| By Andy Moyle | 1 min 13 secs | 0 Comments
This morning I have been praying about God’s Kingdom coming in greater and greater measure and power in and around us. I was stirred to pray, having come across and handout for some teaching I had done a while ago. May we see more and more of this in our workplaces, clubs, homes, life groups […]
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Isaiah 29 “Ariel, Ariel” – Isaiah is not advertising washing powder! He is having a dig at Jerusalem with the words “Altar Hearth, Altar Hearth!” – doesn’t have quite the same ring about it in English. Jerusalem was the centre of Old Testament worship where sinners worshipped a holy God through the substitutionary sacrifice of […]
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Isaiah 28 Isaiah looks to the Northern Kingdom of Israel, Ephraim, or what is left of it after the Assyrian mauling of 733. It’s capital Samaria was in a beautiful valley, but Isaiah pronounces imminent woe. It’s a fading flower, it’s glorious beauty. Samaria is a “living metaphor of the easy-going decadence soon to become […]
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Isaiah 24-27 In the beginning God planted a garden, but Cain built a city. Cain a fugitive and wanderer built a city to satisfy his need for belonging and significance. Cities aren’t just collections of buildings, they are mechanisms for living independently of God, a way of human self-salvation, a denial of human mortality and […]
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In Chapters 21-23 Isaiah turns his prophetic attention to the more remote future. The last section showed that God rules decisively over the nations – now these next five declarations are far more allusive and mysterious in nature. What will happen? God is at work in a sin sick world. God is in charge over […]
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Isaiah 20 Isaiah finishes off the section with a fulfilment in the immediate future. Egypt had been looking for the Palestinian states to rise with them, against Assyria. Egypt reneged on its promises to help. In the midst of all this Isaiah had embodied his prophetic word – stripping naked for three years (it’s not […]
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Isaiah 19 Isaiah’s prophecies show Gentiles and Israel drawn to the Lord. How will it happen? Who will come? The most unlikely candidate is Egypt, who was Israel’s first enemy and the most memorable. Egypt represents the world’s opposition and Isaiah gives a point by point reply of the Lord’s solution… The first half of […]
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Isaiah 18 Isaiah 18 is fulfilled in Acts 8 where we find that God will call the most unlikely people into relationship with Jesus and Holy Spirit wants to prompt you to make it happen too. Judah is still being threatened from the North by Assyria. To stand against them with human thinking they need […]
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Isaiah 17 Isaiah is working his way round the compass points to show that Judah can’t look anywhere else for hope and salvation – only to God. From Philistia in the West (14:28-32), Moab in the East (ch15-16) and soon Egypt in the South (ch 19-20), Isaiah turns his attention to the North – Damascus […]