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Weekly Guide：2024-2025 Week 47
November 24, 2024
Week 47 Day 1: The Lord's Day ⇧ ⇩
Question
How did Isaiah rebuke the people of Judah and Jerusalem?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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The Lord abandoned the descendants of Jacob because they are full of superstitions from the East; they embrace pagan customs.
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The Lord Almighty has a day in store for all the proud and lofty, for all that is exalted. The idols will totally disappear. He is about to take from Jerusalem and Judah both supply and support.
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The Lord rises to judge the people. The Lord enters into judgment against the elders and leaders of his people and woe to the haughty women.
Meditation: My Story
- Identity - List out the people’s sins in the passage and compare to today’s society. What are we sinning against the Lord today?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 47 Day 2: The Chosen's Woe ⇧ ⇩
Question
Why did the Lord’s vineyard yield bad fruit?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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After judgment, the branch of the Lord will be beautiful and glorious, the Lord will wash away the filth of the women of Zion; He will cleanse by a spirit of judgment.
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In the vineyard on a fertile hillside, He looked for a crop of good grapes, but it yielded only bad fruit.
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The vineyard of the Lord is the nation of Israel, and the people of Judah are the vines he delighted in. And he looked for justice, but saw bloodshed.
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Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field till no space is left and you live alone in the land. Woe to those who draw sin along with cords of deceit, and wickedness as with cart ropes.
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The Lord will whistle for those at the ends of the earth, to come to plunder the people.
Meditation: My Story
- Integrity - Do I find in today’s church the tyranny and injustice in the vineyard parable? Am I being insensitive? What is our current situation?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 47 Day 3: The Lord's Commission ⇧ ⇩
Question
How was Isaiah commissioned by the Lord?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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In the year that King Uzziah died, Isaiah saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne. Above him were seraphim.
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Isaiah thought of woe to himself for he knew he was a man of unclean lips and live among a people of unclean lips.
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The seraphim flew to him with a live coal and with it he touched his mouth to take away his sin.
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Isaiah answered the Lord’s calling.
Meditation: My Story
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Identity - Isaiah though of his own sin in front of the holy throne of the Lord. How do we, the believers in the age of the New Testament, feel differently from him? Why?
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Fidelity - Isaiah said: “Here am I. Send me!” to answer the Lord’s calling. Am I ready to answer God the same way? What would stop me from doing so?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 47 Day 4: Reject Two Kings ⇧ ⇩
Question
What did Isaiah prophesy of the fate of the two kings who were to attack Jerusalem?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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When Ahaz was king of Judah, King Rezin of Aram and king Pekah of Israel marched up to fight against Jerusalem.
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The Lord said to Isaiah and his son Shear-Jashub to tell Ahaz: “Be careful, keep calm and don’t be afraid.”
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The Lord spoke to Ahaz: “The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.” A sign the two kings of Aram and Israel would be rejected.
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The Lord foretold: “The wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried off by the king of Assyria.”
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The Lord told Isaiah: “The Lord Almighty is the one you are to regard as holy, He is the one you are to fear, He is the one you are to dread. For both Israel and Judah He will be a stone that causes people to stumble.”
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People should inquire of their God, not consult with mediums and spiritists.
Meditation: My Story
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Identity - Facing his enemies, Ahaz was told by the Lord to keep calm and don’t be afraid. Can I do the same when facing my enemies because of the Lord’s promises?
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Identity - Facing difficulties, people often consult with mediums and spiritists. When I face difficulties, would I panic and ask everywhere for help? What would be the cause of my lack of faith?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 47 Day 5: Rod of Anger ⇧ ⇩
Question
How did God make the Assyrian His whip and rod of anger?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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In the past He humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the future He will honor Galilee of the nations.
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For to us a child is born, to us a son is given.
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Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria are with pride and arrogance of heart. But the Lord has strengthened Rezin’s foes against them.
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The people have not returned to Him who struck them. By the wrath of the Lord Almighty the land will be scorched, disaster will come from afar.
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The Lord makes the Assyrian, the rod of His anger, the club of His wrath. The Lord Almighty, will send a wasting disease upon the sturdy Assyrian warriors.
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The survivors of Jacob will truly rely on the Lord. The burden of the Assyrians will be lifted from their shoulders.
Meditation: My Story
- Identity – God disciplines the Israelites by His love. How do I understand His discipline? Do I truly know my identity as His child, as His beloved, and must be disciplined by Him?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 47 Day 6: God Reaching Out ⇧ ⇮
Question
How would the Lord reach out to reclaim His people?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse, the Spirit of the Lord will rest on him.
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The Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the people, the nations will rally to him.
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The Lord will reach out his hand a second time to reclaim the surviving remnant of his people.
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The Israelites will give praise to the Lord for He is their salvation.
Meditation: My Story
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Identity – The savior raised from the Lord will delight in the fear of the Lord. How do I understand what is the meaning of delight in the fear of the Lord? Do I delight in the fear of the Lord?
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The remnant of Israel will give praise to the Lord on the day of salvation. All of us are saved by the Lord. How am I giving praises to Him each day?