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Isaiah 48 Commentary

For my name’s sake I will defer My anger

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KEY THOUGHT: For My own sake, for My own sake, I will do it;
For how should My name be profaned?
And I will not give My glory to another. [Isaiah 48:11 NKJV]

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Isaiah 48 NKJV

Israel Refined for God’s Glory

48 “Hear this, O house of Jacob,
Who are called by the name of Israel,
And have come forth from the wellsprings of Judah;
Who swear by the name of the Lord,
And make mention of the God of Israel,
But not in truth or in righteousness;
²For they call themselves after the holy city,
And lean on the God of Israel;
The Lord of hosts is His name:

³“I have declared the former things from the beginning;
They went forth from My mouth, and I caused them to hear it.
Suddenly I did them, and they came to pass.
⁴Because I knew that you were ^[a]obstinate,
And your neck was an iron sinew,
And your brow bronze,
⁵Even from the beginning I have declared it to you;
Before it came to pass I proclaimed it to you,
Lest you should say, ‘My idol has done them,
And my carved image and my molded image
Have commanded them.’

⁶“You have heard;
See all this.
And will you not declare it?
I have made you hear new things from this time,
Even hidden things, and you did not know them.
⁷They are created now and not from the beginning;
And before this day you have not heard them,
Lest you should say, ‘Of course I knew them.’
⁸Surely you did not hear,
Surely you did not know;
Surely from long ago your ear was not opened.
For I knew that you would deal very treacherously,
And were called a transgressor from the womb.

⁹“For My name’s sake I will ^[b]defer My anger,
And for My praise I will restrain it from you,
So that I do not cut you off.
¹⁰Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver;
I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.
¹¹For My own sake, for My own sake, I will do it;
For how should My name be profaned?
And I will not give My glory to another.

God’s Ancient Plan to Redeem Israel

¹²“Listen to Me, O Jacob,
And Israel, My called:
I am He, I am the First,
I am also the Last.
¹³Indeed My hand has laid the foundation of the earth,
And My right hand has stretched out the heavens;
When I call to them,
They stand up together.

¹⁴“All of you, assemble yourselves, and hear!
Who among them has declared these things?
The Lord loves him;
He shall do His pleasure on Babylon,
And His arm shall be against the Chaldeans.
¹⁵I, even I, have spoken;
Yes, I have called him,
I have brought him, and his way will prosper.

¹⁶“Come near to Me, hear this:
I have not spoken in secret from the beginning;
From the time that it was, I was there.
And now the Lord God and His Spirit
^[c]Have sent Me.”

¹⁷Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer,
The Holy One of Israel:
“I am the Lord your God,
Who teaches you to profit,
Who leads you by the way you should go.
¹⁸Oh, that you had heeded My commandments!
Then your peace would have been like a river,
And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
¹⁹Your descendants also would have been like the sand,
And the offspring of your body like the grains of sand;
His name would not have been cut off
Nor destroyed from before Me.”

²⁰Go forth from Babylon!
Flee from the Chaldeans!
With a voice of singing,
Declare, proclaim this,
Utter it to the end of the earth;
Say, “The Lord has redeemed
His servant Jacob!”
²¹And they did not thirst
When He led them through the deserts;
He caused the waters to flow from the rock for them;
He also split the rock, and the waters gushed out.

²²“There is no peace,” says the Lord, “for the wicked.”

Footnotes

a. Isaiah 48:4 Heb. hard
b. Isaiah 48:9 delay
c. Isaiah 48:16 Heb. verb is sing.; or Has sent Me and His Spirit

New King James Version (NKJV)

Isaiah 48 Commentary

When we mention the name of the LORD, do we mean it? When we act ‘reliance’ on the LORD, do we live it?

Stubborn; unyielding; rigid as iron!

We must investigate both ourselves and the events around our lives. Where is the God of Jacob?

The scripture wants us to look back at the events and appreciate the fulfillment of scripture. The LORD God is behind it all.

Could there be events that we must look at today to see how scripture is being fulfilled?

Without an obedient and submissive response to prophetic utterances, we find ourselves fighting the decisions of the LORD. We easily formulate doctrines to navigate away from the decisions of the LORD.

Believers are shareholders in the name of the LORD. Have we lived this knowledge to its full potential?

The Creator God rules. He is the power behind world events.

Yes, Israel is saved, but not because of its good shape. Salvation by grace alone! We understand this concept better in the New Testament!

Regardless, Israel should “heed the commandments”. Obedience is the key; not the condition. Obedience is the air that the redeemed of the LORD breathe! They are dead without it!

As for the wicked, “There is no peace.” Verse 22. How can there be peace outside the Kingdom of the Prince of Peace?

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It has been exciting learning how God can make things happen to his choosen one, God workout something wonderful and fulfils the promises he made to the father of Joseph.

God’s words remains true so are his promises and indeed it has been God working out the salvation of man Kind by Grace through Faith alone.

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Quite thought provoking. Thank you for the passage of scripture.