Isaiah 29

 Scripture – Isaiah 29

Observation – 

• Isaiah 29:1-8 - The distress from Jerusalem
• Isaiah 29:1-4 - The Lord humbles Jerusalem
• Isaiah 29:5-8 - The Lord protects and delivers a humbled Jerusalem
• Isaiah 29:9-16 - The spiritual blindness of Jerusalem
• Isaiah 29:9-10 - The spiritual drunkenness of Jerusalem
• Isaiah 29:11-12 - The spiritual illteracy of Jerusalem
• Isaiah 29:13-16 - Why the Lord sends blindness to Jerusalem
• Isaiah 29:17-24 - A promise of restoration
• Isaiah 29:17-21 - Sight for the spiritual blind
• Isaiah 29:22-24 - The restoration of God's people

Isaiah 28

 Scripture – Isaiah 28

Observation – 

• Isaiah 28:1- 8 - The sinfulness of the drunkards of Ephraim
• Isaiah 28:1-4 - A flood of judgment on them
• Isaiah 28:5-6-  God's beauty replace's Ephraim's faded beauty
• Isaiah 28:7-8 - The corruption in Ephraim
• Isaiah 28:9-29 - God's message to those who are ready to be judged
• Isaiah 28:9-10 - The message is mocked
• Isaiah 28:11-13 - Isaiah warns of the consequences
• Isaiah 28:14-15 - The false confidence of the leaders
• Isaiah 28:16-19 - The safety of Jesus 
• Isaiah 28:20-22 - Advice to those ripe for judgment
• Isaiah 28:23-29 - The timing of the farmer and the timing of God

Isaiah 26-27

Scripture – Isaiah 26-27

Observation – 

• Isaiah 26:1-11 - The city of God and the city of Man
• Isaiah 26:1-2 - The strength of God's city
• Isaiah 26:3-4 - The LORD is our strength
• Isaiah 26:5-6 - The destiny of the city of Man
• Isaiah 26:7-9 - The way of the upright
• Isaiah 26:10-11 - The way of the wicked
• Isaiah 26:12-21 - Promises made to a humble heart
• Isaiah 26:12-18 - The prayer of a humble heart
• Isaiah 26:19-21 - The promise of refuge and ressurection
• Isaiah 27:1-9 - God blesses Israel in His kingdom
• Isaiah 27:1 - In the kingdom of God, Israel is freed from Leviathan
• Isaiah 27:2-6 - In the kingdom of God, Israel blossoms
• Isaiah 27:7-9 - In the kingdom of God, Israel receives mercy
• Isaiah 27:10-13 - God makes nations submit in His kingdom
• Isaiah 27:10-11 - In the kingdom of God, the city of man is ruined
• Isaiah 27:12-13 - In the kingdom of God, He is worshipped

9At night my soul longs for You,

Indeed, my spirit within me seeks You diligently;

On the outside, it looks like I'm trying to seek the LORD. I can worship, serve on the ushering team, and more, but does that show a desire to seek the LORD on the inside? I can show my devotion to the LORD by serving but do my thoughts and desires show that as well? How can I desire to seek God on the inside, and not just outwardly serving Him?

I think that my desire to serve the LORD at church should also be in my thoughts. I can do things that serve God, but I need to make sure my thoughts are also pleasing and serving God. 

Isaiah 24-25

Scripture – Isaiah 24-25

Observation – 

• Isaiah 24:1-16 - God's judgment
• Isaiah 24:1-3 - The variety of people that God judges
• Isaiah 24:4-6 - The reason for God's judgment
• Isaiah 24:7-13 - What the judgment looks like
• Isaiah 24:14-16 - The glory of God and the woe of man
• Isaiah 24:17-23 - The character of God's judgment
• Isaiah 24:17-18 - God's judgment will always be completed
• Isaiah 24:19-20 - God's judgment touches everything
• Isaiah 24:21-23 - God's judgment touches everyone
• Isaiah 25:1-5 - Praising God for what he has done
• Isaiah 25:1 - You have done wonderful things
• Isaiah 25:2-3 - Praising God for his righteous judgmeent
• Isaiah 25:4-5 - Praising God for his goodness to the weak
• Isaiah 25:6-12 - Praising God for what he will do
• Isaiah 25:6 - A feast for God's people
• Isaiah 25:7-8 - The destruction of evil
• Isaiah 25:9 - The testimony of God's people
• Isaiah 25:10-12 - God will resolve all things

