Isaiah

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JESUS HAS FULFILLED THE FIRST PART

September 30, 2024

“The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; to proclaim the year of the Lord’s

ARE YOU PLAYING HIDE-AND-SEEK WITH GOD?

September 28, 2024

“Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near; let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord” (Isaiah 55:6-7 ESV). Isaiah urged his people to seek and call on the Lord with a sense of urgency. For there would

HOW TO LEAVE AND MOVE FORWARD

September 27, 2024

“For you shall not go out in haste, and you shall not go in flight, for the LORD will go before you, and the God of Israel will be your rear guard” (Isaiah 52:12 ESV). Isaiah had prophesied that Judah would one day be taken captive by Babylon, but now he speaks of a time

WHAT YOU DO FOR THE LORD IS NEVER WASTED

September 26, 2024

“I have labored in vain; I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely my right is with the LORD, and my recompense with my God” (Isaiah 49:4 ESV). Isaiah penned this as the Israel’s response to His appointment as God’s Messiah. For it would find its fulfillment some 700 years later in

THE PROPHECY OF THE PERSIAN KING

September 24, 2024

“Thus says the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have grasped, to subdue nations before him and to loose the belts of kings, to open doors before him that gates may not be closed” (Isaiah 45:1 ESV). Nearly 200 years before his birth, Isaiah prophesied the coming of one named “Cyrus”

GOD’S CHALLENGE TO OUR MATERIALISTIC IDOLS

September 23, 2024

“Set forth your case, says the Lord; bring your proofs, says the King of Jacob. Let them bring them, and tell us what is to happen. Tell us the former things, what they are, that we may consider them” (Isaiah 41:21-22 ESV). The idolatry of today is not unlike that of Isaiah’s day. Explanations of

DO YOU TRUST IN CHARIOTS OR IN CHRIST?

September 19, 2024

“Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help and rely on horses, who trust in chariots because they are many and in horsemen because they are very strong, but do not look to the Holy One of Israel or consult the Lord!” (Isaiah 31:1 ESV). From Abraham’s time until that of Isaiah’s, the

CHRIST, OUR PRECIOUS CORNERSTONE

September 18, 2024

“Behold, I am the one who has laid as a foundation in Zion, a stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, of a sure foundation: ‘Whoever believes will not be in haste.’” (Isaiah 28:16 ESV). The Lord spoke through Isaiah of a “precious cornerstone” that He would lay in Zion (“Jerusalem”). This stone would have

WHEN THE WOLF SHALL DWELL WITH THE LAMB

September 12, 2024

“The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, and the calf and the lion and the fattened calf together; and a little child shall lead them” (Isaiah 11:6 ESV). The world will not stay as it is. A remaking is around the corner. Isaiah prophesied of

AIN’T GONNA STUDY WAR NO MORE

September 8, 2024

“He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide disputes for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore” (Isaiah 2:4 ESV). The Lord gave Isaiah a vision of the latter days when