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THE DRUNKENNESS OF SPIRITUAL PRIDE

• MEMORY VERSE: ISAIAH 28:29

• ISA 28:23-29 AND ISA 29
• THE END OF CHAPTER 28 IS A PARABLE THAT IS VERY MUCH LIKE THE NEW TESTAMENT PARABLE IN MAT 13:1-9. IT FOLLOWS THE FIRST WOE ON THE NORTHERN KINGDOM BECAUSE OF SPIRITUAL PRIDE.
• READ THE PARABLE OF TESTING (THE HARVEST) IN ISA 28:23-29.
• ALSO READ THE PARABLE OF THE SOWER AND THE SEED IN MAT 13:1-9 AND COMPARE THE TWO PARABLES.
• IN THE PARABLE OF THE SOWER AND THE SEED IN MATTHEW CONCENTRATES ON THE NATURE OF THE GROUND IN WHICH THE SEED IS SOWN.
• IN THE PARABLE OF TESTING THE HARVEST IN ISAIAH CONCENTRATES ON TH DIFFERENCE IN A VARIETY OF SEEDS AND HOW THEY ARE HARVESTED.
• THE CENTRAL MESSAGE OF THE PARABLE:
• THE METHODS OF HARVESTING DIFFERENT GRAINS VARIES BUT THE INEVITABILITY OF THE HARVEST IS ASSURED.
• GOD WILL DEFINITELY BRING JUDGMENT FOR ALL SIN BUT THE JUDGMENT FITS THE CRIME JUST AS THE METHOD OF HARVEST FITS THE GRAIN BEING HARVESTED.
• GOD’S JUDGMENT IS JUST.

• ISAIAH 29
• READ ISA 29:1-8 WOE ON JERUSALEM (ARIEL)
• THE MEANING AND SIGNIFICANCE OF “ARIEL”:
• THIS WORD IS USED IN ISAIAH WITH A DOUBLE MEANING, AND A PLAY ON WORDS AS WAS OFTEN COMMON WITH PROPHECY.
• -THE WORD “ARIEL” MEANS = LIKE A LION, OR LIKE THE LION OF GOD. THE WORD IS FROM 2SAM 23:20.
• REMEMBER THAT THE TRIBE OF JUDAH HAD THE SYMBOL OF A LION THAT REPRESENTED THAT TRIBE. REMEMBER, ALSO, THAT JESUS IS CALLED THE LION OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH (REV 5:5)
• HOWEVER, THE LION WAS ALSO THE SYMBOL OF ASSYRIA. IN ISAIAH’S DAY, ASSYRIA WAS ACTING LIKE GOD’S LION INSTEAD OF THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM BEING GOD’S LION.
• -THE WORD “ARIEL” ALSO MEANS = ALTAR, OR ALTAR OF GOD. IT COMES FROM EZE 43:13-18.
• GOD HAD INTENDED THAT BURNT SACRIFICES AND OFFERINGS OF SLAIN ANIMALS BE DONE IN JERUSALEM.
• HOWEVER, GOD WAS NOT PLEASED WITH THEIR LEGALISTIC FORM OF WORSHIP WHEN THEIR HEART WAS NOT RIGHT WITH HIM. THEREFORE, THE OFFERING IN JERUSALEM WOULD BE GOD’S OWN PEOPLE SLAIN ON THE ALTAR OF THEIR OWN PRIDE AND FORMALISM.
• WHY ARE THERE 2 MEANINGS TO THE WORD, AND HOW DO THEY RELATE TO JERUSALEM?
• BOTH MEANINGS RELATE TO JESUS CHRIST IN THAT HE IS THE LION OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH WHO WILL COME AND ESTABLISH HIS THRONE AND ALTAR IN JERUSALEM AT THE SECOND COMING. THEREFORE, DURING THE MILLENNIUM, ALL PEOPLE WILL WORSHIP THE LION OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH ON THE ALTAR THERE IN JERUSALEM.
• THE CITY OF JERUSALEM IS IN THE TERRITORY BELONGING TO THE TRIBE OF JUDAH. THEREFORE, WE SEE A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE CITY, THE TRIBE OF JUDAH, AND JESUS CHRIST, THE KING WHO WILL REIGN THERE.
• THE PROPHECY:
• THE PROPHECY TALKS ABOUT DESTRUCTION COMING UPON JERUSALEM.
• THIS CITY HAS BEEN ATTACKED AND COMPLETELY DESTROYED MORE THAN 27 TIMES IN HISTORY. TO WHICH DESTRUCTION DOES THIS PROPHECY REFER?
• -THE FIRST FULFILLMENT IS PROBABLY THE DESTRUCTION BY THE BABYLONIAN KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR WHO DESTROYED JERUSALEM AND TOOK THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM INTO THE BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY IN 586 BC.
• AS FAR AS JERUSALEM IS CONCERNED, THAT POINT IN HISTORY MARKED THE BEGINNING OF A TIME PERIOD THAT THE BIBLE CALLS “THE TIMES OF THE GENTILES”. THE TIMES OF THE GENTILES BEGAN IN 586 BC AND WILL CONTINUE UNTIL THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST. THAT IS WHY THERE HAVE BEEN SO MANY DESTRUCTIONS OF THIS CITY OVER THE YEARS…IT IS CONTROLLED AND TRODDEN DOWN BY GENTILES EVEN TODAY.
• THE SECOND FULFILLMENT:
• THE FINAL BATTLE OVER JERUSALEM WILL BE THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON. IT WILL BE THE WORST BATTLE YET. (SEE ZEC 14:1-4) (REV 14:14-20; 16:13-21)

