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Isaiah 11 - The Branch of Jesse and the True Restoration of Israel · Tabernacle Talk - A Bible Study Podcast with Pastor Bryon Self

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  Welcome to Tabernacle Talk. Tabernacle Talk is a Bible study
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  podcast brought from Tabernacle Baptist Church in Essex, MD.
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  I'm your host, Brian Self. We hope this podcast encourages
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  you to know Christ, grow in his word, and show his love to
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  others. Let's dive right in.
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  Welcome back to Tabernacle Talk. I'm excited today to be with you
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  in Isaiah Chapter 11, especially after the past two, maybe 3
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  episodes have all been God's judgement.
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  So it's been a lot of like really sad things happening.
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  And in Isaiah 11, we get back to the good news.
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  This is what God is building towards, that the old, the evil
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  is purged so that there can be a good society, there can be a
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  good, if you will, world focused on God and His way, His care and
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  love for people. And so we're going to read
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  through that together. Isaiah Chapter 11 and verse #1
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  it says this. Then a shoot will grow from the
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  stump of Jesse. Let me pause there real quick.
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  Last episode we looked at Assyria's judgment that ended in
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  verse #34 actually at verse #33 where it says, look, Yahweh, add
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  an eye of heaven's armies will chop off the branches with
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  terrifying power, and the tall trees will be cut down, the high
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  trees felled. He's clearing the thickets of
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  the forest with an axe, and Lebanon with its majesty will
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  fall. So Assyria is going to come
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  through by decree of the Lord, 'cause there to be a judgement
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  on Israel, and even Judah itself would not escape unscathed from
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  that invasion. And then we read this in verse
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  #11 for these trees that have been felled by Assyria.
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  Verse #1 Then a shoot will grow from the stump of Jesse.
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  That is David's father. So King David, that kingly line
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  where the kings of Judah were from, but ultimately where the
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  Messiah would be from. And that's where our focus needs
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  to be there. A shoot will grow from the stump
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  of Jesse, and a branch from his roots will bear fruit here.
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  The branch from the tribe of Jet or from the tribe of Judah, It's
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  the branch of Jesse here that comes and bears fruit.
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  So what comes from this kingly person that David's line would
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  not be wiped out. Even though Israel and Judah
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  would experience some judgment from the Lord, the line of David
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  would still continue. And what would happen with this
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  kingly person? Verse #2 The Spirit of Yahweh
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  will rest on him, a spirit of wisdom and understanding, a
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  spirit of counsel and strength, a spirit of knowledge and of the
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  fear of Yahweh. So in verse #2 we read 7 times
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  the Spirit of Yahweh. This is the Holy Spirit is
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  living and working through this descendant of David.
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  And why would I count 7 times that the Spirit is mentioned?
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  Because when you look at Revelation, you'll see the
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  apostle John thinking about this portion of Scripture and he'll
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  talk about the seven spirits of God that are there with Jesus.
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  OK, are there 7 holy spirits instead of a Trinity?
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  Do we have whatever you would call 9 persons in one God?
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  No, this is saying the seven old expression of who the Spirit is
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  and and what does the Spirit bring?
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  Well, he's the Spirit of Yahweh that he is not some just random
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  breath or existence or power. It is God's own presence.
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  And so it is the spirit of Yahweh.
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  He is the Spirit of wisdom, He is the spirit of understanding.
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  He's the spirit of counsel, the spirit of strength.
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  You can think of what Paul says in Second Timothy, one that God
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  has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and a
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  sound mind. He is this one that gives
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  strength. He is a spirit of knowledge and
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  of the fear of Yahweh. And so here, this spirit that
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  gives wisdom into our brokenness, counsel,
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  understanding, knowledge of the fear of Yahweh, the one that
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  leads us in the right way, this is what this descendant of David
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  is going to be known by. He is going to act like God
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  would act. He is going to have the wisdom
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  that God himself possesses. So again, this is such a glaring
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  picture of Christ and what a joy, especially as you remember
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  a couple chapters ago where Isaiah said in Isaiah 7 to King
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  Ahaz, who was from the line of David, he was like, oh, House of
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  David, like you, you basically, you annoy people, but will you
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  also annoy God himself through your refusal to obey?
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  So the descendants of David right now, we're not following
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  the Lord. They did not have this wisdom,
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  but based on the promise of Second Samuel 7, that there
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  would be a descendant from David's line that would sit on
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  his throne forever. Isaiah says.
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  And as Isaiah prophecies, he sees that there is going to come
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  one who, yes, is from the line of David, but is so much more.
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  What makes the difference? Well, it is God's presence that
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  makes the difference, and certainly He is the ultimate
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  Emmanuel. God with us verse #3 His delight
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  will be in the fear of Yahweh. Jesus was concerned with what
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  the Father wanted done. He did not seek His own will as
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  he came down as a man, but instead he sought the will of
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  God. It says he will not judge by
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  what he sees with his eyes, He will not execute justice by what
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  he hears with his ears, but he will judge the poor righteously
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  and execute justice for the oppressed of the land.
