WHO WAS ISAIAH?

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PROPHET - DATE JONAH (825-785BC)? JOEL (800BC)? HOSEA (785-725BC)? MICAH (785-710BC)? AMOS (784BC)? ISAIAH (701-681BC)? NAHUM (700BC)? ZEPHANIAH (630BC)? JEREMIAH (629-588BC)? DANIEL (606-534BC)? HABAKKUK (598BC)? EZEKIEL (597-573BC)? OBADIAH (588-562BC)? EZRA (536-456BC)? HAGGAI (532-512BC)? ZECHARIAH (520-475BC)? ESTHER (485-465BC)? NEHEMIAH (465-424BC)? MALACHI (420-397BC)? KING / EVENT - DATE TIGLATH-PILESER (745-727BC)? HEZEKIAH (JUDAH) (726-698BC)? SHALMANESER (727-722BC)? ISRAEL TAKEN CAPTIVE (722BC)? SENNACHERIB (705-681BC)? NEBUCHADNEZZAR (605-562BC)? ZEDEKIAH (JUDAH) (597-586BC)? JUDAH TAKEN CAPTIVE (586BC)? BELSHAZZAR (541-523BC)? CYRUS (559-529BC)? BABYLON DESTROYED (536BC)? DARIUS (511-475BC)?
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OUTLINE ISAIAH CHAPTER FIFTY-SIX

• SALVATION FOR THE GENTILES V. 1-8
• ISRAEL'S IRRESPONSIBLE LEADERS V. 9-12

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READ ISAIAH 561-2

• SALVATION FOR THE GENTILES
• 1 Thus says the LORD "Keep justice, and do
  righteousness, For My salvation is about to come,
  And My righteousness to be revealed.
• 2 Blessed is the man who does this, And the son
  of man who lays hold on it Who keeps from
  defiling the Sabbath, And keeps his hand from
  doing any evil."

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 561-2

• SALVATION FOR THE GENTILES
• 1 Thus says the LORD "Keep justice, and do
  righteousness, For My salvation is about to come,
  And My righteousness to be revealed.
• 2 Blessed is the man who does this, And the son
  of man who lays hold on it Who keeps from
  defiling the Sabbath, And keeps his hand from
  doing any evil.
• WHO IS THE LORD TALKING TO?
• WHAT DOES THE LORD WANT THEM TO DO? WHY?
• WHO WILL THE LORD BLESS? WHY?

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 561-2

• SALVATION FOR THE GENTILES
• 1 Thus says the LORD "Keep justice, and do
  righteousness, For My salvation is about to come,
  And My righteousness to be revealed.
• WHO IS THE LORD TALKING TO?
• WHAT DOES THE LORD WANT THEM TO DO? WHY?
• WHAT DID DAVID SAY ABOUT THE LORD?
• READ PSALMS 117
• 7 The LORD is righteous, He loves righteousness
  His countenance beholds the upright.
• READ PSALMS 859
• 9 Surely His salvation is near to those who fear
  Him,
• That glory may dwell in our land. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 561-2

• WHO IS THE LORD TALKING TO?
• WHAT DOES THE LORD WANT THEM TO DO? WHY?
• Keep justice, and do righteousness
• For My salvation is about to come,
• And My righteousness to be revealed
• WHAT DID THE LORD WANT ISRAEL TO DO?
• READ ISAIAH 117
• 17 Learn to do good Seek justice, Rebuke the
  oppressor Defend the fatherless, Plead for the
  widow.
• READ ISAIAH 269
• 9 With my soul I have desired You in the night,
  Yes, by my spirit within me I will seek You
  early For when Your judgments are in the earth,
  The inhabitants of the world will learn
  righteousness. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 561-2

• WHO IS THE LORD TALKING TO?
• WHAT DOES THE LORD WANT THEM TO DO? WHY?
• Keep justice, and do righteousness
• For My salvation is about to come,
• And My righteousness to be revealed
• WHAT DID THE LORD WANT ISRAEL TO DO?
• READ ISAIAH 4612-13
• 12 "Listen to Me, you stubborn-hearted, Who are
  far from righteousness
• 13 I bring My righteousness near, it shall not be
  far off My salvation shall not linger. And I
  will place salvation in Zion, For Israel My
  glory. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 561-2

• WHO IS THE LORD TALKING TO?
• WHAT DOES THE LORD WANT THEM TO DO? WHY?
• Keep justice, and do righteousness
• For My salvation is about to come,
• And My righteousness to be revealed
• WHAT DID THE LORD WANT ISRAEL TO DO?
• READ JEREMIAH 223
• 3 Thus says the LORD "Execute judgment and
  righteousness, and deliver the plundered out of
  the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong and do no
  violence to the stranger, the fatherless, or the
  widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.
  NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 561-2

• WHO IS THE LORD TALKING TO?
• WHAT DOES THE LORD WANT THEM TO DO? WHY?
• Keep justice, and do righteousness
• For My salvation is about to come,
• And My righteousness to be revealed
• WHAT DID JEREMIAH PROPHECY?
• READ JEREMIAH 235-6
• 5 "Behold, the days are coming," says the LORD,
• "That I will raise to David a Branch of
  righteousness
• A King shall reign and prosper, And execute
  judgment and righteousness in the earth.
• 6 In His days Judah will be saved, And Israel
  will dwell safely Now this is His name by which
  He will be called THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
  NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 561-2

• WHO IS THE LORD TALKING TO?
• WHAT DOES THE LORD WANT THEM TO DO? WHY?
• Keep justice, and do righteousness
• For My salvation is about to come,
• And My righteousness to be revealed
• WHAT DID DANIEL PROPHECY?
• READ DANIEL 924
• 24 "Seventy weeks are determined For your people
  and for your holy city, To finish the
  transgression, To make an end of sins, To make
  reconciliation for iniquity,
• To bring in everlasting righteousness, To seal up
  vision and prophecy, And to anoint the Most Holy.
  NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 561-2

• WHO IS THE LORD TALKING TO?
• WHAT DOES THE LORD WANT THEM TO DO? WHY?
• Keep justice, and do righteousness
• For My salvation is about to come,
• And My righteousness to be revealed
• WHAT DID JOHN PREACH?
• READ MATTHEW 31-3
• 1 In those days John the Baptist came preaching
  in the wilderness of Judea,
• 2 and saying, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven
  is at hand!
• 3 For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet
  Isaiah, saying "The voice of one crying in the
  wilderness 'Prepare the way of the LORD Make
  His paths straight.'" NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 561-2

• WHAT DOES THE LORD WANT THEM TO DO? WHY?
• Keep justice, and do righteousness
• For My salvation is about to come,
• And My righteousness to be revealed
• WHAT DID JOHN PREACH?
• READ LUKE 33-6
• 3 And he went into all the region around the
  Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the
  remission of sins,
• 4 as it is written in the book of the words of
  Isaiah the prophet, saying "The voice of one
  crying in the wilderness 'Prepare the way of the
  LORD Make His paths straight.
• 5 Every valley shall be filled And every mountain
  and hill brought low The crooked places shall be
  made straight And the rough ways smooth
• 6 And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.'"
  NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 561-2

