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Isaiah 8:1-22
Where do you turn when you are overtaken by fear?
What do you do when trouble is advancing on you and is all around you?
Isaiah receives the prophecy from the Lord before it happens and instructs Isaiah on what to do when it comes.
I.
The Lord Speaks to Isaiah.
(Vs1-4)
The Lord comes to Isaiah and instructs him to get a scroll and write on it “Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz”.
Isaiah asks Uriah and Zechariah to be witnesses to his doing this.
So then Isaiah goes into his wife and she conceives a son and the Lord tells Isaiah to name him “Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz” which means “swift to the plunder, quick to carry away”.
Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz means swift to plunder, quick to carry away.
Then God tells Isaiah before that child is old enough to say papa or mama, the king of Assyria will wipe out the Northern Kingdom and Syria.
God gives the when of the Assyrian invasion of the North.
He then turns his attention to Judah and the coming trouble or invasion upon them.
Just as sure as the invasion of the North was the coming of trouble to Judah.
II.
The Coming Trouble (Vs5-8)
Like the Northern Kingdom, Judah had rejected the safety and protection of God.
Shiloah was the brook at the foot of Mt Zion and it symbolized divine protection.
Because Judah refused these she would experience the flood of the mighty waters of the Euphrates which was the Assyrian army.
He will go up over the banks and pass through Judah and he will reach up to the neck, he fill the land.
He says something very interesting in verse 8 “Your land, O Immanuel”.
This land belongs to Jesus.
It is His land.
III.
The Deliverance of the Lord.
(Vs 9-10)
The Lord reassures that all the attempts at destroying Judah at this time would be futile.
All the boasting and threatenings would come to nought.
Go ahead armies, prepare yourselves, take counsel together and try as you might but it will not work.
I find this very interesting.
According to the account recorded in 2 Kings 19:35
Remember this is prophesied before it happens and in 2 Kings 19:35 it actually happens.
185,000 men surrounded Judah ready to destroy her and take her captive.
That night the Angel of the Lord appears and kills all 185,000 of them.
When morning comes there are corpses lying all over the place.
What I find the most interesting thing in all of this is back in Isaiah 8:10
Isaiah reveals that it is Immanuel or Jesus who delivers them.
Jesus was the Angel of Lord as a pre-incarnate Christ who killed the 185,000 that night.
Isaiah saw it before it happened the God is with us which is Immanuel.
Deliverance came from the Lord Jesus Christ.
IV.
The Response of Isaiah.
(Vs11-22)
How was Isaiah supposed to respond to this?
Where would he go from here?
There are four things God tells Isaiah to do when the trouble comes.
Do not respond like the World.
(Vs11)
2. Fear the Lord, not man.
(vs12-15)
3. Wait upon the Lord (vs16-18)
4. Seek the Word of God.
(Vs 19-22)
When trouble comes do not respond like the world, Fear the Lord, wait upon the Lord and seek the Word of God.
Then watch and see the deliverance of the Lord.
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