In this chapter, I see that God judges and he will destroy. But in the next chapter I see that God's wrath will come to an end. His judgment is righteous and he is good to the weak. One day, he will wipe away all our tears. He will swallow up death for all time. People die, they get injured, they have to get surgeries, bones ache, muscles are sore, but one day God will take all of that away. I look forward to that day when God will rule over all and will take away all pain, tears, and death.

Isaiah 22-23

Scripture – Isaiah 22-23

Observation – 

• Isaiah 22:1-14 - Isaiah denounces Jerusalem
• Isaiah 22:1-4 - Isaiah is grieved over a joyous city
• Isaiah 22:5-7 - Isaiah sees an army and the LORD brings deliverance
• Isaiah 22:8-14 - Jerusalem makes the wrong preperations for battle
• Isaiah 22:15-25 - Isaiah denounces Shebna
• Isaiah 22:15-19 - Shebna used his office to glorify himself
• Isaiah 22:20-24 - God lifts up Eliakim instead of Shebna
• Isaiah 22:25 - Shebna is removed
• Isaiah 23:1-14 - Judgment and restoration of Tyre
• Isaiah 23:1-5 - The sailors of Tyre lament
• Isaiah 23:6-9 - The city of Tyre is humbled
• Isaiah 23:10-14 - The destruction of Tyre
• Isaiah 23:15-18 - A promise of restoration
• Isaiah 23:15-16 - Seventy years of desolation
• Isaiah 23:17-18 - God's purpose in restoring the city of Tyre

Isaiah 20-21

 Scripture – Isaiah 20-21

Observation – 

• Isaiah 20:1-2 - Isaiah acts out a sign
• Isaiah 20:1 - When it happened 
• Isaiah 20:2 - The LORD gives Isaiah the sign
• Isaiah 20:3-6 - The meaning of the sign
• Isaiah 20:3-4 - The sign announces the judgment of Egypt
• Isaiah 20:5-6 - The sign's message to Judah
• Isaiah 21:1-10 - The burden against Babylon
• Isaiah 21:1-2 - Persia marches against Babylon
• Isaiah 21:3-10 - The fall of Babylon
• Isaiah 21:11-17 - Burdens against Dumah and Arabia
• Isaiah 21:11-12 - The burden against Dumah
• Isaiah 21:13-17 - The burden against Arabia

Isaiah 19

Scripture – Isaiah 19

Observation – 

• Isaiah 19:1-17 - God strikes Egypt
• Isaiah 19:1-4 - God strikes Egypt by giving them over
• Isaiah 19:5-10 - God strikes Egypt by drying up the Nile
• Isaiah 19:11-15 - God strike Egypt by giving them foolish counsel
• Isaiah 19:16-17 - God's striking of terror will invoke fear
• Isaiah 19:18-25 - God saves Egypt
• Isaiah 19:18-22 - Egypt turns to the Lord
• Isaiah 19:23-25 - Peace between hostile enemies

Even though God punishes those who are sinful, they still have a chance to be saved if they turn to the LORD. No matter what they do, if they repent and are truly sorry, God will save them. This is what Egypt did and now they are saved. I see God's mercy for those who repent and a hope that those who are lost, will still have a chance of being saved. 