• WHO IS THE LORD TALKING TO?
• WHAT DOES THE LORD WANT THEM TO DO? WHY?
• Keep justice, and do righteousness
• For My salvation is about to come,
• And My righteousness to be revealed
• WHAT DID JESUS PREACH?
• READ MATTHEW 412 17
• 12 Now when Jesus heard that John had been put in
  prison, He departed to Galilee.
• 17 From that time Jesus began to preach and to
  say, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at
  hand." NKJV
• (Mark 114,15 Luke 414,15)

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 561-2

• WHO IS THE LORD TALKING TO?
• WHAT DOES THE LORD WANT THEM TO DO? WHY?
• Keep justice, and do righteousness
• For My salvation is about to come,
• And My righteousness to be revealed
• WHAT DID JESUS PREACH?
• READ LUKE 2129-31
• 29 Then He spoke to them a parable "Look at the
  fig tree, and all the trees.
• 30 When they are already budding, you see and
  know for yourselves that summer is now near.
• 31 So you also, when you see these things
  happening, know that the kingdom of God is near.
  NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 561-2

• WHAT DOES THE LORD WANT THEM TO DO? WHY?
• Keep justice, and do righteousness
• For My salvation is about to come,
• And My righteousness to be revealed
• WHAT DID PAUL PREACH?
• READ ROMANS 323-26
• 23 For all have sinned and fall short of the
  glory of God,
• 24 being justified freely by His grace through
  the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
• 25 whom God set forth as a propitiation by His
  blood, through faith, to demonstrate His
  righteousness, because in His forbearance God had
  passed over the sins that were previously
  committed,
• 26 to demonstrate at the present time His
  righteousness, that He might be just and the
  justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 561-2

• WHAT DID PAUL PREACH?
• READ ROMANS 1311-14
• 11 And do this, knowing the time, that now it is
  high time to awake out of sleep for now our
  salvation is nearer than when we first believed.
• 12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand.
  Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness,
  and let us put on the armor of light.
• 13 Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in
  revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and
  lust, not in strife and envy.
• 14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no
  provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.
  NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 561-2

• WHAT DOES THE LORD WANT THEM TO DO? WHY?
• Keep justice, and do righteousness
• For My salvation is about to come,
• And My righteousness to be revealed
• WHAT DID PAUL PREACH?
• READ HEBREWS 1024-25
• 24 And let us consider one another in order to
  stir up love and good works,
• 25 not forsaking the assembling of ourselves
  together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting
  one another, and so much the more as you see the
  Day approaching. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 561-2

• WHAT DOES THE LORD WANT THEM TO DO? WHY?
• Keep justice, and do righteousness
• For My salvation is about to come,
• And My righteousness to be revealed
• WHAT DID PAUL PREACH?
• READ HEBREWS 1036-39
• 36 For you have need of endurance, so that after
  you have done the will of God, you may receive
  the promise
• 37 "For yet a little while, And He who is coming
  will come and will not tarry.
• 38 Now the just shall live by faith But if
  anyone draws back, My soul has no pleasure in
  him."
• 39 But we are not of those who draw back to
  perdition, but of those who believe to the saving
  of the soul. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 561-2

• WHO WAS COMMANDED TO KEEP THE SABBATH?
• READ EZEKIEL 2019-21
• 19 I am the LORD your God Walk in My statutes,
  keep My judgments, and do them
• 20 hallow My Sabbaths, and they will be a sign
  between Me and you, that you may know that I am
  the LORD your God.'
• 21 "Notwithstanding, the children rebelled
  against Me they did not walk in My statutes, and
  were not careful to observe My judgments, 'which,
  if a man does, he shall live by them' but they
  profaned My Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour
  out My fury on them and fulfill My anger against
  them in the wilderness. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 561-2

• WHO WILL THE LORD BLESS?
• Blessed is the man who does this
• Who keeps from defiling the Sabbath,
• And keeps his hand from doing any evil.
• READ PSALMS 11-2
• 1 Blessed is the man Who walks not in the counsel
  of the ungodly, Nor stands in the path of
  sinners, Nor sits in the seat of the scornful
• 2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD, And
  in His law he meditates day and night. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 561-2

• WHO WILL THE LORD BLESS?
• Blessed is the man who does this
• Who keeps from defiling the Sabbath,
• And keeps his hand from doing any evil.
• READ PSALMS 1191-2
• 1 Blessed are the undefiled in the way, Who walk
  in the law of the LORD!
• 2 Blessed are those who keep His testimonies, Who
  seek Him with the whole heart! NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 561-2

• WHO WILL THE LORD BLESS?
• Blessed is the man who does this
• Who keeps from defiling the Sabbath,
• And keeps his hand from doing any evil.
• WHO WAS COMMANDED TO KEEP THE SABBATH?
• READ EXODUS 208-10
• 8 Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
• 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
• 10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD
  your God. In it you shall do no work you, nor
  your son, nor your daughter, nor your male
  servant, nor your female servant, nor your
  cattle, nor your stranger who is within your
  gates. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 561-2

• WHO WILL THE LORD BLESS?
• Blessed is the man who does this
• Who keeps from defiling the Sabbath,
• And keeps his hand from doing any evil.
• WHO WAS COMMANDED TO KEEP THE SABBATH?
• READ EXODUS 3113-14
• 13 "Speak also to the children of Israel, saying
  'Surely My Sabbaths you shall keep, for it is a
  sign between Me and you throughout your
  generations, that you may know that I am the LORD
  who sanctifies you.
• 14 You shall keep the Sabbath, therefore, for it
  is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall
  surely be put to death for whoever does any work
  on it, that person shall be cut off from among
  his people. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 561-2

• Blessed is the man who does this
• Who keeps from defiling the Sabbath,
• And keeps his hand from doing any evil.
• WHO WAS COMMANDED TO KEEP THE SABBATH?
• READ JEREMIAH 1721-27
• 21 Thus says the LORD "Take heed to yourselves,
  and bear no burden on the Sabbath day, nor bring
  it in by the gates of Jerusalem
• 22 nor carry a burden out of your houses on the
  Sabbath day, nor do any work, but hallow the
  Sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.
• 23 But they did not obey nor incline their ear,
  but made their neck stiff, that they might not
  hear nor receive instruction.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 561-2

• WHO WILL THE LORD BLESS?
• Blessed is the man who does this
• Who keeps from defiling the Sabbath,
• And keeps his hand from doing any evil.
• WHO WAS COMMANDED TO KEEP THE SABBATH?
• READ JEREMIAH 1721-27
• 24 "And it shall be, if you heed Me carefully,"
  says the LORD, "to bring no burden through the
  gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but hallow
  the Sabbath day, to do no work in it,
• 25 then shall enter the gates of this city kings
  and princes sitting on the throne of David,
  riding in chariots and on horses, they and their
  princes, accompanied by the men of Judah and the
  inhabitants of Jerusalem and this city shall
  remain forever.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 561-2

