ISAIAH CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

ISAIAH CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

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OUTLINE ISAIAH CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

PRAISES TO THE LORD V. 1-5

PROMISES TO BE FULFILLED IN HIS KINGDOM:A FEAST FOR ALL NATIONS V. 6REMOVAL OF THE VEIL V. 7RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD V.8

TRIUMPH OVER HIS ENEMIES V. 9-12

READ: ISAIAH 25:1-3

PRAISE TO GOD 1 O LORD, You are my God. I will exalt You, I will praise Your name, For You have done wonderful things; Your counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.

2 For You have made a city a ruin, A fortified city a ruin, A palace of foreigners to be a city no more; It will never be rebuilt.

3 Therefore the strong people will glorify You; The city of the terrible nations will fear You.

QUESTIONS: ISAIAH 25:1-3

PRAISE TO GOD 1 O LORD, You are my God. I will exalt You, I will praise Your name, For You have done wonderful things; Your counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.2 For You have made a city a ruin, A fortified city a ruin, A palace of foreigners to be a city no more; It will never be rebuilt.3 Therefore the strong people will glorify You; The city of the terrible nations will fear You.

WHO IS PRAISING THE LORD? ISAIAH?

WHAT HAD THE LORD DONE?

WHO WILL GLORIFY THE LORD?

WHO WILL FEAR THE LORD?


1 O LORD, You are my God. I will exalt You, I will praise Your name, For You have done wonderful things; Your counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.


HOW DID DAVID PRAISE THE LORD? WHY?READ: PSALMS 40:5

5 O LORD my God, Many are Your wonderful works Which You have done. Your thoughts toward us cannot be recounted to You in order. If I would declare and speak of them, They are more than can be numbered.

READ: PSALMS 98:11 Sing to the LORD a new song! For He has done marvelous things. His right hand and His holy arm have gained Him the victory.




HOW DID DAVID PRAISE THE LORD? WHY?READ: PSALMS 118:28

28 You are my God; I will praise You. You are my God; I will exalt You.

READ: PSALMS 145:1-21 I will extol You, my God, O King. I will bless Your name forever and ever. 2 Every day I will bless You. I will praise Your name forever and ever.




HOW DID JOEL PRAISE THE LORD? WHY?READ: JOEL 2:21

21 Fear not, O land. Be glad and rejoice, For the LORD has done marvelous things!

READ: JOEL 2:2626 You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied And praise the name of the LORD your God, Who has dealt wondrously with you. My people shall never be put to shame.



WHAT HAD THE LORD DONE?

WHAT DID JOEL SAY ABOUT THE LORD?READ: JOB 12:13-14

13 With Him are wisdom and strength, He has counsel and understanding. 14 If He breaks a thing down, it cannot be rebuilt. And If He imprisons a man, there can be no release.



WHAT DID AMOS SAY THE LORD WILL DO?READ: AMOS 1:4

4 I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, Which shall devour the palaces of Ben-Hadad.

READ: AMOS 1:77 I will send a fire upon the wall of Gaza, Which shall devour its palaces.

READ: AMOS 1:1010 I will send a fire upon the wall of Tyre, Which shall devour its palaces.

READ: AMOS 1:1212 I will send a fire upon Teman, Which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah.



WHAT DID JEREMIAH SAY THE LORD WOULD DO?READ: JEREMIAH 51:37

37 Babylon shall become a heap, A dwelling place for jackals,An astonishment and a hissing, Without an inhabitant.

WHAT DID EZEKIEL SAY THE LORD WOULD DO TO TYRE?READ: EZEKIEL 28:7

7 Behold, I will bring strangers against you, The most terrible of the nations. They shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom, And defile your splendor.



WHAT IS THE END RESULT OF THIS?

WHO WILL GLORIFY THE LORD? THE STRONG PEOPLE?

WHO WILL FEAR THE LORD? THE TERIBLE NATIONS?

WHAT DID THE PSALMIST SAY WOULD GLORIFY THE LORD?READ: PSALMS 22:23

23 You who fear the LORD, praise Him! All you descendants of Jacob, glorify Him. All you offspring of Israel, fear Him!



WHAT IS THE END RESULT OF THIS?WHO WILL GLORIFY THE LORD?

