Sunday School Lesson

2. Isaiah 24-27
God Saves
October 4, 2020
First Baptist Church
Jackson, Mississippi 39216
USA

3. 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.

4. • 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
References

5. • 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.
References

6. 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.

7. • 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

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. Isaiah 24-27 is often referred to as “Isaiah’s
Apocalypse.”
The style of writing is a mixture of late prophetic
and early apocalyptic.

11. 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.

12. 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.

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. 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.

16. 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.

17. 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.

18. “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

19. Isaiah 24:6 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.

20. Isaiah 24:7-8 NASB
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.

21. Isaiah 24:9-10 NASB
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.

22. Isaiah 24:11-12 NASB
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.

23. Isaiah 24:13 NASB
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.

24. Isaiah 24:14-15 NASB
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.

25. Isaiah 24:16 NASB
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.”

26. 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.

27. Isaiah 24:19-20 NASB
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.

28. Isaiah 24:21-22 NASB
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.

29. Isaiah 24:23 NASB
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.

30. 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.

31. Isaiah 25:7 NASB
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.

32. Isaiah 25:8 NASB
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.

33. 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.

34. 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.

35. 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.

36. 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.

37. Encouragement as we go forward.

38. 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.

39. 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.”

40. Joel 2:12-13 NASB 1995
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.

41. 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.”

42. The Plan of Hope & Salvation
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.

43. The Plan of Hope & Salvation
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.

44. The Plan of Hope & Salvation
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.

45. The Plan of Hope & Salvation
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.”

46. The Plan of Hope & Salvation
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