God knows every story, and God’s timing is perfect for every person. You and I are too finite to fully grasp the magnitude of this truth. But we are able to at least trust God with it. #Isaiah52 #BeautifulAreTheFeet
Isaiah 51: God As Ally Allays All Fear
Fear of people and our current circumstances, fear of what the future might hold, fear borne out of past pain can grow so large it pushes aside our fear of the Lord. That is part of what was happening with Isaiah’s audience. #Isaiah51 #JudeanExile
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Isaiah 50: The Obedient Servant
The third Servant Song describes Messiah as one who trusts and relies completely on God, and knows with conviction that He will be vindicated. That is every Christian's calling and grace. #Isaiah50 #ObedientFaith #ServantSong
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Isaiah 50: The Third Servant Song
This is the third Servant Song, and the Servant is Messiah Jesus. Only the Servant would believe that God will keep God’s promises in the covenants God made with God’s people. Only Jesus believed these covenants fully. #Isaiah50 #SufferingServant
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Isaiah 49: Engraved on God’s Hands
What does it mean that God's love for us us is more intense and enduring than even that of a nursing mother's love for her baby? Or, what does it mean for us to be engraved on the hands of God? #Isaiah49 #EngravedonGodsHands
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Isaiah 49: Eternal Jubilee
The background for this part of Isaiah 49 is the Sabbath years, and the Jubilee that God wrote into the law for ancient Israel. #Isaiah49 #YearofJubilee #TimeofGods Favor
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Isaiah 49: The Servant’s Mysteries
In Isaiah's second Servant Song, two mysteries when solved reveal the identity of Isaiah's prophetic oracle. #Isaiah49 #ServantSong #SecondServantSong
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Isaiah 48: Made In God’s Image
The first half of this chapter is about real and fake, truth and lies, life and death. The second half addresses God’s longing for the people of God to enjoy God, and to enjoy God’s blessing. #Isaiah48 #MadeinGodsImage
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Isaiah 48: Mere Gods or Almighty God?
This passage has several famous quotes in it--"My glory I will not give to another" is just one. In it, Isaiah relates a prophecy with a double meaning, the near-term fulfillment just a shadow of the far-term conclusion. #Isaiah48 #CyrustheGreat
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Isaiah 47: mene, tekel, and parsin
Isaiah's prophecy was fulfilled before Daniel's very eyes, who was called in from retirement to explain God's handwriting upon the wall of Belshazzar's dining room. #BelshazzarsFeast #MeneTekelParsin #MeneTekelUpharsin #FallofBabylon
