ISAIAH’S CONTRIBUTION TO THEOLOGY

By the Prophet Isaiah

 

SCRIPTURE

Isaiah 2:22. Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for of what account is he?

Isaiah 5:21. 21  Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and think they are shrewd!

Isaiah 8:20. To the law and to the testimony: if they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

Isaiah 28:9-10. To whom can he teach knowledge? and who will he enable to understand doctrine? Those who are weaned from milk, and withdrawn from the breasts.

10  For truth must be upon truth, truth upon truth; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

Isaiah 55:9-11. 9  For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

10  For as the rain and snow comes down from heaven, and does not go back again, but waters the earth, and makes it produce and blossom, so that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:

11  So will the word that goes out of my mouth be: it will not return to me empty, but it will accomplish what I want, and it will achieve what I sent it to do.

 

GOD

Isaiah 29:16. You have turned things upside down as if the potter were the same as the clay: for shall what is made say about his maker, He did not make me? How can what is formed say of the one who formed it, He does not understand?

Isaiah 41:4. Who has planned this and carried it out, guiding the destinies of generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and the last; I am he.

Isaiah 43:10-15. You are my witnesses, says the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: so that you may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: no God was formed before me, and there will be none after me.

11  I, even I, am the LORD; and there is no savior other than me.

12  I said that I would save, and I have shown that I am God, when there was no strange god among you: therefore you are my witnesses, says the LORD.

13  Yea, before the first day dawned and forevermore I am God; and there is no one who can deliver out of my hand: When I do something, who can undo it?

14   The LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, says; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and will remove the barriers, bringing the Chaldeans, and their shouting will be turned to lamentation.

15  I am the LORD, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King.

Isaiah 44:8. Do not be fearful, or afraid: didn’t I say that it would happen long ago, and tell you about it? you are my witnesses. Is there any God besides me? there is no other God; I do not know of any.

Isaiah 45:5-6. I am the LORD, and there is none other, there is no God besides me: I will strengthen you, though you have not known me:

6  So that they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none besides me. I am the LORD, and there is no one else.

Isaiah 45:18. For the LORD who created the heavens; God himself who formed the earth and made it; who put it in place, who did not create it to be a desert, but formed it to be inhabited, says: I am the LORD; and there is no other.

Isaiah 46:6-9. Men pour gold from a bag, weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith to make a god of it: then they fall down, yea, they worship it.

7  They lift it upon their shoulders, and carry it, then they set it down in its place, where it stands; never moving from its place: yea, when you call to it, it cannot answer, or save you from trouble.

8  Remember this, and be convicted like men: take it to heart, O you transgressors.

9  Remember the former things that happened long ago: and realize that I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me,

Isaiah 48:12-17. Listen to me, O Jacob and Israel, whom I called; I am he; I am the first, I am also the last.

13  My hand has laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand has spread out the heavens: when I call them, they stand forth together.

14  Assemble yourselves, all of you, and listen; is there anyone among them who has foretold these things? The man whom the LORD has loved: will do what he wants him to do to Babylon, and his arm will be against the Chaldeans.

15  I, even I, have foretold it, I have called him: I will bring him, and cause what he does to prosper.

16   Come near to me, listen to this; From the beginning I have not said anything in secret; from the time that it was, there I am: and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, has sent me.

17  The LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, says; I am the LORD your God who teaches you to profit, who leads you in the way that you should go.

Isaiah 55:8. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the LORD.

Isaiah 63:16. Surely you are our father, even though Abraham does not know us, and Israel does not recognize us: you, O LORD, are our father, our redeemer; your name is from everlasting.

Isaiah 64:4. For since the beginning of the world no man has heard, or listened to with his ear, or seen with his eyes, any God, besides you, who acts on behalf of the one who waits for him.

