Why does the Lord show great goodness to the house of Israel?
(Isaiah 59-64; Luke 4:17-21; Eph. 5:27; Acts 3:19; Rev. 19:11-16) Blog Mar. 14-20, 2021
Prepared by Richard A. Marin: Present Truth PO Box 700, Fallbrook CA 92088-0700 USA
REVIEW: Isaiah confronted the hypocrisy of God’s covenant bride. He gave direction to the leaders of Judah for their protection. He encouraged God’s people with promises of a glorious future brought in by a Divine Deliverer who in judgment would conquer Babylon, their great enemy, and bring salvation to their remnant. All this is because God had made an everlasting covenant with his people and its sign was the Sabbath of creation!
Judgment & Glory (Isaiah 59-60; Gen. 8:21; Zech. 3:1-5; Matt. 10:32; Heb. 7:25; 12:22)
1. What oft repeated word in Isaiah 59 indicates the subject of the chapter? “Judgment.”
2. What should we learn from Isaiah 59:1-15? That God’s people come to judgment as unworthy sinners whose only hope is in the mercy of God.
3. According to Isaiah 59:16, what did God see that humanity needed? An intercessor.
4. When God saw humanity’s need of an intercessor, what did he do? God provided a saving Redeemer/Intercessor who brought salvation for all who repent of their sins & who intercedes for those who confess him on earth.
5. What does God do when the enemy comes in like an overwhelming flood? The Spirit of the Lord raises up a standard against the enemy.
6. In Isaiah 60 what oft repeated word indicates the subject of the chapter? The word “glory” (& forms of it), telling us that the results of God’s final judgment bring the sealing of God’s people, the latter rain, & glorification.
7. According to Isaiah 60, what are the conditions on earth when God’s Spirit is poured out in Latter Rain? They are very dark.
8. Who does Isaiah say will join themselves to God’s people when they go forth filled with the light of present truth? Gentiles, kings, their wayward sons & daughters, multitudes from the sea of humanity, Iranians, & the sons of strangers.
9. After being forsaken, smitten by God, hated, and mourning on what basis does God bring favor, eternal excellency, glory, light, righteousness, and everlasting joy to his people? On the basis of his mercy.
A Blessed Marriage (Isaias 61-62; 42:1-7; Eph. 5:27; Luke 4:17)
10. Who, being our example, applied the words of Isaiah 61:1-3 to himself? Jesus on the Sabbath in Nazareth showing that we also should preach good tidings, bind up the brokenhearted, free those imprisoned by sin, explain Bible prophecy, warn people of coming judgment, & comfort those that mourn.
11. What other activities does Isaiah 61 list for the people of God? Those of building up fallen truth, repairing the desolations that sin has caused in their separated brethren, acting as priests of the Lord, & ministers of God, & being sealed in God’s everlasting covenant of love.
12. When God’s bride is ready to set her seal to God’s everlasting covenant, how is she attired? She is clothed in the pure garments of salvation – the perfect righteousness of Jesus – without spot or wrinkle.
13. What is the meaning of the two names God gives to his bride in Isaiah 62:4? Hephzibah means “my delight is in her” and Beulah means “married.”
14. To what event does Isaiah 62:11 point? To Christ’s second coming when he will take his bride to his father’s house for 1000 years.
The Second Coming (Isaiah 63-64; 43:25; Jer. 31:34; Acts 3:19; Rev. 6:9-11)
15. Who, clothed in bloody garments, is pictured in Isaiah 63:1-6? Jesus, the crucified Saviour coming to take vengeance on his enemies.
16. According to Isaiah 63:7, why does the Lord show great goodness to the house of Israel, his church? Because he shows mercy & lovingkindness towards his bride to be.
17. Has God suffered continually with his people since their fall? Most certainly so, for Isaiah says “in all their affliction he was afflicted.”
18. What New Testament passage is parallel to Isaiah 63? Revelation 19:11-16.
19. What New Testament plea made by God’s saints was previously made in Isaiah 64:1-4? That of the souls under the altar in Revelation’s fifth seal.
20. Of what great New Covenant event is Isaiah 64:9 speaking? The blotting out of the sins of God’s people when God will remember (deal with) them no more as promised previously in Isaiah & in Jeremiah & Acts.
21. From Isaiah 59-64 what outline of last-day chronology should we see? That God’s final judgment precedes the blotting out of sin, the perfecting Latter Rain, & the eternal sealing of god’s people which brings a great influx into God’s remnant church just before Jesus comes to execute vengeance on his enemies and take his perfected bride to his Father’s house in heaven.