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3You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you. Peace in the middle of destruction. Is that possible? Isaiah is delivering a very strong message about the coming judgment to the nations of his day. No one who reads the words recorded there would want to live throughContinue reading “9Sept 2011 Isaiah 26:3”

11You built a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the Old Pool, but you did not look to the One who made it, or have regard for the One who planned it long ago. It is amazing to me that people will do just about anything to not admit that they needContinue reading “8Sept 2011 Isaiah 22:11”

22The LORD will strike Egypt with a plague; he will strike them and heal them. They will turn to the LORD, and he will respond to their pleas and heal them. Anytime the LORD brings some kind of judgment He wants repentance to be the result. Even in the middle of judgment, the Lord wantsContinue reading “7Sept 2011 Isaiah 19:22”

12How you have fallen from heaven, O morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations. This verse is often quoted in reference to the fall of Satan from heaven. This may very well be a fit description of that fall, but itsContinue reading “6Sept 2011 Isaiah 14:12”

9They will neither harm nor destroy on all my holy mountain, for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the waters cover the sea. The verses just before this one lays out some very unusual circumstances, a wolf and a lamb living side by side without attack, a leopard andContinue reading “5Sept 2011 Isaiah 11:9”

33See, the Lord, the LORD Almighty, will lop off the boughs with great power. The lofty trees will be felled, the tall ones will be brought low. As you read this chapter you could come away thinking the LORD had something against forests and trees. He talks about chopping them all down, destroying the cropsContinue reading “4Sept 2011 Isaiah 10:33”

4“Before the boy knows how to say ‘My father’ or ‘My mother,’ the wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried off by the king of Assyria.” In this section of Isaiah there are several prophecies about near future events. Each of these events is timed to the growth of a baby.Continue reading “3Sept 2011 Isaiah 8:4”

4I will make boys their officials; mere children will govern them. We all know deep down that it is a bad thing when youth are leading a nation. So as we read this passage that outlines what is going to happen when Judah is sent into exile, our hearts should be raising alarm bells. ThisContinue reading “2Sept 2011 Isaiah 3:4”

4He will judge between the nations and will settle disputes for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore. Isaiah writes at a point in Jewish history to the Southern kingdom, because theContinue reading “1Sept 2011 Isaiah 2:4”