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An Introductory Word    msg. 1
The Salvation of Jehovah to His Beloved People and the Nations (1)    msg. 2
The Salvation of Jehovah to His Beloved People and the Nations (2)    msg. 3
Jehovah's Chastisement on His Beloved Children Israel and His Loving Exhortation and Promise to His Chastised People
I. Jehovah's chastisement on His beloved children Israel
A. Jehovah having chastised them because of their apostasy
1. Striking them so that their whole head became sick and their whole heart faint
2. Causing their land to be a desolation, their cities to be burned with fire, and their field to be devoured by strangers
3. Leaving the city of Zion like a booth in a vineyard, like a hut in a cucumber field, like a besieged city
4. The Lord Jehovah of Hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, easing Himself of His adversaries and avenging Himself of His enemies
5. Shattering the rebels and sinners together and terminating those who forsook Jehovah
6. Taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah every kind of support
7. Striking the scalp of the daughters of Zion with scabs and removing the beauty of their luxurious ornaments
8. Causing the men of Zion to fall by the sword and her mighty in battle
9. Removing the hedge of Israel as the vineyard of Jehovah so that it will be consumed, and breaking down its wall so that it will be trampled
10. Putting them into exile
11. The root of those who are unjust and evil being like decay, and their bud disappearing like dust
12. Lifting up a standard to a distant nation and summoning it to come in a swift, strong, and terrifying way to seize Israel as its prey
B. Jehovah abandoning His beloved people, the house of Jacob
II. Jehovah's loving exhortation and promise to His chastised people
A. Jehovah's loving exhortation to His chastised people
1. On the negative side
2. On the positive side
B. Jehovah's loving promise to His chastised people
1. Of forgiveness
a. Jehovah's invitation
b. Jehovah's forgiveness through washing
c. The issue of the people's obedience
2. Of restoration
a. Restoring the leaders
b. Restoring the city of Zion and its people
The Salvation of Jehovah to His Beloved People and the Nations (3)    msg. 4
Jehovah's Humiliating Judgment on the Haughty Nations and the Ushering in of the God-Man, Christ, Issuing in the Restoration of the Nation of Israel
I. Jehovah's humiliating judgment on the haughty nations
A. The prophet's accusation
1. Their land being full of silver and gold, and their treasures being limitless
2. Their land being full of idols
3. Asking Jehovah not to forgive them
B. Jehovah's humiliating judgment
1. The object of Jehovah's humiliating judgment
a. Man's haughty look and man's loftiness
b. Everything proud and lofty and everything lifted up
c. All the lofty and lifted-up cedars of Lebanon and all the oaks of Bashan
d. All the lofty mountains and all the lifted-up hills
e. Every high tower and every fortified wall
f. All the ships of Tarshish and all their pleasant artifacts
g. The idols
2. The purpose of Jehovah's humiliating judgment
a. To show the dread of Jehovah and the splendor of His majesty
b. To vindicate the fact that Jehovah alone will be exalted
3. The way of Jehovah's humiliating judgment
4. The result of Jehovah's humiliating judgment
a. Men being abased and humbled
b. Men casting their idols of silver and idols of gold to the moles and to the bats
c. Men entering into the rock and hiding in the dust
5. The lesson of Jehovah's humiliating judgment
II. The ushering in of the God-man, Christ, issuing in the restoration of the nation of Israel
A. The ushering in of the God-man, Christ
1. "In that day"
2. The shoot of Jehovah and the fruit of the earth
3. A canopy and a tabernacle
B. Issuing in the restoration of the nation of Israel
1. The Lord washing away the filth of the daughters of Zion
2. He who is left over in Zion and remains in Jerusalem being called holy
3. Jehovah creating a canopy over Zion and her convocations and providing his chosen people with a tabernacle
