Isaiah 54:11-17
The Lord comforted the afflicted city, lashed by storms and not comforted.
Terror will be far removed; it will not come near you.
If anyone does attack you, it will not be my doing; whoever attacks you will surrender to you.
It is the Lord who created the blacksmith who fans the coals in flame and forges a weapon for it work. And it is the Lord who have created the destroyer to work havoc.
the heritage of the servants of the lord, and this is their vindication from me.
Why?
Vindication: defense; excuse; justification, 平反
The Lord is compassion forever, his wrath is terrible but it is temporary for he loved one has sin and against Him.
The Lord will vindicate for my suffering and my shame.
How?
Praise the Lord and give thanks to the Lord. Turn to the Lord, he is my savior and my redeemer. Only the Lord who can vindicate my affliction.
Wednesday, August 7, 2013
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
Forget the shame of your youth
Isaiah 54:1-10
Desolate woman has spiritual children much more than who has a husband.
Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent churtains wide, do not hold back; lengthen your cords, strengthen our stakes. For you will spread out to the right and to the left; your descendants will dispossess (to put (a person) out of possession) nations and settle in their desolate cities.
You will forget the shame of your youth and remember not more the reproach of your widowhood. For the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; he is called the God of all the earth.
Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed.
Why?
God pledges himself in tender, unswerving, enduring love to his people. Though 'mountains and hills may cruble' God's love for them will never end.
In peace and security the foundations of a new and dazzling city are laid.
The vision in these later chapters of Isaiah goes far beyond the events of the actual return from exile.
The restoration of Israel which took place then merges into a vision of the final glorious day when sin and sorrow will be nor more, and the whole Israel of God.
Don't let the shame of my youth bind me, the Lord Almight is my God, my redeemder, be strong, do not fear, enlarge and stretch my tent, my area, do not hold back, go forward.
Unfailing love is always with me from the Lord! Turn to right and left, is the Lord will bless me whereever I go.
How?
To be a nobal man, go forward with faith and blessing of the Lord. To preach the gospel and honor God's name. It is not what I can do, but the Lord can do through me.
Desolate woman has spiritual children much more than who has a husband.
Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent churtains wide, do not hold back; lengthen your cords, strengthen our stakes. For you will spread out to the right and to the left; your descendants will dispossess (to put (a person) out of possession) nations and settle in their desolate cities.
You will forget the shame of your youth and remember not more the reproach of your widowhood. For the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; he is called the God of all the earth.
Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed.
Why?
God pledges himself in tender, unswerving, enduring love to his people. Though 'mountains and hills may cruble' God's love for them will never end.
In peace and security the foundations of a new and dazzling city are laid.
The vision in these later chapters of Isaiah goes far beyond the events of the actual return from exile.
The restoration of Israel which took place then merges into a vision of the final glorious day when sin and sorrow will be nor more, and the whole Israel of God.
Don't let the shame of my youth bind me, the Lord Almight is my God, my redeemder, be strong, do not fear, enlarge and stretch my tent, my area, do not hold back, go forward.
Unfailing love is always with me from the Lord! Turn to right and left, is the Lord will bless me whereever I go.
How?
To be a nobal man, go forward with faith and blessing of the Lord. To preach the gospel and honor God's name. It is not what I can do, but the Lord can do through me.
Monday, August 5, 2013
Jesus the ultimate fulfilment of these words of Messiah
Isaiah 53:4-12
Jesus Christ, he was pierced for out transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.
We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way.
The Lord makes his life a guilt offering.
Why?
Jesus Christ bear the punishment of many and for his sake our sins are forgived.
The New Testament echoes Isaiah, seeing in Jesus the ultimate fulfilment of these words. He it was who willingly gave his life that all might be forgiven, takig 'the place of may sinners' to reconcile God and his people, 'unfolding' the effects of that original downfall.
How?
Each of us has turned to his own way, so was I. Thanks God, let me know I am a sinner, through Jesus Christ blood my sins could be erased and white as snow. Jesus is the Missiah.
Jesus Christ, he was pierced for out transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.
We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way.
The Lord makes his life a guilt offering.
Why?
Jesus Christ bear the punishment of many and for his sake our sins are forgived.
The New Testament echoes Isaiah, seeing in Jesus the ultimate fulfilment of these words. He it was who willingly gave his life that all might be forgiven, takig 'the place of may sinners' to reconcile God and his people, 'unfolding' the effects of that original downfall.
How?
Each of us has turned to his own way, so was I. Thanks God, let me know I am a sinner, through Jesus Christ blood my sins could be erased and white as snow. Jesus is the Missiah.
Sunday, August 4, 2013
Who has believed our message
Isaiah 52:13-15 53:1-3
Describing the coming Jesus- God's sfffering Servant. his feature, face... He will act wisely he will be raised and lifted up and highly exalted. For what they were not told, they will see, and what they have ot heard, they will understand.
Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Why?
This fourth Servant Song is the best-known of all. The scene shifts from the joyous home-coming to the lonly figure who paid the price of it. How different this is from the people's understanding of the future king: no svvlim, only rejection - a figure despised and ignored. Could God's hand be in this? 'Yes It was my will that he should suffer'
Even we, believer, esteemed him not. We have to meditate it more.
I believe the message of Jesus.
How?
Dear Lord, may your Holy Spirit remind me, let me honor your name, be a good servant before you, esteem Jesus Christ and obey his words.
Describing the coming Jesus- God's sfffering Servant. his feature, face... He will act wisely he will be raised and lifted up and highly exalted. For what they were not told, they will see, and what they have ot heard, they will understand.
Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Why?
