Isaiah 6:8 through 7:4

Isaiah 6:8 through 7:4

Isaiah having been thoroughly prepared by God for ministry is now able to hear the voice of God calling him to ministry. As God described the ministry that He was calling Isaiah to, it did not sound like a successful ministry at all. In fact, in the eyes of men, it would be deemed a failure. True ministry that God calls us to is not deemed successful by quantifiable results. It is deemed successful by inward faithfulness to God and uncompromising obedience to His word. The success of ministry will be determined when we stand before Jesus at His judgment seat. The ministry of Isaiah was a great success.Chapter seven begins a new section in Isaiah. In this passage, Isaiah will deliver prophesies of hope and deliverance. He will remind Judah that God is with them and is calling them back to faith in Him.It begins with Isaiah bringing a message of hope to the most undeserving Ahaz. Ahaz was as wicked, vile and evil as they come. How could a person like this receive a message of hope from God? But he does. This displays to us the incredible grace of God. The enormity of His longsuffering and the love He has for His people.God's message to Ahaz in the face of impending peril and disaster is a message for us today. God has not changed nor has His message changed. The same hope that He offers to the vile Ahaz is the same hope that we have today.
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Chapter 6
8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.
9 And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.
10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
11 Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,
12 And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.
13 But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.
Chapter 7
1 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 not prevail against it.
2 And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind.
3 Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shearjashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field;
4 And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.
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