WHO WILL FEAR THE LORD?

WHAT DID THE KING OF PERSIA DO? WHY?READ: EZRA 1:2-4

2 Thus says Cyrus king of Persia: “All the kingdoms of the earth the LORD God of heaven has given me. And He has commanded me to build Him a house at Jerusalem which is in Judah.”3 “Who is among you of all His people? May his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem which is in Judah, and build the house of the LORD God of Israel (He is God), which is in Jerusalem.”4 “Whoever is left in any place where he dwells, let the men of his place help him with silver and gold, with goods and livestock, Besides the freewill offerings for the house of God which is in Jerusalem.”

READ: ISAIAH 25:4-5

4 For You have been a strength to the poor, A strength to the needy in his distress, A refuge from the storm, A shade from the heat; For the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.

5 You will reduce the noise of aliens, As heat in a dry place; As heat in the shadow of a cloud, The song of the terrible ones will be diminished.




WHAT HAS THE LORD BEEN FOR HIS PEOPLE?

STRENGTH? REFUGE? SHADE?

WHO ARE THE ALIENS? GENTILES?

WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO THEM?



WHAT HAS THE LORD BEEN FOR HIS PEOPLE?STRENGTH? REFUGE? SHADE?

WHAT DID DAVID SAY ABOUT THE LORD?READ: 2 SAMUEL 22:2-3

2 David said: “The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer; “3 “The God of my strength, in whom I will trust: My shield and the horn of my salvation, My stronghold and my refuge; My Savior, You save me from violence.”




WHAT DID DAVID SAY ABOUT THE LORD?READ: PSALMS 9:9

9 The LORD will be a refuge for the oppressed, A refuge in times of trouble.

READ: PSALMS 27:11 The LORD is my light and my salvation; Whom shall I fear?The LORD is the strength of my life; Of whom shall I be afraid?

READ: PSALMS 28:88 The LORD is their strength. He is the saving refuge of His anointed.





11 The LORD will give strength to His people. The LORD will bless His people with peace.

READ: PSALMS 31:22 Bow down Your ear to me, Deliver me speedily. Be my rock of refuge, A fortress of defense to save me.





1 God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble.

READ: PSALMS 46:77 The LORD of hosts is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge.





1 Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me! For my soul trusts in You. In the shadow of Your wings I will make my refuge,Until these calamities have passed by.

READ: PSALMS 59:1616 I will sing of Your power. Yes, I will sing aloud of Your mercy in the morning; For You have been my defense And refuge in the day of my trouble.




WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO THEM?READ: PSALMS 9:12

12 When He avenges blood, He remembers them. He does not forget the cry of the humble.

READ: PSALMS 18:44-4544 As soon as they hear of me they obey me. The foreigners submit to me. 45 The foreigners fade away And come frightened from their hideouts.




WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO THEM?

READ: PSALMS 54:55 He will repay my enemies for their evil. Cut them off in Your truth.

READ: PSALMS 86:144 O God, the proud have risen against me. A mob of violent men have sought my life And have not set You before them.




WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO THEM?READ: JEREMIAH 51:55

55 The LORD is plundering Babylon and silencing her loud voice, Though her waves roar like great waters and the noise of their voice is uttered,

READ: JOEL 3:1616 The LORD will roar from Zion and utter His voice from Jerusalem. The heavens and earth will shake; But the LORD will be a shelter for His people And the strength of the children of Israel.

READ: ISAIAH 25:6-8

6 And in this mountain The LORD of hosts will make for all people A feast of choice pieces, A feast of wines on the lees, Of fat things full of marrow, Of well-refined wines on the lees.

7 And He will destroy on this mountain The surface of the covering cast over all people, And the veil that is spread over all nations.

8 He will swallow up death forever, And the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from all faces; The rebuke of His people He will take away from all the earth; For the LORD has spoken.


