Isaiah 10:1
I. (Chapters 1-39) Condemnation
A. (Chapters 1-12) Prophecies against Israel and Judah
1. \\#Isa 1:1-31\\ God’s Case Against Judah
2. \\#Isa 2:1-5:30\\ Israel’s Condition Described
3. \\#Isa 6:1-13\\ Isaiah’s Call
4. \\#Isa 7:1-12:6\\ Israel’s Choice
a. \\#Isa 7:1-25\\ King Ahaz’s Choice
b. \\#Isa 8:1-9:7\\ The People’s Choice
c. \\#Isa 9:8-12:6\\ The Word to Judah and Israel
(1) \\#9Isa :8-13\\ Their Stubbornness
(2) \\#Isa 9:14-20\\ Their Judgment
(3) \\#Isa 10:1-4\\ Their Injustice
(4) \\#Isa 10:5-19\\ Their Judge
(5) \\#Isa 10:20-26\\ Their Comfort
(6) \\#Isa 10:24-34\\ Their Courage
I. \\#Isa 9:8-12:6\\ The Word to Judah and Israel
A. \\#Isa 10:1-4\\ Their Injustice
1. \\#Isa 10:1\\ "Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees" - God
pronounces "WOE," divine judgment, upon those who sit in authority
would pervert justice by writing wicked laws.
2. Few things bother God so much as injustice.
Deuteronomy 16:20 That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou
mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
Psalms 82:3 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and
needy.
Proverbs 21:3 To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than
sacrifice.
Isaiah 56:1 Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my
salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.
Romans 13:7 Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due;
custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.
Colossians 4:1 Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal;
knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.
(a) Justice is equal and right treatment regardless of who the person
might be, what the person has, or what the person does.
(b) God takes a special interest in the unchampioned being treated
justly.
3. \\#Isa 10:2\\ Some of those who are kept from justice are mentioned.
(a) "To turn aside the NEEDY from judgment"
(b) "to take away the right of the POOR"
(c) "…that WIDOWS… FATHERLESS… might be prey"
4. \\#Isa 10:3-4\\ "to whom will ye flee for help? - God asks those who
pervert justice where they will turn for help when judgment comes.
B. \\#Isa 10:5-19\\ Their Judge
1. \\#Isa 10:5\\ "O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger"
(a) The term "the Assyrian" is used 7 times in Isaiah. Most of
the time—if not every time—the phrase is a reference to the
near-at-hand coming of Assyria against Israel and Judah.
However, it is a prominent thought that the term is a reference
to the anti-Christ. While this cannot be proved, in some
passages, it may be possible that the term is used to describe
both the near-at-hand attack of Assyrian and the end time attack
of the anti-Christ. (See \\#Isa 31:7-9\\.)
(b) God will use Assyria to judge His people, but He has also warned
all who join themselves together against His people that they
"shall be broken in pieces." \\#Isa 8:9-10\\
(c) In this text, Isaiah explains that the reason God judges a nation,
like Assyria, even when He called them to chastise Israel, is
due to their pride and the excessive violence they bear toward
Israel. In these cases, the nation’s demise is not just because
they attacked Israel as some have wrongly suggest. When God
summons a country to chastise Israel, He does not automatically
judge that nation. To do so would be unjust on God’s part.
However, I do not know of a country God has raised up against
Israel whose pride has not ultimately condemned it to a similar
fate.
2. \\#Isa 10:6\\ "I will send him against an hypocritical nation" - Israel
is the HYPOCRITICAL NATION and THE PEOPLE OF HIS WRATH. Assyria will
be the ROD that God uses to judge them.
3. \\#Isa 10:7\\ Even though Assyria is doing God a service, "he meaneth
not so." Assyria’s desire is to destroy and conquer as many nations
as possible. Already, Assyria’s pride is peeking out.
4. \\#Isa 10:8-9\\ "Are not my princes altogether kings?" Assyria
considers his princes as kings and its cities superior to others.
5. \\#Isa 10:10-11\\ "whose graven images did excel… Jerusalem" - Assyria
considered Jerusalem’s God no greater than the idols of the other
nations it had conquered. Here was their greatest mistake.
6. \\#Isa 10:12\\ "when the Lord hath performed his… work… will punish…
the stout heart of the king of Assyria" - Because of their pride,
God will deal with Assyria after He uses them to deal with Israel.
7. \\#Isa 10:13-14\\ Why? The answer is plainly given.
a. \\#Isa 10:13\\ "By the strength of my hand I have done it" -
Because Assyria thinks they have empowered themselves by their
STRENGTH, their WISDOM, and their PRUDENCE.
b. \\#Isa 10:14\\ "my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the
people" Assyria feels like a robber stealing from the NESTS of
rich people. They felt like NONE could stand against them, not so
much as to move a WING, open their MOUTH, or even let out a PEEP.
