Journal Through the Bible: Week 58 Monday

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Isaiah 15:1-16:14

Isaiah received prophecies concerning Moab.

Does God issue any commands?

• The sacrificial lamb was to be sent to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.
• Those that escaped destruction were to be hidden and not betrayed.

Does God make any promises?

• God detailed the destruction of Moab in chapters 15 and 16 that would happen within three years.

Does this passage teach anything about Jesus?

• Jesus is portrayed as the sacrificial lamb sent to the the ruler from Sela to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.
• Jesus is the one whose throne shall be established in mercy and truth in the tabernacle of David, seeking righteous judgment.

Does this passage teach anything about yet-future events?

• Jesus will one day judge the nations. In this passage judgment upon the nation of Moab is predicted.

Journal Through the Bible: Week 57 Saturday

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Isaiah chapter 14

In this chapter the rulers of Babylon and Lucifer are tightly interwoven.

Does God issue any commands?

• God commanded that slaughter be prepared for the rulers of Babylon. Again it is mentioned that Babylon would be desolate. 14:21-23
• In the year that King Ahaz of Judah died God told Isaiah to command Palestina not to rejoice because the rod that smote them was broken because out of the serpent's root would come a cockatrice. 14:29-32

Does God make any promises?

• God promised that Jacob (Israel) would return to the land and that strangers would join them and "cleave" to them. (This was fulfilled after the Babylonian captivity but it was also fulfilled in 1948 when Israel achieved statehood once more.) 14:1-2
• God promised that Israel would rule over those who had formerly held them captive. In some ways this prophecy was fulfilled by Daniel when he was a high-ranking official in the court of several kings of Babylon and Persia. 14:2
• God promised that one day they would have rest and would take up a proverb against the king of Babylon. 14:3-4
• God promised the destruction of Lucifer. 14:15
• God promised that everything He said would come to pass. 14:24
• God promised that Assyria would also be broken. 14:25-27

Does this chapter teach anything about Jesus?

• Jesus is the LORD who has broken the staff of the wicked and the scepter of the rulers, including the one that ruled the nations in anger. 14:5-6

Does this chapter teach anything about yet-future events?

• Israel has yet to totally turn the tables on those who have held them captive in the past. Someday she will. 14:2
• One day Satan's domination over the earth will end. Then the earth will be at rest. The inhabitants will break out in singing! 14:6-8
• Death, hell, and the grave shall give up the unrighteous kings of the nations for judgment. They shall be as weak as any other man standing before the Righteous Judge. 14:9-11
• Lucifer will be seen by all and they will consider him carefully as the one that troubled the earth. 14:12-20

Journal Through the Bible: Week 57 Friday

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Isaiah chapter 13

The chapter begins by declaring that Isaiah saw the burden of Babylon but it isn't until the end of the chapter that specific prophecies relating just to Babylon are mentioned. Sandwiched in between there are verses that contain what are most likely dual prophecies. In other words, they deal with events that concern Babylon but they also concern the rest of the world as well! Most of the things mentioned are pertinent to everyone and are still future events.

Does God issue any commands?

• God states that He has commanded His sanctified (set apart) ones and called His mighty ones for His anger. (God has a battle for them to fight.) 13:3-4

Does God make any promises?

• God promised to punish the world for their evil. 13:11
• God promised to make "a man" more precious than the fine gold of Ophir. This could be a specific man, Jesus, or it could mean the redeemed. This prophecy brings to mind Nebuchadnezzar's golden idol, something that was yet future at this point in Judah's history.
• God promised that men would be thrust through and children dashed to pieces before their eyes. (This is in reference to Babylon, the nation that would do these things to the Jews. God would have the Medes do the same to them. One of the imprecatory psalms, Psalm 137, deals specifically with this subject.) 13:14-19

Does this chapter teach anything about Jesus?

• The LORD leads His army into battle. This is Jesus. This might also be a reference to the future final battle in which all nations participate (see verse 4). 13:5

Does this chapter teach anything about yet-future events?

• Jesus will lead His army, all the host of heaven, into battle against Satan and those upon the earth that Satan has been able to win over against God in the 1,000 year reign of Christ upon the earth. Jesus will be victorious. (Compare 13:4-5 with Revelation 21:7-10)
• The Day of the Lord might be in reference to more than one event in earth's timeline, but it definitely is also a future event! 13:6-9
• The time when the stars of heaven and the constellations shall not give their light, the sun being darkened and the moon not having light to shine is yet in the future. Jesus also predicted this. 13:10
• God promised to punish the world for their evil. Although God has punished the the world at times by afflicting certain nations in it, one day the world will be punished again. ("Again" because it was once punished by flood.) 13:11-13
• Babylon will one day no longer be inhabited. Quoting John in the book of Revelation, "Babylon the Great is fallen!" (Compare 13:20-22 with Revelation 18:2)

Journal Through the Bible: Week 57 Thursday

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Isaiah 11:1-12:6

Following the beautiful Messianic and future prophecies yet to be fulfilled that are found in chapter 11 is a beautiful psalm of praise in chapter 12.

Does God issue any commands?

• No.

Does God make any promises?

• God promised a rod would grow out of the stem of Jesse and a Branch out of his roots.
• God promised that the enemies of Judah would be cut off but the enmity between the two nations of the divided kingdoms of Israel would end. 
• God promised that the nation of Israel would inherit the lands that were promised to Abraham.
• God promised the remnant of the people that they would once again smite the waters so that His people could cross dryshod. 

Does this passage teach anything about Jesus?

• Jesus is the rod and the Branch out of the stem and roots of Jesse.
• Jesus is the righteous judge of the poor and meek.
• Jesus is the one that set his hand the second time to recover the remnant of His people from the ends of the earth to be an ensign unto the nations.
• Jesus is the Holy One of Israel. (12:6)

Does this passage teach anything about yet-future events?

• The earth will be smitten with the rod of the righteous judge and He will kill the wicked.
• The wolf will dwell with the lamb. The leopard will lie down with a baby goat. And the calf, the young lion, and the fatling will dwell together: a little child shall lead them. The cow and the bear will graze together and their young will lie down together. The lion will eat straw. The asp will not sting and the poisonous snake will not strike.
• The root of Jesse will stand as an ensign of the people and the Gentiles will seek Him.