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ISAIAH 11
Lesson #12
THE COMING KING AND HIS HOLY SPIRIT
- MEMORY VERSE: ISAIAH 11:1
- A PROPHECY GIVEN DURING THE REIGN OF EVIL KING AHAZ.
- ALL THE PROPHECIES FROM CHAPTER 7 THROUGH CHAPTER 12 GO TOGETHER. IF WE LINE THEM UP CHRONOLOGICALLY, WE SEE THAT THEY GIVE US THE OVERALL TIME LINE OF THE END TIME EVENTS.
- ISA 7:14 THE VIRGIN BIRTH OF JESUS THE FIRST COMING
- ISA 8:5-7 THE PEOPLE REFUSE “SHILOH”
- THE REJECTION OF CHRIST
- ISA 9:2 THE JEWS ARE BLINDED BY DARKNESS
- THE CHURCH AGE
- ISA 10:5-6 THE JEWS ARE TROUBLED BY “THE ASSYRIAN”
- THE TRIBULATION PERIOD AND THE RULE OF THE ANTICHRIST.
- “THE ASSYRIAN” IS A PREFIGURE OF THE ANTICHRIST.
- ISA 11:3-5 THE KING RETURN S TO JUDGE NATIONS
- THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON, THE SECOND COMINGOF CHRIST AND THE JUDGMENT OF NATIONS.
- ISA 12:4 THE JEWS WORSHIP JESUS
- THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM WHEN CHRIST REIGNS ON EARTH FOR 1000 YEARS.
- READ ISA 11:1-5 THE COMING KING
- THE IMPORTANCE OF THE REMNANT
- DAVIDS DYNASTY OF KINGS WAS ABOUT TO END. WHEN THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM WAS TAKEN INTO THE BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY, THERE WERE NO MORE KINGS FROM THE LINE OF DAVID.
- HOWEVER, THE LINEAGE CONTINUED THROUGH THE REMNANT EVEN THOUGH THEY WERE NOT RULING. WHEN JESUS WAS BORN, EVEN KING HEROD FEARED A NEW KING IN THE LINEAGE OF DAVID. HE KILLED ALL THE CHILDREN UNDER 2 YEARS OF AGE TO TRY TO DESTROY HIM. HOWEVER, DESPITE THAT AND THE CRUCIFIXION, JESUS STILL LIVES AND WILL RETURN TO RULE THE NATIONS.
- “A ROD OUT OF THE STEM OF JESSE” (1)
- WHO WAS JESSE?
- HE WAS A SHEPHERD IN BETHLEHEM. BETHLEHEM WAS WHERE THEY RAISED THE LAMBS USED IN ANIMAL SACRIFICE IN THE TEMPLE. JESSE WAS ALSO DAVIDS FATHER. THE KINGS FROM THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM OF JUDAH WERE DESCENDANTS OF JESSE THROUGH DAVID. AFTER THE FALL OF THE NORTHERN KINGDOM TO CAPTIVITY AND THEN THE FALL OF THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM TO CAPTIVITY, THERE WERE NO MORE KINGS IN THE NATION OF ISRAEL. THOSE IN JESSES KINGLY LINE WERE AGAIN POOR, AVERAGE CITIZENS. THE NEXT KING FROM JESSE THROUGH DAVID WILL BE JESUS CHRIST IN THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM.
- THE ROD = A TWIG
- THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS SMALL WITH ONLY A SMALL REMNANT WHO BELIEVE AND OUT OF THAT REMNANT JESUS CHRIST WAS BORN.
- “A BRANCH SHALL GROW OUT OF HIS ROOTS.” (1)
- BRANCH = A LIVE SPROUT
- THIS IS THE SECOND MENTION OF THE WORD, “BRANCH”, IN ISAIAH. WE SAW THIS AS A TITLE FOR CHRIST IN ISA 4:2.
- BOTH OF THESE PHRASES COME FROM JESSE. DAVID WAS THE FIRST KING FROM JESSE. JESUS CHRIST IS THE ULTIMATE KING FROM THE LINEAGE OF JESSE, BORN IN THE CITY OF BETHLEHEM AS THE LAMB OF GOD TO TAKE AWAY THE SINS OF THE PEOPLE.
