09 Isaiah 44-48 Handout

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The Folly of False Gods

Isaiah 44:6–48:22Inheritance Class

Grace Bible Church

The Book of Isaiah

The Judgmentof the Lord

The Comfortof the Lord

H e z e

k i a h ’ s

H i s t o r y

3 6 –

3 9

Babyloniancaptivity 39:7



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Isaiah 40–66

The Comfort (and Judgment) of the Lord

God’sPeople

Delivered40–48

Restored bythe Suffering

Servant49–57

RestorationCompleted

58–66

The Folly of Making Up Your Own God

Isaiah 44:6-23

1. The Lord laysclaim to our lives.6-8

2. Idolatry equalsidiocy. 9-20

3. We are calledto return to theLord. 21-23

Drawing and relief of the removal of enemy gods, ca. 728 BC. Found in thepalace of Tiglath-pileser III (744–727BC) at Nimrud, Iraq, now in the BritishMuseum, London.



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I have wiped out your transgressions like a thick cloud,And your sins like a heavy mist.Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.

Isaiah 44:22

Isaiah 44:24–45:25 Cyrus, the Lord’s Anointed

• Yahweh’s– Shepherd 44:28– Anointed 45:1

• Rebuilder 44:28– Of Jerusalem– Of the Temple

• Returner 45:13• But behind him is

Yahweh!– 45:5-7– 45:9-10– 45:18

The Cyrus cylinder



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Isaiah’s Prophetic Scope

700 586 536 0

Isaiah Babylonian captivity SufferingServant

Cyrus’sdecree538

Cyrus the Great

• Ezra 1:1-4• 2 Chron 36:22-23• “I will gird you,

though you havenot known Me.”

Isa 45:5





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Isaiah 48

A Charge to Released Judah• He delays His wrath to

maximize praise 9• He refines

those He tests 10• He will use Cyrus 14• Intimation of persons

of the Godhead 16• “Go forth from Babylon!”

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For March 7: Isaiah 53

The John 3 of the Old Testament

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09 Isaiah 44-48 Handout