THE SURE PROMISES OF GODIsaiah 20:1 – 21:10

ISAIAH 20 - HISTORY• The year 711—A decade after the fall of the

northern kingdom of Israel• Ashdod – 40 miles west of Jersualem• Philistine neighbor• Allotted to Judah but not yet possessed by

God’s people• Ark of the Covenant taken there in

Eli/Samuel’s time• Fall also predicted in Amos 1:8

• “Commander in chief”/Tartan• “Naked and barefoot”• “buttocks uncovered”

• Main prophecy link to history is that of shame

ISAIAH 20 - APPLICATION Trust in God, not man Obey no matter the cost

ISAIAH 21:1-10 – HISTORYNebuchadnezzar’s Dream

ISAIAH 21:1-10 – HISTORY “wilderness of the sea”/Negeb Elam = Tribal name for Persia Horror of the fall of Babylon

ISAIAH 21:1-10 – HISTORYKing Belshazzar made a great feast for a thousand of his lords and drank wine in front of the thousand. Belshazzar, when he tasted the wine, commanded that the vessels of gold and of silver that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple in Jerusalem be brought, that the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them. Then they brought in the golden vessels that had been taken out of the temple, the house of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines drank from them. They drank wine and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone. Immediately the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace, opposite the lampstand. And the king saw the hand as it wrote. Then the king's color changed, and his thoughts alarmed him; his limbs gave way, and his knees knocked together. - Dan 5:1-6 ESV

ISAIAH 21:1-10 – APPLICATION God’s promise to His people is sure Necessary because of sin Not dependent on our strength In His timing Available to all who call on His name