Coachlight Bible Study of Isaiah
– Chapters 11 - 14
A
Rod Out Of The Stem Of Jesse
Isaiah
lets us know that our God reigns! He is sovereign and in charge of the nations.
God used Assyria in chapter 10 to punish The Northern
Kingdom, Israel, but now it will be judged, and we find out that Assyria was
only a pawn in God's hands to accomplish His plan with Israel. The same God Who wiped out Assyria, will raise up a King Who will sit on
the throne of David forever.
Isaiah 7:14 Therefore the
Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a
son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
Isaiah 9: 6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and
the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called
Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The
everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
Isaiah 9: 7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall
be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to
establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The
zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.
Isaiah 9: 8 ¶ The Lord sent a word into
Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.
Isaiah 9: 9 And all the people shall know,
even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness
of heart,
Isaiah 9: 10 The bricks are fallen down, but
we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut
down, but we will change them into cedars.
II. We
See A Rod Out Of The Stem Of Jesse
Isaiah 11: 1 ¶ And there shall come forth a
rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:
A. Isaiah wrote this in the
8th century B.C.
1. There were only stumps of
dead trees that Assyria mowed down
2. The ax of divine judgment
had chopped the trees
3. Nothing but stumps was left
standing.
B. The Messiah will arrive,
seven hundred years later
1. The house of David will be
nothing but an insignificant stump in Israel.
2. It will have fallen upon
evil days.
C. Undoubtedly, Isaiah had
in mind 2 Samuel 7:16.
II Samuel 7:16 And thine house and thy kingdom
shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for
ever.
D. The "stem" or
"stump," is all that is left of a once mighty tree
1. Israel is just a field of
burned out stumps on the landscape of world history.
2. Judah and Assyria will fall
under the heavy hand of God's judgment.
3. When Assyria fell in 609
B.C. she never budded again.
a. She will always be a
lifeless dead stump.
b. God will destroy the
destroyer.
c. Assyria was only a pawn in
the hands of the God of Israel.
E. However, there is a
stump with just a twig of life in it.
1. It is the smallest of
shoots
a. It has a green sprout that
will bud and bring forth a righteous ruler in Israel.
b. From this barren, helpless
shoot will come the redeemer of Israel (53:1-2).
2. Beside the burned out
stumps of Assyria, God brought forth a green "shoot."
a. The lineage of David is not
completely dead.
b. The Messianic branch,
David, the eternal King will reign over His people.
c. There is only one Jesse in
the Scriptures and he is King David's father.
Isaiah 11: 2 And the spirit of
the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the
spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the
LORD;
A. He will not do God's
will by human means.
B. He will have the very
breath of God upon Him.
C. He will be under the
control of "the Spirit of the LORD"
1. He will not be spiritually
barren like King Ahaz and others before Him.
2. The Fulfillment Described
in Luke
Luke 4: 1 ¶ And Jesus being full of the
Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,
Luke 4: 14 ¶ And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into
Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the
region round about.
D. Christ Did the Father's
will like the prophets of old
Zechariah 4:6 .. Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.
1. John told of Jesus at
the beginning of His ministry quoting the Baptist
John 1:3 And
I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto
me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit
descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth
with the Holy Ghost.
John 1:34 And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.
2. Luke describes how Jesus
began His public ministry in Nazareth.
a. Jesus entered the synagogue
one Sabbath day, as it was His custom.
b. He stood up to read from
the scroll that was handed to Him
c. He actually read Himself
into His sacred office.
d. The text was taken from
Isaiah 61:1-2.
Luke 4: 18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath
anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the
brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight
to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
Luke 4: 19 To preach the acceptable year
of the Lord.
Luke 4:20 And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the
minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue
were fastened on him.
Luke 4:21 And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture
fulfilled in your ears.
