"Noble Prince of Peace" with Doug Batchelor

[Music] good morning friends we'd like to welcome you to sabbath school study hour coming to here from the granite bay seventh-day adventist church in sacramento california i'd like to welcome those who are joining us online across the country and around the world we're meeting under some strange circumstances with the coronavirus and still needing to limit our actual contact person to person interacting in corporate worship but we are glad you're joining us to study we know the spirit of god is not limited to a place or a time but he is everywhere and he is willing to dwell in the hearts of those who are seeking his presence so we'd like to welcome all of you to our sabbath school program uh as many of you know those who've been tuning in regularly we've been studying through the book of isaiah today we have a very important lesson if you don't have a lesson courtly we want to encourage you to go to you can actually find it at the amazing facts website the lesson for today or you can 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you call him all that thrills my soul is jesus he is [Music] of god [Music] is [Music] is good in him i see he is [Music] is and the fairest of ten thousands [Music] and forever and forever [Music] [Music] amen let's begin with the word of prayer dear father once again how grateful we are to be able to gather in your presence wherever we might be recognizing that with two or three are gathered together in your name that's where you are and so father we invite you holy spirit come and speak to us through your word as we look at a very inspiring passage of scripture found in the old testament in the book of isaiah for we ask this in jesus name amen as mentioned earlier our lesson study this entire quarter is on the book of isaiah today we're on lesson number five that's entitled noble prince of peace and i think you know who that is referencing so invite pastor doug to lead us in our study today good morning i want to welcome everybody that is watching us online we know we've got uh folks that are watching us on a variety of satellite networks as well as watching it live on the internet and we're just so thankful that you're able to study with us here at the granite bay hilltop church i have a few people that are part of our online production crew that are here with us today and i'm really excited to get into our lesson today we've got a big assignment we're going to be studying isaiah chapter 9 10 11 and 12. and there's a lot of material in there i don't know that we're going to get through it all so i hope you'll you'll extend some grace and mercy sometimes people write us letters they say you didn't get through the lesson but you got to know we tried our best now today i'm using this microphone because my other microphone was having some technical problems so just wanted to explain that also i've got some notes spread out here that i'm going to need to use you know i think it'd be a good place to start to get the background for the time in which isaiah is writing if you have your bibles handy turn to the second book of kings chapter 16. now you know in the very beginning of isaiah it tells us that he was a prophet during the reign of many kings and it's in particular during the time of ahaz that i think some of the events we're going to study today are transpiring so if you turn to isaiah chapter 16 and i'm sorry second kings fifth second king 16 and i'll start with verse 1. in the 17th year of pika the son of rimulaya ahaz the son of jotham king of judah began to reign ahaz was 20 years old when he became king and he reigned 16 years in jerusalem and he did not do what was right in the sight of the lord his god as david his father had done but he walked in the way of the kings of israel the kings of israel had turned to idolatry and they had a golden calf at dan and they also had one in samaria and he had begun to get involved in the idolatry of these of the northern kingdom he made his son pass through the fire that also said later manasseh did that he became involved in some of the child sacrifice now you can tell god didn't bless ahaz very much because he started reigning when he was 20 and he was done in 16 years makes him how old 36 so it was a time of great apostasy in the southern kingdom according to the abominations of the nations whom the lord had cast out before the children of israel and he sacrificed and he burned incense on the high places and on the hills and they had idols in these different places and under every green tree then reason the king of assyria and pika the son of remeliah king of israel came up to jerusalem to make war and they besieged ahaz but they could not overcome him all right now let me give you just a little geography lesson here in a little history israel when they first inhabited the promised land the 12 tribes were all one nation and they stayed one nation through the time of the judges they stayed one nation through the time of king saul david and solomon after solomon they had a son and the solomon's son rehoboam did not make some good decisions and he ended up losing the kingdom broke off into a civil war they didn't want to pay the high taxes they had paid to solomon and so you had roughly 10 tribes in the north and they were called israel the