God will judge the earth and its inhabitants for their sin and breaking of His covenant. Isaiah 24-27 discusses this coming judgement, including how God will devastate the earth and punish both earthly kings and the hosts of heaven. However, it also promises ultimate salvation and a banquet for all people on God's holy mountain when He defeats death. The passage encourages believers that though judgement is coming, God has a plan for hope and salvation through faith in Jesus Christ.

1. Isaiah 24-27
God Saves
October 4, 2020
His Followers Sunday School Class
First Baptist Church
Jackson, Mississippi
USA
What’s the number one thing?
The glory of God!
1 Corinthians 10:31 NKJV
31 Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of
God.
References
• Grogan, Geoffrey W., Isaiah: The Expositor’s Bible Commentary,
Zondervan, 1986
• Guffen, Gilbert L., The Gospel in Isaiah, Convention Press, 1968
• Keil-Delitzsch, Commentary on the Old Testament - Isaiah, Eerdmans, 1866
• Knapp, Christopher, The Kings of Judah and Israel, Loizeaux Brothers, 1908
• Watts, J. D. W., Word Biblical Commentary: Isaiah, Word Books, 1985
• Wright, G. Ernest, The Book of Isaiah: The Layman’s Bible Commentary,
John Knox Press, 1964
• Young, Edward J., The Book of Isaiah: A Commentary, Eerdman, 1965
• The New American Standard Bible has been used.
• The New King James Version has been used.
Last Sunday’s lesson from Isaiah 13-23 focused on chapter 23 and God’s
Judgement on Tyre.
This passage dealt with God’s promise of judgement on 11 different nations.
• Babylon - 13:1-14:27
• Philistia - 14:28-32
• Moab - 15:1-16:14
• Damascus and Samaria - 17:1-14
• Ethiopia - 18:1-7
• Babylon, latter judgement - 21:1-10
• Edom - 21:11-12
• Arabia - 21:13-17
• Jerusalem - 22:1-25
• Tyre and Sidon - 23:1-18

2. The list of judgements on the various nations seen in chapters 13-23, are
consolidated and expanded in 24:1-13, 15, 16, 18-23 and followed with a
message of “world-embracing salvation” in 25:6-8; 26:9, 21; 27:1, 6.
The remnant saved from the four corners of the earth will praise the glory and
Majesty of God and the prisoners who have been delivered from Assyria and
Egypt will worship the Lord in Jerusalem. We see this in chapter 24:15-16 and
chapter 27:13.
Isaiah 24-27 is often referred to as “Isaiah’s Apocalypse.”
The style of writing is a mixture of late prophetic and early apocalyptic.
The world is a fearful place:
• Criminal cartels have control of Mexico.
• China is threatening.
• Iran is determined to obtain & use nuclear.
• Anarchist/Socialist deeply entrenched.
We may need a reminder that God is still the universe’s super-power. He has a
plan and will execute it according to His timetable and His pleasure. We usually
focus on Christ’s return and the coming of the New Jerusalem. Today, Isaiah will
guide us to remember His judgement.
There is a sense in Obadiah, Joel, Isaiah and Zephaniah that the prophet is
interspersing judgements that will fall on Judah’s neighbors (generally at the
hands of Assyria or Babylon), the destruction of Jerusalem, and the final
destruction of mankind, the “powers and authorities”, the earth, and the
heavens.
The term “Day of the Lord” can be applied to any of these. We have to look to
scripture and context to try to determine the intent of the writer.
God’s power revealed in judgement is a terrifying thing, but it should still help
and comfort believers facing affliction that God’s judgement is certain and
complete.
We will concentrate our attention on Isaiah 24.
Isaiah 24:1-2 NASB
1 Behold, the Lord lays the earth waste, devastates it, distorts its surface and
scatters its inhabitants. 2 And the people will be like the priest, the servant like his
master, the maid like her mistress, the buyer like the seller, the lender like the
borrower, the creditor like the debtor.

3. Isaiah 24:3-5 NASB
3 The earth will be completely laid waste and completely despoiled, for the Lord
has spoken this word. 4 The earth mourns and withers, the world fades and
withers, the exalted of the people of the earth fade away. 5 The earth is also
polluted by its inhabitants, for they transgressed laws, violated statues, broke the
everlasting covenant.
“Everlasting Covenant? Which One?”
• With Adam - Genesis 2:16-17
• With Noah - Genesis 9:1-17
• With Abraham - Genesis 12:1-3
• With Moses - Exodus 19:5-6
Isaiah 24:6-16 NASB
6 Therefore, a curse devours the earth, and those who live in it are held guilty.
Therefore, the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men are left.
7 The new wine mourns,
The vine decays,
All the merry-hearted sigh.
8 The gaiety of tambourines ceases,
The noise of revelers stops,
The gaiety of the harp ceases.
9 They do not drink wine with song;
Strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.
10 The city of chaos is broken down;
Every house is shut up so that none may enter.
11 There is an outcry in the streets concerning the wine;
All joy turns to gloom.
The gaiety of the earth is banished.
12 Desolation is left in the city
And the gate is battered to ruins.
13 For thus it will be in the midst of the earth among the peoples,
As the shaking of an olive tree,
As the gleanings when the grape harvest is over.
14 They raise their voices, they shout for joy;
They cry out from the west concerning the majesty of the Lord.
15 Therefore glorify the Lord in the east,
The name of the Lord, the God of Israel,
In the coastlands of the sea.
16 From the ends of the earth we hear songs, “Glory to the Righteous One,”
But I say, “Woe is me! Woe to me! Alas for me!
The treacherous deal treacherously,
And the treacherous deal very treacherously.”

