ISAIAH CHAPTER FIFTY-SEVEN PROPHET - DATE KING / EVENT - DATE JONAH (825-785BC)? JOEL (800BC)? HOSEA (785-725BC)? TIGLATH-PILESER (745-727BC)? MICAH (785-710BC)? HEZEKIAH (JUDAH) (726-698BC)? AMOS (784BC)? SHALMANESER (727-722BC)? ISAIAH (701-681BC)? ISRAEL TAKEN CAPTIVE (722BC)? NAHUM (700BC)? SENNACHERIB (705-681BC)? ZEPHANIAH (630BC)? JEREMIAH (629-588BC)? NEBUCHADNEZZAR (605-562BC)? DANIEL (606-534BC)? ZEDEKIAH (JUDAH) (597-586BC)? HABAKKUK (598BC)? JUDAH TAKEN CAPTIVE (586BC)? EZEKIEL (597-573BC)? BELSHAZZAR (541-523BC)? OBADIAH (588-562BC)? CYRUS (559-529BC)? EZRA (536-456BC)? BABYLON DESTROYED (536BC)? HAGGAI (532-512BC)? DARIUS (511-475BC)? ZECHARIAH (520-475BC)? ESTHER (485-465BC)? NEHEMIAH (465-424BC)? MALACHI (420-397BC)? OUTLINE ISAIAH CHAPTER FIFTY-SEVEN ISRAEL'S FUTILE IDOLATRY V. 1-13 HEALING FOR THE BACKSLIDER V. 14-21 READ: ISAIAH 57:1-2 ISRAEL'S FUTILE IDOLATRY 1 The righteous perishes, And no man takes it to heart; Merciful men are taken away, While no one considers That the righteous is taken away from evil. 2 He shall enter into peace; They shall rest in their beds, Each one walking in his uprightness. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 57:1-2 ISRAEL'S FUTILE IDOLATRY 1 The righteous perishes, And no man takes it to heart; Merciful men are taken away, While no one considers That the righteous is taken away from evil. 2 He shall enter into peace; They shall rest in their beds, Each one walking in his uprightness. WHAT IS SAID CONCERNING THE RIGHTEOUS? WHAT DID THE UN-RIGHTEOUS FAIL TO CONSIDER? WHY ARE THE MERCIFUL TAKEN AWAY? WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO JEROBOAM? WHAT DID THE LORD SAY ABOUT MANASSEH? WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO JOSIAH? WHAT DID JESUS SAY TO THE SRIBES & PHARISEES? WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR THE RIGHTEOUS? QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 57:1 ISRAEL'S FUTILE IDOLATRY 1 The righteous perishes, And no man takes it to heart; Merciful men are taken away, While no one considers That the righteous is taken away from evil. WHAT IS SAID CONCERNING THE RIGHTEOUS? READ: PSALMS 12:1 1 Help, LORD, for the godly man ceases! For the faithful disappear from among the sons of men. NKJV READ: MICAH 7:2 2 The faithful man has perished from the earth, And there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; Every man hunts his brother with a net. NKJV WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO JEROBOAM? READ: 1 KINGS 14:9-13 9 You have done more evil than all who were before you, for you have gone and made for yourself other gods and molded images to provoke Me to anger, and have cast Me behind your back — 10 therefore behold! I will bring disaster on the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam every male in Israel, bond and free; I will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as one takes away refuse until it is all gone. 11 The dogs shall eat whoever belongs to Jeroboam and dies in the city, and the birds of the air shall eat whoever dies in the field; for the LORD has spoken!"‘ 12 Arise therefore, go to your own house. When your feet enter the city, the child shall die. 13 And all Israel shall mourn for him and bury him, for he is the only one of Jeroboam who shall come to the grave, because in him there is found something good toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 57:1 1 The righteous perishes, And no man takes it to heart; Merciful men are taken away, While no one considers That the righteous is taken away from evil. WHAT IS SAID CONCERNING THE RIGHTEOUS? WHY ARE THE MERCIFUL TAKEN AWAY? WHAT DID THE LORD SAY ABOUT MANASSEH? READ: 2 KINGS 21:16 16 Moreover Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides his sin by which he made Judah sin, in doing evil in the sight of the LORD. NKJV WHAT HAPPENED TO MANASSEH? QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 57:1 WHAT HAPPENED TO MANASSEH? READ: 2 CHRONICLES 33:10-13 10 And the LORD spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they would not listen. 11 Therefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh with hooks, bound him with bronze fetters, and carried him off to Babylon. 12 Now when he was in affliction, he implored the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers, 13 and prayed to Him; and He received his entreaty, heard his supplication, and brought him back to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD was God. NKJV QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 57:1 WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO JOSIAH? READ: 2 KINGS 22:18-20 18 But as for the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, in this manner you shall speak to him, 'Thus says the LORD God of Israel: "Concerning the words which you have heard — 19 because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants, that they would become a desolation and a curse, and you tore your clothes and wept before Me, I also have heard you," says the LORD. 20 Surely, therefore, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace; and your eyes shall not see all the calamity which I will bring on this place."'" So they brought back word to the king. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 57:1 WHAT DID JESUS SAY TO THE SCRIBES & PHARISEES? READ: MATTHEW 23:29-36 29 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous, 30 and say, 'If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.' 31 "Therefore you are witnesses against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets. 32 Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers' guilt. 33 Serpents, brood of vipers! How can you escape the condemnation of hell? QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 57:1 WHAT DID JESUS SAY TO THE SCRIBES & PHARISEES? READ: MATTHEW 23:29-36 34 Therefore, indeed, I send you prophets, wise men, and scribes: some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city, 35 that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. 36 Assuredly, I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation. NKJV QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 57:1 1 The righteous perishes, And no man takes it to heart; Merciful men are taken away, While no one considers That the righteous is taken away from evil. WHAT DID THE UN-RIGHTEOUS FAIL TO CONSIDER? WHY DID THE LORD GIVE THEM UP? READ: ISAIAH 42:24-25 24 Who gave Jacob for plunder, and Israel to the robbers? Was it not the LORD, He against whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in His ways, Nor were they obedient to His law. 25 Therefore He has poured on him the fury of His anger And the strength of battle; It has set him on fire all around, Yet he did not know; And it burned him, Yet he did not take it to heart. NKJV QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 57:1 1 The righteous perishes, And no man takes it to heart; Merciful men are taken away, While no one considers That the righteous is taken away from evil. WHAT DID THE UN-RIGHTEOUS FAIL TO CONSIDER? WHAT DID PETER SAY TO THE JEWS? READ: ACTS 3:14-15 14 But you denied the Holy One and the Just, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you, 15 and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses. NKJV QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 57:1 2 He shall enter into peace; They shall rest in their beds, Each one walking in his uprightness. WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR THE RIGHTEOUS? WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ABRAM? READ: GENESIS 15:13-15 13 Then He said to Abram: "Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years. 14 And also the nation whom they serve I will judge; afterward they shall come out with great possessions. 15 Now as for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried at a good old age. QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 57:2 2 He shall enter into peace; They shall rest in their beds, Each one walking in his uprightness. WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR THE RIGHTEOUS? READ: JOB 3:13 & 17 13 For now I would have lain still and been quiet, I would have been asleep; Then I would have been at rest 17 There the wicked cease from troubling, And there the weary are at rest. NKJV QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 57:2 2 He shall enter into peace; They shall rest in their beds, Each one walking in his uprightness. WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR THE RIGHTEOUS? READ: PSALMS 37:37 37 Mark the blameless man, and observe the upright; For the future of that man is peace.