January 27, 2010

  • Isaiah 11-13 by Pastor Don Moore

    We had so many new people attending our Bible study that Pastor Don reviewed a few of the earlier verses of chapter 11 so that everyone would be on the same page.

    Sometimes the response to decisions may hit immediately, and it may take time to stop the process even though you have changed and repented.

    The Holy Spirit helps us to minster and leads and guides us using the gifts of God.

    Isaiah 11:1-4 There shall come forth a Rod from the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots. The Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon Him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD. His delight is in the fear of the LORD, and He shall not judge by the sight of His eyes, nor decide by the hearing of His ears; but with righteousness He shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; He shall strike the earth with the rod of His mouth and with the breath of His lips He shall slay the wicked.

    Without the Spirit power of the Lord we will not know to respect, honor, fear, and pursue God. When we have the Spirit we can have no fear and say and do anything required at any time.

    The Lord has to terrorize them into a sensible position. Isaiah 29:13 Therefore the Lord said: “Inasmuch as these people draw near with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but have removed their hearts far from Me, and their fear toward Me is taught by the commandment of men,

    In this passage the word “fear” means awesome respect. It is the way we fear a father, putting him in the place and position to be honored.  Honor they father and mother, the same idea is expressed with this word, fear. We don’t honor our parents because they are perfect, but because they are in a position of responsibility for us, and we need to respect the person God has placed over us. It is funny that as you get wiser as a child, so do your parents grow in wisdom in your eyes.

    In Isaiah 11:2 (see above) the Lord gives us the Spirit of Wisdom  and Knowledge.  Because God has promised to provide it, we can pray for Him to give us this.

    We looked at the prayer in Daniel 2:20-23 Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, for wisdom and might are His. And He changes the times and the seasons; He removes kings and raises up kings; He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding. He reveals deep and secret things; He knows what is in the darkness, and light dwells with Him. I thank You and praise You, O God of my fathers; You have given me wisdom and might, and have now made known to me what we asked of You, for You have made known to us the king’s demand.

    He gives wisdom and might – notice he gives wisdom to the wise. We need wisdom to know what to do, we don’t know everything.  Daniel thanked God. This is a prayer of faith, calling those things that be not as though they were. Have is past tense.

    Daniel has shown knowledge and greatness, because he has absolute confidence that if it is something he needs, he can get it from God.

    Daniel 2:10-11 The Chaldeans answered the king, and said, “There is not a man on earth who can tell the king’s matter; therefore no king, lord, or ruler has ever asked such things of any magician, astrologer, or Chaldean. It is a difficult thing that the king requests, and there is no other who can tell it to the king except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.

    The Chaldean sorcerers, wizards, so-called wise men, said that to know the king’s dream without being told it is an impossibility, they made the problem greater by their intellectual discourse.

    The bigger you make your mountain, the harder it is to get over it. When there is no other possibility, we need to turn to God to get answers.

    Daniel 2:14-16 Then with counsel and wisdom Daniel answered Arioch, the captain of the king’s guard, who had gone out to kill the wise men of Babylon; he answered and said to Arioch the king’s captain, “Why is the decree from the king so urgent?” Then Arioch made the decision known to Daniel. So Daniel went in and asked the king to give him time, that he might tell the king the interpretation.

    Daniel asked for TIME. Time is needed to accomplish anything. The devil takes away our understanding of patience. He creates urgency about what bad things are going to happen, such as a fear we won’t meet our deadline.  Daniel asks, why is this so urgent. He knew he could get to a place where all of this could be resolved, all he needed was TIME. We usually view time as an enemy, but time is a great ally.We can be successful if we don’t rush blindly into things. He asked the king, with confidence, to give him time so that he could get the king’s interpretation.

    Daniel 22:23 (see above)  He gave God thanks and praised God. If we say we are grateful and don’t give praise, we are a liar. Out of the abundance of the heart our mouth speaks.  If we can’t get past our pride to give thanks and praise the problem is ours. Calling those things that be not as though they were. Speaking it into existence.

    James 1:2 My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials,

    Count it all joy. Praise God even if you are in a trial.

    James 1:3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience.

    Patience develops when our faith is tested.

    James 1:4 But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.

    Lacking nothing.

    James 1:5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

    We have to get to the place where we are tested, tried, and have our faith stressed so that we realize we are not whole and complete – where we learn those things we need to work on.

