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Lesson #44
THE RESTORED WIFE

• MEMORY VERSE: ISAIAH 55:6

 

• AFTER ISAIAH 53, THE REST OF THE BOOK OF ISAIAH IS LIKE COMING DOWN FROM THE MOUNTAIN. HOWEVER, THE SUBSEQUENT CHAPTERS NATURALLY FOLLOW ISAIAH 53. WE WILL CONSIDER THE RESULTS AND CONSEQUENCES OF THE CRUCIFIXION OF THE SUFFERING SERVANT.
• ISA 54:1-17 RESTORATION TO ISRAEL
• ISA 551-56:8 AN INVITATION TO THE GENTILES
• ISA 56:9-59:21 AN ACCUSATION TO REBELLIOUS SINNERS

 

• READ ISA 54:1-17 THE SONG OF THE REGATHERED AND RESTORED WIFE
  • REMEMBER THAT WE TALKED ABOUT ISRAEL AS THE WIFE OF GOD, WHO WAS UNFAITHFUL BACK IN ISA 50:1-3 WHEN WE CONSIDERED THE DIVINE DIVORCE. ISAIAH MENTIONS THIS TEMPORARY DIVORCE AGAIN IN ISA 54:6.
  • ISAIAH WAS NOT THE ONLY PROPHET TO USE THIS ILLUSTRATION OF ISRAEL AS THE UNFAITHFUL WIFE. IT IS USED BY JEREMIAH (JER 3:8), BY HOSEA (HOS 2), AND EZEKIEL (EZE 16 AND 23).
    • ISAIAH TELLS US THAT THE DIVINE DIVORCE IS ONLY TEMPORARY, “A SMALL MOMENT” (7).
      • IN GOD’S GRAND SCHEME OF THINGS, THIS TEMPORARY DIVORCE LASTS FOR ONLY A VERY SMALL MOMENT.
      • AT THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS CHRIST, HE WILL RESTORE ISRAEL TO HER RIGHTFUL PLACE AS THE WIFE OF GOD. (A MOST FAVORED NATION BLESSED BY GOD IN THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM).
  • A LIST OF PROMISES GIVEN TO THE RESTORED WIFE.

• “THY MAKER IS THINE HUSBAND” (5)
  • HE IS IDENTIFIED AS :
    • THE LORD OF HOSTS
    • THE REDEEMER
    • THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL
    • THE GOD OF THE WHOLE EARTH
    • THESE ARE TITLES FOR JESUS CHRIST WHO PURCHASED THEIR REDEMPTION IN ISAIAH 53.
• NO WONDER THIS CHAPTER IS A SONG! ISRAEL IS REDEEMED. IT REMINDS US OF THE SONG OF THE REDEEMED IN REVELATION.
  • READ REV 5:9-10
• SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT:
• THE NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH IS THE CHASTE, VIRGIN BRIDE OF CHRIST, WHILE ISRAEL IS THE RESTORED WIFE, NO LONGER BARREN. BOTH ARE REDEEMED.
• IF ISRAEL IS REDEEMED BY HER HUSBAND, JESUS CHRIST, AND IF THE NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH IS THE BRIDE OF JESUS CHRIST, ALSO REDEEMED BY HER BRIDEGROOM, THERE MUST BE SOME RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BELIEVING JEWS AND BELIEVING GENTILES SINCE WE BOTH HAVE THE SAME REDEEMER.
  • READ EPH 3:1-12

• DOUBLE FULFILLMENT OF PROPHECY:
  • THE FIRST FULFILLMENT OF THIS PROPHETIC REGATHERING OF ISRAEL WAS AFTER THE BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY. GOD IN HIS GREAT MERCY RESTORED THEM TO THEIR LAND.
  • THE SECOND FULFILLMENT WILL BE THE REGATHERING OF JEWS FROM ALL AROUND THE WORLD TO THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM OF JESUS CHRIST.