- THE 7-FOLD HOLY SPIRIT (2) ON CHRIST AND HIS MINISTRY:
- THE FULLNESS OF THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT RESTED ON JESUS. (JOH 3:34) THE NUMBER 7 SYMBOLICALLY MEANS “COMPLETE”.
- THERE ARE 7 ASPECTS OF THE MINISTRY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
- 1. THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD ( LUK 4:18)
- EVERYTHING JESUS DID WAS BY THE POWER OF THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD. HE WILL RULE WITH THIS SAME POWER WHEN HE COMES AGAIN.
- 2. THE SPIRIT OF WISDOM (1COR 1:30)
- THE SPIRIT OF WISDOM IS WHAT GUIDED JESUS AND WHAT GUIDES THE BELIEVER.
- 3. THE SPIRIT OF UNDERSTANDING (SPIRITUAL DISCERNMENT) (JOH 14:5 LUK 2:37)
- THIS IS THE SPIRIT THAT ENABLED JESUS TO DISCERN THE PERFECT WILL OF GOD AND GOOD OR EVIL IN PEOPLE. THIS ASPECT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ALSO ENABLES THE BELIEVER TO DISCERN GOOD FROM EVIL IN PEOPLE AND TO KNOW THE PERFECT WILL OF GOD.
- 4. THE SPIRIT OF COUNSEL
- THE SPIRIT OF COUNSEL IS BASED ON THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH OF GOD. JESUS KNEW ABSOLUTE TRUTH AND HOW TO BEST MINISTER INDIVIDUALLY TO PEOPLE.
- 5. THE SPIRIT OF MIGHT (EPH 6:10 REV 7:12)
- THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT TO DO MIRACLES.
- 6. THE SPIRIT OF KNOWLEDGE (MAT 12:25)
- THE HOLY SPIRIT OF KNOWLEDGE ENABLED JESUS TO KNOW PERFECTLY THE WORD OF GOD SO THAT HE COULD QUOTE IT WHEN NEEDED AND FULFILL PERFECTLY ALL THE PROPHECIES. THIS ASPECT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ENABLES THE BELIEVER TO LEARN THE TRUTH OF GODS WORD.
- 7. THE SPIRIT OF THE FEAR OF THE LORD (REV 15:4)
- WHEN THE NON-BELIEVER SEES JESUS CHRIST FOR WHO HE REALLY IS, IT CAUSES GREAT FEAR. THIS ASPECT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ENABLES THE BELIEVER TO KNOW GOD FOR WHO HE IS, WHICH BRINGS AWESOME RESPECT AND A HEALTHY FEAR OF GOD.
- WHEN CHRIST COMES AGAIN, HE WILL “SLAY THE WICKED (ONE)” (4)
- INHERENT IN THE MEANING OF THE WORD “WICKED” IS THE WORD “ONE” MEANING THAT WHEN CHRIST COMES AT THE SECOND COMING HE WILL KILL THE ANTI-CHRIST (THE WICKED ONE).
- DISCUSSION:
WHAT DO YOU LEARN ABOUT JESUS CHRIST FROM THIS PASSAGE?
- WHAT NAMES FOR CHRIST DO WE FIND IN THIS CHAPTER?
- ROD (1)
- BRANCH (1)
- ROOT (10)
- ENSIGN (10, 12)
- JESUS CHRIST WILL BE THE RALLYING POINT FOR ALL PEOPLE IN THE WORLD TO WORSHIP GOD.
- READ ISA 11:6-16 THE KINGDOM OF THE COMING KING
- THE KINGDOM OF JESUS CHRIST ONE DAY WILL BE A PHYSICAL KINGDOM ON THIS EARTH WHERE JESUS WILL RULE THE NATIONS FOR 1,000 YEARS. THE BOOK OF ISAIAH GIVES US MANY DETAILS ABOUT THIS EARTHLY KINGDOM FOUND NO WHERE ELSE IN THE BIBLE. THIS CHAPTER GIVES US THE FIRST OF MANY OF THESE DETAILS.
- THE DOUBLE FULFILLMENT OF “THE REGATHERING” (11)
- THIS VERSE TELLS US THAT A REGATHERING WILL OCCUR TWICE.
