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Isaiah 28 This prophecy came to Isaiah about the year 730 BC.

Isaiah 28 This prophecy came to Isaiah about the year 730 BC. It was during the reign of the knucklehead, Ahaz. See Isaiah 7:1-14

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Isaiah 28 This prophecy came to Isaiah about the year 730 BC.

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  1. Isaiah 28 This prophecy came to Isaiah about the year 730 BC. It was during the reign of the knucklehead, Ahaz. See Isaiah 7:1-14 God said to Ahaz: “I’ll give you a sign – any sign you ask, and I’ll give it – just to prove to you and the kingdom of Judah that I can protect you from the alliance of Israel and Syria, on the your north flank, and vs Egypt on your south flank, at the same time. Go ahead, ask.” Of course, Ahaz had it made in the shade; he had made a fool’s bargain with mighty Assyria itself! So he told God not to bother with HIS sign. Which of the 7 Rev 2-3 churches does this remind you of?

  2. Isaiah 7 During the reign of Ahaz in Judah And Pekah in Israel (c. 734 BC)

  3. KINGS OF JUDAH IN ISAIAH’S LIFE 750 BC Uzziah (aka Azariah) 2Chron 26:1-5, 16; 2Kings 15:1-5 735 BC Jotham 2Kings 15:32-38 730 BC Ahaz 2Chron 28:1-5 720 BC Hezekiah 2Kings 18:1-5; 19:1-2; 20:1-7 690 BC Manasseh 2Chron 33:1-7

  4. Assyria Timeline Four kings of Judah are included: Uzziah (good), Jotham (OK), Ahaz (horrible), and Hezekiah (good) We are talking about Ahaz. He was no good (II Kings 16)

  5. ISAIAH Ch 30 c730 BC

  6. Isaiah 28 So, as you recall, God said: “OK, then, I’ll just give some awesome signs to the whole world!” “A virgin shall conceive; Immanuel, God with us!” “People in darkness shall see a great light!” “Unto us a Child is born, a Son is given; and His Name shall be called: Wonderful…!” “A Rod, a Branch, shall come forth of Jesse…!” “An Ensign for the Gentiles to seek after…!” All this was given because Ahaz refused any sign.

  7. Isaiah 28 Since Isaiah 28 is also during Ahaz’ reign, it is part of the same series of prophecies that gave us signs of our Christ in chapters 7-11. So the 10 “Burden” chapters are a parenthetical insert that were given during Hezekiah’s reign, c722 BC, while the Northern Kingdom, “Israel”, was being beaten up. This prophecy in Ch 28 is from about 730 BC, BEFORE all the violent judgments commenced. It is given for the benefit, and warning, of BOTH Israel and Judah, as Isaiah was prophet to both.

  8. Isaiah 28 1Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine! 2Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand. 3The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet: 4And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up. God establishes from the outset that, unlike in Ch 1, where He said, “Come, let us reason together…”, he was dealing with people whose minds were drunk on stupidity, and impossible to reason with. Their minds are numb, they are incoherent and void of reason. God makes fun of their crown. He pokes fun as if they were wearing a Burger King crown and staggering around with stupid looks on their faces.

  9. Hey, look! I’m Ephraim! I’m stupid, alright: I’m drunk with wine; Drunk with beer; Self-satisfied; Self-absorbed; Self-willed; Self-aggrandized; Self-governed; Self-sufficient; Self-ad nauseam

  10. Isaiah 28 The nausea metaphor recurs in this prophecy, and can be unmistakably associated with the letter to the Church at Laodicea, in which their self-satisfied attitude made GOD want to throw up (Rev 3:16-17)! In the previous chapter, Is. 27, God had put forth the metaphor of vineyard and wine as one of His judgment in the last days. In v 2 here, God has “a mighty and strong one” (Assyria, under Shalmaneser) who would “cast down to the earth” the prideful ones (Ephraim). This began to happen, “like a flood”, a mere 8 years later, 722 BC. The “head of the fat valley” is the city of Samaria, itself (maps follow). It was the capital of Ephraim at the time.

  11. Isaiah 28 Samaria, at the “head of the fat valley” Samaria ruins, c1908

  12. Isaiah 28 5In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people, 6And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate. “In that day…” means ??? Hey, is this another free sign? Thank God, He always keeps a remnant…!

  13. Isaiah 28 7But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment. 8For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean. This is how God looks at willful disobedience, false teachers, false prophets – those who teach people to sin. God looks at this as a drunken farce – He has a perfectly good Gospel, and people choose to be willfully ignorant of it, “who, being past feeling, have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness; but YOU have not so learned…” (Eph. 4:19-20) When people are drunk, they lose all sense of inhibition. They make fools of themselves, behave immorally because they have lost inhibition, and are incredulous and sorry when they wake up with stains on themselves and wounds they can’t remember, having said and done things they wouldn’t have done when sober – some of which may have irreversible consequences. They swear they’ll never do it again; but they do it anyway. It is so stupid to tell God you don’t need Him or His counsel! Here’s your sign!

  14. Isaiah 28 9Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts. See Heb 5:11-14 10For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little: You don’t have to be a giant intellect to get this! This is how we are going through Isaiah, and this is how we teach at Cornerstone. We want to make disciples, walking ourselves through the WHOLE Bible, proving scripture with scripture, studying to show ourselves approved, searching daily to see if these things be so, and doing it prayerfully as we go. We don’t want to miss any of God’s counsel, we want His whole counsel; and we know we can’t get it all at once; but what we can get is sufficient, like the manna God rained down from Heaven. But Ephraim, Samaria, Israel, would have none of that. So, as it was in the days of Noah, and of Lot, God’s wrath was almost full. He was going to give them one more chance. Hopefully a remnant would come and enter into God’s Rest (Heb 4).

  15. Isaiah 28 • 11For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people. • 12To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear. • Four signs in one: • A people who speak a foreign language will be used to spank you. • A handful on purpose: He will also send His Holy Spirit under a New Covenant! 1 Cor 14:5; 15-21. Notice the dual fulfillment. • God has always wanted a people who would trust Him, that is, “rest” in Him. Heb. 4:1-3. Notice again, OT and NT. • I sent you prophets, but no – you wouldn’t hear; in fact, you abused them (Mat. 23:37)

  16. Isaiah 28 13But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; Read this in as baby-talky, mocking a manner as you possibly can. Because that is the way the prophet meant it. That is how the people of Ephraim, for the most part, took the warnings God was trying to give them. that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken. Now, read 2 Kings 17:1-18 to see how this prophecy all played out in Ephraim, just 8 years later. And that is where we are today, in America, sad to say.

  17. Isaiah 28 1a Behold, the Lord makes the earth empty, He makes it waste

  18. Isaiah 28 1a Behold, the Lord makes the earth empty, He makes it waste

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