 

GOD’S PROTECTION

Isaiah 41:14. Do not be afraid, you worm Jacob, you men of Israel; I will help you, says the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 49:7. This is what the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, says, to him whom people despise, and nations abhor, to a servant of rulers, When kings see you they will get up, and princes will bow down, because the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, is faithful, and he chose you.

Isaiah 49:25-26. The LORD says this, Yes the spoil of the mighty will be taken away, and the tyrant’s captives will be freed: for I will fight with him who fights with you, and I will save your children.

26  And I will make those who oppress you eat their own flesh; and they will be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and everyone will know that I Jahweh am your Savior and your Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.

 

CHRIST’S NATURE

Isaiah 7:14. Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign; Behold, a virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and will call his name Immanuel.

Isaiah 9:6. … his name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father.

Isaiah 10:21. The remnant, those who remain of Jacob, will return to the mighty God.

Isaiah 12:2&6. Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JAHWEH is my strength and my song; he has also become my savior.

6  Cry out and shout, you who live in Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel who is among you.

Isaiah 44:6. The LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts, says; I am the first, and I am the last; and there is no God but me.

Isaiah 44:24. The LORD, your redeemer, he who formed you in the womb, says, I am the LORD who made all things; who stretched out the heavens alone; who spread out the earth by myself;

Isaiah 45:21. Speak up, and present your case; yes, let them take counsel together: who predicted this long ago? who announced it from ancient times? Was it not I the LORD? and there is no other God besides me; a just God and a Savior; there is none besides me.

Isaiah 54:5. … your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel; He will be called the God of the entire earth.

 

CREATION

Isaiah 64:8. 8  But now, O LORD, you are our father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.

Isaiah 66:1-2. The LORD says, The heavens are my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the temple that you will build for me? and where is the place for me to rest?

2  For my hand has made all these things, so they are all mine, says the LORD: but this is the man to whom I will look, even to him who is humble and of a contrite spirit, and trembles at my word.

 

THE FALL

Isaiah 43:27. Your first father sinned, and your teachers have transgressed against me.

 

SPIRITUAL BLINDNESS

Isaiah 44:16-19. He burns part of it in the fire; on another part of it he roasts meat which he eats; satisfying his hunger: yea, he warms himself, and says, Aha, I feel warm before the fire:

17  And out of what remains of it he makes a god, his idol: he falls down before it, and worships it, and prays to it, and says, Save me; for you are my god.

18  Such men do not know or understand: for he has shut their eyes, so that they cannot see; and their minds, so that they cannot understand.

19  No one thinks about it in his mind, or has the comprehension or understanding to say, I burned part of it in the fire; and baked bread. I have roasted meat over its coals, and eaten it: shall I make the rest of it into an abominable thing? shall I bow down to the trunk of a tree?

 

SATAN

Isaiah 14:12-15. How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how you are cut down to the ground, O you who laid the nations low!

13  For you said in your heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit on the mountain of the congregation, on the sides of the north:

14  I will ascend above the highest clouds; I will be like the most High.

15  But you will be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

 

MAN’S NATURE

Isaiah 64:6-7. 6 ¶  For we are all like an unclean thing, and all of our righteousnesses are like filthy rags; and we all wither like a leaf; and our iniquities sweep us away like the wind.

7  And there is no one who calls on your name, who rouses himself to take hold of you: for you have hidden your face from us, and have consumed us, because of our iniquities.

Jeremiah 17:9. The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

 

MAN’S REBELLION AND SIN’S CONDEMNATION

Isaiah 1:15& 21-23. When you spread out your hands, I will close my eyes to you: yea, when you make many prayers, I will not listen: your hands are full of blood.

21   How has the faithful city become an harlot! once it was full of justice; and righteousness lived there; but now murderers.

22  Your silver has turned to dross, your wine is mixed with water:

23  Your rulers are rebellious, and friends of thieves: everyone loves bribes, and runs after gifts: they are unjust to orphans, and the widow’s case never comes before them.

Isaiah 9:12-13. The Syrians from the east, and the Philistines from the west; and they will devour Israel with an open mouth. Even after this his anger will not be turned away, but his hand will remain stretched out in judgement.

