Lesson #10

ISAIAH 10:1-4
Lesson #10
THE WORLD VIEW

• MEMORY VERSE: PROVERBS 4:23

• THIS SECTION OF THE BOOK OF ISAIAH IS STILL PART OF THE PROPHECY IN CHAPTER 9.

• READ ISA 10:1-4
• NOTICE THE PHRASE “HIS HAND IS STRETCHED OUT STILL (4) WHICH WAS REPEATED 3 TIMES IN CHAPTER 9 AND REFERS TO JUDGMENT.
• WHAT ASPECTS OF ISRAEL’S SOCIETY DID GOD DISLIKE THAT NEEDED TO BE JUDGED?
• GOD DISLIKED UNHOLY AGREEMENTS BASED ON LIES AND DECEIT.
• GOD DISLIKED THE LEGAL PRACTICES THAT TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THE ORPHANS AND THE WIDOWS TO ROB THEM OF THEIR INHERITANCE.

• “THE DAY OF VISITATION” = THE TIME PERIOD OF GOD’S JUDGMENT.
• THE ASSYRIANS WOULD COME FROM FAR AWAY AND BE THE INSTRUMENT OF GOD’S JUDGMENT ON THE NORTHERN KINGDOM BECAUSE THEY PERMITTED THEIR SOCIETY AND CULTURE TO DISINTEGRATE INTO UNGODLINESS.

THE CONCEPT OF A SOCIETY’S WORLD VIEW

• BACKGROUND:
• WHAT IS A PERSONAL WORLD VIEW?
• EVERYONE

HAS A WORLD VIEW.

• IT IS A BELIEF SYSTEM OR A FRAMEWORK OF VALUES BY WHICH YOU RULE YOUR LIFE, AND IT ENABLES YOU TO FUNCTION IN THE WORLD. YOUR WORLD VIEW TELLS YOU WHAT IS MEANINGFUL AND IMPORTANT IN LIFE.
• YOU FILTER EVERY EXPERIENCE AND EVERY THOUGHT THROUGH YOUR PERSONAL WORLD VIEW.
• YOU MAKE EVERY DECISION BASED ON YOUR WORLD VIEW.
• AS A CHILD YOU USUALLY START OUT BY ADOPTING YOUR PARENT’S WORLD VIEW. THEN YOU CHANGE IT TO FIT YOUR OWN EXPERIENCES.
• YOUR WORLD VIEW ANSWERS THE BIG PROBLEMS OF LIFE SUCH AS RIGHT AND WRONG, JUST AND UNJUST, GOOD AND BAD, DEATH AND THE HEREAFTER.
• IF YOU EXPERIENCE SOMETHING IN LIFE THAT VIOLATES YOUR WORLD VIEW, YOU EITHER REJECT THE EXPERIENCE AS VALID OR YOU CHANGE YOUR WORLD VIEW.
• FOR EXAMPLE:
• A CHILD’S WORLD VIEW MAY BE THAT ALL PARENTS ARE ALWAYS GOOD AND LOVING. THEN A PARENT DIES AND A STEP-PARENT BEGINS TO ABUSE THE CHILD. THE CHILD EITHER CHANGES HIS CONCEPT OF WHAT IS RIGHT AND WRONG OR HE CHANGES HIS CONCEPT ABOUT ALL PARENTS BEING GOOD AND LOVING. IN ANY EVENT, TO ACCOMMODATE LIVING IN HIS NEW WORLD, HE MUST CHANGE SOMETHING ABOUT HIS WORLD VIEW.

• CHANGES IN WORLD VIEW USUALLY OCCUR THROUGH A SERIES OF CRISES IN OUR LIVES. WE MUST CHANGE OUR WORLD VIEW TO MEET THE DEMANDS OF LIVING IN A SOCIETY.
• INCIDENTALLY MOST PEOPLE BECOME CHRISTIANS AND ADOPT A CHRISTIAN WORLD VIEW BECAUSE OF SOME CRISIS IN THEIR LIVES THAT MAKES IT NECESSARY TO CHANGE THEIR WORLD VIEW.

• A SOCIETY’S WORLD VIEW:
• SOCIETIES AS WELL AS PEOPLE HAVE WORLD VIEWS. EVERY CULTURE HAS A WORLD VIEW SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT THAN ANY OTHER.
• JUST LIKE PEOPLE, A SOCIETY’S WORLD VIEW IS CONSTANTLY CHANGING TO ACCOMMODATE THE CHANGING WORLD SITUATIONS. CRISIS SITUATIONS CAUSE A CHANGE IN A SOCIETY’S WORLD VIEW.
• BECAUSE OF A CHANGING WORLD VIEW, A SOCIETY CAN SLIP INTO A TREND THAT IS SLIDING DOWNWARD MORALLY, WHICH EVENTUALLY LEADS TO JUDGMENT. (SEE THE DIAGRAM MODEL)

• THE CHRISTIAN WORLD VIEW:
• THE CHRISTIAN WORLD VIEW IS BASED UPON TRUTHS FOUND IN THE BIBLE WHICH ARE UNCHANGING. AS CHRISTIANS COME TO KNOW AND UNDERSTAND THE BIBLE, THEIR WORLD VIEW CHANGES GRADUALLY TO THE CHRISTIAN WORLD VIEW. (ROM 12:1-2)

• THE CHRISTIAN WORLD VIEW IS OPPOSITE FROM THAT OF ANY OTHER WORLDLY CULTURE.
• THE MORE OPPOSITE TO THE CHRISTIAN WORLD VIEW THAT A SOCIETY POSSESSES, THE MORE OPPOSED THAT SOCIETY WILL BE TOWARD CHRISTIANS.
• THE MORE OPPOSED SOCIETY BECOMES TO THE CHRISTIAN WORLD VIEW, THE MORE SECLUDED THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY IS FORCED TO BECOME.