Isaiah 11:3 And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the
LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after
the hearing of his ears:
Isaiah 11:4 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove
with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the
rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
Isaiah 11:5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and
faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
A. Characteristics Of His Reign – Righteousness And The Fear of the Lord
1. This king will rule with
integrity.
a. He will be radically
different from all presidents and kings before
b. The "fear of the
LORD" will not be lip service, and political talk with Him.
2. He will speak with absolute
integrity
a. He will not conduct His
government by popularity polls
b. Personal biases will not be
part of His decision making
c. He will not lie at every
turn of His mouth
But,
In The Middle Of Verse Four, Isaiah Jumps In Time, Across The Centuries To The Second
Coming Of Jesus Christ.
3. I Believe Peter explained
this when he wrote of the Holy Spirit
I
Peter 1:11 Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which
was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of
Christ, and the glory that should follow.
V. We
See That Eden Returns With The Messiah’s Second Coming
Isaiah 11:6 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard
shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling
together; and a little child shall lead them.
Isaiah 11:7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall
lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
Isaiah 11:8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and
the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice’ den.
Isaiah 11:9 They shall not
hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the
knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
The Curse Will Be Lifted
Romans 8:18 For I reckon
that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the
glory which shall be revealed in us.
Romans 8:19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
Romans 8:20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly,
but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
Romans 8:21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the
bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
Romans 8:22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth
and travaileth in pain together until now.
Romans 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which
have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves
groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our
body.
Romans 8:24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope:
for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
Romans 8:25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience
wait for it.
Revelation 22: 3 And there shall be no more
curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants
shall serve him:
VI. We
See What Will Bring This About – Earth Filled With Knowledge of the Lord
Isaiah 11:9 They
shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be
full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
VII.
We See The Banner of the People – Judah, Israel, and
Gentiles
Isaiah 11:10 ¶ And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall
stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest
shall be glorious.
A. The
Perfect Ruler, Prince of Peace will draw all men unto Himself.
B. The
ensign was the standard, the banner or flag that drew the troops together.
C. Messiah stands as the
central rallying point of the remnant and the Gentiles
Philippians 2:9-11; Jeremiah 31:33-34; John 3:14; Matthew
24:31
D. The remnant gathers
around Him. Jesus said, "And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will
draw all men unto Myself" (John 12:32).
Isaiah 11:11 And it shall
come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second
time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria,
and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar,
and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
Isaiah 11:12 And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall
assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah
from the four corners of the earth.
Isaiah 11:13 The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries
of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not
vex Ephraim.
Isaiah 11:14 But they shall fly upon the shoulders
of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together:
they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.
Isaiah 11:15 And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue
of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the
river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod.
Isaiah 11:16 And there shall be an highway for the remnant
of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in
the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
E. There Will Be A Great
New Exodus.
1. Is the current return of
the Jewish people to Israel the one foretold here?
2. It is perhaps a preparation
for that day
3. It is probably not the
fulfillment of these verses.
4. Isaiah is speaking of
believers being gathered back by the hand of God.
5. It is a believing
"remnant" he has in mind.
a. Today there is only a
handful of believing Jews in Israel.
b. Most of them are non
religious Jews.
c. Isaiah pictures Jerusalem
restored and the Lord Jesus reigning in person in Jerusalem.
6. He is the banner that draws
all nations to Jerusalem to seek Him.
a. The remnant is envisioned
coming from every part of the earth to Jerusalem
b. Isaiah "is thinking of
a deliverance so great that it can only be performed
by God.
"Like as it was to
Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt..”
VIII.
We See Isaiah Praise The Lord For Messianic Salvation
Isaiah 12:1 ¶ And in that day thou shalt say, O
LORD, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with
me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me.
Isaiah 12:2 Behold, God is
my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my
strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.
Isaiah 12:3 Therefore with
joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.
Isaiah 12:4 ¶ And in that day shall ye say, Praise the LORD, call upon his
name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is
exalted.
