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Book of Isaiah - a try at briefly summarizing - though this is only Part 1, it’s all the Isaiah study for this year, and it gives a good picture of the entire book.
Next: Micah
1:1 These are the visions that Isaiah son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem during the years of four kings. (Listed in the verses.) 2 The LORD (God) has said, "Listen, oh heaven and earth! The children I raised have turned against me. {Surely(?) Israel is the micro, global is the macro.}
Isaiah saw God’s throne in the temple.. his radiant train of light fills the temple as well as smoke from the glory.. Seraphim call “holy, holy, holy” to one another and the sound causes the foundations of the earthly temple to shake..
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Isaiah’s message was a calling to Judah to turn back to God, and then to declare the coming Messiah.
CHAPTERS 1-39, Isaiah points out the errors of both North and South Kingdoms of Israel, and declares consequences to them and the neighboring nations.. “Cease to do evil” (1:16). “The Lord Himself will give you a sign! LOOK! A virgin will be with child (Rev.12:1-2) and will birth a son. She will call His name Immanuel” [shem - name, renown (“God with us”) 7:14, Mt:1:22-24].
CHAPTERS 40-55 - the return and restoration after the exile from Babylon. “There is no God besides Me” (44:6,8; 45:5,6,14,18,21). Messiah will come and bring new life through His death, “He was oppressed and afflicted, yet didn’t speak in defense. He was like a lamb going to slaughter. And like a sheep, silent before its shearer..” (53:7).
CHAPTERS 56-66 - The new Heavens and Earth, great reward for trusting and obeying God.. hope for the suffering and judgment for the evil - “For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things {waywardness} will not come up in the heart nor come to mind” (65:17).
ISAIAH 1:3 The ox knows its owner. The donkey its master’s manger/trough/supply, but Israel {and humanity} don’t know ..don’t understand.” 4 ..They’ve forsaken ..turned their backs.. and (thus?) they err. {Translated sin.} 5 ..The whole head/reality is sick ..the whole heart faint. 6 From sole of foot to top of head there is no soundness/battered— only bruises, wounds, sores, not cleansed, bandaged nor soothed with olive oil. 7 Your country lies in ruins, your towns are burned. Foreigners plunder your fields as you watch like overthrown by strangers. 8 City abandoned.. 9 Unless the LORD Almighty had left us some survivors.. 11 ..I take no pleasure in your sacrifices.. 12 who asked you to trample my courts? 13 ..wickedness in the councils.. 14 the new moon feasts, the holy day festivals.. a burden to me.. 15 {For} Your hands are full of blood, I don’t hear your prayers though they become many. 16 ..Stop doing wrong.. 17 Learn to do right. Seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow. 18 “Come now, let’s settle this,” says the LORD. “Though your sins [chet - wrongs, from chata - to miss, go wrong, wrongs] are like scarlet - I - will make them as white as snow.. as white as wool. 19 If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the best of the land! 1:20 But if you turn away and refuse to listen, the sword devours {entropy, is wrath kindled lightly, imo, whereas fiery conflagrations of war and armageddon, is wrath/cause and effect, greatly kindled}.
And thus, has spoken the LORD..
1:21 - The city.. a prostitute, streets used to be of righteousness and justice, but now murderers lodge.. 22 The value of your silver/money has fallen away.. 25 I will turn my hand upon you and purge away your dross. {N.T. “chaff off the kernel of wheat”.} 28 The crashing [sheber - breaking, fracturing, breaching, crushing (or) crashing] of the rebels and sinners [chatta - from chata - to miss, go wrong] will be together. Those who forsake Yahweh shall be consumed {earthly, via entropy or fiery flames of war and destruction; nowhere does it say afterlife.}. 30 ..Like an oak tree whose leaves have faded, like a garden with no water.
