Isaiah 1:12-2:5

Joe Focht  WED884  2/17/2016

The Nation of Israel had become corrupt and had allowed sin to enter into every aspect of the nation. God, in a sign of his grace, initiates and pleads with His people to return to a right relationship with him. The beginning of chapter two is one of the most vivid descriptions of the Millennium in the entire Bible. Pastor Joe looks at why we believe The Millennium will be literal and the leaders from the early church who believed and taught it as well.

  1. When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
  2. Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
  3. Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
  4. And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
  5. Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
  6. Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
  7. Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
  8. If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
  9. But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
  10. How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
  11. Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:
  12. Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
  13. Therefore saith the LORD, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:
  14. And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:
  15. And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.
  16. Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.
  17. And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed.
  18. For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.
  19. For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.
  20. And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.
  1. The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
  2. And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
  3. And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
  4. And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
  5. O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.