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Isaiah 1:1
We can know, because God has spoken.
Into our troubled world, God has spoken to us “from the borders of another world.”2
Our needs go deeper than the remedies on sale in the marketplace of ideas today.
Whether you are a believer or an unbeliever, wouldn’t you agree that “the solution of the riddle of life in space and time lies outside space and time”?3
No matter how many experts we consult or how much research we do, the ultimate questions of life remain unanswerable unless God speaks.
And God has spoken to us, in plain language.
Surprisingly, his message is good news for bad people like us.
Will you listen to him thoughtfully, patiently?
Into our troubled world, God has spoken to us “from the borders of another world.”
Raymond C. Ortlund Jr
God spoke eloquently through Isaiah.
If you have any interest in the Bible at all, Isaiah will reward a close reading.
It is “the most theologically significant book in the Old Testament.”4
“Of all the books in the Old Testament, Isaiah is perhaps the richest.”5
“From ancient times Isaiah has been considered the greatest of the Old Testament prophets.”6
The scholars who know what they are talking about prize Isaiah.
What Bach’s first biographer said about his music applies to Isaiah’s prophecy:
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[Bach’s music] is not merely agreeable, like other composers’, but transports us to the regions of the ideal.
It does not arrest our attention momentarily but grips us the stronger the oftener we listen to it so that, after a thousand hearings, its treasures are still unexhausted and yield fresh beauties to excite our wonder.7
Our needs go deeper than the remedies on sale in the marketplace of ideas today.
Whether you are a believer or an unbeliever, wouldn’t you agree that “the solution of the riddle of life in space and time lies outside space and time”?3
No matter how many experts we consult or how much research we do, the ultimate questions of life remain unanswerable unless God speaks.
And God has spoken to us, in plain language.
Surprisingly, his message is good news for bad people like us.
Will you listen to him thoughtfully, patiently?
Our needs go deeper than the remedies on sale in the marketplace of ideas today.
Whether you are a believer or an unbeliever, wouldn’t you agree that “the solution of the riddle of life in space and time lies outside space and time”?3
No matter how many experts we consult or how much research we do, the ultimate questions of life remain unanswerable unless God speaks.
And God has spoken to us, in plain language.
Surprisingly, his message is good news for bad people like us.
Will you listen to him thoughtfully, patiently?
Isaiah deserves better than to be a “classic” — a famous book nobody reads anymore.
His prophecy isn’t always easy to understand.
But every day all around the world people take on challenges, from climbing the Matterhorn to learning Japanese to launching a new business.
If God has spoken to us through Isaiah, let’s explore this literary Matterhorn.
Let’s enjoy the view from the very top, and even the effort of getting there.
Let’s reach out for new understandings.
God spoke eloquently through Isaiah.
If you have any interest in the Bible at all, Isaiah will reward a close reading.
It is “the most theologically significant book in the Old Testament.”4
“Of all the books in the Old Testament, Isaiah is perhaps the richest.”5
“From ancient times Isaiah has been considered the greatest of the Old Testament prophets.”6
The scholars who know what they are talking about prize Isaiah.
Let us begin: “The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah” (1:1).
This heading invites three questions: What?
Who? When?
WHAT?
Isaiah deserves better than to be a “classic” — a famous book nobody reads anymore.
His prophecy isn’t always easy to understand.
But every day all around the world people take on challenges, from climbing the Matterhorn to learning Japanese to launching a new business.
If God has spoken to us through Isaiah, let’s explore this literary Matterhorn.
Let’s enjoy the view from the very top, and even the effort of getting there.
Let’s reach out for new understandings.
“The vision of Isaiah . . .
which he saw . .
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This book is a prophetic vision.
Not that Isaiah went into a trance, for 2:1 says that Isaiah saw a “word” from God.
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