October 2023

READ: Is. 8:23-9:4: …The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; … For You have broken the yoke of his burden and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.  For the believers in Isaiah’s time, there is even a very rich promise in […]

READ: Is. 8:16-22 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. … I will hope in Him. Here am I and the children whom the Lord has given me! …  To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light

READ: Is. 8:11-15 Do not say, ‘A conspiracy,’ concerning all that this people call a conspiracy, … The Lord of hosts … He will be as a sanctuary, but a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense … – Is. 8:12-14 “God with us” is the comfort for the believing part of the church.

READ: Is. 8:1-10: … For God is with us. Isaiah needs to emphasize his words about God’s judgment on the alliance between Syria and the northern kingdom. He does so by delivering a short message: “Swift to the Spoil, Hasten the Booty” This message is first written on a large tablet. Witnesses are called upon

READ: Is. 7:1-17 Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel. – Is. 7:14 The wicked King Ahaz is at war with the Syrians, who have the northern kingdom as an ally. He fears being dethroned (v.2). From whom can

READ:  Matt. 13:10-17 Make the heart of this people dull, and their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see … hear … and understand … and return and be healed. –  Is. 6:8-13 In Isaiah, God has worked the awareness of impurity along with the necessity of reconciliation. This prepares Isaiah to be

READ: Is. 6:5-7 And he touched my mouth with it, and said: ‘Behold, this has touched your lips; your iniquity is taken away, and your sin purged.’ – Is. 6:7 When Isaiah sees God on His throne, he ponders, echoing Psalm 24: “Who shall stand in His holy place? Who has clean hands and a

READ: Is. 6:1-4 And one cried to another and said: ‘Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of His glory!’. – Is. 6:3 Isaiah’s calling as a prophet is only found in chapter 6. There must be a reason for this. Perhaps after chapters 1-5, his calling becomes clearer

READ: Is. 5:25-30 He will lift up a banner to the nations from afar, and will whistle to them from the end of the earth; surely they shall come with speed, swiftly.          – Is. 5:26 Isaiah proclaims on behalf of the LORD serious admonitions, the arrival of destructive judgments, but also

READ:  Is. 5:8-24 Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!         – Is. 5:20 Isaiah is commissioned by the LORD to warn against various wicked practices because they provoke His wrath. These