Once Isaiah answered God's call, the Lord revealed to him how hard it would be--it was a prophetic utterance that would be repeated many times by other Hebrew prophets as well as all four Gospel writers, and the Apostle Paul.
Isaiah 6: A Burning Coal
The seraph touched my mouth with it and said, “Now that this has touched your lips, your guilt has departed and your sin is blotted out.” Isaiah 6:7 (NRSV)
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Isaiah 6: Seraphim and Cherubim
Isaiah was left with the lasting impression of God as sacred and set apart, glorious beyond measure, pure beyond imagining, calling God the Holy One of Israel more than any other writer in the Bible.
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Isaiah 6: The Year of King Uzziah’s Death
God met Isaiah in his sorrow, and in that moment of personal bereavement and spiritual concern, gave the young prophet a Christophany—a vision of Christ.
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Isaiah 5: Prophetic Warning
It would be another one hundred years and more before God’s judgment would come, years of noticeable decline for Judah as they continued to ignore their prophets and disregard God’s word.
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Isaiah 5: God’s Lament
Devoting all our time to looking good and feeling good, to pursuing our own ambitions, and working situations out for our own good at the expense of others, will end up in compromising God’s righteousness.
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Isaiah 5: Ah, the Sorrow
Isaiah spoke of God’s anger, but he began with God’s deep sorrow, with a Hebrew word, הוֺי | hôy, that is translated as ah!, alas!, ha!, ho!, O!, woe! It is meant as a cry of pain, and of lament.
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Isaiah 5: God’s Vineyard
It was right for God to look for fruit from this vineyard, and it is right for the Lord to look for the same evidence of God’s grace in your life and mine today.
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Isaiah 4: The Beautiful Branch
The Branch has come in fulfillment of many prophecies, and He has given us His promise to return.
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Isaiah 3: A Judgment That Purifies
It was a judgment that purified. When the people would return from exile seventy years later, idolatry would never again be the problem it had been.
Grace and Peace, Joanne 