The Strand Study Bible

ISAIAH 3:24

ISAIAH 5:4

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5 3 And the 5 LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, 7 a cloud and smoke by day, 8 and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence. P 6 3 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain. P Isaiah 5 Israel - God’s unfruitful vineyard (Note - This portion of Isaiah’s prophecy took place in the year King Uzziah died , and 1 Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his 9 vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: 2 And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and alsomadea winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. 3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, andmen of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard. the 1st year of King Pekah’s reign) Date Written - c. 748 BC/AM 3252

24 1 And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and in- stead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stom- acher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty. P 25 1 Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war. P 26 And 2 her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground. P Isaiah 4 1 1 And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach. P The promise of a Kingdom where 2 3 In that day shall the 4 BRANCH of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel. PP 3 3 And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem: P 4 3 When the 5 LORD shall have 6 washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning. P CHRIST will rule (Fulfilled - Rev 20:4,6)

1. Fulfilled - II Ki 25 (Fall of Judah) 2. or, “Jerusalem”

Fulfilled - II Ki 25:10

(Fall of Jerusalem) (See - Jere 14:2 & Lam 1:4) 3. Fulfilled - Rev 20:4,6 (Christ’s Kingdom) 4. or, “Christ” - Fulfilled - Jn 10:10 (New Life in Christ) (See - Jere 23:5-6 & 33:15-16 & Zech 3:8 & 6:12- 13) 5. “ Jehovah ” Note - In this case Jehovah is referring to God the Son. 6. Joel 3:21 & Mal 3:2-3 7. Num 9:15-23 8. Zech 2:5 9. Psa 80:8,15 & Jere 2:21 & 12:10 & Ezk 15:6 & 17:6 & 19:10 & Mt 21:33-41

4 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? where- fore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes? 4:1 a The first word of Isaiah 4 ( And ) serves as a summary of the preceding chapter (Isaiah 3), thus the chapter division wrongly separates this verse from chapter 3. 4:1 b This phrase ( in that day ) depicts the future picture of a land depopulated by war, and so making polygamy natural. As a result of Babylon’s future invasion of Judah and Jerusalem in 586 BC, only one man in seven will survive so that seven women will court one man. The reproach of not having a husband in that day will be so devastating that the women will even be willing to work for their own food and clothing just to claim a husband. 4:3 This phrase ( he that is left ) is speaking of those Jews who get saved during the Seven-Year Tribulation Period (due to the witness of the 144,000 Jews - Rev 7:1-4 & 14:1-5), and make it alive to the end of the Tribulation Period without being martyred by the Antichrist (Mt 24:3-13). These Jews will enter the thousand-year Millennium to rule and reign with Christ (Mt 25:31-46). 4:5 During the thousand-year Millennium, the cloud of glory by day and the pillar of fire by night (the presence of God Himself ) will once again direct the nation of Israel (Num 9:115-23). 5:1 Isaiah is about to sing a “ song ” to his well beloved (the favored one; the LORD), entitled “ The Song of the Vineyard .” Unlike the Song of Solomon or the Song of Moses (Deut 32), this song is a song of lamentation. It is a mournful song, as God laments the necessary abandonment of the “garden of His delight” (Israel). No nation, not even God’s, can expect to survive when it reverses its moral standards, and calls evil good, and good evil (vs 20). 5:2 Israel was still unproductive ( and it brought forth wild grapes ) despite all God did to prepare her. 5:3 The people of God within the nation of Judah were to decide here who was at fault for the failure of the vineyard – God or Israel ( betwixt me and my vineyard ). Ever hear of a child of God blaming God for his or her failures? Our “undoing” is our fault, never God’s (Jms 1:13-17).