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OT355 Book Study: Isaiah: God’s Salvation for Israel and the Ends of the Earth is unavailable, but you can change that!

This course explores the main themes presented in the book of the prophet Isaiah. Israel’s unfaithfulness to her faithful God in the areas of worship, idolatry, and covenant obedience is central in Isaiah, and this theme is explored reflectively for self-examination of our own obedience in these areas. Another key theme is the supremacy of God not only over Israel, but also over every other...

There are nine imperatives listed in these two verses: wash, clean, remove, cease, learn, seek, correct, bring, and plead. In the previous section, in verses 10–15, Isaiah told us what God does not want, and that is empty worship, worship that may adhere to the technicalities of the ritual system but without the heart. Now we hear, in verses 16–20, what God does want, and that is an ethic informed by a transformed heart. Notice the emphasis on social ethics in these two verses. He said, “Seek justice,
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