40 Minutes In The Old Testament - Isaiah 32:9-33:22 (Episode 474)

Episode Date: August 15, 2025

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will no longer be honorable and so all the all these things are going to be flipped around flipped on its head which is kind of the the prophetic way that that is that the prophets use the prophets talk about the the coming of christ this way there's a there's always a lot of like this is going to get switched and this is going to get switched and this is going to get switched and uh and we kind of ended with uh him about to talk about uh some complacent women they're They're going to get a warning that disaster is coming. Yeah, and the theme of reversal is going to continue here, too. Got some—I don't—it's not really that obvious, at least in the ESA translation, because they switch words around.

But there's some contrasts that are going to take place from verse 9, so Isaiah 32, 9, to the end, just to let you know kind of up front what to look for. so they are these the women who are kind of held up as this model of those who are trusting in the wrong thing rather than trusting in the lord they're trusting in you know political decisions and their fortifications and you know maybe tagging up with egypt whatever it might be they're not trusting in the lord so they're held up as the model of that so they are described as at ease, and that's going to be that same word that's used there for at ease is going to be reused at the end of this chapter in a positive way to describe the quiet resting places that the people of God are going to have. And then one, two, three different times these daughters

of jerusalem are described as complacent now the hebrew root of that is batak and that same root is going to be used down in verse 17 to describe a a trust the result of righteousness will be quiet and trust and there's going to be secure dwellings all of those was from the same hebrew root so what's what isaiah is doing is by reusing words first in a negative way and then secondly in a positive way is he's setting up this contrast between the complacent at ease women who are trusting the wrong thing he's going to contrast that then with god's work in which you actually will have a reason to trust and you will have quiet and peace and a place where you can know that everything is going to be okay so he's going to start out with talking about the women and then

And he's going to switch to the image of basically destruction, where you have cities forsaken, animals dwelling there, thorns and briars coming up in the city itself. These kind of stereotypical prophetic images of destruction that comes as a result of divine judgment. So here's how he starts out. Rise up, you women who are at ease. Hear my voice, you complacent daughters. Give ear to my speech. in little more than a year you will shudder you complacent women for the grape harvest fails the fruit harvest will not come tremble you women who are at ease shudder you complacent ones

strip and make yourselves bare and tie sackcloth around your waist beat your breast for the pleasant fields for the fruitful vine for the soil of my people growing up in thorns and briars Yes, for all the joyous houses in the exultant city. Let me read one more verse. This will finish up this section. For the palace is forsaken, the populous city deserted. The hill and the watchtower will become dens forever, a joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks. So the way that ends, we've heard Isaiah use this kind of language before,

where you have a once prosperous city, full of life, full of people. crops are doing well and then all of a sudden everything is turned upside down you've got animals living in people's houses you have once fruitful fields now growing thorns and briars there's going to be a famine no crops and the way this starts out is god basically saying all right women who are at ease who are trusting the wrong things who probably are enjoying a life of relative luxury in which they think they can depend upon whatever they're enjoying at this moment everything's going to be okay we're going to keep trusting in what we're doing putting faith in our works well strip beat your breast because bad days are coming and then he

begins to describe these bad days in terms of agricultural failure and then city desertion Sometimes the language, when he's talking to these women, it does sound like, I mean, obviously it's a very stern warning, but the pleading sounds a little different, right? And I think that's probably due to God holding men more responsible. So when he's talking to men, it sounds so much more harsh than this. Yeah, this is true. Yeah. The prophet Isaiah speaking for God when he speaks to men. Yeah, it's pretty graphic. I mean, not that this is not graphic, but it's—I don't know, there is a different tenor to it, for sure. Yeah, or if he's talking to rulers or the leaders, there's more of a tongue-lashing involved as opposed to just – this sounds like a warning. This is just like, hey, you guys are complacent and at ease and stuff, but I just wanted to let you know you might want to not be that way because bad things are coming, right?

