Happy Easter During this season we are passing through a global period of illness that has prevented us from joining together with others as is our tradition for Easter. While many are under quarantine, houses of worship are not meeting…
Tag: Isaiah
The Kingdom of God is Here
Happy New Year At the beginning of a new year, it is natural to evaluate what happened over the last year. Have we accomplished what we had hoped? My Pastor asked, “What did you learn in 2019?” which naturally leads…
Joy to The World
Merry Christmas Christmas day is the time when we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. Yet, mention of the name of Jesus has become politically incorrect and what once was an important Christmas eve church service fololwed by a close…
Bring All Your Countrymen From All the Nations
There are many reasons people give for their success. It might be their education or their natural intelligence or ability or fortune or destiny as these in Isaiah 65:11 “who forsake Yahweh”. And for these “who set a table for…
Look, Your Salvation is Coming!
The Lord has declared salvation for Zion, for Jerusalem and he will change their name from “Forsaken” and from “Desolate” and “his reward is with him”. There is though, in his path, the “day of vengeance”, the year of “blood-vengeance”,…
Clear the Way!
It is, and always has been our behavior, our sin that has separated us from God. The Lord says, “Call!”, say “Here is your God!”, “Lift up your voice like a trumpet”, “I will heal him; and I will lead…
In Righteousness You Shall be Established
Isaiah moves from judgement to grace and gods promises of salvation. But not just the “sing for joy” that Isaiah 54:1 begins with. This is a flourishing, established, enduring kind of life that causes Isaiah to say ““Enlarge the site…
He Will Bear Their Iniquities
People are often looking for God to move and they don’t understand that he already has. It is sin that separates us, just as an offense separates you from friends or family. You can carry on your life without them…
A Light to the Nations
God used the Babylonian Empire to bring judgement on Israel, but not for Israel’s destruction, it was for correction. But the Babylonians abused them and what we read here coincides with Daniel 5:26 “This is the explanation of the matter:…
Turn To Me and Be Saved
People in the world are deceived, we often get so busy that we only have room for the work in front of us. We eat, and are warm and have a few things we have made. We know there must…
I Have Called You by Your Name
The coming of Jesus Christ is foretold. The Lord has always operated this way, He speaks, and things come into existence. There is a great lesson in faith for us here as the nations around them had been overrun and…
I Have Chosen You
Hezekiah’s enemies, the Assyrians have disappeared. The Lord has restored his health and promised him fifteen more years of life and Hezekiah is happy. When emissaries come from Babylon, maybe to show the goodness of God, but I think with…
O Yahweh, Please Remember
Hezekiah prays for the nation and the Lord responds. The Assyrian army finds many dead among them and they return home. The Lord tells Hezekiah his life is over and Hezekiah prays again reminding the Lord of the life he…
Yahweh, Our God, Save Us
The Assyrian army is standing outside Jerusalem having overrun the regions around them. The Assyrian commander taunt King Hezekiah’s messengers in their own Judean language and publicly in Isaiah 36:11 “in the hearing of the people who are on the…
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