The Faithful City
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Introduction
Introduction
Remption is glorious, but how does redemption happen?
“We sin our way into bondage”. Actually we are in bondage and sin is our way. Everyday we demonstrate that we deserve hell (God’s righteous judgment on sin)
In our passage we learn that redemption is accomplished by justice
“That’s where he wants to take us—through the conviction of sin into repentance, where we experience redemption “Raymond C. Ortlund
That’s where he wants to take us—through the conviction of sin into repentance, where we experience redemption “Raymond C. Ortlund .”
Raymond C. Ortlund Jr. 42.”
The Fall of the City (21-23)
The Fall of the City (21-23)
When the word harlot is used we are reminded of the theme of Hosea - thus marriage
The word “harlot” is emphatic
The wife should emulate who she is betrothed too by
He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing.
Deut
Father of the fatherless and protector of widows
is God in his holy habitation.
Psa
“And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to keep the commandments and statutes of the Lord, which I am commanding you today for your good? Behold, to the Lord your God belong heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth with all that is in it. Yet the Lord set his heart in love on your fathers and chose their offspring after them, you above all peoples, as you are this day. Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no longer stubborn.
Deut 10:12-
learn to do good;
seek justice,
correct oppression;
bring justice to the fatherless,
plead the widow’s cause.
What She Was
“full of justice” (if justice is seen as an administration of justic) - “judgment” KJV is correct - “By judgment we are to understand a condition in which the revealed will of God was positively realized”
“righteousness” - “s state which corresponds to a norm” i.e. the law that was in the ark was present in the city as it administered the civil laws
“lodged” - “dwelt” - the home of righteous administration - we can think of the high points in Israel’s history (David and especially Solomon”
What She is Now
“murderers” - one word - this is how the city can be characturized as a harlot -
she has departed from her God
she has departed from his law
she down plunders his people
The lodging place of righteousness is now the lodging place of murderers - The city were images of God dwelt is now a city were images of the advesary now dwells
We see here the unity of the covenant law - 1st table (harlotry) 2nd table (murder)
“Righteousness, that is, the carrying out of justice, dwelt here, that is, was in operation. Now, however, there are murderers” Luther
The Book of Isaiah: Volume 1, Chapters 1–18 b. An Appeal to Repentance (1:18–23)
Does Isaiah here simply present an ideal picture of Jerusalem’s past (Von Rad)? We would answer this question in the negative. We are not to understand the reign of David as one in which no unrighteousness is to be found. Essentially, however, David was a man after God’s own heart and so a type of the coming Messiah. In contrast with the present evil condition, the city, at that time, because of David’s basic devotion to God, could be called a city filled with righteousness.
The Future of the City (24-
The Future of the City (24-
The Just Retribution
The Just Retribution
What Happens
“get releif” = “gain one’s satisfaction” - judgement
Now the rest of the Jews who were in the king’s provinces also gathered to defend their lives, and got relief from their enemies and killed 75,000 of those who hated them, but they laid no hands on the plunder.
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Parallel with “avenge myself”
By Whom
Adonai
The recipients of the judgment are called “foe” & “enemies”. God’s people (collective) have become not His people (lo ami)
Not being His people means being His ememies who rightly deserve his wrath
The Restoration
The Restoration
in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, perceived in the books the number of years that, according to the word of the Lord to Jeremiah the prophet, must pass before the end of the desolations of Jerusalem, namely, seventy years.
Jer
“For thus says the Lord: When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will visit you, and I will fulfill to you my promise and bring you back to this place. For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you, declares the Lord, and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and all the places where I have driven you, declares the Lord, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile.
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This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. Then after seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, declares the Lord, making the land an everlasting waste.
These are the words of the covenant that the Lord commanded Moses to make with the people of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant that he had made with them at Horeb.
Deut
Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against this land, bringing upon it all the curses written in this book, and the Lord uprooted them from their land in anger and fury and great wrath, and cast them into another land, as they are this day.’
Deut 29
“And when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the Lord your God has driven you, and return to the Lord your God, you and your children, and obey his voice in all that I command you today, with all your heart and with all your soul, then the Lord your God will restore your fortunes and have mercy on you, and he will gather you again from all the peoples where the Lord your God has scattered you. If your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there he will take you. And the Lord your God will bring you into the land that your fathers possessed, that you may possess it. And he will make you more prosperous and numerous than your fathers. And the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring, so that you will love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live. And the Lord your God will put all these curses on your foes and enemies who persecuted you. And you shall again obey the voice of the Lord and keep all his commandments that I command you today. The Lord your God will make you abundantly prosperous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your womb and in the fruit of your cattle and in the fruit of your ground. For the Lord will again take delight in prospering you, as he took delight in your fathers, when you obey the voice of the Lord your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes that are written in this Book of the Law, when you turn to the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Deut
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