4. Christ as the shoot of Jehovah being beauty and glory and as the fruit of the earth being excellence and splendor to Israel
5. The mountain of the house of Jehovah being established on the top of the mountains and being lifted up among the hills
6. From Zion going forth instruction, and the word of Jehovah from Jerusalem
7. Jehovah judging between the nations and deciding matters concerning many peoples
8. The nations and many peoples beating their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks
9. The house of Jacob walking in the light of Jehovah
A Word Concerning Christ as the Shoot of Jehovah, the Fruit of the Earth, the Canopy, and the Tabernacle    msg. 5
The Salvation of Jehovah to His Beloved People and the Nations (4)    msg. 6
The Salvation of Jehovah to His Beloved People and the Nations (5)    msg. 7
The Sign of Christ's Incarnation Given in God's Dealing with the Unbelief of Ahaz, King of Judah
I. God's dealing with the unbelief of Ahaz, king of Judah
A. Rezin, king of Aram, and Pekah, king of Israel, going up to attack Ahaz, and the heart of Ahaz quivering
B. Jehovah sending Isaiah to Ahaz
C. Jehovah wanting Ahaz to ask for a sign
1. Ahaz not willing to ask
2. The Lord giving Ahaz a sign
a. The actual fulfillment of this sign
b. The child eating curds and honey until he knew how to refuse evil and choose good
D. The invasion of the army of the king of Assyria
1. The people of Judah rejecting the gently flowing waters of Shiloah at Jerusalem
a. Jehovah whistling for the flies and for the bees
b. The Lord shaving with a razor the head and the hair of the legs, and the beard as well
c. Everyone left behind in the land eating curds and honey
2. The land of Immanuel indicating that the land of Judah, the Holy Land, Is Christ's territory invaded by the conquering army of the king of Assyria
II. The real fulfillment of the sign given by God to Ahaz, the king of Judah, being the Lord's incarnation
III. Christ as Immanuel
A. For one to overcome the nations in their equipping, counseling, and speaking
B. For one to be instructed by Jehovah
C. Christ the Immanuel becoming a sanctuary, yet a stone to strike against, a rock of stumbling, and a trap and a snare
D. Causing the prophet to bind up the testimony and seal the instruction among his disciples and wait on Jehovah
E. Making the prophet and the children whom Jehovah has given him for signs and wonders in Israel
F. Causing one not to inquire of the necromancers and the familiar spirits, but to inquire of God
A Word Concerning the Sign of Christ's Incarnation Given to Ahaz, King of Judah    msg. 8
The Salvation of Jehovah to His Beloved People and the Nations (6)    msg. 9
The Salvation of Jehovah to His Beloved People and the Nations (7)    msg. 10
The Salvation of Jehovah to His Beloved People and the Nations (8)    msg. 11
The Judgment of Jehovah Upon the Nations and Its Issue    msg. 12
The Vision of the Economy of God Hidden in Isaiah's Prophecy    msg. 13
Jehovah's Reaction to Israel's Degradation and His Reaction to the Nations' Excessive Action on Israel Issuing in Israel's Turn to Jehovah and Their Return to the Holy Land for Restoration (1)    msg. 14
Jehovah's Reaction to Israel's Degradation and His Reaction to the Nations' Excessive Action on Israel Issuing in Israel's Turn to Jehovah and Their Return to the Holy Land for Restoration (2)    msg. 15
Jehovah's Punishment Over Ephraim's Drunkards Issuing in Jehovah's Restoration and Ushering in the Trustworthy Christ and His Judgment on the Hypocrisy of Jerusalem's Worshippers Issuing in the Restoration    msg. 16
I. Jehovah's punishment over the drunkards of Ephraim (representing the northern kingdom of Israel) issuing in Jehovah's restoration and ushering in the trustworthy Christ
A. Jehovah's punishment over Ephraim's drunkards
1. The drunkards' indulgence in drinking
2. Jehovah's punishment
a. Woe being to the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim and to the fading flower of its glorious beauty
b. Bothering them by the Gentile
Invaders' foreign tongue and by His rules and statutes scattered repeatedly in pieces
c. Destroying them by the Assyrian army
