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2/27/00 1) The character of those in . vs. 3 a) Those in , will be called 4-6 holy. b) They will be recorded among the The Day of the Lord section began in chapter two citizens of Jerusalem. and runs to chapter four. The period encompasses 2) The consecration of the people. vs. 4 many events that will transpire till the kingdom a) The Messiah will washed away the age. filth of the daughters of Zion, from all their unfaithfulness. 4:2-6 The reign of the Messiah. b) The Messiah will purge the blood of Jerusalem from her midst, all their 4.2 The person of the Messiah. evil deeds. 1) In that day, refers to the period of the c) The manner is by the spirit of millennium, which is part of the “Day of judgment and burning, referring to the the Lord”. sacrifice of Himself and the Holy 2) The Branch “semah” is a title for the Spirit of God. Messiah, used frequently throughout the * The Day of the Lord in the period of Scriptures. the Great-Tribulation. Zech. 12:2- a) He, the Messiah will be beautiful and 10; 13:8-9; 14:2; Joel 3:1-17; glorious. Is. 11;1, Jer. 23:5, 33:15, Rom. 11:26-32 Zech. 3;8, 6:12 b) He will redo the earth and all will be 4:5-6 The provisions of the Messiah. brought back to it’s original intent, 1) His divine presence will be visible to all prior to the fall, the fruit shall be His citizens. vs. 5a-c excellent and appealing. a) A cloud by day. c) He does this for the remnant of , * The word create is “bara”, to create who escaped the Anti-Christ’s rule. our of nothing. Gen. 1:1 Matt. 24; Mk. 13; Lk. 21; Rom. 9-11; b) A flaming fire by night. Rev. 12 * After the manner of the wilderness journey. Ex. 13:11; Num. 9:15; 4:3-4 The persons of the kingdom. 10:34 3 4

c) The difference is that in the wilderness 1) He dug and cleared the area. these were only over the Tabernacle, 2) He planted a choice vine. while in the Kingdom it is over the 3) He build a tower to protect it. entire city, as a canopy of a marriage 4) He made a winepress in it. ceremony. 5) He expected it to bring forth good grapes, 2) His divine Shekiniah glory will fill the but it brought forth wild grapes, sour, capital of His kingdom. vs. 5d hard and small grapes. * Rev. 22:22-27 3) His protection for the day and night. vs. 6 5:3-4 God petitions for a judgment. 1) God pleads that the people Jerusalem and 5:1-30 The song of the Vineyard. judge who is at fault, the vineyard or God. vs. 3 5:1-7 The potential and personal * Here again is the courtroom scene, as responsibility of the vineyard. the plaintiff against the accused! 2) God clear implies that He did all that was 5:1 God is the lover of Israel. needed and they were responsible for the 1) The prophet Isaiah is the instrument of fruit of their lives, wild grapes. vs. 4 God’s love song to His people, as a broken-hearted husband, singing a 5:5-6 God proclaims His verdict. lamentable funeral song. 1) God takes the roll of judge now, for the * The parable of the vineyard! personal pronoun “I will”, appears four 2 The vineyard is “His vineyard”, the house times in versus five and six. vs. 5a of Israel. vs. 7a 2) God declares His right by calling Israel * Song Sol. 2:15; 4:16-5:1; 6:1-2; 8:12; “My vineyard”. vs. 5b Jn. 15:1-8 3) God would remove protection, burn it, 3) The location is fertile, a fruitful hill, break down it’s walls and allow it to be literally “a horn of a son of oil or trampled. vs. 5 fatness”. 4) God will allow it to be uncultivated and lie follow, withholding rain. vs. 6 5:2 God did all that was necessary for the vineyard. 5:7 God’s heart-broken frustration. 5 6