1:31 - The mighty will be as tinder and their works a spark. Which no person can put out. (Verse 15 - Even if you offer prayers, I will not listen, your hands are full of blood. Micah 3:6,7 - “The day will go dark for them, they will cover their faces because there is no answer from elohim {the gods? they served?}
2:1 This {great vision} is what Isaiah, son of Amoz has seen concerning Jerusalem and Judah. 2 It shall come to pass, in latter days [acharith - the after-part, end] the mountain, of the house of Yahweh, will be established and exalted. All nations will flow to it, 3 and many will say, “Come! Let us go up to the mountain of Yhvh! To the house of the God of Jacob! He will teach us his way! And we’ll walk in his paths! ..For out of Zion will go forth his law [torah - direction, instruction, law, from yara/yarah) - to throw, shoot (at a target)] and will go forth the word [dabar - speech, word] of Yahweh from Jerusalem. 4 He will judge between nations, and settle disputes. They will beat their swords into plowshares {into V plows} and their spears into gardening tools. 5 Come! Let us walk in the light of Yahweh!
The ‘great ones’ sowed, now reap.
Disclaimer - The Prophets May Not Be For The Timid
2:6 LORD, you have abandoned your people.. ..They are full of superstitions from the east, and practice divination ..they embrace pagan customs. 7,8 The land is full of silver and gold, full of chariots and idols ..no end to their treasures.. [but poor toward God]. 9 So people are brought low ..everyone humbled.. 10 Go into the rocks {Rev.6’s sixth seal, though veiled by its description. For the description is of its fuLL effects - first to last - but is given at the very beginning of the vision. Also confusing much of the revelation vision, for things that occur at the very ‘end’ are described at the beginning and intro to the vision} hide in the ground from the fearful presence of the LORD and the splendor of his majesty! {Code for fiery capabilities of war, fiery judgments. All were earthly, not afterlife. Is there anything that truly humbles? Other than ones own consequences? ..Both individual and collective.} 11 The great arrogant will be humbled, human pride brought low, the Lord alone will be exalted. 12 The LORD Almighty has a day in store for the proud and lofty, and all who are exalted ..every lofty tower and every fortified wall, 16 for every trading ship and every stately vessel. {Trade. In Revelation, the $ity and Tower Babble “on seven hills”/continents.} 17 The arrogance of man will be brought low and pride humbled 18 ..the idols will pass away. 19 People will flee to caves in the rocks and to holes in the earth ..when he rises to shake the earth. 20 In that day people will throw away their idols of silver and gold, they made to worship. 21 They will flee to caves {and shelters} and to the high cliffs.. 22 Stop trusting in mere humans, who have but a breath in their nose. Why look to them?
3:9 they parade their sin {the ‘great ones’ setting the trends?} 9 .. They have brought disaster upon themselves. 10 Tell the righteous - it will be well with them - for they will enjoy the fruit of their doings. 11 Woe to the wicked, for disaster is upon them. They will be paid back for what theiR hands have done. 12 Youths oppress the people, women rule them. My people, your guides lead you astray, they turn you from the path. 4:5 Then the LORD will create over all of Mount Zion, and over those who gather there, a cloud of smoke by day and a glow of fiery flames by night, over everything, the glory will be a covering. {In prophecy Mt. Zion is often a spiritual ‘place’. Whereas Mt. of Olives, the literal Earthly place.} 6 The covering will be a shelter and shade from the heat of the day, and a refuge and hiding place from the {fiery?} storm and {acid?} rain {Is.24:20/Rev.10:4} [Rev.7:16, “..no scorching heat shall fall upon them.”]
5:8 Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field until you live alone in {and own all} the land. 9 Surely the great houses will become desolate, the fine mansions left empty. 17 Sheep will graze there, as in their own pasture. Lambs will feed among the ruins of the rich. 20 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil ..23 who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice to the innocent ..30 if one looks at the land, there is only darkness and distress, even the sun will be overshadowed by clouds. {Prophet Joel’s smoky day? Revelation’s sun covered, red moon/moon reflecting red? In shorthand? The mighty of Earth will indeed ignite Armageddon battle. Which will turn out to be their, and the world’s, and the wrong way’s judgment/reaping what you sow. Other bible speak, drinking a cup.. Rev.16:13-16, Mt.13:30, Is.24:20.)
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Prophecy Studies
(The Order is w/ Largest For Winter)
4 - SPRING -- after restoration / 536-400 -- Haggai Zechariah Malachi
1 - SUMMER -- pre-assyria / 9-800 BC -- (Elijah Elisha) Jonah Joel Amos Hosea
2 - FALL --assyria / 900-625 -- Isaiah Micah Nahum Zephaniah
3 - WINTER -- babylon / 625-536 -- Jeremiah Habakkuk Ezekiel Obadiah Daniel