6 And in this mountain The LORD of hosts will make for all people A feast of choice pieces, A feast of wines on the lees, Of fat things full of marrow, Of well-refined wines on the lees.7 And He will destroy on this mountain The surface of the covering cast over all people, And the veil that is spread over all nations.8 He will swallow up death forever, And the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from all faces; The rebuke of His people He will take away from all the earth; For the LORD has spoken.

WHERE WAS THE MOUNTAIN OF THE LORD?WHAT FEAST WILL THE LORD PREPARE?WHERE WILL THIS FEAST TAKE PLACE?

WHAT VEIL COVERED ALL NATIONS?WHY WILL THE LORD SWALLOW UP DEATH?WHAT WAS THE REBUKE OF HIS PEOPLE?



WHERE WAS THE MOUNTAIN OF THE LORD?JERUSALEM? ZION? CITY OF GOD?

READ: PSALMS 87:1-31 His foundation is in the holy mountains. 2 The LORD loves the gates of Zion More than all the dwellings of Jacob. 3 Glorious things are spoken of you, O city of God!



WHERE WAS THE MOUNTAIN OF THE LORD?JERUSALEM? ZION? CITY OF GOD?

READ: HEBREWS 12:22-2422 You have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels,23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,24 To Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.



WHERE WILL THIS FEAST TAKE PLACE?IN THE KINGDOM OF THE LORD?

WHAT DID DANIEL PROPHESY ABOUT THIS KINGDOM?

READ: DANIEL 2:4444 In the days of these kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed. The kingdom shall not be left to other people. It shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms. And It shall stand forever.



WHAT DID DANIEL PROPHESY ABOUT THIS KINGDOM? READ: DANIEL 7:13-14

13 I was watching in the night visions, Behold, One like the Son of Man, Coming with the clouds of heaven! He came to the Ancient of Days And they brought Him near before Him. 14 To Him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, Which shall not pass away. And His kingdom the one Which shall not be destroyed.

READ: DANIEL 7:2727 The kingdom and dominion and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven, Shall be given to the people, the saints of the Most High. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom And all dominions shall serve and obey Him.



WHAT FEAST WILL THE LORD PREPARE?


WHAT DID THE PSALMIST SAY ABOUT THIS KINGDOM?READ: PSALMS 22:26-28

26 The poor shall eat and be satisfied. Those who seek Him will praise the LORD. Let your heart live forever! 27 All the ends of the world Shall remember and turn to the LORD And all the families of the nations Shall worship before You. 28 For the kingdom is the LORD‘S. He rules over the nations.





WHERE WILL THIS FEAST TAKE PLACE?READ: MATTHEW 8:11

11 I say to you that many will come from east and west and sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.


READ: LUKE 22:14-2014 When the hour had come, He sat down, and the twelve apostles with Him.15 He said to them, “With fervent desire I have desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer;16 “I say to you, I will no longer eat of it until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.” 17 Then He took the cup and gave thanks and said, Take this and divide it among yourselves;18 For I say to you, “I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.” 19 He took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, Saying, “This is My body which is given for you; do this in remembrance of Me.” 20 Likewise He also took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is shed for you.”

MATTHEW 26:26-29 MARK 14:22-25 1 CORINTHIANS 11:23-26



WHAT FEAST DID THE LORD INSTITUTE?WHERE WILL THIS FEAST TAKE PLACE?

IN THE KINGDOM OF THE LORD?READ: MATTHEW 26:29

29 I say to you, “I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you in My Father's kingdom.”

READ: LUKE 22:29-3029 I bestow upon you a kingdom Just as My Father bestowed one upon Me,30 That you may eat and drink at My table in My kingdom and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.


7 And He will destroy on this mountain The surface of the covering cast over all people, And the veil that is spread over all nations.8 He will swallow up death forever, And the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from all faces; The rebuke of His people He will take away from all the earth; For the LORD has spoken.

WHAT COVERED ALL NATIONS?HOW WAS THIS VIEL REMOVED?

WHY DID DAVID AND THE PEOPLE COVER THEIR HEADS?READ: 2 SAMUEL 15:30

30 David went up by the Ascent of the Mount of Olives and wept as he went up. He had his head covered and went barefoot. And all the people who were with him covered their heads and went up, weeping as they went up.


