ISAIAH
CHAPTER 2
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 
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.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.
Immediately
below is an excerpt from the previous chapter of the LORD's establishment
of His Eternal Kingdom on the earth at the time of a future generation of
Israel not yet seen in history which context continues into chapter 2:
Or
skip to the beginning of chapter 2: 
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EXCERPT FROM ISAIAH CHAPTER 1 ************
(1:21-31)
VERSE 21 JUMPS TO THE DAY OF THE LORD, TO A TIME OF A FUTURE GENERATION
OF ISRAEL NOT YET SEEN IN HISTORY, WHEN HE WILL COME TO PURGE THE WORLD
OF SIN AND ESTABLISH HIS ETERNAL KINGDOM OF GOD. THE VERSES BEGIN WITH A
LAMENTING EXCLAMATION "HOW!" IN THE NKJV: "HOW THE
FAITHFUL CITY [JERUSALEM] HAS BECOME A HARLOT!" AFTERWARDS
JERUSALEM WOULD BE CALLED THE RIGHTEOUS CITY, A FAITHFUL CITY. THIS WILL
EVIDENTLY NOT BE IN THE TIMEFRAME OF THE KINGDOMS OF UZZIAH, JOTHAM,
AHAZ OR HEZEKIAH, RULING OUT THE BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY - NOR AT ANYTIME
SO FAR IN HISTORY. IN THE DAY OF THE LORD, THOSE WHO WORSHIPPED IDOLS
WOULD BE CONSUMED, THEIR IDOLS WOULD NOT HELP THEM, BUT BE DESTROYED.
THE UNFAITHFUL LEADERS WOULD BECOME LIKE TINDER, THEIR EVIL WORKS WOULD
BECOME A SPARK WHICH WOULD TOGETHER DESTROY ONE ANOTHER
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END OF EXCERPT FROM ISAIAH CHAPTER 1 ************
I)
[Isa 2:1-22]:
A)
(2:1-4) THE WORD THAT ISAIAH THE SON OF AMOZ SAW CONCERNING JUDAH AND
JERUSALEM. IN THE LATTER DAYS THE MOUNTAIN OF THE LORD'S HOUSE SHALL BE
ESTABLISHED AND EXALTED ABOVE ALL THINGS ON THE EARTH AT JERUSALEM.
PEOPLE FROM ALL NATIONS WILL FLOW TO IT TO BE TAUGHT AND FOLLOW THE WAYS
OF THE LORD. THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD SHALL LIVE IN PEACE - NO MORE WAR
- ACCORDING TO THE SOVEREIGNTY AND JUDGMENTS OF THE LORD. HENCE THE
EVENTS RELATED TO THE BABYLONIAN CONQUEST AND CAPTIVITY ARE NOT IN VIEW
- BUT THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE ETERNAL KINGDOM OF GOD IS
1)
[Compare Isa 1:1]:
B)
(2:5-9) HAVING ALREADY GIVEN A PERSPECTIVE OF THE DAY OF THE LORD WHEN
HE WOULD COME TO ESTABLISH HIS ETERNAL KINGDOM ON EARTH, ISAIAH APPEALED
TO THE HOUSE OF JACOB, (THE TWELVE TRIBES OF ISRAEL) - TO THE
GENERATIONS OF ISRAEL OF HIS TIME, "COME AND LET US WALK IN THE
LIGHT OF THE LORD," DECLARING THAT THEY HAD FORSAKEN THE LORD FOR
PAGAN WAYS, DIVINATION, ASSOCIATING AND WORSHIPPING WITH IDOL
WORSHIPPERS, AND TRUSTING IN THE ACCUMULATION OF WEALTH AND MILITARY
WEAPONS IN LIEU OF TRUSTING IN THE LORD. INSTEAD OF THE LORD, THEY
WORSHIPPED THE MAN-MADE IDOLS WHICH THEY MADE WITH THEIR OWN HANDS
THROUGHOUT THE LAND. IN VIEW OF "JACOB'S" ARROGANCE TOWARD THE
LORD, ISAIAH DECLARED THAT FROM THE HUMBLE TO THE GREAT - ALL WOULD BE
BROUGHT DOWN. AND BY THE URGING OF ISAIAH, THAT THE LORD NOT ACCEPT THEM
DUE TO THEIR ARROGANCE
C)
(2:10-22) THE TIMEFRAME OF THE LAST SECTION OF CHAPTER 2 IS THE DAY OF
THE LORD - A TECHNICAL TERM SIGNIFYING THE TIME WHEN THE LORD'S ETERNAL
KINGDOM WILL COME TO THE EARTH BRINGING HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS AND JUSTICE TO
ALL THE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD THROUGH A FUTURE GENERATION OF HIS CHOSEN
PEOPLE, ISRAEL. AT THIS TIME THE LORD ALONE WILL BE EXALTED. THE SECTION
BEGINS WITH A DECLARATION OF THE LORD'S JUDGMENT OF MANKIND'S
HAUGHTINESS AND LOFTINESS. ISAIAH DECLARED THAT ALL MANKIND WOULD BE
HUMBLED, FROM THE COMMON MAN TO THE GREATEST; FOR ALL THE UNFAITHFUL
WILL ULTIMATELY BE REJECTED BY THE LORD. THE ISRAELITES OF THAT TIME
WILL TRY TO HIDE IN THE ROCKS AND CAVES, IN TERROR OF THE LORD - OF THE
GLORY OF HIS MAJESTY WHEN HE COMES. THEY WILL BE BROUGHT DOWN IN THAT
DAY. THE BABYLONIAN CONQUEST IS NOT IN VIEW. THE DAY OF THE LORD OF
HOSTS SHALL COME UPON EVERYTHING - UPON THE CEDARS OF LEBANON, THE HIGH
MOUNTAINS AND HILLS THAT WERE WORSHIPPED AS IDOLS; THE HIGH TOWERS AND
FORTIFIED WALLS WHICH WERE DEPENDED UPON INSTEAD OF THE LORD; THE RICHLY
LADEN SHIPS OF TARSHISH WHICH WERE TREASURED; THE PICTURES OF IDOLS
WHICH WERE COVETED. ON THAT DAY, ALL HAUGHTINESS AND LOFTINESS WILL BE
BOWED DOWN BEFORE JEHOVAH, WHO ALONE WILL BE SET ON HIGH. IDOLS WILL
PASS COMPLETELY AWAY. THE UNFAITHFUL IDOL WORSHIPPERS WILL SEEK HOLES IN
THE ROCKS, AND CAVES IN THE EARTH FROM THE TERROR OF THE LORD AND THE
GLORY OF HIS MAJESTY WHEN HE ARISES TO SHAKE THE EARTH MIGHTILY. EACH
ONE WILL CAST AWAY HIS IDOLS OF SILVER AND GOLD, MADE BY THEIR OWN
HANDS, TO THE DUNG BEETLES AND BATS UNDERGROUND. ISAIAH THEN ADDRESSES
ALL THOSE WHO MIGHT LEND AN EAR TO THE WISDOM OF THE LORD: THEY ARE TO
SEVER THEMSELVES FROM IDOL WORSHIPPERS FOR THE LATTER COMPRISE MEN WHOSE
LIVES ARE TEMPORAL, NOT ETERNAL; AND WHOSE WISDOM IS OF NO ACCOUNT
COMPARED TO THAT OF THE LORD
CONTINUE
TO ISAIAH CHAPTER 3
