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Opening the Scriptures! Three Year Study thru the Bible

Opening the Scriptures! Three Year Study thru the Bible Daily Reading - Bookmark available in the back Weekly Study – on Wednesday nights at 6:30. This week: Isaiah 40-47.

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Opening the Scriptures! Three Year Study thru the Bible

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  1. Opening the Scriptures! Three Year Study thru the Bible Daily Reading - Bookmark available in the back Weekly Study – on Wednesday nights at 6:30 This week:Isaiah 40-47 Jesus expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself … And He opened their understanding, that they might comprehend the Scriptures Luke 24:27,45

  2. Outline of Isaiah • I. Condemnation (1–39) • A. God’s Judgment on His prideful people (1–6) • B. Restoration thru Chastisement (7-12) • C. God’s Judgment on other nations (13-27) • D. Woes against the sins of the people (28–35) • E. Deliverance and Example (36–39) • II. Consolation (40–66) (The remnant returns home) • A. Comfort of God’s Greatness vs. Idols (40–48) • B. Comfort of the Messiah (49–57) • C. Comfort of the Future (58–66)

  3. Outline of Isaiah • I. Condemnation (1–39) • A. God’s Judgment on His prideful people (1–6) • B. Restoration thru Chastisement (7-12) • C. God’s Judgment on other nations (13-27) • D. Woes against the sins of the people (28–35) • E. Deliverance and Example (36–39) • II. Consolation (40–66) (The remnant returns home) • A. Comfort of God’s Greatness vs. Idols (40–48) • B. Comfort of the Messiah (49–57) • C. Comfort of the Future (58–66)

  4. Pekahiah 586bc 722 bc Assyrian Captivity Ten Tribes of Israel Hoshea Menahem Pekah Isaiah Babylonian Captivity Judah taken captive Manasseh Uzziah Hezekiah Josiah Jeoiakim Jotham Ahaz Zedekiah Amon Jehoahaz Jehoiachin 750 740 730 720 710 700 690 680 670 670 660 650 640 630 620 610 600 590 580 570 560 550 540 530 520

  5. 586bc Manasseh Josiah 1st Return Under Zerubbabel Babylonian Captivity Judah taken captive Jeoiakim Zedekiah Amon Jehoahaz Jehoiachin 690 680 670 660 650 640 630 620 610 600 590 580 570 560 550 540 530 520 510

  6. Outline of Isaiah • I. Condemnation (1–39) • A. God’s Judgment on His prideful people (1–6) • B. Restoration thru Chastisement (7-12) • C. God’s Judgment on other nations (13-27) • D. Woes against the sins of the people (28–35) • E. Deliverance and Example (36–39) • II. Consolation (40–66) (The remnant returns home) • A. Comfort of God’s Greatness vs. Idols (40–48) • B. Comfort of the Messiah (49–57) • C. Comfort of the Future (58–66)

  7. Outline of Isaiah • I. Condemnation (1–39) • A. God’s Judgment on His prideful people (1–6) • B. Restoration thru Chastisement (7-12) • C. God’s Judgment on other nations (13-27) • D. Woes against the sins of the people (28–35) • E. Deliverance and Example (36–39) • II. Consolation (40–66) (The remnant returns home) • A. Comfort of God’s Greatness vs. Idols (40–48) • B. Comfort of the Messiah (49–57) • C. Comfort of the Future (58–66)

  8. Exodus 20:4-5 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. ….

  9. Colossians 3:5 Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

  10. Matthew6:24 “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.

  11. A. Comfort of God’s Greatness vs. Idols (40–48) Ch 40 - God is Great! Wait on Him a. Greatness in Christ v.3-5 b. Greatness of His Word v.6-8 c. Greatness of His Power v.9-11 d. Greatness of His Knowledge v.12-14 e. Greatness compared to nations v.15-17 f. Greatness compared to idols v.18-20 g. Greatness of God!! v.21-26 h. Foolish thoughts about God v.27 i. Wait on Lord & be strengthened! v.28-31

  12. Comfort of God’s Greatness vs. Idols (40–48) • Ch 40 - God is Great! Wait on Him • Compare Him to an idol? (18-20) • Ch 41 - God is Sovereign – Don’t be fearful • Idols are nothing (21-24) • Ch 42 - God is Glorious – revealed in Christ • Idols have no glory (8,17) • Ch 43 - God is our Redeemer – Call on Him • Besides Him, is no savior (8-13) • Ch 44 - God is Forming His people- Fear not • Folly of forming a god (6-20) • Ch 45 - God alone is God – Look to Him • No other gods (5-7, 9-10,14,18,20-22)

  13. Comfort of God’s Greatness vs. Idols (40–48) • Ch 40 - God is Great! Wait on Him • Ch 41 - God is Sovereign – Don’t be fearful • Ch 42 - God is Glorious – revealed in Christ • Ch 43 - God is our Redeemer – Call on Him • Ch 44 - God is Forming His people- Fear not • Ch 45 - God alone is God – Look to Him • Ch 46 - God upholds His people – listen to Him • Idols are upheld by people (1-2,5-7) • Ch 47 - God is a Just Judge • Folly of idolatry (8-15) • Ch 48 – God is Great – come out to Him

  14. 2 Corinthians 6:14-18 Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever? And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God.

  15. 2 Corinthians 6:14-18 As God has said: “I will dwell in them And walk among them. I will be their God, And they shall be My people.” Therefore “Come out from among them And be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, And I will receive you.” “I will be a Father to you, And you shall be My sons and daughters, Says the Lord Almighty.”

  16. Revelation 18:1-5 After these things I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority, and the earth was illuminated with his glory. And he cried mightily with a loud voice, saying, “Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and has become a dwelling place of demons, a prison for every foul spirit, and a cage for every unclean and hated bird!

  17. Revelation 18:1-5 For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the abundance of her luxury.”

  18. Revelation 18:1-5 And I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues. For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.

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