WHY DID MOSES PUT A VEIL OVER HIS FACE?WHAT VEIL DID CHRIST REMOVE?

READ: 2 CORINTHIANS 3:12-1812 Therefore, since we have such hope, we use great boldness of speech13 Unlike Moses, who put a veil over his face so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the end of what was passing away.14 But their minds were blinded. For until this day the same veil remains un-lifted in the reading of the Old Testament, Because the veil is taken away in Christ.15 Even today, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart.16 Nevertheless When one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.17 The Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.18 We all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.


7 And He will destroy on this mountain The surface of the covering cast over all people, And the veil that is spread over all nations.

WHY WERE THE GENTILES WALKING IN DARKNESS?READ: EPHESIANS 4:17-19

17 This I say and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind,18 Having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart;19 Who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.


WHAT HAPPENED TO ISRAEL?HOW DID THIS BRING SALVATION TO THE GENTILES?

READ: ROMANS 11:7-127 What then? Israel has not obtained what it seeks; but the elect have obtained it, and the rest were blinded.8 Just as it is written: God has given them a spirit of stupor,Eyes that they should not see And ears that they should not hear,To this very day. 9 And David says: “Let their table become a snare and a trap,A stumbling block and a recompense to them.” 10 “Let their eyes be darkened, so that they do not see, And bow down their back always.” 11 I say then, “have they stumbled that they should fall? Certainly not! But through their fall, to provoke them to jealousy, salvation has come to the Gentiles.”12 “If their fall is riches for the world, and their failure riches for the Gentiles, how much more their fullness!”



WHAT DID THE PSALMIST SAY CONCERNING THIS?READ: PSALMS 102:16-22

16 The LORD shall build up Zion; He shall appear in His glory. 17 He shall regard the prayer of the destitute and shall not despise their prayer. 18 This will be written for the generation to come, that a people yet to be created may praise the LORD. 19 For He looked down from the height of His sanctuary; From heaven the LORD viewed the earth, 20 To hear the groaning of the prisoner, to release those appointed to death, 21 To declare the name of the LORD in Zion and His praise in Jerusalem, 22 When the peoples are gathered together and the kingdoms, to serve the LORD.



WHY WILL THE LORD SWALLOW UP DEATH?

WHAT HAPPENED IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN?READ: GENESIS 2:16-17

16 The LORD God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat;”17 “But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”



WHY WILL THE LORD SWALLOW UP DEATH?

WHAT HAPPENED IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN?READ: GENESIS 3:22-24

22 The LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”23 Therefore the LORD God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken.24 So He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.



HOW DID THE LORD CONQUER DEATH? WHY?READ: HOSEA 13:14

14 I will ransom them from the power of the grave. I will redeem them from death. O Death, I will be your plagues! O Grave, I will be your destruction! Pity is hidden from My eyes.

HOW DID THE LORD CONQUER DEATH? WHY?

READ: 1 CORINTHIANS 15:50-5850 This I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption.51 Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.54 So When this corruptible has put on incorruption and this mortal has put on immortality, Then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: Death is swallowed up in victory. 55 O Death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory? 56 The sting of death is sin and the strength of sin is the law.57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.



HOW DID THE LORD CONQUER DEATH? WHY?READ: HEBREWS 2:5-9

5 He has not put the world to come, of which we speak, in subjection to angels.6 But one testified in a certain place, saying: What is man that You are mindful of him, Or the son of man that You take care of him? 7 You have made him a little lower than the angels; You have crowned him with glory and honor, And set him over the works of Your hands. 8 You have put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that He put all in subjection under him, He left nothing that is not put under him. But now we do not yet see all things put under him.9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that He, by the grace of God, might taste death for everyone.



HOW DID THE LORD CONQUER DEATH? WHY?READ: 2 TIMOTHY 1:8-12

8 Do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me His prisoner, but share with me in the sufferings for the gospel according to the power of God,9 Who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began,10 But has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who has abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel,11 To which I was appointed a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.12 For this reason I also suffer these things; nevertheless I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him until that Day.



