Isaiah 3:16-4:1
The Lord said about the haughty of women of Zion.
In that day the Lord will snatch away奪走 their finery. Some of men are taking it today like earrings, nose rings...
Instead of fragrance there will be a stench;
instead of a sash, a rope; instead of well-dressed hair, baldness; instead of fine clothing, sackcloth; instead of beauty, branding.
In that day seven women will take hold of one man and say, "We will eat out own food and provide out own clothes; only let us be called by your name. Take away out disgrace!"
Why?
So many men have been killed in battle that the women offer to provide their own keep, if only the man will marry them.
Unmarried women are shame in that era.
In that day population become less and poor, without any fine clothing and decoration in their body.
Instead of ... there will be... is their punishment from the Lord.
How?
Keep the precious grace from the Lord, remember the love and mercy of the Lord, or in that day instead of grace and rest there will be everlasting pain and fire.
The Lord is more concern our heart. No the decoration outside but the inside of a man. To be a holy follower of Jesus.
Friday, June 7, 2013
Thursday, June 6, 2013
Judgement of the Lord to leaders of the Judah
Isaiah 3:1-15
The judgment on Jerusalem and Judah.
The Lord remove all supply and support from Jerusalem and Judah, and the hero and warrior, the judge and prophet the soothsayer and elder.
Jerusalem staggers, Judah is falling; their words and deeds are against the Lord, defying his glorious presence.
O my people, your guides lead you astray; they turn you from the path.
The Lord enters into judgment against the elders and leaders of his people: "It is you who have ruined my vineyard; the plunder from the poor is n your houses. What do you mean by crushing my people and grinding the faces of the poor?" declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty.
Why?
The judgement will come from the leaders and the elders of people. So as leaders of the church. To be a servant or leader in church have to fear the Lord and take care the lamb of the Lord.
Vineyard: Symbol of the nation
How?
It is the Lord gives us the position and mission to lead the people in our nation. Be ware of what my role is in presence of the Lord.
The judgment on Jerusalem and Judah.
The Lord remove all supply and support from Jerusalem and Judah, and the hero and warrior, the judge and prophet the soothsayer and elder.
Jerusalem staggers, Judah is falling; their words and deeds are against the Lord, defying his glorious presence.
O my people, your guides lead you astray; they turn you from the path.
The Lord enters into judgment against the elders and leaders of his people: "It is you who have ruined my vineyard; the plunder from the poor is n your houses. What do you mean by crushing my people and grinding the faces of the poor?" declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty.
Why?
The judgement will come from the leaders and the elders of people. So as leaders of the church. To be a servant or leader in church have to fear the Lord and take care the lamb of the Lord.
Vineyard: Symbol of the nation
How?
It is the Lord gives us the position and mission to lead the people in our nation. Be ware of what my role is in presence of the Lord.
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Stop trusting in man
Isaiah 2:1-22
In the last days the mountain of the Lord's temple will be established as chief among the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and all nations will stream to it. Peace will coming.
Come, let go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob.
Come, O house of Jacob, let us walk in the light of the Lord.
The day of the Lord, the dyes of the arrogant man will be humbled and the pride of men brought low; the Lord alone will be exalted in that day, and the idols will totally disappear.
Men will flee to caves in the rocks and to holes in the ground from dread of the Lord and the splendor of his majesty when he rises to shake the earth.
Stop trusting in man, who has but a breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?
Why?
We have hope, in the last days, the Lord will recover all of the world, let evildoer perish and all idols disappear. Only the Lord be exalted.
The last day is terrible days, men flee away from dread of the Lord.
Stop trusting in man, trust in the Lord.
Isaiah looks forward to a coming time of peace when Jerusalem will become the city of God for people of all nations. Human pride is marked for destruction.
Symbols of pride, Solomon used the famous Lebanese cedarwood for his Temple. The ships of Tarshish were great ocean-going vessels, the pride of the fleet.
How?
Stop trusting in man, who has but a breath in his nostrils, of what account is he? Only the Lord I can trust in. He is the king of kings, everlasting King.
Help the needed men, but do not trust in men.
In the last days the mountain of the Lord's temple will be established as chief among the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and all nations will stream to it. Peace will coming.