• WHO WILL THE LORD BLESS?
• Blessed is the man who does this
• Who keeps from defiling the Sabbath,
• And keeps his hand from doing any evil.
• WHO WAS COMMANDED TO KEEP THE SABBATH?
• READ JEREMIAH 1721-27
• 26 And they shall come from the cities of Judah
  and from the places around Jerusalem, from the
  land of Benjamin and from the lowland, from the
  mountains and from the South, bringing burnt
  offerings and sacrifices, grain offerings and
  incense, bringing sacrifices of praise to the
  house of the LORD.
• 27 "But if you will not heed Me to hallow the
  Sabbath day, such as not carrying a burden when
  entering the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath
  day, then I will kindle a fire in its gates, and
  it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it
  shall not be quenched."'" NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 561-2

• WHO WAS COMMANDED TO KEEP THE SABBATH?
• READ EZEKIEL 2011-14
• 11 And I gave them My statutes and showed them My
  judgments, 'which, if a man does, he shall live
  by them.
• 12 Moreover I also gave them My Sabbaths, to be a
  sign between them and Me, that they might know
  that I am the LORD who sanctifies them.
• 13 Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in
  the wilderness they did not walk in My statutes
  they despised My judgments, 'which, if a man
  does, he shall live by them' and they greatly
  defiled My Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out
  My fury on them in the wilderness, to consume
  them.
• 14 But I acted for My name's sake, that it should
  not be profaned before the Gentiles, in whose
  sight I had brought them out. NKJV

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READ ISAIAH 563-5

• SALVATION FOR THE GENTILES
• 3 Do not let the son of the foreigner Who has
  joined himself to the LORD Speak, saying, "The
  LORD has utterly separated me from His people"
  Nor let the eunuch say, "Here I am, a dry tree.
• 4 For thus says the LORD "To the eunuchs who
  keep My Sabbaths, And choose what pleases Me, And
  hold fast My covenant,
• 5 Even to them I will give in My house And within
  My walls a place and a name Better than that of
  sons and daughters I will give them an
  everlasting name That shall not be cut off.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 563-5

• SALVATION FOR THE GENTILES
• 3 Do not let the son of the foreigner Who has
  joined himself to the LORD Speak, saying, "The
  LORD has utterly separated me from His people"
  Nor let the eunuch say, "Here I am, a dry tree.
• 4 For thus says the LORD "To the eunuchs who
  keep My Sabbaths, And choose what pleases Me, And
  hold fast My covenant,
• 5 Even to them I will give in My house And within
  My walls a place and a name Better than that of
  sons and daughters I will give them an
  everlasting name That shall not be cut off.
• WHO IS THE FOREIGNER? EUNUCH?
• WHAT IS HE COMMANDED NOT TO SAY?
• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THE EUNUCHS?

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 563-5

• 3 Do not let the son of the foreigner Who has
  joined himself to the LORD Speak, saying, "The
  LORD has utterly separated me from His people"
  Nor let the eunuch say, "Here I am, a dry tree.
• WHO IS THE FOREIGNER? AMMONITE? MOABITE?
• HOW WERE THEY EXCLUDED? WHY?
• READ DEUTERONOMY 233-8
• 3 "An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter the
  assembly of the LORD even to the tenth
  generation none of his descendants shall enter
  the assembly of the LORD forever,
• 4 because they did not meet you with bread and
  water on the road when you came out of Egypt, and
  because they hired against you Balaam the son of
  Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 563-5

• 3 Do not let the son of the foreigner Who has
  joined himself to the LORD Speak, saying, "The
  LORD has utterly separated me from His people"
  Nor let the eunuch say, "Here I am, a dry tree.
• WHO IS THE FOREIGNER? AMMONITE? MOABITE?
• HOW WERE THEY EXCLUDED? WHY?
• READ DEUTERONOMY 233-8
• 5 Nevertheless the LORD your God would not listen
  to Balaam, but the LORD your God turned the curse
  into a blessing for you, because the LORD your
  God loves you.
• 6 You shall not seek their peace nor their
  prosperity all your days forever.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 563-5

• 3 Do not let the son of the foreigner Who has
  joined himself to the LORD Speak, saying, "The
  LORD has utterly separated me from His people"
  Nor let the eunuch say, "Here I am, a dry tree.
• WHO IS THE FOREIGNER? EDOMITE? EGYPTIAN?
• WHY WERE THEY NOT EXCLUDED?
• READ DEUTERONOMY 233-8
• 7 "You shall not abhor an Edomite, for he is your
  brother. You shall not abhor an Egyptian, because
  you were an alien in his land.
• 8 The children of the third generation born to
  them may enter the assembly of the LORD. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 563-5

• 3 Do not let the son of the foreigner Who has
  joined himself to the LORD Speak, saying, "The
  LORD has utterly separated me from His people"
  Nor let the eunuch say, "Here I am, a dry tree.
• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO MOSES AARON?
• WHO IS THE FOREIGNER?
• HOW WERE THEY EXCLUDED? WHY?
• READ EXODUS 1243-46
• 43 And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "This is
  the ordinance of the Passover No foreigner shall
  eat it. 44 But every man's servant who is bought
  for money, when you have circumcised him, then he
  may eat it.
• 45 A sojourner and a hired servant shall not eat
  it.
• (GENESIS 179-14 EXODUS 121-13)

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 563-5

• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO AARON?
• WHO WAS EXCLUDED? WHY?
• READ LEVITICUS 2117-21
• 17 "Speak to Aaron, saying 'No man of your
  descendants in succeeding generations, who has
  any defect, may approach to offer the bread of
  his God.
• 18 For any man who has a defect shall not
  approach a man blind or lame, who has a marred
  face or any limb too long,
• 19 a man who has a broken foot or broken hand,
• 20 or is a hunchback or a dwarf, or a man who has
  a defect in his eye, or eczema or scab, or is a
  eunuch.
• 21 No man of the descendants of Aaron the priest,
  who has a defect, shall come near to offer the
  offerings made by fire to the LORD. He has a
  defect he shall not come near to offer the bread
  of his God. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 563-5

• 3 Do not let the son of the foreigner Who has
  joined himself to the LORD Speak, saying, "The
  LORD has utterly separated me from His people"
  Nor let the eunuch say, "Here I am, a dry tree.
• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO AARON?
• WHO IS THE FOREIGNER? OUTSIDER?
• READ NUMBERS 184 7
• 4 They shall be joined with you and attend to the
  needs of the tabernacle of meeting, for all the
  work of the tabernacle but an outsider shall not
  come near you.
• 7 Therefore you and your sons with you shall
  attend to your priesthood for everything at the
  altar and behind the veil and you shall serve. I
  give your priesthood to you as a gift for
  service, but the outsider who comes near shall be
  put to death." NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 563-5