WHAT WAS THE REBUKE OF HIS PEOPLE?READ: 1 PETER 4:12-16

12 Beloved, do not think it strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened to you; 13 But rejoice to the extent that you partake of Christ's sufferings, that when His glory is revealed, you may also be glad with exceeding joy.14 If you are reproached for the name of Christ, blessed are you, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. On their part He is blasphemed, but on your part He is glorified.15 But let none of you suffer as a murderer, a thief, an evildoer, or as a busybody in other people's matters.16 Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in this matter.



WHAT WAS THE REBUKE OF HIS PEOPLE?READ: REVELATION 7:13-17

13 One of the elders answered, saying to me, “Who are these arrayed in white robes, and where did they come from?” 14 He said to me, “These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation, and washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.”15 “Therefore they are before the throne of God, and serve Him day and night in His temple. And He who sits on the throne will dwell among them.”16 “They shall neither hunger anymore nor thirst anymore; the sun shall not strike them, nor any heat;”17 “For the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne will shepherd them and lead them to living fountains of waters. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”



HOW DID THE LORD CONQUER DEATH? WHY?READ: REVELATION 20:11-15

11 I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. And there was found no place for them.12 I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books.13 The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works.14 Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.15 And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.



HOW DID THE LORD CONQUER DEATH? WHY?READ: REVELATION 21:1-4

1 I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea.2 Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.3 And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God.”4 “And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away."

READ: ISAIAH 25:9-10

9 And it will be said in that day: "Behold, this is our God; We have waited for Him, and He will save us. This is the LORD; We have waited for Him; We will be glad and rejoice in His salvation."

10 For on this mountain the hand of the LORD will rest, And Moab shall be trampled down under Him, As straw is trampled down for the refuse heap.


9 And it will be said in that day: "Behold, this is our God; We have waited for Him, and He will save us. This is the LORD; We have waited for Him; We will be glad and rejoice in His salvation." 10 For on this mountain the hand of the LORD will rest, And Moab shall be trampled down under Him, As straw is trampled down for the refuse heap.

WHAT WILL THE PEOPLE SAY?

WHO & WHAT WERE THEY WAITING FOR?

UPON WHAT WILL THE HAND OF THE LORD REST?

WHO WAS MOAB?

WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO MOAB?

WHAT DOES MOAB REPRESENT?



WHAT WILL THE PEOPLE SAY?

WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THE GENTILES?READ: DEUTERONOMY 32:43

43 Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people. For He will avenge the blood of His servants And render vengeance to His adversaries. He will provide atonement for His land and His people.



WHAT DID THE PSALMIST SAY?WHO & WHAT WERE THEY WAITING FOR?

READ: PSALMS 13:5-65 I have trusted in Your mercy. And My heart shall rejoice in Your salvation. 6 I will sing to the LORD, Because He has dealt bountifully with me.

READ: PSALMS 22:3-53 You are holy, Enthroned in the praises of Israel. 4 Our fathers trusted in You. They trusted and You delivered them. 5 They cried to You and were delivered. They trusted in You and were not ashamed.




READ: PSALMS 118:1515 The voice of rejoicing and salvation Is in the tents of the righteous. The right hand of the LORD does valiantly.

READ: PSALMS 118:2424 This is the day the LORD has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it.

READ: PSALMS 118:2626 Blessed is he who comes in the name of the LORD! We have blessed you from the house of the LORD.




READ: PSALMS 145:18-2018 The LORD is near to all who call upon Him, To all who call upon Him in truth. 19 He will fulfill the desire of those who fear Him. He will hear their cry and save them. 20 The LORD preserves all who love Him But all the wicked He will destroy.



WHAT DID THE LORD JESUS SAY TO JERUSALEM?WHAT DID THE LORD WANT THEM TO DO?

READ: LUKE 13:34-3534 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you were not willing!35 See! Your house is left to you desolate. Assuredly, I say to you, ‘You shall not see Me Until the time comes When you say, Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!’



WHAT DID THE LORD JESUS CHRIST DO FOR ALL MEN?READ: HEBREWS 9:27-28

27 As it is appointed for men to die once But After this the judgment,28 So Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation.



