WTW 2021
27 March
Isaiah 55
Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost. Isaiah 55:1
Daily discipleship as we R.E.A.D. God’s WORD together is transformational.
Reading Isaiah together daily in this way, one chapter each day, is powerful.
I used to think immediately of Isaiah as a micro Bible with a sense of chapter 39 ending the old and 40 beginning the new. There are certainly still some things we can match up in this way.
Now it is clear that 53 marks a powerful breakthrough and unparalleled revelation of the new covenant leading forward into even more glorious revelations in 54 & 55 and beyond.
This thought came to mind this morning. Just a curiosity, it seems, yet intriguing all the same.
How did this breakthrough impact the life of the man Isaiah himself? Do we have any indications which synchronize the life of Isaiah with the revelations of Isaiah, the history of the man with the visions of the spirit, the experiences of the individual with the demonstrations of the eternal?
The breakthrough of the new covenant from the old, like a glorious butterfly from its cocoon of death continues to reverberate across the eternal ages.
Thank you LORD for this breakthrough and for all You continue to teach and show us through Yeshayahu.
Wisdom in the WORD 
It was such a great time together this morning in WTW as we R.E.A.D. and each shared an I.D.E.A. in Isaiah 55. IM found the first mention of Yeshurun in Deuteronomy, and it is striking how d32 aligns with i55.
Yeshurun grew fat and kicked; filled with food, they became heavy and sleek. They abandoned the God who made them and rejected the Rock their Savior.” Deuteronomy 32:15
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I found this to be a rather balanced synopsis. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Isaiah/Message-to-Israel
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Wow, and Britannica no less
Much worth considering
Excerpt
“A case can be made for a theory that Isaiah drew back at the brink, incapable of conceiving a world wholly emptied of his people. What supports this view is a paradox: the observation that, irrationally, he entrusted his rejected message to his disciples and preserved it in a book for the instruction of the survivors of a people doomed to leave no survivors.”
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