Participants: Kelly Mowrer
Series Code: HWAL
Program Code: HWAL000633
00:15 Hello and welcome to His Words Are Life.
00:18 I am Kelly Mowrer and today we're going to be reading 00:20 from the Book of Isaiah. 00:22 But before we start let's pray together. 00:25 Dear heavenly Father, 00:26 thank you for this time to sit with you 00:30 and to hear your voice speaking words of truth 00:33 down through the centuries 00:35 that can change our lives today. 00:37 Please give us understanding as we hear them 00:40 and please send the Holy Spirit to teach us 00:42 the lessons You have for us. 00:44 We love you so much 00:45 and thank you for loving us, amen. 00:48 We're picking up in Isaiah, Chapter 7, 00:51 beginning with verse 20. 00:53 This is the King James Version. 00:55 "In the same day shall the Lord shave 00:57 with a razor that is hired, namely, 01:00 by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, 01:03 the head, and the hair of the feet, 01:05 and it shall also consume the beard. 01:07 And it shall come to pass in that day, 01:09 that a man shall nourish a young cow, 01:11 and two sheep, and it shall come to pass, 01:13 for the abundance of milk 01:15 that they shall give he shall eat butter. 01:17 For butter and honey shall every one eat 01:19 that is left in the land. 01:21 And it shall come to pass in that day, 01:23 that every place shall be, 01:25 where there were a thousand vines 01:27 at a thousand silverlings, 01:29 it shall even be for briers and thorns. 01:32 With arrows and with bows shall men come thither, 01:36 because all the land shall become briers and thorns. 01:40 And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, 01:43 there shall not come thither 01:44 the fear of briers and thorns, 01:46 but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, 01:48 and for the treading of lesser cattle." 01:52 Continuing in Isaiah, Chapter 8, 01:55 this is the King James Version. 01:57 "Moreover the Lord said unto me, 02:00 Take thee a great roll, and write in it 02:04 with a man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz. 02:09 And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, 02:13 Uriah the priest, 02:14 and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah. 02:18 And I went unto the prophetess, 02:20 and she conceived, and bare a son. 02:22 Then said the Lord to me, 02:23 Call his name Mahershalalhashbaz. 02:27 For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, 02:29 my father, and my mother, 02:32 the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria 02:35 shall be taken away before the king of Assyria. 02:38 The Lord spake also unto me again, 02:41 saying, Forasmuch as this people refuseth 02:44 the waters of Shiloah that go softly, 02:48 and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son, 02:52 now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up 02:54 upon them the waters of the river, 02:56 strong and many, even the king of Assyria, 03:00 and all his glory, 03:02 and he shall come up over all his channels, 03:04 and go over all his banks. 03:06 And he shall pass through Judah, 03:07 he shall overflow and go over, 03:09 he shall reach even to the neck, 03:11 and the stretching out of his wings 03:13 shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel. 03:17 Associate yourselves, O ye people, 03:19 and ye shall be broken in pieces, 03:21 and give ear, all ye of far countries, 03:23 gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces, 03:25 gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces. 03:29 Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought, 03:33 speak the word, and it shall not stand, 03:36 for God is with us. 03:38 For the Lord spake thus to me with a strong hand, 03:42 and instructed me that I should not walk 03:44 in the way of this people, saying, 03:47 Say ye not, A confederacy, 03:49 to all them to whom this people shall say, 03:52 A confederacy, neither fear ye their fear, 03:56 nor be afraid. 03:58 Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself, 04:00 and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread. 04:05 And he shall be for a sanctuary, 04:09 but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offense 04:12 to both the houses of Israel, 04:14 for a gin and for a snare 04:16 to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 04:18 And many among them shall stumble, 04:20 and fall, and be broken, 04:22 and be snared, and be taken. 04:26 Bind up the testimony, 04:27 seal the law among my disciples. 04:31 And I will wait upon the Lord, 04:33 that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, 04:35 and I will look for him. 04:37 Behold, I and the children 04:40 whom the Lord hath given me 04:42 are for signs and for wonders in Israel 04:44 from the Lord of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion. 04:47 And when they shall say unto you, 04:49 seek unto them that have familiar spirits, 04:52 and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter, 04:56 should not a people seek unto their God? 04:59 For the living to the dead? 05:02 To the law and to the testimony, 05:04 if they speak not according to this word, 05:07 it is because there is no light in them. 05:10 And they shall pass through it, 05:12 hardly bestead and hungry, and it shall come to pass, 05:16 that when they shall be hungry, 05:17 they shall fret themselves, 05:20 and curse their king and their God, and look upward. 