The Glories of our God and King

Isaiah 60

• v 1-2. Past darkness
• v 3-14. Gentiles and Jews together in God’s glorious church.
• v 15-21 Future light.

Isaiah 61

• v 1-3. Christ
• v 4-9. Church prosperity
• v 10-11. Church joy and praise

Meditation Point:

Isaiah 61:1,2 is quoted by Jesus in Luke 4:18-19. Notice the place in the citation where Jesus stopped.

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Man-made, self-serving religion

Isaiah 58

v 1-5. God did not tell you to worship Him in this manner.

v 6-14. This is what God asks of you.

Isaiah 59

v 1-8. Sins, sins of omission and sins of commission, separate Man from God.

v 9-15. Sins bring God’s wrath upon us.

v 16-21. Sins require God’s intervention to make atonement.

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A Better Name

God encourages the outcasts of society to trust in Him, promising them a closer relationship with Him by their faith than the merely naturally born sons would have.

Isaiah 56

• v 1. Keep your eyes on the soon-to-be-completed salvation of God
• v 2. Whatever else men may say, he that follows God is blessed
• v 3-4. God’s love is not limited to one race or nation.
• v 5-8. Those born outside of God’s family can be brought in.
• v 9-12. Woe to the watchmen who do not see, to the guards who give no warning.

Isaiah 57

• v 1-2. The righteous perish, but no one learns from the event; not one realizes that God delivers His people from impending tribulation.
• v 3-4. God is truthful (though, today, He’d be seen as politically incorrect), when He addresses sinners as the children of the adulterer and whore, children of transgression, a seed of falsehood.
• v 5-6. Idolatry cannot be tolerated.
• v 7-10. Both in private and in public have they abandoned God.
• v 11-12. What fear do men have that they will not turn to God?
• v 13-19. No sinner is beyond the saving hand of God!
• v 20-21. Let not the recalcitrant think that he will receive anything but wrath.

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Jews, Gentiles or Christian Church?

With the Ethiopian eunuch we ask, "Of whom does the prophet speak?"

 Isaiah 54

Recognizing that the previous prophecy (chapter 53) speaks of Christ and His crucifixion, one is more inclined to see these words addressed to the Church which arises from His death and resurrection.

• v 1-6.  The bride/wife metaphor
• v 7-10. God’s everlasting love
• v 11-15. Future glory for the occasionally downcast
• v 16-17. Guaranteed victory

Isaiah 55

• v 1-7. Invitation/command to seek the Lord
• v 8-11. God’s word
• v 12-13. The joy of God’s people

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