Wednesday Bible Study Isaiah 27

Morning Prayer

Read Isaiah 27 together.

My Commentary and bringing the lesson home.
Verse 1
In that day This brings us to the day of our Messiah’s triumphant return.
There are 100 or more prophecies of the advent of Christ the first time.
And all of these have been precisely and literally fulfilled.

When you read the Living Word Of GOD, you will see as in Matt 25:26 “that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.”
And the Scriptures were fulfilled in a most literal sense.
Example…
That Jesus would ride on a Donkey. John 12:14
The parting of his garments. Psalms 22:18
The piercing of his hands and feet. Psalms 22:16
“HE took up our infirmities and bore our diseases.” Matt 8:17

And many more. You need to read the Bible and when you get done, Read it again. Every time you read the “breathed out” words from our Creator, you will gain further understanding.
And if you communicate to GOD, through prayer, that you would like greater Understanding, greater Faith, if you have truly given yourself to Christ, who has forgiven your every sin, and you have forgiven those that have trespassed against you, GOD will grant your prayer.

The scripture says GOD “cannot lie” and that he will not change his mind.
Numbers 23:19
GOD is not human, that he should lie, not a human being, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?
Titus 1:2
in the hope of eternal life, which GOD, who does not lie, promised before the beginning of time, 3 but has in due time manifested His word through preaching, which was committed to me according to the commandment of God our Savior;

What HE has promised, HE will do. The truthfulness of the Bible is at stake in the Second Coming. And this what Isaiah is talking about, “In That Day.”

We move on to the rest of Verse 1

the Lord with His severe sword, great and strong,
Will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent,
Leviathan that twisted serpent;
We’ve seen the Lord’s mighty sword in Rev 19 so let’s go there and read it.
Rev 19:17-21
Then I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in the midst of heaven, “Come and gather together for the supper of the great GOD, 18 that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them, and the flesh of all people, free and slave, both small and great.”

19 And I saw the beast, the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against Him who sat on the horse and against His army. 20 Then the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who worked signs in his presence, by which he deceived those who received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were cast alive into the lake of fire burning with brimstone. 21 And the rest were killed with the sword which proceeded from the mouth of Him who sat on the horse. And all the birds were filled with their flesh.

You have to love a happy ending.

It is our Lord Jesus on the Horse, coming back as our conquering King.
This reference of the Leviathan is possibly in connection with ancient myths of nations near Israel. This could be the Northern Tribes of Israel who had seriously strayed from the Will of GOD. It is used as an illustrative element for the people he was talking to. The people of the day knew of symbolic terms used to make a point. However, satan manifested himself as a serpent to Eve in the Garden of Eden in Gen 3:1-5, could he not also make himself a sea monster too?
We’ve also seen in Rev 13:1-3 where this imagery is used in describing the emergence of the Antichrist which came from the sea.
Then I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads, and on his horns were ten diadems, and on his heads were blasphemous names.2 And the beast which I saw was like a leopard, and his feet were like those of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. And the dragon gave him his power and his throne and great authority.

The end result is And He will slay the reptile that is in the sea. Isaiah is prophesying the ultimate defeat of satan when the Kingdom of the Messiah conquers all.

Verse 2
In that day sing to her,
“A vineyard of [a]red wine!
3 I, the Lord, keep it,
I water it every moment;
Lest any hurt it,
I keep it night and day.

This becomes a song of GOD’s care for his vineyard. The Church is his vineyard and we are the Bride of Christ. GOD will tend to his Church, water it, tend to it with loving care. This vineyard is where you pray to GOD, leave your worries at the Cross, and I do mean leave them there. What good does it do for you to say with your mouth that trust our Lord, yet still worry and think that it is OK.
You are not going to be watered as well as you’d like to be.
Trust in the Lord is Faith in the Lord that you will receive your daily bread. It is Faith that GOD will keep his promises, to all of us. HE does not change his mind like we sinful creatures do. But a word of caution.

Acts 5. Let’s go read that.

Acts 5:1-11 Lying to the Holy Spirit.
But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession. 2 And he kept back part of the proceeds, his wife also being aware of it, and brought a certain part and laid it at the apostles’ feet. 3 But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back part of the price of the land for yourself? 4 While it remained, was it not your own? And after it was sold, was it not in your own control? Why have you conceived this thing in your heart? You have not lied to men but to GOD.”
5 Then Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and breathed his last. So great fear came upon all those who heard these things. 6 And the young men arose and wrapped him up, carried him out, and buried him.
7 Now it was about three hours later when his wife came in, not knowing what had happened. 8 And Peter answered her, “Tell me whether you sold the land for so much?”
She said, “Yes, for so much.”
9 Then Peter said to her, “How is it that you have agreed together to test the Spirit of the Lord? Look, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out.” 10 Then immediately she fell down at his feet and breathed her last. And the young men came in and found her dead, and carrying her out, buried her by her husband. 11 So great fear came upon all the church and upon all who heard these things.