05:22 And they shall look unto the earth, 05:23 and behold trouble and darkness, 05:26 dimness of anguish, 05:28 and they shall be driven to darkness." 05:31 Continuing with the Book of Isaiah, Chapter 9, 05:34 and this is the King James Version. 05:37 "Nevertheless the dimness shall not be 05:40 such as was in her vexation, 05:43 when at the first he lightly 05:45 afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, 05:48 and afterward did more grievously afflict her 05:51 by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, 05:53 in Galilee of the nations. 05:56 The people that walked in darkness 05:59 have seen a great light, 06:01 they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, 06:04 upon them hath the light shined. 06:08 Thou hast multiplied the nation, 06:10 and not increased the joy, 06:13 they joy before thee 06:14 according to the joy in harvest, 06:15 and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil. 06:19 For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, 06:21 and the staff of his shoulder, 06:23 the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian. 06:27 For every battle of the warrior 06:29 is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood, 06:33 but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire. 06:37 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, 06:44 and the government shall be upon his shoulder, 06:47 and his name shall be called Wonderful, 06:50 Counsellor, The mighty God, 06:54 The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. 06:58 Of the increase of his government and peace 07:01 there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, 07:05 and upon his kingdom, to order it, 07:08 and to establish it with judgment 07:10 and with justice from henceforth even forever. 07:15 The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this. 07:20 The Lord sent a word into Jacob, 07:22 and it hath lighted upon Israel. 07:25 And all the people shall know, 07:26 even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, 07:30 that say in the pride and stoutness of heart, 07:34 the bricks are fallen down, 07:35 but we will build with hewn stones, 07:37 the sycamores are cut down, 07:39 but we will change them into cedars. 07:41 Therefore the Lord shall set up 07:43 the adversaries of Rezin against him, 07:46 and join his enemies together, 07:49 the Syrians before, and the Philistines behind, 07:52 and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. 07:56 For all this his anger is not turned away, 07:59 but his hand is stretched out still. 08:03 For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, 08:05 neither do they seek the Lord of hosts. 08:08 Therefore the Lord will cut off 08:10 from Israel head and tail, 08:12 branch and rush, in one day. 08:16 The ancient and honourable, he is the head, 08:20 and the prophet that teacheth lies, 08:22 he is the tail. 08:24 For the leaders of this people cause them to err, 08:27 and they that are led of them are destroyed. 08:31 Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, 08:34 neither shall have mercy 08:35 on their fatherless and widows, 08:37 for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, 08:40 and every mouth speaketh folly. 08:42 For all this his anger is not turned away, 08:46 but his hand is stretched out still. 08:50 For wickedness burneth as the fire, 08:52 it shall devour the briers and thorns, 08:54 and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, 08:56 and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke. 09:00 Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts 09:02 is the land darkened, 09:03 and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire, 09:06 no man shall spare his brother. 09:09 And he shall snatch on the right hand, 09:12 and be hungry, and he shall eat on the left hand, 09:15 and they shall not be satisfied, 09:17 they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm, 09:21 Manasseh, Ephraim, and Ephraim, Manasseh, 09:26 and they together shall be against Judah. 09:29 For all this his anger is not turned away, 09:33 but his hand is stretched out still." 09:37 Isaiah, Chapter 10. 09:40 This is the King James Version. 09:42 "Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, 09:47 and that write grievousness which they have prescribed, 09:51 to turn aside the needy from judgment, 09:54 and to take away the right from the poor of my people, 09:56 that widows may be their prey, 09:58 and that they may rob the fatherless! 10:01 And what will ye do in the day of visitation, 10:03 and in the desolation which shall come from far? 10:06 To whom will ye flee for help? 10:08 Where will ye leave your glory? 