Chapter 22 "Isaiah"

"Isaiah" Isaiah's Prophecy During the reign of Uzziah, Jordan, Ahaz, and Hezekiah and other Jewish kings, Isaiah, the son of Amoz, was called a prophet because he received a revelation from God. It deals with the fate of the holy city of Israel, Judah, and Jerusalem. The Israelites were condemned by God for their betrayal of the Lord. Isaiah called them "a nation of sinners, a people who bear iniquity, a generation of evildoers, and children of corruption." Because they repeatedly rebelled against the Lord, Jehovah will punish them , and covered them all with wounds, and had no nourishing ointment. "The land is desolate, the cities are burned with fire, and the fields are devoured by foreigners." This time it is because the Israelites are like the people of the sinful cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.

Although they also offered sacrifices, it was only in a superficial form, and they still continued to do evil.Yahweh has said, "I cannot bear to commit iniquity and hold solemn meetings. Your new moons and festivals I hate in my heart...You lift up your hands in prayer, but I will hide your eyes; even if you pray much, I will not If you don't listen, your hands will be covered with murderous blood." The only way out for the Israelites is to change from evil to good, otherwise they will suffer catastrophe. With the words of Isaiah, he condemned the corruption of Jerusalem. "Alas, the faithful city turned into a prostitute.

Once full of justice and righteousness dwelt in it, but now there are murderers.Your silver is turned into dross, your wine is mixed with water, your rulers are disobedient, they are companions of thieves, each is fond of bribes and seeks to hide, they do not justice the fatherless, nor bring the case of the widow before them . " The invasion of the Gentiles was God's judgment on the fallen city to purify it of its dross and remove its impurities.Ultimately, all peoples will return to the mountain of Jehovah's temple.Isaiah prophesied restoration and peace for the Jewish nation after the overthrow of the Assyrians and Babylonians.

At that time, "all nations will flow to this mountain, and peoples of many nations will go, saying, come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob, and the LORD will teach us his ways, and we will also walk in his way, for out of Zion will be instruction, and out of Jerusalem will be the word of the LORD; he will judge among the nations, and decide right and wrong for many nations; Scythe, and one nation will not lift up sword against another, nor will they learn war any more." At that time, Yahweh became the only God, and any idols were abandoned.

Yahweh once again warned of the corruption in Jerusalem, saying, "Because the daughters of Zion are mad, they walk tall, they show off their eyes, they walk softly, and their feet are heavy, so the Lord will make the daughters of Zion have bald spots on their heads, And the LORD made them naked until that day, and the LORD will take away their beautiful anklets, hairnets, crescent rings, earrings, bracelets, veils, crowns, anklets, girdles, and incense boxes... There is rot instead of fragrance, rope instead of girdle, baldness instead of hairdressing, sackcloth instead of fine clothes, and burnt instead of beauty.

Your men will fall by the sword, your mighty men will die in battle, and the gates of Zion will mourn and wail, and it will sit on the ground in desolation. " The people of Israel were spared only those who were listed in the book of life by virtue of good deeds.Then a parable is given, God manages the vineyard with the hope that it will bear good fruit, and if it produces wild grapes, then he will take down the hedge, and it will be swallowed up, and the wall will be broken down, and it will be trampled down, and it will be laid waste, and it will not be repaired. Deaf, stop hoeing and digging, let thorns and thistles grow.

In the year King Uzziah died, the prophet Isaiah was able to see God.The Lord sits on a high throne, his clothes hang down, covering the temple, and the six-winged angel Saraphim stands on both sides.The angels cried out to one another, "Holy, holy! The earth is full of the glory of the LORD of hosts." That cry shook the foundations of the temple, and the temple was filled with smoke. Isaiah prostrated himself on the ground and said repeatedly, "Woe is me! I perish, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I am among a people of unclean lips, and because I have seen the great king, the LORD of hosts."

But a seraph flew to him with a red-hot coal, which was drawn from the fire on the altar.The angel rubbed his mouth with a live coal, and his sins were removed and his sins were forgiven. God sent Isaiah as a prophet to the people of Israel, telling the people to change their mistakes in time, "Go and tell this people, you will hear but you will not understand; you will see but you will not understand. Make the hearts of this people Fatty, heavy ears, blind eyes. Lest they see with their eyes, hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted, and be healed. "God told Isaiah that the Israelites would not wake up until they were finally destroyed.

