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TOOLS OF PUNISHMENT IN GOD’S HAND

• MEMORY VERSE: ISAIAH 10:5

• A PROPHECY DURING THE DARK DAYS OF EVIL KING AHAZ

• READ ISA 10:5-19 JUDGMENT ON ASSYRIA
• WHICH NATION IS THE “TOOL” IN GOD’S HANDS? (5)
• ASSYRIA IS A “TOOL” BY WHICH GOD WOULD JUDGE THE NORTHERN KINGDOM. GOD’S PURPOSE WAS TO DISCIPLINE HIS PEOPLE (5-6), BUT THE ASSYRIAN’S PURPOSE WAS TO TOTALLY DESTROY THE JEWS.
• WHICH NATION IS THE “HYPOCRITICAL NATION IN VERSE 6?
• ISRAEL IS THE HYPOCRITICAL NATION THAT NEEDS GOD’S CHASTISEMENT.
• HOW WOULD GOD DEAL WITH ASSYRIA, THE ARROGANT ENEMY?
• THEY, TOO, WILL PAY FOR THEIR SINS WITH NATIONAL DESTRUCTION. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ISRAEL AND ASSYRIA IS THAT ASSYRIA WOULD EVENTUALLY TOTALLY DISAPPEAR AS A SOVEREIGN NATION AND AS A PEOPLE. HOWEVER, ISRAEL WILL NOT DISAPPEAR AND THERE WILL ALWAYS BE JEWISH PEOPLE, WHY?
• IN ORDER TO FULFILL HIS PROMISES TO THE JEWS (TO ABRAHAM), GOD MUST PRESERVE THEIR EXISTENCE AS A PEOPLE AND AS A NATION.
• HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN GOD’S JUSTICE IF NATIONS ARE SIMPLY “TOOLS” FOR JUDGMENT IN GOD’S HANDS? WHY WOULD GOD BRING A JUDGMENTAL DESTRUCTION UPON THE “TOOL” IF THEY DID WHAT GOD SENT THEM TO DO?
• THESE SECULAR NATIONS THINK THEY ARE IN CONTROL AND DO ALL THEY CAN FOR THEIR OWN PERCEIVED GOOD EVEN IF WHAT THEY DO IS IMMORAL.
• BECAUSE THESE NATIONS GO BEYOND WHAT GOD INTENDS FOR PUNISHMENT ON THE JEWS, GOD WILL EVENTUALLY JUDGE THEM FOR THEIR EXCESS.
• 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. THEY CALL THEM THE 10 LOST TRIBES OF ISRAEL. FIND OUT IF THEY ARE RIGHT.
• READ ACTS 26:7 JAM 1:1 REV 21:12
• THE DOUBLE FULFILLMENT CONCERNING THE REMNANT
• FIRST FULFILLMENT:
• THIS IS A PROMISE TO JUDAH, THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM, THAT THEY WOULD NOT FALL TO THE ASSYRIANS. THEREFORE, THEY NEED NOT FEAR THE ASSYRIANS. (24) INSTEAD, GOD WOULD DELIVER THEM. HOWEVER, PART OF THIS PROPHECY IS UNFULFILLED.
• AFTER GOD DELIVERED THEM FROM THE ASSYRIANS, JUDAH DID NOT TURN TO GOD, THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL, AS IT SAYS IN VERSE 20.
• THE SECOND FULFILLMENT:
• THE NECESSITY FOR A DOUBLE FULFILLMENT:
• BECAUSE THE PROPHECY WAS NOT COMPLETELY FULFILLED THE FIRST TIME, AND BECAUSE OF THE PROPHETIC PHRASE, “IN THAT DAY” (20) (THE DAY OF THE LORD), THE PROPHECY IS THROWN INTO THE TIME PERIOD OF THE TRIBULATION WHEN GOD WILL JUDGE ISRAEL.
• THE TRIBULATION PERIOD OF 7 YEARS IS SPECIFICALLY TO PUT PRESSURE ON THE NATION OF ISRAEL TO CAUSE THEM TO TURN TO CHRIST AT THE SECOND COMING. (JER 30:7,11)
• GOD WOULD PRESERVE AND PROTECT 144,000 JEWISH BELIEVERS (A REMNANT) DURING THE TRIBULATION PERIOD. (REV 7:4 REV 14:1)

