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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
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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