southern kingdom was called judah sometimes they called the north ephraim because it was the biggest tribe and they would call the southern tribe they'd say jerusalem samaria so there's several terms but israel for the rest of their history was north and south because of this terrible civil war north of israel the ten tribes you have syria their capital is damascus they are on the mediterranean coast of course damascus is still there today then inland was a great empire called assyria i know when i first started reading the bible i got confused by syria syria i said the same thing as syria is a different kingdom and even though they finally conquered syria and they ended up owning some of that same territory their capital was in nina you remember jonah went to preach to the ninevites and so you need to understand that as we read now what happened and this all plays into isaiah and his prophecies that he makes so the king of israel reason he got together with picolia the peak of the son of rimalia the king of syria they attacked they got a confederacy they attacked judea and jerusalem they tried to conquer jerusalem they couldn't conquer the city because it was a great fortress but they did take several cities of judah and it says if they went to make war they besieged ahaz but they could not overcome him and at that time reason king of syria captured elith in syria and drove away the men of judah from elith then the went to elith and they dwelt there to this day so a lot of territory was lost and changed hands so ahaz instead of turning to the lord and repenting he sends messengers to tiglith polizer the king of assyria saying i am your servant and your son come and save me from the hand of the king of syria and from the hand of the king of israel who was pica the son of remaliah who rise up against me and ahaz took the silver and the gold that was found in the house of the lord and the treasures of the king's house and he sent it as a present he sent you know millions of dollars to help fund or subsidize a war so that they would fight against his enemy so the king of assyria listened to him and the king of assyria went up against damascus that's the capital of syria and he took it and he carried its people captive to kerr and he killed reason that was the king of syria all right and then it says now king ahaz to thank the king of assyria for fighting for him he goes up to assyria to thank him he goes to damascus he sees an altar there he thinks what a beautiful altar he then begins to model the altar in the house of the lord after the altar in a nineveh or damascus rather and so you just see that they're really losing their identity ahaz was not a good king they're being attacked from the north and israel lost or judah lost territory now before i go any farther history repeats itself what you happened you had is you had one nation of israel but part of the nation turned to idolatry in the north they began to make idols at bethel and dan in samaria and dan up in the north that happened under the time of jeroboam his name was jeroboam the son of nebat who did cause israel to sin then for a while the southern kingdom was faithful the sons of david but gradually they began to compromise until the whole nation compromised that history is repeated after the time of christ in what happened to the church church gave itself over to idolatry you had the faithful those who protested that starting with the waldenses and the hussites all the way time through huss and luther and they were resisting that they were trying to bring about revival but finally the daughters of babylon ended up copying the mother and then judgment came that's what's happening to the church today the protestants are losing their identity just like judah lost its identity and everybody's just saying you know hey what they're doing looks pretty good let's model our worship after theirs see what he has then he said oh yeah i kind of like the way the worship the uh the worship of the north he's worshiping like the people in the northern kingdom then he's going to worship like the the syrians and there's great religious compromise so these judgments begin to come that gives us a backdrop for what isaiah is talking about so let's go to isaiah chapter 9 and we have a memory verse and the memory verse comes to us from isaiah 9. this is lesson 5. it's called noble prince of peace and again our mission is to study isaiah 9 all the way through isaiah 12. so i'll be hopping around a little bit in isaiah 9 6 our memory verse for unto us a child is born and unto us a son is given and the government shall be upon his shoulder and his name will be called wonderful counselor mighty god everlasting father prince of peace now when it says a wonderful counselor some people think that wonderful then you've seen the king james it's a comma counselor probably in the original you've got four titles here wonderful counselor is one what kind of counselor a wonderful counselor mighty god everlasting father prince of peace so those four titles sort of represent something universal north south east west that god is king of all and so that's our memory verse and then it talks about these wars in these chapters that we're dealing with in the sabbath school lesson it makes an interesting note that in all the time of recorded history there's