d. Jehovah's reaction to fight against the Assyrians, who had destroyed Israel excessively
e. Dealing, as a farmer, with them as His crops by different utensils
B. Issuing in Jehovah's restoration
1. Jehovah becoming a crown of glory and a diadem of beauty
2. Jehovah becoming a spirit of justice
C. Ushering in the trustworthy Christ
1. A stone laid by the Lord Jehovah in Zion
2. A precious cornerstone
3. The one believing not hastening away
4. The trustworthy Christ being the faithful High Priest and the trustworthy Prophet
II. Jehovah's judgment on the hypocrisy of the worshippers in Jerusalem issuing in the restoration
A. The hypocrisy of Jerusalem's worshippers
B. Jehovah's judgment
1. Jehovah distressing Ariel
2. Jehovah pouring out upon them a spirit of deep sleep, and shutting their eyes, the prophets, and covering their heads, the seers
3. The Lord doing something wondrous with them
C. Issuing in the restoration
1. Lebanon being turned into a fruitful field
2. The deaf hearing the words of the book
3. The afflicted increasing their joy in Jehovah
4. He who terrorizes ceasing to be
5. Those who have erred in spirit coming to understand
6. The house of Jacob not being ashamed
Jehovah's Dealing with Israel's Reliance on Egypt and His Dealing with the Nations Issuing in Israel's Turn to Him and in His Return to Israel with the Restoration    msg. 17
Jehovah's Destruction of the Nations for Christ to be the King to Bring in the Restoration for Israel    msg. 18
An Example of Seeking After Jehovah and Trusting in Him (1)    msg. 19
An Example of Seeking After Jehovah and Trusting in Him (2)    msg. 20
Jehovah's Word of Comfort to Israel    msg. 21
Christ as the Servant of Jehovah (1)    msg. 22
Christ as the Servant of Jehovah (2)    msg. 23
Christ as the Servant of Jehovah (3)    msg. 24
Christ as the Servant of Jehovah (4)    msg. 25
As Typified by Isaiah, the Prophet of Jehovah, for a Covenant of the People to Restore the Land
I. The three persons of the servant of Jehovah
A. Isaiah, the prophet of Jehovah
1. Jehovah making the prophet's mouth like a sharp sword
2. Jehovah making the prophet a polished arrow
3. Jehovah considering the prophet His servant
4. The prophet considering himself as laboring in vain
B. Israel, the prophet of Jehovah
C. Christ as the servant of Jehovah fulfilling all that Isaiah and Israel are as the servant of Jehovah
1. From the womb Jehovah forming Him to be His Servant
2. God setting Him as a light of the nations
3. Jehovah's word to the despised One, the One abhorred by the nation, the One subjected to tyrants
4. Jehovah giving Him as a covenant of the people
II. The blessed return of the captives
A. Not hungering or thirsting
B. Jehovah making all His mountains into a road
C. These ones coming from a distance
D. The heavens giving a ringing shout
III. How Jehovah treasures Zion
A. Not forgetting her
B. Having engraved her upon the palms of His hands
C. Her walls being continually before Him
D. Her captives making haste to return
E. Her waste land being too constricted because of her returned captives
IV. Jehovah lifting up His hand to the nations for the gathering of the dispersed captives of Zion
V. The reason for Zion's being forsaken
VI. The instruction the servant of Jehovah received and the life he lived
A. The instruction the servant of Jehovah received
B. The life the servant of Jehovah lived
VII. How he who fears Jehovah and hears the voice of His servant has light while walking in darkness
Christ as the Servant of Jehovah (5)    msg. 26
Christ as the Servant of Jehovah (6)    msg. 27
Christ as the Servant of Jehovah (7)    msg. 28
Christ as the Servant of Jehovah (8)    msg. 29
Christ as the Servant of Jehovah (9)    msg. 30
Christ as the Servant of Jehovah (10)    msg. 31
Christ as the Servant of Jehovah (11)    msg. 32
Christ Being the Shoot of Jehovah and the Fruit of the Earth    msg. 33
I. The all-inclusive Christ being the centrality and universality of the move of the divine trinity for the accomplishment of His divine economy by the dispensing of Himself into His chosen people
II. The Shoot of Jehovah and the Fruit of the earth
A. The Shoot of Jehovah
