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ISAIAH 25-27
Lesson #24
THE SONG OF THE MILLENNIUM
- MEMORY VERSE: ISAIAH 25:1
- THIS SECTION OF THREE CHAPTERS IN ISAIAH IS A SONG WITH 3 STANZAS. IT IS ABOUT THE MILLENNIAL REIGN OF CHRIST ON EARTH . WE SEE THE REMNANT WHO CAME THROUGH THE GREAT TRIBULATION PRAISE GOD FOR PRESERVING THEM DURING THE DARKNESS OF “THE DAY OF THE LORD” (THE TRIBULATION PERIOD) AND BRINGING THEM INTO THE LIGHT OF “THE DAY OF THE LORD” (THE MILLENNIUM). THE MILLENNIUM AND THE EXPERIENCE OF THE REMNANT IS EXPLAINED BY ISAIAHS USE OF WORD PICTURES.
- READ ISA 25:1-12 THREE WORD PICTURES OF THE MILLENNIUM
- “THE MOUNTAIN” (6,7,10) = MT. ZION, THE LOCATION OF GODS THRONE IN THE KINGDOM AGE. THEREFORE, THE WORD, “MOUNTAIN” REFERS TO THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM.
- WHAT IS THE CENTRAL TRUTH OF ISA 25:1-3 THE RUINED CITY?
- NO SPECIFIC CITY IS INTENDED…LIKE CHAPTER 24, IT MEANS CITIES IN GENERAL. IN THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON CITIES WILL SUFFER GREAT DESTRUCTION INCLUDING THE CITY OF JERUSALEM, BUT THOSE WHO BROUGHT DESTRUCTION WILL FEAR THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS CHRIST.
- WHAT IS THE CENTRAL TRUTH OF ISA 25:4-5 THE REFUGE?
- JESUS CHRIST IS THE REFUGE WHO COMES IN THE MIDST OF THE BATTLE TO SAVE HIS PEOPLE FROM TOTAL DESTRUCTION. (4)
- THE “TERRIBLE ONES” (5) REFERS TO THE ANTI-CHRIST AND THOSE WHO FOLLOWED HIM IN THE TRIBULATION PERIOD THAT CHRIT WILL DESTROY AT HIS COMING.
- WHAT IS THE CENTRAL TRUTH OF ISA 25:6-12 THE FEAST?
- FOR THE OLD TESTAMENT JEW, A FEAST WAS THE PROPHETIC PICTURE OF THE KINGDOM AGE. JESUS USED THE SAME PICTURE IN MAT 8:1 AND LUK 13:28-29.
- THERE WILL BE A GREAT FEAST OF REJOICING AS CHRIST ESTABLISHES HIS KINGDOM ON EARTH FOR 1000 YEARS. THE REJOICING WILL RESULT WHEN THE JEWS RECEIVE JESUS CHRIST AS THEIR LORD AND SAVIOR.
- REMEMBER THAT MANY BELIEVERS IN THE TRIBULATION DO NOT TAKE THE MARK OF THE BEAST, 666, TO BE ABLE TO BUY FOOD. THEREFORE MANY WILL EITHER STARVE OR BE ON THE EDGE OF STARVATION.
- THE “FACE OF THE COVERING CAST” = THE FACE OF STARVATION (7)
- THE VEIL = THE VEIL OF DEATH (7). THE VEIL OF DEATH WILL BE SUSPENDED IN THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM FOR 1000 YEARS. (9)
- READ 1COR 15:54 REV 7:17 REV 21:4
- THE VEIL OF BLINDNESS THAT NOW COVERS THE EYES OF THE JEWS WHICH WILL HAVE BEEN LIFTED AT THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST.
- READ 2COR 3:12-18 2COR 4:3-4)
- THE HUMILIATION OF MOAB (10-12)
- SYMBOLICALLY IT MEANS THAT THE PRIDE OF “FORMAL RELIGION” THAT THE JEWS FORMERLY HAD HAS BEEN REPLACED BY TRUE WORSHIP IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH WITH CHRIST FACE TO FACE.