• BUT NOTICE THE LORD’S INSTRUMENT OF REGATHERING IN VERSES 15 AND 16 THAT WILL BEGIN IN THE TRIBULATION PERIOD BEFORE CHRIST COMES TO SET UP HIS KINGDOM.
• THE ANTI-CHRIST WILL BE GOD’S INSTRUMENT OF REGATHERING. THE ANTI-CHRIST WILL PROMISE THE JEWS PEACE AND A PLACE TO WORSHIP IN A REBUILT TEMPLE. BUT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE TRIBULATION HE WILL PERSECUTE THE JEWS. GOD WILL FAN THE FIRES OF PERSECUTION. NOTICE THAT THE ANTI-CHRIST IS CALLED “THE WASTER” IN VERSE 16.
  • GOD PROMISES THE JEWS VICTORY OVER THE ANTI-CHRIST. (17)

• NEW TESTAMENT QUOTES OF ISA 54.
  • READ JOH 6:44-47 (QUOTED FROM ISA 54:13)

• THOSE WHO COME TO CHRIST, JEW AND GENTILE, DRAWN BY THE HOLY SPIRIT, WILL BE SAVED AND RESURRECTED TO ETERNAL LIFE.

• READ GAL 4:27-31 (QUOTED FROM ISA 54:1)
  • “MORE ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE DESOLATE THAN THE CHILDREN OF THE MARRIED WIFE.” (1)
    • CHILDREN OF THE DESOLATE = HAGAR (GENTILE) WHO REPRESENTS NON-BELIEVERS
    • CHILDREN OF THE MARRIED WIFE = SARAH (JEW) WHO REPRESENTS BELIEVERS .

• APPLICATION:
  • VERSE 17 IS A POWERFUL VERSE OF PROMISE TO GOD’S PEOPLE, BELIEVING JEWS AND BELIEVING GENTILES.

• NOTICE IT DOES NOT SAY THAT EVERY TONGUE THAT SHALL RISE AGAINST THEE IN JUDGMENT, GOD WILL CONDEMN. THAT SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY IS GIVEN TO THE BELIEVER.
• THERE ARE CHRISTIANS TODAY WHO THINK THAT WE HAVE NO AUTHORITY TO CLAIM ANYTHING, OR DEMAND ANYTHING IN PRAYER. BY OUR OWN RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND IN OUR OWN FLESHLY WEAKNESS, WE HAVE NO AUTHORITY. HOWEVER, THROUGH JESUS CHRIST WE HAVE MORE AUTHORITY THAN WE THINK.

• OUR CLAIMS ARE BASED ON THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF JESUS CHRIST PURCHASED ON CALVARY (ISA 53)
• OUR DEMANDS ARE AGAINST SATAN AND HIS DEMONS BASED ON JESUS’ VICTORY ON THE CROSS. SATAN IS A DEFEATED FOE.
  • (MAT 16:18-19)

• READ ISA 55:1-5 THE INVITATION TO THE GENTILES TO COME
  • WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE MEANING OF VERSE 1? (IDENTIFY “WATERS”, “WINE”, AND “MILK”)
    • “I WILL MAKE AN EVERLASTING COVENANT WITH YOU, EVEN THE SURE MERCIES OF DAVID” (3)

• GOD’S COVENANT WITH DAVID: 2SAM 7:11-16:
  • =1= DAVID’S DESCENDANT WILL HAVE A KINGDOM (2SAM 7:12)
  • =2= HE, SOLOMON, WILL BUILD A TEMPLE (2SAM 7:13)
  • =3= DAVID’S DESCENDANT WILL RULE FOREVER (2SAM 7:13)
    • THAT REFERS TO JESUS CHRIST, A DESCENDANT OF DAVID.
  • =4= THE HOUSE OF DAVID, THE KINGDOM OF DAVID, THE THRONE OF DAVID WILL BE ESTABLISHED FOREVER. (2SAM 7:16)

• “…A WITNESS TO THE PEOPLE…”(4)
  • JESUS CHRIST IS THE WITNESS .MENTIONED HERE IN ISAIAH 55.
  • THE HOLY SPIRIT IS ALSO A WITNESS. (HEB 10:15 1JOH 5:6)
    • “THOU SHALT CALL A NATION THAT THOU KNOWEST NOT” (5)
      • GOD WOULD USE THE JEWS TO CALL THE GENTILES TO SALVATION. THIS WAS FIRST FULFILLED IN THE EARLY CHURCH. ACT 10:1; 11:19; 13:1.
      • IT WILL HAVE A SECOND FULFILLMENT IN THE MILLENNIUM.

