Category: EXPOSITORY NOTES ON THE PROPHET ISAIAH
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EXPOSITORY NOTES ON THE PROPHET ISAIAH, Chapter 23, THE BURDEN OF TYRE
by H A Ironside We now come to the last of these special prophecies, or burdens, relating to nations and cities with whom Israel had to do. Three of these may be looked at as very definite types of this present evil world, to deliver us from which, CHRIST died.…
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EXPOSITORY NOTES ON THE PROPHET ISAIAH, Chapter 22, THE VALLEY OF VISION
by H A Ironside The prophet now turns to deliver a message from the Lord to the people of Jerusalem at a time when it was in danger of being destroyed by the Assyrian armies of Sennacherib and his allies from Elam and Kir. Elam, as we know, is Persia…
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EXPOSITORY NOTES ON THE PROPHET ISAIAH, Chapter 21, BABYLON, DUMAH, AND ARABIA
by H A Ironside Three burdens, or oracles, are grouped together in this chapter, all having a common interest to us because each country mentioned in its turn became prominent as an oppressor or enemy of Israel and Judah. Verses 1-10 relate to Babylon, and here the prophet is looking…
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EXPOSITORY NOTES ON THE PROPHET ISAIAH, Chapters 19 & 20, THE BURDEN OF EGYPT
by H A Ironside AS WE STUDY THESE CHAPTERS, however little we understand all the details referred to, we cannot fail to recognize the hand of GOD dealing with this one-time proud, haughty kingdom in retaliatory judgments because of its independent spirit and proud attitude toward the people of the…
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EXPOSITORY NOTES ON THE PROPHET ISAIAH, Chapter 18, THE LAND SHADOWING WITH WINGS
by H A Ironside WE ARE NOW TO CONSIDER a chapter which has given ground for many differences of opinion among Christian scholars, and particularly prophetic interpreters. Many have taken it for granted that the land shadowing with wings is Egypt, because of the winged solar disk which appears upon…
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EXPOSITORY NOTES ON THE PROPHET ISAIAH, Chapter 17, DAMASCUS AND EPHRAIM
by H A Ironside NOW WE COME TO CONSIDER the burden of Damascus. Closely linked with Damascus we have the nation of Israel, generally known as Ephraim after the break with Judah. Because of the fact that they had formed an alliance with Syria, the kingdom of which Damascus was…
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EXPOSITORY NOTES ON THE PROPHET ISAIAH, Chapters 15 & 16, THE BURDEN OF MOAB
by H A Ironside IN THE SHORT FIFTEENTH CHAPTER the prophet predicts the eventual destruction of Moab. The country bearing this name lay to the north of the land of Edom and was bounded on the west by the Dead Sea and on the east by the Arabian desert. The…
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EXPOSITORY NOTES ON THE PROPHET ISAIAH, Chapters 13 & 14, THE BURDEN OF BABYLON
by H A Ironside WE NOW COME to a distinct section of Isaiah’s prophecy, dealing particularly with the nations with whom Israel had to do in the past centuries and some of whom it will have to meet in the coming Day of the Lord. In chapters thirteen through twenty-three…
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EXPOSITORY NOTES ON THE PROPHET ISAIAH, Chapters 11 & 12, WHEN GOD’S ANOINTED TAKES OVER
by H A Ironside THERE is a very close connection with that which now comes before us and that which we have seen in the last chapter. After the Assyrian is destroyed and Israel will have been delivered from all her enemies, we have the peaceful reign of Him who…
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EXPOSITORY NOTES ON THE PROPHET ISAIAH,Chapter 10, THE ASSYRIAN AND HIS DOOM
by H A Ironside IT IS a well-known principle of Scripture interpretation to recognize a double application or fulfillment of many prophecies. Conditions through which Israel and the nations have passed already often depict circumstances that will yet have to be faced in the future, in the days of the…
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EXPOSITORY NOTES ON THE PROPHET ISAIAH, Chapter 9, THE PROMISED DELIVERER
by H A Ironside AS WE STUDY this ninth chapter it is well to note how definitely it links with the promise given to Ahaz in chapter seven, for here we read once more of the One who is the fulfillment of all GOD’s ways with men, the Man of…
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EXPOSITORY NOTES ON THE PROPHET ISAIAH, Chapter 8, MAHER-SHALAL-HASH-BAZ
by H A Ironside THIS chapter is remarkable because of the long and, to our ears, outlandish name of another of the prophet’s sons. We have met Shear-jashub already and noted his name’s significance, “the remnant shall return.” Now we are introduced to Maher-shalal-hash-baz, the interpretation of which is, “In…
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EXPOSITORY NOTES ON THE PROPHET ISAIAH, Chapter 7, THE VIRGIN’S SON
by H A Ironside “And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could…
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EXPOSITORY NOTES ON THE PROPHET ISAIAH, Chapter 6, THE PROPHET’S CLEANSING AND COMMISSION
by H A Ironside “In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he…
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EXPOSITORY NOTES ON THE PROPHET ISAIAH, Chapter 5, THE PARABLE OF THE VINEYARD
by H A Ironside “Now will I sing to my well beloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My well beloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built…
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EXPOSITORY NOTES ON THE PROPHET ISAIAH Chapter 4, WHEN THE LORD RETURNS TO ZION
by H A Ironside “And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach. In that day shall the branch of the Lord be beautiful…
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EXPOSITORY NOTES ON THE PROPHET ISAIAH, Chapter 3, JUDAH’S FALLEN CONDITION
by H A Ironside “For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water, the mighty man, and the man of war, the Judge, and the prophet, and…
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EXPOSITORY NOTES ON THE PROPHET ISAIAH, Chapter 2, Zion’s Future Glory
by H A Ironside “The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills;…
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EXPOSITORY NOTES ON THE PROPHET ISAIAH Chapter 1, The Call To Hear
by H A Ironside The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the Lord hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up…
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EXPOSITORY NOTES ON THE PROPHET ISAIAH, FOREWORD AND INTRODUCTION
by H A Ironside For several years Dr. H. A. Ironside had it on his heart to write an exposition of the Book ofIsaiah. His extremely busy preaching and teaching schedule, and later his failing sight, seemed to prevent his making headway on the exposition. Then, when he had progressed…
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