WHAT DID THE GRACE OF GOD BRING TO ALL MEN?WHAT WERE THEY LOOKING FORWARD TO?

READ: TITUS 2:11-1411 The grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men,12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age,13 Looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,14 Who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for good works.



WHY WAS THE HAND OF THE LORD UPON EZRA?READ: EZRA 7:6

6 Ezra came up from Babylon and He was a skilled scribe in the Law of Moses, which the LORD God of Israel had given. The king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the LORD his God upon him.

READ: EZRA 7:9-109 On the first day of the first month he began his journey from Babylon and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him.10 For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the Law of the LORD and to do it, And to teach statutes and ordinances in Israel.


WHAT DID THE HAND OF THE LORD DO FOR EZRA?READ: EZRA 8:17-20

17 I gave them a command for Iddo the chief man at the place Casiphia. I told them what they should say to Iddo and his brethren the Nethinim at the place Casiphia — that they should bring us servants for the house of our God.18 Then By the good hand of our God upon us, they brought us a man of understanding, of the sons of Mahli the son of Levi, the son of Israel, namely Sherebiah, with his sons and brothers, eighteen men;19 And Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his brothers and their sons, twenty men;20 Also of the Nethinim, whom David and the leaders had appointed for the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinim. All of them were designated by name.


WHY DIDN’T EZRA ASK ARTAXERXES FOR AN ESCORT?READ: EZRA 8:22-23

22 I was ashamed to request of the king an escort of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy on the road, because we had spoken to the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all those for good who seek Him, But His power and His wrath are against all those who forsake Him.23 So We fasted and entreated our God for this, And He answered our prayer.

HOW WERE THEIR PRAYERS ANSWERED?READ: EZRA 8:31

31 We departed from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem. And the hand of our God was upon us, And He delivered us from the hand of the enemy and from ambush along the road.



WHAT DID THE HAND OF THE LORD DO FOR NEHEMIAH?READ: NEHEMIAH 2:7-8

7 I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, let letters be given to me for the governors of the region beyond the River, that they must permit me to pass through till I come to Judah,”8 “And a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king's forest that he must give me timber to make beams for the gates of the citadel which pertains to the temple, for the city wall and for the house that I will occupy.” And the king granted them to me according to the good hand of my God upon me.



WHO WAS MOAB?READ: GENESIS 19:36-38

36 Both the daughters of Lot were with child by their father.37 The firstborn bore a son and called his name Moab. He is the father of the Moabites to this day.38 The younger also bore a son and called his name Ben-Ammi. He is the father of the people of Ammon to this day.



WHAT DID THE MOABITES DO TO PROVOKE THE LORD?READ: DEUTERONOMY 23:3-6

3 An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter the assembly of the LORD; even to the tenth generation none of his descendants shall enter the assembly of the LORD forever,4 Because they did not meet you with bread and water on the road when you came out of Egypt. Because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.5 The LORD your God would not listen to Balaam. The LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, Because the LORD your God loves you.6 You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever.



WHAT DID THE MOABITES DO TO PROVOKE THE LORD?READ: AMOS 2:1-3

1 Thus says the LORD: “For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment, Because he burned the bones of the king of Edom to lime.” 2 “I will send a fire upon Moab And it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth. Moab shall die with tumult, With shouting and trumpet sound.” 3 “I will cut off the judge from its midst And slay all its princes with him,” Says the LORD.



WHAT DID THE MOABITES DO TO PROVOKE THE LORD?WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE DESCENDENTS OF MOAB?

READ: JEREMIAH 8:1-31 “At that time,” says the LORD, “they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of its princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves.”2 “They shall spread them before the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven, which they have loved and which they have served and after which they have walked, which they have sought and which they have worshiped. They shall not be gathered nor buried. They shall be like refuse on the face of the earth.”3 ‘Death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of those who remain of this evil family, who remain in all the places where I have driven them,” says the LORD of hosts.