yeah yeah you want to rise up and and lament because of all the the terrible things that are that are coming and uh these terrible things i mean described in all these different sorts of ways with agriculture or the city being abandoned basically is a picture of i would put it under the general rubric of uncreation that's the way i like to describe these so it's if you read genesis one everything is good good good good good good good very good you know everything is fruitful everything is great. Everything is good. So an un-gooding, to make up a word, or an un-creation is a pretty standard way that Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, a lot of other prophets too, will describe basically the effects of sin. And they're ultimately, I think, drawing this from Genesis 3

where God says, curt to Adam, cursed is the ground because of you. so i just was i'm spending some time in uh luther's genesis commentary this week and he had a line uh from genesis 3 where he said you'll notice that in the bible anytime a people is cursed their land is also cursed so it's like these two go hand and hand and glove and that all that all goes back to genesis 3 curses is the ground because of you so what you'll often see is when God pronounces a curse upon people, it's not just that the people themselves will be affected, but the very ground from which people were made

will also be negatively affected. Now this all, everything in these verses which I read, which is 9 through 14, is preparing us for the great reversal then that's going to come once we get to verse 15. So here you see the effects of a bad trust. Here you see the effects of sin. Here you see the effects that's not only impacting humanity, but also creation itself. This creation groaning, as Paul says in Romans chapter 8.

Then this sets up this very hard turn that we're going to have in verse 15, where we segue into just the opposite. it so here's how verse 15 starts out with the word until all this bad stuff is going to happen until until what until the spirit is poured upon us from on high and what will be the effect of this when this spirit is poured out on from on high the wilderness becomes a fruitful field and the fruitful field is deemed a forest and then justice will dwell in the wilderness and righteousness abide in the fruitful field and the effect of righteousness will be peace and the result of righteousness quietness and trust forever my people will abide in a peaceful habitation in secure dwellings and in quiet resting places and then we have two verses that

that wrap this up one negative one positive 19 is negative 20 is positive 19 says and it will hail when the forest falls down and the city will be utterly laid low happy are those happy are you who sow beside all waters who let the feet of the ox and the donkey range free so you get to verse 14 you're like man this is awful uh everything is is just in in desolation and then god says wait It's not over because all that's going to go until, until what? He pours out his spirit from, from on high. So I was doing a little looking this morning. I've done this before.

I just kind of refreshing my mind and it was just once more impressed upon me how often in the scriptures the spirit is described in either verbs or nouns that are connected to water yeah you notice that before i mean it's like it's all over the place i mean you we see it already in the in the opening of genesis 1 the spirit is hovering where over the surface of the waters jesus and john 3 talks about those who are born of water and the spirit john 4 you've got the living water and then you've got uh the spirit of john 7 you got the rivers of living water and it's referred to as the spirit and then paul's epistles are full of also this this kind of language it's like where the spirit is there's going to be the image of either being poured out

or rain or water or baptism yes all over the scriptures yeah we were uh in 30 minutes in new testament we're going through uh titus right now and you have that great person titus three you know where like he has richly poured out right so this is like this generous pouring out of of the spirit uh that happens and this is obviously you know the washing of regeneration and so this is connected to baptism and yeah the the spirit um if you wanted to do a little word search uh I'd be like, well, which person of the Trinity seems to be really connected with water and baptism and stuff? Well, if you want to know who's really active in all of that, it's certainly the Spirit. I mean, you see this even in Jesus' own baptism.

I mean, it's— Yes, yes. All right, that's another place. Yeah. He's baptized, and Spirit comes down. Rest on it. Paul, yeah, Paul in 1 Corinthians 12 talks about that we're all made to drink of the one spirit. And when you first think about it, you're like, shouldn't be like, I don't know, breathe in the spirit or something.

But no, it's drink of the one spirit. And Isaiah is going to do this too in other places. Isaiah 44, verse 3, God says, I will pour out, I will pour water on the thirsty land, streams on the dry ground. I will pour my spirit on your offspring. so yeah when you think of any verbs connected with with flowing or pouring or raining and you think of nouns like water or rivers or streams then the spirit's not far away yeah which is i mean that's that tells us what baptism is so it's it's the spirit using the water to wash us wash christ into us and wash us into into christ now here in back in isaiah the spirits poured out

from on high and what will be the effect well this reversal that we were talking about the wilderness becomes a fruitful field and the fruitful field is now full of trees and then he switches from the more metaphorical to still metaphorical but he incorporates now the language of justice and righteousness. So you've got justice in the wilderness, you've got righteousness in the fruitful field. And what's going to be, we might say, the fruit of righteousness?