8. \\#Isa 10:15\\ "Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth
therewith" - For all of Assyria’s boasting, the nation is nothing more
than an AXE or SAW, a tool, which the Lord had used. All praise
should go to the One who wielded the tool.
9. \\#Isa 10:16-19\\ Because of Assyria’s boasting,
a. \\#Isa 10:16\\ …God will "send… leanness," and "kindle a burning."
b. \\#Isa 10:17\\ "…the light of Israel… and his Holy One"
(1) Both of these are names for Jehovah.
(2) Jehovah cause a fire that destroys Assyria.
c. \\#Isa 10:18\\ "and shall consume" - The Lord will destroy the
FORREST and the FRUITFUL FIELD of Assyria.
d. \\#Isa 10:19\\ "a child may write them" - The trees left will be so
few in number that a small child could count them.
C. \\#Isa 10:20-24\\ Their Comfort
1. \\#Isa 10:20\\ "in that day…the remnant of Israel, and such as are
escaped" - It will become evident that this is an end time prophecy.
2. \\#Isa 10:20\\ "the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay (trust)
him that smote him" - Isaiah is prophesying that one day, after a
major scattering, Israel will cease to trust in other nations. Sadly,
the survivors of the Assyrian siege continued to trust other nations.
3. \\#Isa 10:20\\ "but will stay upon the Lord" - This prophecy relates to
those who will survive the tribulation and will never be tempted to
trust in frail humans again.
4. \\#Isa 10:21\\ "The remnant shall return… unto the mighty God" - A
promise of the Jews, one day, coming to salvation in God.
5. \\#Isa 10:22\\ Unfortunately, many of the Jewish population shall not
be a part of that salvation due to the consumption they will endure
first.
(a) "a consumption" - The word means "a complete destruction, an
annihilation." An annihilation is in Israel’s future. This
passage is looking beyond the Assyria devastation to what will
happen in the tribulation.
(b) "a remnant" - Only a portion shall survive and return to God.
(c) However, it is "decreed" that the destruction shall end with
RIGHTEOUSNESS; that is, God’s will shall be accomplished through
Israel’s end time destruction.
6. \\#Isa 10:23\\ "For the Lord God of Hosts shall make a consumption,
even determined"
(a) The DETERMINATION of God to make a CONSUMPTION upon this land is
again repeated; however, a different word for CONSUMPTION is
used.
(b) This word means an END; hence, God will make an END of the affairs
of men in this land.
(c) This is Israel’s comfort. Although another great destruction must
come, yet it end with Israel turning to the Lord in
righteousness.
D. \\#Isa 10:24-34\\ Their Courage
1. Because of what God will one day do, God encourages those who are
about to go through the Assyrian judgment.
(a) As bad as your judgment is going to be, it could (and will) be
worse.
(b) The nation of Judah will survive.
2. \\#Isa 10:24\\ "O my people that dwellest in Zion" - God is speaking to
those who were in Jerusalem at that time concerning their plight.
3. \\#Isa 10:24\\ "be not afraid of the Assyrian"
(a) Some try to read the anti-Christ into the phrase "the Assyrian,"
but there is nothing to indicate it is so here. While the anti-
Christ may travel the same path as the Assyrians did, the text
is fulfilled by the Assyrians. At best, it may turn out to be a
dual-reference prophecy, but there are no other Scriptures to
confirm that.
(b) "he shall smite thee with a rod" - Even though God is offering
comfort, the Assyrians are still going to SMITE the land of
Israel.
4. \\#Isa 10:25\\ In "a very little while," this judgment shall cease.
For Judah, God’s judgment lasted only a few years. Assyria’s
influence will be completely removed within 65 years \\#Is 7:8\\.
5. \\#Isa 10:26\\ For the Lord will "stir up a scourge" for Assyria
which will destroy him as the slaughter of Midian \\#Judges 7:25\\.
That SCOURGE would be the nation of Babylon.
6. \\#Isa 10:27\\ "his yoke from off thy neck" - When God does that,
Assyria’s dominion over Israel will be removed.
7. \\#Isa 10:27\\ "the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing" -
The idea of the ANOINTING means is that God will destroy Assyria as a
BLESSING to Judah. Interestingly the nation God uses to destroy
Assyria, Babylon, will also be the nation that God will then use to
judge Judah for their sinfulness.
8. \\#Isa 10:29-32\\ In these verses, the Lord mentions specific locations
where the Assyrians will come. Most of these locations are close to
Jerusalem and indicate how near Judah came to falling.
9. \\#Isa 10:33-34\\ "the Lord… shall lop off the bough… hew down… cut
down" - Despite Assyria’s encroachments into Judah, God shall LOP him
off and HEW him down. Assyria, the "mighty one," will fall.
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