Isaiah 12:5 Sing unto the
LORD; for he hath done excellent things: this is known in all the earth.
Isaiah 12:6 Cry out and
shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the
midst of thee.
IX. We
See Looking Back To Isaiah’s Vision - God Is Sovereign Now
A. Chapters 13 – 23 contain judgments predicted on
nations surrounding Judah.
1. First the rising power of Babylon
2. Would ultimately overwhelm Assyria
3. Would become the greatest kingdom on earth
4. Would fall to the Medes and the Persians and be in
ruins.
B. Chapter 14 judgment again
rises beyond the immediate earthly Babylon
1. Sees the satanic power which
controls the early nations
2. Describes Satan’s which
occurred before the foundation of the earth.
Isaiah 14:12 How art thou
fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how
art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
Isaiah 14:13 For thou hast said in thine heart,
I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I
will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
Isaiah 14:14 I will ascend
above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
3. We Can Also See Satan’s
Demise
Isaiah 14: 15 Yet thou shalt be brought down
to hell, to the sides of the pit.
Isaiah 14:16 They that see
thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man
that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;
C. The Contrast between God’s
view And Man’s Perspective
1. Man sees only earthly
kingdoms - the thrones which rise and fall through the centuries
2. Scripture sees the satanic
powers and angelic conflicts behind the earthly events.
3. This Is Why Paul said:
Ephesians 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against
principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this
world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Ephesians 6:13 Wherefore take
unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able
to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
Ephesians 6:14 Stand
therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the
breastplate of righteousness;
Ephesians 6:15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of
peace;
Ephesians 6:16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be
able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
Ephesians 6:17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the
Spirit, which is the word of God:
Ephesians 6:18 Praying always
with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and
watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
Applications:
1. Only
that which is eternal lasts. When we realize our journey through this earth is
only passing we then recognize the real thing is yet
to come. We are living in two worlds: the now, and the
yet to be. The daily world news reminds us that world peace as we know it is
only temporary. Perpetual, permanent peace will only come when Jesus returns to
reign as King of kings and Lord of lords.
2. Only
that which is done in the Spirit of the LORD is of lasting quality. Anything
done in the flesh is temporary and destructive. When we yield ourselves to the
Holy Spirit we are investing in eternity.
3. Only
when there is a transformation of man's spirit can there be
a transformation of man's environment. When the soul of man is radically
transformed we will then witness a radical change in our society.
4. Only
when we realize the ultimate victory is in God's hands, not man's,
do we have lasting hope. When we recognize the sovereignty of God we can enjoy
our everlasting hope.
5. Only
when we are obedient do we bring delight to the Lord. When we are obedient we
have a heart that fears the Lord. The Messiah delights in the "fear of the
Lord."
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The Rod Out of
the Stem of Jesse |
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His First
Advent – Isaiah 11:1-3;Isaiah 7:14; 9:6; -10 |
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1. He is A Rod
Out of the Stem of Jesse |
Isaiah 11:1; Jeremiah
31:33-34 |
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2. He will have
Full Measure of the Holy Spirit |
Isaiah 11:2;
Luke 4:1; Luke 4:14; John 1:3; Isaiah 61:1-2 |
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His Second
Advent – Isaiah 11:4-12:6 |
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3. He Will Be A
Righteous Ruler |
Isaiah 11:3-5; |
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4. He Will Bring
Us Back To Eden – No More Curse |
Isaiah 11:6-9;
Romans 8:18-25; Revelation 22:3 |
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5. He Will Bring
This About With The Knowledge of the Lord Filling All The Earth |
Isaiah 11:9 |
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5. He Will Draw
all Peoples To Himself – Judah, Israel, and Gentiles |
Isaiah 11:10;
Philippians 2:9-11; John 3:14-15; Matthew 24:31 |
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6. He Will
Recover The Remnant of His People |
Isaiah 11:11-15 |
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7. There Will Be
A Great New Exodus |
Isaiah 11:16 |