That's going to be things like peace and quietness and trust, so that, as verse 18 says, the people are going to abide in these peaceful habitations and secure dwellings and in quiet, resting places. now this i believe is part of not the only but part of the background of why in galatians when paul is choosing to describe the the work of the spirit or the effects of the spirit in our lives he uses the language of fruit yeah so the fruit of the spirit he could have said work there's nothing wrong with that i mean he could have said that he could have chosen some other

word that describes the effects of the spirit but he purposely chose an agricultural word fruit of the spirit is love joy peace and the reason he did that is because paul knows the prophets and he knows that very often when you have the work of the spirit described it's described with agricultural imagery and that's what's going on here so what what happens when the spirit is poured out well you have fruit because the wilderness becomes a fruitful field and the Fruit fulfilled is deemed a forest. So it turns out, not surprisingly, Paul knew his Old Testament. And so he chose the fruit of the Spirit as the image for the effects of the Spirit.

Yeah, I mean, that's one of the things in Galatians when Paul does that, the contrast, like people, you probably grew up in Sunday school with like a little poster on the wall that had like the fruit of the Spirit and all this stuff on it. everyone knows that but one of the things that Paul does there is that he does a contrast on purpose where he says

the works of the flesh and he doesn't say the fruit of the flesh he's like this is like the stuff that you actively do so you're doing this stuff it's not just produced in you when you go to work

when you decide to put your hand to do something this is the kind of stuff you do and uh that stuff is not good uh so the works of the flesh and he says they're evident like so like i don't i don't have to look for them i don't think like they're obvious like they're just out there uh and then he says but the fruit as opposed to the work right um and so this is just what the spirit produces in you uh so when when you're doing stuff it's likely bad but when the spirit is producing stuff it's very good i guess that means i can't boast about my love joy peace patience kindness no it's like what's in your hand chad uh you don't want to see it because

this is my work right and it's all ugly it's terrible it's sinful uh but when you see what the spirit does you see the spirit's fruit well that's that's all good so all all glory goes to him yeah yeah so uh it's a it's a nice the this whole section beginning verse 9 through 20 is a really it's it's preaching the law and the gospel to us we could say the first part's a law here's what here's what sin does here's the effects of sin here's the effect here's the effects of going your own way basically desolation uncreation where you don't see anything good but here's the effects of god doing his thing when he pours out his spirit when he gives a spirit to creation in particular to his people well then you see everything turning out the way that god wants

it to be you see peace you see righteousness you see his people dwelling in these secure places not desolation but secure secure places and then he wraps it up with verse 20 with the uh The image of like sowing beside waters and let your ox and your donkey range free. Well, this is just typical Isaiah kind of language for a bountiful creation where everything's at peace. You don't have to build fences or make sure that you are protecting your animals from predators. Yeah, no, there's nothing to worry about. In other words, the ox and the donkey can range free and your crops will grow abundantly. all right that's uh chapter 32 chapter 33 uh so we're back to

oh destruction and betrayal and things things of things of that nature i hope you enjoyed the gospel because we got some more law coming up i like the heading yeah the heading's good i think it's good yeah uh taken from verse two oh lord be gracious to us yeah i don't know that that is representative of the entire chapter but it is a good it is a good heading for sure so this is the uh this is one more case where the esv uh chose to translate the hebrew as uh ah instead of whoa you know that that word in hebrew can mean which is hoy can be translated ah can also be translated as whoa and i think this definitely should have been a woe. This is the sixth of the woe passages that we first started

seeing back in chapter 28. So woe, you destroyer, you who yourself have not been destroyed. You traitor whom none has betrayed. So who's this talking about? Well, it's kind of vague. We don't, this is one of these chapters where we don't have any particular names that are inserted here to tell us who we're talking about, but given the overall flow of Isaiah, most likely this is in reference once again to the Assyrians. I mean, they were the dominant threat in Isaiah's day. So we're talking around the year 700 when all this was going down, when you had the Assyrians coming through and bulldozing country after country and city after city, and finally getting to the point where they were all around Jerusalem itself, having destroyed multiple Judean cities.