only about eight percent of the time that the world has not been at war and one way or the other now in chapter 9 our section here says the end of gloom for the gentiles and these are the gentiles that are living north of judah around the sea of galilee that used to be the territory of israel the ten tribes and it's keep in mind as we're talking about the gloom the chapters that you find in your bible a man did that they're not necessarily divinely picked where they put a chapter line and so to understand about the gloom in isaiah 9 1 you've got to go back one verse look at isaiah 8 22 it says then they will look to the earth and see trouble and darkness gloom and anguish and they'll be driven into darkness next verse isaiah 9 1 nevertheless the gloom will not be upon her who is distressed as when at first he lightly esteem the land of zebulun in the land of naphtali and afterward more heavily oppressed her by the way of the sea in the jordan in the galilee of the gentiles so he's saying that i know that the the land of israel has suffered a terrible judgment you know it was during the time of isaiah that the king of assyria tigolf palizer who had temporarily joined ahaz the fight against syria he later got down he says yeah jerusalem's got a lot of money i think i'll just take them too and so he he thought hey will you be my friend and fight against my enemies and what ended up happening is that king came down he says i'm powerful enough to take the whole thing so he became their enemy he conquered the northern tribes of israel at first he took them away captive now don't forget this friends you're talking about over 500 years before jesus the 10 tribes in the northern kingdom the southern kingdom had judah benjamin and the levites were the priests so they didn't count so much as a tribe they were really for everybody but he really had uh benjamin benjamin judah and levi the ten tribes eve from manasseh zebulun naftali naphtali lived around the galilee they're carried off to assyria he conquered the land of the northern empire carried him to assyria the people of judah after babylon conquered them they came back the ones who were conquered by syria never came back so when you read in revelation chapter 7 and it says that god's going to get 12 000 from the 12 tribes of israel 12 000 from naftali you from zebulun are they literal israelites they can't be long before jesus was born you'd be hard-pressed to find 10 people that were pure pure blood from issachar or from zebulun so to say you got 12 000 of them now in the last days it's obviously there's a spiritual meaning there you see what i'm saying the 10 tribes never came back the southern kingdom when they were conquered they did come back then because jesus came from the southern kingdom through judah they not only came back after the babylonian captivity the southern kingdom came back in 1948 and now we talk about the jews we're not talking about israelites the jews are really from the tribe of judah that's the name that was used so it ends up that the king of assyria ended up attacking him they went through great judgments and isaiah is saying look the darkness that you suffered the land being taken over he said god is going to show you mercy and if you can read in second kings 15 29 in the days of pika the king of israel tiglath polizer king of assyria came and he took ayan abel beth mikaya genna kedesh hazor gilead galilee in the land of naphtali and he carried them captive to assyria that they never came back they intermarried with the assyrians they did not maintain their distinct identity did you know why the jews maintained a distinct identity the bible they still had the scriptures they were going by the scriptures that told them who they were it told them their heritage it gave them their language a jew today who's educated can read some of the dead sea scrolls even though the text is very difficult it's like you and i reading the original king james you can kind of fight through it but they're still the same people the 10 tribes in the north had given up the scriptures they did not have the temple they lost their identity they intermarried with the assyrians and if you do a dna test many of the assyrians they're all semitic people they'll have some jewish blood it came back from the ten tribes but um what happened then is after tiglath palesar carried the ten tribes north you know what the people of judah did during the time of hezekiah and the king just before him they began to move north so when jesus is living who is it that when jesus is ministering around galilee are they 10 tribes or are they judah the people of judah had come and inhabited some of the northern kingdom at that time all right i hope that all makes sense so with that you've got it says zebulun naphtali manasseh that is the country of galilee galilee all around guinesseries was part of that principle that suffered under the assyrian invasion under tic left paleser that we just read about now what is the promise isaiah makes in verse 2 isaiah 9 verse 2 people who walked in darkness have seen a great light and those who dwelt in the land of the shadow of death upon them light has shined now matthew applies this to the ministry of jesus did jesus begin his ministry in bethlehem or did he begin his ministry in the country of zebulun naphtali