SCRIPTURE: CHAPTER 22, VS 1-3
The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
APPLICATION: CHAPTER 22, VS 1-3
1– What can ail us now that we are fully ascended to the Righteousness of God through Christ? We have the full power of God in us through Jesus and nothing can bring us down.
2– Satan has no power over us. We aren’t slain in battle by satan, but by our own laziness and/or ignorance of the power to fight the battle against him in Jesus’ name. We’re disillusioned by him. Actually, we don’t fight any battles with him, but only stand on the victory already won by Christ. We are the occupying forces after the war is won.
v. 3– Satan’s forces are bound from us when we have on the full armor of Christ. The arrows of God’s word and power keep them from ruling us, as long as we are dependent upon, and devoted to Our Lord, and have repented of our sins.
SCRIPTURE: CHAPTER 22, VS 4-6
Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.
5 For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the Lord God of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains.
6 And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.
APPLICATION: CHAPTER 22,4-6
v. 4-5– Jesus weeps bitterly when we don’t turn to Him and His power for every mountain in our lives. We are being “treaded down” and “spoiled” by satan because we are “breaking down the walls’ of defense and power in the Name of Jesus. We are “crying to the “mountains” which means we’re looking at our problems instead of the real cause of them. Everything that happens in this world has its beginning in the real world, the world of the spirit, and we must learn to look at that instead of “crying to the mountains”.
6– But we must get together and uncover our shields and quivers and act like what we are–Soldiers of Christ, remembering our weapons “are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds”. (II Cor. 10:4)