and then hezekiah basically tries to buy them off and then they turn right around and besiege the city it's like he paid them all this money and then they still want to take down the city and that's probably then what's behind this language of calling them a traitor so if you pay the way this is supposed to work in the ancient world so you had if a superior power came in your country you basically have two or three options you can fight them but if there's superior power you're probably going to lose or you could submit to them basically become a vassal state or you could i guess it's four options you could just let them besiege you and hope that maybe you could hold out longer than they could or you basically you pay them off you know here's a bunch of gold there's

a bunch of silver or here's a bunch of slaves or whatever it might be you pay them off and they leave that's the way this usually worked well hezekiah paid him off but they didn't leave they came back for came back for more so uh what do you destroyer who yourself have not been destroyed at least not yet you traitor whom none has betrayed when you have ceased to destroy so isaiah is jumping forward here in history when you have ceased to destroy you will be destroyed and when you have finished betraying they will betray you so in one verse isaiah has compressed a whole lot of history right now assyria is the destroyer they're the traitors but there is coming a day when this woe will fit their circumstances because they who destroy will be destroyed and they who

betray will be betrayed and that we then we get to verse two where we have this uh good prayer Oh Lord, be gracious to us. We wait for you. Be our arm every morning, our salvation in the time of trouble. I'm kind of surprised ESV translated that as literally as it did, rather than making it a more abstract. They said, be our arm every morning. It's not an English expression, right? We don't ask somebody to be our arm. We ask them to be our protection or save us or be our strength or whatever it might be but this is the uh that's the body part connected with strength and rescue is the arm so it's a great great way to pray be our arm every morning our salvation in time of trouble now verse three at the tumultuous noise peoples flee when you and here he's talking about

god when you lift yourself up nations are scattered and your spoil is gathered as the caterpillar gathers as locust leap it is leapt upon so it's yeah isaiah's he's uh he's he's looking forward to when things are going to change so the tumultuous peoples here or the peoples who are going to flee at this tumultuous noise the nations which are going to be scattered are the ones who are destroyed when god basically stands up it's it's it's kind of a cool image so god when you lift yourself up in other words god stands up that's all he has to do and the nations are scattered the people's fleet that's what's god stands up and it's all over doesn't have to do anything else no uh wielding of sword you know no going to battle jod just stands up

everyone else falls down and the result will be that their spoil is going to be uh gathered as the caterpillar gathers i'm not sure what that what that simile is is implying i guess it just means that they're going to get it all right i don't know how to how caterpillars gathering is connected to spoil but uh it's good don't know enough about caterpillars i don't either i guess i guess the idea is uh the caterpillar is gonna gather all at once and then he's gonna switch to the locust uh locusts are gonna leap and so people are gonna leap up on the the spoil if we don't get all the particulars we know at least the overall message that all the loot all the spoil from the destroyed assyrians is going to be gathered up by by those uh who once were fearful of them i mean

you gotta like the image of god like just getting up off his throne and everyone freaks out but that's all yeah all right i am this popped into my head was uh gospel of john when jesus it's Garden of Gethsemane, it's dark, and Judas shows up with all the soldiers, and Jesus speaks, and everybody falls backwards. That's all it takes. So, continuing now with verse 5. The Lord is exalted, for he dwells on high. He will fill Zion with justice and righteousness, and he will be the stability. that's the like the idea of security and faithfulness uh the word is uh emunah in

hebrew and the root of that is where we get uh amen also the word where we get faith it's the idea of stability security that which can be counted upon so he is going to be the stability of your times so we heard about the time of trouble in verse two now we have the same word occurring here he will be the stability of your times abundance of salvation wisdom and knowledge and then verse 6 ends by saying the fear of the Lord literally in the Hebrew is his treasure the ESV has inserted Zion's treasure here I would not do that I would stick with the fear of the Lord is his treasure meaning that God gives the fear of himself as part of his gift his treasured gift to his people. So when we fear the Lord, it's not something that we've worked up within

ourselves. Instead, God puts that within us. It's his possession, his treasure, and he gives that to us so that we then fear him as a consequence of his action toward us. Yeah, I mean, if you're going to have this abundance of salvation and wisdom and knowledge, I mean, how many passages are there that talk about the fear of the Lord bringing about such things, right? These are not disconnected. Yeah, this is going to be the fruit, kind of the fruit of the Spirit that we talked about earlier. Yeah, this is going to be the fruit of that is the fear of the Lord, and with that, all

