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Isaiah 6 should precede Isaiah 1 - 5 which shows Isaiah condemnation of Judah as rebellious and evil people who have forsaken God. In chapter 1, Isaiash called the faithful city a whore.
Enter Chapter 6 - Isaiah falls into a trance in the year a great king died.
Isaiah 6 should precede Isaiah 1 - 5 which shows Isaiah condemnation of Judah as rebellious and evil people who have forsaken God. In chapter 1, Isaiash called the faithful city a whore.
Enter Chapter 6 - Isaiah falls into a trance in the year a great king died.
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God needed to send a message through Isaiah to the people but first, God had to touch his tongue with a coal of fire to cleanse him before he could carry the message. Upon cleansing, Isaiah realized he too was unclean and admitted in verse 5 that was had unclean lips...
and dwelt with unclean people.
Then God asked who he would send to Judah to pass his message and Isaiah volunteered. It got more interesting but confusing because even Isaiah was not expecting the kind of message he got.
Then God asked who he would send to Judah to pass his message and Isaiah volunteered. It got more interesting but confusing because even Isaiah was not expecting the kind of message he got.
“Go, and tell this people,
‘You hear indeed but don’t understand;
and you see indeed, but don’t perceive.’
Make the heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes, lest they see with their eyes,
and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart,
‘You hear indeed but don’t understand;
and you see indeed, but don’t perceive.’
Make the heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes, lest they see with their eyes,
and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart,
and turn again, and be healed.”
God was doing what he did to Pharaoh. If one is hard hearted, God hardens it more before he destroys you. The message was for Isaiah to inform them of how they hardened their heart towards God while also hardening their heart so they don't get it.
God was doing what he did to Pharaoh. If one is hard hearted, God hardens it more before he destroys you. The message was for Isaiah to inform them of how they hardened their heart towards God while also hardening their heart so they don't get it.
In verse 11, a confused Isaiah had to ask God how long this would go on and God responded:
“Until cities are waste without inhabitant, and houses without man,
and the land becomes utterly waste,
and Yahweh has removed men far away and the forsaken places ....
“Until cities are waste without inhabitant, and houses without man,
and the land becomes utterly waste,
and Yahweh has removed men far away and the forsaken places ....
are many in the midst of the land. If there is a tenth left in it, that also will in turn be consumed: as a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stock remains when they are felled; so the holy seed is its stock.”
God was going to destroy Judah till no soul was left.
God was going to destroy Judah till no soul was left.
Note that even though God subjected them to captivity for 70 years and many died in exile, he still kept his promises to Abraham through the younger generation because the pathway to Christ must be fulfilled.
Judeans returned to Judah after Babylon fell to King Cyrus the Great.
Judeans returned to Judah after Babylon fell to King Cyrus the Great.
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