- READ ISA 26:1-21 FOUR WORD PICTURES OF THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM:
- THE EMPHASIS OF THIS STANZA IS “RIGHTEOUSNESS” AND “PEACE”. THESE TWO CHARACTERISTICS MUST EXIST SIDE BY SIDE. ONE CANNOT EXIST WITHOUT THE OTHER. REMEMBER THAT DURING THE TRIBULATION, PEOPLE WILL TRUST IN THE ANTI-CHRIST WHO WILL SIGN A “PEACE” TREATY. BUT THERE WILL BE NO REAL PEACE BECAUSE THERE WILL BE NO “RIGHTEOUSNESS” IN HIM. WHEN THE “RIGHTEOUS” CHRIST COMES AT THE SECOND COMING, THEN THERE WILL BE TRUE “PEACE”. THE HEBREW WORD PEACE (shalom) MEANS = THE BLESSINGS OF WHOLENESS, QUIETNESS IN THE SOUL, PRESERVATION, COMPLETENESS, AND HEALTH IN BODY, SOUL, AND SPIRIT. (COMPARE PHIL 4:6-9 WITH ISA 26:3)
- WHAT IS THE CENTRAL TRUTH OF ISA 26:1-6 THE STRONG CITY?
- THE SALVATION IN JESUS CHRIST WILL TAKE THE BELIEVER THROUGH THE TRIALS OF THE TRIBULATION SO THAT THE RIGHTEOUS INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
- THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM WILL REVERSE THE STATUS OF THE POOR AND PERSECUTED.
- READ ZEC 14:16-19 THOSE THAT DO NOT WORSHIP CHRIST WILL SUFFER.
- WHAT IS THE CENTRAL TRUTH OF ISA 26:7-11 THE LEVEL PATH?
- “WHEN THY HAND IS LIFTED UP, THEY WILL NOT SEE: BUT THEY WILL SEE…” (11) =
- TODAY AND THROUGHOUT ALL HISTORY, WHEN GODS HAND HAS BEEN LIFTED UP IN JUDGMENT, PEOPLE HAVE CHOSEN NOT TO SEE GODS JUSTICE AND RIGHTEOUSNESS. THEY HAVE SEEN ONLY THE DESTRUCTION. THROUGH TIME PEOPLE HAVE BEEN BITTER AND ACCUSED GOD INSTEAD OF WORSHIPING HIM. BUT IN THE MILLENNIUM THEY WILL UNDERSTAND HIS JUSTICE. HIS JUSTICE IS THE LEVEL PATH.
- IN VERSE 13, THE PHRASE “HAD DOMINION” IN THE KING JAMES IS THE NOUN FOR THE CANAANITE GOD, BAAL, WHICH MEANS “HUSBAND”. ISRAEL WAS NOT FAITHFUL TO HER “HUSBAND”, JEHOVAH, BUT WENT AFTER OTHERS “HUSBANDS”, BAAL. (JAMES 4:4)
- THE INEVITABILITY OF A WOMAN IN CHILDBIRTH THAT EVENTUALLY GIVES BIRTH THROUGH GREAT PAIN, IS THE PICTURE OF ISRAEL THAT EVENUALLY GIVES BIRTH TO BELIEF IN JESUS CHRIST AFTER CENTURIES OF PAIN AND SUFFERING.
- WHAT IS THE CENTRAL TRUTH OF ISA 26:19-21 THE LIFE-GIVING DEW?
- “THE INDIGNATION” (20) = ANOTHER NAME FOR THE TRIBULATION PERIOD.
- DEATH IS AS TEMPORARY AS THE DEW FOR THE BELIEVERS THAT DIED IN THE TRIBULATION PERIOD WILL BE RESURRECTED TO INHABIT THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM.
- READ ISA 27:1-11 THREE WORD PICTURES OF THE MILLENNIUM
- THE THIRD STANZA OF OUR SONG IS THE SONG OF THE VINEYARD; THE ULTIMATE VICTORY IN THE MILLENNIUM. GOD IS THE CARETAKER OF THE VINEYARD. HE WILL NEVER LEASE THE VINEYARD TO ANOTHER AGAIN AS HE DID WHEN HE GAVE DOMINION TO ADAM IN THE GARDEN, WHO PROMPTLY LOST IT TO SATAN.
- “LEVIATHAN” = THIS WORD OCCURS 5 TIMES IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. THE WORD MEANS = BENDING OR TWISTING, OR GATHERING IN FOLDS. THE SOURCE OF THE WORD IS PROBABLY BABYLONIAN PICTURING THE BENDING AND TWISTING OF THE EUPHRATES RIVERS, AND THE PIERCING SWIFTNESS OF THE TIGRIS RIVER.