melasa manasseh around galilee and that was the great light that had shined yes they'd been through some time of gloom and darkness but god said a light is going to come to this territory and you can look in john 1 43-44 it says the following day jesus wanted to go to galilee and he found philip and he said follow me now philip was from beseda the city of andrew and peter all of the early not all most of the early apostles came from the regions around galilee you remember when peter was denying christ at his trial the girl said you're a galilean you've got an accent of a galilean your speech betrays you we know the followers of jesus are largely from galilee and so that prophecy was fulfilled that a lot of jesus ministry was in the land of galilee he knew he'd have so much resistance from the priests and jerusalem and the temple to his teaching and so he went to where the poor people were working up around the sea you look in isaiah 60 verse 2 talking about darkness and gloom and light for behold darkness will cover the land and deep darkness the people but the lord will arise over you and his glory will be seen on you all right let's go to isaiah 9 verse 4 for you have broken the yoke of his burden in the staff of his shoulder the rod of the oppressor as on the day of midian he's saying that god is going to set them free from the land of the oppressor now the liberation that isaiah is talking about from the enemy is he talking about the syrians or the assyrians or the romans or the babylonians or is he now when jesus preaches is he talking about a different kind of liberation it's a liberation from the devil who was the real enemy and he describes in the days of uh he says as in the days of midian he's talking about uh gideon and the judges the medianites were oppressing the people of israel and just a handful of israelites gideon how many men 300 men they went against an army of like you know 800 000 and they won and what they used they used a trumpet which is a symbol for the bible lift up your voice like a trumpet they used a lamp the word is a lamp under my feet a symbol of the bible they used a sword they said the sword of the lord and gideon so they had swords a symbol of the bible so how did they overcome the enemy with the word and so that's why he said as in the days of midian it is going to be god that will give you the victory and free you from the oppressor this is what isaiah is referring to here and and then he goes on he says you've broken the yoke of the burden what is that talking about jesus says in matthew 11 29 take my yoke upon you so it's talking i'm breaking free from the yoke of the devil the light of jesus teaching sets them free learn from me for i am gentle and lowly and hard and you will find rest for your souls now go to isaiah 5 9. for every warrior sandal from the noisy battle and the garments rolled in blood will be used for burning and fuel of fire i know that may seem a little difficult when you first read it but you look other places and isaiah talks about things that were made for war being used for peace he said they'll take their spears and they'll shape them into pruning hooks for the garden and they'll beat their swords and turn them into plows in other words they won't use the iron for weapons they'll use the iron for farming because it's a time of peace and so here these garments are going to just be used for fuel they're not going to be used for fighting anymore and so he's saying this land of naftali you're going to have the yoke of the oppressor is removed great light is going to shine in your gloom and you're going to find peace that's talking about the ministry of christ that would come to that area isaiah is he's called isaiah is called the old testament messianic prophet so much what isaiah says talks about jesus all right let's move on here in then he goes on and he says uh let's see here start with isaiah chapter 9 verse 6 for unto us a child is born who is that talking about that's jesus right unto us a son is given for god so loved the world he gave his only begotten son that's jesus that we might not perish and it says and now just so you know some of the jews when they read this they say well yeah that was talking about hezekiah hezekiah became a very godly king and when the assyrians attacked the northern kingdom they tried to attack hezekiah but isaiah said god is not going to let them even fire an arrow here god delivered the little kingdom of jerusalem and judea from the great assyrian empire god fought for them and 185 thousand assyrians died in one night now i'm getting ahead that's later in isaiah but um some people say well hezekiah was the promised son not so when this prophecy is written hezekiah is already born and so it's not talking about hezekiah hezekiah was a type of christ but it's ultimately talking about jesus and the government will be on his shoulder now i think it's talking about more than an earthly king what does it mean the government will be on his shoulder it doesn't say shoulders like he's holding it up kings back then often carried they wore a banner that would go across and on the shoulder hung a badge or a key showing their authority their signet and that was representing that he would have the authority let me give you an example from isaiah that shows that go to isaiah 22 22 if you