So we've been looking at the character of the coming Messiah. Isaiah spoke those words 100s of years before Jesus showed up and shocked everyone. While the Jewish religious leaders were looking for a messiah to overthrow the Roman Empire, the suffering servant arrived to overthrow the Empire of Darkness everywhere.
Pray to the Living God and thank him for showing up in unexpected ways with some incredibly Good News. Ask that he'll make that Good News real to you and in your life.
Check out Isaiah 65:17-25 and Isaiah 66:22-24.
- What surprises you about verse 1 in Chapter 65 and verse 22 in Chapter 66? What are they talking about?
- Is that different than what you've heard in the past regarding heaven especially? What's different about it?
- What are some of the promises the Living God has for the "new" Jerusalem?
- How will natural enemies and predators behave on the Living God's "Holy Mountain" (the new heavens and earth)? How do you think the people residing there will act toward one another?
- Can you imagine a place where there is no death of any kind (physical, emotional, or spiritual)?
- How about Isaiah 66:24? If the rest of this is talking about the New Heavens and the New Earth, what is this verse talking about?
- Check out Revelation 21:1-8. Sound familiar? What similarities are there between Revelation 21:1-8 and Isaiah 65 and 66?
Pray today for the Living God to give you eyes to see how he is working for his purposes and how you can help him in accomplishing them. Thank him for being the God who saves (Jeshua, or Jesus, means the LORD saves).
Even if you're having trouble with the questions, keep posting so we can dialogue on here. The posts are the only way I can measure if you're understanding what I'm saying or if I need to rephrase things. Do your best to answer them. I'm looking for effort, not perfection.
2 comments:
This is very hard especially when someone puts you down
1. It is surprising that he says he is making pretty much a whole new world. I think they are talking about how Jesus will die to save us and that will create a new world.
2. Well, I am kind of confused on this one because is he making Jerusalem heaven, or making heaven back into heaven?
3. He promises that it will be full of happy people; there will be no more sorrow there; no child will die in infancy; everyone will live to be really old; the chosen peoples' children won't die of diseases; their children and grandchildren will be blessed; and their prayers will be answered before they are finished.
4. The enemies will get along with eachother and nothing will harm anyone. The people living there will probably be the same.
5. Heaven.
6. I think it is talking about all of the people who turned to evil before the new Heavens and new Earth were created.
7. They are similar in that 1-4 match up to the description in Isaiah 65. Revelation 21:8 also matches with the last part of Isaiah.
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