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Weekly Guide：2024-2025 Week 48
December 01, 2024
Week 48 Day 1: Prophecy against Babylon ⇧ ⇩
Question
What was the Lord’s plan for Babylon?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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A prophecy against Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz saw.
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The day of the Lord is near, all the land of Babylon will be destroyed.
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The Medes will come up against the Babylon, they will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah.
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The Lord once again will choose Israel and will settle them in their own land, foreigners will join them and unite with the descendants of Jacob.
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The Israelites will take up a taunt against the king of Babylon.
Meditation: My Story
- Integrity – A bright star falls because of his pride to put himself above all the stars of God so he may be equal to God. Is my pride in control of my thoughts and deed?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 48 Day 2: Rebuke the Nations ⇧ ⇩
Question
What was the fate of the nations?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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The prophecy came in the year King Ahaz died.
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Disaster will come to the Philistines. It will be destroyed by famine and survivors slayed.
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Moab is ruined and destroyed in a night.
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Advise the Moabites to give tribute to the king of Zion. The Moabites will wail together for Moab. Lament and grieve.
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Damascus will no longer be a city but will become a heap of ruins.
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The remnant of Israel will return to the Lord.
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The Lord will rebuke the people, for this is the portion of those who loot, the lot of those who plunder.
Meditation: My Story
- Identity – The Israelites forgot the Lord, His salvation, the rock, and therefore without harvest. Have I forgotten the source of my strength? How may I be strengthened by the Lord?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 48 Day 3: Cush and Egypt ⇧ ⇩
Question
What were the outcomes for Cush and Egypt?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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The people of Cush are feared far and wide. The gifts will be brought to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the Lord Almighty.
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The Lord is coming to Egypt. The idols of Egypt tremble before him, the officials of Zoan are nothing but fools, the wise counselors of Pharaoh give senseless advice.
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There will be an altar to the Lord in the heart of Egypt. When they cry out to the Lord because of their oppressors, He will send them a savior and defender, and He will rescue them.
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The king of Assyria will lead away stripped and barefoot the Egyptian captives and Cushite exiles.
Meditation: My Story
- Fidelity – When the Egyptians cry out to the Lord, He sends them a savior. How am I following God’s love of all people to love those who are different from me?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 48 Day 4: Destruction of Babylon ⇧ ⇩
Question
What were the horrors of Babylon’s destruction?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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A prophecy against Babylon. Babylon has fallen! All the images of its gods lie shattered on the ground!
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A prophecy against Dumah. A prophecy against Arabia.
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Weep bitterly for Jerusalem will be destroyed. Till your dying day this sin will not be atoned for.
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Tyre will be forgotten. The Lord will deal with Tyre at the end of seventy years and her profit and her earnings will be set apart for the Lord.
Meditation: My Story
- Integrity – When the Lord makes the men cry, they rejoiced instead, and therefore their sins will not be atoned for. The Lord values our repentant heart. Is there anything I need to repent to the Lord?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 48 Day 5: Praise the Lord ⇧ ⇩
Question
Why did the prophet praise in the Lord’s name?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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The earth is defiled by its people; they have disobeyed the laws, violated the statutes and broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore, a curse consumes the earth.
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They shout for joy to acclaim the Lord’s majesty. From the ends of the earth we hear singing: “Glory to the Righteous One.”
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The Lord Almighty will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and before its elders-with great glory.
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The prophet praise in the name of the Lord for His righteousness, grace, and salvation.
Meditation: My Story
- Identity - The prophet praised in the name of the Lord because people await Him and He will rescue them. The people will shout for joy. Do I often shout for joy in God’s salvation?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 48 Day 6: Gather the Remnant ⇧ ⇮
Question
How does God gather the remnant of Israel?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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They will sing in the land of Judah: “Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord, the Lord himself, is the Rock eternal.”
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People will enter their rooms and shut the doors behind them; hide themselves for a little while until His wrath has passed by.
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The Lord will watch over the vineyard, water it continually, guard it day and night so that no one may harm it.
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In that day, the Lord will gather up Israel, one by one.
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In that day, the trumpet will sound. Those who were in exile will come and worship the Lord on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.
Meditation: My Story
- Identity - The Lord will establish peace for us, so we must lean on His name. Where does my peace come from? If I have fear, where does that come from?