Prophet Isaiah
"...thy wine mixed with water, thy silver is become dross"
Spiritual Corruption: Weakening/Diluting one's devotion to God
"shall be" or "shall go"
"Is" or "Is going"
A burning coal placed on his lips by an angel of the Lord.
His sins were forgiven; purified
Israel (Northern Kingdom of Israel) and Syria sought to force an alliance with this nation mount a defense against Assyria
Kingdom of Judah (Southern Kingdom of Israel)
AMOZ
"...though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow."
Repentance
"...Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord"
Temple Worship
"[God's] train filled the temple"
God's Omnipotence and Power
Isaiah counselled this King to trust not in an alliance with Syria and Israel but in the Lord God.
Ahaz - King of Judah
Isaiah can be difficult to understand because he used ______ and wrote in _____.
Symbols and metaphors.
"They judge not the fatherless"
Selfishness: Putting self interest above the most vulnerable in society.
"...shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks"
A shift from conflict/violence to peace/productivity
"...six wings; with twain he covered his face, ...with twain he covered his feet, with twain he did fly."
Modesty and humility before God.
Isaiah's counsel to King Ahaz foretold about HIS birth
Immanuel or Jesus Christ
He taught that '"All things [Isaiah] spake, have been and shall be even according to the words which he spake."
Jesus Christ.
"...smite with a scab the crown of the head..."
Punished; Humiliated
"Out of zion shall go forth the law and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem"
Restoration of the Gospel
"I am undone, a Man of unclean lips"
Unworthy/Unfit to be in the presence (or see) of God.
It means, "God With Us"
Immanuel
Isaiah prophesied about three major time periods, name one.
1) His Time
2) Meridian of Time: Birth of Christ
3) Latter Days: Restoration of the Gospel; Second Coming of Jesus Christ
"...ye shall eat the good of the land."
Prosperity and Abundance for obeying the Lord
"And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots"
Prophesied Messiah: Jesus Christ.
When the Lord asked, "Whom shall I send?" Isaiah responded, "_________________"
Here am I, Send me.
"Wonderful", "Counsellor", "Mighty God, "Everlasting Father", "Prince of Peace"
Isaiah's Titles for Jesus Christ