| Isaiah 1:2-4 | “God’s son”: when Israel had forgotten that God was their father |
| Isaiah 1:8 | “The origin”: daughter Zion |
| Isaiah 2:2 | “Pouring out of the Spirit”: Isaiah |
| Isaiah 2:2 | “The seven hills and seven kings”: Isaiah |
| Isaiah 2:2-4 | “The Gentiles become part of Israel”: earlier passage in Isaiah |
| Isaiah 2:2-4 | “Crux 4: how much of the promise lands inside history?”: beating swords into ploughshares |
| Isaiah 5:1-7 | “The teachings of Jesus”: parable of the vineyard that bears no fruit |
| Isaiah 5:1-7 | “God’s vineyard”: vineyard to Israel |
| Isaiah 6 | “A prophecy”: Isaiah 6 |
| Isaiah 6 | “The Core Teaching”: Isaiah 6 |
| Isaiah 6:1-9 | “The background and context”: the calling of Isaiah |
| Isaiah 6:1-13 | “Is Revelation 4:1 the rapture?”: Isaiah |
| Isaiah 6:8-10 | “We become what we worship”: told to preach to Israel, but they would not understand |
| Isaiah 6:9-10 | “The new Exodus in Acts”: Isaiah was sent out |
| Isaiah 7:1-14 | “The three kings of Judah”: Ahaz |
| Isaiah 7:1-14 | “The three kings of Judah”: offered God’s full support by the prophet Isaiah, which he refused |
| Isaiah 7:14-16 | “Fulfilled twice”: Isaiah 7:14-16 |
| Isaiah 7:14-16 | “Part 1: The 70 Weeks”: Isaiah 7:14-16 |
| Isaiah 10:20 | “The remnant”: The remnant of Israel is described as the survivors of Israel |
| Isaiah 10:21 | “The remnant”: Only the remnant will return from the exile |
| Isaiah 11:4 | “The child”: Isa 11:4 |
| Isaiah 11:9 | “Crux 4: how much of the promise lands inside history?”: the earth full of the knowledge of the LORD as the waters cover the sea |
| Isaiah 11:11 | “The remnant”: God will reach out a second time to gather the remnant of his people from the nations |
| Isaiah 11:15-16 | “The song of Moses”: Isaiah |
| Isaiah 12 | “The song of Moses”: a new Exodus |
| Isaiah 12:4 | “The song of Moses”: echo |
| Isaiah 14:3-4 | “The translation”: mockery |
| Isaiah 14:13 | “The translation”: a passage in Isaiah |
| Isaiah 17:6 | “Olive tree”: northern kingdom |
| Isaiah 19:17-18 | “The nations and their gifts”: found elsewhere too |
| Isaiah 19:18-25 | “The Gentiles become part of Israel”: In that day five cities in Egypt will speak the language of Canaan and swear allegiance to the Lord Almighty. One of them will be called the City of the Sun. 19 In that day there will be an altar to the Lord in the heart of Egypt, and a monument to the Lord at its border. 20 It will be a sign and witness to the Lord Almighty in the land of Egypt. When they cry out to the Lord because of their oppressors, he will send them a saviour and defender, and he will rescue them. 21 So the Lord will make himself known to the Egyptians, and in that day they will acknowledge the Lord. They will worship with sacrifices and grain offerings; they will make vows to the Lord and keep them. 22 The Lord will strike Egypt with a plague; he will strike them and heal them. They will turn to the Lord, and he will respond to their pleas and heal them. 23 In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria. The Assyrians will go to Egypt and the Egyptians to Assyria. The Egyptians and Assyrians will worship together. 24 In that day Israel will be the third, along with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing on the earth. 25 The Lord Almighty will bless them, saying, ‘Blessed be Egypt my people, Assyria my handiwork, and Israel my inheritance.’ |
| Isaiah 20:2 | “The character of the two witnesses”: as when Isaiah wore and then removed it as a prophetic sign |
| Isaiah 22:15-22 | “Jesus’ view”: Shebna, the king’s steward, used his high office for self-glory and was removed in disgrace; the position was given instead to Eliakim, who would be a father to the people of Jerusalem |
