Fear not, nor be afraid; have I not told you from of old and declared it? And you are my witnesses! Is there a God besides me? There is no Rock; I know not any.” —Isaiah 44:8 “Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other. —Isaiah 45:22 Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands… —Isaiah 49:16 At our daycare there is only one gate in the fence to enter. Everyone who comes into the daycare has to enter through that gate or they are standing on the outside. Only those who have a…

A voice says, “Cry out.” And I said, “What shall I cry?” “All people are like grass, and all their faithfulness is like the flowers of the field. The grass withers and the flowers fall, because the breath of the Lord blows on them. Surely the people are grass. The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God endures forever.” —Isaiah 39:6-8 He brings princes to naught and reduces the rulers of this world to nothing. No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner do they take root in the ground, than he blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind…

And some of your own sons, who shall be born to you, shall be taken away, and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.” Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The word of the Lord that you have spoken is good.” For he thought, “Why not, if there will be peace and security in my days?” —II Kings 20:19-19 It truly appears in our present American culture that the majority of people do not care what will happen in their children’s, grand-children’s or great-grand-children’s lives. With the debt of our nation well over 17 1/2 trillion dollars there does not seem to be a great or…

At the king’s command, couriers went throughout Israel and Judah with letters from the king and from his officials, which read: “People of Israel, return to the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, that he may return to you who are left, who have escaped from the hand of the kings of Assyria. Do not be like your parents and your fellow Israelites, who were unfaithful to the Lord, the God of their ancestors, so that he made them an object of horror, as you see. Do not be stiff-necked, as your ancestors were; submit to the Lord. Come to his sanctuary, which he has consecrated forever. Serve…

Our parents were unfaithful; they did evil in the eyes of the Lord our God and forsook him. —II Chronicles 29:6 My sons, do not be negligent now, for the Lord has chosen you to stand before him and serve him… — Chronicles 29:11 My parents were both raise in religious systems by did not trust the Lord until late in life. My dad was going through a cancer situation around the time he trusted the Lord just a couple years before he died. My mom trusted the Lord at the same time. Before that time they lived worldly lives, unfaithful and negligent in the things of the Lord and…

The Israelites secretly did things against the Lord their God that were not right. –II Kings 17:9 They did wicked things that aroused the Lord’s anger. —II Kings 17:11 How many times have we heard of people living a dualistic life? In the light, when they are seen, they appear to live one way, but in the dark, when no one is around that knows them, they act totally different. They have “secret” sins being hidden from those they do not what to know. In the context of the verses above the Israelites were practicing secret sins against the Lord, wicked things that angered Him. How foolish we are if…

For the Lord is our judge; the Lord is our lawgiver; the Lord is our king; he will save us. —Isaiah 33:22 “At the Constitutional Convention of 1787, James Madison proposed the plan to divide the central government into three branches. He discovered this model of government from the Perfect Governor, as he read Isaiah 33:22; “For the LORD is our judge, [judicial] the LORD is our lawgiver, [legislative] the LORD is our king; [executive] He will save us.” Baron Charles Montesquieu wrote “The Spirit of the Laws”, a book that was read and studied intently by our Founders. Montesquieu wrote in 1748; “Nor is there liberty if the power…

You turn things upside down! Shall the potter be regarded as the clay, that the thing made should say of its maker, “He did not make me”; or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding”? —Isaiah 29:16 Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, “Because you despise this word and trust in oppression and perverseness and rely on them… —Isaiah 30:12 Therefore the Lord waits to be gracious to you, and therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you. For the Lord is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him. —Isaiah 30:18 “I do not believe that!…

So this is what the Sovereign Lord says: “See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone for a sure foundation; the one who relies on it will never be stricken with panic. —Isaiah 28:16 The cornerstone is what the rest of the building is leveled and plumbed to. It sets the direction and placement of the building. Years ago a wealthy person was having a very nice home built. The building was well under way when he came out to take a look. Apparently, the “cornerstone” had not been placed to his liking because the building was not in the location that he wanted. He…

He will swallow up death forever; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces. —Isaiah 25:8 You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you. —Isaiah 26:3 Their son was killed in the war. Their sorrow was deep and their tears many. News came that his body was full of cancer and that he would not live another full week. Both husband and wife were in shock. They held each other, shedding rivers of tears. The young couple was delighted when they found out that they were expecting their first child. Their joy turned to great sorrow when she…