• READ ISA 10:28-34 THE ASSYRIAN’S ADVANCE
• BESIDES REFERRING TO 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. (DOUBLE FULFILLMENT)
• THE LEADER OF ASSYRIA WAS SENNACHERIB WHO IS A PREFIGURE OF THE ANTI-CHRIST. HIS NAME MEANS “SIN HAS INCREASED THE BROTHERS”. HE RULED ASSYRIA FROM 705-681 BC. HE ACHIEVED ONE OF HIS GREATEST VICTORIES IN A BATTLE AGAINST GOOD KING HEZEKIAH FOR THE CITY OF LACHISH IN JUDAH. SENNACHERIB WAS ASSASSINATED BY HIS SONS IN A PRO-BABYLONIAN PLOT WHILE WORSHIPING IN A PAGAN TEMPLE.
• WHY IS HE SPOKEN OF AS A PREFIGURE OF THE ANTI-CHRIST?
• HIS SUPREME CRUELTY AND THE MEANING OF HIS NAME INDICATE THAT THE ANTI-CHRIST WILL BE POSSESSED BY SATAN TO BRING CRUELTY ON THE JEWS. EVEN SO, THE ANTICHRIST WILL BE THE “TOOL” IN THE HAND OF GOD.
• GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES MENTIONED IN PROPHECY (28-32)
• THE PATH TAKEN BY THE ASSYRIAN ARMY IS GIVEN IN PROPHECY WITH THE MENTION OF SPECIFIC TOWNS. ALL OF THESE SMALL TOWNS WERE NORTH OF JERUSALEM.
• AIATH = 15 MILES NORTH OF JERUSALEM
• MIGRON = JUST SOUTH OF AIATH.
• GEBA AND RAMAH = 6 MILES NORTH OF JERUSALEM
• GIBEAH = A FEW MILES DIRECTLY NORTH OF JERUSALEM
• GALLIM = ???
• LAISH = IN THE NORTHERN TERRITORY OF THE TRIBE OF DAN.
• ANATHOTH = 3 MILES NORTH OF JERUSALEM
• MADMENAH (DUNGHILL) = A GARBAGE DUMP ON THE NORTHERN SIDE OF JERUSALEM.
• GEBIM = ???
• NOB = JUST NORTH OF JERUSALEM.
• VERSES 33-34 SPEAK OF THE ULTIMATE DEFEAT OF “THE ASSYRIAN” BY THE HAND OF GOD…SPECIFICALLY BY THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS CHRIST WILL THE ANTI-CHRIST BE DEFEATED..

• APPLICATION:
• BY MENTION OF THIS FEARFUL ENEMY AND THESE SPECIFIC SMALL TOWNS, THE PROPHECY IS SAYING THAT THE ENEMY WILL GET VERY CLOSE. THERE WILL BE SMALL BATTLES AND EVEN SOME DEFEATS. HOWEVER, GOD WILL NOT PERMIT THE ENEMY TO OVERTAKE YOU AND COMPLETELY DEFEAT YOU.
• THE SAME MESSAGE IS GIVEN TO THE CHRISTIAN.
• READ JOHN 16:33

HOMEWORK
ISA 11
This is a self-study. Please do not send homework answers to the teacher forcorrection.

• APPLICATION OF ISA 10:5-34
• WHAT BATTLES IN YOUR PERSONAL LIFE LOOM LARGE SO AS TO CAUSE YOU TO FEAR?

• WHAT ENCOURAGEMENT CAN YOU TAKE FROM THIS LESSON THAT PROMISES THAT YOU WILL NOT BE DEFEATED?

• PREPARATION FOR ISA 11
• READ ISA 11:1-5
• IDENTIFY THE FOLLOWING:
• ROD OUT OF JESSE

• THE BRANCH

• WHAT DO YOU LEARN ABOUT JESUS CHRIST FROM THIS PASSAGE?

• READ ISA 11:6-16
• WHAT SPECIFIC DETAILS DO YOU LEARN ABOUT CHRIST’S MILLENNIAL KINGDOM IN THIS PASSAGE?

• MEMORY VERSE: ISAIAH 11:1