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August 23 - Isaiah 27 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean here and it is on Wednesday.
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  It is the 23rd of August and here we are ready to read
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  another chapter together of Isaiah.
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  Today we will continue there. There's a lot of agricultural
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  kind of language in the Old Testament, isn't there?
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  And God, God loves to talk about His people as the vine, and he
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  talks about people taking root and blossoming or withering or
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  being pulled from the earth or whatever's going on.
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  And today more of that language continues as we here with
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  assurance that God will indeed save His people.
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  So why don't you put down whatever it is that's bouncing
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  around inside your head so that we can be still and hear of the
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  great provisions of our God as we read together Isaiah, Chapter
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  27. In that day the Lord will take
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  his terrible, swift sword and punish Leviathan, the swiftly
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  moving serpent, the coiling, writhing serpent.
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  He will kill the dragon of the sea In that day, sing about the
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  fruitful vineyard. I, the Lord, will watch over it,
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  watering it carefully. Day and night I will watch so no
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  one can harm it. My anger will be gone.
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  If I find briars and thorns growing, I will attack them.
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  I will burn them up unless they turn to me for help.
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  Let them make peace with me. Yes, let them make peace with
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  me. The time is coming when Jacob's
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  descendants will take root. Israel will bud and blossom and
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  fill the whole earth with fruit. Has the Lord struck Israel as he
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  struck her enemies? Has he punished her as he
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  punished them? No, but he exiled Israel to call
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  her to account. She was exiled from her land, as
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  though blown away in a storm from the east.
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  The Lord did this to purge Israel's wickedness, to take
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  away all her sin. As a result, all the Pagan
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  altars will be crushed to dust. No Asher a pole or Pagan shrine
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  will be left standing. The fortified towns will be
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  silent and empty, the houses abandoned, the streets overgrown
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  with weeds. Calves will graze there, chewing
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  on twigs and branches. The people are like the dead
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  branches of a tree, broken off and used for kindling beneath
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  the cooking pots. Israel is a foolish and stupid
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  nation, for its people have turned away from God.
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  Therefore the one who made them will show them no pity or mercy.
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  Yet the time will come when the Lord will gather them together
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  like handpicked grain. One by one He will gather them
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  from the Euphrates River in the east to the brook of Egypt in
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  the West. In that day the great trumpet
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  will sound many who are dying in exile in Assyria and Egypt will
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  return to Jerusalem to worship the Lord on his holy mountain,
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  Jesus. You bring that fruitfulness out
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  of the nation of Israel to the whole world, and we get to bear
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  that fruit. We get to be a part of your vine
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  as you tend to us, and we hear that here also you prune us, and
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  this is not comfortable as we know.
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  But we are part of your greatly beloved people, and you grow us.
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  For your kingdom's sake. Thank you that you include us in
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  the movement and glory of your Kingdom, in its work here, and
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  in its celebration and eternity. Thank you that we are your
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  people and that you are our God and you embrace us and you love
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  us and you include us. You're pretty spectacular and we
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  love you so much, and it's in your saving name that we pray
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  Jesus. Amen.