Isaiah 1
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Introduction
Isaiah is referred to by many as the 5th gospel as it is quoted more than any other book in the OT. Interestingly there are 66 books in the Bible and 66 chapters in Isaiah.
Can anyone think of familiar chapters in Isaiah? 1, sins 6, vision 7, virgin birth 9, a Son is Given 14, Lucifer 40, those who wait 50, 52, 53, Messiah, 65 - Millennial Reign, and many many more .
The vision of Isaiah: This is the book of the prophesies of Isaiah, the son of Amoz, who ministered from about 740 to 680 B.C.. For about 20 years, he spoke to both the northern kingdom of Israel and the southern kingdom of Judah. After Israel's fall to the Assyrians in 722 B.C., Isaiah continued to prophesy to Judah.
i. This period of Israel's history is told in through 21 and through 33. Isaiah was a contemporary of the prophets Hosea and Micah. By the time of Isaiah, the prophets Elijah, Elisha, Obadiah, Joel, Jonah, and Amos had already completed their ministry.
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.
It is believed that Isaiah lived into the reign on Manasseh, son of Hezekiah. Hezekiah was a Godly King but Manasseh was evil one. The worst in the history of Judah. It is believed that the reference in of some being sawed in two was of Isaiah.
There is "a strong Judeo-Christian tradition that holds that Isaiah also outlived Hezekiah and was sawn asunder by his successor Manasseh with a wooden saw after the prophet had hidden himself in a hollow tree from the angry king." (Bultema)
Many modern scholars think that there was more than one author to the book of Isaiah. They throw about terms like "Deutero-Isaiah" and "Trito-Isaiah" or the "Isaianic School." The New Testament quotes Isaiah by name more than all the other writing prophets combined. In , John quotes from both the "first" part of Isaiah and the "second" part of Isaiah - the parts supposedly written by two or more different Isaiahs - and specifically says it is the same Isaiah.
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2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth!
For the Lord has spoken:
“I have nourished and brought up children,
And they have rebelled against Me;
3 The ox knows its owner
And the donkey its master’s crib;
But Israel does not know,
My people do not consider.”
4 Alas, sinful nation,
A people laden with iniquity,
A brood of evildoers,
Children who are corrupters!
They have forsaken the Lord,
They have provoked to anger
The Holy One of Israel,
They have turned away backward.
Now it is assumed that the first 5 chapters are written during the reign of Isaiah. Chapter 6 begins with “In the year that King Uzziah died..”. Uzziah was a great King. Almost a superstar King. He followed the Lord and during his reign there was a superficial faith among the people. People were going to temple and observing the Law and Feasts, e.g. Passover and Tabernacles, but their heart was not into it.
It’s as if Isaiah is calling out to the heavens and the earth because the people are not listening. All parents know the frustration of kids who disobey and will not listen.
vs 3 God’s complaint against Judah was that they did not know Him. Even a donkey can find it’s way home.
Notice the adjective used in verse 4. What are they?
Laden with iniquity, Brood of evildoers, corrupters, backsliders. (Lit. to show your rear end)
How do you know if you are backslid-en?
5 Why should you be stricken again?
You will revolt more and more.
The whole head is sick,
And the whole heart faints.
6 From the sole of the foot even to the head,
There is no soundness in it,
But wounds and bruises and putrefying sores;
They have not been closed or bound up,
Or soothed with ointment.
7 Your country is desolate,
Your cities are burned with fire;
Strangers devour your land in your presence;
And it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
8 So the daughter of Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard,
As a hut in a garden of cucumbers,
As a besieged city.
9 Unless the Lord of hosts
Had left to us a very small remnant,
We would have become like Sodom,
We would have been made like Gomorrah.
10 Hear the word of the Lord,
You rulers of Sodom;
Give ear to the law of our God,
You people of Gomorrah:
11 “To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to Me?”
Says the Lord.
“I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams
And the fat of fed cattle.
I do not delight in the blood of bulls,
Or of lambs or goats.
12 “When you come to appear before Me,
Who has required this from your hand,
To trample My courts?
13 Bring no more futile sacrifices;
Incense is an abomination to Me.
The New Moons, the Sabbaths, and the calling of assemblies—
I cannot endure iniquity and the sacred meeting.
14 Your New Moons and your appointed feasts
My soul hates;
They are a trouble to Me,
I am weary of bearing them.
15 When you spread out your hands,
I will hide My eyes from you;
Even though you make many prayers,
I will not hear.
Your hands are full of blood.
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In this section God is pleading to a people that thinks everything is OK. They are going through the motions of religious worship but internally they were sick. Jesus said in
“Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy about you, saying: ‘These people draw near to Me with their mouth, and honor Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me. And in vain they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.'”
