Isaiah

:Mood Todae (on Left)

Many layered...dats the first lesson i re-learnt as Matt n myself began to go thru the Book of Isaiah...the first time i read dat seminal book was when i was in sec 3...goin thru (not menopause dun worry) O.T familiarisation studies...

a simple chapter can hav an impact on so many different areas of life..judgement n salvation can refer to Israel den, can refer to the World today as it reaches the end of days...can refer to repentance n reconciliation to God thru Christ...n of course unltimately to Jesus Christ...in whom God's ultimate Judgement fell n thru whom is the Ultimate Salvation...n of course..for those of us with socialist tendencies...i dare say it has some bearin on social injustice, privilege n the down-trodden...but onli some n through many degrees of removal..

the image of the Suffering Servant of course, is the highlight of any readin of Isaiah..who is the Suffering Servant? Is it Israel, human society or Jesus? on several levels, one can see that it begins with Israel n den Israel can't fulfill dis n we go on 2 Jesus Christ who is fully God's Servant n n Suffers the most for sins..

a fly-thru of Isaiah is happenin at present n it really is a micro-cosm of the Bible..in whole it shows wat the message of the Bible is about...Judgement n Salvation, Deliverance and the Ultimate Saviour who's dis superhuman figure dats is revealed in the NT to be God's Son Jesus..

e most interestin verse so far has been..Here am i, and the children God has given mi...Isa. 8:18...compare the context n useage of dis wif Heb.2:13...den onli can one undestand the richness, complexity n multi-layerin of the Bible n Isaiah...