Isaiah 1-9

Beginning 1-2

The Uplifting Hope Bible study podcast episode 1. Today the Uplifting Hope Bible study begins its Study with the Book of Isaiah Verse 1-9

Welcome to the Uplifting Hope Bible Study Podcast I am your host Anthony Cox we begin our study with the Book of Isaiah

Isaiah was a man who was filled with the spirit and strong in the Lord, like you.

But he was different also, where we are locked in time, unable to know what tomorrow brings, Isaiah stood outside of time, and saw aspects of human history past, present and future.

He saw hundreds of future events. he saw the rise and fall of Babylon even before its existence.

96 years before Babylon became a world power, Isaiah prophesied that they would be involved in judgment of Judah.

But even more, in clear and powerful detail, he saw Christ. He saw Christ glorified and glorious, even before Christ humbled himself to be born into this world.

Isaiah foretold the suffering and sacrifice of Christ, and his victory.

Isaiah is quoted more than fifty times in the New Testament

• The “Paul of the Old Testament”

• The Shakespeare of the prophets”

God summons to court, his religious-yet-wicked children for their many sins and pleads with them to repent so he can save them.

The World Messianic Bible (World English Bible | WEB) (Chapter 1)

1 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.

2 Hear, heavens,

and listen, earth; for the LORD has spoken:

So who was he speaking to. On the surface he is speaking to the Southern Kingdom of Isrial

Romans 8:22 (WMB)

22 For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.

Also

Romans 8:19 (WMB)

For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.

Hebrews 12:1 (WMB)

Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us

These verses teaches us that all of creation is groaning, waiting, watching , and listening

He is not just speaking to the southern Kingdom, or only to heaven or only to the people of earth. he is speaking to all of creation’

Isaiah 1:2–3 (WMB)

“I have nourished and brought up children

and they have rebelled against me.

You who are parents, imagine how broken hearted you would be if you had to speak those words.

It cost between 15 to 18 grand a year to raise a child to adult hood, and you pay it not even considering the money.

You bless them, you give your heart and soul to protecting them, to raise them right.

You nurture them as babies, you discipline them as children because you love them, willing to give your own life for them without thinking twice, and all they give back to you is rebellion, and indifference.

Something I pray none of you ever have to suffer.

Imagine that, and you will know not even a tenth of what our heavenly father feels.

The bible tells us

Matthew 7:11 (WMB)

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

So if we, being evil would be suffer from our children rebelling, how much more would our heavenly father who is in heaven suffer for his children rebelling.

Verse 3 goes on.

The ox knows his owner,

and the donkey his master’s crib;

but Israel doesn’t know.

My people don’t consider.”

Isaiah 1:4 KJV 1900

Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, A seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: They have forsaken the Lord, They have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, They are gone away backward.

His children were so sinful that it threatened to destroy them.

They were depraved

A nation of evil, who had contempt for the Lord, a nation who had completely abandoned him.

and their rebellion persisted no matter how much the Lord them.

Isaiah 1:5 WMB

Why should you be beaten more, that you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

It is rare that a person follows God from an early age, and stays all the days of their lives.

Most of us, and when I say most of us I mean me, went our own way and had to be beaten by the Lord, or guided by the Lord, our shepherd, mostly though trial and tribulation, most likely through our shepherds rod that strikes us, until until the strong holds inside are destroyed and we are left come to the end of ourselves and cry out to him.

Stephen Charnock once said

We often learn more under the rod that strikes us, than under the staff that comforts us.

And this is true for God’s children today

Psalm 23:4 WMB

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

This was not true for ancient Israel. Their harts were so hard that the more the Lord beat them, the harder their hearts became.

The harvest was not ripe for the picking.

Not yet

Isaiah 1:6 (WMB)

From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it,

but wounds, welts, and open sores.

They haven’t been closed, bandaged, or soothed with oil.

While they lived in rebellion what the Lord saw were his children, his precious children beaten and bloody.

He wasn't even really mad at them, all he wanted to do was heal them.

That is why he was pleading with them, all he wanted was for them to come to him and let him.

He wanted them and us of the wounds that he inflicted.

Hebrews 12:6 (WMB)

for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines,

and chastises every son whom he receives.”

Deuteronomy 32:39 (WMB)“

I kill and I make alive.

I wound and I heal.

There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.

Isaiah 1:7 WMB

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.

The Lord sees the beginning from the end, he warned his people that this would happen.

Deuteronomy 28:49 (WMB)

The LORD will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies: a nation whose language you will not understand,

Isaiah 1:8 WMB

The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a field of melons, like a besieged city.

Isaiah 1:9 WMB

Unless the LORD of Hosts had left to us a very small remnant, we would have been as Sodom. We would have been like Gomorrah.

The end of verse 9

Jeremiah 29:11 WMB

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,” says the LORD, “thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

Amazing Grace how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me.

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