Isaiah 13-23 - Outline

[Jim Watt]

“*TWO ARE BETTER THAN ONE” MINISTRIES*

*Jim & Marie Watt*

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December 1, 2012


 *JUL 12 - ISAIAH 13-23 - TEN BURDENS ON THE NATIONS*


 *1. 14:12 (13-14, ESV) BURDEN OF BABYLON AND PHILISTIA. “How you are
fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! How you are cut down to the
ground, you who laid the nations low! *Some think this refers to Adam, and
give interesting proof texts. But Father, if it be indeed the covering
cherub who fell by pride, who brought forth the fall of man; who
contaminates his spirit; who corrupted the nations of the world; then let
his kingdom be brought to nothing - and Your Kingdom in our Lord Jesus
come! *Hallowed be your :name!*


 *2. 16:5 (15-16) BURDEN OF MOAB. “Then a throne will be established in
steadfast love (CHEsed), and on it will sit in faithfulness in the tent of
David one who judges and seeks justice and is swift to do
righteousness.” *Father,
it is Your will that You through Jesus, David’s Greater Son, should rule
over the kingdoms of this earth, including Israel as the chief. *Your
:kingdom come!*


 *3. 17:7 (17-18) BURDEN OF DAMASCUS AND ETHIOPIA. “In that day man will
look to his Maker, and his eyes will look on the Holy One of Israel.” *Father,
why is it that it so often requires judgment to bring us to our senses, so
that we can look unto You? O forgive us our proneness to wander! *Your
:will be done, As in heaven, so on earth!*


 *4. 19:24-25 (19-20) BURDEN OF EGYPT AND ETHIOPIA. “In that day Israel
will be the third with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the
earth, 25 whom the LORD of hosts has blessed, saying, ‘Blessed be Egypt my
people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance.’” *Father,
if You can call the things that are not as though they were; and if You can
forgive past sins: then You can forgive our sins, and put a forgiving heart
with us. Do it for Israel, Egypt and Iraq! *Our :daily :bread Give us this
day!*


 *5. 21:6 (21) BURDEN OF BABYLON, DUMAH AND ARABIA. For thus the Lord said
to me: “Go set a watchman; let him announce what he sees.” *And Lord, You
set a watchman over Your church: mature prophets, who know the times, and
what is about to happen, and what the church should do. Your true watchmen
are not always popular at the time, but the day will come when they are
accepted because of fulfillment. *And forgive us our :debts, As we also
have forgiven our :debtors.*


 *6. 22:22 (22) BURDEN OF JERUSALEM. “And I will place on his shoulder the
key of the house of David. He shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall
shut, and none shall open.” *See Revelation 3:7-8. Earthly kings of Judah,
of the house of David, are but a type, but a dim prefiguring of Your
Glorious Son, O Father. Through *Jesus* the head of the tempter was
crushed! *And bring us not into temptation.*


 *7. 23:9 (23) BURDEN OF TYRE. “The LORD of hosts has purposed it, to
defile the pompous pride of all glory, to dishonor all the honored of the
earth.” *Your Glory, O Great Jehovah Father, You will not give to man. You *
break* the pride of man and Lucifer! *But deliver us from the evil one!*


 *NOTE**: Psalm 12:6 (12) THE FAITHFUL HAVE VANISHED! **“The words of the
LORD are pure words, like silver refined in a furnace on the ground,
purified seven times!” *O Father, let us never forget how precious and
valuable is Your Word! Your Word through Your prophets and apostles is an
extension of Yourself! You and Your Word are one (John 1:1)! Let us
continually tremble at Your word (Isaiah 66:2b).


 *Our Psalm for the day: 12:5 (12) THE FAITHFUL HAVE VANISHED. “Because the
poor are plundered, because the needy groan, I will now arise,” says the
LORD; “I will place him in the safety for which he longs.” *Who else is a
God like You, Creator of the universe, yet observing the fall of a sparrow
and the plight of the need? Make us like Yourself! *Hallowed be your :name!*


 Title: This Psalm is headed, “To the Chief Musician upon Sheminith, a
Psalm of David,” which title is identical with the Sixth Psalm, except that
*Neginoth* is here omitted. The subject will be better before the mind’s
eye if we entitle this Psalm: “Good Thoughts in Bad Times.” It is supposed
to have been written while Saul was persecuting David and those who favored
his cause.* *


 12:1 *Help, Lord. *The Psalmist sees the extreme danger of his position,
for a man had better be among lions than among liars; he feels his own
inability to deal with such sons of Belial, for “he who shall touch them
must be fenced with iron.” He therefore turns to his all-sufficient Helper,
the Lord, Whose help is never denied to His servants and Whose aid is
enough for all their needs. As small ships can sail into harbors which
larger vessels, drawing more water, cannot enter, so our brief cries and
short petitions may trade with heaven when our soul is wind-bound, and
business-bound, as to longer exercises of devotion, and when the stream of
grace seems at too low an ebb to float more laborious supplication.


 12:2 *They speak vanity every one with his neighbor. *Compliments and
fawning congratulations are hateful to honest men; they know that if they
take they must give them, and they scorn to do either.

*With flattering lips and with a double heart to they speak*. He who puffs
up another’s heart has nothing better than wind in his own.


 12:3 *The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that
speaks proud things.* Strange it is that the easy yoke of the Lord should
so gall the shoulders of the proud, while the iron bands of Satan they bind
about themselves as chains of honor. One generally imagines that flatterers
are such mean parasites, so cringing and fawning, that they cannot be
proud; but the wise man will tell you that while all pride is truly
meanness, there is in the very lowest meanness no small degree of pride.
Caesar’s horse is even more proud of carrying Caesar than Caesar is of
riding him. None are so detestably domineering as the little creatures who
creep into offices by cringing to the great; those were bad times, indeed,
in which these obnoxious beings are numerous and powerful.


 12:6 *The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace
of earth, purified seven times.* Man’s words are yea and nay, but the
Lord’s promises are yea and amen. In the original there is an allusion to
the most severely purifying process known to the ancients, through which
silver was passed when the greatest possible purity was desired; the dross
was all consumed, and only the bright and precious metal remained; so clear
and free from all alloy of error or unfaithfulness is the book of the words
of the Lord. The Bible has passed through the furnace of persecution,
literary criticism, philosophic doubt, and scientific discovery, and has
lost nothing but those human interpretations which clung to it as alloy to
precious ore. - Charles H. Spurgeon - “Treasury of David”.



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