1. A new development of Jehovah God for His increase and spreading through His incarnation
2. For the branching out of Jehovah God, in His divinity, into humanity
3. He, in His divinity, to be the beauty and glory of God's chosen people in the day of restoration
B. The Fruit of the earth
1. A man born of human blood and flesh from the earth
2. For the multiplication and reproduction of the divine life in humanity
3. Such a man, in His humanity, which expresses His divine beauty and glory, to be the excellence and splendor of God's chosen people in the day of restoration
III. A covering canopy of glory and an overshadowing tabernacle of grace
A. The Shoot of Jehovah and the Fruit of the earth, as the God-man in His divinity and His humanity as well, to be a covering canopy of the divine glory and an overshadowing tabernacle of grace in humanity
B. A covering canopy of glory
1. Being the divine glory covering all the interests of Jehovah God in His holy mountain
2. Being the cloud of smoke as a shade by day from the heat and the brightness of a fiery flame by night, both being created by God
C. An overshadowing tabernacle of grace in humanity
1. Being Christ in His humanity that expresses His divinity
2. Overshadowing His believers in His grace as a daytime shade from the heat and as a refuge and a cover from storm and rain
IV. The requirements for partaking of Christ
A. The requirements being the conditions for God's chosen people to partake of Christ in the age of restoration
1. Having escaped, having been released, from captivity
2. Living and remaining in a holy life in God's chosen place — Zion and Jerusalem
3. Chosen by God according to His record of life
4. The filth having been washed away and the bloodstains having been cleansed away by the Lord with His judging and burning Spirit
B. The age of grace being a foretaste of the age of restoration; hence, the above requirements being also the conditions for the believers to partake of Christ in the New Testament economy
Christ Seen in His Divine Glory with His Human Virtues Held in His Holiness    msg. 34
A Child of Both the Divine and Human Natures Born of a Human Virgin and a Son in the Divine Nature Given by the Eternal Father    msg. 35
A Sanctuary to the Positive Ones and a Stone to Strike Against, a Rock of Stumbling, a Trap, and a Snare to the Negative Ones    msg. 36
The Great Light for the Shining in Darkness and for the Release from Bondage    msg. 37
A Twig from the Stem of Jesse and a Branch from the Roots of Jesse Bringing in the Restoration of Life and a Banner to the Peoples and a Standard to the Nations Bringing in the Return of God's People and the Submission of the Gentiles (1)    msg. 38
A Twig from the Stem of Jesse and a Branch from the Roots of Jesse Bringing in the Restoration of Life and a Banner to the Peoples and a Standard to the Nations Bringing in the Return of God's People and the Submission of the Gentiles (2)    msg. 39
The springs of salvation    msg. 40
The King Reigning in the Tent of David, the Eternal Rock, a Savior—a Defender, and a Teacher    msg. 41
What Christ is as the Steward in the House of God, Typified by Eliakim    msg. 42
A Crown of Glory and a Diadem of Beauty; a Stone as a Foundation, a Tested Stone, and a Precious Cornerstone; and a King Like a Refuge, a Covering, Streams of Water, and the Shadow of a Massive Rock    msg. 43
Jehovah the Savior    msg. 44
The Servant of Jehovah as Typified by Cyrus the King of Persia, by Israel, and by Isaiah the Prophet    msg. 45
The Servant of Jehovah as a Covenant to the People and a Light to the Nations    msg. 46
The Servant of Jehovah as a Covenant to the People and a Light to the Nations to be God's Full Salvation    msg. 47
The Servant of Jehovah as the Arm of Jehovah, the Reigning God, and the Exalted Christ in Relation to Israel's Return and Restoration    msg. 48
The Servant of Jehovah Revealed in the New Testament Economy    msg. 49
I. Christ as the Servant of Jehovah revealed in the New Testament economy
A. Acting wisely and prospering in the pleasure of Jehovah
B. Being exalted and lifted up, and being very high