| Isaiah 22:15-25 | “Jesus’ view”: reference to Shebna and Eliakim |
| Isaiah 22:22 | “Symmetric patterns”: Isa 22:22 |
| Isaiah 22:22 | “The Core Teaching”: Isaiah 22:22 |
| Isaiah 23:1-3 | “The economic aspect”: the world’s port, making everyone rich while she herself was paid in produce, in her case grain |
| Isaiah 23:15-18 | “How Revelation uses the Old Testament”: Isaiah 23 |
| Isaiah 23:15-18 | “The religious aspect”: called a harlot |
| Isaiah 23:15-18 | “The economic aspect”: Tyre |
| Isaiah 23:16-18 | “The economic aspect”: end of the chapter she is openly called a harlot, her profit from the nations’ wealth described as her ‘harlot’s wage’ |
| Isaiah 23:17 | “The economic aspect”: will ply her trade with all the kingdoms of the earth |
| Isaiah 25:8 | “Wipe away the tears”: Isaiah, where tears and death flee |
| Isaiah 27 | “A bag full of references”: Isa 27:1 |
| Isaiah 27:1 | “The context of the first readers”: Isaiah |
| Isaiah 28:16 | “The end of the kingdoms”: cornerstone |
| Isaiah 32:15 | “Pouring out of the Spirit”: Isa 32:15 |
| Isaiah 35:7 | “The nations and their gifts”: pools of water appear just before |
| Isaiah 35:8 | “The nations and their gifts”: Isaiah |
| Isaiah 35:10 | “Wipe away the tears”: crying |
| Isaiah 37 | “The three kings of Judah”: when the Assyrians attacked Jerusalem |
| Isaiah 38 | “The three kings of Judah”: he became ill and God told him to put his affairs in order; Hezekiah prayed, and God changed his mind and granted him more years to live |
| Isaiah 38:1-5 | “Predicting the future, again and again”: Hezekiah |
| Isaiah 39:3-7 | “The three kings of Judah”: The prophet Isaiah confronted him over it and told him plainly that the Babylonians were not his friends |
| Isaiah 39:8 | “The three kings of Judah”: the word is good, as long as there is peace in his own days |
| Isaiah 40:2-3 | “The new Exodus in Luke”: the same reference used at the beginning of Mark |
| Isaiah 40:3 | “Already but not yet”: the second part of Isaiah |
| Isaiah 40:3 | “The exodus in Mark”: Isaiah |
| Isaiah 40:18-24 | “The new Exodus in Acts”: how can God be compared |
| Isaiah 40:31 | “Satan’s unbroken record of failure”: Isaiah 40:31 |
| Isaiah 41:4-10 | “The new Exodus in Acts”: is more reliable than idols |
| Isaiah 42:1 | “Pouring out of the Spirit”: servant |
| Isaiah 42:6-7 | “The ministry”: (Isa 42:6-7) |
| Isaiah 42:16 | “The ministry”: (Isa 42:16) |
| Isaiah 43:10 | “Pouring out of the Spirit”: Isa 43:10 |
| Isaiah 43:12 | “Pouring out of the Spirit”: Isa 43:12 |
| Isaiah 43:18 | “Wipe away the tears”: are meant to read this vision by looking forward, not back |
| Isaiah 43:18-19 | “All things new”: God makes all things new |
| Isaiah 44:9-20 | “The new Exodus in Acts”: vanity of idols |
| Isaiah 44:24 | “The importance of family”: Redeemer |
| Isaiah 44:24-28 | “The Core Teaching”: Isaiah 44:24-28 |
| Isaiah 45:1 | “The seventy weeks”: the Anointed One, Cyrus |
| Isaiah 45:1 | “Part 1: The 70 Weeks”: Isaiah 45:1 |
| Isaiah 46:1-13 | “The new Exodus in Acts”: the idols of Babel |
| Isaiah 49 | “The ministry”: Isaiah 49 |
| Isaiah 49:3 | “The ministry”: (Isa 49:3) |
| Isaiah 49:3-6 | “The Gentiles become part of Israel”: He said to me, ‘You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will display my splendour.’ 4 But I said, ‘I have laboured in vain; I have spent my strength for nothing at all. Yet what is due to me is in the Lord’s hand, and my reward is with my God.’ 5 And now the Lord says — he who formed me in the womb to be his servant to bring Jacob back to him and gather Israel to himself, for I am honoured in the eyes of the Lord and my God has been my strength — 6 he says: ‘It is too small a thing for you to be my servant to restore the tribes of Jacob and bring back those of Israel I have kept. I will also make you a light for the Gentiles, that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth.’ |
