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THE SPOILER AND THE BROKEN COVENANT

• MEMORY VERSE: ISA 33:2
• IN OUR SECTION OF ISAIAH CALLED “THE WOES”, WE COME TO THE LAST WOE. WE HAVE SEEN HOW THESE ARE “WOES” ON GOD’S PEOPLE FOR FAILING GOD IN SOME WAY. HOWEVER, THE LAST WOE IS UPON AN ENEMY THAT DESTROYS GOD’S PEOPLE AND GOD’S LAND.
• IT IS LIKE GOD IS SAYING, “YES, MY PEOPLE ARE NOT PERFECT. THEY DO NOT ALWAYS DO WHAT I WANT THEM TO DO. HOWEVER, I WILL CHASTISE THEM AND CORRECT THEIR FAULTS. EVEN THOUGH MY PEOPLE ARE NOT PERFECT, THERE IS A GREATER CURSE UPON THOSE WHO EITHER DESTROY MY PEOPLE OR THE PROMISE LAND.”
• WHAT IS THE BIBLICAL PRINCIPLE HERE?
• READ GAL 6:7
• THIS IS THE PRINCIPLE OF REAPING AND SOWING.
• EVERYTHING YOU DO WILL PRODUCE FRUIT OF THE SAME KIND–EITHER GOOD RESULTS IN GOOD OR EVIL RESULTS IN EVIL.
• THERE IS A SPACE OF TIME BETWEEN SOWING AND REAPING.
• WHAT YOU REAP IS ALWAYS A LARGER AMOUNT THAN WHAT YOU SOW.
• READ ISA 33:1-24
• WHO IS THE “SPOILER” IN VERSE 1?
• FIRST FULFILLMENT:
• THE ASSYRIAN KING, SENNACHERIB, IS THE SPOILER WHO ATTACKED JUDAH DURING THE REIGN OF GOOD KING HEZEKIAH.
• WE HAVE DISCUSSED PREVIOUSLY HOW GOD WOULD NOT ALLOW THE ASSYRIANS TO SUCCEED IN THEIR ATTEMPT TO TAKE OVER THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM OF JUDAH IN EXACTLY THE SAME WAY THEY TOOK THE NORTHERN KINGDOM INTO CAPTIVITY.
• HOWEVER, THAT DID NOT PREVENT THEM FROM TRYING. IN FACT THEY MADE SEVERAL RAIDS AGAINST THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM AND DID HAVE A FEW VICTORIOUS BATTLES HERE AND THERE. BUT WHEN IT CAME TO JERUSALEM, GOD SAID, “NO MORE”.
• SECOND FULFILLMENT:
• THE ANTI-CHRIST WHO WILL ATTACK THE JEWS AFTER THE MIDDLE OF THE TRIBULATION AND TAKE OVER ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM.
• THE PRAYER OF THE GODLY REMNANT (2)
• FIRST FULFILLMENT:
• BECAUSE SOME GODLY PEOPLE WERE PRAYING, GOD SPARED THE CITY OF JERUSALEM FOR GOD’S SAKE AND FOR DAVID’S SAKE. (ISA 37:35)
• OF COURSE THE CITY WAS EVENTUALLY DESTROYED BY THE BABYLONIANS, BUT GOD WOULD PRESERVE IT FROM THE ASSYRIAN ATTACK.
• A PRAYING MINORITY DOES HAVE A POSITIVE EFFECT ON THE TIMING AND OUTCOME OF GOD’S PLAN.
• SECOND FULFILLMENT:
• BECAUSE THE TRIBULATION IS CALLED, “THE TIME OF JACOB’S TROUBLE” (JER 30:7), VERSE 2 FITS VERY WELL WITH THE SECOND FULFILLMENT WHEN GOD WILL PROTECT A LARGE GROUP OF JEWS IN TIME OF TROUBLE IN THE CITY OF PETRA IN JORDAN.
• “THE BROKEN COVENANT” (8)
• FIRST FULFILLMENT: READ 2KI 18:13-16 2CHR 32:1, 9
• THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM OF JUDAH HAD MADE A PEACE TREATY WITH THE ASSYRIAN KING, SENNACHERIB. JUDAH WOULD PAY TRIBUTE TO ASSYRIA, AND ASSYRIA WOULD NOT ATTACK JUDAH. IN UNBELIEF, KING HEZEKIAH HAD TRIED TO BUY PEACE WITH ASSYRIA BY USING GOLD AND SILVER FROM THE TEMPLE..
• THIS TREATY WAS BROKEN WHEN ASSYRIA INVADED JUDAH CAPTURING 46 CITIES, NUMEROUS VILLAGES, AND 200,000 PRISONERS..
• THE SITUATION IN JUDAH WAS BAD WHEN THEY SAW ONE CITY AFTER ANOTHER FALL TO THE ASSYRIANS. (7-9)
• IT IS AT THE END OF THEIR OWN EFFORTS THAT GOD STEPS IN AND SAYS “NOW WILL I RISE” (10)
• HEZEKIAH REPENTED OF HIS UNBELIEF, AND GOD FORGAVE HIM, REMINDING HIM THAT THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS HIS TREASURE. (6)
• THE MIRACULOUS DELIVERANCE OF JERUSALEM FROM THE HANDS OF ASSYRIA, WAS A TREMENDOUS MIRACLE BY GOD THAT CAUSED EVERYONE, JEW AND GENTILE TO MARVEL AT GOD’S GRACE AND POWER. (14-16)
• SECOND FULFILLMENT:
• THE ANTI-CHRIST WILL CONFIRM A PEACE TREATY WITH ISRAEL AT THE BEGINNING OF THE TRIBULATION PERIOD. THIS PEACE TREATY WILL INSURE THAT THE JEWS HAVE A RIGHT TO WORSHIP BY ANIMAL SACRIFICE IN A NEW TEMPLE ON THE TEMPLE MOUNT IN JERUSALEM. THE ANTI-CHRIST WILL BREAK THIS TREATY AT THE MIDDLE OF THE TRIBULATION. THAT IS “THE BROKEN COVENANT”.
• READ DAN 9:27
• GOD CALLS TWO GROUPS OF PEOPLE TO REPENTANCE (13):
• THOSE THAT ARE FAR OFF = THE GENTILES
• THOSE THAT ARE NEAR = THE JEWS
• THEY ARE THE UNGODLY JEWS HE CALLS “THE SINNERS IN ZION” (14)
• THE DEVOURING FIRE (14-15) = GOD, THE FATHER, IN ALL HIS UNAPPROACHABLE HOLINESS. READ HEB 12:29
• THE PROPHET ASKS, “WHO CAN ENDURE GOD’S AWESOME JUDGMENT?” OF COURSE, THE ANSWER IS, “NO ONE — EXCEPT THE PERSONS MADE RIGHTEOUS THROUGH THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST.
• HE CALLS PEOPLE TO WALK IN RIGHTEOUSNESS THROUGH JESUS CHRIST.
• CHRISTIANS ARE, THEREFORE, TO LIVE A RIGHTEOUS CHRISTIAN LIFE EVEN IN A SOCIETY THAT IS NOT RIGHTEOUS, AND IN A TIME WHEN THEIR GOVERNMENT IS MAKING UNGODLY DECISIONS.
• THE FINAL DELIVERANCE (20-24) –THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM OF JESUS CHRIST
• CHARACTERISTICS OF THIS TIME PERIOD:
• PEACE (20)
• A FINAL, PERMANENT TABERNACLE OR TEMPLE (20)
• CHANGES IN PHYSICAL LAND STRUCTURES OF EARTH (21)
• IT SEEMS JERUSALEM MAY BE A SEA PORT.
• HEALING (24)
• FREEDOM, PHYSICAL, AND SPIRITUAL WELL-BEING IS MEANT HERE.
• INVADING ARMIES WOULD PUT A SIEGE AROUND A CITY. IN TIME DEATH WOULD COME BY STARVATION, THIRST, AND DISEASE.
• THE KING (17)
• JESUS CHRIST, THE KING, WILL REIGN IN RIGHTEOUSNESS DURING THIS 1000 YEARS.
• NOTICE THE PROGRESSION OF COMING TO KNOW THIS KING:
• IN ISA 32:1 HE IS CALLED “A” KING, WHILE HERE IN ISA 33:17, HE IS CALLED “THE KING”. BUT IN ISA 33:22 HE IS CALLED “OUR KING”.
• IT IS DURING THE MILLENNIUM THAT WE NOT ONLY SEE OUR KING, BUT WE COME TO KNOW HIM AS HE IS.
• HAVING AN ETERNAL PERSPECTIVE:
• THE HARDEST THING TO DO IN TIMES OF TROUBLE IS TO MAINTAIN AN “ETERNAL PERSPECTIVE”. WHAT IS AN “ETERNAL PERSPECTIVE” AND HOW DO YOU GET IT?
• A DEFINITION:
• AN ETERNAL PERSPECTIVE IS AN ATTITUDE ABOUT LIFE THAT SEES BEYOND THE STRUGGLES OF LIFE IN THIS WORLD TO LIFE IN ETERNITY WITH GOD. IT IS GETTING BEYOND THE IDEA THAT THIS EARTHLY LIFE IS ALL THERE IS. AND, OF COURSE, THAT PERSPECTIVE IS OBTAINED BY FAITH, AND FAITH COMES BY THE WORD OF GOD. READ HEB 11:8-10 ROM 10:17