13  For the people will not turn to him who strikes them, nor will they seek the LORD of hosts.

Isaiah 3:9. The look of their faces testifies against them; and they openly declare their sin like Sodom, they do not hide it. Woe to their soul! for they bring calamity on themselves.

Isaiah 3:16-18. The LORD also says, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with heads held high and seductive eyes, swinging and prancing along as they go, making a tinkling with their feet:

17  The Lord will cause scabs on the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will shave their foreheads bare.

18  On that day the Lord will take away their finery: the tinkling ankle bracelets around their feet, and their headbands, and their crescent head ornaments,

Isaiah 5:8. Woe to those who join house to house, and field to field, until there is no more room, that they may dwell alone in the midst of the earth!

Isaiah 5:20-22. Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

21  Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and think they are shrewd!

22  Woe to those who think it is manly to drink wine, and they are brave to mix strong drink:

Isaiah 13:19-20. Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride, will be like Sodom and Gomorrah when God overthrew them.

20  It will never be inhabited again, nor will it be lived in from generation to generation: no Arabian will pitch their tent there; nor will the shepherds let their flocks rest there.

Isaiah 29:16. You have turned things upside down as if the potter were the same as the clay: for shall what is made say about his maker, He did not make me? How can what is formed say of the one who formed it, He does not understand?

Isaiah 30:9-10. For this is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear the law of the LORD:

10  Who say to the seers, Do not see; and to the prophets, Do not prophesy what is right, tell us pleasant things, prophesy lies:

Isaiah 43:21-22. The people whom I have formed for myself, will sing my praise.

22   But you have not called on me, O Jacob; but you have been weary of me, O Israel.

Isaiah 43:24. You have not bought me sweet cane with money, nor have you filled me with the fat of your sacrifices: but you have burdened me with your sins, you have wearied me with your iniquities.

Isaiah 58:13-14. 13 ¶  If you stop trampling on the sabbath, and doing as you please on my holy day; and call the sabbath day a delight, and the holy day of the LORD, honorable; and honor him, by stopping your own work, and not doing as you please, or talking idly:

14  Then you will be delighted in the LORD; and I will make you ride on the high places of the earth, and feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father: for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it.

Isaiah 59:1-4. Behold, the LORD’S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; nor is his ear too deaf to hear:

2  But your iniquities have separated you from your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.

3  For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with evil; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters perversity.

4  No one calls for justice, or pleads for truth: they trust in falsehood, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

Isaiah 59:7&14. Their feet run to do evil, and they are quick to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are of doing evil; ruin and destruction is in their wake.

14  So justice is rejected, and righteousness remains far away: for truth has fallen in the street, and honesty cannot enter.

Isaiah 63:10. But they rebelled, and grieved His holy Spirit: therefore He became their enemy, and fought against them.

Isaiah 63:17. O LORD, why have you let us err from your ways, and harden our heart so we do not fear you? Return for the sake of your servants, the tribes of your inheritance.

Isaiah 65:1-5.  I was sought by those who did not ask; I was found by those who did not seek me: I said, Look to me, look to me, to a nation that was not called by my name.

2  All day long I stretch out my hands to a rebellious people, who are living in a way that is not good, following their own thoughts;

3  A people who continually provoke me to my face; who sacrifice in gardens, and burn incense on altars of brick;

4  Who remain among the graves, and lodge in the tombs, who eat swine’s flesh, and a broth of abominable things is in their vessels;

5  Who say, Stay where you are, do not touch me; for I am holier than you. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all day long.

 

CHRIST’S BIRTH

Isaiah 7:14. Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign; Behold, a virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and will call his name Immanuel.

Isaiah 9:6-7. 6  For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government will be on his shoulders: and his name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

7  Of the increase of his government and peace there will be no end, on the throne of David, and over his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and for evermore. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.