This fourth Servant Song is the best-known of all. The scene shifts from the joyous home-coming to the lonly figure who paid the price of it. How different this is from the people's understanding of the future king: no svvlim, only rejection - a figure despised and ignored. Could God's hand be in this? 'Yes It was my will that he should suffer'
Even we, believer, esteemed him not. We have to meditate it more.
I believe the message of Jesus.
How?
Dear Lord, may your Holy Spirit remind me, let me honor your name, be a good servant before you, esteem Jesus Christ and obey his words.
Saturday, August 3, 2013
Touch no unclean thing! Come out from it and be pure!
Isaiah 52:1-12
You were sold for nothing, and without money you will be redeemed.
Therefore my people will know my name; therefore in that day they will know
that it is I who foretold it. Yes, it is I
How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings(welcome news), who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, “Your God reigns!”
Depart, depart, go out from there! Touch no unclean thing! Come out from it and be pure, you who carry the articles of the Lord’s house.
12 But you will not leave in haste or go in flight; for the Lord will go before you, the God of Israel will be your rear guard.
Why?
You were sold for nothing, and without money you will be redeemed.
Therefore my people will know my name; therefore in that day they will know
that it is I who foretold it. Yes, it is I
How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings(welcome news), who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, “Your God reigns!”
Depart, depart, go out from there! Touch no unclean thing! Come out from it and be pure, you who carry the articles of the Lord’s house.
12 But you will not leave in haste or go in flight; for the Lord will go before you, the God of Israel will be your rear guard.
Why?
God's salvation is free, just open out heart and accept the Lord as our king.
All have been foretold by the Lord for He is God.
Good news to preach is to proclaim 1)peace-- Jesus brings peace 2)salvation - no chain of sins 3) Your God reigns - He will be your king when you turn to Him.
God will be my front and read guard, when I leave I will no in haste.
How?
Praise the Lord, I depart, go out from here, the Lord will go before me. What I have to do is touch no unclean thing! Come out from it and be pure.
Friday, August 2, 2013
Where is the wrath of the oppressor?
Isaiah 51:9-23
The Lord comfortshis people, who has been put to shame from their rormentors.
Only the Lord comforts you. Who are you that you fear mortal men, the sons of men who are but grass.
Don't forget the Lord your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth, that you live in constant terror every day because of the wrath of the oppessor, who is bent on destruction? For where is the wrath of the oppressor?
You afflicted one, made Drunk, but not with wine.
The Lord set the heavens in plce, who laid the foundations of the earth, and who say to Zion,' You are my people.'
Why?
Made drunk by thier sins and their wicked heart. They lost direction for they don't know the truth.
The people of Israel for their sins they suffered wrath of the Lord, they been said 'Fall orostrate that we may walk over you, and you made your back like the ground, like a street to be walked over.' They are nothing like grass among theor enemies.
How?
All of these terrifible time of suffering is past, my God Almighty comes to sae me, who makes the promise to me. Rejoice!
The Lord comfortshis people, who has been put to shame from their rormentors.
Only the Lord comforts you. Who are you that you fear mortal men, the sons of men who are but grass.
Don't forget the Lord your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth, that you live in constant terror every day because of the wrath of the oppessor, who is bent on destruction? For where is the wrath of the oppressor?
You afflicted one, made Drunk, but not with wine.
The Lord set the heavens in plce, who laid the foundations of the earth, and who say to Zion,' You are my people.'
Why?
Made drunk by thier sins and their wicked heart. They lost direction for they don't know the truth.
The people of Israel for their sins they suffered wrath of the Lord, they been said 'Fall orostrate that we may walk over you, and you made your back like the ground, like a street to be walked over.' They are nothing like grass among theor enemies.
How?
All of these terrifible time of suffering is past, my God Almighty comes to sae me, who makes the promise to me. Rejoice!
Thursday, August 1, 2013
Lift my eyes to the heaven!
Isaiah 51:1-8
Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness and who seek the Lord: Look to the rock from which you were cut and to the qurry from which you were hewn.
Look to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who gave you birth. I blessed him and made him many.
Lift up your eyes to the heaves, look at the earth beneath; the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment and its inhabitants die like flies. But my salvation will last forever, my righteousness will never fail.
Do not fear the reproach of men or be terrified by their insults. (-- they all will die). For the moth will ear them uplike a garment, the wom will devour them like wool. But my righteousness will last forever, my salvation through al generations.
Why?
Rock and qurry are the ancestor has done to them, think about how they had been and what they rely on. It is the Lord made them from one to many.
God always keeps his promises As he kept his word to childless Abrahm and Sarah, so he will save his people and with them all the nations.
Everything I see in these world will pass away, only the salvation and righteousness of the Lord will last forever.
Viewing things from the heaven will change my perspective, won't worry so much.
How?
Do not fear the reproach of men or terrified by their insults, trust in Him, my God. Lift my eyes to the heaven!
Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness and who seek the Lord: Look to the rock from which you were cut and to the qurry from which you were hewn.
Look to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who gave you birth. I blessed him and made him many.
Lift up your eyes to the heaves, look at the earth beneath; the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment and its inhabitants die like flies. But my salvation will last forever, my righteousness will never fail.
Do not fear the reproach of men or be terrified by their insults. (-- they all will die). For the moth will ear them uplike a garment, the wom will devour them like wool. But my righteousness will last forever, my salvation through al generations.
Why?
Rock and qurry are the ancestor has done to them, think about how they had been and what they rely on. It is the Lord made them from one to many.
God always keeps his promises As he kept his word to childless Abrahm and Sarah, so he will save his people and with them all the nations.
Everything I see in these world will pass away, only the salvation and righteousness of the Lord will last forever.
Viewing things from the heaven will change my perspective, won't worry so much.
How?
Do not fear the reproach of men or terrified by their insults, trust in Him, my God. Lift my eyes to the heaven!
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