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Isaiah 41

Isaiah 41. ISAIAH. CH 41 690 BC. Isaiah 41 This is part of 8 consecutive chapters in Isaiah where God speaks in the First Person of His unique status as the One and Only God: a God of power and of creation a God of wisdom and good counsel a God of judgment

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Isaiah 41

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  1. Isaiah 41

  2. ISAIAH CH 41 690 BC

  3. Isaiah 41 This is part of 8 consecutive chapters in Isaiah where God speaks in the First Person of His unique status as the One and Only God: a God of power and of creation a God of wisdom and good counsel a God of judgment a God Who can rightly ridicule all pretenders and goddies a God Who loves people and vows to protect Israel a God Who sets kings up and brings them down a God Who uses kings, people, nature and history for purposes of His own a God of redemption and restoration

  4. Isaiah 41 1Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment. Psalm 11:4 The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD's throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men. Elsewhere, it says the earth is His footstool (Isaiah 66:1). We are on trial. The good news, though, is that He has redemption for us. A temple we might build with our hands is nothing to Him; He’s got Heaven. The good news is that He wants to have a temple inside our hearts, if we’d just let Him. Habakkuk 2:20 But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him. Isaiah 30:15 For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not. So, this first verse harks back to the last verse in the previous chapter. It is about a supernatural renewal of strength. There, it was about “waiting” upon the Lord. Here, it is similar – keeping silent, that is, listening. THEN, as He invited us in chapter 1, we can reason together; we can ask Him about our anxieties.

  5. Isaiah 41 • 2Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? he gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow. • So many layers of meaning here: • Abraham came from the Chaldees, east of Israel. • a. He believed God and was counted righteous • b. He ruled over kings, a little (Abimelech feared him when he learned Sarah was his wife; he cleaned house on the 5 kings who raided Lot. • c. Through Abraham comes the Messiah, Who will rule the nations. • Jer. 27:5-8 Nebuchadnezzar, a man from the east, God calls him “righteous” and a servant of God and fulfills much of verse 2 above… • Isaiah 10:5 Assyrians called “the rod of (God’s) anger”…Assurbanipal, Pul, Tiglath-Pileser, Sargon, Sennacherib, were used to punish Israel. But God had control of them, not the other way around. • Point is, God is asking rhetorically, “Who’s the Boss?” What do you think?

  6. Isaiah 41 3He pursued them, and passed safely; even by the way that he had not gone with his feet. Here, a definite reference to Abraham, when he crushed the 5 kings. God had given Abraham the lands where his feet would tread. Here, his authority was extended even into lands where his feet had not yet gone. 4Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he. 5The isles saw it, and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and came. In Abraham are all the nations of the earth blessed. God ordained it from the beginning, and from Abraham on down to Messiah. The Messiah and the Gospel were sent forth into the world, even to overseas places, and it scares people. Why? You tell me. What is scary about the Gospel? “Scary” is the very word I have heard to describe the secularists reaction to any evangelical believer holding public office. It is based on misunderstanding of the Gospel, and the “turning over of tables”.

  7. Isaiah 41 6They helped every one his neighbour; and every one said to his brother, Be of good courage. 7So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved. It’s amazing to me to watch, to this very day, the haters of God, on TV, in universities, Hollywood, etc, as they seem to sit around going, “Harrumph, harrumph”, encouraging each other that they are right and God and His people are wrong for this “enlightened” day and age. They have built themselves smoothed-over systems of thought which they believe are the truth – the multicultural, humanistic, progressive ideals, which leave this antiquated, scary God out of their lives. Habitat for Humanity, indeed.

  8. Isaiah 41 8But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend. 9Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away. 10Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. Amazing that God seems to be addressing Israel and the Church in the same passage. Here, it is Israel in particular. He scattered them, then brought them back. People who believe that God is through with Israel should take note of vv 9-10. God promises to NOT cast them away; indeed, He promises to help, strengthen and uphold. Amazing that God SENDS the Christians to the ends of the earth, and that He BRINGS Israel back from the ends of the earth just in time for the ‘end’ of the earth!

  9. Isaiah 41 11Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish. 12Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought. 13For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee. 14Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. This is God’s promise to do Israel’s fighting for them. We watch with amazement, down through history, as the 5 kings, the Egyptians, the Amalekites, the Philistines, the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Persians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Inquisition, the Czars, the Nazis, the Communists, and the muslims have tried, and failed, to thwart God by exterminating the children of Abraham. It’s no wonder that I place so much stock in God’s protection of Israel today…

  10. Isaiah 41 …even as the modern-day Persians, the Iranians, are threatening daily to wipe Israel off the map. These knuckleheads should read history, not try to change it.

  11. Isaiah 41 15Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, That word, “new” is key. I think it refers to 1948. Since then, the arabs’ rear-end has been grass, and Israel has been the lawnmower! The arabs, though numerous and well-armed, have been just like chaff before Israel. And it hasn’t always been superior Israeli military, either. It has often seemed that God has been blessing their defense, while confusing and confounding the efforts of the haters of Israel.

  12. Isaiah 41 …and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff. 16Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel. Amos 9:11-15 is my favorite passage on this subject. It has been fulfilled anew every day of my life since I was 2 years old. 17When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them. 18I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water. I think this is about the Gospel, like Jesus told the woman at the well; but I also think it is about a future date when God will take the remnant of Israel back out to the desert wilderness for supernatural protection and provision, as we have alluded in Isaiah elsewhere, and in Revelation 12.

  13. Isaiah 41 19I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together: 20That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the LORD hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it. This is unmistakably a companion verse to the Amos 9 passage. It is also literally referring to the literal blossoming of Israel in our day, where the desert is made to bloom, as we noticed in a previous study (e.g. Isaiah 35:1-3)

  14. Isaiah 41 21Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob. 22Let them bring them forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them shew the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come. 23Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together. God says: “Let all the haters go ahead and present their cases; outsmart God – go ahead; tell the future, tell how things are going to end; be bold, you masters of destiny, you futurists; or, if you’d rather, try to stop what’s coming; visualize world peace… …didn’t think so.” 24Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you. God has some pretty good smack-talk of His own, wouldn’t you say?

  15. Isaiah 41 25I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon morter, and as the potter treadeth clay. 26Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime, that we may say, He is righteous? yea, there is none that sheweth, yea, there is none that declareth, yea, there is none that heareth your words. 27The first shall say to Zion, Behold, behold them: and I will give to Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings. This is a parenthetical piece. Here, God throws in some good news for those in Isaiah’s day. They already know that punishment is coming. The Assyrians, the Babylonians of Nebuchadnezzar will carry them off for a while. The good news here is that someone from the north will displace the captors after a while, and will champion the cause of Zion – that would be the Persians: Cyrus, Darius and Artexerxes.

  16. Isaiah 41 28For I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, and there was no counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word. 29Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion. “…and oh, by the way, the know-it-alls I (God) challenged in vv 21-24 still don’t have an answer for me. …didn’t think so.” Isn’t it amazing? This is the same tone Jesus expressed when he dealt with the scribes and pharisees in His day.

  17. Isaiah 41 3He pursued them,

  18. Isaiah 41 3He pursued them,

  19. Isaiah 41 3He pursued them,

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