Come, let go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob.
Come, O house of Jacob, let us walk in the light of the Lord.
The day of the Lord, the dyes of the arrogant man will be humbled and the pride of men brought low; the Lord alone will be exalted in that day, and the idols will totally disappear.
Men will flee to caves in the rocks and to holes in the ground from dread of the Lord and the splendor of his majesty when he rises to shake the earth.
Stop trusting in man, who has but a breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?
Why?
We have hope, in the last days, the Lord will recover all of the world, let evildoer perish and all idols disappear. Only the Lord be exalted.
The last day is terrible days, men flee away from dread of the Lord.
Stop trusting in man, trust in the Lord.
Isaiah looks forward to a coming time of peace when Jerusalem will become the city of God for people of all nations. Human pride is marked for destruction.
Symbols of pride, Solomon used the famous Lebanese cedarwood for his Temple. The ships of Tarshish were great ocean-going vessels, the pride of the fleet.
How?
Stop trusting in man, who has but a breath in his nostrils, of what account is he? Only the Lord I can trust in. He is the king of kings, everlasting King.
Help the needed men, but do not trust in men.
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
City of Righteousness, the Faithful City
Isaiah 1:21-31
The sin of Jerusalem: faithful city has become a harlot! Once was full of justice but now murderers! Silver has become dross. Rulers are rebels, companions of thieves; they all love bribes and chase after gift. They do not defend the cause of the fatherless; the widow's case does not come before them.
The Lord avenge them as enemies.
I will restore your judges as in days of old, your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you will be called the City of Righteousness, the Faithful City.
Zion will be redeemed with justice, her penitent ones with righteousness. But rebels and sinners will both be broken, and those who forsake the Lord will perish.
You will be ashamed because of the sacred oaks in which you have delighted.
You will be like an oak with fading leaves, like a garden without water.
Why?
Swift and terrible judgment will fall on all who continue to defy him: he will cleanse his people from their sin.
Oaks: The sacred groves where Canaanite rites儀式 took place; symbols of the nation's idolatry.
All of the sins were pointed out and the Lord has his plan to clean the city of Jerusalem back to the old with city of righteousness and faithful city.
City of Righteousness, the Faithful City is God delights. Otherwise the Lord will avenge them and all rebels will be perished.
The righteousness of the Lord endure forever.
The sins the the Lord hates: without faith and justice, love bribe and gift, rebel rulers, accompany with thieves, don't care about the cause of fatherless and widow.
Rebel is turn away from the Lord, so they will be evildoer. Loss their conscious.
How?
Fear the Lord who is righteous God, who can stand before Him. With the grace the Jesus Christ we can pray before the Lord. Keep focus on the Lord but not the men, to give honor to the Lord, but it is not for my own.
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My home town church anticipates my return can give them something, may the Lord help me, I am not mighty man, I am only a servant of the Lord, I can do nothing but the Lord can do. May I could be a tube of the God's grace to those needed people.
The sin of Jerusalem: faithful city has become a harlot! Once was full of justice but now murderers! Silver has become dross. Rulers are rebels, companions of thieves; they all love bribes and chase after gift. They do not defend the cause of the fatherless; the widow's case does not come before them.
The Lord avenge them as enemies.
I will restore your judges as in days of old, your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you will be called the City of Righteousness, the Faithful City.
Zion will be redeemed with justice, her penitent ones with righteousness. But rebels and sinners will both be broken, and those who forsake the Lord will perish.
You will be ashamed because of the sacred oaks in which you have delighted.
You will be like an oak with fading leaves, like a garden without water.
Why?
Swift and terrible judgment will fall on all who continue to defy him: he will cleanse his people from their sin.
Oaks: The sacred groves where Canaanite rites儀式 took place; symbols of the nation's idolatry.
All of the sins were pointed out and the Lord has his plan to clean the city of Jerusalem back to the old with city of righteousness and faithful city.
City of Righteousness, the Faithful City is God delights. Otherwise the Lord will avenge them and all rebels will be perished.
The righteousness of the Lord endure forever.
The sins the the Lord hates: without faith and justice, love bribe and gift, rebel rulers, accompany with thieves, don't care about the cause of fatherless and widow.
