ISAIAH CHAPTER 10 vs 1-10
SCRIPTURE: CHAPTER 10, VS 1-4
1 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;
2 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
3 And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?
4 Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
APPLICATION: CHAPTER 10, VS 1-4
v. 1-2– Here is meant those who don’t proclaim the Righteousness of Jesus Christ. Widows, and fatherless are those without God. Jesus is our Bridegroom, Father, Brother, Sister, Mother,–everything and anything we need!
v. 3– Where else can we turn? He is our everything!
v. 4– without the strength and love of Christ, we will fall to satan’s power. But, God is quick to remind us that His hand is stretched out still. He is always waiting for His people to come back to Him!
SCRIPTURE: CHAPTER 10, VS 5-7
5 O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.
6 I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
7 Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.
APPLICATION: CHAPTER 10, VS 5-7
v. 5-7- In the beginning of Christianity, all Christians were born again and Spirit-filled, and Satan tried to get rid of them by persecutions, but he soon found that that served to strengthen the faith of the others, so he decided to dilute the power, and he, through the leaders of nations, made it a rule to be Christian, and, thus, got many non-born-again, and non-Spirit-filled people in the Church, whom he could control, because they were worshiping with their minds instead of their Spirits. He can confuse our minds but not our spirits when we’re indwelled by the Holy Spirit. So satan managed to put the Word of God in the monasteries, away from the people, with the excuse that it was “too holy” for unlearned people to read. This way he greatly slowed the growth of the Body of Christ because there were relatively few people who could receive a revelation of Christ. The staff referred to in v. 5 is a walking stick, used to support oneself. From the Dark Ages, many people have been using the wrong support. They are lied to by Satan through their churches, and are not seeking the Word for themselves.
God is using His people now to go against Satan in this, and to “tread them down (“them” meaning Satan’s lies) like mire in the streets” that peoples’ eyes can be opened to the real truth of Jesus Christ.
SCRIPTURE: CHAPTER 10, VS 8-9
8 For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings?
9 Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?
APPLICATION: CHAPTER 10, VS 8-9
v. 8-9– For Satan says that the ideas and leaders he has planted in the churches long ago have become the rules of the Christian Churches. For many years there were very few born-again Christians, and Satan did have a grip on the church. But now things are changing rapidly as the Holy Spirit is being poured out upon God’s people.
SCRIPTURE: CHAPTER 10, VS 10
10 As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
APPLICATION: CHAPTER 10, VS 10
- 10– God will not let His people be deceived for long. As in the old times He intervened to change things, now He is doing the same for His people.