When Ahaz, the grandson of Uzziah, was king of Judah, King Rezin of Aram and Pekah, the son of Rema, the king of Israel, joined forces to attack the city of Jerusalem.King Ahaz and the people of the city were terrified.Yahweh sent Isaiah and his sons to meet King Ahaz on the highway, telling him that Lord Azin of Damascus and Pekah of Israel would not succeed. According to the apocalypse conveyed by Isaiah, in the sixty-five years of Asin's reign, the kingdom of Ephraim, the king of Israel, would fall. Yahweh also told Ahaz to ask God for a sign.Ahaz answered, "I will not put the LORD to the test." Then Isaiah said to him, "Listen, O house of David. Is it a small thing for you to bore men? Will you also bore God? Therefore, the Lord I will give you a sign. A virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall name him Emmanuel, which means God with us. When he knows how to choose the good from the good, he will eat butter and honey, because Before this child knows how to abandon evil and choose good, the land of the two kings that you hate must be abandoned."

Isaiah prophesied the birth of Jesus Christ and the days of prosperity after his coming.He also prophesied that the king of Assyria would be the razor, and that he and the king of Egypt would attack Aram and make it fall.The people of Israel, that is, the people of Ephraim and Samaria, will suffer the punishment of the Lord because of their pride and defecation, and the Syrians in the east and the Philistines in the west will eat it with their mouths.It was the king of Assyria who finally destroyed the foolish Israelites. God said: "Assyria is the rod of my wrath, and in his hand is the rod of my wrath; I will send him against a nation that profanes... My hand has punished a nation with idols, which have made more idols than Jerusalem and Sarah. the idols of Mary. As I have done to Samaria and its idols, shall I not do the same to Jerusalem and its idols?"

Isaiah conveyed God's punishment to the Israelites, because they worshiped idols and rebelled against God, so the Assyrians were used to destroy it; God also warned the Jews in Jerusalem not to follow in Israel's footsteps. God allowed the deliverance of the Israelites again, because it was a branch of Jesse after all, because the Spirit of the Lord would dwell on it "In that day, the Lord will stretch out his hand a second time to save what is left of his people... …he will raise a banner against the nation of Israel, and will call back the exiles of Israel, and gather the scattered Jews from the four corners of the land. The jealousy of Ephraim will be gone, and those who troubled Judah will be cut off. Ephraim will not Jealous of Judah, Judah did not bother Ephraim. They will fly westward, fall on the shoulders of the Philistines, and together they will plunder the easterners, stretch out their hands to hold down Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites will also obey them.The LORD will surely dry up the Haihan of Egypt.... Isaiah's words are the Jewish memories of the prosperous age before the division, and they are also the longing for the reunification of the Jewish people and their dominance in West Asia.The Jews hoped that God would grant them peace at the price of blood.This is their prosperous age: "Delight in the fear of the LORD; judge not by the sight of the eyes, nor by the hearing of the ears; but judge the poor with righteousness, judge the humble of the world with justice, and strike the world with the rod of their mouths slaying the wicked with the breath of his mouth, righteousness shall be his girdle, and faithfulness shall be his girdle. The wolf will dwell with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the kid, and the young lion will live with the calf and the fattened cattle, and the little child will lead them.The ox will eat with the bear, the calf will lie down with its young, the lion will eat grass like the ox, the suckling will play in the asp's den, and the weaned child will lay his hand on the viper's den. In all the places of my holy mountain, none of these things will hurt anyone or harm anything, because the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters are filling the sea. " After that, Isaiah predicted the fall of Babylon like Sodom, the disasters that the Philistines would suffer, the downfall of Moab, the abandonment of Damascus, and the disasters in Egypt.He has a poem dedicated to the king of Babylon: "O bright star, son of the morning! How have you fallen from heaven? How have you been cut down to the ground, you who conquered the nations? You said in your heart: I will open to In the heavens; I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will sit on the mountains of the congregations, in the farthest part of the north; I will ascend above the high clouds, and I will be equal with the Most High. But you will fall Sheol, to the very depths of the pit." Although Isaiah repeatedly urged the Israelites and the Jews to act righteously and think only of the Lord, they were indifferent, so the kingdom of Israel and Judah was inevitable, and God finally pretended to Assyria and Babylon The Staff of Man wiped them out.This historical story can also be seen in the middle of the previous "2 Chronicles". During the destruction of the entire nation of Israel, until they finally received God's salvation and returned to Jerusalem, Isaiah's teachings and predictions as a prophet have always been the source of faith for the people of Judah.On the one hand, he admonishes them to abandon evil and do good, cheer up the troubled ones, and take personal pain and national disaster as the price of atonement; "Isaiah" is full of eschatology, reflecting the pain, lamentation and hope of the Judah in exile.The name of the prophet Isaiah means "Jehovah saves" in Hebrew.