- THE FIRST FULFILLMENT:
- AFTER THE BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY SOME JEWS FROM ALL THE 12 TRIBES RETURN ED TO THE PROMISE LAND. THEY DID NOT ALL RETURN AT ONE TIME, BUT GRADUALLY OVER THREE SEPARATE INFLUXES OF PEOPLE.
- 536 BC UNDER ZERUBBABEL
- 458 BC UNDER EZRA
- 445 BC UNDER NEHEMIAH
- NOT ALL JEWS RETURN ED, HOWEVER. THAT IS WHY WE MUST LOOK FOR A SECOND FULFILLMENT.
- THE SECOND FULFILLMENT:
- WE HAVE BEGUN TO SEE THE SECOND REGATHERING. LIKE THE FIRST FULFILLMENT, IT DOES NOT ALL OCCUR AT ONCE, BUT IN THREE INFLUXES OVER A SPAN OF YEARS.
- =1= THIS SECOND REGATHERING BEGAN IN 1948 WITH THE ESTABLISHMENT OF ISRAEL AS A NATION.
- =2= DURING THE TRIBULATION, MORE JEWS WILL RETURN TO ISRAEL FOR 2 REASONS:
- =A= AN INCREASE IN ANTI-SEMITISM
- =B= A DESIRE TO WORSHIP THE ANTICHRIST AS THE MESSIAH.
- =3=FINALLY AT THE SECOND COMING AND THE BEGINNING OF THE MILLENNIUM, ALL JEWS WILL RETURN TO WORSHIP CHRIST IN HIS KINGDOM. (ISA 27:12-13 ISA 49:22-23 ISA 56:7-8 MAT 24:31 ROM 11:25-29)
- “THE HIGHWAY OF HOLINESS” IN THE MILLENNIUM (16)
- ISAIAH MENTIONS A HIGHWAY OF HOLINESS SEVERAL TIMES IN HIS BOOK.
- DURING THE MILLENNIUM, THERE WILL BE A SPECIAL HIGHWAY SYSTEM THAT EASILY ENABLES PEOPLE TO TRAVEL TO AND FROM JERUSALEM TO WORSHIP AND BRING TRIBUTE TO JESUS, THE KING. ALL ROADS COME TO A HUB AT JERUSALEM. (ISA 40:3 ISA 62:11)
- READ ISA 11:16
- THE HIGHWAY FACILITATES THE REGATHERING BY BRINGING THE JEWS OUT OF ASSYRIA AND EGYPT. (THESE 2 LOCATIONS ARE THE PLACES WHERE JEWS HAVE BEEN CAPTIVE AT SOME TIME IN THEIR HISTORY.)
- READ ISA 19:23
- THE HIGHWAY ENABLES THE FORMER ENEMIES OF ISRAEL TO COME AND WORSHIP THE LORD.
- READ ISA 35:8
- THE HIGHWAY ENABLES RAPTURED BELIEVERS TO TRAVEL FROM THE SUSPENDED NEW JERUSALEM TO THE EARTHLY JERUSALEM.
- DISCUSSION:
WHAT SPECIFIC DETAILS DO YOU LEARN ABOUT CHRISTS MILLENNIAL KINGDOM IN THIS PASSAGE?
HOMEWORK
ISAIAH 12
This is a self-study. Please do not send homework answers to the teacher forcorrection.
- APPLICATION OF ISA 11
- GOD HAS MADE IT EASY FOR US TO COME TO KNOW HIM AND WORSHIP HIM. HOWEVER, MANY TIMES WE DO NOT SEE CHRISTIANS TAKE ADVANTAGE OF GODS GRACE.
- WHAT HINDERS YOU FROM COMING TO KNOW HIM BETTER?
- WHAT HINDERS YOU FROM WORSHIPING HIM MORE FULLY?
- PREPARATION FOR ISA 12
- READ ISA 12
- DESCRIBE THE PRACTICE OF WORSHIP DURING THE MILLENNIUM?
- WHAT IS DIFFERENT BETWEEN THE PRACTICE OF WORSHIP IN THE MILLENNIUM AND THE PRACTICE OF WORSHIP NOW?