• READ ISA 29:9-14 THE MESSAGE TO GOD’S PEOPLE
• NOTICE THE REFERENCE TO DRUNKENNESS IN VERSE 9.
• REMEMBER IN OUR LAST LESSON (ISA 28), GOD WOULD JUDGE THE NORTHERN KINGDOM FOR THE CONDITION OF PRIDE OR SPIRITUAL DRUNKENNESS THAT WOULD BLIND THEM AND LEAD THEM TO BONDAGE.
• GOD SAYS IN ISAIAH 29 THAT THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM WILL NOT LEARN FROM THE NORTHERN KINGDOM. THEY, TOO, WILL BE MADE SPIRITUALLY BLIND. (10-12)
• A SPIRITUAL TRUTH:
• THE MORE LIGHT THAT IS GIVEN, THE MORE SOME PEOPLE WILL REJECT AND CHOOSE NOT TO SEE. EVENTUALLY, THE SPIRITUAL LIGHT CAUSES THEM TO GO BLIND SPIRITUALLY.
• DO YOU SEE HOW THIS RELATES TO THE PARABLE OF THE SOWER AND THE SEED, AND THE PARABLE OF TESTING (THE HARVEST) IN ISA 28?
• THE MORE LIGHT GIVEN > THE GREATER THE REJECTION > THE MORE HARSH THE HARVEST.
• JESUS USED ISA 29:13 WITH THE SPIRITUALLY BLINDED PHARISEES AND THEIR FORMAL RELIGION. BECAUSE OF THEIR REJECTION OF CHRIST. THE JEWS TODAY ARE THE FULFILLMENT OF THIS BLINDNESS (ROM 11:8)
• WHAT WERE THE PEOPLE SAYING IN ISAIAH’S DAY? (11-12)
• “THE WORD OF GOD IS TOO HARD TO UNDERSTAND!”
• “THE WORD OF GOD IS SEALED, AND GOD DOESN’T EXPECT US TO UNDERSTAND IT!
• THIS IS OFTEN SAID ABOUT THE BOOK OF REVELATION AND THE EVENTS OF THE LAST DAYS. SEE REV 22:10.
• WHAT SHOULD BE THE PROPER ATTITUDE?
• LET THE HOLY SPIRIT OPEN AND REVEAL HIS WORD TO YOU AS YOU READ AND STUDY IT, FOR SPIRITUAL THINGS ARE ONLY SPIRITUALLY DISCERNED.
• READ 1COR 2:12-16
• MAKE A LIST OF THE REASONS FOR GOD’S DISCIPLINE (JAM 1:3-4)