Rebel is turn away from the Lord, so they will be evildoer. Loss their conscious.
How?
Fear the Lord who is righteous God, who can stand before Him. With the grace the Jesus Christ we can pray before the Lord. Keep focus on the Lord but not the men, to give honor to the Lord, but it is not for my own.
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My home town church anticipates my return can give them something, may the Lord help me, I am not mighty man, I am only a servant of the Lord, I can do nothing but the Lord can do. May I could be a tube of the God's grace to those needed people.
Monday, June 3, 2013
Only God can wash our sin, through Jesus Christ
Isaiah 1:10-20
Stop bringing meaningless offerings! Your incense is testable to me. I cannot bear your evil assemblies.
The Lord hide his eyes when they pray, for their hands are full of blood.
How to let the Lord delight? 1)wash and make clean, take evil deeds out, stop doing wrong! 2) Learn to do right! Seek justice, encourage the oppressed. Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow.
If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the best from the land; but if you resist and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword.
Scarlet, red as crimson: Both are color-fast; only God could 'wash' these out.
Why?
God is sickened by their moral degradation, social injustice and religious hypocrisy. The language is extreme.
God's people are his 'enemies'. Yet God offers forgiveness.
Wash the sins: Stop doing wrong right now!
Learn to do right: Most people don't know how to do right, so the Lord guides them from four direction to do the right things.
We attend the worship in church and have offering to the Lord, but does my behavior and my heart is plead to the Lord almighty?
How?
Repent and do the right, then the Lord washes our sin from red to white as snow.
Through Jesus Christ only our sins could be washed!
Stop bringing meaningless offerings! Your incense is testable to me. I cannot bear your evil assemblies.
The Lord hide his eyes when they pray, for their hands are full of blood.
How to let the Lord delight? 1)wash and make clean, take evil deeds out, stop doing wrong! 2) Learn to do right! Seek justice, encourage the oppressed. Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow.
If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the best from the land; but if you resist and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword.
Scarlet, red as crimson: Both are color-fast; only God could 'wash' these out.
Why?
God is sickened by their moral degradation, social injustice and religious hypocrisy. The language is extreme.
God's people are his 'enemies'. Yet God offers forgiveness.
Wash the sins: Stop doing wrong right now!
Learn to do right: Most people don't know how to do right, so the Lord guides them from four direction to do the right things.
We attend the worship in church and have offering to the Lord, but does my behavior and my heart is plead to the Lord almighty?
How?
Repent and do the right, then the Lord washes our sin from red to white as snow.
Through Jesus Christ only our sins could be washed!
Sunday, June 2, 2013
Vision; Isaiah
Isaiah 1:1-9
Isaiah had vision during reign of four kings of Judah.
The rebelled nation Israel and people, even worse than the ox an donkey, does not know and understand who reared them and brought them up.
Unless the Lord Almighty had left us some survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would have been like Gomorrah.
The place of Isaiah at the head of the prophetic books is well deserve. There is nothing to equal its tremendous vision of God and the glory in store for God's people until we reach the book of Revelation.
You are doomed注定!
The vision: Isiah describes what God enables him to see in his mind's eye: 'messages which God revealed."
Why?
The Lord sent his servant preach his words to his people, to remind them to warn them return to the Lord, the punishment is beginning.
People of Israel forget the Lord has done to them, turn their heart to idols and away from the Lord, be evildoers. So the ruin will come to them are doomed.
How?
Vision of Isaiah is reminder to that generation, it is also a good mirror to this generation, there are many rebellion people in this generation.
The mercy and grace of the Lord endures forever.
Isaiah had vision during reign of four kings of Judah.
The rebelled nation Israel and people, even worse than the ox an donkey, does not know and understand who reared them and brought them up.
Unless the Lord Almighty had left us some survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would have been like Gomorrah.
The place of Isaiah at the head of the prophetic books is well deserve. There is nothing to equal its tremendous vision of God and the glory in store for God's people until we reach the book of Revelation.
You are doomed注定!
The vision: Isiah describes what God enables him to see in his mind's eye: 'messages which God revealed."
Why?
The Lord sent his servant preach his words to his people, to remind them to warn them return to the Lord, the punishment is beginning.
