ISAIAH

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CHAPTER 1

  1. From King Amoz to King Hezekiah, before the captivity of Judah.
  2. No.
  3. If they were willing to come to God with all their hearts and be obedient to His commandments.
  4. Those who sin against the law, those who sin but never knew God, and those who know God but turn away from Him.

CHAPTER 2

  1. When His kingdom is set up above all other kingdoms.
  2. They will try to cover themselves with the false teaching they believed in but will be unable to hide from God's truth.

CHAPTER 3

  1. They caused them to err because they taught them wrong.

CHAPTER 4

  1. The branch is Israel.
  2. The fruit is all others who believe in God.
  3. They will have to first pay for their sins, then they will be purified by heeding God's word.
  4. He will lead them day and night.
  5. The blood of Jesus.

CHAPTER 5

  1. God.
  2. Israel.
  3. Desolation and continuing trouble.

CHAPTER 6

  1. This was Isaiah's repentance.
  2. Isaiah is filled by the Spirit and renewed in knowledge.
  3. He is able to speak for the Lord.

CHAPTER 7

  1. Jesus.
  2. These are provided by God. Man does not plant or till for them. The people will be depending on God then.
  3. The Assyrians and Israelites will be destroyed.

CHAPTER 8

  1. God.
  2. Mediums and wizards.

CHAPTER 9

  1. Jesus.
  2. The people had cursed God before but now would praise Him because he brought salvation to them (see 8:21).

CHAPTER 10

  1. Assyria.
  2. Their pride made them believe they had accomplished all things by their own power.

CHAPTER 11

  1. a. It is Jesus. b. He will possess the Spirit of God (He will have the words of God).
  2. They represent the people at the time after Jesus' return. All will live in harmony, trust, and equality with one another.

CHAPTER 12

  1. Everyone will love, praise, and exalt God.

CHAPTER 13

  1. The world will be destroyed for its evil and the wicked for their iniquity. 2. The Medes.

CHAPTER 14

  1. Lucifer (Satan).
  2. He wanted to exalt himself above all and be like God.
  3. No.
  4. They represent the followers of Satan.

CHAPTER 15

  1. They will be destroyed.

CHAPTER 16

  1. Jesus.

CHAPTER 17

  1. They had forgotten God. They had not remembered that He was their protector.

CHAPTER 18

  1. When God sets up His kingdom over all the nations' false religions and false worship.

CHAPTER 19

  1. The people who lead Egypt into sin and false gods.
  2. Those who profit from those deceived and led astray.
  3. The gospel of Jesus Christ.

CHAPTER 20

  1. a. 3 years. b. Is was to be a serious sign against Egypt and Ethiopia. They would be led away captive, stripped, and barefoot.

CHAPTER 21

  1. a. The different groups of God's believers. The strong, the hard-working, and the enduring working. b. They would be spreading the truth of God against all false religions and teachings.
  2. All the nations and people who do not live according to God's will. They have their own righteousness, religions, and gods. They will fall.
  3. The night represents the sin in the world. Light is the truth of God which will be revealed. Keep seeking God, and you will know the Light.

CHAPTER 22

  1. Jerusalem because they knew God and His ways.
  2. They turned from seeking God and remembering Him as the source of all things.

CHAPTER 23

  1. The church (not the true believing people).
  2. They produced no children or men to follow God. No women were taught God's commandments.
  3. Their ungodliness would be destroyed as Babylon's was destroyed.
  4. The time when ungodliness will grow again.
  5. The church "who represents God" will seek their own gain and profit, not concerned with guiding souls into obeying God's commandments.

CHAPTER 24

  1. They will be emptied or taken off the face of the earth.
  2. The harvesting of the people of God. It will be time to gather them to Him.
  3. The fallen angels and demons.
  4. Those who are leaders and cause people to stray from God.
  5. They will be locked up for a while then punished.

CHAPTER 25

  1. The people who call on God for strength, trust in His protection, and know He is the One who blesses them.
  2. Those who know God and live according to His ways.
  3. He will bestow all manner of blessings upon His people (vs. 6).
  4. The covering is the sin of the people, the veil is the people's blindness to God's word.

CHAPTER 26

  1. All true believers gathered together in one place.
  2. They shall arise out of their graves to live.

CHAPTER 27

  1. He represents all the extremely evil people.
  2. His children.
  3. Those against God.
  4. It will be possible for them to make peace with God.
  5. He punished them for their sins by sending a nation against them to destroy them.
  6. Those who are against God no matter how much He warns them.
  7. No.
  8. a. His children. b. At the call of the last or great trumpet (the end of the age).

