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Week 17. Day 3. Isaiah 7-10.

7:1-3 the situation: Syria and Israel attacking Jerusalem. This introduces a key set of questions in Isaiah:

• Who should we trust?
• Who should we fear?

King Ahaz feared the Syrian army (not God) and so he trusted in human alliances (not God). The book of Isaiah will paint a huge view of God, to wean God’s people off trusting in idols, and causing them to trust in him.

Ch 7 and Ch 9 contain two key prophecies of Christ:

• 7:14 ‘the virgin will bear a son’

Note that the answer to the problem of scary enemies is found in the name of this child: Immanuel (God with us)

• 9:1-7 ‘to us a child is born’

How is the coming king in 9:1-7 described?

In the rest of ch 9-10 notice that before the blessings of the coming king, judgment must first fall. Note the repeated phrase:

Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away,
his hand is still upraised. (Isaiah 9:12, 17, 21; 10:4)

NOTE: Days 1-5 of each week contain the scripture reading for that week. Day 6 has just the 'key chapters'. If you want a briefer version of this plan that still takes you through the whole Bible, you could just read the key chapters featured on day 6. Day 7 has the podcast video where we discuss the week's reading.