can find that isaiah 22 22 it says the key of the house of david i will lay upon his shoulder does that make it clear saying that this person would have that key now go to revelation chapter 3 verse 7 he has the key of david he who opens and no one can shut so they are both that talks about the key of david revelation isaiah and if you read in this prophecy it's saying that he's got this is a child the son of david that is going to have the authority of the kingdom so do we need to guess who it is that lifts the gloom that's talked about in isaiah 9. it's talking about the ministry of christ and you compare scripture with scripture it goes on to say that it says he's got the key and he opens and no one can shut and he shuts and no one can open now does jesus say something in his teaching about sharing those keys with believers he does he says i'll give you the keys to the kingdom he wasn't talking about peter he's talking about every believer and what you bind on earth will be bound in heaven how do you and i have the key we don't really own the key christ is the key the truth is the key but in knowing christ we get to share it um does jesus say you are the light of the world he does but doesn't jesus say i am the light of the world so do we have any light of our own or do we really glow because of christ so as we share christ we also are the line of the world see what i'm saying and so it's his key i remember a funny story a friend told me i think i may have shared this in church before he flew to see his brother i won't tell you his name in montana and he had a nightmare of a travel experience so the next day he was exhausted but his brother had to go to the dentist and the dentist office was at this the biggest mall in montana and my friend he walked around for a minute in the mall he just got so tired and he went to his brother and said look give me the key to the car i've got to get a nap i'm exhausted i'm going to lay down the car till you're done with your dentist appointment you went on to the parking lot and have you ever done this before where you weren't paying real close attention to where you parked when you went into the parking lot and he knew his brother had a white subaru you have no idea how many subarus there are up in montana you think they'd be more loyal americans but they drive a lot of japanese cars there and i guess a lot of them are made in america so he he says oh man he doesn't want to bother his brother and this is a huge mall it is surrounded by parking thousands of cars and he starts to walk around hitting the panic button have you ever done that yeah trying to find where's your car and uh he said finally maybe a light went off and and he he went and but the key would not open it he said well this isn't the right car i just had the right signal for the panic button so then he convinces to walk a little further keeps pressing keeps pressing another one went off he went to open it up it didn't open and he's becoming suspicious because there's cameras in the parking lot he's thinking they're going to watch me some security someone's going to see me he's going from car to car trying to get into a car and he was a little self-conscious about that but he said i've got to go to sleep and he just kept going pretty soon he got when he went baby white subaru went the key worked he laid down took a nap woke up pretty soon he thought well i probably ought to take the car over where my brother is going to be waiting for me and he stuck the key in the ignition it didn't work he had taken a nap in someone else's car eventually found his brother and he found the right car but it does make a difference having the right key and are there some churches out there that have counterfeit keys you think they work but when you really go to use them to get the car started it doesn't work and only jesus has that key and it says his name will be called we talked about this wonderful counselor the mighty god everlasting father prince of peace now who is this speaking of a few people here you can answer me who's this talking about it's not trick question when you think of jesus we always think about him as the son of god do we sometimes think about him as the everlasting father you know christ goes by many names but all things that were made were made by him so is he our creator then in that sense he is our everlasting father but he also is called the son he also says i am your brother and he says i am your friend and he's our husband so jesus has many familial titles and one of them is the everlasting father but is it true that christ and the father are one also yeah so anyway that's just one of his titles and why is he called wonderful how many of you remember the story where samson's parents they spoke to the angel and finally they said they made an offering they said tell us your name so that we can worship you he said why do you ask after my name it is wonderful and so actually he says that is one of his names and then he ascended in the uh the offering that they made all right a wonderful counselor mighty god everlasting father go to isaiah 9 7 of the increase of his government and peace there will be no end now if you had doubts before hopefully you have no longer any doubts that this is talking about jesus whose kingdom will have no end if you look in daniel 