Isaiah 11:1-3&10. A shoot will come out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch will grow out of his roots:

2  And the spirit of the LORD will rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;

3  And it will make him quick to understand, and his delight will be in the fear of the LORD: and he will not judge by what he sees, or decide by what he hears:

10   In that day there will be a root of Jesse, who will rise up as a standard for the people; and the Gentiles will seek him: and his rest will be glorious.

 

CHRIST’S CRUCIFIXION

Isaiah 25:7-9. On this mountain he will remove the veil of grief cast over all people, and the covering that is spread over all nations.

8  He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from all faces; and he will remove the reproach of his people from all the earth: for the LORD has spoken.

9   On that day they will say, This is our God; we have waited for him, and he has saved us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, let us rejoice that he has saved us, and be glad.

Isaiah 52:4-15. Behold, my servant will be successful, he will rise be lifted up on high, and exalted.

14  Many were amazed at him; his appearance was more disfigured than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:

15  So he shall sprinkle many nations; kings will stand in silence before him: having never been told what they now see; and never understood what they now hear.

Isaiah 53:1-12   Who has believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?

2  For he will grow up before him like a tender plant, and like a sprout from a root in dry ground: he has no form or splendor; and when we look at him, there is no glamour that we should desire him.

3  He is despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, who knew suffering: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we did not value him.

4   Surely he has taken on himself our pains, and carried our sorrows: yet we regarded him as condemned, struck down by God, and afflicted.

5  But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the punishment that brought us peace was upon him; and by his stripes we are healed.

6  Like sheep we have all have gone astray; each of us has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

7  He was oppressed, and he was mistreated, yet he did not open his mouth: he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.

8  He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who at that time understood? for he was cut off from the land of the living: and struck down for his people’s sins.

9  And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had not committed any crime, nor was any deceit in his mouth.

10   Yet it was the will of the LORD to bruise him; he has caused him to suffer: and when you make him an offering for sin, he will see his seed, he will prolong his days, and the will of the LORD will succeed by his hand.

11  He will see it out of his anguish, and will be satisfied: by his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many; for he will bear their iniquities.

12  Therefore I will give him many people as his share, and he will divide the spoil with the strong; because he has poured out his life in death: and lets himself be numbered with the transgressors; while he takes on himself the sins of many, and makes intercession for the those who rebel.

 

CHRIST’S RESURRECTION

Isaiah 33:10  Now I will arise, says the LORD; now I will lift myself up; now I will be exalted.

 

SALVATION

Isaiah 19:20. … When they cry to the LORD because of those who oppress them, he will send them a savior, and a great one, and he will deliver them.

Isaiah 26:4. Trust in the LORD forever: for in the LORD JAHWEH is everlasting strength:

Isaiah 27:11. … these people do not understand their need for God’s mercy: therefore he who made them will not have mercy on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.

Isaiah 29:13. … these people draw near me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips, but have removed their hearts far from me, and their fear for me consists of learning man-made rules:

Isaiah 43:25. I, even I, am he who will wash away your sins for my own sake, and will not remember your transgressions.

Isaiah 45:22 and 25. Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is no other.

25  In the LORD all of Israel’s seed will be righteous, and in him they will be triumphant.

Isaiah 46:13. My righteousness is near, and not far away, and my salvation will not be delayed: for I will provide salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.

Isaiah 52:9-10. Be joyful, and join together in song, you waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD has comforted his people, he has redeemed Jerusalem.

10  The LORD has made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God.

Isaiah 59:1. Behold, the LORD’S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; nor is his ear too deaf to hear:

 

SALVATION FOR ALL

Isaiah 56:3-7. No foreigner, who has joined himself to the LORD, should say, The LORD has excluded me from his people: nor should the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.

4  For the LORD says to the eunuchs who keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant;

5  I will give to them a place in my house, and within my walls a name better than that of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that will not be cut off.