People of Israel forget the Lord has done to them, turn their heart to idols and away from the Lord, be evildoers. So the ruin will come to them are doomed.
How?
Vision of Isaiah is reminder to that generation, it is also a good mirror to this generation, there are many rebellion people in this generation.
The mercy and grace of the Lord endures forever.
Saturday, June 1, 2013
Steps to purify the servants of the Lord
Nehemiah 13:15-31
Jews against the Lord for these three matters:
1.No Tithe to the temple of the Lord and the Levites. "Why is the house of God neglected?"
2.Desecrating the Sabbath. "Didn't your forefathers do the same things, so that our God brought all this calamity upon us and upon this city?"
3.Marriage to foreign women or men. "Was it not because of marriages like these that Solomon king of Israel sinned?" Nehemiah asked them
Remember me for 1) do not blot out what I have done for the house of my God. 2)show mercy to me according to your great love 3) because they defiled the priestly office and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites 4)with favor.
Nehemiah purified the priests and the Levites of everything foreign, and assigned them duties, each to his own task. He also made provision for contributions of wood at designated times and for the first fruits.
Why?
Pointed out their sins against the Lord and rebuke the nobles and priests. purify the servants of the Lord, assign them duties, each to his own task, made provision for the regular ceremony and devote the first fruits for the God. These are the necessary steps to purify the church also.
Marriage to foreign means to marriage to unbelievers today.
Sabbath is the Holy Sunday worship in today. Remember the Lord.
Devote tithe and devote the first fruit of each day to the Lord to witness what is our life's first priority.
The achievements of Ezra and Nehemiah in the crucial years following the return of their decimated nation from exile are notable. Without the teaching of the law, without the invincible faith and fearless action of these two leaders, it is doubtful if a distinctive Jewish religion and community - with all that means for the wider word- could have survived.
The objection to foreign women was not on the grounds of race, but because of their debased religions.(The Old Testament makes no objection to interracial marriage if both partners worship the God is Israel: the marriage of Moabite Ruth to Boaz is just one of many examples of 'foreigners' brought right in to the heart of God;s family.)
How?
Interpret the real meaning of the Bible and make actions to this day. The steps of Nehemiah are the good example for me to serve the Lord, 1) clean myself first, 2)have company with same faith to the Lord 3) put the Lord in first priority in my life.
Jews against the Lord for these three matters:
1.No Tithe to the temple of the Lord and the Levites. "Why is the house of God neglected?"
2.Desecrating the Sabbath. "Didn't your forefathers do the same things, so that our God brought all this calamity upon us and upon this city?"
3.Marriage to foreign women or men. "Was it not because of marriages like these that Solomon king of Israel sinned?" Nehemiah asked them
Remember me for 1) do not blot out what I have done for the house of my God. 2)show mercy to me according to your great love 3) because they defiled the priestly office and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites 4)with favor.
Nehemiah purified the priests and the Levites of everything foreign, and assigned them duties, each to his own task. He also made provision for contributions of wood at designated times and for the first fruits.
Why?
Pointed out their sins against the Lord and rebuke the nobles and priests. purify the servants of the Lord, assign them duties, each to his own task, made provision for the regular ceremony and devote the first fruits for the God. These are the necessary steps to purify the church also.
Marriage to foreign means to marriage to unbelievers today.
Sabbath is the Holy Sunday worship in today. Remember the Lord.
Devote tithe and devote the first fruit of each day to the Lord to witness what is our life's first priority.
The achievements of Ezra and Nehemiah in the crucial years following the return of their decimated nation from exile are notable. Without the teaching of the law, without the invincible faith and fearless action of these two leaders, it is doubtful if a distinctive Jewish religion and community - with all that means for the wider word- could have survived.
The objection to foreign women was not on the grounds of race, but because of their debased religions.(The Old Testament makes no objection to interracial marriage if both partners worship the God is Israel: the marriage of Moabite Ruth to Boaz is just one of many examples of 'foreigners' brought right in to the heart of God;s family.)
How?
Interpret the real meaning of the Bible and make actions to this day. The steps of Nehemiah are the good example for me to serve the Lord, 1) clean myself first, 2)have company with same faith to the Lord 3) put the Lord in first priority in my life.
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