C. Many being astonished at Him, for His visage and form were marred (disfigured) more than any man
D. Surprising many nations, and Kings shutting their mouths because of Him
II. The report of the prophets based upon the revelation of Jehovah
A. The report of the prophets and the revelation of Jehovah
B. Concerning Christ, the Servant of Jehovah
1. As the incarnated Savior, living a suffering and sorrowful human life
a. Growing up like a tender plant before Jehovah
b. Having no attracting form nor majesty
c. Having been despised and forsaken of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief
2. As the crucified Redeemer, sacrificing Himself for our trespasses for the accomplishing of Jehovah's eternal redemption
a. Bearing our sicknesses and carrying our sorrows
b. Being wounded because of our transgressions and crushed because of our iniquities
c. We all like sheep having gone astray; each of us having turned to His own way, and Jehovah having caused the iniquity of us all to fall upon Him
d. Being oppressed and afflicted, yet not opening His mouth
e. Being taken away by oppression and judgment, and being cut off out of the land of the living for the transgression of the prophet's people
f. His grave being assigned with the wicked, but with a rich man in His death
g. Jehovah being pleased to crush Him, to afflict Him with grief
3. As the resurrected Life-giver, producing a seed for the building up of His Body as His continuation for Jehovah's pleasure and His satisfaction
a. Making His soul an offering for sin and seeing a seed
b. Seeing the issue of the travail of His soul and being satisfied
4. As the ascended Victor, sharing the spoil with God for His triumphant glory
a. Jehovah dividing to Him a portion with the Great, and He dividing the spoil with the Strong
The All-Inclusive Christ in His Four Stages According to God's New Testament Economy (1)    msg. 50
I. In the stage of His incarnation
A. As the complete God to become a perfect man
B. As a perfect man to live a lowly and sorrowful human life
1. Growing up like a tender plant before Jehovah, and like a root out of dry ground
2. Having no attracting form nor majesty that men should look upon Him
3. Being despised and forsaken of men, like one from whom men hide their faces and whom men do not esteem
4. Living as a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief
C. Fully qualified to be the Savior to save fallen men from Satan, sin, death, and self
II. In the stage of His crucifixion
A. As a God-man Savior to Die a Vicarious Death for Sinners
1. Bearing our sicknesses and carrying our sorrows
2. Wounded for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities, cut off out of the land of the living for our transgression, and bearing our sin, that we may have peace and be healed
3. Oppressed, afflicted, and led to the slaughter like a lamb and sheared before the shearers like a sheep, with no reaction
4. Taken away by oppression and by judgment
5. Numbered with the transgressors and interceding for the transgressors
6. Assigned a grave with the wicked, but with a rich man in His death
B. Jehovah having caused the iniquity of us all to fall on Him
1. Considering Him as the substitute for sinners and forsaking Him as the unique sinner at that moment
2. Being pleased to crush Him, to afflict Him with grief
C. Making Himself an offering for sin
1. Through the eternal Spirit
2. By pouring out His life unto death
D. To accomplish God's eternal redemption, that the believers in Christ may be redeemed unto the life union in His resurrection, the reality of which is the life-giving Spirit
The All-Inclusive Christ in His Four Stages According to God's New Testament Economy (2)    msg. 51
The All-Inclusive Christ in His Four Stages According to God's New Testament Economy (3)    msg. 52
The Servant of Jehovah as the Sure Mercies of David, a Redeemer to Zion, and the Light to Israel    msg. 53
The Servant of Jehovah as the Anointed of Jehovah as the Angel of the Presence of Jehovah for the Restoration of Israel Unto the New Heavens and the New Earth    msg. 54
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