6  And give the same to the children of foreigners, who join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, to bless the name of the LORD, and to do his will, every one who keeps the sabbath without desecrating it, and embraces my covenant;

7  I will also bring them to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house will be called a house of prayer for all people.

 

REPENTANCE

Isaiah 55:7. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return to the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

Isaiah 66:2-3.  For my hand has made all these things, so they are all mine, says the LORD: but this is the man to whom I will look, even to him who is humble and of a contrite spirit, and trembles at my word.

3  A hypocrite [one who is unrepentant] who kills [sacrifices] an ox is like one who kills a man; one who sacrifices a lamb, as if he cut off a dog’s neck; one who offers food, as if he offered swine’s blood; one who burns incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations.

Psalm 51:17. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: and God will not despise a heart that is humbled and sorry for sin.

 

ELECTION

Isaiah 42:6. I the LORD have called you for my righteous purpose, and have taken hold of your hand, and will keep you, and have given you as a covenant for the people, as a light to the Gentiles;

Isaiah 43:21. The people whom I have formed for myself, will sing my praise.

Isaiah 56:3. No foreigner, who has joined himself to the LORD, should say, The LORD has excluded me from his people:

Isaiah 65:1-2.  I was sought by those who did not ask; I was found by those who did not seek me: I said, Look to me, look to me, to a nation that was not called by my name.

2  All day long I stretch out my hands to a rebellious people, who are living in a way that is not good, following their own thoughts;

 

PRESERVATION

Isaiah 41:10. Do not be afraid; for I am with you: do not be discouraged; for I am your God: I will strengthen you; yes, I will help you; I will hold you up with the right hand of my righteousness.

 

FREE WILL

Isaiah 30:28. … there will be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.

Isaiah 37:29. Because you rage against me, and I have heard your cocky talk, I will put my hook in your nose, and my bridle between your lips, and I will turn you back the way you came.

 

GOD’S CHURCH

Isaiah 2:2. It will come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD’S house will be established at the top of the mountains, and will be raised above the hills; and all nations will flow to it.

Isaiah 66:7-14. Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she delivered a man child.

8  Who has heard of anything like this? who has seen such things? Shall a country be born in one day? or shall a nation be born in a moment? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.

9  Shall I cause a child to open the womb, and not cause to be born? asks the LORD: shall I cause it to be born, and shut the womb? asks your God.

10  Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her: rejoice for joy with her, all you who mourn over her:

11  That you may suck, and be satisfied from her comforting breast; so that you may drink deeply, and be delighted from the fullness of her glory.

12  For the LORD says, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the wealth of the nations like a flowing stream: then you will nurse, you will be carried on her side, and bounced on her knee.

13  As a mother comforts her child, so I will comfort you; and you will be comforted in Jerusalem.

14  And when you see this, your heart will rejoice, and your limbs will flourish like green grass: and it will be known that the hand of the LORD is with his servants, and his indignation is against his enemies.

 

GOD’S BLESSING ON A NATION

Isaiah 60: 4-5. Lift up your eyes look around, and see: they all gather together, and come to you: your sons will come from far, with your daughters faithfully at their side.

5  When you see it you will be radiant, and your heart will tremble, and rejoice; because the abundance of the sea is turning to you, and the wealth of the nations will come to you.

 

SANCTIFICATION

Isaiah 26:12 LORD, you will ordain peace for us: for you have wrought all our works in us.

Isaiah 32:5. The vile person will no longer be called liberal, or the scoundrel said to be honorable.

 

FASTING

Isaiah 58:3-7. Why have we fasted, they ask, when you do not see? why have we afflicted our soul, when you do not notice? Look, when you fast you do what you want, and mistreat all your workers.

4  Behold, when you fast you quarrel and fight, and hit with a wicked fist: fasting as you now do, will not cause your voice to be heard on high.

5  Is this the kind of fasting that I want? when a man denies himself for a day? is it to bow your head like a bulrush, and make your bed of sackcloth and ashes? do you call this fasting, and a day that pleases the LORD?