• WHAT DID SOLOMON SAY ABOUT THE FOREIGNER?
• READ 1 KINGS 841-43
• 41 "Moreover, concerning a foreigner, who is not
  of Your people Israel, but has come from a far
  country for Your name's sake
• 42 for they will hear of Your great name and Your
  strong hand and Your outstretched arm), when he
  comes and prays toward this temple,
• 43 hear in heaven Your dwelling place, and do
  according to all for which the foreigner calls to
  You, that all peoples of the earth may know Your
  name and fear You, as do Your people Israel, and
  that they may know that this temple which I have
  built is called by Your name.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 563-5

• 3 Do not let the son of the foreigner Who has
  joined himself to the LORD Speak, saying, "The
  LORD has utterly separated me from His people"
  Nor let the eunuch say, "Here I am, a dry tree.
• WHO IS THE FOREIGNER? EUNUCH?
• WHAT IS A EUNUCH?
• READ DEUTERONOMY 231-2
• 1 "He who is emasculated by crushing or
  mutilation shall not enter the assembly of the
  LORD.
• 2 "One of illegitimate birth shall not enter the
  assembly of the LORD even to the tenth
  generation none of his descendants shall enter
  the assembly of the LORD.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 563-5

• 3 Do not let the son of the foreigner Who has
  joined himself to the LORD Speak, saying, "The
  LORD has utterly separated me from His people"
  Nor let the eunuch say, "Here I am, a dry tree.
• WHO IS THE FOREIGNER? EUNUCH?
• WHERE COULD THESE EUNUCHS SERVE?
• READ ESTHER 110-11
• 10 On the seventh day, when the heart of the king
  was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman,
  Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar, and
  Carcas, seven eunuchs who served in the presence
  of King Ahasuerus, 11 to bring Queen Vashti
  before the king, wearing her royal crown, in
  order to show her beauty to the people and the
  officials, for she was beautiful to behold. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 563-5

• 3 Do not let the son of the foreigner Who has
  joined himself to the LORD Speak, saying, "The
  LORD has utterly separated me from His people"
  Nor let the eunuch say, "Here I am, a dry tree.
• WHO IS THE FOREIGNER? EUNUCH?
• WHERE COULD THESE EUNUCHS SERVE?
• READ ESTHER 23
• 3 Let the king appoint officers in all the
  provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather
  all the beautiful young virgins to Shushan the
  citadel, into the women's quarters, under the
  custody of Hegai the king's eunuch, custodian of
  the women. And let beauty preparations be given
  them. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 563-5

• WHO IS THE FOREIGNER? EUNUCH?
• WHERE COULD THESE EUNUCHS SERVE?
• READ ESTHER 214-15
• 14 In the evening she went, and in the morning
  she returned to the second house of the women, to
  the custody of Shaashgaz, the king's eunuch who
  kept the concubines. She would not go in to the
  king again unless the king delighted in her and
  called for her by name.
• 15 Now when the turn came for Esther the daughter
  of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken
  her as his daughter, to go in to the king, she
  requested nothing but what Hegai the king's
  eunuch, the custodian of the women, advised. And
  Esther obtained favor in the sight of all who saw
  her. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 563-5

• WHO IS THE FOREIGNER? EUNUCH?
• HOW DID EBED-MELECH SERVE?
• READ JEREMIAH 387-10
• 7 Now Ebed-Melech the Ethiopian, one of the
  eunuchs, who was in the king's house, heard that
  they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon. When the
  king was sitting at the Gate of Benjamin,
• 8 Ebed-Melech went out of the king's house and
  spoke to the king, saying
• 9 "My lord the king, these men have done evil in
  all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet,
  whom they have cast into the dungeon, and he is
  likely to die from hunger in the place where he
  is. For there is no more bread in the city.
• 10 Then the king commanded Ebed-Melech the
  Ethiopian, saying, "Take from here thirty men
  with you, and lift Jeremiah the prophet out of
  the dungeon before he dies. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 563-5

• WHO IS THE FOREIGNER? EUNUCH?
• WHERE COULD THESE EUNUCHS SERVE?
• READ DANIEL 13-4
• 3 Then the king instructed Ashpenaz, the master
  of his eunuchs, to bring some of the children of
  Israel and some of the king's descendants and
  some of the nobles,
• 4 young men in whom there was no blemish, but
  good-looking, gifted in all wisdom, possessing
  knowledge and quick to understand, who had
  ability to serve in the king's palace, and whom
  they might teach the language and literature of
  the Chaldeans. NKJV
• WAS DANIEL A EUNUCH?

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 563-5

• SALVATION FOR THE GENTILES
• 3 Do not let the son of the foreigner Who has
  joined himself to the LORD Speak, saying, "The
  LORD has utterly separated me from His people"
  Nor let the eunuch say, "Here I am, a dry tree.
• WHO IS THE FOREIGNER? GENTILE?
• READ ISAIAH 1110
• 10 "And in that day there shall be a Root of
  Jesse,
• Who shall stand as a banner to the people For
  the Gentiles shall seek Him, And His resting
  place shall be glorious." NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 563-5

• SALVATION FOR THE GENTILES
• WHO IS THE FOREIGNER? GENTILE?
• READ ZECHARIAH 820-23
• 20 "Thus says the LORD of hosts 'Peoples shall
  yet come, Inhabitants of many cities
• 21 The inhabitants of one city shall go to
  another, saying, "Let us continue to go and pray
  before the LORD,
• And seek the LORD of hosts. I myself will go
  also."
• 22 Yes, many peoples and strong nations Shall
  come to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem, And
  to pray before the LORD.'
• 23 "Thus says the LORD of hosts 'In those days
  ten men from every language of the nations shall
  grasp the sleeve of a Jewish man, saying, "Let us
  go with you, for we have heard that God is with
  you."'" NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 563-5

• SALVATION FOR THE GENTILES
• 3 Do not let the son of the foreigner Who has
  joined himself to the LORD Speak, saying, "The
  LORD has utterly separated me from His people"
  Nor let the eunuch say, "Here I am, a dry tree.
• WHO IS THE FOREIGNER?
• WHO DID PETER SAY WAS ACCEPTABLE TO GOD?
• READ ACTS 1034-35
• 34 Then Peter opened his mouth and said "In
  truth I perceive that God shows no partiality.
• 35 But in every nation whoever fears Him and
  works righteousness is accepted by Him. NKJV

46
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 563-5

• WHO IS THE FOREIGNER?
• WHAT AUTHORITY WAS GIVEN THIS EUNUCH?
• READ ACTS 826-28
• 26 Now an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip,
  saying, "Arise and go toward the south along the
  road which goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza."
  This is desert.
• 27 So he arose and went. And behold, a man of
  Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under
  Candace the queen of the Ethiopians, who had
  charge of all her treasury, and had come to
  Jerusalem to worship,
• 28 was returning. And sitting in his chariot, he
  was reading Isaiah the prophet. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 563-5

