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V. 11-12 This is another beautiful promise that the Messiah is coming. Then, the city of Jerusalem will
be ‘sought out’, no longer forsaken.
Questions from Chapter 62
1. As pastors, how do we serve as ‘watchmen’ in the local church?
2. How does V. 8 help us to rely on the power of God in the work of perfecting the church?

Chapter 63-64 Main Idea: God’s passionate response to sin, both in wrath
for the nations and discipline for His people, should call forth persistent and
fervent prayer from God’s people.

The opening verses, in fact most of these 2 chapters, can be terrifying. It
speaks graphically of the wrath of God, which should not necessarily be terrifying to a believer, but still
should make us tremble in the knowledge that so very many that we know will face the wrath of God.
So, in addition to being terrifying, it is also an inspiration for evangelism.

Revelation 6: 17 when God’s wrath comes, who is able to stand?
1 Thessalonians 1: 10 Christ will rescue us from the coming wrath

V. 1 Someone comes from Edom, the homeland of the descendants of Esau, from Bozrah, the capital
city, present day Jordan.

He is wearing dyed garments…at least it appears that way.

The man announces that He speaks in righteousness, which limits the identity to Christ. He is ‘mighty to
save’.

V. 2-3 Why does it appear that you have been treading in the winepress? Because He has been
(symbolically). In His anger against those who have been disobedient, He ‘trampled them in [His] fury’.
Revelation 14: 19

Was Edom more guilty than anyone else? This is likely representative of all the godless nations, those
who are in rebellion against God.

V. 4-6 This won’t be fulfilled until the second coming of Christ.

But there will be and have been many ‘dress rehearsals’ of God’s judgment. All of them are merely a
foretaste of God’s final wrath.

It’s interesting that Jesus says, ‘I have trodden the winepress alone’. There was no one with Me.

No one else is worthy…Christ alone can execute this judgment.

Now we return, as we so often do, to the loving kindness of the Lord.

V. 7-8 The contrast is striking, from the fury that the disobedience brought, to the great goodness of
God toward the house of Israel.

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