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
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 Godโs longing for the people of God to enjoy God, and to enjoy Godโs 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,ย tekel, andย 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
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Isaiah 46: Incomparable God
Have you ever caught yourself saying, โWell, that is just life?โ It is what it is. I say it a lot, but after reading todayโs passage, I have been weighing that phrase a little bit more thoughtfully. #Isaiah46 #Marduk #Dagon
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Isaiah 45: Mature View of God
Godโs words of reassurance and promise were for the people of God, for the Judahites who had been taken captive and sent into exile. But God opens up Godโs appeal to all people in every nation. #Isaiah45 #MatureViewofGod
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Isaiah 45: A Hope, and a Future
It can feel empowering to feel like you and I are entitled to better treatment, but we can never know the whole story, it is simply too vast. #Isaiah45 #PotterandtheClay #HopeandaFuture
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Isaiah 45: The Nature of Prophecy
Sometimes, in scripture, it seems as though God responds with compassion and answers to questions. Other times, it seems God responds with a rebuke. Why?
