The Book Of Isaiah - Executable Outlines

C. FOLLY OF TRUSTING EGYPT AND NOT GOD...1. Woe to those who trust in Egypt - 31:1-3a. Trusting in her horses and chariots rather than in God - 31:1b. God will bring disaster on Egypt and those helped by her - 31:2-32. The Lord will defend Jerusalem from the Assyrians - 31:4-9a. As a lion He will fight for Mount Zion - 31:4-5b. Return to Him against Whom they revolted with their idolatry - 31:6-7c. Assyria will fall by a sword not of man, fleeing with fear - 31:8-9; cf. 37:36-38II. TRUE DELIVERANCE FOUND IN THE LORD (32:1-35:10)A. THE NEW REGIME TO COME...1. With a righteous King and spiritual illumination - 32:1-8a. The King and His princes will rule with righteousness and justice - 32:1b. A man (Messiah? Hezekiah?) will offer protection and provision - 32:2c. Spiritual blindness and deafness removed, knowledge understood - 32:3-4d. Moral distinctions made clearer - 32:5-82. Preceded by painful judgment - 32:9-14a. Upon women at ease and complacent - 32:9-11b. People will mourn the devastation of the land - 32:12-143. Inaugurated by the outpouring of God’s Spirit - 32:15-20a. Producing a fruitful field and forest from the wilderness - 32:15b. In which justice and righteousness will produce peace - 32:16-17c. Peace and security, even in hard times - 32:18-20B. ASSYRIA’S DEFEAT AND JERUSALEM’S VICTORY...1. The plunderer (Assyria) will be defeated - 33:1-16a. The plunderer will himself be plundered - 33:1b. The plundered looks to the Lord for deliverance and salvation - 33:2-6c. The pitiful condition of the land before deliverance - 33:7-9d. The Lord to intervene with His might - 33:10-13e. The sinners in Zion will be fearful, the righteous secure - 33:14-162. Jerusalem to be a quiet home, made secure by the Lord - 33:17-24a. They shall see the King (Messiah? Hezekiah?) in His beauty - 33:17b. The people will later wonder: why all the worry? - 33:18-19c. Zion (Jerusalem) will be peaceful, secured by the Lord - 33:20-22d. Assyria’s plunder will be divided; God’s people healed and forgiven - 33:23-24C. THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD...1. Manifested in His judgment on the nations - 34:1-17a. Judgment on the nations as a whole - 34:1-4b. Judgment on Edom in particular - 34:5-171) A great slaughter in the land - 34:5-72) The day of the Lord’s vengeance, with total devastation - 34:8-153) It’s judgment inevitable - 34:16-172. Manifested in His salvation for Zion - 35:1-10a. The transformation of the land - 35:1-2b. The weak and fearful reassured - 35:3-4Mark A. CopelandThe Book Of Isaiah 38