| Isaiah 49:5-6 | “The ministry”: (Isa 49:5-6) |
| Isaiah 49:6 | “Pouring out of the Spirit”: Isa 49:6 |
| Isaiah 49:6 | “Pouring out of the Spirit”: Isaiah |
| Isaiah 49:6 | “The new Exodus in Luke”: refers to the restoration of Israel and the inclusion of the Gentiles in Isaiah |
| Isaiah 49:10 | “Living water”: Isaiah |
| Isaiah 51:9-10 | “No more sea”: Rahab |
| Isaiah 51:11 | “Wipe away the tears”: sighing |
| Isaiah 52:1 | “The nations and their gifts”: related passages |
| Isaiah 52:1-10 | “Jerusalem the Holy city”: beautifully dressed city |
| Isaiah 52:7 | “The exodus in Mark”: announcement of a new king |
| Isaiah 54 | “The material of the city”: restoration of Jerusalem after her suffering |
| Isaiah 54:5-6 | “Bride of God”: bride of God |
| Isaiah 54:5-6 | “The Core Teaching”: Isaiah 54:5-6 |
| Isaiah 55:1-3 | “The overcomer”: Isaiah links God’s covenant with the water given to drink |
| Isaiah 55:12 | “A literal reading that isn’t consistently literal”: literally |
| Isaiah 56:3-7 | “The Gentiles become part of Israel”: Let no foreigner who is bound to the Lord say, ‘The Lord will surely exclude me from his people.’ And let no eunuch complain, ‘I am only a dry tree.’ 4 For this is what the Lord says: ‘To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, who choose what pleases me and hold fast to my covenant — 5 to them I will give within my temple and its walls a memorial and a name better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that will endure for ever. 6 And foreigners who bind themselves to the Lord to minister to him, to love the name of the Lord, and to be his servants, all who keep the Sabbath without desecrating it and who hold fast to my covenant — 7 these I will bring to my holy mountain and give them joy in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house will be called a house of prayer for all nations.’ |
| Isaiah 56:6-7 | “Crux 4: how much of the promise lands inside history?”: who hold fast to my covenant |
| Isaiah 57:3-4 | “But aren’t there also differences?”: Isaiah |
| Isaiah 57:19 | “The mystery of the Gentiles”: fulfillment of Isaiah |
| Isaiah 57:20 | “The throne room”: evil people |
| Isaiah 60:1-14 | “The nations and their gifts”: same passage in Isaiah we’ve been following describes both good and bad kings |
| Isaiah 60:1-20 | “The structure of the chapter”: Isa. 60 |
| Isaiah 60:3-5 | “The nations and their gifts”: Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawn. …, to you the riches of the nations will come |
| Isaiah 60:3-11 | “The nations and their gifts”: Isaiah |
| Isaiah 60:11 | “The nations and their gifts”: Your gates will always stand open, they will never be shut, day or night, so that people may bring you the wealth of the nations — their kings led in triumphal procession. |
| Isaiah 60:12 | “The nations and their gifts”: will therefore no longer suffer alongside the others |
| Isaiah 60:19 | “The internal features”: Isaiah |
| Isaiah 61:1-2 | “Already but not yet”: passage of Isaiah |
| Isaiah 61:1-2 | “The new Exodus in Luke”: that was the sign of the second Exodus |
| Isaiah 61:1-2 | “The Core Teaching”: Isaiah 61:1-2 |
| Isaiah 61:10 | “Jerusalem the Holy city”: is developed further |
| Isaiah 62:1-2 | “Jerusalem the Holy city”: receives a new name |
| Isaiah 62:1-5 | “First look”: Isaiah |
| Isaiah 62:3-5 | “Jerusalem the Holy city”: enters an intimate relationship with God, who rejoices over her |
| Isaiah 62:11 | “The child”: daughter Zion |
| Isaiah 63:1-6 | “The two harvests”: the day of vengeance in Isaiah |
| Isaiah 63:8 | “God’s son”: as confirmation of how God cares for His children |
