Bible Study                                     Notes 1999

STUDIES IN ISAIAH                                                                  9 November 1999

Text:  Isaiah 5                                         

THE SONG OF THE VINEYARD   Isaiah 5:1-7

1.   The significance of a "Song"

2.   The content of the "Song of the Vineyard"

3.   It is a song of love

4.   It is a song of sorrow

THE APPEAL OF THE SONG

1.   The "moral" of the story

2.   The application of the story to Life

THE APPLICATION OF THE SONG

1.   Ancient Israel to be disciplined (Vineyard to "briers and thorns"

      Cp. Isa 55:7)

2.   What God looks for in a nation

a)   Justice        Isa 5:7

b)      Righteousness  Isa 5:7

THE JUDGMENT OF GOD

1.   The problem of Materialism ("Real Estate")         Isa 5:8-10

2.   The problem of Drunkenness                      Isa 5:11-12

3.   The problem of Spiritual Ignorance               Isa 5:13 (Hosea 4:6)

4.   The problem of Glorying in Sin                   Isa 5:18-19

5.   God Alone vindicated                     Isa 5:16-17

SERIES OF "WOES"

1.   "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil"      Isa 5:20

2.   "Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes"    Isa 5:21

3.   "Woe to men mighty in drinking wine...

      and take away justice from the righteous man"     Isa 5:22

THE DEEPER REASON REVEALED

1.   There has been a REJECTION of the Law of the Lord of Hosts   

      Isa 5:24

2.   There has been a DESPISING of the Word of the Holy One of Israel      Isa 5:24

THE ANGER OF THE LORD STATED

"Therefore the Anger of the Lord is aroused...

      For all this His anger is not turned away

            But His hand is stretched out still"      Isa 5:25

THE BRINGING IN OF FOREIGN POWERS TO HUMBLE ISRAEL

1.   Assyrian Empire  722 B.C.

2.   Babylonian Empire      (Only a threat at the time of Isaiah)