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  Jesus was not going to just operate by his own 5 senses, He
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  was going to rely on the Spirit of God to give him what he
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  needed to say or do in any given circumstance.
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  And what a joy that this is because as we think about it, I
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  am not God Incarnate. Therefore, I if the only thing
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  that Jesus had was his divine nature, well, I don't have that
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  divine nature and so I can't follow Jesus into obedience.
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  But Jesus as a man did everything that he did in the
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  power of the Holy Spirit, guided by the Word of God.
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  And I have the Spirit and the Word of God as well, and that
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  means that I can follow Jesus obediently.
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  I will fail at that. Every single one of us do.
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  But we don't have to fail. We don't have to, in any given
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  moment, choose the wrong path. We can as we encounter
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  hardships, as we encounter arguments, when we need to make
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  a decision, we can either go by what we can discern with our
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  five senses, or we can rely on the Word of God to say, well,
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  right now I feel like I should be angry and lash out, but I
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  remember what Scripture tells me.
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  Be angry and do not sin. Do not let the sun go down on
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  your wrath. And I can remember that I can
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  remember be patient with one another, bearing with one
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  another, and forgiving one another even as God for Christ's
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  sake has forgiven you. I can think about all of those
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  things when I run into decisions.
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  I can either do what Adam and Eve did in the garden where they
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  see the fruit that it it's good to look at and it will make you
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  wise. What their senses told them was
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  the fruit is totally fine. If they had listened to the word
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  of God in the voice of God, he said this will kill you.
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  They chose to go with their senses instead of going by the
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  word of God. Because if you remember all the
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  trees in the garden looked good. God saw everything that he had
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  made and behold it was very good.
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  So everything looked good, but they had to rely on The Voice of
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  God to know what is the right choice and what is the wrong
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  choice. They chose to ignore the voice
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  of God. May we be like Jesus and not
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  operate based on simply animal instinct, what we want to do at
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  any given moment, or what our senses tell us.
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  You should automatically make this choice.
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  No, my friend, rely on the Word of God.
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  Let Jesus instruct you about what you need to do, even as
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  Jesus as he walked this earth. And one day, as he rules, he
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  will rule in the wisdom of the Holy Spirit, who gives us what
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  we need from the Word of God and through the Word of God.
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  I I know I've mentioned this before as well.
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  Sometimes people pit like the Holy Spirit and the Word of God
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  at odds with one another. The Holy Spirit is who gave us
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  the Word of God. And if you want to truly know
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  what the voice of the Holy Spirit sounds like, get into
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  these books in the Old and the New Testament, and you will get
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  to hear the voice of the Holy Spirit over and over again so
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  that when He is speaking to you, you know what His voice sounds
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  like. His voice is not just your inner
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  dialogue. His voice is not every impulse
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  that you have. His voice aligns with what is in
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  Scripture because His is the voice that speaks through
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  Scripture. Holy man of holy men of God
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  spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit or in That's first
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  sorry, that is second Peter one for no yes, second Peter one
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  says that Second Timothy 3 says that all Scripture is breathed
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  out by God and is profitable. So get to know the voice of the
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  Spirit through what He has already spoken in the Word.
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  Continuing in verse #4 hear the Messiah, the, the branch from
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  Jesse, this king from the line of David.
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  He will strike the land with a scepter from his mouth.
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  That is his word that he speaks. And you can read about that over
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  and over again in Revelation. That's a, a picture that John
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  really loves and picks up. He says, and he will kill the
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  wicked with a command from his lips.
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  There will no longer have to be armies that are fighting, if you
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  will. When Jesus comes back to rule
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  and to reign on this earth, He is the One that is.
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  He simply states the command. The same word that created
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  everything that exists. That same word can choose to
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  execute the wicked verse #5 Righteousness will be a belt
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  around His hips. Faithfulness will be a belt
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  around His waist. That is the core of who He is.
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  What brings him all together is this righteousness and
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  faithfulness. And what a joy that because
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  Jesus is righteous, He will never be unrighteous towards
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  you. He will never do you wrong.
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  He will walk with us through hard times.
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  But because He is holy and He is good, He will never do us wrong.
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  And He is faithful. He's consistent.
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  Who he was 1000 years ago is who he is today is who he will be in
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  30 million years, and we can have confidence in our future
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  based on the word of God and the faithfulness of God.
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  Verse number six, a beautiful promise.
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  The wolf will dwell with the lamb, and the leopard will lie
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  down with the goat. The calf, the young lion, and
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  the fattened calf will be together and a child will lead
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  them. The cow and the bear will graze,
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  Their young ones will lie down together and the lion will eat
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  straw like cattle. An infant will play beside the
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  cobras pit, and a toddler will put his hand into a snake's den.
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  They will not harm or destroy each other on my entire holy
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  mountain, for the land will be as full of the knowledge of
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  Yahweh as the sea is filled with water.
