ISAIAH
CHAPTER 11
OBSERVATION
STAGE
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
The purpose of
the observation stage is to maintain focus on the text at hand within the
normative rules of language, context and logic 
.
.This
limits the observer to the content offered by the book of Isaiah. This
will serve to avoid going on unnecessary tangents elsewhere; and more
importantly, it will provide the framework for a proper and objective
comparison with passages located elsewhere in Scripture.
Remember that
something elsewhere may be true, but in the text at hand it may not be in
view.
I)
Isa 11:1-16
A)
(1-5) A DESCENDANT FROM THE LINE OF DAVID WILL BE BORN. HE WILL PRODUCE
GODLY WORKS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS EVIDENTLY AS MESSIAH AND LORD. THE SPIRIT
OF THE LORD WILL REST UPON HIM - THE SPIRIT OF WISDOM, UNDERSTANDING,
COUNSEL, MIGHT, KNOWLEDGE AND FEAR OF THE LORD. THIS DESCENDANT'S
DELIGHT WILL BE IN THE FEAR OF THE LORD. HE WILL JUDGE NOT BY SIGHT OR
HEARING, BUT BY THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE LORD. HENCE HE WILL JUDGE THE
POOR AND THE LOWLY IN RIGHTEOUSNESS. HE WILL STRIKE THE UNRIGHTEOUS OF
THE EARTH WITH THE ROD OF HIS MOUTH. AND WITH THE BREATH OF HIS LIPS HE
WILL PUT THE WICKED TO DEATH - IMPLYING A FUNCTION OF GOD ALONE AS RULER
OF THE ETERNAL KINGDOM OF GOD: FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS SHALL BE THE BELT OF
HIS LOINS, AND FAITHFULNESS THE BELT OF HIS WAIST
****** EXCERPT
FROM CHAPTER 9 ******
Or
continue on with Isa 11:6-16 
(9:1-7)
FOR A FUTURE GENERATION, THE GLOOM AND DISTRESS UPON ISRAEL WOULD BE NO
MORE - AS WHEN AT FIRST THE LORD TREATED WITH CONTEMPT THE LANDS OF
ZEBULUN AND NAPHTALI, AND AFTERWARD MORE HEAVILY OPPRESSED THEM THROUGH
ASSYRIAN INVASION. THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL WHO IN PAST GENERATIONS WALKED
IN DARKNESS WOULD SEE A GREAT LIGHT FROM THE LORD SHINING UPON THEM. THE
NATION WOULD BE MULTIPLIED AND THE LORD WOULD INCREASE THEIR JOY - LIKE
THE REJOICING AT HARVEST TIME OR WHEN MEN DIVIDE THE SPOILS. IN THE
MANNER THAT THE LORD SUPERNATURALLY PROVIDED VICTORY FOR GIDEON AND
ISRAEL OVER THE MIDIANITES, SO THERE WOULD BE AN END TO OPPRESSION AND
WAR: FOR UNTO ISRAEL A CHILD WOULD BE BORN. TO HIS PEOPLE ISRAEL THE
LORD WOULD GIVE A SON - HIS SON. THE GOVERNMENT WOULD BE UPON HIS
SHOULDER; AND HIS NAME WOULD BE CALLED WONDERFUL, COUNSELOR, MIGHTY GOD,
EVERLASTING FATHER, PRINCE OF PEACE. AND OF THE INCREASE OF HIS
GOVERNMENT AND PEACE THERE WOULD BE NO END. HE WOULD RULE HIS KINGDOM
AND THE WORLD FROM THE THRONE OF DAVID - ESTABLISHING JUDGMENT AND
JUSTICE FOREVER. ALL OF THIS WOULD BE ACCOMPLISHED THROUGH THE ZEAL OF
THE LORD OF HOSTS
[Compare
Isa 10:24-27]:
[Compare
Isa 7:14]
]:
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OF EXCERPT FROM CHAPTER 9 ******
B)
(11:6-9) IN THAT DAY, ALL ANIMALS WILL DEMONSTRATE A RESPECT AND
SUBMISSION, EVEN BENEVOLENCE AND PROTECTION TOWARD HUMAN BEINGS DURING
THE REIGN OF THE LORD IN HIS ETERNAL KINGDOM. AND EVERYONE AND
EVERYTHING ON THE EARTH WILL REFLECT A KNOWLEDGE OF GOD IMPLYING A
COMPLETE RESTORATION OF THE WORLD TO THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE LORD FROM
ITS FALLEN CONDITION
C)
(10-16) AND IN THAT DAY THE ROOT OF JESSE WILL STAND AS A BANNER, WHO
WILL DRAW ALL THE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD TO HIMSELF - THEY WILL SEEK HIM
IN THE SENSE OF COMING TO A KNOWLEDGE AND TRUST IN HIM. HE WILL SIT ON
THE THRONE IN THE TEMPLE. AND THE LORD SHALL A SECOND TIME RECOVER THE
REMNANT OF HIS PEOPLE FROM EVERYWHERE ON EARTH. AND JUDAH WILL LIVE IN
HARMONY WITH ISRAEL. TOGETHER THEY WILL DESTROY THEIR ENEMIES. THE LORD
WILL DRY UP THE GULF OF SUEZ WITH A WIND AND REDUCE THE EUPHRATES RIVER
INTO SEVEN SHALLOW STREAMS TO CREATE A HIGHWAY FOR HIS PEOPLE TO COME TO
HIM
CONTINUE
TO ISAIAH CHAPTER 12