Isaiah 17-18

 Scripture – Isaiah 17-18

Observation – 

• Isaiah 17:1-11 - Doom on Syria and Israel
• Isaiah 17:1-6 - The Lord speaks to Damascus and Ephraim
• Isaiah 17:7-9 - The humble respond to the judgment of the Lord
• Isaiah 17:10-11 - God's judgment will bring man's work to nothing.
• Isaiah 17:12-14 - God will destroy the nation that brings doom on Israel and Syria
• Isaiah 17:12-13a - The nations against Syria and Israel
• Isaiah 17:13b-14 - God's judgment on those nations
• Isaiah 18:1-6 - There is no need to make an alliance with Ethiopia
• Isaiah 18:1-2 - A word to Ethiopia
• Isaiah 18:3-6 - The Lord rejects help from Ethiopia
• Isaiah 18:7 - Ethiopians come and worship God

In Isaiah 17:7-9 we see that the humble respond to the judgment of the Lord. For myself, when I am judged or punished I need to respond with humility.  God's way is best and I need to trust in his plans. For example, when things don't turn out my way, like I am not able to be on a volleyball team I need to trust God in his plans and respond with humility. His ways are best!

Isaiah 15-16

Scripture – Isaiah 15-16 

Observation – 

• Isaiah 15:1-3 - An invasion against Moab
• Isaiah 15:1a - The burden against moab
• Isaiah 15:1b-4 - The cities and soldiers fall
• Isaiah 15:5-9 - Refugees flee
• Isaiah 15:5-7 - The journey of the refugees
• Isaiah 15:8-9 - The cry of the refugees
• Isaiah 16:1-5 - Counsel to Moab
• Isaiah 16:1-2 - Send the lamb
• Isaiah 16:3 - Isaiah's word to Judah
• Isaiah 16:4-5 - A plea for refuge from Moab
• Isaiah 16:6-14 - The pain of the prophet
• Isaiah 16:6-8 - The pain in Moab because of God's judgment
• Isaiah 16:9-12 - Isaiah's sorrow for Moab
• Isaiah 16:13-14 - Three years until judgment on Moab

Isaiah 14

 Scripture – Isaiah 14

Observation – 

• Isaiah 14:1-23 - The fall of the King of Babylon
• Isaiah 14:1-2 - Judgment on Babylon means mercy for Israel
• Isaiah 14:3-8 - The joy of the earth and the judgment of Babylon
• Isaiah 14:9-11 - The King of Babylon is receieved into hell
• Isaiah 14:12-15 - The fall of Lucifer
• Isaiah 14:16-17 - The nations are amazed at the fall of the King of Babylon
• Isaiah 14:18-23 - The destruction of Babylon
• Isaiah 14:24-32 - Judgment on Assyria and the Philistines
• Isaiah 14:24-27 - The coming judgment of Assyria
• Isaiah 14:28-32 - The coming judgment of the Philistines

Lucifer has amazing talent. He was considered the star of morning and the son of dawn. I need to be careful for myself to not elevate myself because of my talent. We know what happens to the proud. God will "cut down to the earth" those who elevate themselves above God. When I use my talents, I must remember who gave them to me. It wasn't my own practice or because I was just born with it. It's because God gave them to me.

Isaiah 13

 Scripture – Isaiah 13

Observation – 

• Isaiah 13:1-22 - Judgment on Babylon
• Isaiah 13:1 - The burden against Babylon
• Isaiah 13:2-8 - An army against Babylon
• Isaiah 13:9-16 - Judgment against Babylon
• Isaiah 13:17-22 - Waste on Babylon

Isaiah 11-12

Scripture – Isaiah 11-12

Observation – 

• Isaiah 11:1-5 - The character of the Messiah
• Isaiah 11:1 - He will be from the root of Jesse
• Isaiah 11:2 - He will be blessed by the Spirit
• Isaiah 11:3-5 - He will be perfect
• Isaiah 11:6-16 - The glorious reign of the Messiah
• Isaiah 11:6-9 - The new relation to each other
• Isaiah 11:10-12 - The new reign of the Messiah
• Isaiah 11:13-16 - The peace of the reign of the Messiah
• Isaiah 12:1-3 - The worshipper speaks to the LORD
• Isaiah 12:1 - Praise to the Lord after his anger
• Isaiah 12:2 - Thanks and confidence in the Lord
• Isaiah 12:3 - Salvation in the Lord
• Isaiah 12:4-6 - The worshipper praises the Lord
• Isaiah 12:4 - Exalting God amoung the peoples
• Isaiah 12:5-6 - Singing praise to the Lord