SCRIPTURE: Isaiah 30 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Because you have rejected this message, relied on oppression and depended on deceit, this sin will become for you like a high wall, cracked and bulging, that collapses suddenly, in an instant. It will break in pieces like pottery, shattered so mercilessly that among its pieces not a fragment will be found…
no more pretending
SCRIPTURE: Isaiah 29 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Woe to you, Ariel, Ariel, the city where David settled! Add year to year and let your cycle of festivals go on. Yet I will besiege Ariel; she will mourn and lament, she will be to me like an altar hearth. [Isaiah 29:1-2] But your many enemies will become like fine dust, the…
which spirit do I rely on?
SCRIPTURE: Isaiah 28 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: In that day the Lord Almighty will be a glorious crown, a beautiful wreath for the remnant of his people. He will be a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, a source of strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate. And these also stagger from…
dry or tender?
SCRIPTURE: Isaiah 27 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: When its twigs are dry, they are broken off and women come and make fires with them. For this is a people without understanding; so their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor. [Isaiah 27:11] And in that day a great trumpet will sound. Those who were…
the desire of my heart?
SCRIPTURE: Isaiah 26 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Yes, Lord, walking in the way of your laws, we wait for you; your name and renown are the desire of our hearts. [Isaiah 26:8] What Isaiah writes here is based on his confidence that God is going to step in and make things right. He is determined to stay true to God;…
living His kingdom NOW!
SCRIPTURE: Isaiah 25 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: You have been a refuge for the poor, a refuge for the needy in his distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat. For the breath of the ruthless is like a storm driving against a wall and like the heat of the desert. [Isaiah 25:4-5] Living in this world…
my heart as God sees it!
SCRIPTURE: Isaiah 24 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: From the ends of the earth we hear singing: “Glory to the Righteous One.” But I said, “I waste away, I waste away! Woe to me! The treacherous betray! With treachery the treacherous betray!” Terror and pit and snare await you, O people of the earth. [Isaiah 24:16-17] Isaiah hears the people enthusiastically…
rich or poor in God’s eyes?
SCRIPTURE: Isaiah 23 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Yet her profit and her earnings will be set apart for the Lord; they will not be stored up or hoarded. Her profits will go to those who live before the Lord, for abundant food and fine clothes. [Isaiah 23:18] Isaiah issues a warning against the prosperous sea-faring nation of Phoenicia and her…
Shebna’s dangerous philosophy
SCRIPTURE: Isaiah 22 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: But see, there is joy and revelry, slaughtering of cattle and killing of sheep, eating of meat and drinking of wine! “Let us eat and drink,” you say, “for tomorrow we die!” [Isaiah 22:13] “Beware, the Lord is about to take firm hold of you and hurl you away, O you mighty man….
the end is in sight
SCRIPTURE: Isaiah 21 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: And the lookout shouted, “Day after day, my lord, I stand on the watchtower; every night I stay at my post. Look, here comes a man in a chariot with a team of horses. And he gives back the answer: ‘Babylon has fallen, has fallen! All the images of its gods lie…