1) God identifies the vineyard and pleasant 2) God under oath to Himself as the Lord of plant as the house of Israel and the men Host promises that the many and of Juhah. beautiful houses will be uninhabited. vs. 2) God was looking for justice and 10 righteousness but saw oppression and a a) Ten acres would produce only six to cry of help or wailing. eight gallons of wine. * Isaiah uses a play on words in the b) Corn would yield only one tenth. Hebrew, “mishpat-mispah and sedakah-se’akah”, he will do this 5:11-17 The second woe is the sin of pleasure. often. 1) Woe to those who are given to alcohol from morning to night. vs. 11 5:8-25 The woe’s of judgment regarding the * Prov. 23:29-20; Eccl. 10:16; Eph. 5:18 vineyard. 2) They regard their own pleasure in partying, without regards for the Lord’s 5:8-10 The first woe is the sin of wealthy work or His involvement in history. vs. accumulation of large estates. 12 1) Woe in the Scriptures is always indicative * The usual immoral and perversion that of judgment being pronounce. vs. 8-9 accompanies such conduct is implied! a) Jesus did the same to the Scribes and Eccl. 10:16; Hos. 7:5; Amos 4:1; 6:1, Pharisees, after giving the parable of 6; Joel 3:3 the vineyard. Matt. 21:33-46; 23:13- 3) The first consequence of that life-style 36 was the immediate and temporal. vs. 13 * and Jezebel took the vineyard a) People have gone into captivity to of Naboth. 1Kings 21:4 vices and ultimately to and b) The result is that there is no place for . people to dwell alone, by purchasing b) The reason is they have no their own land. knowledge, of God, to live right. c) The modern day problem is the same c) Their honorable men are famished and but with added difficulties, over the multitude dried up, due to not crowed conditions, a condition of working but partying and casting off urban life. Lev. 25:13-33, Mic. 2:1-2 God’s word. 7 8

4) The second consequence of that life-style 2) They tempt God to come and stop them, focused on the inevitable and eternal. vs. mocking His Holiness. vs. 19 14 a) The word “therefore” is the conclusion 5:20 The fourth woe is the sin of live under of what precedes. the philosophy of an amoral life. b) They all will perish to Sheol, the place 1) They call evil good and good evil. of departed spirits, the grave, a two- * The teaching of value clarification, fold compartment for the faithful and situational ethics! unfaithful. Lk. 16 2) They present darkness for light and light c) The place of Sheol is personified as a for darkness. mouth opening beyond measure to * The existential philosophy of receive the multitude of proud and individual experience that qualifies pleasure seeking lost ones. the value of the experience and no one 5) The people will be humbled and God else can judge. exalted in His judgment, for He is both 3) They present bitter for sweet and sweet holy and the Lord of hosts, who fights for bitter. against them. vs. 15-16 * The teaching of relativism. 6) The result will be that the land will be 4) The entire life-style of our day condoms given to the animals and strangers to abortion, premarital sex, homosexuality, occupy. vs. 17 etc.

5:18-19 The third woe is the sin of challenging 5:21 The fifth woe is the sin of self- God to fulfill His word of judgment by their sufficiency and self-esteem. presumptuous sin. 1) They are wise in their own eyes, how they 1) Woe to those who presumptuously perceive themselves. Prov. 3:7; Rom. continue an increasing life of sin, 12:16; 1Cor. 3:18-20 pictured as drawing sin with cords and 2) They are prudent in their own sight, how ropes, due to heaviness by the amount of they complement themselves. sin, which will ultimately entrap them. vs. 18 5:22-25 The sixth woe is the sin of perverting judgment. 9 10

1) Those in authority as judges who boast in 6:1-4 The perception of the vision. how much they can drink and not be impaired in their office. vs. 22 6:1b The need vision. * Is. 1:23; 10:1-2 1) The time of the vision was at the death of 2) They take bribes and corrupt justice. vs. King 740 A.D., the throne was 23 empty, the prophet as well as the people 3) The first consequence is that God will were distressed, due to their dependency consume them like fire, for rejecting the on Uzziah. law of the Lord of hosts and despising a) He was a good king and prospered the the word of the Holy One of Israel. vs. nation in every way. 2Kings 15-20; 24 2Chron. 26-32 a) The law was the set standard. b) His son Jothan reigned in his place but b) The word was the revelation of the he was a bad king. prophet. 2) The real King is seen on the throne, with 4) The second consequence is the anger of all his dignity, majesty and glory. God will be against them and it will be * The prophet Isaiah needed to see this, through the hand of Assyria and to realize that the success of Uzziah Babylon, a fierce and unstoppable army, was only due to God. killing them and taking them into captivity. vs. 25-30 6:2 The prophet saw angelic beings a) Earthquakes would occur. Amos 1:1, around the throne. Zech. 14:5 1) Above the throne stood seraphim. b) For His hand is not turned away, but a) Seraphim is the plural of Seraph and His hand is stretched out still, is means “burning ones”. repeated often. vs. 25d-e; 9:12, 17, b) Cherubim is another order of angels, 21; 10:4, 23, 11 which have two and four wings. Ex. c) God is the One, “in that day”, short- 25:18-20; Ezk. 10:14; 20:21 term and long-term. 2) Seraphim have six wings. a) With two they cover their faces from 6:1-13 The vision of Isaiah. the Shekiniah glory of God.