    God will give us, if we ask Him, wisdom liberally and without reproach. It is a fact of faith that if you ask God to give you wisdom, He will give it to you and He is faithful. We can do any difficult thing with wisdom. Wisdom requires obedience to truth and the flesh hates that. We need to recognize and obey truth. Wisdom tells us our faults, error, and stupid behavior and if we acknowledge the truth, our response to the truth has to be instantaneous, even if we do not understand it. Wisdom understands the hidden things that we can’t wrap our minds around.

    James 1:6 But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind.

    We need to ask in faith without doubting, and then obey the Spirit of truth. We need to make this a practice, and it does not come naturally to us.

    Isaiah 11:4-6 But with righteousness He shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; He shall strike the earth with the rod of His mouth, and with the breath of His lips He shall slay the wicked. Righteousness shall be the belt of His loins, and faithfulness the belt of His waist. The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.

    This has not happened yet, wolves with lions, etc. This is an End Times Prophesy. The Garden of Eden was without violence.

    Isaiah 11:7 The cow and the bear shall graze; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

    Eating habits will change.

    Isaiah 11:8-9 The nursing child shall play by the cobra’s hole, and the weaned child shall put his hand in the viper’s den. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain, for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the waters cover the sea. 

    The earth will be filled with the Knowledge of the Lord.

    Isaiah 11:10-11 And in that day there shall be a Root of Jesse, who shall stand as a banner to the people; for the Gentiles shall seek Him, and His resting place shall be glorious. It shall come to pass in that day that the Lord shall set His hand again the second time to recover the remnant of His people who are left, from Assyria and Egypt, from Pathros and Cush, from Elam and Shinar, from Hamath and the islands of the sea.

    In THAT DAY – future, the root of Jesse is the offspring. A remnant of His people will be gathered in, the culmination of bringing all the Jews back together.

    Isaiah 11:12 He will set up a banner for the nations, and will assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

    The dispersed will be gathered from the four corners of the earth,

    Matthew 24:27 For as the lightning comes from the east and flashes to the west, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. 30-31 Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

    Matthew 25:31-32 When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holya]’> the tongue of the Sea of Egypt; with His mighty wind He will shake His fist over the River, and strike it in the seven streams, and make men cross over dryshod.

    Saudi Arabia, the Sea of Egypt, the Tigris, Euphrates is Turkey. And God will make these streams dry.

    The prophesies speak of a 200 million man army, and what was once seen as an impossibility is now a possibility because China can muster up a 200 million man army.

    Isaiah 11:16 There will be a highway for the remnant of His people who will be left from Assyria, as it was for Israel in the day that he came up from the land of Egypt.

    Assyria, the Persians.

    We quickly covered a few chapters to get us to Chapter 14 where Pastor Don wanted to teach the following week. Some chapters of Isaiah we are going to sort of skim over, other chapters we will spend more time with.

    Isaiah 12:1-2 And in that day you will say: “O LORD, I will praise You; though You were angry with me, Your anger is turned away, and You comfort me. Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid; for YAH, the LORD, is my strength and song; He also has become my salvation.’”

    A Psalm of Thanksgiving. The peoples and nations will be singing this when God shows His strength and might. All those who call on Him will be singing this Psalm of Thanksgiving.

    Isaiah 12:3-5 Therefore with joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation. And in that day you will say: “Praise the LORD, call upon His name; declare His deeds among the peoples, make mention that His name is exalted. Sing to the LORD, for He has done excellent things; this is known in all the earth.

    This will go global – all the earth.

    Isaiah 12:6 Cry out and shout, O inhabitant of Zion, for great is the Holy One of Israel in your midst!

    Isaiah 13:1-2 The burden against Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw. Lift up a banner on the high mountain, raise your voice to them; wave your hand, that they may enter the gates of the nobles.

    Babylon – the reference to high mountains is where the idols are worshipped.

    Isaiah 13:3 I have commanded My sanctified ones; I have also called My mighty ones for My anger— those who rejoice in My exaltation.

    Do not worry about adversity, that is how the underground church grew. God will show Himself.

    Isaiah 13:4 The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like that of many people! A tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together! The LORD of hosts musters the army for battle.

    God gathers His army for battle. The nations gather together for battle against God.

    Isaiah 13:5 They come from a far country, from the end of heaven— the LORD and His weapons of indignation,  to destroy the whole land.

    God is gathering His army, supernatural bodies, not killed and destroyed – Jew and Gentile together to fight this battle.

    Revelation 19:11-15  Now I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse. And He who sat on him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and makes war.  His eyes were like a flame of fire, and on His head were many crowns. He hadf]’> followed Him on white horses.  Now out of His mouth goes a sharp