Day 211 – A Year in the Bible – Isaiah 32-34
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ISAIAH 32 – THE WORK OF RIGHTEOUSNESS SHALL BE PEACE
The Eyes of Them that See Shall Not Dim
Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment. And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken. The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly. The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful. For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail. The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right. But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand. – Isaiah 32:1-8
Righteousness Remain in the Fruitful Field
Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech. Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come. Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins. They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city: because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks; until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest. Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field. – Isaiah 32:9-15
My People Shall Dwell in a Peaceable Habitation
And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever. And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places; when it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place. Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass. – Isaiah 32:16-20
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ISAIAH 33 – BE THOU OUR SALVATION IN TIME OF TROUBLE
We Have Waited for Thee
O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble. – Isaiah 33:2
The LORD is Exalted for He Dwelleth on High
The LORD is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness. And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD is his treasure. – Isaiah 33:5-6
Twenty-eight Unfulfilled Predictions
(taken from the Dake Bible Study Notes)
1. Woe to the spoiler of My people. You will be spoiled and dealt with treacherously yourself (Isa. 33:1).
2. Antichrist will defeat Judah (Isa. 33:3).
3. The spoil shall be gathered like caterpillars (Isa. 33:4; Zech. 14:1-5).
4. Jehovah will be exalted (Isa. 33:5,10).
5. He will fill Zion with judgment and righteousness (Isa. 33:5).
6. Wisdom and knowledge will be the stability of the times and the strength of salvation (Isa. 33:6).
7. Peace overtures to Antichrist will fail (Isa. 33:7).
8. The covenant between the Jews and Antichrist will be broken (Isa. 33:8; Dan. 9:27).
9. Antichrist will drive Israel from their land and make it desolate (Isa. 33:8). 10.
10.Traveling will cease in Judea.
11. Antichrist will not regard any individual.
12. Palestine will mourn and languish.
13. Lebanon will be defeated (Isa. 33:9).
14. Sharon will become like a wilderness.
15. Bashan and Carmel will become fruitless.
16. Jehovah will lift up Himself and punish Antichrist’s army (Isa. 33:10-12).
17. The wrath of God will be so great that it will destroy the sinners in Zion, as it did the enemies of God in Isa. 33:10-12 (Isa. 33:14).
18. The righteous Jews will be the only ones to abide the wrath of God and be exalted (Isa. 33:15-16).
19. The defense of the righteous will be the munitions of rocks (Isa. 33:16; 16:1-5; 26:20; Ps. 60:8).
20. The righteous ones will be provided for with bread and water (Isa. 33:17).
21. They will behold the King in His beauty and see the remote parts of Palestine delivered from the Antichrist.
22. The people of Jerusalem will meditate terror (Isa. 33:18).
23. The enemies of Jerusalem will be destroyed so suddenly that it will be asked: Where are they (Isa. 33:18-19)?
24. Jerusalem will be a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that will be eternal (Isa. 33:20).
25. In Jerusalem the glorious Jehovah will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams where no warship will ever ply the waters (Isa. 33:21).
26. Jehovah will be our Judge, Lawgiver, and King; and He will save us (Isa. 33:22).
27. The enemy, like a helpless warship floundering in the sea, will be plundered and leave a great spoil (Isa. 33:3-4,23 Zech. 14:14).
28. The inhabitants of Jerusalem will never say again, I am sick: the people therein will be forgiven of their sins and be healed (Isa. 33:24).
The Glorious LORD Will Be Unto Us a Place of Broad Rivers
But there the glorious LORD will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby. For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; he will save us. – Isaiah 33:21-22
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ISAIAH 34 – COME NEAR YE NATIONS TO HEAR AND HEARKEN
The Indignation of the LORD is Upon All Nations
Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it. For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter. Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood. And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree. – Isaiah 34:1-4
The Day of the LORD’s Vengeance
For it is the day of the LORD’s vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion. And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch. It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever. But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness. They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing. – Isaiah 34:8-12
Seek Ye Out the Book of the LORD and Read
Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them. And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein. – Isaiah 34:16-17
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