7 27 like the airplane his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom and all dominions will serve him and then you read on here in isaiah in the next verse and still going with verse 7 upon the throne of david and over his kingdom to order it and establish it with judgment and justice from that time forward even forever the zeal of the lord of hosts word will do this so we're still in isaiah 9. he's making it very clear the light that was brought to the north of israel galilee the freedom from the yoke the the son of david the keys of truth the everlasting kingdom where did jesus first say repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand was it in bethlehem jerusalem or around galilee galilee so isaiah is predicting this is where the ministry of truth is going to begin yeah jesus was baptized down by the jordan but he began his ministry up around galilee and he was preaching through their cities and it says that he's going to have the throne of david you read in luke 1 one of the prophecies about jesus that was given it says he will be great and he will be called the son of the highest and the lord god will give him the throne of david his father david and he will reign over the house of jacob not just judah jacob is all 12 tribes he'll reign over the house of jacob and his kingdom there will be of his kingdom there will be no end now i talked to you a little bit ago about the history of the 12 tribes how 10 of the tribes fell into apostasy they were conquered by the king of assyria carried to the north replaced and the king of assyria later brought some assyrians down to live in that area and they were called samaritans why did jesus choose 12 apostles were the 12 apostles of jesus from 12 different tribes or were many of them from the same tribe the number 12 now for the people of judah still was important because when judas killed himself peter said we need to replace that one to get back to number 12. that's acts chapter 1. the number 12 was important to jesus um it no longer mattered that they were all from the same tribe jesus was saying my 12 are going to be 12 that are spiritual jews if you're real children of abraham you will worship me jesus said to the religious leaders who had a lot of jewish dna in their blood he said you are children of your father the devil because you're rejecting me if you don't follow what moses and abraham followed you are not a jew that's what he said isn't it so now when it talks about him being over the tribe of jacob is it talking about the literal 12 tribes i think god still has a special work for the jews don't misunderstand but i think sometimes we put so much attention on the literal nation and the politics over there in the middle east we forget that israel today he is not a jew which is one outwardly he is a jew which is one inwardly circumcision is not which is in the flesh it is that which is in the heart if you are christ you are abraham's seed that's why jesus said many will come from the east and the west and sit down in the kingdom with abraham isaac and jacob they're in that kingdom because they are adopted in the family but it says some of the natural children will be in outer darkness it's like the parable of the rich man and lazarus the rich man who's feasting on the bread he's supposed to be like the israelites but he doesn't care about the beggar at his gate the gentiles in the judgment the beggars with abraham that was the jewish place of rejoicing and the rich man is in the pagan place of torment hades now jesus is saying you can't say well you know god is a god is no respecter persons he's made of one blood all nations right god does not say i'm gonna like these people because of their blood type or their race more than other people whoever accepts him becomes part of that nation of israel if you worship him all right um going now to isaiah 9 verse 8 through 17 i'm gonna hasten along the lord sent a word against jacob and it has fallen on israel all the people will know ephraim and the inhabitants of samaria who say in pride and arrogance of heart the bricks have fallen down but we will rebuild the human stones the sycamores are cut down but we will replace them so when they were attacked by the assyrians they said oh it's okay we're going to rebuild rebuild instead of humbling themselves they hardened their hearts and said we're going to come back we're going to make a big comeback and god said no you're not because you're not repenting and they had reason to be alarmed by what was happening and then you read again in verse 11 isaiah 9 therefore the lord will set up the adversaries of reason against him that was the king of the northern kingdom his adversaries would come and spur his enemies on the syrians before and the philistines behind and they'll devour israel with an open mouth in other words he's saying a terrible judgment will come from the north and from the south from the philistines because you're not repenting and turning from your idolatry and it says for all this now if you have your bible you might make a little star next to this verse for all this his anger is not turned away but his hand is stretched out still you find that phrase several times for instance if you've got your bible open you look i just read in isaiah 9 verse 12 for all this is anger is not turned away