What lesson do we draw from this? Discuss…

We are sinful creatures and only by the Grace of GOD do we have any hope of redemption. GOD will forgive, yet our GOD is a wrathful GOD. If you believe and have trust in GOD, you will be well watered.

Now look at Verse 4 and 5.
4 Fury is not in Me.
Who would set briers and thorns
Against Me in battle?
I would go through them,
I would burn them together.
5 Or let him take hold of My strength,
That he may make peace with Me;
And he shall make peace with Me.”

HE will burn out those who are beset with evil or (and this is a very big OR), HE would let them take hold of HIS strength. And would make peace with them.
Is that not totally cool? You could be all sorts of trouble. Rebellion, Denial, the works. I was that way, until very recently. And I took hold of HIS strength. Everything that I counted for something in my life was shown to me to be nothing. He took my strength and let me use HIS.

Look at how many in this world are resisting this offer. The craziness of what happened in El Paso and Dayton Ohio. It has been said that we are seeing the end result of boys without Fathers. The destruction of the family has been a favorite target of satan. Mothers raising Sons without the benefit of Fathers, where is the guiding influence for both girls and boys? Paul talks about why and how this came to be in Romans 1 specifically starting at verse 18. I encourage you to read this on your own. It will answer many of the questions of what you see going on today.

We have people denying GOD. Acting as if this world, this sinful world is all there is. Satan is the prince of this world and you can see he is very good at what he does. He was fallen from GOD and wants all of us fallen too. That part in the Lord’s Prayer, deliver us from evil, you should ask the Lord that, every day. The Lords Prayer, you can go through each line, and talk to GOD of what it means to you. Praise HIM, Glorify HIM, ask him to bring to earth what is in Heaven. Make it a very personal prayer. I love doing that.

Something that was brought to my mind from Pastor Otto, this last Sunday was to come to the Lord as a servant. Not always asking for what you need, but by serving the Lord first.
Luke 7:7-10
7 And which of you, having a servant plowing or tending sheep, will say to him when he has come in from the field, ‘Come at once and sit down to eat’?8 But will he not rather say to him, ‘Prepare something for my supper, and gird yourself and serve me till I have eaten and drunk, and afterward you will eat and drink’? 9 Does he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I think not. 10 So likewise you, when you have done all those things which you are commanded, say, ‘We are unprofitable servants. We have done what was our duty to do.’ ”

What is our duty? To follow GOD’s Law. And what is GOD’s law? The Old Testament, GOD’s Law would have been the 10 Commandments, the Sacrificial Laws, Dietary Laws and that sort of thing which were lined out in great detail. I think it would be good to hear this description of Why the law from John MacArthur.
This is from his sermon The Adoption of the Believer from 2017. He is preaching from Galatians 4:1–11.
Paul has been contrasting what the law does and what faith does, and they cannot be mixed. When the Judaizers came along and said it’s faith plus works, they mixed things that cannot be mixed. The law has a purpose. Back in verse 19 of chapter 3, “Why the Law?” Not to save, “It was added because of transgressions.
Why the Law? And I gave you four reasons for the law. Reason number one, to define sin at its broadest level. Obviously there is a law written in the heart of everybody, and we all have a conscience. So everybody knows what it right and what is wrong, and they know it because the law of GOD is written in the heart. But that is not a complete law; and so GOD revealed His law to Moses in all of its completeness to define sin at the broadest possible level.
Secondly, He revealed His law to demonstrate to us that sin is not just something wrong with us, something that’s out of whack with us that affects our relationships with other people and brings bad consequences on us sort of naturally, but the violation of the law of GOD is in fact open rebellion against GOD. It is high crime. The law then says that sin is more than a defect, it is an act of rebellion against GOD.
The third reason that Paul tells us we have received the law is so that we will understand that having violated the law and having rebelled against GOD, we are under the sentence of death. Death comes to all men. The wages of sin is death. We ask, “Why is there death?” Because everyone is a law-breaker. The wages of sin is death.
And the fourth reason GOD sent the law – the law was in place from Moses to Jesus for all those hundreds of years – was to demonstrate that the law could not save. There it was in the hands of the Jewish people who had the best opportunity to fulfill the law, to obey the law. They swore they would. They took a blood oath, back in Exodus 24, that they would obey the law. They did not obey the law. In fact, they violated the very first of the commandments, which was to have no other GODs. They went wholesale into idolatry, they violated the law of GOD at every point; ultimately judgment fell on their heads, they were taken into captivity, they were taken out of their land. There’s a little bit of a trickle-back, and even a few there now. But Israel still exists in disobedience and apostasy and rebellion against GOD in a collective sense.

