The Waters of Shiloah That Go Softly
Isaiah
8
January
23, 2013
Charles
e Whisnant, Pastor/Teacher/Learner
ISAIAH CHAPTER
8:1-4 WHAT IS IN A NAME AND IN A WORD
FROM THE LORD
1A God meant something by this child:
Maher-shalah Hashbaz
2A God has a meaning of His own with every
life.
1C God has a
set of books written by His pen. When writing to men, Isaiah used man’s pen.
2C A few words
in our memory, will serve as handles by which we take hold of more.
3C God
speaks in few words, it takes for less words to get a though across, the for
man to explain those few words. Revelation from God put in our minds requires
much meditation.
3A A
custom of naming the children from passing events is by no means news, the
Hebrews choice names for specific events.
1C Hebrews
named children with a future in mind. Realzing that pasts battles are no sign
of pture victory, if we lose our faith in God.
ISAIAH
CHAPTER 8:5-8: The Waters of Shiloah
That Go Softly
1A They refused the water of Shiloah:
1B Mount
Moriah, “the hill of the Lord.” The hill
on which the Teple was built.
1C The
spring is said to have risen within the very precincts of the Temple And to
have supplied its courts and cisterns with the abundant water required for its
innumerable washing and sacrifices.
2C They
rise and flow without noise or turbulence.
2B They abused
the stream of mercies.
1C By
Rejection.
2C By
Presumption
We abuse God’s mercy when we allow it not to inspire
us with unshaken confidence in His protecting love and power.
3B Shiloah: A
type of gospel grace and gospel influences.
1C Filtered
clear water from Temple-rock.
2C For
a time ran its unseen course
underground: grace.
3C Then it sparkled out and along a broad
band into 100 tiny courses till it reached the gardens and the vineyards
beyond.
THE STREAM OF SHILOAH: SPEAKS OF
CHRIST:
1A _________________did not elate Him.
2A _________________did not bewilder Him.
3A _________________did not ruffle Him.
4A He was never ____________________
5A He was never ____________________
CHRIST WAS A POWERFUL SWAY ON
EARTH: But how He manifested it was not by:
1A The flaunt of a ___________________
2A The beat of the ___________________
3A King, yes, but did not lift up His
_______________
4A Tumult and confusion He experienced, it
was in His circumstances not ______
5A The idea of life in a picture:
1B ______________________
2B ______________________
3B ______________________
4B ______________________
6A Which is your choice: The Jewish choice:
To pitch by the river of Assyria.
1B Example men follow:
1C God’s men or world’s men
2B The principles and the agencies they rely
on:
1C The unobtrusive and gracious vs. those
that are pretentious and human
2C We want success – How do we seek it.
3C WE seek agencies to depend on that are
choices that will be wrong.
3B The modes of religion we adopt.
Isaiah Chapter 8
outline
I.
Jehovah’s address to the people of
Judah through Isaiah (8:1-4):
A. The great tablet (8:1).
1.
Isaiah was to write upon the tablet “For Mahershalalhashbaz” (8:1).
2.
Mahershalalhashbaz means, “The spoil speedeth, the prey hastens” (Margin of
ASV).
B. Witnesses were to be used to prove
that Isaiah wrote this prophecy long before
the events came to pass (8:2). Those witnesses were:
1. Uriah the priest. Uriah was the one who would latter gratify the
heathen
desires of Ahaz by fashioning an
idol of the Syrian god (II Kings 16:10ff).
2. Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
C. In addition to the “great tablet” bearing the words “For Mahershalalhashbaz,”
Isaiah was to go to his wife and
have a son whom they were to name
“Mahershalalhashbaz” (8:3).
Written and living proof that God would perform
the terrible prophecies of chapter
seven.
D. Furthermore, Isaiah was to give a time frame. Israel and Syria
would be
defeated by Assyria before
Mahershalalhashbaz knew how to say “My father, and,
my mother” (8:4).
