Isaiah 49:1-7 & 50:4-11& 51:1-11
If you follow the thread of thought from the verses that use the word “Servant”, you will see a message unfolding of hope and salvation for the people of God taken captive by Babylon. Read the passages above and pay close attention to the use of the word “Servant”.
In 49:1-7, God’s Servant will help restore Israel in order for who to be enlightened?
The apostle Paul gave identity to spiritual Israel, as being both of what kinds of people? See Galatians 3:28
In 50:4, What had God given the Servant speaking?
How does Peter speak of Jesus in Acts 3:13-26
How did the servant of the Lord respond to God’s teaching?
Due to God’s help, how did the Servant set his face?
At what point in the life of Jesus did he submit to the kind of insults mentioned in Isa. 50:6 ? See Mark 15:16-20
Could the captive Jews in Bablyon easily see who their father and mother were as Isaiah wrote the Servants words in 51:2.
Yes or no?
In Romans 4:9-18, who did Paul say was the father of all Christians?
Why do you believe Paul uses circumcision as an analogy of baptism in Colossians 2:11-13
Isaiah 52:13 – 53:12
When Jesus lived amongst his Jewish siblings, what did they expect of the coming Messiah? (John 6:15)
What did Isaiah mean when he said “He would sprinkle many nations” 52:15
Ref: Lev. 14:7 & Num.19:18
What two nations did Isaiah say had previously oppressed Israel before he wrote chapter 52, see v4
By what means did Isaiah say God’s people would find peace and healing? 53:5
How did Isaiah make it clear that the Messiah would suffer as a substitute for humanities sins? See 53:6 (John 1:36)
With whom was God’s Servant to make his grave?
For what purpose did Isaiah say God’s Servant would offer His soul? 53:10
With whom did God promise to divide His Servant a portion?
53:11-12
For what would God’s Servant make intercession? 53:13
Do you believe there is a chapter in the Old Testament that is more descriptive of Jesus?
56:1-7 & 57:11-21
Deuteronomy 23:1-8 seems to be in direct contradiction to God’s promises through Isaiah 56:1-7, Why?
To what group of people did God promise a better inheritance than sons & daughters?
Where did Jesus quote Isaiah 56:7 ?
Today, the cross is evidence of God’s need for justice in the face of our inability to live holy. Our reception of his blood from the cross is the delivery of his mercy! God will not be angry forever, Psalm 30:5.
(Isa 57:11-15) When God asked Israel “Who is more powerful than I”? And also, “What were you afraid of that caused you to turn your back on Me”? Do these questions beg of an answer from people today? What kind of feeling is God expressing in these questions?
What sin described in 57:17, moved God to anger?
Is Paul’s declaration to Timothy to be taken lightly, or seriously? See 1st Timothy 6:10
A contemporary of Isaiah, (Micah 2:2-3), just outside Jerusalem described the coveting of Israel’s rich Jewish leaders. The violence of this greed was real, Micah 3:1-3. What did God demand from them in the face of such covetousness?
Yet in the face of punishment in Babylon while held captive they had promises to hope in, What was their hope? See Isaiah 56:1
What is often coupled together with God’s grace in the Bible? 57:15
61:1 – 62:5
The message of Isaiah is very similar to the work of Nehemiah, the wording is very different, but the point is that God is not finished with Israel, He is rebuilding!
Isaiah speaks of God’s Spirit, or “The Spirit of the Lord” in fifteen different verses. This message of the Spirit was used by Jesus from the synagogue he spent the most time in on earth, (Luke 4:16-30) and it almost got him killed prematurely.
When Isaiah described the rod that would come from the stem of Jesse, he said, “The Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon Him, – Isa. 11:2. David’s descendants in the tribe of Judah were honored to have blessed the world with The Messiah, but while kept captive in Babylon, they found themselves at the mercy of Esther, which risked her life to spare all Israel from evil Haman, without her, Jesus would not have been born, and the Spirit of Christ would not have come into the world through Mary, Matthew 1:3, 12-18. God was rebuilding Israel from physical ruins into a spiritual priesthood, Isaiah 61:6.
The oil of gladness would replace their mourning, 61:3-8. There are at least 3 occasions of Jesus being anointed with oil, Mary of Bethany anointing his feet (John 12), an unnamed woman anointing his head in Bethany (Matthew 26/Mark 14), and a sinful woman anointing his feet in Galilee (Luke 7). This was during his ministry alive, but even after his death, “ointments” were used by the women in his burial, Luke 23:56 and in John 19:39. Nicodemus joined them and Joseph of Arimethea to use 75 pounds of a mixture of myrrh and aloes. What gladness they all felt upon realizing who was to be resurrected as the Christ! The apostles later taught about an Anointing that all Christians can rejoice in, 1st John 2:26-27. Do you rejoice in this truth?
“And you shall be called by a new name that the mouth of the Lord shall give”, 62:2-4.
What does Buelah mean?
What does Hephzibah mean?
What does the name “Christian” mean?
Epaggelia 