The Book of Isaiah

We have been struggling with our study of the Book of Isaiah.  We are about 1/3 of the way through it and it has been a very laborious journey.  We finished chapter 23 and we had to pause and ask why these chapters are in the Bible.  Is God showing us how he could predict the future through His Prophet Isaiah.  It's easy to start to look at the historic evidence and stop there, but that same evidence can be found in other Books of the Bible.  This week, we asked how this can serve us today and we concluded, that through His Prophet we get to look through the eyes of God Himself and see the world as he sees it.

God, through Isaiah, pointed to all the nations surrounding Judah and warned the Jews of the judgment that was coming to all those nations.  He was warning the Jews not to adopt the ways of the world and turn their backs to God as the Northern tribes in Israel had done.  That same warning applies to us today.  God judges nations and therefore it is vitally important who the leaders of the nations are.  God tells us to submit to our government, so if we elect non-believers, people who do not acknowledge Jesus as Savior, Son of God, and Redeemer, then we are agreeing to follow leaders who will lead us away from God.

The Church must embrace the teachings of the Bible which will help us to see the temptations of the world for what they are, and to hear the warnings that God shares through His Spirit.  One other thing that has become evident through our study of Isaiah is that God is bigger that we can fathom and we fail to recognize His magnificence, His providence, and His love for us.  He will judge the world and He wants us to be judged in the righteousness of Christ.