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Lesson 98 – Isaiah 24–29

Lesson 98 – Isaiah 24–29. The Apocalypse of Isaiah. Isaiah the Seer.

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Lesson 98 – Isaiah 24–29

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  1. Lesson 98 – Isaiah 24–29 The Apocalypse of Isaiah

  2. Isaiah the Seer “Search the revelations of God; study the prophecies, and rejoice that God grants unto the world Seers and Prophets. They are they who saw the mysteries of godliness; they saw the flood before it came; they saw angels ascending and descending upon a ladder that reached from earth to heaven; they saw the stone cut out of the mountain, which filled the whole earth; they saw the son of God come from the regions of bliss and dwell with men on earth; they saw the deliverer come out of Zion, and turn away ungodliness from Jacob; they saw the glory of the Lord when he showed the transfiguration of the earth on the mount; they saw every mountain laid low and every valley exalted when the Lord was taking vengeance upon the wicked; they saw truth spring out of the earth, and righteousness look down from heaven in the last days, before the Lord came the second time to gather his elect; they saw the end of wickedness on earth, and the Sabbath of creation crowned with peace; they saw the end of the glorious thousand years, when Satan was loosed for a little season; they saw the day of judgment when all men received according to their works, and they saw the heaven and the earth flee away to make room for the city of God, when the righteous receive an inheritance in eternity. And, fellow sojourners upon earth, it is your privilege to purify yourselves and come up to the same glory, and see for yourselves, and know yourselves.” -Joseph Smith, TPJS p12-13

  3. Let’s get the specifics • What (v1, 3, 7-12, 17-20) • Whom (v2) • Where (v17, 21-22) • Why the wicked (v4-6) • Why the righteous (v13-16)

  4. What happens? • “The Lord maketh the earth empty” • “The earth mourneth and fadeth away” • “All joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone” • “In the city is left desolation” • “The Earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard” • What does this sound like? • The destruction right before the Second Coming. • Isaiah is no longer being vague about the wicked being destroyed.

  5. Whom? Where? • v2 – antithetical parallelism used to describe the whole • Everyone on the whole earth will experience it.

  6. Why? • What did the wicked do? (v5) • “transgressed the laws” • “changed the ordinance” • “broken the everlasting covenant” (what is this?) • We are obviously talking about the future here, because the Israelites didn’t have the everlasting covenant (eternal marriage) yet. • And the righteous? • “glorify ye the Lord in the fires”

  7. Isaiah 24–25 “The world will present a scene of conflict such as has never been experienced before. Still, men’s hearts will be hardened to the revelations from heaven. Even greater signs shall then be given to manifest the approaching great day of the Lord. . . . “I realize this is an unpleasant topic on which to dwell. I take no delight in its portrayal, nor do I look forward to the day when calamities shall come with increasing number upon humanity. But President Ezra Taft Benson Coming of the Lord

  8. Isaiah 24–25 these words are not my own; the Lord has spoken them. . . . “But to an otherwise gloomy picture there is a bright side—the coming of our Lord in all his glory. His coming will be both glorious and terrible, depending on the spiritual condition of those who remain” (Ezra Taft Benson, “Prepare Yourselves for the Great Day of the Lord,” in Brigham Young University 1981 Fireside and Devotional Speeches [1981], 66–67; New Era, May 1982, 44). President Ezra Taft Benson Coming of the Lord

  9. Isaiah 25 • v1 – Why is Isaiah so happy? • Even after seeing such dreadful things happen in the last days, he knows that the end means the glory of God and all men. • 24:23 – “then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed” • Compared to the light of Christ who will reign, they will be nothing • 25:8 • “He will swallow up death in victory” • “the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces” • We are now at the end of the Millennium. We often forget that the destruction and suffering is only temporary. At the end, all will be resurrected and virtually all will be raised to glory. • Isaiah 26:19 – “the earth shall cast out the dead”

  10. Joseph Smith Again “And, fellow sojourners upon earth, it is your privilege to purify yourselves and come up to the same glory, and see for yourselves, and know yourselves” • How do we see and know for ourselves? • Isaiah 28:9-10

  11. Notebook Ideas • You may not have the same visions as Isaiah, so how can you still know that the prophecies about the last days will come? • How can you be grateful and joyous in righteous judgment without being lifted up in pride?

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