• WHO IS THE FOREIGNER?
• WHAT HAPPENED TO THIS EUNUCH?
• READ ACTS 838-40
• 38 So he commanded the chariot to stand still.
  And both Philip and the eunuch went down into the
  water, and he baptized him.
• 39 Now when they came up out of the water, the
  Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away, so that
  the eunuch saw him no more and he went on his
  way rejoicing.
• 40 But Philip was found at Azotus. And passing
  through, he preached in all the cities till he
  came to Caesarea. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 563-5

• SALVATION FOR THE GENTILES
• WHO IS THE FOREIGNER? GENTILES?
• WHAT DID CHRIST ABOLISH?
• READ EPHESIANS 214-16
• 14 For He Himself is our peace, who has made both
  one, and has broken down the middle wall of
  separation,
• 15 having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that
  is, the law of commandments contained in
  ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new
  man from the two, thus making peace,
• 16 and that He might reconcile them both to God
  in one body through the cross, thereby putting to
  death the enmity. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 563-5

• 4 For thus says the LORD "To the eunuchs who
  keep My Sabbaths, And choose what pleases Me, And
  hold fast My covenant,
• 5 Even to them I will give in My house And within
  My walls a place and a name Better than that of
  sons and daughters I will give them an
  everlasting name That shall not be cut off.
• WHAT EUNUCHS IS THE LORD SPEAKING TO?
• WHAT WILL THE LORD GIVE THEM?
• HOW WILL THE LORD ACCOMPLISH THIS?

50
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 563-5

• SALVATION FOR THE GENTILES
• HOW WILL THE LORD ACCOMPLISH THIS?
• READ ISAIAH 426
• 6 "I, the LORD, have called You in righteousness,
• And will hold Your hand I will keep You and give
  You as a covenant to the people, As a light to
  the Gentiles, NKJV
• READ ISAIAH 498
• 8 Thus says the LORD "In an acceptable time I
  have heard You, And in the day of salvation I
  have helped You
• I will preserve You and give You As a covenant to
  the people, To restore the earth, To cause them
  to inherit the desolate heritages NKJV
• WHAT COVENANT WILL THE LORD GIVE THEM?

51
READ ISAIAH 566-8

• SALVATION FOR THE GENTILES
• 6 "Also the sons of the foreigner Who join
  themselves to the LORD, to serve Him, And to love
  the name of the LORD, to be His servants
  Everyone who keeps from defiling the Sabbath, And
  holds fast My covenant
• 7 Even them I will bring to My holy mountain, And
  make them joyful in My house of prayer. Their
  burnt offerings and their sacrifices Will be
  accepted on My altar For My house shall be
  called a house of prayer for all nations.
• 8 The Lord GOD, who gathers the outcasts of
  Israel, says, "Yet I will gather to him Others
  besides those who are gathered to him."

52
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 566-8

• SALVATION FOR THE GENTILES
• 6 "Also the sons of the foreigner Who join
  themselves to the LORD, to serve Him, And to love
  the name of the LORD, to be His servants
  Everyone who keeps from defiling the Sabbath, And
  holds fast My covenant
• 7 Even them I will bring to My holy mountain, And
  make them joyful in My house of prayer. Their
  burnt offerings and their sacrifices Will be
  accepted on My altar For My house shall be
  called a house of prayer for all nations.
• 8 The Lord GOD, who gathers the outcasts of
  Israel, says, "Yet I will gather to him Others
  besides those who are gathered to him."
• WHAT FOREIGNERS IS THE LORD SPEAKING OF?
• GENTILES? OR JEWS IN EXILE?
• WHAT WILL THE SONS OF THESE FOREIGNERS DO?
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR THEM?

53
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 566-8

• SALVATION FOR THE GENTILES
• 6 "Also the sons of the foreigner Who join
  themselves to the LORD, to serve Him, And to love
  the name of the LORD, to be His servants
  Everyone who keeps from defiling the Sabbath, And
  holds fast My covenant
• WHAT FOREIGNERS IS THE LORD SPEAKING OF?
• GENTILES? OR JEWS IN EXILE?
• WHAT WILL THE SONS OF THESE FOREIGNERS DO?
• join themselves to the LORD, to serve Him,
• And to love the name of the LORD, to be His
  servants
• keep from defiling the Sabbath And holds fast My
  covenant

54
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 566-8

• WHAT FOREIGNERS IS THE LORD SPEAKING OF?
• GENTILES? OR JEWS IN EXILE?
• WHAT WILL THE SONS OF THESE FOREIGNERS DO?
• READ JEREMIAH 504-5
• 4 "In those days and in that time," says the
  LORD,
• "The children of Israel shall come, They and the
  children of Judah together With continual
  weeping they shall come, And seek the LORD their
  God.
• 5 They shall ask the way to Zion, With their
  faces toward it, saying, 'Come and let us join
  ourselves to the LORD In a perpetual covenant
  That will not be forgotten.'

55
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 566-8

• 7 Even them I will bring to My holy mountain, And
  make them joyful in My house of prayer. Their
  burnt offerings and their sacrifices Will be
  accepted on My altar For My house shall be
  called a house of prayer for all nations.
• WHAT FOREIGNERS IS THE LORD SPEAKING OF?
• GENTILES? OR JEWS IN EXILE?
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR THEM?
• Even them I will bring to My holy mountain,
• And make them joyful in My house of prayer.
• Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be
  accepted on My altar
• For My house shall be called a house of prayer
  for all nations.

56
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 566-8

• WHAT FOREIGNERS IS THE LORD SPEAKING OF?
• GENTILES? OR JEWS IN EXILE?
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR THEM?
• Even them I will bring to My holy mountain,
• And make them joyful in My house of prayer.
• READ ISAIAH 22-3
• 2 Now it shall come to pass in the latter days
  That the mountain of the LORDS house Shall be
  established on the top of the mountains, And
  shall be exalted above the hills And all nations
  shall flow to it.
• 3 Many people shall come and say, "Come, and let
  us go up to the mountain of the LORD, To the
  house of the God of Jacob He will teach us His
  ways, And we shall walk in His paths. For out of
  Zion shall go forth the law, And the word of the
  LORD from Jerusalem. NKJV

57
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 566-8

• WHAT FOREIGNERS IS THE LORD SPEAKING OF?
• GENTILES? OR JEWS IN EXILE?
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR THEM?
• Even them I will bring to My holy mountain,
• And make them joyful in My house of prayer.
• READ JEREMIAH 317-18
• 17 "At that time Jerusalem shall be called The
  Throne of the LORD, and all the nations shall be
  gathered to it, to the name of the LORD, to
  Jerusalem. No more shall they follow the dictates
  of their evil hearts.
• 18 "In those days the house of Judah shall walk
  with the house of Israel, and they shall come
  together out of the land of the north to the land
  that I have given as an inheritance to your
  fathers. NKJV