6  Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to break the bonds of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, to remove every yoke, and let the oppressed go free?

7  Is it not to share your food with the hungry, and bring the homeless and poor into your house? To clothe the naked when you see him; and that you do not avoid your needy relatives?

 

FALSE TEACHERS

Isaiah 43:27. Your first father sinned, and your teachers have transgressed against me.

Isaiah 9:16. For the leaders of these people lead them astray; and those who are led by them are destroyed.

 

GOVERNMENT

Isaiah 3:12. As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, those who lead you cause you to err, and confuse the direction of your paths.

Isaiah 5:22-23. Woe to those who think it is manly to drink wine, and they are brave to mix strong drink:

23  Who exonerate the wicked for a bribe, and take the rights of the righteous away from him!

Isaiah 9:16. For the leaders of these people lead them astray; and those who are led by them are destroyed.

Isaiah 10:1-2. Woe to those who issue unrighteous rulings, and write oppressive laws which they have decreed;

2  To deprive the poor of justice, and deprive the afflicted among my people of what is right, so that they can prey on widows, and rob orphans!

Isaiah 33:22. For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; and he will save us.

 

DEATH

Isaiah 57:1-5&12. The righteous dies, and no one cares: kind men are swept away, and no one realizes that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.

2  He will enter into peace: all who walk in his righteousness will rest in their own bed.

3   But come here, you sons of a witch, you children of an adulterer who live in sexual sin.

4  Who is it that you are mocking? Against whom are you are opening your mouth, and sticking out your tongue? are you not children of sin, born of a lie,

5  Who burn with lust among the oaks under every green tree, butchering children in the valleys under the clefts of the rocks?

6  Your portion is among the smooth stones of the stream; indeed, they are your lot: you have even poured out a drink offering to them, you have offered a meat offering. Should I be indifferent to this?

12  I will expose your self righteousness, and your works; for they will be of no benefit to you.

 

CHRIST’S RETURN

Isaiah 30:27. Look, the name of the LORD is coming from afar, burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue is like a consuming fire:

Isaiah 66:16-18. For the LORD will execute judgement on all flesh by fire and by his sword: and many will be slain by the LORD.

17  Those who sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind a tree in the midst, eating swine’s flesh, and abominable things, and mice, will be consumed together, says the LORD.

18  For I know their works and their thoughts: and the time is coming, when I will gather all nations and tongues; and they will come, and see my glory.


OUR RESURRECTION

Isaiah 26:19. But your dead will live, together with my dead body they will arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust: for your dew is like the dew of the fields, and the earth will deliver up the dead.

Isaiah 61:3.  To provide for those who mourn in Zion, to give to them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for grief, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called oaks of righteousness, planted by the LORD, to glorify him.

Job 14:12. So man lies down, and does not arise: until the heavens are no more, they will not awake, or be raised out of their sleep.

 

END OF THE WORLD

Isaiah 34:4. And all the heavenly bodies will vanish, and the heavens will be rolled together like a scroll: all its stars will fall, like leaves falling from a vine, or figs falling from a fig tree.

Isaiah 2:17-21. 17  And the proud men will bow down, and the haughtiness of men will be brought low: and on that day the LORD alone will be exalted.

18  And he will utterly abolish the idols.

19  And men will go into holes in the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, to escape the terror of the LORD, and the glory of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth.

20  On that day men will throw the idols of silver and gold, which they made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats;

21  And go into the caverns of the rocks, and into the crevices among the crags, to escape the terror of the LORD, and the glory of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth.

Isaiah 13:9-11. Behold, the day of the LORD is coming, cruel with rage and fierce anger, to destroy the earth: and he will destroy the sinners on it.

10  For the stars of heaven and its constellations will not shine anymore: the sun will be darkened in its course, and the moon will no longer give her light.

11  And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their sin; and I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of tyrants.

