Quiet Time : Prophesy

I just want to start with - it is believed that Isaiah was martyred by being cut in half inside a hollow log. This is serious business, my friends. He was seen as a real threat.

My main thoughts about Isaiah so far (which I started reading Monday morning) are that God revealed things to Isaiah in a multi-layered way. He was predicting events that would occur in the near future (for him), the fall of Judah as a nation (because of it's sins against God). But also, more importantly, he was prophesizing about the Messiah to come, in the line of Judah; Jesus Christ. That is amazing.

Isaiah 1:18-20 (KJV)

18Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
19If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
20But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.

Me: belief vs. unbelief. Striking.

Isaiah 2:2-3 (KJV) CSL

2And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
3And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

Me: this reminded me of the scene in The Great Divorce, when the narrator decides to go forward. (I'm being cryptic here, because I see that book as an excellent narrative on sin, but I don't believe it to be a true picture of what Heaven is like - and also, because I don't want to ruin it for you if you've never read it!).

Isaiah 2:8 (KJV)

Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:

Me: The sin of worshiping the created (idolatry), rather than the Creator of ALL things.

Isaiah 2:10, 19, 21 (KJV)

10Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty.

19And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.

21To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.

Me: 3 verses on fearing God... and the glory of His majesty! (repeated phrases = important thought to get across!).