Dr. Pothana's Teaching

1. Dr. Pothana

3.  These warnings concerned an
alliance withAssyria.
 Israel, the northern ten tribes, joined
with Syria and planned to invade
Judah and place a strange king upon
the throne of David.
 In fear, Ahaz turned toAssyria (I
Kings 16).
 Isaiah sought to reassure the
king to trust in Jehovah, the
eternal King, instead of the
Assyrian monarch.

4.  Still, Ahaz feared that the Davidic line
would cease.
 Thereupon, Jehovah Himself gave a
sign that the House of David would
continue forever.

5.  The sign was the
birth of a child by a
virgin (7:14; see
Matthew 1:21).
 The child would be
a light (9:1,2) and
would reign over
the House of David
forever (9:6, 7).

6. Isaiah 7:14 Therefore the
Lord himself shall give you a
sign; Behold, a virgin shall
conceive, and bear a
son, and shall call his
name Immanuel.

7. The great truth of God manifested
in flesh is revealed in Isaiah 9:6, 7
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is
given: and the government shall be upon
his shoulder: and his name shall be called
Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty
God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of
Peace. Of the increase of his government
and peace there shall be no end, upon the
throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to
order it, and to establish it with judgment
and with justice from henceforth even for
ever. The zeal of the lord of hosts will
perform this.

8.  In 9:8, Isaiah began to enumerate the
unheeded calamities that Jehovah had
sent upon the ten tribes:
◦ Foreign invasion (9:8-17),
◦ Anarchy (9:18-21),
◦ Impending captivity (10:1-4).
 God had commissioned Assyria to
chastise Israel.
 Through the chastisement, Israel
would learn not to put her trust in
idolatrous nations and God would
leave a remnant.

9. • Nevertheless, God would
judge Assyria for their
pride and arrogance
against Him.
• The king of Assyria
would be
destroyed in a
supernatural way
(10:24-34).
• See II Kings 18 and 19.

10. Prophecies
 Chapter 13 begins a new section of
prophecies which center around the
judgment on the nations.
 These prophecies are both literal and
symbolic.
 They are actually fulfilled in a literal sense
in the Babylonian captivity.
 In a symbolic sense, they refer to the
limes of the Gentiles.
 One should remember that the dominate
world power in Isaiah’s time was Assyria.

11. A Prophecy Against Babylon
13 A prophecy against Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz saw:
2 Raise a banner on a bare hilltop, shout to them; beckon to them to enter the gates of the nobles.
3 I have commanded those I prepared for battle;
I have summoned my warriors to carry out my wrath—
those who rejoice in my triumph.
4 Listen, a noise on the mountains,
like that of a great multitude!
Listen, an uproar among the kingdoms,
like nations massing together!
The LORD Almighty is mustering
an army for war.
5 They come from faraway lands,
from the ends of the heavens—
the LORD and the weapons of his wrath—
to destroy the whole country.
6 Wail, for the day of the LORD is near;
it will come like destruction from the Almighty.[a]
7 Because of this, all hands will go limp,
every heart will melt with fear.
8 Terror will seize them,
pain and anguish will grip them;
they will writhe like a woman in labor.
They will look aghast at each other,
their faces aflame.
9 See, the day of the LORD is coming
—a cruel day, with wrath and fierce anger—
to make the land desolate
and destroy the sinners within it.
10 The stars of heaven and their constellations
will not show their light.
The rising sun will be darkened
and the moon will not give its light.
11 I will punish the world for its evil,
the wicked for their sins.
I will put an end to the arrogance of the haughty
and will humble the pride of the ruthless.
12 I will make people scarcer than pure gold,
more rare than the gold of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will make the heavens tremble;
and the earth will shake from its place
at the wrath of the LORD Almighty,
in the day of his burning anger.
14 Like a hunted gazelle,
like sheep without a shepherd,
they will all return to their own people,
they will flee to their native land.
15 Whoever is captured will be thrust through;
all who are caught will fall by the sword.
16 Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes;
their houses will be looted and their wives violated.
17 See, I will stir up against them the Medes,
who do not care for silver
and have no delight in gold.
18 Their bows will strike down the young men;
they will have no mercy on infants,
nor will they look with compassion on children.
19 Babylon, the jewel of kingdoms,
the pride and glory of the Babylonians,[b]
will be overthrown by God
like Sodom and Gomorrah.
20 She will never be inhabited
or lived in through all generations;
there no nomads will pitch their tents,
there no shepherds will rest their flocks.
21 But desert creatures will lie there,
jackals will fill her houses;
there the owls will dwell,
and there the wild goats will leap about.
22 Hyenas will inhabit her strongholds,
jackals her luxurious palaces.
Her time is at hand,
and her days will not be prolonged.

12.  He sang of the fall of Babylon
a hundred years before its
rise.
 He clearly envisioned the rise of
Babylon as though he was there;
the fall is pictured in amazing
detail.
 The Medes, almost unknown in
Isaiah’s day, were named as the
destroyers of Babylon (13:17-
19).
 Isaiah thus prophesied a soon-
coming national tribulation (the
Babylonian captivity) and
restoration, while he also looked
forward and foretold Israel’s final
tribulation and restoration in the
last days.

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