HOMEWORK
ISAIAH 34-35
This is a self-study. Please do not send homework answers to the teacher forcorrection.

• APPLICATION OF ISA 33
• WRITE A PARAGRAPH DESCRIBING WHAT IS MEANT BY “HAVING AN ETERNAL PERSPECTIVE” BASED ON WHAT YOU SEE IN ISA 33:14-24.
• THINK ABOUT THE LAST TIME YOU HAD AN OVERWHELMING PROBLEM IN YOUR LIFE. WERE YOU ABLE TO MAINTAIN AN “ETERNAL PERSPECTIVE”?
• WHY DO YOU THINK YOU SUCCEEDED OR FAILED TO HAVE THIS ETERNAL PERSPECTIVE?
• READ MAT 14:24-31
• PREPARATION FOR ISA 34-35
• READ ISA 34:1-17
• WHO OR WHAT IS BEING JUDGED?
• READ REV 19:11-18
• WHAT PARALLELS ARE THERE BETWEEN REV 19 AND ISA 34?
• READ ISA 35:1-10
• WHAT CHANGES ARE MADE IN THE PHYSICAL EARTH?
• DESCRIBE THE HIGHWAY OF HOLINESS
• WHAT IS THE TIME PERIOD FOR THIS CHAPTER?

MEMORY VERSE: ISA 35:10