God's Purpose in Judgment (The Lord will Deliver Israel

 

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Pastor Gene A. Dasher, Sr.

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God’s Purpose in Judgment (The Lord will Deliver Israel)

As we conclude our study on God’s Purpose in Judgment read with me Isaiah 27

27 In that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.

² In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine.

³ I the Lord do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.

⁴ Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.

⁵ Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me.

⁶ He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.

⁷ Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?

⁸ In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.

⁹ By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.

¹⁰ Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.

¹¹ When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.

¹² And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.

¹³ And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the Lord in the holy mount at Jerusalem.

27:1 That day is a reference to the end of the evil world as we know it. In some ancient literature, the dragon (leviathan) was the enemy of God’s created order. Thus Isaiah is comparing God’s slaughter of the wicked to the conquering of a great enemy. Although evil is a powerful foe, God will crush it and abolish it from the earth forever.

27:2-6 The trampled vineyard of Chapter 5 is restored in God’s new earth. God will protect and care for the vineyard, his people. It will no longer produce worthless fruit, but will produce enough good fruit for the whole world. Gentiles will come to know God through Israel.

27:11 Isaiah compares the state of Israel’s spiritual life with dead branches that are broken off and used as fuel.  Trees in scripture are often represent spiritual life. The trunk is the channel of strength from God. The branches are the people who serve him. Tree branches sometimes wavier and blow in the wind. Like Israel, they may dry up from internal rottenness and become useless for anything except building a fire. WHAT KIND OF A BRANCH ARE YOU? If you are withering spiritually, check to see if you are firmly attached to God.

27:12 God’s purpose in judging the earth is not vengeance, but purging. He wants to correct us and bring us back to him. God does not punish us for our sin to make us suffer, but to make the faithful better equipped for fruitful service.  (LABKJV Tyndale pages 1184-1185)

I hope you have enjoyed this short study on Isaiah 24-27. It is full of good food.

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