the other good things. Now, this whole chapter feels like it kind of jumps back and forth. You go from law to gospel, gospel to law. so we're jumping here again in verse 7 to uh what's happening in the uh in this zion that we just heard about is filled with justice and righteousness and salvation and wisdom now we're kind of jumping back in time to when it was not happening behold their heroes cry in the streets the envoys of peace weep bitterly the highways lie waste the traveler ceases covenants are broken cities are despised there is no regard for man the land mourns and languishes lebanon is confounded

and withers away sharon is like a desert and bashan and carmel shake off their leaves i think this is uh this first part about the heroes crying in the street and the envoys of peace weeping bitterly i think this is in reference to back to judea and jerusalem so all of her heroic men of war who could have gone on fought the assyrians all the envoys of peace who are maybe trying to sneak down to egypt to team up with the egyptians all of that is going to fail heroes cry in the street envoys weep because of their unsuccess and the whole countryside is basically abandoned the highways lie waste no travelers no covenants cities are despised so that the effect is that not just the people but here once again we have creation affected by humanity's sin where the

land mourns and languishes creation subjected to futility and then we have one two three four four specific places that are highlighted as undergoing a radical negative change lebanon of course famous for its cedars sharon sharon is a fertile plain that's right along the mediterranean coast but sean is uh in the transjordan so it's east of the jordan but it's known for its fertility maybe you've read about the the cows of the sean because he was like fat cows usually like the uh bluebell if i don't know they probably don't have these commercials anymore but bluebell used to make uh these these commercials about how happy the cows were because it was such a place of you know of fruitfulness and a lot of green cows

making better ice cream yes yes so that was kind of think of when you think of bluebell and the cows think of bashan and the cows of bashan and then carmel uh we've all heard of mount carmel so that's actually a whole mountain range uh and the word itself can mean a garden or a vineyard so all of these lebanon sharon bashan carmel are places that are known for being green and lush full of vegetation but that's going to change because they're going to be like deserts and leafless trees so this is this pivot back and forth you start out with law you go to gospel then we're back to the effects of sin shown in the land kind of falling apart until, once more, God is going to do his thing.

So in the previous chapter, we saw creation losing its life until the Spirit was poured out from on high. And now we're going to see God stepping forward to say in verse 10, Now, now I will arise, says the Lord. Now I will lift myself up. Now I will be exalted. So God is going to do his thing. He's going to step forth, and he's going to accomplish what needs to be accomplished.

The first thing that's going to happen, though, is you're going to have some more destruction. Because verse 11 and 12 says, You conceive chaff, talking about the rebellious people who have not trusted in the Lord. You conceive chaff, you give birth to stubble. Your breath is a fire that will consume you. Kind of the image of hopelessness, and also that the people are their own worst enemies. is one way to put this and the peoples so if you can see chaff as in reference to people of judea then there's a kind of a broader picture here too where you have the peoples all around you

they will be as if burned to lime like thorns cut down that are burned in the fire so fire burning all of this is kind of part of this general image of destruction whether it's just the people of judea or whether it's the people all those who are intent on rebelling against god this will be their end but he goes on verse 13 he says here you who are far off what i've done and here you who are near acknowledge my might the sinners in zion are afraid trembling has seized the godless so listen up everybody whether you're near or whether you're far off I'm about to put something before you And the sinners in Zion

Are going to be afraid of what I have to say Well, what's he going to say? Middle of verse 14 We have this language that's lifted Almost directly from What are called the entrance liturgies So if you go to Psalm 15 or Psalm 24 And you may know

Both those psalms are very similar They both paint this picture of Worshippers are coming And before they ascend to the mountain of the Lord We have questions like O Lord, who shall sojourn in your tent? Who shall dwell in your holy hill? Or Psalm 24

Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord? And who shall stand in his holy place? And then both those psalms go on to say Things like Well, he who has a clean hands and a pure heart Who's not lit up his soul to falsehood Is not sworn deceitfully So all of these like conditional type things

