Title: Israel's Sin and God's Salvation / Isaiah 59
Contents Israel's Sin and God's Salvation
Isaiah 59
1. Social Injustice in Israel (1-8)
If the battlefield exposed Israel's religious sins, this time it describes Israel's social sins.
① Reasons why God does not hear prayers (1-2)
Because sin has stood between God and the people.
② Specific sinful situations (3-4)
Your hands are blood, your fingers are defiled with sin, your lips are lies, and your tongue is malignant. Justice is not alive, the truth has disappeared, all kinds of injustice are rampant, and only things that put people at a disadvantage are taking place.
③ Figurative description of the image of sin (5-6)
It is like a viper incubating an egg and a spider spinning a web. It is Israel that incubates a viper's egg and raises evil, and it is Israel that harms others by striking a spider's web.
④ Causes of sinful situations (7-8)
Their feet are swift to do evil, and they have a strong desire to do evil.
Thoughts are thoughts of sin - thoughts are evil,
They do not know the way of peace - they do not know the peace
They are the ones who make the curved road. - Thinking and planning is evil.
2. Confession of Israel's Sins (9-15a)
① Toro of the grim reality (9-11)
Therefore, the situation in Israel has no fairness or righteousness, only darkness.
Israel's situation is like a blind man, far from salvation.
② General attributes of sin (12)
Our sins testify against us.
③ Practical aspects of sin (13-15a)
Betrayal and disapproving of God
turning away from God, speaking tyranny, rebellion, and lies
They robbed those who had turned away from evil because of lack of integrity.
3. God's Intervention of Salvation (15b-21)
① God’s preparation for salvation (15b-17)
To Israel, whose self-reliance efforts are in vain, God Himself decides to extend the hand of salvation and executes redemption through His only-begotten Son, Jesus Christ.
② God who judges with justice (18)
God who rewards according to his deeds
③ Announcement of God’s Appearance (19-20)
It foretells the coming of God's Redeemer.
④ Reaffirming God's Presence (21)
The promise that the Spirit of God and the Word of God will never depart from you and your descendants forever.