but his hand is stretched out still you go to isaiah 9 verse 21 for all this his anger is not turned away but his hand is stretched out still you go to isaiah 10 for all this his anger is not turned away but his hand is stretched out still six times mostly in this uh sequence that we're reading now he's pronouncing judgments on israel you realize friends this was as serious as it gets he was basically saying look i brought you out of egypt i saved you from slavery i made you my people you kept turning from a turning from me turning from me i've been so patient with you other kingdoms oppressed you but then i gave you victory because you turned back to me but now you're not turning back and i'm going to utterly cast you off that's what he did to the 10 northern tribes it says yes even though you think less is a terrible judgment well we'll just repent he said no i'm not done yet his hand is stretched out still and so it's telling us that there's more to come because they would not repent so um we go to chapter 10 oh let me see here did i get that so they were being chastened he's striking them but they're not seeking the lord it's that you read in verse 13 for the people do not turn to him who strikes them nor do they seek the lord of hosts you know if we're submitted by the lord we should humble ourselves listen to hebrews 12 5. and have you forgotten the exhortation that speaks to you as sons my son do not despise the chastening of the lord nor be discouraged when you rebuke by him for whom the lord loves he chastens and he scourges every son whom he receives therefore and this and going back to isaiah because they would not repent therefore the lord will cut off the head and the tale from israel palm branch and the bulrish in one day the top of the tree the bottom the brush the head the tail the elder and the honorable he is the head and the bulrush in one day and says the prophet who teaches lies he is the tale now if you go up to a rattlesnake you know how you hear you're near a rattlesnake does the head tell you or does the tail tell you you often find out with a snake even non-rattle snakes take their tail and they flick their tail in the leaves i've seen that before where both snakes will imitate a rattler and they vibrate their tail i thought oh that's a bull snake he's fooling me and so the tail speaks and so he's using that language to say you're false prophets in israel these prophets of baal they're not the sons of aaron they're not from the sons of the prophets these are the false prophets that were set up by ahab and jezebel and others after them they're saying we're going to win we're going to beat the syrians and they wouldn't repent when the judgments came he said i'm going to take away the head and the tail they'll be destroyed therefore the lord will have no joy in the young man nor have mercy on the fatherless and the widows for everyone is a hypocrite and an evil doer every mouth speaks folly for all this his anger is not turned away but his hand is stretched out still it's not like you probably have seen these offers that they have on tv it's an infomercial and they'll tell you about this wonderful product and you think i'm almost sold and then they say but wait there's more. and god is saying but wait there's more and he's letting them know that you know the heavy judgments were coming all right isaiah 10. woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees who write misfortune which they have prescribed to rob the needy of justice to take away what is right from the poor of my people that the widows may be their prey and they might rob the fatherless now he's basically seeing those in position of leadership that are making laws they're oppressing the poor and in the time of christ let me give you one example god said honor your father and mother and but they had made a law that said you don't have to honor your father and mother if you pronounce corbin over your estate you can spend it the way you want you can tell your father and mother i don't have to help you in your old age even though your mother might be a widow you don't have to help your siblings or family say look i've willed it all to the church and so they've got this law they wrote that once it's willed to the church i pronounce corbyn over all of my property and i get to use it as long as i want but i can't share it with you because i've willed it to the church let's made this law where jesus said you made the law of god of honoring your father and mother of none effect because you prescribed a law that the priest came up with to get more money from the people and so they had all these evil laws in the northern kingdom that were oppressing the poor and let me see here yeah woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees to whom do you flee for help and where will you leave your glory without me they will bow down among the prisoners and they will fall among the slain for all this his anger is not turned away but his hand is stretched out still all right we'll go to isaiah 11 and this is a great part there shall come forth a rod from the stem of jesse this is isaiah 11 1 and a branch will grow out of his roots who is this talking about the stem now who is jesse jesse was the father of david jesse is the son of obed who was the son of ruth and boaz and the messiah was