4. Isaiah 24:17-18 NASB
17 Terror and pit and snare
Confront you, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 Then it will be that he who flees the report of disaster will fall into the pit,
And he who climbs out of the pit will be caught in the snare;
For the windows above are opened, and the foundations of the earth
shake.
19 The earth is broken asunder,
The earth is split through,
The earth is shaken violently.
20 The earth reels to and fro like a drunkard
And it totters like a shack,
For its transgression is heavy upon it.
And it will fall, never to rise again.
21 So it will happen in that day,
That the Lord will punish the host of heaven, on high,
And the kings of the earth, on earth.
22 They will be gathered together
Like prisoners in the dungeon,
And will be confined in prison;
And after many days they will be punished.
23 Then the moon will be abashed and the sun ashamed,
For the Lord of hosts will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem,
And His glory will be before His elders.
Isaiah 25:6 NASB
6 The Lord of hosts will prepare a lavish banquet for all peoples on this
mountain;
A banquet of aged wine, choice pieces with marrow,
And refined, aged wine.
7 And on this mountain He will swallow up the covering which is over all
peoples,
Even the veil which is stretched over all nations.
8 He will swallow up death for all time,
And the Lord God will wipe tears away from all faces,
And He will remove the reproach of His people from all the earth;
For the Lord has spoken.
Isaiah 26:9 NASB
9 At night my soul longs for You,
Indeed, my spirit within me seeks You diligently;
For when the earth experiences Your judgments
The inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

5. Isaiah 26:21 NASB
21 For behold, the Lord is about to come out of His place
To punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity;
And the earth will reveal her bloodshed,
And will no longer cover her slain.
Isaiah 27:6 NASB
6 In the days to come Jacob will take root,
Israel will blossom and sprout;
And they will fill the whole world with fruit.
What can we take from Isaiah 24-27?
• God has a plan to judge mankind and the hosts of heaven, the earth and
the heavens.
• God has made His plan knowable/known.
o Isaiah, Joel, Zechariah, Jesus (John 12:31)
o John, Paul, Peter, Jude
o Even to the demons (Matthew 8:29)
• God will complete salvation on the other side of judgement.
Encouragement as we go forward.
Isaiah 25:1 NASB
1 O Lord, You are my God;
I will exalt You, I will give thanks to Your name;
For You have worked wonders,
Plans formed long ago, with perfect faithfulness.
Isaiah 25:9 NASB
9 And it will be said in that day,
“Behold, this is our God for whom we have waited that He might save us.
This is the Lord for whom we have waited;
Let us rejoice and be glad in His salvation.”
Joel 2:12-13 NASB
12 “Yet even now,” declares the Lord,
“Return to Me with all your heart,
And with fasting, weeping and mourning;
13 And rend your heart and not your garments.”
Now return to the Lord your God,
For He is gracious and compassionate,
Slow to anger, abounding in lovingkindness
And relenting of evil.

6. The Plan of Hope & Salvation:
John 3:16-17 NKJV
16 “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever
believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not
send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him
might be saved.”
John 14:6 NKJV
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the
Father except through Me.”
Romans 3:23 NKJV
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Romans 6:23a NKJV
23a For the wages of sin is death,
• Death in this life (the first death) is 100%.
• Even Jesus, the only one who doesn’t deserve death, died in this life to
pay the penalty for our sin.
• The death referred to in Romans 6:23a is the “second death” explained in
Revelation 21:8.
Revelation 21:8 NKJV
8 “But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral,
sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with
fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”
• Anyone who’s lifestyle is one or more of the sins listed in Revelation 21:8,
will experience the “second death,” if they do not repent.
• To Repent means to turn around, to go in the opposite direction, to turn
away from sin and believe in Jesus.
Romans 5:8 NKJV
8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners,
Christ died for us.
Romans 6:23b NKJV
23b but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Revelation 21:7 NKJV
7 “He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be
My son.”
• Romans 10:9-10 explain to us how to be overcomers.

7. Romans 10:9-10 NKJV
9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that
God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one
believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto
salvation.
Romans 10:13 NKJV
13 For “whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”
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Would you like to know more?
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