• READ ISA 55:6-13 THE INVITATION TO THE GENTILES TO SEEK
  • “SEEK YE THE LORD WHILE HE MAY BE FOUND” (6)
    • READ ROM 3:10-12
      • THIS IS PAUL’S DESCRIPTION OF THE CONDITION OF THE GENTILES. FROM THIS SCRIPTURE, IT SAYS THAT NO ONE SEEKS GOD. THEN HOW DOES MAN GET SAVED AND WHAT DOES ISAIAH 55:6 MEAN?
        • THE PROCESS OF SALVATION: (GAL 1:11-12 ROM 8:29-30)
          • =1= THE FOREKNOWLEDGE OF GOD
            • GOD KNOWS AHEAD OF TIME WHO WILL AND WHO WILL NOT COME TO KNOW HIM.
          • =2= THE PREDESTINATION OF GOD.
          • GOD PREDESTINES CERTAIN EVENTS IN THE LIVES OF THOSE WHOM HE KNOWS WILL COME TO KNOW HIM. THESE EVENTS BRING HIM TO THE POINT OF RECEIVING JESUS CHRIST.
          • =3= BEING CALLED BY GOD.

• WHEN A PERSON KNOWS HE NEEDS THE LORD, GOD CALLS HIM TO MAKE THAT DECISION TO ACCEPT CHRIST INTO HIS HEART.

• =4=. BEING JUSTIFIED BY GOD.
  • GOD FORGIVES THE PERSON’S SIN AND ESTABLISHES HIM INTO HIS FAMILY OF BELIEVERS.

• WHO DOES THE SEEKING?
  • GOD INITIALLY DOES THE SEEKING, BUT MAN SEEKS GOD WHEN HE REALIZES HE IS A LOST SINNER.
  • WHAT IS INVOLVED IN MAN’S SEEKING THE LORD?
    • REPENTANCE OF SIN (ISA 55:7)

• “…WHILE HE MAY BE FOUND” (6)
  • THERE IS THE UNDERLYING IDEA THAT THE DOOR OF SALVATION WILL NOT ALWAYS BE OPEN TO MAN. THERE WILL COME A DAY WHEN IT WILL BE TOO LATE TO EXPECT FORGIVENESS AND SALVATION. (2COR 6:2)
    • WHEN DO YOU THINK THE DOOR WILL BE SHUT?

• WHY WILL THE DOOR BE FINALLY SHUT?

• JESUS CHRIST WILL SET UP HIS EARTHLY KINGDOM TO LAST 1,000 YEARS. THERE WILL BE NO NON-BELIEVERS WHO WILL INITIALLY ENTER INTO THAT KINGDOM.
  • THEREFORE, ISAIAH 55:6 IS A WARNING. (PRO 1:20-33)
    • READ LUK 14:16-24

• GOD’S CALL TO PEOPLE WHO THIRST (10-11):

• THROUGH THE WORD OF GOD, HE CALLS PEOPLE TO SALVATION. HE WATERS THAT WHICH THEY HEAR BY THE HOLY SPIRIT. GOD’S WORD IS LIKE SEED (LUK 8:11-15 THE PARABLE OF THE SOWER AND THE SEED).

• THE JOY EXPRESSED (12-13)
  • THESE VERSES EXPRESS THE FINAL JOY, PEACE, AND ABUNDANCE IN THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM WITHOUT THE CURSE OF SIN (THE THORN AND THE BRIER).

• APPLICATION:
  • IF YOU HAVE NEVER INVITED JESUS CHRIST INTO YOUR HEART AND LIFE AND REPENTED OF YOUR SINS, YOU NEED TO DO THAT BEFORE THE DOOR CLOSES.

 

HOMEWORK
ISAIAH 56 AND 57
This is a self-study. Please do not send homework answers to the teacher forcorrection.

• APPLICATION OF ISA 54 AND 55
  • BECAUSE THE DOOR OF SALVATION IS STILL OPEN, BUT WILL NOT ALWAYS BE SO, WHAT SPECIFIC THINGS ARE YOU DOING TO BRING PEOPLE TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF JESUS CHRIST?

• PREPARATION FOR ISA 56 AND 57
  • READ ISA 56:1-12
    • WHO DO YOU THINK ARE THE “WATCHMEN”, THE “DUMB DOGS”, THE “GREEDY DOGS”, AND “THE SHEPHERDS” IN ISA 56:10-11?

• READ ISA 57:1-21
  • WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE CENTRAL MESSAGE OF ISA 57?

• WHAT IS THE STUMBLING BLOCK THAT LIES IN THE WAY OF THE JEWS? (14) SEE 1PET 2:7-8

MEMORY VERSE: ISAIAH 57:19