Job 14:12. So man lies down, and does not arise: until the heavens are no more, they will not awake, or be raised out of their sleep.

 

FINAL JUDGMENT

Isaiah 2:10-12. 10   Enter into the rock, and hide in the dust, from the terror of the LORD, and from the glory of his majesty.

11  The lofty looks of man will be humbled, and the haughtiness of men will be bowed down, and the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.

12  For the LORD of hosts has a day when he will rise up against every one who is proud and haughty, and against all who exalt themselves; and they will be brought low:

Isaiah 24:21-23. And it will come to pass at that time, that the LORD will punish the host of high ones that are above, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.

22  And they will be gathered together, like prisoners gathered in a pit, and will be shut up in the prison, and after many days they will be punished.

23  When the LORD of hosts reigns, the moon will fade, and the sun hide in shame. He will be glorious before his ancient ones, on mount Zion, and in Jerusalem.

Isaiah 57:12. I will expose your self righteousness, and your works; for they will be of no benefit to you.

Isaiah 10:3. What will you do on the day of punishment, when destruction will come from afar? to whom will you run for help? and where will you leave your riches?

 

HEAVEN

Isaiah 33:15-17. If you walk in righteousness, and speak the truth; refuse to get rich by doing wrong, and wave aside bribes that are offered, refuse to listen to plans to shed blood, and refuse to look upon evil;

16  Then you will live on high: your place of defense will be a fortress of rock: your food will be provided; and you will always have plenty of water.

17  Your eyes will see the king in his beauty: they will see a vast land.

Isaiah 33:19. You will never again see fierce people, people whose speech you cannot understand; who stammer in a language, that you can not understand. Lord

Isaiah 33:24. no one living there will say, I am sick: the sins of the people who live there will be forgiven.

Isaiah 54:10. For the mountains will depart, and the hills will be removed; but my kindness will not depart from you, nor will the covenant of my peace be taken away, says the LORD who has mercy on you.

 

HELL

Isaiah 33:14.The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling has seized the hypocrites. Who among us will live in a devouring fire? who among us will live in everlasting flames?

Isaiah 50:11. Look, all you who kindle a fire, and encircle yourselves with firebrands: walk in the light of your fire, and among the torches that you have kindled. But this is what you will get from my hand; you will lie down in a place of torment.

Isaiah 57:12&21. I will expose your self righteousness, and your works; for they will be of no benefit to you.

21  There is no peace for the wicked, says my God.

 

THE NEW EARTH

Isaiah 60:16-22. 16  You will suck the milk of nations, and nurse at royal breasts: and you will know that I JAHWEH am your Savior and your Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.

17  I will bring you gold instead of brass, and I will bring silver instead of iron, brass instead of wood, and iron instead of stones: I will give you a government of peace, and your rulers will be righteousness.

18  Crime will no longer be heard of in your land, or desolation or destruction within your borders; but you will call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise.

19  No longer will the sun be your light by day; or the moon shine to give you light by night: but the LORD will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory.

20  Your sun will no longer go down; nor will your moon withdraw itself: for the LORD will be your everlasting light, and the days of your mourning will be over.

21  All of your people will be righteous: they will inherit the land for ever, a branch that I planted, the work of my hands, so that I may be glorified.

22  The least will become a thousand, and the smallest a strong nation: at the appointed time I the LORD will quickly bring it to pass.

Isaiah 65:17.  For, behold, I create a new heavens and a new earth: and the former will not be remembered, or come into mind.

Isaiah 65:24-25. And it will come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

25… They will not hurt or destroy anywhere on my holy mountain, says the LORD.

Isaiah 66:22-24. 22  For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, will remain before me, says the LORD, so your descendants and your name will remain.

23  And it will come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, all flesh will come to worship before me, says the LORD.

24  And they will go out, and look at the dead bodies of those who have rebelled against me: for their worm will not die, nor will their fire be quenched; and everyone will abhor them.

 

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