- IT IS USED IN THE BIBLE SYMBOLICALLY AS A LARGE MYTHICAL AQUATIC BEAST WITH 7 HEADS. (SIMILAR TO BELIEF IN THE LOCKNESS MONSTER!!)
- EZE 29:3-5 EZEKIEL USES IT SYMBOLICALLY AS A PICTURE OF AN EGYPTIAN PHARAOH.
- ISA 27:1 USES IT SYMBOLICALLY BOTH AS A PICTURE OF THE ASSYRIAN EMPIRE AND THE ANTI-CHRIST.
- WHAT IS THE CENTRAL TRUTH OF ISA 27:1 THE CONQUERED BEAST?
- “LEVIATHAN, THE PIERCING SERPENT” = PROBABLY SATAN, THE POWER BEHIND THE ANTI-CHRIST.
- “LEVIATHAN, THE CROOKED SERPENT” = PROBABLY SATAN, THE POWER BEHIND THE FALSE PROPHET.
- “THE DRAGON IN THE SEA” = SATAN IN THE MIDST OF HUMANITY. (REV 12:3)
- CHRISTS SECOND COMING WILL DESTROY THE ANTI-CHRIST AND THE FALSE PROPHET. SATAN WILL BE BOUND FOR THE 1000 YEAR REIGN OF CHRIST. AT THE END OF THE 1000 YEARS, SATAN WILL BE DESTROYED.
- WHAT IS THE CENTRAL TRUTH OF ISA 27:2-11 THE FRUITFUL VINEYARD?
- “EAST WIND” (8) = GODS JUDGMENT, SPECIFICALLY GODS JUDGMENT ON THE JEWS DURING THE TRIBULATION PERIOD TO PURGE THEIR SIN.
- “THE VINEYARD” = ISRAEL
- THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT 3 VINES IN THIS WORLD:
- =1= THE VINE OF THE EARTH, OR GODLESS GENTILE SOCIETY (REV 14:18)
- =2= CHRIST AND HIS CHURCH (JOH 15)
- =3= THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL (ISA 5 ISA 27) WHO THROUGH HISTORY PRODUCED WILD GRAPES (SOUR)
- VERSE 7 ANSWERS THE QUESTION OF WHY ISRAEL HAS BEEN PUNISHED MORE THAN OTHER NATIONS THROUGH HISTORY: LIGHT CARRIES WITH IT RESPONSIBILITY. FAILED RESPONSIBILITY BRINGS CHASTISEMENT TO PURGE THE SIN. (9)
- IN THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM, CHRIST WILL FULFILL ALL THE PROMISES GOD MADE TO THE JEWS. HE WILL TEACH THEM AND PROSPER THEM.
- WHAT IS THE CENTRAL TRUTH OF ISA 27:12-13 THE HOLY FEAST OF JOY?
- THE BLOWING OF THE TRUMPETS (13) IS TO CALL PEOPLE TO THE CELEBRATION OF THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS THAT PREPARED PEOPLE FOR THE DAY OF ATONEMENT AND THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES, WHICH IS SYMBOLIC OF THE MILLENNIAL REIGN OF CHRIST.
WHAT IS THE CENTRAL TRUTH OF ISA 26:12-18 THE WOMAN IN CHILDBIRTH?
HOMEWORK
ISAIAH 28
This is a self-study. Please do not send homework answers to the teacher forcorrection.
- OF ALL THE MILLENNIAL BLESSINGS TO WHICH WE HAVE TO LOOK FORWARD, WHICH OF THE BLESSINGS IS ESPECIALLY MEANINGFUL TO YOU? WHY?
- HOW DOES KNOWING THE FUTURE BLESSINGS HELP YOU THROUGH THE TRIALS IN YOUR LIFE TODAY?
- PREPARATION FOR ISA 28
- READ ISA 28:1-13 WOE TO EPHRAIM, THE NORTHERN KINGDOM
- A CLUE : “DRUNKARDS” REFERS TO SPIRITUAL AND LITERAL DRUNKENNESS.
- READ JOHN 4:5-26
- WHAT WERE THE RELIGIOUS BELIEFS OF THE SAMARITAN WOMAN BEFORE JESUS TAUGHT HER A NEW WAY?
- READ ISA 28:14-29 WARNING TO JUDAH, THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM
- WHAT ARE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF LEADERS THAT GOD WILL JUDGE?
- MEMORY VERSE: ISAIAH 28:5
