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Tomorrow’s reading:
☐ Wednesday, Nov. 29
📖 Isaiah 7–9
🔍 Watching for glimpses of a coming King. What do you see?
#IsaiahChristmas
☐ Wednesday, Nov. 29
📖 Isaiah 7–9
🔍 Watching for glimpses of a coming King. What do you see?
#IsaiahChristmas
As Judah faces war, their king (Ahaz) loses faith, tho the enemies are fleeting. “Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel” (7:14–15) = within 12 years, Judah’s enemies will be gone.
“For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end” (9:6–7). WOW!!
Tomorrow’s reading:
☐ Tue., Nov 28 — Isaiah 3–6
We are listening for echos of a coming King, what do we see?
#IsaiahChristmas
Israel remains functionally kingless. Israel is blind to God. Isaiah beholds a King.
☐ Tue., Nov 28 — Isaiah 3–6
We are listening for echos of a coming King, what do we see?
#IsaiahChristmas
Israel remains functionally kingless. Israel is blind to God. Isaiah beholds a King.
Ch3–4: Israel’s wicked practices are blood on the hands of its leaders. Men are not free from accountability, and “infants shall rule over them.” A crisis of rulership has gripped the people, social chaos ensues. But a Branch-King is coming to lead. An infant perhaps?
Ch5: Jerusalem is God’s vineyard, the focus of his patient labors and affection. But the labor produced bad fruit, and desolation. The people once consumed with personal wealth and comfort and (paradoxically) drunkenness, despise God’s word, which feeds the social injustices.
Tomorrow’s reading:
☐ Mon., Nov 27 — Isaiah 1–2
Q: As we listen for echos of a coming King, what do we see/hear in these chapters?
#IsaiahChristmas
☐ Mon., Nov 27 — Isaiah 1–2
Q: As we listen for echos of a coming King, what do we see/hear in these chapters?
#IsaiahChristmas
Isaiah opens in the middle of a ravaging war. The Assyrians, a northern superpower, work their way south to a huge pot of gold (Egypt). God’s people in the middle are getting mowed down: Jerusalem (northern city) is barely holds together; Judah (southern city) quakes in fear.
Inside Jerusalem, paganism dominates the temple, a god-manipulation tactic. God hates the sham temple practices. True religion must be purged of pagan worship of the nations, demonstrated by heartfelt love for the weak and vulnerable. Israel is functionally kingless.