So that's Psalm 15, that's Psalm 24 Isaiah is going to echo this because he says who among us can dwell with the consuming fire who among us can dwell with everlasting burnings and then he answers this question he who walks righteously and speaks uprightly

who despises the gain of oppressions who shakes his hands lest they hold a bribe who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed who shuts his eyes from looking on evil so that guy what will happen to him he will dwell on the heights his place of

defense will be the fortress of rocks and his bread will be given him his water will be sure that's all you got to do dan that sounds pretty simple that's right yeah it is all you have to do is just live this perfectly righteous life and everything's going to be great for you if i can if i can live that perfectly righteous life then i can dwell with the consuming fire you know the one thing that's that it's interesting that he does this because when we think about you know a consuming fire

or an everlasting burning you're not like man bummer I'm not going to be able to dwell there that's not typically how you think of God right you typically are like I said hey biblically speaking what comes to your mind

when I say everlasting burning you're not the place you don't want to be right Yeah, you're not like, well, it's probably a place I'm not righteous enough to be. That's not what you think. You're like, sounds like a place that I will end up if I'm unrighteous. You're like, no, no, no. Our God is a consuming fire, right?

Yes. And he doesn't stop being that. And it sounds like you're going to need to be Jesus to hang out with him. Yeah, that's exactly where this is going. And that's, you know, the reason we set this up the way we did. You know, the Psalms like 15 and 24 or the section from Isaiah, anyone who reads those and be like, yeah, I'm pretty sure I'm fit. I can make it.

I can dwell on this holy hill. It's self-delusional. There's no way. I mean, every single one of these describes a life that nobody has lived except Christ. So who can ascend a hill of the Lord? who can stand in his holy place? Well, the one with clean hands and a pure heart, that is descriptive of only one person, Christ himself. And so this is a perfect transition into what he's going to say in verse 17, where he goes on to talk about the king. So he, right after he

finishes that section, he says, your eyes will behold the king in his beauty. They will see a land that stretches far. Your heart will muse on the terror. Where is he who counted? Where is he who weighed the tribute? Where is he who counted the towers? You will see no more the insolent people, the people of an obscure speech that you cannot comprehend, stammering in a tongue that you cannot understand. In other words, all the enemies who came, who spoke the Assyrian language, who were there counting people making people pay tribute all that kind of stuff well they are no more because the king has showed up this beautiful king who has come to rescue and deliver his people verse 20 then switches to a description of what's going to happen in zion as a result of the coming

of this king so he said in verse 17 your eyes will behold the king and now he says in verse 20 behold zion the city of our appointed feast your eyes will see jerusalem an untroubled habitation an immovable tent whose stakes will never be plucked up nor will any of its cords be broken but there the lord in majesty will be for us a place of broad rivers and streams where no galley with oars can go nor majestic ships can pass for the lord is our judge the lord is our lawgiver the lord is our king he will save us so who is this king that shows up in verse 17 the lord because the lord is our king so here we have the messianic king described as yahweh in the flesh he's coming down and as a result of his coming the whole city is transformed it's a place

of festivals it's a place of joy it's a place that is immovable and secure and it's kind of But when you know Jerusalem's geography, it's kind of a weird description here because it describes it as a place of broad rivers and streams. There's no broad rivers around Jerusalem. But you got to be creative in your imagination and picture Jerusalem as just surrounded by all these waters, these broad rivers. But it's safe. no enemy galley ship is going to show up there to wage war against Jerusalem because God is there to protect her. This is the language of the Psalms as well, where Jerusalem is abounding in water.

It's saved from all those who might destroy her. Yeah, I mean, at this point, and honestly, to this day, I mean, the idea of Jerusalem being a untroubled habitation, i mean that's uh yeah that's a promise you write you that that uh would take some god doing because i mean at this time and all times it seems that yeah that's not how you would describe it right yes definitely so and that's why of course this is uh this is a picture of the church more less. This is God's kingdom. This is his place where he's establishing

peace, where he's providing blessing. And ultimately it's a picture of the new Jerusalem, which will come down from heaven, where all of these wonderful things that Isaiah is describing will truly come to pass.

Well, alright. Well, we got two verses left to tackle next episode. We will do that and then get into chapter chapter 34 but uh chad enjoyed it i'll see you next episode all right see you then