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b) With two they cover their feet, for the 6:5 The realization of Isaiah’s own sin. place is holy. 1) Isaiah first saw himself as vile before c) With two they fly. God. * Most believe Isaiah was in the temple 6:3 The cry of the Seraphim. at this time. 1) The holiness of God is proclaimed, three a) Woe is me, I am undone, he times. understood he deserved judgment, a) What a contrast to Uzziah, who was a hopelessly cut off and condemned leper. before God’s holiness. b) This is the pattern throughout the b) The reason is that he was a man of Scriptures, so often and believed to be unclean lips, a sinner, in contrast to indicative of the Trinity. the words of the seraphim. 2) The title is the Lord of hosts, the captain 1)) The mouth of man is certainly a of the armies of heaven. way by which man’s sin nature is * The phrase is found ? time in Isaiah. manifested and vented to destroy 3) The entire is full of His glory. others. Ja. 3 * Regardless of who dies on the earth, * The profanity of today is a God is still in control and His glory tolerance that defies and defiles will prevail through His purposes! our nation, as Hollywood and the movie industry glamorizes it, 6:4 The affect in heaven. along with violence! 1) The posts of the door were shaken by the 2)) The real problem is the heart, voice of him who cried out. which is the source of all * The One, is God, in fact John tells us manifested sin. Jer. 17:9, Matt. that the One Isaiah saw on the throne 15:18-20 was Jesus. Jn. 12:41 2) Isaiah secondly saw his dwelling with 2) The house was filled with smoke. people of unclean lips, just like him. * Much like in the tabernacle and the * A needed understanding, if he was to temple. Ex. , 1Kings be used by God. 3) Isaiah saw the real King, the Lord of 6:5-7 The purpose of the vision. hosts, He had not died, life would go on! 13 14

6:6-7 The need of cleansing Isaiah’s sin. * God looks throughout the whole earth 1) One of the seraphim flew with a live coal for a man to show Himself strong, but from the alter of God. vs. 6 often no one answers. a) Angels are ministering spirits to the heirs of salvation. Heb. 1:14 6:9 The call was one of choice. b) Angels are of various ranks and 1) The man Isaiah heard a need to be filled classes. and he responded. c) The implication is sacrifice. 2) The Lord then told him to go. 2) The angel touched Isaiah’s lips with a live 3) The message is of warning to their coal from the alter of God. vs. 7 spiritually dull ears and eyes. a) His iniquity was taken away, sins of weakness. 6:10 The result of the message would be to b) His sin of wickedness was purged or worsen their spiritual condition. atoned for. 1Jn. 2:2 1) Their hearts would become dull. * This is the only way a person can 2) Their ears heavy. be in the presence of God or for 3) Their eyes shut. God to have fellowship with man. 4) These were a form of judgment on them 1Jn. 1:9 for their ongoing disobedience, not that God did it in order that they not hear and 6:8-13 The personal call through the vision. see.

6:8 The hearing of a man needed to be 6:11-12 The length of Isaiah’s prophetic sent. ministry. 1) Isaiah heard the voice of the Lord, his ear 1) The prophet asked the question. was now tuned to God. 2) The Lord said till their destruction and 2) Isaiah heard , “Whom shall I send, and captivity. vs. 11-12 who will go for Us”. 6:13 The promise of God to the remnant. * The trinity is implied by “Us”. 1) A tenth would return. 3) Isaiah responded to the need, “Here am I! 2) As a terebinth tree or oak, when it is cut Send me.” down.