| Isaiah 63:10 | “The exodus in Mark”: Rejecting God: God becomes their enemy |
| Isaiah 64:1 | “The exodus in Mark”: Isaiah |
| Isaiah 65:17 | “Crux 4: how much of the promise lands inside history?”: new heavens and a new earth |
| Isaiah 65:17 | “What about the prophecies?”: See, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind. |
| Isaiah 65:17 | “A few steps through history”: this passage clearly speaks of the fulfillment in the New Heaven and New Earth |
| Isaiah 65:17-20 | “Wipe away the tears”: old order will be gone, along with all its mourning |
| Isaiah 65:17-25 | “Everything is new”: many of the Old Testament promises reach fulfillment |
| Isaiah 65:17-25 | “A few steps through history”: speaks of a better life and harmony in nature on earth |
| Isaiah 65:18-25 | “Crux 4: how much of the promise lands inside history?”: Isaiah 65 |
| Isaiah 65:18-25 | “What about the prophecies?”: But be glad and rejoice for ever in what I will create, for I will create Jerusalem to be a delight and its people a joy. I will rejoice over Jerusalem and take delight in my people; the sound of weeping and of crying will be heard in it no more. ‘Never again will there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who does not live out his years; the one who dies at a hundred will be thought a mere child; the one who fails to reach a hundred will be considered accursed. They will build houses and dwell in them; they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit. No longer will they build houses and others live in them, or plant and others eat. For as the days of a tree, so will be the days of my people; my chosen ones will long enjoy the work of their hands. They will not labor in vain, nor will they bear children doomed to misfortune; for they will be a people blessed by the Lord, they and their descendants with them. Before they call I will answer; while they are still speaking I will hear. The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox, and dust will be the serpent’s food. They will neither harm nor destroy on all my holy mountain,’ says the Lord. |
| Isaiah 66:7 | “The child”: Zion suddenly bringing forth a son — a whole nation reborn in a day |
| Isaiah 66:7-14 | “The Gentiles become part of Israel”: description of the end-time Israel |
| Isaiah 66:12 | “The nations and their gifts”: I will extend peace to her like a river, and the wealth of nations like a flooding stream |
| Isaiah 66:15-18 | “The Gentiles become part of Israel”: judgment of end-time Israel |
| Isaiah 66:18 | “The Gentiles become part of Israel”: ‘And I, because of what they have planned and done, am about to come and gather the people of all nations and languages, and they will come and see my glory |
| Isaiah 66:18-21 | “The Gentiles become part of Israel”: inclusion of the Gentiles |
| Isaiah 66:19 | “The Gentiles become part of Israel”: ‘I will set a sign among them, and I will send some of those who survive to the nations — to Tarshish, to the Libyans and Lydians (famous as archers), to Tubal and Greece, and to the distant islands that have not heard of my fame or seen my glory. They will proclaim my glory among the nations. |
| Isaiah 66:20 | “The Gentiles become part of Israel”: And they will bring all your people, from all the nations, to my holy mountain in Jerusalem as an offering to the Lord — on horses, in chariots and wagons, and on mules and camels,’ says the Lord. ‘They will bring them, as the Israelites bring their grain offerings, to the temple of the Lord in ceremonially clean vessels. |
| Isaiah 66:21 | “The Gentiles become part of Israel”: And I will select some of them also to be priests and Levites,’ says the Lord. |
| Isaiah 66:22 | “Everything is new”: temporary, but the new ones are permanent |