Have you ever noticed an addicted person, whether, drugs, alcohol, sex, porn or what ever they have no concept of how bad the look and are. Vs 6 gives a vivid picture of how God sees them:
From the sole of the foot even to the head,
There is no soundness in it,
But wounds and bruises and putrefying sores;
They have not been closed or bound up,
Or soothed with ointment.
Verses 7- 10 Is Gods perception of Judah. They were just like Sodom and Gomorrah. Interestingly, :8 also refers to Jerusalem as Sodom.
Now in Verse 11 - 15, God gives His view of their worship when their heart is not into it.
“To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to Me?”
Says the LORD.
“I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams
And the fat of fed cattle.
I do not delight in the blood of bulls,
Or of lambs or goats.
Think of David
For You do not desire sacrifice, or else I would give it;
You do not delight in burnt offering.
17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit,
A broken and a contrite heart—
These, O God, You will not despise.
12 “When you come to appear before Me,
Who has required this from your hand,
To trample My courts?
God hates when we are just going through the motions!
13 Bring no more futile sacrifices;
Incense is an abomination to Me.
The New Moons, the Sabbaths, and the calling of assemblies—
I cannot endure iniquity and the sacred meeting.
14 Your New Moons and your appointed feasts
My soul hates;
They are a trouble to Me,
I am weary of bearing them.
15 When you spread out your hands,
I will hide My eyes from you;
Even though you make many prayers,
I will not hear.
Just because some is praying doesnt mean God is listening!
If I regard iniquity in my heart,
The Lord will not hear.
Your hands are full of blood.
Now , Isaiah gives a message of hope.
Verses 16 - 10
“Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean;
Put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes.
Cease to do evil,
17 Learn to do good;
How do we learn to do good? Gods word
Seek justice,
Seek justice,
Rebuke the oppressor;
Defend the fatherless,
Plead for the widow.
Now we come to God’s offer to reason, to be reasonable think of how reasonable God’s offer of salvation through Christ is!
But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart”
. (that is, the word of faith which we preach): 9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
18 “Come now, and let us reason together,”
Says the LORD,
“Though your sins are like scarlet,
Idea of twice dyed. Impossible to remove.
They shall be as white as snow;
Though they are red like crimson,
They shall be as wool.
Crimson is towlah in Hebrew.
"When the female of the scarlet worm species was ready to give birth to her young, she would attach her body to the trunk of a tree, fixing herself so firmly and permanently that she would never leave again. The eggs deposited beneath her body were thus protected until the larvae were hatched and able to enter their own life cycle. As the mother died, the crimson fluid stained her body and the surrounding wood. From the dead bodies of such female scarlet worms, the commercial scarlet dyes of antiquity were extracted. What a picture this gives of Christ, dying on the tree, shedding his precious blood that he might 'bring many sons unto glory' (Hbr 2:10)! He died for us, that we might live through him! describes such a worm and gives us this picture of Christ. (cf. )"
19 If you are willing and obedient,
19 If you are willing and obedient,
You shall eat the good of the land;
20 But if you refuse and rebel,
You shall be devoured by the sword”;
For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.
How the faithful city has become a harlot!
Spiritual Harlotry. Idols found in the ruins of ancient Jerusalem.
It was full of justice;
Righteousness lodged in it,
But now murderers.
22 Your silver has become dross,
Dross is the impurities removed in the refining process. He is saying there is no silver left, only dross.
Your wine mixed with water.
23 Your princes are rebellious,
And companions of thieves;
Everyone loves bribes,
What is a bribe intended to do?
So much of this sounds like America today. “And you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the discerning and perverts the words of the righteous.
And follows after rewards.
They do not defend the fatherless,
Nor does the cause of the widow come before them.
24 Therefore the Lord says,
The LORD of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel,
“Ah, I will rid Myself of My adversaries,
And take vengeance on My enemies.
25 I will turn My hand against you,
And thoroughly purge away your dross,
And take away all your alloy.
26 I will restore your judges as at the first,
And your counselors as at the beginning.
Afterward you shall be called the city of righteousness, the faithful city.”
27 Zion shall be redeemed with justice,
And her penitents with righteousness.
28 The destruction of transgressors and of sinners shall be together,
And those who forsake the LORD shall be consumed.
29 For they shall be ashamed of the terebinth trees
Which you have desired;
And you shall be embarrassed because of the gardens
Which you have chosen.
30 For you shall be as a terebinth whose leaf fades,
And as a garden that has no water.
31 The strong shall be as tinder,
And the work of it as a spark;
Both will burn together,
And no one shall quench them.
In the end what get what we desire and choose. What will we Choose?