• THE WORLD VIEW MODEL EXPLAINS MORAL CHANGE IN SOCIETY:
• =1= THE CHRISTIAN WORLD VIEW CONTROLLED BY CHRIST IS IN CONFLICT WITH THE SECULAR WORLD VIEW CONTROLLED BY SATAN.

• =2= A SECULAR WORLD VIEW SEEKS TRUTH TO MAINTAIN PEACE. HOWEVER, SMALL ABERRANT GROUPS DISRUPT THE PEACE.
• =3= IF THE ABERRANT GROUP BECOMES LARGE ENOUGH OR LOUD ENOUGH TO DISRUPT THE PEACE, SOCIETY MUST FIND A WAY TO DEAL WITH THE ABERRANT GROUP AND WHAT IT REPRESENTS IN ORDER TO RESTORE AND MAINTAIN PEACE.
• =4= UNDER PRESSURE, TO MAINTAIN PEACE, SOCIETY WILL CHANGE ITS WORLD VIEW TO SEEK TO INCORPORATE THE ABERRANT GROUP USUALLY ON SOME KIND OF COMPROMISE BASIS.
• =5=AS SOON AS SOCIETY CHANGES ITS WORLD VIEW TO ACCOMMODATE THE ABERRANT GROUP, THE NORM OF SOCIETY HAS MOVED AND TRUTH BECOMES RELATIVE.

• =6=THIS PROCESS GRADUALLY LEADS A SOCIETY NOT BASED ON A CHRISTIAN WORLD VIEW TO SLIP INTO A SLIDING SCALE OF IMMORALITY.
• 7=THE CHRISTIAN WORLD VIEW BASED ON THE UNCHANGING TRUTH OF GOD’S WORD IS SUPPOSED TO ACT AS A RESTRAINT ON SOCIETY SO THAT IT DOES NOT SLIP TOO FAR.
• READ MAT 5:13 AND MAT 5:16 (SALT AND LIGHT)
• THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY IS SUPPOSED TO BE SALT AND LIGHT TO THE SOCIETY IN WHICH IT EXISTS.

• =8=REVIVAL IS WHEN THE SECULAR WORLD VIEW INCORPORATES THE CHRISTIAN WORLD VIEW AND BECOMES MORE LIKE THE CHRISTIAN WORLD VIEW.
• =9=APOSTASY IS WHEN THE CHRISTIAN WORLD VIEW INCORPORATES THE SECULAR WORLD VIEW AND BECOMES MORE LIKE THE WORLD WITHOUT GOD.

• THE SITUATION WITH ISRAEL WAS ONE OF APOSTASY. THAT WAS WHAT LED TO JUDGMENT. THE SAME SITUATION WILL EXIST IN ISRAEL AND IN ALL THE WORLD DURING THE TRIBULATION PERIOD TO COME.
• APPLICATION:
• DISCUSSION:

WHAT ASPECTS OF OUR SOCIETY DOES GOD DISLIKE?

• WAT ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT ASPECTS OF SOCIETY?
• FAMILY
• MARRIAGE
• RIGHTEOUSNESS
• JUSTICE
• HONESTY IN GOVERNMENT ANF BUSINESS, ETC.

HOMEWORK
ISAIAH 10:5-34
This is a self-study. Please do not send homework answers to the teacher forcorrection.

• APPLICATION OF ISA 10:1-4

• MAKE A LIST OF ASPECTS THAT YOU THINK ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT IN YOUR LIFE:

• EXAMINE YOUR LIST OF ASPECTS THAT YOU THINK ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT IN YOUR LIFE. DO THEY REALLY REPRESENT HOW YOU SPEND YOUR TIME AND MAKE YOUR DECISIONS?

• MAKE ANY CHANGES IN YOUR LIST TO BETTER REPRESENT YOUR VALUE SYSTEM. (BE HONEST)

• WHAT NEEDS TO BE CHANGED IN YOUR LIFE TO MAKE YOUR WORLD VIEW OR VALUE SYSTEM BETTER CORRESPOND TO THE BIBLICAL WORLD VIEW?

• PREPARATION FOR ISA 10:5-34
• READ ISA 10:5-19 JUDGMENT ON ASSYRIA
• ASSYRIA IS A “TOOL” BY WHICH GOD WOULD JUDGE THE NORTHERN KINGDOM. GOD’S PURPOSE WAS TO DISCIPLINE HIS PEOPLE, BUT THE ASSYRIAN’S PURPOSE WAS TO TOTALLY DESTROY THE JEWS.
• HOW WOULD GOD DEAL WITH ASSYRIA, THE ARROGANT ENEMY?

• READ ISA 10:20-27 THE REMNANT

• ISAIAH’S SON, SHEAR-JASHUB = “A REMNANT SHALL RETURN “
• THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE WHO SAY THAT ALL THE NORTHERN KINGDOM TRIBES WERE DESTROYED AND ONLY THOSE FROM JUDAH AND BENJAMIN RETURN ED TO THE PROMISE LAND. FIND OUT IF THEY ARE RIGHT.
• READ ACTS 26:7 JAM 1:1 REV 21:12

• READ ISA 10:28-34 THE ASSYRIAN’S ADVANCE
• BESIDES A GROUP OF PEOPLE IN ISAIAH’S DAY, THE NAME “THE ASSYRIAN” IS ALSO A PROPHETIC NAME FOR THE ANTI-CHRIST IN THE TRIBULATION PERIOD. WHY?

MEMORY VERSE: ISAIAH 10:5