Thursday – March 7, 2024, Adar Aleph 27, 5784
Greetings dear ones in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and welcome back to this enabling Bible Study of the Book of Isaiah. Like the rest of Scripture, it is only enabling when we receive it, prove it, believe it, and implement it not doubting. Hearing and parroting back will not get it done; it is vain. Listen (you are reading out loud aren’t you) to two witnesses.
Matthew 6:7 (KJV)
7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
1 Timothy 6:20-21 (KJV)
20 O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:
21 Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.
Please take a moment and share this teaching as widely as possible by every means available to you. Thank you so much. The picture of the beautiful bird today was supplied by Marilyn Stevens who takes wonderful wildlife pictures especially of birds. Thank you, Marilyn, your pictures are a blessing.
Isaiah 51:17-23 (TLB)
17 Wake up, wake up, Jerusalem! You have drunk enough from the cup of the fury of the Lord. You have drunk to the dregs the cup of terror and squeezed out the last drops.
18 Not one of her sons is left alive to help or tell her what to do.
19 These two things have been your lot: desolation and destruction. Yes, famine and the sword. And who is left to sympathize? Who is left to comfort you?
20 For your sons have fainted and lie in the streets, helpless as wild goats caught in a net. The Lord has poured out his fury and rebuke upon them.
21 But listen now to this, afflicted ones—full of troubles and in a stupor (but not from being drunk)—
22 this is what the Lord says, the Lord your God who cares for his people: “See, I take from your hands the terrible cup; you shall drink no more of my fury; it is gone at last.
23 But I will put that terrible cup into the hands of those who tormented you and trampled your souls to the dust and walked upon your backs.”
Yesterday I left off in verse eighteen talking about sons, builders, and builders of the family name. Am I, are you building up the name of our family, the family of God, the Kingdom of God? Where are the builders. What are we building? Will what we are building be eternal or temporal? These are extraordinarily important questions that we must answer after introspection, talking with the Lord, and reviewing Scripture. Or, are we on the other hand living our life and doing the religious thing?
This brings us into verse nineteen where the Lord names the double calamities they are been dealing with. The living Bible calls it desolation and destruction, and the NIV calls it ruin and destruction. The Lord through His Prophet Isaiah goes on to describe these further as famine and death by the sword. At this time, they are ruled by the Assyrians and many were taken into bondage in Assyria. The most able bodied and brightest were not left in the land. In additions to the deaths that occurred when they resisted the Assyrian invasion there was also a famine that came. Remember all of this is due to sin, disobedience by Gods’ people. They swung the door wide open to Satan and his hoards for they were following the ways, the words of Satan and not God. They chose another Kingdom than the Kingdom of God and thus came under the jurisdiction of the other kingdom, the kingdom of darkness.
Before I end for this week, I want to remind us all that where there is a lack of worship (submission to God – not a raucous song service) there is no rain and thus famine of one sort or another. This is physical and spiritual, the physical being physical water (rain) and the spiritual being revelation of the Word of God. Is this present in America today?
Lord willing, I will pick up right here next week. Remember we love you and there is nothing you can do about it.
Authored by: Dr. David R. Wood, Bible Teacher, and Prophetic Voice
2 Chronicles 20:20 b (KJV)
20 … Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.
Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 (KJV)
13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
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