ISAIAH
Prophecies concerning the Nations
Judah and Israel
Chapter 1, verses 2 to 31
TO BE REVISED
The evils of Judah (Isaiah 1:2-20)
The entire universe is here summoned to participate in a trial in which God is the judge, and Judah and Jerusalem are the defendants. This double is prominent throughout the book, and involves a constant reference throughout the book to the entire nation of Israel.
God declares that this people is composed of children that he created and magnified: the people of Israel comes from Isaac, son of Abraham and Sara miracle, because both were old and Sarah was sterile. His descendants became a great people, called Israeli, and was enslaved for four centuries by Egypt. Using Moses, God liberated the people of supernatural way, and magnified in the rich land of Canaan. But the Israelites rebelled against God, becoming worse than domestic animals who know to respect their owners.
What God did for this nation he also did for us, individually and spiritually. The record of this people's apostasy is written "as an example" (1 Cor 10:11). We need, therefore, be careful not to sadden and suffer eternal loss.
The people were guilty of aggravated iniquity because, leaving the Lord, called Holy here from Israel, back to back. Each description is made then is given in contrast to what God had determined it was: is a "sinful nation" but the Lord said, "you shall be to me a Holy nation" (Exodus 19:6); is "a people laden with iniquity"; God had chosen to be "his own people" (Deuteronomy 14:2); is "a seed of evil"; God had made the "seed of Abraham" (Isaiah 41:8; Isaac, Genesis 21:12; of Jacob, Isaiah 45:19); (d) "children who practice corruption"; the Lord had declared them "Children of the Lord your God are ye" (Deuteronomy 14:1 ).
All this is a reminder for us, "these days" (Hebrews 1:2). The description given about us in 1 Peter 2:9 is similar to that given to Israel as a people of God whom I have just mentioned: "But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood (as in Exodus 19:6), Holy nation, people acquired, for that anuncieis the greatness of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light." We must therefore be careful not to fall as Israel, not to be in any one of us, "... an evil heart of unbelief, to depart from the living God" (Hebrews 3:12)
From verse 7, the Prophet describes the future as if it had happened: the enemy invaders caused Judah to stay miserable. Jerusalem, "the daughter of Zion," is how a temporary hut left standing in the middle of the wreckage. But by the grace of God some survivors were left, otherwise the destruction could have been as complete as was that of Sodom and Gomorrah (their traces are still being sought in the bottom of the dead sea).
The rulers and the people of Jerusalem (called here of Sodom and Gomorrah) should realize that God despises rituals without reality, sacrifices without obedience, vain offerings. While people are living in sin, his presence in worship of the temple is a step insulting their Atria. The mixture of lawlessness with solemn worship is odious. God does not give any value to their outstretched hands or to their many prayers.
The mere external religion is always a blanket to cover the iniquity. The Lord has exposed all that in their strong complaints recorded in chapter 23 of Matthew. This attitude of sin in Judaism also developed within Christianity. The consciousness of a "faithful" can corrupt to the point of a person practising "religion" while still living in sin.
Here God exhorts to wash and purify themselves, take the evil of their acts, stop doing evil and learn to do good, seek justice, end the oppression and help those in need. Now the sinner should wash through repentance and abandonment of evil, and then accept the lordship of Christ and righteousness and social justice.
In both cases – the ancient Judaism and the New Testament-obedience to this admonition from Mr will result in the complete erasure of all sins, whatever its severity, and enjoy the excellent things provided by God. It is significant that the first chapter of this Evangelical Prophet, whose name means "the salvation of Jehovah", has the warm invitation of the Gospel:
"Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; even though they are red like Crimson, they will become as wool. ”
The divine reasoning accepted by faith, teaches that there is purification from sin, that cleanliness is totally beyond the merit or human effort, and it's only through the redemption which the Lord Jesus performed by the shedding of his blood on the cross. You can count on the crowds who responded to the invitation of Isaiah 1:18? And he's still being proclaimed.
But if people refuse and are rebels, war and destruction await them.
The unfaithful city (Isaiah 1:21 -31)
Jerusalem ceased to be fair and faithful and if prostitution before God. It ended the fidelity, justice and righteousness, and is now a city of killers. Their best things have been corrupted and your princes are rebels, accomplices of thieves. Bribery and injustice are everywhere.
The Lord God of hosts, the mighty one of Israel (the latter title is used only here), therefore, will revenge and get rid of its enemies, eliminate all impurities and restore Jerusalem to its former glory. His righteousness will ensure the release of all those who repent.
The transgressors and sinners shall be destroyed. The idolaters be ashamed of their shrines with trees and gardens. They themselves will be as an oak whose leaves fade and a dry Garden by lack of water. The heads as if igniting Tinder with their own works such as spark.
R David Jones
1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
2 Now it shall come to pass in the latter days That the mountain of the LORD's house Shall be established on the top of the mountains, And shall be exalted above the hills; And all nations shall flow to it.
3 Many people shall come and say, "Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, To the house of the God of Jacob; He will teach us His ways, And we shall walk in His paths." For out of Zion shall go forth the law, And the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
4 He shall judge between the nations, And rebuke many people; They shall beat their swords into plowshares, And their spears into pruning hooks; Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, Neither shall they learn war anymore.
:5 O house of Jacob, come and let us walk In the light of the LORD.
6 For You have forsaken Your people, the house of Jacob, Because they are filled with eastern ways; They are soothsayers like the Philistines, And they are pleased with the children of foreigners.
7 Their land is also full of silver and gold, And there is no end to their treasures; Their land is also full of horses, And there is no end to their chariots.
8 Their land is also full of idols; They worship the work of their own hands, That which their own fingers have made.
9 People bow down, And each man humbles himself; Therefore do not forgive them.
10 Enter into the rock, and hide in the dust, From the terror of the LORD And the glory of His majesty.
11 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, The haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, And the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
12 For the day of the LORD of hosts Shall come upon everything proud and lofty, Upon everything lifted up— And it shall be brought low—
13 Upon all the cedars of Lebanon that are high and lifted up, And upon all the oaks of Bashan;
14 Upon all the high mountains, And upon all the hills that are lifted up;
15 Upon every high tower, And upon every fortified wall;
16 Upon all the ships of Tarshish, And upon all the beautiful sloops.
17 The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, And the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; The LORD alone will be exalted in that day,
18 But the idols He shall utterly abolish.
19 They shall go into the holes of the rocks, And into the caves of the earth, From the terror of the LORD And the glory of His majesty, When He arises to shake the earth mightily.
20 In that day a man will cast away his idols of silver And his idols of gold, Which they made, each for himself to worship, To the moles and bats,
21 To go into the clefts of the rocks, And into the crags of the rugged rocks, From the terror of the LORD And the glory of His majesty, When He arises to shake the earth mightily.
22 Sever yourselves from such a man, Whose breath is in his nostrils; For of what account is he?
Isaiah chapter 2 verses 1 to 22