Tag: Isaiah

Speaking to those who think they are the chosen people, the Lord distinguishes between the experience of His servants and the experience of His audience. “My servants” shall receive blessings while “you” shall go without. That is an invitation to repent and be numbered among His servants.

The righteous who are not the literal descendants of Israel will desire to be remembered as children of the covenant and while the posterity of Israel will not recognize them, the Lord of the covenant will accept them for their righteous desire to follow after Him.

The Jews may have claimed to be keeping the commandments, and they were keeping the performances of the law, but they had lost the Spirit of it. They would fast and make sure all could see they were fasting but they were not seeking the glory of the lord in doing so or to do…

Those who humble themselves before the Lord will find peace. Those who bite down before other gods and take comfort in their idols will find emptiness.

The Lord is essentially saying here (through Isaiah), “I did not fail you, you failed yourselves, but I can and will still redeem you and bring again Zion.”

The Lord promises through Isaiah to exalt those who have found themselves in humble circumstances. If this promise is understood then the followers of righteousness will have no cause to be jealous of those who seem to have an easy road. The promises is made to those who struggle and bear heavy burdens that their…

“Say unto Jerusalem…she hath received of the Lord’s hand double for all her sins.” Isaiah 40:2 Surely this does not mean double blessing for all her sins. Likewise it can’t be double punishment for all her sins. I wonder if it is more like double taxes for all her sins—as if there is a tax…

The promises of the Lord are (not in so many words) to create a new Eden where those under his protection may dwell. Jerusalem will become a Zion society and there will be a place if safety for the poor who choose to walk in the way of the Lord.

It is not by accident that the Lord will treat down the high, the haughty, and the rich of the earth before he exalts the poor and humble who will stay upon Him.

How will the Lord use things in our day that go against what we would expect Him to want to forward His work, like when He used the Assyrians to chasten Israel even though the Assyrians thought they we operating of their own accord. (They were operating of their own accord, what they failed to…