They Shall Curse by Molech ISAIAH REPEATEDLY condemned the practice of summoning spirits from the netherworld. It’s not always apparent because translators often didn’t have an understanding of the cult of the dead that surrounded ancient Israel, and the impact it had on the Israelites. After prophesying the imminent destructionContinue Reading
ISAIAH WAS commissioned as a prophet in the year King Uzziah of Judah died—and it was a mindbending sight.Continue Reading
PROPHECIES OF the coming Messiah are woven throughout the Book of Isaiah.Continue Reading
ISAIAH WAS a wordsmith. And the word he used for idols identifies the spiritual nature and origin of the idols he condemned.Continue Reading
He is not here, for he has risen, as he said.
Matthew 28:6 (ESV)
ISAIAH’S PROPHECY of a new heaven and new Earth is the focus of this week’s Old Testament study. We note sections where Isaiah is cited by later prophets, highlight another example of the divine council worldview (God’s condemnation of a ritual meal for the Canaanite gods Gad and Meni), and discuss the parallels between the last chapters of Isaiah and the last chapters of Revelation.Continue Reading