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Study Section 8: Chapters 25 - 28

8.1 Connect

Educators today have a strange view of history. They claim that history is cyclic. What they
mean is that history is constantly repeating itself. The lessons that mankind should have
learned in the past are not headed, and men tend to repeat the errors of their past. So
basically, these historians view history as going NO WHERE. We just keep going around and
around.

The Bible presents a different view of history. The Bible says that history is linear. It has a beginning, a
purpose, and a conclusion. The Bible says that history is moving in a particular direction and that God is
involved and overseeing the entire process. Everything that happens accomplishes God’s purposes.

Today we will see how Isaiah reveals these truths to us so let’s get started….

8.2 Objectives

1. The student should be able to discuss from Chapter 25 that God is sovereign over all the
nations and will have His way in all their affairs.

2. The student should be able to discuss that all is not dark and gloomy. God speaks a promise of
perfect peace in the midst of great suffering for the people of God.

3. The student should be able to explain how the Lord shows His great power as a warrior and a vine
keeper, so His people will fill the world with fruit, for His glory.

4. The student should be able to explain that people try to save themselves from death by their own
efforts. But Christ alone is the rock of refuge, and whoever trusts in Him will never be shaken.

8.3 Chapter 25 - Main Idea: We find four themes of praise in God’s magnificent actions;
executing His wise plan in history (v. 1), converting violent nations to worship Him (V. 2-5);
swallowing death forever in the resurrection of Jesus Christ (V. 6-9) and condemning arrogant
nations by His justice and power (V. 10-12)

Before the foundation of the earth, God had created a perfect plan for the universe. Did you
know that God cannot learn anything? That nothing has ever ‘occurred’ to God? If He could
learn something, it would mean that He was not omniscient. There’s a line from a
contemporary Christian song that says, ‘To You, my future is a memory’. He already knows the
things that will happen to our great, great, great grandchildren, and He knows their names.

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