10:11 Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, 10:13 and they shall fall under the slain. 10:16 For all this his anger is not turned away, 10:19 but his hand is stretched out still. 10:22 O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, 10:24 and the staff in their hand is mine indignation. 10:28 I will send him against an hypocritical nation, 10:30 and against the people of my wrath 10:32 will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, 10:34 to take the prey, 10:36 to tread them down like the mire of the streets. 10:39 Howbeit he meaneth not so, 10:42 neither doth his heart think so, 10:44 but it is in his heart to destroy 10:47 and cut off nations not a few. 10:49 For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings? 10:54 Is not Calno as Carchemish? 10:57 Is not Hamath as Arpad? 10:59 Is not Samaria as Damascus? 11:02 As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, 11:04 and whose graven images 11:06 did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria. 11:09 Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, 11:12 so do to Jerusalem and her idols? 11:15 Wherefore it shall come to pass, 11:16 that when the Lord hath performed his whole work 11:19 upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, 11:21 I will punish the fruit of the stout heart 11:23 of the king of Assyria, 11:25 and the glory of his high looks. 11:27 For he saith, By the strength of my hand 11:29 I have done it, and by my wisdom, 11:31 for I am prudent, 11:33 and I have removed the bounds of the people, 11:35 and have robbed their treasures, 11:36 and I have put down the inhabitants 11:38 like a valiant man. 11:40 And my hand hath found as a nest 11:41 the riches of the people, 11:42 and as one gathereth eggs that are left, 11:44 have I gathered all the fruit, 11:46 there was none that moved the wing, 11:47 or opened the mouth, or peeped. 11:51 Shall the ax boast itself against him 11:53 that heweth therewith? 11:54 Or shall the saw magnify itself 11:57 against him that shaketh it? 11:59 As if the rod should shake itself against them 12:02 that lift it up, 12:03 or as if the staff should lift up itself, 12:05 as if it were no wood. 12:08 Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, 12:11 send among his fat ones leanness, 12:14 and under his glory he shall kindle a burning 12:17 like the burning of a fire. 12:19 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, 12:21 and his Holy One for a flame, 12:22 and it shall burn and devour his thorns 12:25 and his briers in one day, 12:27 and shall consume the glory of his forest, 12:29 and of his fruitful field, both soul and body, 12:32 and they shall be as when a standardbearer fainteth. 12:36 And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, 12:40 that a child may write them. 12:42 And it shall come to pass in that day, 12:44 that the remnant of Israel, 12:45 and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, 12:49 shall no more again stay upon him that smote them, 12:52 but shall stay upon the Lord, 12:54 the Holy One of Israel, in truth. 12:57 The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, 13:00 unto the mighty God. 13:03 For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, 13:05 yet a remnant of them shall return, 13:08 the consumption decreed 13:09 shall overflow with righteousness. 13:13 For the Lord God of hosts shall make a consumption, 13:15 even determined, in the midst of all the land. 13:18 Therefore saith the Lord God of hosts, 13:21 O my people that dwellest in Zion, 13:24 be not afraid of the Assyrian, 13:27 he shall smite thee with a rod, 13:28 and shall lift up his staff against thee, 13:30 after the manner of Egypt. 13:32 For yet a very little while, 13:34 and the indignation shall cease, 13:36 and mine anger in their destruction. 13:39 And the Lord of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him 13:42 according to the slaughter of Midian 13:44 at the rock of Oreb, 13:46 and as his rod was upon the sea, 13:48 so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt. 13:52 And it shall come to pass in that day, 13:54 that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, 13:57 and his yoke from off thy neck, 13:59 and the yoke shall be destroyed 14:01 because of the anointing. 14:03 He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron, 14:07 at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages. 14:09 They are gone over the passage, 14:11 they have taken up their lodging at Geba, 14:14 Ramah is afraid, Gibeah of Saul is fled. 14:18 Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim, 14:21 cause it to be heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth. 14:26 Madmenah is removed, 14:29 the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee. 14:33 As yet shall he remain at Nob that day, 14:35 he shall shake his hand 14:37 against the mount of the daughter of Zion, 14:39 the hill of Jerusalem." |
Revised 2014-12-17