"Only Life Changes"

Question:
What analogies from human life does Isaiah use to illustrate the power and skill of God?

Answer:
It reads in Isaiah 10:15 NIV> Does the ax raise itself above the person who swings it, or the saw boast against the one who uses it? As if a rod were to wield the person who lifts it up, or a club brandish the one who is not wood!
It reads in Isaiah 10:33 NIV> See, the Lord, the Lord Almighty, will lop off the boughs with great power. The lofty trees will be felled, the tall ones will be brought low.
It reads in Isaiah 29:16 NIV> You turn things upside down, as if the potter were thought to be like the clay! Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, “You did not make me”? Can the pot say to the potter, “You know nothing”?

Question:
How does Isaiah ‘s God manifest himself in nature?
Answer:
It reads in Isaiah 30:30 NIV, The Lord will cause people to hear his majestic voice and will make them see his arm coming down with raging anger and consuming fire, with cloudburst, thunderstorm and hail. It reads in Isaiah 13:13 NIV, Therefore I will make the heavens tremble; and the earth will shake from its place at the wrath of the Lord Almighty, in the day of his burning anger. It reads in Isaiah 19:5 NIV, The waters of the river will dry up, and the riverbed will be parched and dry.
It also reads in Romans 1:19-20 NIV< Since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.

“Question”
How does the prophet spell out his nation’s sins?
Answer”
It reads in Isaiah 3:8 NIV, Jerusalem staggers, Judah is falling; their words and deeds are against the Lord, defying his glorious presence. It reads in Isaiah 1:4 NIV, Woe to the sinful nation, a people whose guilt is great, a brood of evildoers, children given to corruption. They have forsaken the Lord; they have spurned the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on him. It reads in Isaiah 1:2 NIV, Hear me, you heavens! Listen, earth! For the Lord has spoken: “I reared children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against me. It reads in Isaiah 30:10 NIV, They say to the seers, “See no more visions!” and to the prophets, “Give us no more visions of what is right! Tell us pleasant things, prophesy illusions. It reads in Isaiah 29:13 NIV, The Lord says: “These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is based on merely human rules they have been taught.

Question:
How does Isaiah describe Israels relationship with God?
Answer:
The Israelis are daring in sin and walk after their own lusts; it is in scorn that they call God the Holy One of Israel. They confound and overthrow distinctions between good and evil. They prefer their own reasonings to Divine revelations, their own devices to the counsels and commands of God. It reads in Isaiah 8:13 NIV, The Lord Almighty is the one you are to regard as holy, he is the one you are to fear, he is the one you are to dread.

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Question:
What prescription had the prophet for the nation’s security?
Answer:
This is what the Sovereign Lord, the Holy One of Israel, says: “In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength, but you would have none of it.
Isaiah 30:15 NIV,

Question:
What was Isaiahs’s attitude toward this alliance?
Answer:
Look, I know you are depending on Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff, which pierces the hand of anyone who leans on it! Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who depend on him. But if you say to me, “We are depending on the Lord our God “isn’t he the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, “You must worship before this altar”? “‘Come now, make a bargain with my master, the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses, if you can put riders on them!
Isaiah 36:6-8 NIV

Question:
How did the people of Israel propose to avoid becoming the victims of Assyria?
Answer:
The Assyrian captivity (or the Assyrian exile) is the period in the history of ancient Israel and Judah during which several thousand Israelites from the Kingdom of Israel were forcibly relocated by the Neo-Assyrian Empire by military alliance with Egypt.

Question:
What was the international situation in the time of Isaiah?
Answer:
Assyrian preoccupation, coupled with the weakness of Egypt and Babylon, left David and Solomon free to extend their own boundaries and maintain their kingdoms independent of foreign domination. The Assyrian conquerors were drawing nearer, taking successfully Damascus, Samaria, Carchemish, Gaza and Ashdod.

Question:
What attitude did Isaiah assume toward the fall of the northern kingdom?
Answer:
Isaiah prophesied that the northern kingdom of Israel would come to an end before the King of Assyria, and that its inhabitants would become broken as a people. {For before the boy knows how to say ‘My father’ or ‘My mother,’ the wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried off by the king of Assyria.” Isaiah 8:4} {Isaiah 10:10-11 NIV: As my hand seized the kingdoms of the idols, kingdoms whose images excelled those of Jerusalem and Samaria, shall I not deal with Jerusalem and her images as I dealt with Samaria and her idols?’”}

Question:
What assurance did Isaiah give to Ahaz that deliverance was near?
Answer:
Isaiah and his sons were used by God to encourage Ahaz and his nation to trust in the Lord, not political alliances. Isaiah’s prophetic utterances not only looked to the more immediate deliverance from God, but also to the time in which God would provide ultimate deliverance for Judah.
It reads in Isaiah 7:14-16 NIV-UK
Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: the virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel. He will be eating curds and honey when he knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right, for before the boy knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right, the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste.