Message Notes

FAMILY CAMP 11-16 March 2018 “Walk in the Light of the LORD”

EVENING DEVOTIONS Sunday, 12 March 2018 Text: Isaiah 2 Title: “The Day of the LORD of hosts” Isaiah 2:12

1. A Prophetic Hope

a) A Glimpse of the Future

b) A Glorious Picture

c) This is “The Word of the LORD” (Isaiah 2:1)

i) To give hope

ii) To stir up faith

iii) To strengthen the spirit

iv) It will be fulfilled- one day!

2. Features of the reign of the LORD in the Millennial Kingdom

a) The mountain of the LORD’s House shall be established (Isaiah 2:2)

b) It shall be exalted (Isaiah 2:2)

c) All nations shall flow to it (Isaiah 2:2)

d) Many people shall come and say: (Isaiah 2:3)

i) Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD

ii) To the house of the God of Jacob

iii) He will teach us His ways

iv) We shall walk in His paths

v) Out of Zion will go forth the Law

vi) And the word of the LORD from Jerusalem

e) The LORD as the Ruler (Isaiah 2:4)

i) He shall judge between the nations

ii) And rebuke many people

iv) And their spears into pruning hooks

v) Nation shall not lift up sword against nation

vi) Neither shall they learn war anymore

3. The Significance of Prophecy

a) The prophet

i) A servant of the prophet

ii) A seer

iii) A spokesman

iv) A watchman

b) The prophecies

i) A revelation from God

ii) A rebuke

iii) A reasoning

iv) A word of correction

v) A plea

vi) An exhortation

vii) Glimpses of the Future

c) The people

i) Those who would listen, repent and return to God

ii) Those who chose to remain in their sinful ways, rejecting God’s word

d) Relevance

i) Affects the present

ii) Affects the future

iii) Affects the individual and the family

iv) Affects the nation/ congregation

4. An Appropriate Response

a) Exhortation

i) Important

ii) Impassioned

b) O house of Jacob

c) Let us walk in the light of the LORD (Isaiah 2:5)

5. The Solemn Reality in Isaiah’s Time (Isaiah 2:6-22)

a) God had forsaken His people (Isaiah 2:6a)

b) Because they are filled with Eastern ways (Isaiah 2:6b)

c) They are soothsayers like the Philistines (Isaiah 2:6c)

d) They are pleased with the children of foreigners (Isaiah 2:6d)

e) Their land is full of silver and gold (Isaiah 2:7a)

f) No end to their treasures (Isaiah 2:7b)

g) Land full of horses (Isaiah 2:7c)

h) No end to their chariots (Isaiah 2:7d)

i) Land full of idols (Isaiah 2:8-9)

6. An Important Understanding of the Day of the LORD (Isaiah 2:12)

a) A Day of reckoning

b) A Day of judgment

c) Called the Day of the LORD of hosts

d) Or simply “That Day” (Isaiah 2:11, 17, 20)

e) He arises to shake the earth mightily (Isaiah 2:19)

7. Things that will stand out in the Day of the LORD

a) The terror of the LORD (Isaiah 2:10, 19, 21)

b) The glory of His majesty (Isaiah 2:10, 19, 21)

c) The LORD alone shall be exalted in that day (Isaiah 2:12)

8. Too little, too late (Isaiah 2:10-22)

a) Enter into the rock, hide in the dust (Isaiah 2:10)

b) The lofty looks of man shall be humbled (Isaiah 2:11, 17)

c) The haughtiness of men shall be bowed down (Isaiah 2:11, 17)

d) All shall be brought low (Isaiah 2:12-17)

e) The idols He shall utterly abolish (Isaiah 2:18-21)

f) They shall go into the holes of the rock (Isaiah 2:19)