58
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 566-8

• WHAT FOREIGNERS IS THE LORD SPEAKING OF?
• GENTILES? OR JEWS IN EXILE?
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR THEM?
• Even them I will bring to My holy mountain,
• And make them joyful in My house of prayer.
• READ MALACHI 111
• 11 For from the rising of the sun, even to its
  going down, My name shall be great among the
  Gentiles In every place incense shall be offered
  to My name, And a pure offering For My name
  shall be great among the nations, Says the LORD
  of hosts. NKJV

59
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 566-8

• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR THEM?
• Even them I will bring to My holy mountain,
• And make them joyful in My house of prayer.
• WHAT DID JESUS SAY TO THE SAMARITAN WOMAN?
• READ JOHN 421-24
• 21 Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe Me, the
  hour is coming when you will neither on this
  mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father.
• 22 You worship what you do not know we know what
  we worship, for salvation is of the Jews.
• 23 But the hour is coming, and now is, when the
  true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit
  and truth for the Father is seeking such to
  worship Him.
• 24 God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must
  worship in spirit and truth." NKJV

60
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 566-8

• WHAT FOREIGNERS IS THE LORD SPEAKING OF?
• GENTILES? OR JEWS IN EXILE?
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR THEM?
• Even them I will bring to My holy mountain,
• And make them joyful in My house of prayer.
• WHAT DID JESUS SAY TO THE JEWS?
• READ MATTHEW 2112-13
• 12 Then Jesus went into the temple of God and
  drove out all those who bought and sold in the
  temple, and overturned the tables of the money
  changers and the seats of those who sold doves.
• 13 And He said to them, "It is written, 'My house
  shall be called a house of prayer,' but you have
  made it a 'den of thieves.'" NKJV

61
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 566-8

• WHAT FOREIGNERS IS THE LORD SPEAKING OF?
• GENTILES? OR JEWS IN EXILE?
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR THEM?
• Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be
  accepted on My altar
• For My house shall be called a house of prayer
  for all nations.
• WHAT DOES THE LORD DESIRE?
• READ PSALMS 1412
• 2 Let my prayer be set before You as incense, The
  lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
  NKJV
• READ PSALMS 5117
• 17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, A
  broken and a contrite heart These, O God, You
  will not despise. NKJV

62
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 566-8

• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR THEM?
• Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be
  accepted on My altar
• For My house shall be called a house of prayer
  for all nations.
• WHAT DOES THE LORD DESIRE?
• READ ROMANS 121-2
• 1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the
  mercies of God, that you present your bodies a
  living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which
  is your reasonable service.
• 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be
  transformed by the renewing of your mind, that
  you may prove what is that good and acceptable
  and perfect will of God. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 566-8

• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR THEM?
• Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be
  accepted on My altar
• For My house shall be called a house of prayer
  for all nations.
• WHAT DOES THE LORD DESIRE?
• READ 1 PETER 24-5
• 4 Coming to Him as to a living stone, rejected
  indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious,
• 5 you also, as living stones, are being built up
  a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up
  spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through
  Jesus Christ. NKJV

64
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 566-8

• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR THEM?
• Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be
  accepted on My altar
• For My house shall be called a house of prayer
  for all nations.
• WHAT DID PAUL SAY ABOUT THIS?
• READ HEBREWS 1315-16
• 15 Therefore by Him let us continually offer the
  sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of
  our lips, giving thanks to His name.
• 16 But do not forget to do good and to share, for
  with such sacrifices God is well pleased. NKJV
• READ 1 TIMOTHY 28
• 8 I desire therefore that the men pray
  everywhere, lifting up holy hands, without wrath
  and doubting NKJV

65
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 566-8

• SALVATION FOR THE GENTILES
• 8 The Lord GOD, who gathers the outcasts of
  Israel, says, "Yet I will gather to him Others
  besides those who are gathered to him."
• WHAT FOREIGNERS IS THE LORD SPEAKING OF?
• GENTILES? OR JEWS IN EXILE?
• WHO WILL THE LORD GATHER?
• outcasts of Israel Others besides
• WHY?

66
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 566-8

• SALVATION FOR THE GENTILES
• 8 The Lord GOD, who gathers the outcasts of
  Israel, says, "Yet I will gather to him Others
  besides those who are gathered to him."
• WHO WILL THE LORD GATHER?
• outcasts of Israel Others besides
• READ ISAIAH 1112
• 12 He will set up a banner for the nations, And
  will assemble the outcasts of Israel, And gather
  together the dispersed of Judah From the four
  corners of the earth.

67
WHO WILL THE LORD GATHER?

• outcasts of Israel Others besides
• READ DEUTERONOMY 301-5
• 1 "Now it shall come to pass, when all these
  things come upon you, the blessing and the curse
  which I have set before you, and you call them to
  mind among all the nations where the LORD your
  God drives you,
• 2 and you return to the LORD your God and obey
  His voice, according to all that I command you
  today, you and your children, with all your heart
  and with all your soul,
• 3 that the LORD your God will bring you back from
  captivity, and have compassion on you, and gather
  you again from all the nations where the LORD
  your God has scattered you.
• 4 If any of you are driven out to the farthest
  parts under heaven, from there the LORD your God
  will gather you, and from there He will bring
  you. NKJV

68
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 566-8

• WHO WILL THE LORD GATHER?
• outcasts of Israel Others besides
• READ EZEKIEL 3411-13
• 11 'For thus says the Lord GOD "Indeed I Myself
  will search for My sheep and seek them out.
• 12 As a shepherd seeks out his flock on the day
  he is among his scattered sheep, so will I seek
  out My sheep and deliver them from all the places
  where they were scattered on a cloudy and dark
  day.
• 13 And I will bring them out from the peoples and
  gather them from the countries, and will bring
  them to their own land I will feed them on the
  mountains of Israel, in the valleys and in all
  the inhabited places of the country. NKJV

69
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 566-8

• SALVATION FOR THE GENTILES
• 8 The Lord GOD, who gathers the outcasts of
  Israel, says, "Yet I will gather to him Others
  besides those who are gathered to him."
• WHO WILL THE LORD GATHER?
• outcasts of Israel Others besides
• READ JOHN 1014-16
• 14 I am the good shepherd and I know My sheep,
  and am known by My own.
• 15 As the Father knows Me, even so I know the
  Father and I lay down My life for the sheep.
• 16 And other sheep I have which are not of this
  fold them also I must bring, and they will hear
  My voice and there will be one flock and one
  shepherd. NKJV

70
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 566-8

• WHO WILL THE LORD GATHER?
• outcasts of Israel Others besides
• READ EPHESIANS 17-10
• 7 In Him we have redemption through His blood,
  the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches
  of His grace
• 8 which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom
  and prudence,
• 9 having made known to us the mystery of His
  will, according to His good pleasure which He
  purposed in Himself,
• 10 that in the dispensation of the fullness of
  the times He might gather together in one all
  things in Christ, both which are in heaven and
  which are on earth in Him.

