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July 24 - Isaiah 9 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it is Sean here. It is a new week.
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  It is Monday, it is the 24th of July and I hope that you are
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  doing well. As I look at our Bible reading
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  program, we have now for this 12 months flipped onto the backside
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  of the page. If you want to find it, it's in
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  the show notes and we are officially in the back half of
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  our journey through the next year.
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  How exciting. But we are not in the back half
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  of our journey through Isaiah. We have had two weeks and then
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  we're going to continue for another number of weeks.
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  And then when we get to the middle of Isaiah in September,
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  you and I are going to take a break from Isaiah and we are
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  going to read through the book of Acts to get us back in the
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  land of the church growing after Jesus ministry before we come
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  back to finish Isaiah. So this is going to be a world
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  of Old Testament and New Testament and boy, today is a
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  crackerjack. Today is a chapter of Isaiah
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  that all of you have heard before.
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  This speaks about the hope in the coming Messiah.
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  This is what Jesus referred to and when he told everyone who he
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  was and they were a little bit upset with him.
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  This is God telling his people that even though they are going
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  to do the wrong thing and there will be judgment, that there is
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  hope and that he will redeem them and that through them his
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  covenant will be made true. So join me as we read through
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  this crackerjack of a chapter, Isaiah, Chapter 9.
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  Nevertheless, that time of darkness and despair will not go
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  on forever. The land of Zebulon and Naftali
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  will be humbled. But there will be a time in the
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  future when Galilee of the Gentiles, which lies along the
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  road that runs between the Jordan and the sea, will be
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  filled with glory. The people who walk in darkness
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  will see a great light. For those who live in a land of
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  deep darkness, a light will shine.
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  You will enlarge the nation of Israel, and its people will
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  rejoice. They will rejoice before you as
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  people rejoice at the harvest, and like warriors dividing the
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  plunder. For you will break the yoke of
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  their slavery and lift the heavy burden from their shoulders.
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  You will break the oppressors rod, just as you did when you
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  destroyed the army of Midian. The boots of the warrior and the
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  uniforms bloodstained by war, will all be burned.
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  There will be fuel for the fire, for a child is born to us, a son
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  is given to us. The government will rest on his
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  shoulders, and he will be called Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty
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  God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
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  His government and its peace will never end.
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  He will rule with fairness and justice from the throne of his
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  ancestor David for all eternity. The passionate commitment of the
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  Lord of Heaven's armies will make this happen.
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  The Lord has spoken out against Jacob.
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  His judgment has fallen upon Israel, and the people of Israel
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  and Samaria, who spoke with such pride and arrogance, will soon
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  know it. They said We will replace the
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  broken bricks of our ruins with finished stone, and replant the
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  felled Sycamore trees with Cedars.
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  But the Lord will bring resins enemies against Israel and stir
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  up all their fires. The Syrians from the east and
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  the Philistines from the West will bear their fangs and devour
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  Israel. But even then the Lord's anger
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  will not be satisfied. His fist is still poised to
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  strike. For after all this punishment,
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  the people will still not repent.
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  They will not seek the Lord of heaven's armies.
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  Therefore, in a single day the Lord will destroy both the head
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  and the tail, the noble palm branch and the lowly Reed.
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  The leaders of Israel are the head, and the lying prophets are
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  the tail to the leaders of the people have misled them.
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  They have led them down the path of destruction.
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  That is why the Lord takes no pleasure in the young men, and
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  shows no mercy even to the widows and orphans.
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  For they are all wicked hypocrites, and they all speak
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  foolishness. But even then the Lord's anger
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  will not be satisfied. His fist is still poised to
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  strike. This wickedness is like a brush
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  fire. It burns not only briars than
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  thorns, but also sets the forests ablaze.
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  It's burning sends up clouds of smoke.
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  The land will be blackened by the fury of the Lord of Heaven's
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  armies. The people will be fuel for the
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  fire, and no one will spare even his own brother.
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  They will attack their neighbor on the right, but will still be
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  hungry. They will devour their neighbor
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  on the left, but will not be satisfied in the end.
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  They will even eat their own children.
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  Manassa will feed on Efraim, Efraim will feed on Manassa, and
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  both will devour Judah. But even then the Lord's anger
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  will not be satisfied. His fist is still poised to
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  strike. Lord, we are pretty simple
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  creatures. When we are angry, we are angry.
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  When we are hopeful, we are hopeful.
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  But here we see that when you are angry at people's
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  stubbornness, still in the midst of that, you love and you inject
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  hope, Thank you that even when Israel is failing, you are busy
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  behind the scenes planning your saving strategy to send Jesus to
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  rescue them and to rescue us. Thank you that at your heart you
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  are always moving toward reconciling us back to you.
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  Even when things are going terribly wrong, you yearn to
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  bring us back into your embrace. So here we are, Jesus, we are in
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  your embrace, and that is where we want to stay.
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  So hold us close. Transform us so that we can live
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  in your embrace, spreading your love to those around us.
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  Thank you. We love you and we worship you,
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  and it's in your name we pray Jesus.
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  Amen.