• GOD’S “MARVELOUS WORK” (ISA 29:14)
• GOD’S MARVELOUS WORK IS HIS UNIQUE MANNER OF DISCIPLINE THAT WILL RESULT IN GLORY FOR GOD AND FOR THE JEWS.
• READ ISA 29:15-16 THE WOE TO DECEPTIVE PEOPLE
• IS THIS A WOE TO JUST ANY DECEPTIVE PEOPLE ANYWHERE? NO. ACCORDING TO THE CONTEXT OF THESE CHAPTERS, IT IS A WOE TO THE PEOPLE OF GOD WHO ARE DECEPTIVE.
• THE REASON THERE ARE TWO WOES HERE IS BECAUSE GOD’S PEOPLE IN THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM ACT AS IF GOD DOES NOT SEE THEM, OR THAT HE DOES NOT KNOW WHAT THEY DO, AND THEY ACT AS IF THEY ARE GETTING AWAY WITH THEIR SIN.
• READ ISA 29:17-24 THE FUTURE GLORY OF JERUSALEM
• AFTER ALL THE JUDGMENTS AND DESTRUCTIONS ON JERUSALEM, GOD WILL REBUILD IT AND RESTORE IT WHEN CHRIST RETURN S.
• THE “TERRIBLE ONE” AND THE “SCOFFER” IN ISA 29:20 ARE REFERENCES TO THE ANTI-CHRIST AND THE FALSE PROPHET WHO ARE THROWN INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE AT THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST.
• WHAT ARE THE BLESSINGS IN THE MILLENNIUM?
• THE LAND, BLACKENED BY WAR AND DESTRUCTION WILL BE HEALED AND MADE FRUITFUL. (17)
• THERE WILL BE NO ONE SPIRITUALLY DEAF AND BLIND TO THE WORD OF GOD. ALL WILL UNDERSTAND IT. (18-19)
• GOD WILL EXALT HIS PEOPLE, THE JEWS, AND THEY WILL EXALT JESUS CHRIST, THE HOLY ONE OF JACOB (23)
• THE HOLY ONE OF JACOB IS A TITLE FOR CHRIST.
• REMEMBER THAT JACOB WAS A REBELLIOUS BELIEVER: A DECEIVER. BUT GOD TURNED HIM AROUND. HE WILL DO THE SAME FOR HIS PEOPLE, THE JEWS.
• APPLICATION:
• THE MESSAGE TO US TODAY IS TO BE CAREFUL HOW WE RESPOND TO THE WORD OF GOD. WE ARE ENCOURAGED TO DO BETTER THAN THE JEWS OF ISAIAH’S DAY, SO THAT WE ARE NOT A DIFFICULT CROP TO HARVEST.

HOMEWORK
ISAIAH 30
This is a self-study. Please do not send homework answers to the teacher forcorrection.

• APPLICATION OF ISA 29
• WE ARE ALL GUILTY OF REBELLIOUSNESS AGAINST GOD AT ONE TIME OR ANOTHER…OF KNOWING WHAT WE SHOULD DO, AND YET CHOOSING NOT TO DO IT, AND THEREFORE DECIDING TO REMAIN BLIND TO THE WORD OF GOD, AND DEAF TO THE PROMPTING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
• WHICH AREA OF YOUR LIFE SPECIFICALLY FALLS INTO THIS CATEGORY OF BEING “A HARD NUT TO CRACK” TODAY?
• ASK GOD IN PRAYER TO FORGIVE YOU OF YOUR HARD-HEADEDNESS AND TO STRENGTHEN YOUR SPIRIT TO OBEDIENTLY FOLLOW HIM.
• WRITE DOWN THE WAYS GOD IS CHANGING AND SOFTENING YOUR HEART THIS WEEK IN THIS AREA OF YOUR LIFE.
• PREPARATION FOR ISA 30
• READ ISA 30:1-14 WOE TO GOD’S REBELLIOUS CHILDREN
• WHAT WRONG ACTION WAS JUDAH, THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM, COMMITTING THAT UPSET GOD?
• WHAT ARE THE CHARACTERISTICS THAT DESCRIBE “REBELLIOUS CHILDREN (BELIEVERS)”? ((9-11)
• WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES OF REBELLION? (14)
• READ ISA 30:15-26
• WHAT TITLE WOULD YOU GIVE TO THIS SECTION?
• READ ISA 30:27-33
• WHO IS FINALLY BEING JUDGED IN THIS SECTION?

MEMORY VERSE: ISA 30:18