ISAIAH, CHAPTER 19, VS 1-14
SCRIPTURE: CHAPTER 19, VS 1&2
The burden of Egypt. Behold, the Lord rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
2 And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbor; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
APPLICATION: CHAPTER 19, VS 1&2
v. 1– When the Holy Spirit comes into us, it is as the Lord coming in a cloud. “idols” here refers to anything worthless and empty, or vain. When we become filled with the Holy Spirit, we see how vain and worthless and empty our lives were before–and the word for “heart” means the totality of our feelings and emotions, which the Lord molds, if we ask Him to, with
His presence in our lives. Jesus said the kingdom of God is within us!
- 2– We find ourselves in a different position with our families, friends and neighbors because of the change in us. Sometimes we are at odds with them, and lose friends because of it.
SCRPTURE: CHAPTER 19, VS 3
3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
APPLICATION:CHAPTER 19 VS 3
- 3– Some people who haven’t built their faith on solid rock when this happens, will turn away and turn to the occult and other sources, or merely turn to the things of this world, which, somehow seem easier to understand to them. Also, this is when the corruption of pride and the idols of our own works can enter into our thinking.
SCRIPTURE: CHAPTER 19, VS 4-7
And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts.
5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
6 And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.
7 The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.
APPLICATION:CHAPTER 19, VS 4-7
v. 4– These people the Lord will not force back to Himself. He never forces any of us. They will find themselves under the cruel lordship of satan whether purposely or not.
v. 5– These people will not thrive on the Living Water that Jesus promised, and the Loving Presence of God, because they are not open to receive it.
v. 6-7– As a result their hearts and emotions will be molded by satan instead of God and they will have, instead of the joys and fruits of the Spirit, Satan’s “gifts” of depression, fear, anxiety, hatred, strife, envy, all of which eventually lead to sin.
SCRIPTURE: CHAPTER 19: VS 8-10
8 The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.
9 Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded.
10 And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish.
APPLICATION: CHAPTER 19: VS 8-10
8-10– All of God’s people are knit together in a beautiful way, far beyond our understanding, and the Body of Christ is reliant on its parts f6r many things, therefore, when one of these people fall, as described in the previous verses, many people in the Body will feel the loss, because we are all dependent on each other and on the Power of God in each other. (1Cor. 12:12,23,24,27)
SCRIPTURE:CHAPTER 19, VS 11-14
1 Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counselors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
12 Where are they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the Lord of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.
13 The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.
14 The Lord hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.
APPLICATION:CHAPTER 19, VS 11-14
Vs 11-14 The Princes of Zoan represent the leaders of the various Christian denominations. They have been unknowingly corrupted by satan into losing sight of a pure personal relationship with Jesus Christ and substituting or adding rules that they think He would like, instead of encouraging each person to seek a revelation of it from Christ Himself, and thereby developing the “muscles” of the Body of Christ.