71
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 566-8

• WHO WILL THE LORD GATHER?
• outcasts of Israel Others besides
• READ EPHESIANS 219-22
• 19 Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers
  and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the
  saints and members of the household of God,
• 20 having been built on the foundation of the
  apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being
  the chief cornerstone,
• 21 in whom the whole building, being fitted
  together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord,
• in whom you also are being built together for a
  dwelling place of God in the Spirit. NKJV

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READ ISAIAH 569-10

• ISRAEL'S IRRESPONSIBLE LEADERS
• 9 All you beasts of the field, come to devour,
  All you beasts in the forest.
• 10 His watchmen are blind, They are all ignorant
  They are all dumb dogs, They cannot bark
  Sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.

73
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 569-10

• ISRAEL'S IRRESPONSIBLE LEADERS
• 9 All you beasts of the field, come to devour,
  All you beasts in the forest.
• 10 His watchmen are blind, They are all ignorant
  They are all dumb dogs, They cannot bark
  Sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
• WHO ARE THE BEASTS OF THE FIELD?
• WHAT ARE THEY CALLED TO DO?
• come to devour
• WHO ARE THE WATCHMEN?
• WHAT DOES THE LORD SAY ABOUT THEM?
• His watchmen are blind, They are all ignorant
• They are all dumb dogs They cannot bark
• Sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.

74
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 569-10

• ISRAEL'S IRRESPONSIBLE LEADERS
• 9 All you beasts of the field, come to devour,
  All you beasts in the forest.
• WHO ARE THE BEASTS OF THE FIELD?
• WHAT ARE THEY CALLED TO DO?
• READ 2 KINGS 1529
• 29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel,
  Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria came and took
  Ijon, Abel Beth Maachah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor,
  Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali
  and he carried them captive to Assyria. NKJV

75
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 569-10

• ISRAEL'S IRRESPONSIBLE LEADERS
• 9 All you beasts of the field, come to devour,
  All you beasts in the forest.
• WHO ARE THE BEASTS OF THE FIELD?
• WHAT ARE THEY CALLED TO DO?
• READ ISAIAH 911-12
• 11 Therefore the LORD shall set up The
  adversaries of Rezin against him, And spur his
  enemies on,
• 12 The Syrians before and the Philistines behind
  And they shall devour Israel with an open mouth.
  For all this His anger is not turned away, But
  His hand is stretched out still. NKJV

76
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 569-10

• ISRAEL'S IRRESPONSIBLE LEADERS
• 9 All you beasts of the field, come to devour,
  All you beasts in the forest.
• WHO ARE THE BEASTS OF THE FIELD?
• WHAT ARE THEY CALLED TO DO?
• READ JEREMIAH 127-9
• 7 "I have forsaken My house, I have left My
  heritage
• I have given the dearly beloved of My soul into
  the hand of her enemies.
• 8 My heritage is to Me like a lion in the forest
  It cries out against Me Therefore I have hated
  it.
• 9 My heritage is to Me like a speckled vulture
  The vultures all around are against her. Come,
  assemble all the beasts of the field, Bring them
  to devour! NKJV

77
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 569-10

• ISRAEL'S IRRESPONSIBLE LEADERS
• 9 All you beasts of the field, come to devour,
  All you beasts in the forest.
• WHO ARE THE BEASTS OF THE FIELD?
• WHAT ARE THEY CALLED TO DO?
• READ JEREMIAH 5017
• 17 "Israel is like scattered sheep The lions
  have driven him away. First the king of Assyria
  devoured him
• Now at last this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
  has broken his bones." NKJV

78
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 569-10

• ISRAEL'S IRRESPONSIBLE LEADERS
• 9 All you beasts of the field, come to devour,
  All you beasts in the forest.
• WHO ARE THE BEASTS OF THE FIELD?
• WHAT ARE THEY CALLED TO DO?
• READ EZEKIEL 345-6
• 5 So they were scattered because there was no
  shepherd and they became food for all the beasts
  of the field when they were scattered.
• 6 My sheep wandered through all the mountains,
  and on every high hill yes, My flock was
  scattered over the whole face of the earth, and
  no one was seeking or searching for them." NKJV

79
WHO ARE THE BEASTS OF THE FIELD?

• WHAT ARE THEY CALLED TO DO?
• READ EZEKIEL 3917-20
• 17 "And as for you, son of man, thus says the
  Lord GOD, 'Speak to every sort of bird and to
  every beast of the field "Assemble yourselves
  and come Gather together from all sides to My
  sacrificial meal Which I am sacrificing for you,
  A great sacrificial meal on the mountains of
  Israel, That you may eat flesh and drink blood.
• 18 You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, Drink
  the blood of the princes of the earth, Of rams
  and lambs,
• Of goats and bulls, All of them fatlings of
  Bashan.
• 19 You shall eat fat till you are full, And drink
  blood till you are drunk, At My sacrificial meal
  Which I am sacrificing for you.
• 20 You shall be filled at My table With horses
  and riders, With mighty men And with all the men
  of war," says the Lord GOD. NKJV

80
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 569-10

• 10 His watchmen are blind, They are all ignorant
  They are all dumb dogs, They cannot bark
  Sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
• WHO ARE THE WATCHMEN?
• PRIESTS? SHEPHERDS? PROPHETS?
• WHAT DOES THE LORD SAY ABOUT THEM?

81
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 569-10

• 10 His watchmen are blind, They are all ignorant
  They are all dumb dogs, They cannot bark
  Sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
• WHO ARE THE WATCHMEN?
• PRIESTS? SHEPHERDS? PROPHETS?
• READ JEREMIAH 28
• 8 The priests did not say, 'Where is the LORD?
  And those who handle the law did not know Me The
  rulers also transgressed against Me The prophets
  prophesied by Baal, And walked after things that
  do not profit. NKJV

82
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 569-10

• 10 His watchmen are blind, They are all ignorant
  They are all dumb dogs, They cannot bark
  Sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
• WHO ARE THE WATCHMEN?
• PRIESTS? SHEPHERDS? PROPHETS?
• READ JEREMIAH 1021
• 21 For the shepherds have become dull-hearted,
  And have not sought the LORD Therefore they
  shall not prosper, And all their flocks shall be
  scattered. NKJV

83
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 569-10

• 10 His watchmen are blind, They are all ignorant
  They are all dumb dogs, They cannot bark
  Sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
• WHO ARE THE WATCHMEN?
• PRIESTS? SHEPHERDS? PROPHETS?
• READ JEREMIAH 617-19
• 17 Also, I set watchmen over you, saying, 'Listen
  to the sound of the trumpet! But they said, 'We
  will not listen.'
• 18 Therefore hear, you nations, And know, O
  congregation, what is among them.
• 19 Hear, O earth! Behold, I will certainly bring
  calamity on this people The fruit of their
  thoughts,
• Because they have not heeded My words Nor My law,
  but rejected it. NKJV