So that’s why there was Law. Like he said, when Jesus was crucified and rose again, the 10 Commandments are still the Law, but all the sacrificial and dietary laws, are no longer valid. And the Judaizers would not let that go. They are the ones chasing after Paul, trying to malign and undo what Paul had said. Telling the Gentiles that you needed to get circumcised, and do the works according to their idea of how to follow the Law, to become righteous and that was the only way the Gentiles could go to Heaven. Satan was very busy with these people.

So now the Law with the advent of Christ became divided in 2 parts. Once again John MacArthur says of this:
The Law, meaning the Ten Commandments, the summary of GOD’s Law,
GOD’s moral Law. The first part deals with GOD and the second part deals with men. The first part, our relationship to GOD, the second part, our relationship to man. The first part can be summed up in these words, “Love the Lord your GOD with all your heart, soul, mind and strength.” And the second part can be summed up in these words, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” so that if you love GOD perfectly and you love your neighbor perfectly, you will fulfill the whole Law. You’ll never violate GOD and you will never violate anyone else. Therefore Romans 13:10 says, “Love is the fulfilling of the whole Law.” We are to be the model of the fulfilled Law. We are to be the model of GODliness in the world and it is our love that makes that visible. It is our love for GOD that drives us to honor Him. It is our love for others that drives us to honor them.

Love is the one thing that separates us from all the pagans, idolators, carnal Christians and everybody else walking around out in the world. They will know you by your works. This is the work of the Holy Spirit, not works of you, which will not work at all. Try this, ask the Holy Spirit, tonight or later today, or even right now, we’ll wait, to take control of you. To control your thoughts and actions. I mean, what do you have going in your life that would be better than this. Lunch, I’ve seen the lunches they serve here. Ask HIM to take control of you and be honest about it, and then feel the peace of understanding and his presence start to change you.

If you have done this and you’re still moping around, unhappy with life, feeling you’re no good and all that. Well, you’ve got some work to do. Get down on your knees and that might be metaphorically if you have some medical issues, GOD will understand. Ask GOD to show you what’s keeping HIS blessing from you. I know I talked about this last week, but it’s important. Do this until you get something back from GOD, and in my case, it about stops me in my tracks with watching in my minds eye, and in full living color, the travails of my misbegotten life. You will get the message and then do that which he has instructed you.

Let’s see, where were we. Oh yes, Verse 6.

6 Those who come He shall cause to take root in Jacob;
Israel shall blossom and bud,
And fill the face of the world with fruit.

In looking at the commentary of various Biblical writers that expound in scripture, there was no strong consensus. They all complained about the poor translation into english and to me it sounds as if HE, GOD will cause those who come, to take root in Israel and to prosper.

7
Has He struck Israel as He struck those who struck him?
Or has He been slain according to the slaughter of those who were slain by Him?

They had not been punished, as the oppressors had punished, ruthlessly and in hate, but had in His wrath remembered mercy.

8
In measure, by sending it away,
You contended with it.
He removes it by His rough wind
In the day of the east wind.

Once again, the people doing commentary, and I am using Bible Hub, all are complaining that this has been translated to just about unintelligibility. I have to profess that I am not sure what it means, either.

9
Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be covered;
And this is all the fruit of taking away his sin:
When he makes all the stones of the altar
Like chalkstones that are beaten to dust,

Wooden images and incense altars shall not stand. HE sought to “purge” Judah and Jerusalem from the “groves and the carved (sun) images, and molten images.” The Asherah Poles or the sun-images, the two leading features of the cults which Israel had borrowed from the Syrians and Phoenicians

10
Yet the fortified city will be desolate,
The habitation forsaken and left like a wilderness;
There the calf will feed, and there it will lie down
And consume its branches.
11
When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off;
The women come and set them on fire.
For it is a people of no understanding;
Therefore He who made them will not have mercy on them,
And He who formed them will show them no favor.

Before this glorious promise, concerning the removal of Israel’s sin and calamity, shall be fulfilled, a dreadful and desolating judgment shall come upon them.

12
And it shall come to pass in that day
That the Lord will thresh,
From the channel of [d]the River to the Brook of Egypt;
And you will be gathered one by one,
O you children of Israel.
13
So it shall be in that day:
The great trumpet will be blown;
They will come, who are about to perish in the land of Assyria,
And they who are outcasts in the land of Egypt,
And shall worship the Lord in the holy mount at Jerusalem.

JUDAH PROMISED RESTORATION. The general practice of Isaiah is to append to gloomy prophecies words of encouragement He does this even when heathen nations are denounced.

Closing Prayer