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  On that day when Jesus rules and reigns everything now, even in
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  our natural world, that brings death and devastation and
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  destruction, sorrow, even fighting between animals will
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  cease on that wonderful day. Think about, you know, I've,
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  I've got my 3 1/2 year old Evelyn and I would never, ever,
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  ever want her to go anywhere near a snake or a cobra.
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  But on that day, it will be completely safe.
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  On that day, there's no longer the predators and the prey.
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  God has made all things new. Now this is set off as poetry.
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  It's done in poetic lines. You can even as we read through
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  those, see the different patterns.
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  So I don't want to mandate an overtly literal rendering of
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  that. It could be that there's still
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  regular rhythms of the animal Kingdom, and this is being used
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  as a picture of the peace that now exists as the Messiah is
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  there. However, knowing God, knowing
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  His ability to do anything that He wants, it could very well be
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  that in that day, not only will mankind cease to make war, but
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  even the animal Kingdom will cease to make war.
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  Verse #10 On that day, the root of Jesse will stand as a banner
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  for the peoples. The nations will look to Him for
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  guidance, and his resting place will be glorious.
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  Here. This king from David's line will
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  be king over all of the earth, and everywhere there will be
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  peace and joy, righteousness and guidance for the people here.
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  Even as I read that the nations will look to Him for guidance.
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  It makes me wonder, well what kind of questions would people
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  have in a world that Jesus is over.
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  And to me it just brings a delight that some of the if you
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  will, problem solving things that we that exist in our world
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  today, They're not all as a result of sin.
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  You can think even back to the Garden of Eden as God gave Adam
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  his initial missions to name the animals, that is to give them a
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  a purpose and a role within the garden.
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  And as he told Adam to dress the garden is kind of the older way
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  to phrase it. I'm turning over there to see if
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  there's a different word that is used in more modern
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  translations. God says they're in verse #15
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  God took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden to work it
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  and to watch over it. That there, there's even some
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  questions there that come up in my mind.
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  OK, well, if everything was very good and he's watching over it,
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  why is he watching over it? Like, are there bad things?
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  And, and that's not fleshed out for us there in Genesis 2, but
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  he is supposed to be watching over.
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  And so some of these wonderful mysteries that Scripture has for
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  us where he tells us some wonderful things about the
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  Messiah's reign. But there's things that I don't
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  know the answers to yet, but I'm excited to discover them one day
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  with my Lord. Verse #11 On that day, the Lord
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  will extend his hand a second time.
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  Not, not now in judgement as we read in the previous chapter,
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  but he's, he's extending his hand a second time to recover
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  the remnant of his people who survive from Syria, Egypt,
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  Pathros, Kush, Elam, Shinar, Hamas, and the coasts and
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  islands of the West. He will lift up a banner for the
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  nations and gather the dispersed of Israel.
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  He'll collect the scattered of Judah from the four corners of
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  the earth. Ephraim's envy will cease.
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  Judah's harassing will end. Ephraim will no longer be
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  envious of Judah, and Judah will not harass Ephraim, but they
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  will swoop down on the Philistine flank to the West.
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  Together they will plunder the people of the east.
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  They will extend their power over Edom and Moab, and the
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  Ammonites will be their subjects.
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  Yahweh will divide the Gulf of Suez.
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  He will wave his hand over the Euphrates with his mighty wind,
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  and we'll split it into 7 streams, letting people walk
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  through on foot. There will be a highway for the
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  remnant of his people who will survive from Assyria, as there
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  was for Israel when they came up from the land of Egypt.
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  So here Isaiah gives, he's given these a couple times before.
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  I'll draw attention to it every time he says it.
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  Here he's using some poetic language to describe the return
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  to Israel as being like when they came from Egypt.
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  So if you will, this is a second exodus, only instead of coming
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  from Egypt, they're coming from Assyria and from Babylon back to
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  the land of promise. And I think here one of the
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  things that's highlighted is they will be able to experience
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  the land as God intended for them.
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  So if you go to Israel today, there are no longer any
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  Philistines. There are no longer Edomites,
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  Moabites, Ammonites. They are long gone to the annals
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  of history. And so here, as Jesus brings
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  back his people, there's not going to be a, if you will, a
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  resurgence of those old nations. And then that happens here.
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  This is poetic language saying what God did in the first
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  Exodus, which is what these people were supposed to
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  experience, was the fullness of the land.
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  God delivering them and protecting them, scattering out
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  the enemies that were consistently robbing, harassing
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  and slaving, all that kind of stuff.
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  They will experience the land as God intended for them to at the
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  first. So if you have any questions,
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  please let me know. I think that about covers
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  everything that we need to go over today for Isaiah 11.
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  The next episode, Isaiah 12 is just a short 6 verses where
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  Isaiah continues to talk about this wonderful day when what was
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  broken is now restored to the fullest through this descendant
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  of David's line who we know now as King Jesus, the Son of David.
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  Thanks for tuning in today. Hope you have a wonderful day.