CHAPTER 28

  1. They were in sin and could not make any judgements.
  2. He would go to a nation (another tongue) who would serve Him as Israel would watch.
  3. His precepts were not taken seriously. They were just rules and regulations.
  4. They made a covenant with death.
  5. Jesus.
  6. There was going to be total destruction of all people on the land.
  7. God sows His word, the seed, among all people. He uses His Spirit to correct and mature each believer. One day, there will come a time to gather all true believers.

CHAPTER 29

  1. They spoke of God, but He was not in their hearts.
  2. He had made man and knew his ways. They could hide nothing from Him.
  3. All those who commit iniquity will be cut off.
  4. He will see those who were once wayward but came back to God.

CHAPTER 30

  1. They were not trusting in God and would soon fall to the ways and habits of Egypt.
  2. Those of Israel who would wait and trust in Him.
  3. His Spirit was given to us to show us the way to go.

CHAPTER 31

  1. The one who looks for help from other places rather than from God and the one who helps him will perish together.
  2. He would be like a lion who roars or stands over his prey. No one will run Him off.

CHAPTER 32

  1. There will be righteousness and understanding of God among the people.
  2. No one will be condoned or excused. They will be seen for what they are.
  3. When God pours His Spirit on them from on high (vs. 15).
  4. They can dwell peaceably and secure, trusting in God.

CHAPTER 33

  1. The sinners and the hypocrites.
  2. Those who walk upright, refuse bribes, and hate bloodshed.
  3. a. The king and the place of forever. b. They will remember all the evil done by the others. c. They will not see the evil person or any incomprehensible actions of ungodliness.

CHAPTER 34

  1. There will be no separation between heaven and earth. The host of heaven will dwell with the people saved on earth.
  2. Edom is all the people who have lived contrary to God's will.
  3. They represent those great and small who are wicked.
  4. They represent all the different people dwelling together with no more worry of evil or harm.
  5. The Book of Life of those saved.

CHAPTER 35

  1. It will blossom and produce abundantly on its own.
  2. They will see, hear, and walk.
  3. No unclean shall dwell there.
  4. There will be no evil to tempt him or lead him astray.

CHAPTER 36

  1. He said Hezekiah had turned the people away from God.
  2. He said God had sent him against Judah.
  3. He said that the god's of the other nations could not stand against him and neither will the Lord (vs. 18-20).

CHAPTER 37

  1. He would send a rumor and have him return to his own land where he would die by the sword.
  2. They became prideful. They felt their success was by their own power (vs.24).
  3. The people of Judah would eat of the land whatever it produced on its own for the next 3 years.
  4. 185,000.

CHAPTER 38

  1. 15 years.
  2. The shadow on the sun dial would go backward 10 degrees.

CHAPTER 39

  1. Some men from Babylon.
  2. Babylon would one day carry away all his treasures he had shown them.

CHAPTER 40

  1. He would exalt the humble and humble the prideful.
  2. Who is like Him in any way?
  3. He never becomes faint or weary.
  4. The weak and the meek.
  5. They will have new strength to go on and will have a smooth path. They will not faint or be weary.

CHAPTER 41

  1. God.
  2. He is before the first generation of people and will be there after the last.

CHAPTER 42

  1. a. Jesus. b. His Spirit was in Jesus. c. This is the spreading of the gospel to the Gentiles.
  2. He would hold him by the hand, telling him what to do.
  3. He would become the covenant to the people and a light to the Gentiles.
  4. Those in sin who do not know how to get out.
  5. He wanted them to know that He is God and give their hearts and lips to Him.
  6. All the things against God and the sources of those who lead people away from God.

CHAPTER 43

  1. The people who do not know God.
  2. The lies and deceiving doctrines of the ungodly people.
  3. a. Those who know God. b. They have called on God and obeyed Him.
  4. From all over the world.
  5. a. The people in darkness who do not know God. b. The people who know and serve God.
  6. a. The spreading of knowledge of God. b. The Gentiles who have never served God.
  7. He asked them to come to Him and speak their case for forgiveness.

CHAPTER 44

  1. Those who have not served God but are seeking Him.
  2. He tried to make them understand that the same piece of wood they used for molding their gods, they also used for fire to cook and warm themselves by.
  3. The city and the temple will be rebuilt.

CHAPTER 45

  1. Cyrus, king of Persia.
  2. Egypt, Cush, and the Sabeans.

CHAPTER 46

  1. He would place salvation among them.

CHAPTER 47

  1. a. The Chaldeans and the Babylonians. b. They were cruel to His people, Israel. c. Their astrologers and star gazers.

