by Pas. Bobby Leonard | Feb 10, 2025 | Bible Study, Book of Isaiah
God Limits Kings and Nations: History Isaiah 7–10 Bad News, Good News (Isaiah 7:1–8:4) War Jitters. News had reached Jerusalem that Israel’s King Pekah and Syria’s King Rezin intended to invade Judah. Shaken by the news, King Ahaz seemed particularly concerned about...
by Pas. Bobby Leonard | Feb 10, 2025 | Book of Isaiah
The Coming Messiah Isaiah 7–12 The Messiah’s Birth (Isaiah 7:14) One of the best-known verses in Isaiah is 7:14: “The Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.” The prophesied son was to be...
by Pas. Bobby Leonard | Jan 25, 2025 | Book of Isaiah
The Parable (Isaiah 5:1-7) Isaiah’s introduction sounds almost like a ballad: “Let me sing for my beloved my love song concerning his vineyard” (5:1). In the song, the owner selected a fertile hillside, removed the stones, and dug the ground in which he planted...
by Pas. Bobby Leonard | Jan 17, 2025 | Book of Isaiah
The Promise of Restoration (Isaiah 2:1-5) The Time Frame. The Hebrew phrase the days signifies human history. For Isaiah’s audience, then, restoration within “the latter days” refers to an unspecified future time. According to the New Testament, the last days began...
by Pas. Bobby Leonard | Jan 17, 2025 | Book of Isaiah
Note that Isaiah addressed the northern kingdom as “Israel” and the southern kingdom as “Judah” until Assyria conquered the northern kingdom in 722 BC. When Isaiah projected into the future, he called the people of Judah returning from Babylonian captivity “Israel,”...
by Pas. Bobby Leonard | Jan 17, 2025 | Bible Study, Book of Isaiah
The book of Isaiah contains some of the most terrifying warnings and the most comforting promises in all the Bible. In this study we will see the prophet Isaiah’s relationship with God, love for God’s people, and deep passion to see God obeyed and worshiped as He...