Isaiah 29

February 24, 2022

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Reading along with us in Isaiah? Here’s today’s reading:

Isaiah 29 (NIV)

Woe to David’s City
1 Woe to you, Ariel, Ariel,
the city where David settled!
Add year to year
and let your cycle of festivals go on.
2 Yet I will besiege Ariel;
she will mourn and lament,
she will be to me like an altar hearth
3 I will encamp against you on all sides;
I will encircle you with towers
and set up my siege works against you..............Continue Reading

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  1. Was just looking back at chapter 28. Amazing how God gives the prophets of the Old Testament a picture of the messiah. Vs 16. Incredible written 750 years before Jesus was born. Chapter 29. I was struck by vs 13-14. Religious people. Things never change. The Pharisees. Some religious people today. Vs 15. Thinking they can hide their plans from God. What a joke. Vs 17-24. Life under Jesus rule. I’m ready!!

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  2. Because of Judah’s (represented by Ariel (Jerusalem)) rejection of Him, God will bring judgement upon them, but because He loves them so much, He will bring those who come against Jerusalem to naught. His people have been close to Him with their lips, but far away in their hearts. God doesn’t want an outward show, He wants our hearts…the core of what we are….how we define ourselves, what we pursue, what our expectation is based on…to all be about Him. And God is always willing to show up for His people, to reveal Himself in glory so they will see how foolish it is to turn away from God. How foolish it is to think He cannot see their plans or that they can question how they have been made. Because God desires for His people to hear, understand, worship and follow Him. And one day they will…God will make sure of it! So as much as God will discipline HIs people, He always has desires and plans to bring them back to Him. It is a consistent strain in scripture.

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  4. You can’t always tell a person’s heart by what they say or what they do but only God can really know our heart! God does know our heart, our motivation for what we do and God wants this to be pure. A heart that follows Him and He will bring judgement when necessary even on those who talk a good game because He knows their heart.

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  5. God will come against Jerusalem.
    They are blind with disobedience.
    Like drunks with an hang over.
    A deep sleep has come over them where they are trying to see something, read something, but it is unreachable.
    People who seek outwardly, but their heats are far away.
    They think they can hide from God, that he doesn’t see.
    But God will renew Israel and the deaf will hear and the blind will see.
    They will bear fruit.

    “These also who erred in spirit will come to understanding,
    And those who complained will learn doctrine.”

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