CHAPTER 48

  1. So the people would not say the things that happened to them were from idols or false gods.
  2. To refine His people; to make them turn back to Him.
  3. He is the first and true God, and there is no other; none before Him or after Him.
  4. Isaiah.
  5. If they had obeyed God's commandments, they would be in peace and righteousness.

CHAPTER 49

  1. a. Jesus. b. He has been shielded by God until His time comes. Then, God will use Him but above the other men used of God.
  2. a. To bring God's people back to Him. b. His God, the Father. c. The Gentiles.
  3. He gave his son, Jesus, because of their sins (see 2 Corinthians 6:2).
  4. Yes, as a woman who could not forget her child.
  5. There would be children of God from the Gentiles.
  6. They would be His children and worship God as Israel had at one time (vs. 22-23).

CHAPTER 50

  1. He did not hide from the people in shame or from their persecution. He gave them the word of God.
  2. He said to rely on God.
  3. a. Those who develop their own lighted path instead of trusting in God. b. They will go down in torment.

CHAPTER 51

  1. Those who know righteousness and who have God's law in their heart.

CHAPTER 52

  1. The people who follow other beliefs will hear of God's salvation.
  2. These will be the people who know God and who understand the signs of his work.
  3. Jesus.
  4. The people will not know he is the Messiah.

CHAPTER 53

  1. God will nurture Him and instruct Him in righteousness as He grows up. (See also Isaiah 7:15)
  2. He would not be dressed in splendor or look beautiful.
  3. He would know sorrow and grief.
  4. The iniquity of us all.
  5. The strong; those who endure in righteousness and call on God until their end.

CHAPTER 54

  1. Only for a moment.
  2. The mountains and hills will be removed (vs. 10).
  3. The servants of the Lord.

CHAPTER 55

  1. His word will be done.

CHAPTER 56

  1. The Gentiles.
  2. The leaders and priests of Israel.

CHAPTER 57

  1. The righteous person.
  2. An exalted and well-known false religion.
  3. They had turned as far away from God as they could.
  4. The contrite and humble person.
  5. Those who turn back to God and follow Him.

CHAPTER 58

  1. a. Yes. b. Their worship and fasting were not sincere. They were only going through the motions.
  2. a. To help the poor, feed the hungry, and clothe the needy. b. God will hear our calls and heal and help us.
  3. By riding ourselves of all wickedness, then only light will go forth.
  4. By following His ways, not doing our own way or pleasures.

CHAPTER 59

  1. a. Sin separates us. b. God turns His face from us and will not listen to us.
  2. We are ignorant of God and His paths. We don't know which way to go because of the darkness in us.
  3. God.
  4. Jesus.
  5. He would leave His Spirit upon the people forever.

CHAPTER 60

  1. The Gentiles (Also, spiritually. We all worship the God of Israel spiritually now).
  2. The different nations of people who will worship God.
  3. a. Those who were led by God by obeying Him. b. At the end of the age.

CHAPTER 61

  1. a. Isaiah. b. The city will be rebuilt. c. The foreigner, the Gentiles.

CHAPTER 62

  1. Those who know God and can lead the people.
  2. They will stop watching or leading after the end of the age when God's city is established.
  3. They way of righteousness that the people will follow.

CHAPTER 63

  1. a. A mighty force covered in blood. b. This is God taking vengeance on His people.
  2. He was angry with them, and his fury needed to be sustained.
  3. His loving kindnesses and goodness to His people, helping them in times of affliction.
  4. He remembered how the people called on Him before and how He had led them.
  5. The people felt they were not part of God's family any longer; not of Abraham or all Israel could they be named.

CHAPTER 64

  1. The false gods and religions would be exposed and removed when God took action.
  2. Those who wait on God and rejoice in doing good.
  3. They did their righteous acts grudgingly; not out of a pure and sincere heart because they were deep in sin.

CHAPTER 65

  1. a. The Gentiles. b. Israel.
  2. We will live a long time as the days of a tree.
  3. a. They represent the people who have hurt and destroyed God's people. b. They will become powerless.
  4. a. The devil. b. He will become powerless.

CHAPTER 66

  1. The poor and the humble person who trembles at the word of God.
  2. They were still sinning against God at the same time they did their righteous rituals.
  3. a. Jesus. b. Israel was practicing their religion peaceably when Jesus was born. At this time, everything was as they wanted their worship to be.
  4. Christianity grew fast.
  5. The followers of Christ upset the system of worship of Israel.
  6. Wisdom and knowledge will be revealed to some so they can lead others.