84
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 569-10

• WHO ARE THE WATCHMEN?
• PRIESTS? SHEPHERDS? PROPHETS?
• READ JEREMIAH 1413-15
• 13 Then I said, "Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, the
  prophets say to them, 'You shall not see the
  sword, nor shall you have famine, but I will give
  you assured peace in this place.'"
• 14 And the LORD said to me, "The prophets
  prophesy lies in My name. I have not sent them,
  commanded them, nor spoken to them they prophesy
  to you a false vision, divination, a worthless
  thing, and the deceit of their heart.
• 15 Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the
  prophets who prophesy in My name, whom I did not
  send, and who say, 'Sword and famine shall not be
  in this land' 'By sword and famine those
  prophets shall be consumed! NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 569-10

• WHO ARE THE WATCHMEN?
• PRIESTS? SHEPHERDS? PROPHETS?
• READ EZEKIEL 317-21
• 17 "Son of man, I have made you a watchman for
  the house of Israel therefore hear a word from
  My mouth, and give them warning from Me
• 18 When I say to the wicked, 'You shall surely
  die,' and you give him no warning, nor speak to
  warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his
  life, that same wicked man shall die in his
  iniquity but his blood I will require at your
  hand.
• 19 Yet, if you warn the wicked, and he does not
  turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked
  way, he shall die in his iniquity but you have
  delivered your soul.

86
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 569-10

• WHO ARE THE WATCHMEN?
• PRIESTS? SHEPHERDS? PROPHETS?
• READ EZEKIEL 317-21
• 20 "Again, when a righteous man turns from his
  righteousness and commits iniquity, and I lay a
  stumbling block before him, he shall die because
  you did not give him warning, he shall die in his
  sin, and his righteousness which he has done
  shall not be remembered but his blood I will
  require at your hand.
• 21 Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man
  that the righteous should not sin, and he does
  not sin, he shall surely live because he took
  warning also you will have delivered your soul."
  NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 569-10

• WHO ARE THE WATCHMEN?
• PRIESTS? SHEPHERDS? PROPHETS?
• READ EZEKIEL 337-9
• 7 "So you, son of man I have made you a watchman
  for the house of Israel therefore you shall hear
  a word from My mouth and warn them for Me.
• 8 When I say to the wicked, 'O wicked man, you
  shall surely die!' and you do not speak to warn
  the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall
  die in his iniquity but his blood I will require
  at your hand.
• 9 Nevertheless if you warn the wicked to turn
  from his way, and he does not turn from his way,
  he shall die in his iniquity but you have
  delivered your soul. NKJV

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READ ISAIAH 5611-12

• ISRAEL'S IRRESPONSIBLE LEADERS
• 11 Yes, they are greedy dogs Which never have
  enough. And they are shepherds Who cannot
  understand They all look to their own way, Every
  one for his own gain, From his own territory.
• 12 "Come," one says, "I will bring wine, And we
  will fill ourselves with intoxicating drink
  Tomorrow will be as today, And much more
  abundant." NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 5611-12

• ISRAEL'S IRRESPONSIBLE LEADERS
• 11 Yes, they are greedy dogs Which never have
  enough. And they are shepherds Who cannot
  understand They all look to their own way, Every
  one for his own gain, From his own territory.
• 12 "Come," one says, "I will bring wine, And we
  will fill ourselves with intoxicating drink
  Tomorrow will be as today, And much more
  abundant." NKJV
• WHO ARE THEY?
• WHAT ARE THEY DOING?
• WHAT ARE THEY SAYING?

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 5611-12

• ISRAEL'S IRRESPONSIBLE LEADERS
• 11 Yes, they are greedy dogs Which never have
  enough. And they are shepherds Who cannot
  understand They all look to their own way, Every
  one for his own gain, From his own territory.
• WHO ARE THEY? WHAT ARE THEY DOING?
• READ JEREMIAH 613
• 13 from the least of them even to the greatest
  of them, Everyone is given to covetousness And
  from the prophet even to the priest, Everyone
  deals falsely. NKJV
• READ JEREMIAH 1021
• 21 For the shepherds have become dull-hearted,
  And have not sought the LORD Therefore they
  shall not prosper, And all their flocks shall be
  scattered. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 5611-12

• ISRAEL'S IRRESPONSIBLE LEADERS
• WHO ARE THEY? WHAT ARE THEY DOING?
• READ JEREMIAH 2217
• 17 "Yet your eyes and your heart are for nothing
  but your covetousness, For shedding innocent
  blood, And practicing oppression and violence."
  NKJV
• READ JEREMIAH 231-2
• 1 "Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter
  the sheep of My pasture!" says the LORD.
• 2 Therefore thus says the LORD God of Israel
  against the shepherds who feed My people "You
  have scattered My flock, driven them away, and
  not attended to them. Behold, I will attend to
  you for the evil of your doings," says the LORD.
  NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 5611-12

• WHO ARE THEY? WHAT ARE THEY DOING?
• READ EZEKIEL 2227-30
• 27 Her princes in her midst are like wolves
  tearing the prey, to shed blood, to destroy
  people, and to get dishonest gain.
• 28 Her prophets plastered them with un-tempered
  mortar, seeing false visions, and divining lies
  for them, saying, 'Thus says the Lord GOD,' when
  the LORD had not spoken.
• 29 The people of the land have used oppressions,
  committed robbery, and mistreated the poor and
  needy and they wrongfully oppress the stranger.
• 30 So I sought for a man among them who would
  make a wall, and stand in the gap before Me on
  behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it
  but I found no one.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 5611-12

• ISRAEL'S IRRESPONSIBLE LEADERS
• WHO ARE THEY? WHAT ARE THEY DOING?
• READ EZEKIEL 342-6
• 2 "Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of
  Israel, prophesy and say to them, 'Thus says the
  Lord GOD to the shepherds "Woe to the shepherds
  of Israel who feed themselves! Should not the
  shepherds feed the flocks?
• 3 You eat the fat and clothe yourselves with the
  wool you slaughter the fatlings, but you do not
  feed the flock.
• 4 The weak you have not strengthened, nor have
  you healed those who were sick, nor bound up the
  broken, nor brought back what was driven away,
  nor sought what was lost but with force and
  cruelty you have ruled them.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 5611-12

• ISRAEL'S IRRESPONSIBLE LEADERS
• WHO ARE THEY? WHAT ARE THEY DOING?
• READ EZEKIEL 342-6
• 5 So they were scattered because there was no
  shepherd and they became food for all the beasts
  of the field when they were scattered.
• 6 My sheep wandered through all the mountains,
  and on every high hill yes, My flock was
  scattered over the whole face of the earth, and
  no one was seeking or searching for them." NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 5611-12

• ISRAEL'S IRRESPONSIBLE LEADERS
• WHO ARE THEY? WHAT ARE THEY DOING?
• READ HOSEA 47-10
• 7 "The more they increased, The more they sinned
  against Me I will change their glory into shame.