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V. 1 Isaiah offers up praise to God for the wonderful things He has already done. When we read things
like this, it is a good thing for us to truly call to mind the incredible things that He has already done in
our lives, because it helps us to recognize He will continue to things in our lives.

V. 2-3 Isaiah begins to recount some of the amazing things that God has done…cities that were
considered strongholds were made a ruin, never to be rebuilt. Then begins the acknowledgment that
God is going to do more. People who prided themselves in their strength will glorify God. Cities and
nations that were enemies of the Lord will come to fear Him, to praise Him

That is the first of the four themes found in this chapter: converting violent nations to worship Him.

V. 4-5 More of the great things that God has already done: strength for the poor, refuge from the storm,
shade from the heat. Even when God’s people are under attack, and the storm rages against the wall,
God is our refuge and strength.

It says that God ‘will’ reduce the noise of the aliens, the song of the terrible ones ‘will be’ diminished…it
will happen in His timing, not ours.

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In this is the 2 of the 4 themes: Converting violent nations, terrible nations, to worship Him. God has
the power to convert evil, vile nations and individuals to genuine worshipers. Didn’t He do that for us?

Until that time, He will protect His people from the storms.

V. 6-9 includes one of the Old Testaments clearest prophesies of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, which
is the 3 of the themes.
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V. 6 describes a bountiful feast that the Lord will make for all people. That doesn’t of course mean that
all people will come to the feast. Luke 14: 15-24

One of the things we see here is that ALL people are invited to come.

V. 7-9 ‘On this mountain’ generally refers to Zion or Jerusalem, or the New Jerusalem. He will destroy
the veil, the ‘burial shroud’, which was accomplished after the death of Jesus. He will swallow up death
forever, which was accomplished after the Resurrection of Jesus, as was removing the rebuke of His
people.

For many, it was the death and the Resurrection which brought the realization that Jesus was God.
Matthew 27: 54. The Jews had been waiting for the Messiah at least since the Old Testament prophets,
actually since Genesis. When Jesus was resurrected, many realized that the One for whom they had
been waiting was here.

V 10-12 In what may seem a strange twist, after all the prophecy about the Messiah, about all people
being invited to the feast, now we go back to condemning Moab. Moab is simply representative of
those who will never believe, never accept the free gift of salvation.

Those who reject will be as if drowning in a ‘refuse heap’, or a dung heap. This is the 4 theme of
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Chapter 25…the condemnation of the arrogant nations.

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