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July 11 - Isaiah 2 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean here and it is Tuesday.
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  It is the 11th of July and I hope you are going great.
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  Thank you for pressing play. Thank you for inviting me into
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  your day as we take the next step forward.
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  In the book of Isaiah, now the beginning of Isaiah this week in
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  particular, you will hear a range of oracles, a range of
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  prophecies that Isaiah shares, and these cover an enormous
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  scope and serve as an introduction to the book as a
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  whole. So you were going to hear Isaiah
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  talking about. All the judgment that is to
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  come, if Israel doesn't shape up and an invitation begging,
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  begging God's people to come before God and worship him,
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  rather than all of these things playing out in particular, what
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  on earth do they do with the threat of this growing empire
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  from the north who are threatening, threatening to take
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  over? Well, let us find out.
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  Let us read together. Isaiah chapter 2.
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  This is a vision that Isaiah, son of Amos, saw concerning
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  Judah and Jerusalem in the last days.
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  The mountain of the Lord's house will be the highest of all, the
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  most important place on earth. It will be raised above the
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  other hills, and people from all over the world will stream there
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  to worship. People from many nations will
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  come and say come. Let us go up to the mountain of
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  the Lord, to the House of Jacob's God.
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  There he will teach us His ways, and we will walk in His paths.
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  For the Lord's teaching will go out from Zion.
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  His word will go out from Jerusalem.
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  The Lord will mediate between nations and will settle
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  international disputes. They will hammer their swords
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  into ploughshares and their Spears into pruning hooks.
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  Nation will no longer fight against nation.
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  Nor train for war any more. Come descendants of Jacob.
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  Let us walk in the light of the Lord.
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  For the Lord has rejected his people, the descendants of
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  Jacob, because they have filled their land with practices from
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  the east and with sorcerers, as the Philistines do, they have
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  made alliances with pagans. Israel is full of silver and
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  gold. There is no end to its
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  treasures. Their land is full of war
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  horses. There is no end to its Chariots.
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  Their land is full of idols. The people worship things they
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  have made with their own hands. So now they will be humbled, and
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  all will be brought low. Do not forgive them.
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  Crawl into caves in the rocks, hide in the dust from the terror
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  of the Lord and the glory of His Majesty.
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  Human pride will be brought down.
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  And human arrogance will be humbled.
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  Only the Lord will be exalted on that day of judgment.
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  For the Lord of Heaven's armies has a day of reckoning.
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  He will punish the proud and mighty and bring down everything
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  that is exalted. He will cut down the tall Cedars
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  of Lebanon and all the mighty oaks of Bashan.
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  He will level all the high mountains and all the lofty
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  hills. He will break down every high
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  tower and every fortified wall. He will destroy all the great
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  trading ships and every magnificent vessel.
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  Human pride will be humbled and human arrogance will be brought
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  down. Only the Lord will be exalted on
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  that day of judgment. Idols will completely disappear.
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  When the Lord rises to shake the earth, his enemies will crawl
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  into holes in the ground. They will hide in caves in the
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  rocks from the terror of the Lord and the glory of His
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  Majesty. On that day of judgment they
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  will abandon the gold and silver idols they made for themselves
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  to worship. They will leave their gods to
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  the rodents and bats while they crawl away into caverns and hide
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  among the jagged rocks in the cliffs.
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  They will try to escape the terror of the Lord and the glory
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  of His Majesty as he rises to shake the earth.
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  Don't put your trust in mere humans.
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  They are as frail as breath. What good are they?
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  Lord, we have so many options in our lives.
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  What do we trust? What do we put our faith in?
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  What do we listen to primarily? And you are so clear.
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  Don't. Put our faith in all the
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  possessions that we have that make our life so comfortable.
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  Don't put our faith in the promises that people give to us,
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  those gilded, tongued people in our lives that tell us
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  everything that they can do for us.
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  Instead, you urge us to come before you, to trust in you, to
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  place you at the center of our lives so that everything else.
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  Rotates around you as our axis. God, we just place you in our
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  axis, around which our lives spin and turn through the fast
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  spinning days of joy and gratitude and those slow
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  spinning days of grief and pain and isolation.
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  But all the while, let us have you as our axis.
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  As we hear these words of Isaiah, we pray that you
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  continue to speak to us so that we can hear not just the words
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  of a prophet thousands of years ago, but we hear the word of the
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  living God speaking into our lives today.
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  You are marvelous and you transcend timelines and logic,
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  and here you are. We love you and we worship you,
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  and it's in Jesus name that we pray.
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  Amen.