7/31/10

The Folly of False Gods

Isaiah 44:6–48:22
Inheritance Class
Grace Bible Church

The Book of Isaiah

The Judgment The Comfort

of the Lord of the Lord
History 36–39

Babylonian
Hezekiah’s

captivity 39:7

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Isaiah 40–66

The Comfort (and Judgment) of the Lord

God’s Restored by Restoration

People the Suffering Completed
Delivered Servant
40–48 49–57 58–66

The Folly of Making Up Your Own God

Isaiah 44:6-23

1. The Lord lays

claim to our lives.
6-8

2. Idolatry equals
idiocy. 9-20

3. We are called
to return to the Drawing and relief of the removal of
Lord. 21-23 enemy gods, ca. 728 BC. Found in the
palace of Tiglath-pileser III (744–727
BC) at Nimrud, Iraq, now in the British
Museum, London.

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I have wiped out your transgressions like a thick cloud,

And your sins like a heavy mist.
Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.
Isaiah 44:22

Isaiah 44:24–45:25
Cyrus, the Lord’s Anointed
•  Yahweh’s
–  Shepherd 44:28
–  Anointed 45:1
•  Rebuilder 44:28
–  Of Jerusalem
–  Of the Temple
•  Returner 45:13
•  But behind him is
Yahweh! The Cyrus cylinder
–  45:5-7
–  45:9-10
–  45:18

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Isaiah’s Prophetic Scope

Isaiah Babylonian captivity Suffering
Servant

Cyrus’s
decree
538

700 586 536 0

Cyrus the Great

•  Ezra 1:1-4
•  2 Chron 36:22-23
•  “I will gird you,
though you have
not known Me.”
Isa 45:5

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Isaiah 45:22-23

•  Turn to Me, and be saved,

all the ends of the earth;
•  For I am God,
and there is no other.
•  I have sworn by Myself,
The word has gone forth from
my mouth in righteousness
And will not turn back:
•  That to Me every knee will bow,
every tongue will swear allegiance.

Isaiah 46–47
The Burial of Babylon
•  The absurdity •  Prideful Babylon
of idolatry to be judged
ch. 46 ch. 47
–  To whom will –  What He’ll do 5
you liken Me? 5 –  Why He will
–  They carry idols do it 6-7
6-7
–  I will carry you!
8
–  Using Cyrus 11

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Isaiah 48
A Charge to Released Judah
•  He delays His wrath to
maximize praise 9
•  He refines
those He tests 10
•  He will use Cyrus 14
•  Intimation of persons
of the Godhead 16
•  “Go forth from Babylon!”
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For March 7:
Isaiah 53

The John 3 of the Old Testament