| 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 | “When the rapture happens”: 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 begins |
| 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: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”: After getting the remnant from Israel, God will get His second reach to get 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 | “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”: ‘No problem, as long as I don’t have to experience this’ |
| Isaiah:40,2-3 | “The new Exodus in Luke”: the same reference used at the beginning of Mark |
| 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:44,24-28 | “The importance of family”: God taken on |
| Isaiah:44,24-28 | “The Core Teaching”: Isaiah 44:24-28 |
| Isaiah:45,1 | “The 70 years”: the Anointed One, Cyrus |
| Isaiah:46,1-13 | “The new Exodus in Acts”: the idols of Babylon |
| 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:63,11-19 | “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 |