Week 23 Isaiah
Three different things jump out at me as I read.
One: Isaiah had a vision: I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, lofty and exalted, with the train of His robe filling the temple.
It reminded me of Week 22’s post Out of Sight. The events there with Micaiah and Job were located in an outside-of-the-world place, maybe a different dimension. And here Isaiah reports another event, something happening out past the borders of the natural world.
Two: Isaiah mentions a person called The Branch, and he predicts that: he will delight in obeying the Lord. He will never judge by appearance, false evidence, or hearsay. He will defend the poor and the exploited. He will rule against the wicked and destroy them…He will be clothed with fairness and truth.
The Branch is a heroic person. But when I checked a word book I saw The Branch was only mentioned six times in the OT. Not many for such a key-sounding player.
Three: there’s a forecast about Babylon’s fall that left me with a bit of a shiver. Death is bad enough, but what about a place of the dead? Isaiah says: Sheol from beneath is excited over you to meet you when you come. It arouses for you the spirits of the dead.
Maybe not enough there to develop a postmortem view of things. But it makes you wonder what’ll happen.
Note: quotes from Isaiah 6:1, 11:3-5, 14:9 (NASB and NLT versions)