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Isaiah Chapter 1
By daniel | June 29, 2006
We're covering Isaiah ch1-6 on Sunday night, so I thought I'd read through it (you might consider doing the same!). It's also helpful to me to just write down what I hear it saying when I read it, kindof summarizing it. Here's what I've got. If this is helpful, let me know — I don't know if it's valuable to anyone else or not… this is a test! (See also the Suffering Servant posts 1, 2, and 3)
ISAIAH 1
YHWH:
The ox and the ass know their master, but Israel has forgotten me. Backward and evil children, it would make no difference for me to chastise you again. You simply refuse to be restored.
ISAIAH:
If God hadn't spared a few of us, we would have ended up like Sodom and Gomorrah. You rulers of this Sodom and Gomorrah, listen!
YHWH:
Why do you continue your spiritual sacrifices and religious rituals? They disgust me. The hands you raise to me in worship are covered in blood.
Wash yourself! Cease this atrocious evil and learn to do good. Seek justice and stand up for the disadvantaged.
Let's think this through. Your sins have made you blood-red, but I will make you white as the snow. If you obey, you will live, and live well. But if you refuse and rebel, you will be hacked down in war.
Jerusalem
Everything about the city that was once beautiful, pure, just, and royal has become perverse and corrupt. Though she began in faithfulness, she is now a whore.
It will even seem like I am against you when I purify and restore you to your former beauty. But in the end, the white hot purity of my Zion will consume those who forsook YHWH. They will be as an image of a dying tree — the same trees they sold out YHWH under — who are so withered and deprived of water that they are gathered and used for firewood.
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