judah, the king of Assyria. 18 And it will come
  about in that day, that the LORD will whistle for
  the fly that is in the remotest part of the
  rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the
  land of Assyria. 19 And they will all come and
  settle on the steep ravines, on the ledges of the
  cliffs, on all the thorn bushes, and on all the
  watering places.

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Isaiah 714
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Lessons from Isaiah 7

• Jesus is the Promised Messiah
• God is with us
• The continuing presence of God
• A Sign for a Particular Situation

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Isaiah 91-2

• 1 But there will be no more gloom for her who
  was in anguish in earlier times He treated the
  land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali with
  contempt, but later on He shall make it glorious,
  by the way of the sea, on the other side of
  Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles.
• 2 The people who walk in darkness
• Will see a great light
• Those who live in a dark land,
• The light will shine on them.

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Naphtali
Zebulun
? Jerusalem
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Isaiah 96

• For a child will be born to us, a son will be
  given to us
• And the government will rest on His shoulders
• And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor,
  Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.

Hebraism for one who is Eternal
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Historical Interlude

• Isaiah 36-39

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Isaiah 361

• Now it came about in the fourteenth year of King
  Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up
  against all the fortified cities of Judah and
  seized them.

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Isaiah 362-3

• And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from
  Lachish to Jerusalem to King Hezekiah with a
  large army. And he stood by the conduit of the
  upper pool on the highway of the fuller's field.
  3 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over
  the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah
  the son of Asaph, the recorder, came out to him.

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Isaiah 3736-37

• 36 Then the angel of the LORD went out, and
  struck 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians and
  when men arose early in the morning, behold, all
  of these were dead.
• 37 So Sennacherib, king of Assyria, departed and
  returned home, and lived at Nineveh.

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Taylor Prism

• Discovered by Austen Henry Layard in 1847
• Sennacheribs account of the campaign
• As for Hezekiah the Jew Himself, like a caged
  bird, I shut up in Jerusalem, his royal city

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Isaiah 40-66
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Isaiah 401
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"Comfort, O comfort My people," says your God.

• "Speak kindly to Jerusalem
• And call out to her, that her warfare has ended,
• That her iniquity has been removed,
• That she has received of the LORD's hand
• Double for all her sins."

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Isaiah 411
Coastlands, listen to Me in silence, And let the
peoples gain new strength Let them come forward,
then let them speak Let us come together for
judgment.
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Isaiah 412-3
2 Who has aroused one from the east Whom He calls
in righteousness to His feet? He delivers up
nations before him, And subdues kings. He makes
them like dust with his sword, As the wind-driven
chaff with his bow. 3 He pursues them, passing on
in safety, By a way he had not been traversing
with his feet.
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Isaiah 418-10
8 But you, Israel, My servant, Jacob whom I have
chosen, Descendant of Abraham My friend, 9 You
whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, And
called from its remotest parts, And said to you,
You are My servant, I have chosen you and not
rejected you.
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Isaiah 4121-22
21 Present your case, the LORD says. Bring
forward your strong arguments, The King of Jacob
says. 22 Let them bring forth and declare to us
what is going to take place As for the former
events, declare what they were, That we may
consider them, and know their outcome Or
announce to us what is coming.
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Isaiah 4123
Declare the things that are going to come
afterward, That we may know that you are
gods Indeed, do good or evil, that we may
anxiously look about us and fear together.
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Isaiah 4124
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Behold, you are of no account, And your work
amounts to nothing He who chooses you is an
abomination.
I have aroused one from the north, and he has
come From the rising of the sun he will call on
My name And he will come upon rulers as upon
mortar, Even as the potter treads clay.
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Isaiah 4428 - 451
28 It is I who says of Cyrus, 'He is My
shepherd! And he will perform all My desire.' And
he declares of Jerusalem, 'She will be
built,' And of the temple, 'Your foundation will
be laid.'" 1 Thus says the LORD to Cyrus His
anointed, Whom I have taken by the right hand, To
subdue nations before him, And to loose the loins
of kings To open doors before him so that gates
will not be shut
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Isaiah 421-2
1 Behold, My Servant, whom I uphold My chosen
one in whom My soul delights. I have put My
Spirit upon Him He will bring forth justice to
the nations. 2 He will not cry out or raise His
voice, Nor make His voice heard in the street.
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Isaiah 423-4
3 A bruised reed He will not break, And a dimly
burning wick He will not extinguish He will
faithfully bring forth justice. 4 He will not be
disheartened or crushed, Until He has established
justice in the earth And the coastlands will
wait expectantly for His law.
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Cyrus and Jesus
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Exaltation 5310-12
Exaltation 5213-15
Rejection 531-3
Rejection 537-9
Suffering 534-6
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Isaiah 534
Surely our griefs He Himself bore, And our
sorrows He carried Yet we ourselves esteemed Him
stricken, Smitten of God, and afflicted.
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Isaiah 535
But He was pierced through for our
transgressions, He was crushed for our
iniquities The chastening for our well-being
fell upon Him, And by His scourging we are
healed.
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Isaiah 536
All of us like sheep have gone astray, Each of us
has turned to his own way But the LORD has
caused the iniquity of us all To fall on Him
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Israels Need The Servants Remedy

• Our griefs (534)

• He Himself bore (534)

• Our sorrows (534)

• He carried (534)

• For our transgressions (535)

• He was pierced (535)

• For our iniquites (535)

• He was crushed (534)

• For our well-being (535)

• The chastening fell upon Him (535)

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Israels Need The Servants Remedy

• In need of healing (535)

• By His scourging (535)

• All we like sheep have gone astray (536)

• The Lord has caused the iniquity of us all to
  fall on Him (536)

• For the transgression of my people to whom the
  stroke was due (538)

• He was cut off out of the land of the living
  (538)

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