READ: JEREMIAH 16:3-43 Thus says the LORD “Concerning the sons and daughters who are born in this place and Concerning their mothers who bore them and their fathers who begot them in this land:”4 “They shall die gruesome deaths. They shall not be lamented Nor shall they be buried. But They shall be like refuse on the face of the earth. They shall be consumed by the sword and by famine. And their corpses shall be meat for the birds of heaven and for the beasts of the earth.”




READ: JEREMIAH 25:32-3332 Thus says the LORD of hosts: “Behold, disaster shall go forth From nation to nation, And a great whirlwind shall be raised up From the farthest parts of the earth.” 33 “The slain of the LORD shall be from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth. They shall not be lamented, or gathered, or buried. They shall become refuse on the ground.”

READ: ISAIAH 25:11-12

11 And He will spread out His hands in their midst As a swimmer reaches out to swim, And He will bring down their pride Together with the trickery of their hands.

12 The fortress of the high fort of your walls He will bring down, lay low, And bring to the ground, down to the dust. NKJV


11 And He will spread out His hands in their midst As a swimmer reaches out to swim, And He will bring down their pride together with the trickery of their hands.

12 The fortress of the high fort of your walls He will bring down, lay low, And bring to the ground, down to the dust. NKJV

WHO IS ‘HE’? THE LORD?

HOW WILL THE LORD BRING THEM DOWN?

LIKE A SWIMMER SPREADS OUT HIS HANDS?

WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO THEIR FORTRESS?

TURN THEM TO DUST?



HOW WILL THE LORD BRING THEM DOWN?LIKE A SWIMMER SPREADS OUT HIS HANDS?LIKE AN EAGLE SPREADS OUT ITS WINGS?

READ: JEREMIAH 49:2222 Behold, He shall come up and fly like the eagle And spread His wings over Bozrah. The heart of the mighty men of Edom in that day shall be Like the heart of a woman in birth pangs.

READ: EZEKIEL 16:88 ‘I passed by you again and looked upon you. Indeed your time was the time of love. So I spread My wing over you and covered your nakedness. Yes, I swore an oath to you and entered into a covenant with you and you became Mine,” says the Lord GOD.


HOW WILL THE LORD BRING THEM DOWN?THE LORD WILL SPREAD HIS NET OVER THEM?

READ: EZEKIEL 32:3-53 Thus says the Lord GOD: “I will spread My net over you with a company of many people And They will draw you up in My net.” 4 “Then I will leave you on the land. I will cast you out on the open fields. I will cause to settle on you all the birds of the heavens.And With you I will fill the beasts of the whole earth.” 5 “I will lay your flesh on the mountains And fill the valleys with your carcass.”

READ: HOSEA 7:11-1211 Ephraim is like a silly dove, without sense. They call to Egypt and They go to Assyria. 12 Wherever they go, I will spread My net on them. I will bring them down like birds of the air. I will chastise them according to what their congregation has heard.



WHY WILL THE LORD BRING THEM DOWN?BECAUSE OF THEIR PRIDE?

DID THE LORD WARN THEM ABOUT THIS?READ: LEVITICUS 26:18-20

18 If you do not obey Me, Then I will punish you seven times more for your sins. 19 I will break the pride of your power. I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze. 20 Your strength shall be spent in vain. For your land shall not yield its produce, nor shall the trees of the land yield their fruit.



WHY WILL THE LORD BRING THEM DOWN?BECAUSE OF THEIR PRIDE?

READ: JOB 40:11-1311 Disperse the rage of your wrath. Look on everyone who is proud and humble him. 12 Look on everyone who is proud and bring him low. Tread down the wicked in their place. 13 Hide them in the dust together, Bind their faces in hidden darkness.


11 And He will spread out His hands in their midst As a swimmer reaches out to swim, And He will bring down their pride together with the trickery of their hands.12 The fortress of the high fort of your walls He will bring down, lay low, And bring to the ground, down to the dust. NKJV

HOW WILL THE LORD BRING THEM DOWN?WITH THE TRICKERY OF THEIR OWN HANDS?

READ: JEREMIAH 51:4444 I will punish Bel in Babylon. I will bring out of his mouth what he has swallowed. The nations shall not stream to him anymore. Yes, the wall of Babylon shall fall.

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