Summary
We talked about how the flowers in Isaiah appear, rather suddenly, you can be in a section on judgment and then all of a sudden you have the flower of God that appears in terms of his promises, very suddenly as the angels appeared, for example, upon the shepherds at the birth of our Lord. This was God's judgment upon the people for their idolatry and the judgment that God levelled against his very own people was the use of the Assyrians in terms of this act of judgment because of the people's disobedience. The judgment upon Judah should not have come as a surprise to the people because Isaiah who began his ministry remember in 740 BC foresaw the demise of Judah. I am the Lord who made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who by myself spread out the earth, who frustrates the omens of liars and make fools of diviners, who turns back the wise and makes their knowledge foolish, who confirms the word of his servant and fulfills the prediction of his messengers, who says of Jerusalem, it shall be inhabited and of the cities of Judah, they shall be rebuilt and I will raise up their ruins, who says to the deep, be dry, I will dry up your rivers, who says of Cyrus, he is my shepherd and he shall carry out all my purpose, who says of Jerusalem, it shall be rebuilt and of the temple your foundation shall be laid. I am sending you to them and you shall say to them, thus says the Lord God, whether they hear or refuse to hear for their rebellious house, they shall know that there has been a prophet among them. Habakkuk may have written his time, prophecy during the time of Jeremiah when Jeremiah was in Jerusalem.
Video citations
- Rugged 1-20-19 — Well, we have been walking these past few weeks in this series of entitled Flowers in the Desert and just to refresh where we were last week, we were taking a look at the book of Isaiah. That is…