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No, not the new age prosperity prophets, silly

I’ve been reading through the book of Isaiah in the Old Testament. It’s been quite a journey. My plan was to just read it, not looking for anything in particular other than what God would teach me through the reading. I did not even take notes. Now, I know you all are too spiritual to not take notes when you read the Bible, right?

Isaiah is a great book of the Bible – as if any aren’t. The only difficulty I really had, in regards to reading, is the poetic nature of Isaiah. Now, I love poetic stuff in the Bible, but when I read it I have to really concentrate on it. I think mostly because it not only captures meaning (which DEFINITELY requires interpretation), but it also captures emotion. Almost the entire book was like this: poetic in nature. So, I found myself re-reading a lot of it due to the frequency I was JUST reading.

Some really cool chapters – among many, I think, are:

• chapter 6 (the vision of God “high and lifted up”)
• chapter 10 (captures the sovereignty of God really well)
• chapter 8 (To the teaching and to the testimony!)
• chapter 11 (the stump of Jesse!)
• chapter 20 (Isaiah was a streaker!)
• chapter 40
• chapter 7 of course (the virgin will give birth)
• chapter 9 (A son will be given)
• chapter 58 (the meaning of fasting)
• chapter 55 (the poor prosper!)

It is so hard to list what the “good” chapters are, because they are all good. I suppose these are some of the chapters that had an impact on me. Do you have a “favorite” chapter of Isaiah? Have any of them impacted you in a certain way? Have you gained new insight through Isaiah?

Please do share!

- Jonathan J.