1. Such abilities in infants occur usually after two to three years.
2. History reveals that Pekah was defeated and Israel carried into
captivity by
Tiglath-pileser and then Damascus
was besieged and taken in the year 732
BC (II Kings 15:29).
II. The consequences of Judah’s rejection of Jehovah’s warning (8:5-10):
A. Judah had refused the waters of
Shiloah (8:6).
1. “The clear little brook – a pleasant sight to the eye as it
issues from the ravine
which run between the south-western
slope of Moriah and the south-eastern
slope of Mount Zion – is used here as a symbol of the
Davidic monarchy
enthroned upon Zion, which had the
promise of God, who was enthroned
upon Moriah, in contrast with the
imperial or world kingdom, which is
compared to the overflowing waters
of the Euphrates.”24
2. “This stream, ever so clear and pure,
representing Jehovah’s presence,
purity,
and power, did not compare in size
with the great river Euphrates; hence, the
people disdained it.”25
3. Moriah was “separated
from Mount Zion by the Tyropoeon valley.”26
B. Judah would experience short-lived joy in the Assyrians defeating
Rezin and
Pekah (8:6).
C. The overflowing of the Euphrates River that would overwhelm
Ephraim
completely and flood Judah
represented Assyria (8:7-8).
D. Though God would call the nations of the world to destroy Israel
and Judah, they
were to take heed as well. God would
break them in pieces (8:9-10).
II.
Give no heed to the people of
Judah nor their evil ways (8:11-15):
A. Isaiah was encouraged not to conduct
himself as the evil people of Judah who
put their trust in Assyria (8:11).
24 Ibid.
Pg. 151
25 Haily,
H. A Commentary on Isaiah; pg. 94
26 Smith, W. Smith’s Bible Dictionary; pg. 417
GOD IS OUR SANCTUARY AND IS TO BE PRAISED AND BELIEF
Isaiah
8:14-16 January 30 2013
Synopsis:
To understand
chapter 7 we must consider the historical events occurring. Ahaz wasm the
twelfth king of Judah from 742 BC to 727 BC. During the reign of Ahaz, Pekah
was reigning in Israel (The Northern Kingdom). Pekah’s reign overlapped Ahaz’s
father Jotham. Jotham, son of Uzziah, reigned in his father’s place for 16
years. He di that which was right, yet
the high places of idolatry remained (II Kings 15:34-35). Jotham was responsible
for fortifying even further the city of Jerusalem and keeping the Ammonites in check
(II Chron. 27:3ff). It was during the days of Jotham that the Syrians had
recovered from the earlier defeats from Jeroboam II (II Kings 14:28) and the
Assyrian army under the leadership of Pul. Assyria had engaged in trouble with
the Babylonians and were somewhat weakened at this point, which gave Syria a
chance to recuperate. With the alliance of Israel, the two nations (Syria and
Israel) marched on Judah (II Kings 15:37). Ahaz, son of Jotham, reigned in
Judah after his father for 16 years. Rezin, King of Syria and Pekah, King of
Israel continued their attacked on Ahaz. Ahaz called for help from Tiglath-pileser
(II Kings 16:10). Ahaz offered the king of Assyria all the treasures from the temple
of Jehovah for help, and Tiglath-pileser agreed. The King of Assyria attacked Damascus, the capital of Syria and killed
Rezin, King of Syria.
Ahaz had Urijah,
the high priest, fashion a god after the pattern of the Syrians (II Kings 16:10-16).
He afterwards worshipped the Syrian god. He sacrificed his children in fire to other
gods and even closed the doors of the temple of Jehovah (II Chron. 28:24). It
was during these days that Isaiah the prophet came to Ahaz and offerred help
from Jehovah against the alliance of Syria and Israel. Ahaz rejected Jehovah’s
offer and sealed the fate of Judah.
