- If the are faithful to obey God's commandments, God will rise them above all nations.
- They shall be blessed for listening to God's voice in many ways:
1) Your cities and fields.
2) Fruits of womb, fields, and cattle.
3) Your basket and kneading bowl.
4) When they come in and go out.
5) Enemies who rise against them will be defeated (come one way, flee 7 ways).
6) In your barns and undertakings
7) established as a people holy to God.
8) All other people will see they are God's people.
- God will make others fear them and will abound them in prosperity.
- God will open "His good treasury" the heavens and give their land water
- Israel shall lend to other nations but NOT borrow
- God will make Israel the head not the tail.
- It says similar phrases about "if you obey God's commandments, then..." 5 times in this section.
- The last "if, then" phrase throws if you obey God and don't serve other gods
- The next section starts off with more curses if they don't obey God's commands
- List of Curses:
1) Cursed be cities and fields
2) Cursed be basket and kneading bowl
3) Cursed be fruit of wombs, ground, and herds
4) Cursed coming in and going out.
- Confusion and frustration in all undertakings - they will be destroyed and perish for forsaking God.
- pestilence will stick to them
- God will strike them with wasting disease, fever, fiery heat, drought, blight, and mildew
- The sun shall bake the earth so it's hard as iron.
- Their will be no rain
- Their enemies will defeat them.
- They shall come in one way and flee their enemies 7 ways.
- They shall be a horror to all nations.
- God will strike them with boils, tumors, scabs and unhealable itch.
- God will strike them with blindness, confusion, and madness.
- They shall be opressed and robbed continually with no help.
- They will have a wife who will be ravished by another.
- They will build a house but not live in it.
- Their cattle, donkeys, sheep, and children will be taken away by others.
- An unknown nation will rise against them and crush and oppress them continually.
- Under a new king they will serve gods of wood and Israel will become a horror, a byword, and a proverb to other people and they will be led away.
- They will plant much seed only to be eaten by locusts.
- They will plant vineyard but only worms shall drink of the grapes.
- Their olives will drop off and the crickets will eat their fruit.
- The sojourner will be raised up and they will be brought low.
- The sojourner will lend to them and become the head. They will be the tail.
- Moses repeats that these curses will overtake them because they did not serve the Lord.
- The curses will be a sign to them and their children forever.
- They will serve their enemies because they didn't serve God with "joyfulness and gladness of heart".
- God will destroy them by putting a yoke of iron on them.
- God will send an unknown nation to attack them like an eagle.
- This new nation will take everything they have and kill their children as well.
- They will even tear down the high walls that the Israelites trust in.
- - During the siege the most tender man will not share the flesh of his children with his wife.
- His tender wife will not share the afterbirth she eats during the distress of the siege.
- These things will happen if Israel does not fear “the glorious and awesome name, the Lord your God.
- If they don’t, their children will be plagued by disease and severe affliction, all the diseases of Egypt that they feared.
- God will even bring every unknown disease against them.
- They are numerous like the stars but will then be few in number.
- He takes delight in doing good to Israel but He will delight in destroying them and seeing them come to ruin.
- God will scatter them across the earth, where they will serve other gods which they have never known.
- There they will find no resting place and their hearts will tremble and have a “languishing soul”.
- They will dread every day with no assurance of life.
- Because of the dread and what their eyes see they will say, in the morning “if only it were evening” and in the evening “if only it were morning.”
- They will be shipped back to Egypt which God promised they shall never do.
- There they will sell themselves as slaves, but no one will buy them.
Isaiah 48
- God is calling out to Judah and Israel who confess God but not in truth or right
- The call themselves after God's holy city
- God reminds them of the former things He announced to them that happened as He said they would.
- He told them what would happen before it took place because He knew they were an obstinate people.
- God told things to them in advance so they couldn't say their iodls did those things.
- God tells them to listen up because He is declaring new things that will take place.
- God has created things now before today that they have never heard of so they couldn't say they knew this or that.
- What things was God referring to that He had recent;y made but not long ago?
- God says even long ago their ears were not opened.
- God said that He knew they would deal treacherously and were rebels from birth.
- God deferred His anger for His name's sake and for the sake of His praise.
- That is why He didn't cut them off.
- God has refined and tried them in the "furnace of affliction"
- God says "For my own sake" (twice) and that He won't give His glory to another.
- God tells Israel to listen to Him because he is the first and the last and Hid hands laid the foundations of the earth and the heavens.
- When he calls them heaven and earth stand together.
- The Lord loves them (Israel) and will be against Babylon and the Chaldeans
- God has called him and he will prosper
- God reminds them that He is not speaking in secret and has been there from the beginning.
- God has sent me (Isaiah?) and his Spirit
- God is their God and teaches them how to profit and the way they should go.
- If only they had listened to God and obeyed His commandments there would have been peace like a river and righteousness like the waves of the sea.
- Their offerings and descendents would have been like grains of sand and their name would never have been cut off.
- They should shout for joy because God has proclaimed that He will redeem His people.
- He reminds them that God provided them water from a rock in the desert
- This section closes with this statement, "Thereis no peace," says the Lord, "for the wicked."
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