Isaiah 29

 INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH CHAPTER 29 Ariel is about to experience a blood bath.  They will be encircled with an army from Assyria—the enemy will build forts and blockade the city.  It will be a swarm of invaders that encamp Jerusalem but they will be scattered like chaff.  Their voice will be like a ghost of […]

Isaiah 28

INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH CHAPTER 28 The prophet has a word for these beer-bellied winesops─someone tough is going to flatten their city.  Priest and prophet alike were staggering under the influence─so besot with wine and strong drink that they can’t think straight or talk sense─living in their vomit they mock the prophet as a father trying […]

Isaiah 27

INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH CHAPTER 27 The song continues from the previous chapter─picture Jerusalem as a ruin and the Jews as Babylonian slaves.  Somehow they dust off the pages of Isaiah and flick through the writings and hope arises like smoke from a furnace.  It’s hugging time─it’s all over─they’ve had a double discipline.  God is flattening […]

Isaiah 26

INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH CHAPTER 26 In this chapter you will see the redeemed saints singing and chanting a hymn of praise.  They are referred to as a righteous nation indwelt by the spirit of God.  They are a testimony of the righteousness of their God.  Their song is about a despised, persecuted people who suffered […]

Isaiah 25

INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH CHAPTER 25 God wants us to put on the garment of praise and deck ourselves with the ornament of righteousness.  We praise him for our redemption by the blood of Jesus who has now made us kings and priests.  This chapter informs us that the enemies of Israel will lick the dust.  […]

Isaiah 24

INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH CHAPTER 24 J erusalem is fallen and Judea is ruined  ̶God has overthrown the entire country ̶God has cut off head and tail. The leaders had lead them to ruin.  They had transgressed the law, followed the abominations of the heathen and polluted the house of the Lord.  They mocked and despised […]

Isaiah 23

INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH CHAPTER 23 Tyre was one of the two greatest cities in the world.  As great in that day as N.Y. or London of our day.  Tyre was situated midway between the east and the west, and at the junction of three continents, they carried on the trade of the world.  The Mediterranean […]

Isaiah 22

 INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH CHAPTER 22 On the housetops and hanging over the railing to get a better view of the crises.  The leaders had fled and were apprehended by the enemy and bound with chains and led off to their doom.  As for the city of Jerusalem it was a day of trouble, panic and […]

Isaiah 21

INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH CHAPTER 21 Isaiah has a vision regarding the future of Babylon─it will be attacked by the Persians and destroyed─never to be inhabited again.  God’s people had been on their threshing floor and beaten like grain but this was all to end.  He sees the last night when Daniel is called to interpret […]

Isaiah 20

INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH CHAPTER 20 General Tartan, commander in chief in Syria, stormed the city of Ashdod and captured it.  In the same year (712 B.C.) Isaiah was told to remove his sackcloth and shoes and to walk naked and barefoot for three years.  This was a symbol that God was going to strip the […]