I. Jehovah’s address to the people of Judah through Isaiah (8:1-4):
II. The consequences of Judah’s rejection of Jehovah’s warning (8:5-10):
A. Judah had refused the waters of Shiloah
(8:6).
III. Give no heed to the people of Judah nor their evil ways (8:11-15):
A. Isaiah was encouraged not to
conduct himself as the evil people of Judah who put their trust in Assyria
(8:11).
B. Secondly, Jehovah told
Isaiah not to fear their cries of conspiracy. Isaiah would suffer the same
derision as Amos as he spoke out against Israel (Amos 7:10). Jeremiah suffered
the same derision (Jer. 18:18-23).
C. God’s people today need to
keep warning in the face of opposition (Acts 20:28-
31).
DO
NOT SACRIFICE _SACRIFICE FOR EXPEDIENCEY
Isaiah 8:11-13
Those who in the
time of difficulty and temptation sacrifice principle and expediency and
abandon the clear path of duty for a course which may seem to lead to some
greater immediate advantage must not be surprise if the penalty which they
ultimately have to pay be a severe one.
Well I know it is wrong, but for the
immediate relief I just allow it. Truly is not a good idea.
Vs.
13: Sanctify the LORD of host Himself: Is to believe: Absolute trust in the protecting care of the
living God.
“Let
Him be your fear.” Those
who know most of God and His attributes will most “fear” not His anger, but
simply His amazing greatness.
Fear
is generated by unbelief and unbelief is strengthen by fear. Matthew 8:26.
Psalms 53:5, 1 Peter 4:19; 2 Timothy 1:12 and Proverbs 16:3
It
is my resignation of all to God, and acting faith upon His promise: Romans
8:28; Psalms 91:15, Isaiah 27:8 and Revelation 7:17. Distraction of mind in duty:
To
faint for fear: Abraham: Genesis 20:2, 17,
Isaacs: Genesis 26:7. Peter: Matthew 26:69. Proverbs 29:25
FEAR: makes men impatient of waiting
God’s time and method of deliverance and so drives the soul in to
the snare of the next temptation.
Vs.
14 “And He shall be for a sanctuary:”
A place where you may receive security: Psalms 17:1-2; 46:1,11; Proverbs 18:10;
Isaiah 4:6; 26:1,2, 30.
The Christian’s greatest danger is unbeliefor
unfaithfulness to God, which would make him lost for a time the means of safety
and victory.
GOD is our hiding place God is our refuge and
rest. God is our dwelling place.
1.
I am
hungry, He is bread
2.
I am
thirsty, He is water
3.
I am
faint, He is wine
4.
I am
heated in the way; He is a rock-shadow, in a wearily land.
I Peter 2:8, Romans 9:33 and Luke 2:34
This
is one of a group of three “stone” passages which are seen in various combinations
in the N.T. as prophecies of Jesus
(Isaiah 28:16; Psalms 118:22. Jesus, Himself, used them to refer to the Jewish
leaders who had rejected Him. Matthew 21:42; Mark 12:10,11; Luke 20:17.
Peter
addressing some of the same group, employed one of the verses to explain who
Jesu was (Acts 4:11) and later he connected all three with the fact that
Christians are living stones in a spiritual house (I Peter 2:6-8).
Paul
referred to two of the passages to give the reason why the Jews as a rule
missed out on righteousness, but many Gentiles did not Romans 9:33.
Significantly, the ONE referred to in vs. 14 is Yahweh (Jehovah), so the
application regarded Jesus as a part of the Godhead; not simply as a man.
Vs
15 Many shall stumble and fall, and be broken and be snared
Matthew
21:44; Romans 9; 32 and 11:25.
Vs
16 Bind up the testimony.
I will seal up my message, and let my
teaching be kept secret and my words be given to my disciples only.
TODAY:
we should, by searching the scriptures and by the guidance of the Holy
Spirit, ascertain what truths and duties are contained in them and carefully
preserve and maintain these like that which is bound up and sealed.
