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Week 19. Day 2. Isaiah 52-55.

52:7-10 This is one of 3 passages in this part of Isaiah that proclaim good news/gospel, and form the key Old Testament background to the New Testament use of this term. The others are 40:9-11 and 61:1-4.

·What is the gospel/good news of this passage?

52:13 We now come to the fourth and most famous servant song. Even if some is familiar to you, try to feel the shock that this is how the mighty God of Isaiah 40 will bring about his salvation plans.

• What is the servant's character?
• What does the servant do?

52:13 The servant is described as ‘high and lifted up’ - language only used elsewhere in Isaiah of mighty God himself (Isa 6:1-6).

The fourth servant song (52:13-53:12) is the centre of Ch40-55, showing that the means by which all this blessing will happen is through the sacrificial death of the servant.

Ch 55 What is the response of the people to be?

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.