going to come through this line so it says a stem shall come from jesse jesse had seven or eight sons you know there's some mysteries one place that says he has eight sons one place that says he has seven sons did you ever spot that they think that's because one of his sons died young and so they didn't know whether to count him in the other sons but from those sons one the youngest would spring and he uses the picture of a tree that is cut down and it looks like that tree is dead and gone the branches are rotten it's weak it's got moss and you think it's got no glory and from that humble stump all of a sudden a shoot comes up now i know something about trees i've spent a lot of time cutting trees working trees you don't know i used to do tree service climb trees prune trees and trees are different if you cut down a douglas fir tree it's dead you ain't gonna see no suckers coming up off the roots you cut down a douglas fir tree above branches one of the branches will turn into the main trunk again go straight up and start putting off side branches again if you cut down on the drone it's hard to kill it is coming back it will send shoots back up again you cut down an oak a black oak very likely if it's still got moisture next year you're going to see these shoots start coming up you think you're mowing grass it wrecks your lawnmower because they're tough and so different trees act differently so this is a tree that a sucker comes off and from that a great tree grows now do we have a prophecy in daniel that talks about a tree that is cut down it looks like it's over with but it comes back remember in daniel chapter 4 the dream of nebuchadnezzar and so that's the language that's being used here that from this stand when jesus came did the tribe of judah look glorious did jesus spring from one of the royal sons that was sitting on the throne or did it look like the tree of judah was down when jesus came said it looked like that the monarchy of david is gone but it wasn't gone was it from that root a shoot came from the line of david and it tells us that he would end up being the great king he will grow out of his roots the spirit of the lord will rest upon him the spirit of wisdom understanding counsel and might the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the lord have you read in revelation where it talks about the seven spirits of god you look here um in revelation 5 6 i looked and behold in the midst of the throne and the four living creatures and in the midst of the elders stood a lamb as though it had been slain having seven horns and seven eyes which are the seven spirits of god does that mean the holy spirit's seven persons no it's talking about seven facets or characteristics of the holy spirit where do you find them we just read it isaiah 11 2 follow with me count with me if you want isaiah 11 2 spirit of the lord that's one shall rest upon them spirit of wisdom understanding counsel might knowledge fear of the lord and so some scholars you might say i don't know if that all adds up pastor doug but i'll look i'll expect you to give me a better answer i think that's a pretty good one what are the seven spirits of god there's seven facets or characteristics of the spirit of the lord and so this all of god's spirit is going to dwell upon this stem this shoot this branch that comes from the tribe of david and this is this is jesus of course his delight is in the fear of the lord and his eyes shall not judge by the sight of his eyes nor decide by the hearing of his ears but with righteousness he will see and judge the poor blessed are the poor in spirit jesus said and he'll decide with equity for the meek of the earth jesus said i am meek and lowly he will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth the bible says that her son goes up to heaven and he rules all nations with a rod of iron that's revelation 12. and with the breath of his lips he will slay the wicked thessalonians says he will come jesus and he'll destroy the wicked with the brightness of his coming righteousness will be the belt of his loins and faithfulness the belt of his ways he's described with this belt again in revelation chapter one the wolf will dwell with the lamb and the leopard will lie down with a young goat the calf and the young lion and the fatling together and a little child will lead them so the ultimate goal of this finished kingdom is going to be jesus reigning on the earth with peace first the literal spiritual kingdom comes two thousand years ago but in the very near future jesus is coming and he will ultimately establish a literal kingdom in this world amen chapter 12 is only six verses and it's largely a psalm of praise it's a song of encouragement and praise and quotes from many of the psalms because of the son of david i want to remind our friends if you missed us at the beginning we have a free offer you can request and it's called from stress to joy that is something that would be helpful in our days and you can simply call eight six six seven eight eight three nine six six that's eight six six study more ask for offer number 705 we'll send this to you for free god bless you friends we are out of time i hope you learned something and lord willing will study his word together again next week [Music] you

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