1. The document discusses passages from Isaiah that describe things Jesus Christ has done. It explains that Isaiah used symbolic language to teach about the Savior.
2. Some of the wonderful things the document says Christ has done include opening the door to heaven, showing mercy in the spirit world, being a source of strength and refuge, preparing an eternal feast, bringing about the Resurrection, being our foundation, and restoring the gospel.
3. The overall purpose is to help readers come unto Christ by recognizing his great acts as taught through Isaiah's writings.
2. Purpose
To help us come unto
Christ through
recognizing some of
the wonderful things he
has done.
3. The prophet Isaiah did much of his teaching in beautiful
symbolic language much of which is about the Savior.
This language does not teach directly, so we must
examine and ponder Isaiah’s words to discover the
truths they teach.
4. Isaiah 22:22
22 And the key of the
house of David will I lay
upon his shoulder; so he
shall open, and none shall
shut; and he shall shut,
and none shall open.
5.
6. 1. The Savior opens the door to
Heavenly Father’s presence.
7. Isaiah 24:21-22
21 And it shall come to pass in that day,
that the Lord shall punish the host of the
high ones that are on high, and the kings
of the earth upon the earth.
22 And they shall be gathered together,
as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and
shall be shut up in the prison, and after
many days shall they be visited.
8.
9.
10. 1. The Savior opens the door to Heavenly
Father’s presence.
2. The Savior shows mercy for
those in spirit prison.
11. Isaiah 25:4, Isaiah 32:2
25:4 For thou hast been a strength to the
poor, a strength to the needy in his distress,
a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the
heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is
as a storm against the wall.
32:2 2 And a man shall be as an hiding
place from the wind, and a covert from the
tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place,
as the shadow of a great rock in a weary
land.
12. What do the following images teach
about how the Savior helps us when we
face such challenges?
18. Isaiah 32:2
He is the
shadow of a
great rock in a
weary (thirsty)
land
19. 1. The Savior opens the door to Heavenly
Father’s presence.
2. The Savior shows mercy for those in spirit
prison.
3. The Savior is a strength and a refuge.
20. Isaiah 25:6-7
6 ¶And in this mountain shall the Lord of
hosts make unto all people a feast of fat
things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat
things full of marrow, of wines on the lees
well refined.
7 And he will destroy in this mountain the
face of the covering cast over all people,
and the veil that is spread over all nations.
21.
22. The Invitation
You are invited to come dine with Me.
From now through all eternity.
Believe in the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
And dine with Jesus as you host.
To live in heaven eternally, All you must do is…
R.S.V.P.
23. 7 And he will destroy
in this mountain the
face of the covering
cast over all people,
and the veil that is
spread over all
nations.
24. 1. The Savior opens the door to Heavenly
Father’s presence.
2. The Savior shows mercy for those in spirit
prison.
3. The Savior is a strength and a refuge.
4. The Savior will prepare a feast and
destroy the “vail.”
25. How do you feel and what
do you want to do when you
see………?
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30. Isaiah 25:8
He will swallow up death in victory;
and the Lord God will wipe away
tears from off all faces; and the
rebuke of his people shall he take
away from off all the earth: for the
Lord hath spoken it.
31.
32. 1. The Savior opens the door to Heavenly Father’s
presence.
2. The Savior shows mercy for those in spirit prison.
3. The Savior is a strength and a refuge.
4. The Savior will prepare a feast and destroy the
“vail.”
5. The Savior wipes away our tears.
33. Isaiah 26:19
19 Thy dead men shall live, together
with my dead body shall they arise.
Awake and sing, ye that dwell in
dust: for thy dew is as the dew of
herbs, and the earth shall cast out
the dead.
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36. 1. The Savior opens the door to Heavenly Father’s
presence.
2. The Savior shows mercy for those in spirit prison.
3. The Savior is a strength and a refuge.
4. The Savior will prepare a feast and destroy the
“vail.”
5. The Savior wipes away our tears.
6. The Savior will bring the Resurrection.
37. Isaiah 28:16
16 ¶Therefore thus saith the Lord
God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a
foundation a stone, a tried stone, a
precious corner stone, a sure
foundation: he that believeth shall
not make haste.
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41. D & C 50:44
44 Wherefore, I am in your midst,
and I am the good shepherd, and
the stone of Israel. He that buildeth
upon this rock shall never fall.
42. 1. The Savior opens the door to Heavenly Father’s
presence.
2. The Savior shows mercy for those in spirit prison.
3. The Savior is a strength and a refuge.
4. The Savior will prepare a feast and destroy the
“vail.”
5. The Savior wipes away our tears.
6. The Savior will bring the Resurrection.
7. The Savior is our sure foundation.
44. Isaiah 29:4
4 And thou shalt be brought down, and
shalt speak out of the ground, and thy
speech shall be low out of the dust, and
thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a
familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy
speech shall whisper out of the dust.
45.
46. 1. The Savior opens the door to Heavenly Father’s
presence.
2. The Savior shows mercy for those in spirit prison.
3. The Savior is a strength and a refuge.
4. The Savior will prepare a feast and destroy the “vail.”
5. The Savior wipes away our tears.
6. The Savior will bring the Resurrection.
7. The Savior is our sure foundation.
8. The Savior will restore the gospel to the
earth.
47. Isaiah 30:19-21
19 For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem:
thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious
unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it,
he will answer thee.
20 And though the Lord give you the bread of
adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy
teachers be removed into a corner any more, but
thine eyes shall see thy teachers:
21 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee,
saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to
the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
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52. 1. The Savior opens the door to Heavenly Father’s
presence.
2. The Savior shows mercy for those in spirit prison.
3. The Savior is a strength and a refuge.
4. The Savior will prepare a feast and destroy the
“vail.”
5. The Savior wipes away our tears.
6. The Savior will bring the Resurrection.
7. The Savior is our sure foundation.
8. The Savior will restore the gospel to the earth.
9. The Savior knows our trials and directs our paths.
53. 6
Isaiah 9:6
“His name shall be called Wonderful”