Isaiah Review

 

 I am going to review just a few of the things we find in the book of Isaiah. Isaiah was a great prophet of God who prophesied during the same time as Hosea, who was the first prophet to record his prophesies according to Matthew Henry, Joel, Amos, and Obadiah.  The Book of Isaiah is placed first because it is larger and has the most prophesies in it.  \

The first verse says that this is the vision, or revelation from God, to Isaiah concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah the king.  Had it just been something Isaiah thought, then the prophesies he spoke to the people would not have come true, but they did, some of them centuries later.  When we share about God with the world it needs to be based on His word, and never on something we may believe because of some vision or dream we had.  Like Isaiah, if we have a vision concerning God, it must come from God.  

Isaiah began by denouncing how the people of Judah had rebelled against God.  This did not make him popular with those who heard him.  We have to speak out against sin today, especially if it is being promoted by those who profess to be followers of Christ.  God was going to judge them with an everlasting judgment one day.  

Isaiah also said that they would have been hopeless if God had not preserved a remnant.  When looking at the number of people in the world today, even the number who profess to be Christians, we want to make sure that we are a part of the remnant, those who have truly put their faith in Jesus Christ and live under the direction of the Holy Spirit.  

Isaiah also said that their sacrifices meant nothing to God, because those offering them were not doing it sincerely, but they were just going through the motions of worshipping God, and we need to make sure we never do that as Christians today.