God's COmpassion on His Friends
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Intro:
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We studied last week about the destruction God pronounced against Babylon. Recall that although Assyria was the world ruler when these prophesies were given, God had declared the rise of Babylon and its fall.
Just as we saw destruction last week, we will see restoration this week. Isaiah 14 is a promise from God to restore Judah and enable them to taunt their enemies.
The Salvation
The Salvation
For the Lord will have compassion on Jacob and will again choose Israel, and will set them in their own land, and sojourners will join them and will attach themselves to the house of Jacob.
And the peoples will take them and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will possess them in the Lord’s land as male and female slaves. They will take captive those who were their captors, and rule over those who oppressed them.
When the Lord has given you rest from your pain and turmoil and the hard service with which you were made to serve,
God promises to forgive, restore and resettle His people
Their captivity would be reversed.
The prophet is looking ahead to final Babylon at the end of the tribulation.
The language used here is a match for conditions during the millennial kingdom after the judgment.
The destruction of Babylon and Israel’s deliverance are closely connected.
Babylon perishes & Israel will once more be exalted
We will see more of this in chapters 40-46
v. 1 sojourners will join them
These strangers are those who have been united with Israel. Jewish proselytes who join them in the final earthly Kingdom of Christ.
v. 2 Captors taken Captive
the roles are reversed
MacArthur Study Bible NASB Commentary
Instead of their miserable state of captivity, endured in the tribulation under Antichrist, the Israelites will be the rulers of those nations that once dominated them.
V. 3 Rest
This is a picture of the future earthly Kingdom
Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out,
that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send the Christ appointed for you, Jesus,
whom heaven must receive until the time for restoring all the things about which God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets long ago.
The Sarcasm
The Sarcasm
(Is 14:4-21)
Israel is encouraged to taunt her enemies since GOD had delivered them
MacArthur Study Bible NASB (Commentary)
The prophet instructed the delivered nation to sing the song of vv. 4–21, celebrating the downfall of the king of Babylon. the king of Babylon. This could refer to the final Antichrist, who will rule Babylon, which will rule the earth oppressor has ceased. The nation that made life bitter for God’s people disappeared
you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon: “How the oppressor has ceased, the insolent fury ceased!
The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of rulers,
that struck the peoples in wrath with unceasing blows, that ruled the nations in anger with unrelenting persecution.
The whole earth is at rest and quiet; they break forth into singing.
The cypresses rejoice at you, the cedars of Lebanon, saying, ‘Since you were laid low, no woodcutter comes up against us.’
Sheol beneath is stirred up to meet you when you come; it rouses the shades to greet you, all who were leaders of the earth; it raises from their thrones all who were kings of the nations.
All of them will answer and say to you: ‘You too have become as weak as we! You have become like us!’
Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, the sound of your harps; maggots are laid as a bed beneath you, and worms are your covers.
Ultimate Enemy
“How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low!
You said in your heart, ‘I will ascend to heaven; above the stars of God I will set my throne on high; I will sit on the mount of assembly in the far reaches of the north;
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.’
The language is much too sweeping and expressive to be talking only about one human being
Jesus used v 12 to describe Satan’s fall.
This may have a symbolic meaning of describing The King of Babylon who exalted himself falling as some have suggested
His attitude said: He will rule above even the stars; he will sit on the highest mountaintop, from which the king of the gods rules; he will ascend into the highest heaven (“above the tops of the clouds”); and he will become equal to God himself. Isaiah recognizes that when we make our own selves the most important thing in our world, we are usurping the rightful place of God
John N. Oswalt, Isaiah, The NIV Application Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 2003), 210.
Since Jesus uses this for Satan, we definitely have a reference to Satan’s fall.
5 I wills v. 13-14
They illustration the arrogance of Satan
He wanted to replace GOD as the Most High
Death awaits all who want to displace God
But you are brought down to Sheol, to the far reaches of the pit.
This final section discusses the disgrace of the king, on display before all as an uburried corpse
Those who see you will stare at you and ponder over you: ‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who shook kingdoms,
who made the world like a desert and overthrew its cities, who did not let his prisoners go home?’
All the kings of the nations lie in glory, each in his own tomb;
but you are cast out, away from your grave, like a loathed branch, clothed with the slain, those pierced by the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit, like a dead body trampled underfoot.
You will not be joined with them in burial, because you have destroyed your land, you have slain your people. “May the offspring of evildoers nevermore be named!
Prepare slaughter for his sons because of the guilt of their fathers, lest they rise and possess the earth, and fill the face of the world with cities.”
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Israel is invited to taunt its enemies, Babylon especially
Conclusion:
Conclusion:
Pride.
When we think of human pride, we think first of all of the will.
It is the human will that has gone astray, that reverses the words of Jesus (Mark 14:36) and says, “Not thy will but mine be done.”
And he said, “Abba, Father, all things are possible for you. Remove this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.”
For what is human pride except an attempt to set ourselves up in the place of God in our world?
Notice the five recurrences of the pronoun “I” in Isa. 14:13–14. Pride is to place myself and my will at the center of creation.
Sadly, we see that on full display today
The world tells us to place ourselves on the throne of our lives instead of God
What we feel, desire, wish was right, becomes right today
What arrogance!
How dare we think we can cast God off the throne and take HIs place.
Now, you don’t hear many saying that, but isn’t that EXACTLY what they are doing when they call evil good and good evil?
When they reject the word of GOD and bow to their own sinful lusts?
Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
How do we overcome Pride?
Adopt a correct view of God
Revise your false beliefs
Repent of your sin
Flee Temptation
John N. Oswalt, Isaiah, The NIV Application Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 2003), 212.nclusion: