Isaiah 43:18,19

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Isaiah4318,19

• Do not remember the earlier things,
• And the former things, do not consider them.
• Pay Attention! Im doing a new thing,
• Its springing forth, dont you recognize it?
• Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness and
  rivers in the desert

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Second Isaiah

• Isaiah actually three separate books
• Second Isaiah aimed at a Post-Exilic Israel
• Switches from tone of judgement to consolation
  and hope
• Prophesies reversal of fortunes for Israel
  through a foreign conqueror Cyrus the Messiah

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Isaiah 42 43

• Commissioning of a servant
• Praise of YHWH
• Divine reassurance
• Announcement that God will lead the people back
• Forgiveness of sins

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4318, 19

• Do not remember the earlier things
• release from slavery through the Reed Sea
• God makes/does a new thing
• New things will totally outweigh any glory or
  punishment of the past
• New order

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Second Corinthians517

• Thus, if someone in Christ is a new creation,
  then the old things passed away. Look! They have
  already become new!

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2 Corinthians 3-5

• Emphasizes difference between message of the
  world and the gospel
• New creation
• Old things pass away
• Reflection on Isaianic passages describing
  restoration and cosmic renewal
• Ministry of Reconciliation

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REVELATION215

• And the one sitting on the throne said, Pay
  attention! Im making everything new! and he
  says Write! Because these words are trustworthy
  and true.

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Revelation

• Description of End of Time (?)?
• Final tribulations
• New heavens, new earth, new Jerusalem
• End of suffering, beginning of reign of God

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Revelation 21

• Begins description of new order
• First things pass away
• God makes things new
• Followed by description of New Jerusalem
  (paradise)?

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Common Themes

• Isaiah and 2 Corinthians
• New creation in God
• Blind servant and walking by faith, not by sight
• Isaiah and Revelation
• New Jerusalem and return from exile
• New heavens and new earth (Isa 6517, 6622)?

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Common Themes

• New heavens and new earth (Isa. 6517, 6622)?
• Common Tradition
• God living among people

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Grammatical Ties

• All three use ka/inh, as opposed to other words
  (e.g. ne/oß)?
• opposition to old things
• aÓrcaiva and prw?ta
• use and tense of poiw?
• relation to hRcOo

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Grammatical Ties

• Verb tense in Corinthians and Revelation
• All three use i?dou\

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Conclusions
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• Did Paul and John have Isaiah in mind when they
  wrote?
• Common traditions
• Grammatical evidence
• Christian appropriation of Isaiah

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• Why is Isaiah cited in 2 Corinthians and
  Revelation?
• Gods work
• Theme of newness
• Living as a new creation

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• What are the theological implications of this
  connection?
• Nature of God
• Work of God
• Renewal
• Creation

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