Isaiah 27 vs 1-13

Isaiah Chapter 27 Verse 1

 Is this the same Leviathan mentioned by Job in Job 3 and 41?

Interesting for sure if you utilize Isaiah 27 as an identifier for

Leviathan in him being Satan then the other descriptions of Leviathan

eerily make sense, especially Job 41. Job 41 is a chapter devoted

specifically to Leviathan and when we read it with the idea that

Leviathan is Satan in sea dragon form then it not only makes sense

but also gives us a bunch of information about our enemy. Job 41 ends

with this verse (Job 41:34), “He beholds every high thing; He is king

over all the children of pride…”

 Here in Isaiah 27, he is twisted as it says there in verse 1 and he is

fleeing, and the context is that he is fleeing from the severe sword of

God. So entirely interesting. The Word of God is described as the

“Sword of the Spirit” in Ephesians 6:17, and since the beginning of

creation, Satan’s front-line attack has been against God’s Word. “Has

God said,” he told Eve…

 But ultimately it will be the Word of God that will triumph over Satan.

We see it here, we saw it foreshadowed at the cross as John 1 tells us

that Jesus was and is the “logos,” the Word, and we will see it again.

Revelation Chapter 13 says the world will worship the Dragon and

then in Revelation 20:2 we read, “He laid hold of the dragon, that

serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a

thousand years.” Finally, being cast into the Lake of Fire according to

Revelation 20:10. So is this the same Leviathan mentioned by Job and

even the Psalmist? I would say definitely. And who is this serpent of

the seas? Satan himself…

 Notice, don’t miss this, how is he defeated or better yet, what puts him

to flight? The severe, great and strong Word of God. Never fails.

Never falls. Never forfeits. It is by learning and applying the Word of

God, trusting the Lord, that we resist, over-power and over-whelm the

Devil. James 4:7, “Submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee

from you.” Again, how? Learn and apply the Word of God which is

simply stated to trust in the Lord or submit to God!

Isaiah Chapter 27 Verses 2 – 6

 I love these statements! Notice, what God is permitted to plant in

my life, vineyard, notice He will tend to it. Every moment! What a

promise! God doesn’t get tired, frustrated, impatient, none of that with

me. Whatever I allow Him to plant, to establish, to install into my

heart, mind or life, He has promised that He will keep it night and day.

 AND…, let difficulty come, because it will. And yet as I follow the

Lord, remain firmly planted in Him…, like a 100,000-degree flame,

He simply passes right through the products of the fall! That’s what

briers and thorns are! Offshoots, products of sin in this world. Genesis

3:17-18, “To Adam He said, “Because you have heeded the voice of

your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you,

saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ Cursed is the ground for your sake. In

toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life. Both thorns and thistles

it shall bring forth for you…”” God says, “I will deal with them, just

follow Me!”

 How? Where does this all start and restart and start again!? This is so

good! Verse 5. It all starts with what God describes as “My strength.”

One could say, His Right Hand. And who is that? Who is the right

hand of the Father? Jesus! (Colossians 3:1! “Where Christ is, sitting at

the right hand of God”) How is it that I make peace with God and

follow Him? Through the finished work of the cross and the gift of the

Holy Spirit sent by Jesus Himself.

 And so, I come. Not as a Jew and never becoming a Jew but being

welcomed into the family of God as an adopted Son and taking my

place in the people governed by God which is the literal translation of

the proper name Israel. And one day, when Jesus rules and reigns

from Jerusalem, the entire world will be filled with the fruit of the

Spirit!

Isaiah Chapter 27 Verses 7 – 9

 As you survey the past and the story of Israel as a people and as a

nation, it’s a story filled with hardship, difficulty and even tragedy.

And, it’s a story marked by rebellion against God. But, according to

Isaiah, their hardship is somehow associated with their healing as well.

That all that they have been made to endure over the millennia’s, will,

in the end, bring them to humility, through repentance and ultimate

final realization of God as their God.

 I love that Isaiah talks here about the stones of the altar. Who places

those stones there but the people? Their works, their labors, their

actions, all that they have done to seek the Lord in and out of their

personal patterns of apostasy. God finally strikes all of that and reveals

those stones are powerless, without strength or true meaning, not

stones that are solid but rather chalk…and even with the touch they

begin to wear away.

 Wooden images and incense altars shall not stand and that was always

their purpose just like for you and for me. That our efforts, plans, good

works, deep-seeded hearts desires to be something for God…, because

God is all that He is, nothing I can do enters into the realm of worthy

or strong for Him.

 And yet an altar does stand. The one not made with hands, eternal in

the heavens, the altar of incense, the altar of sacrifice, given for me

and for you has taken the place of all others and fulfilled completely

what countless others together could not…

 And so, how will Israel be saved? By turning to Jesus Christ.

Zechariah 13:6 says, “And (in that day) one will say to Him, ‘What are

these wounds between your arms? Then He will answer, ‘Those with

which I was wounded in the house of My friends.” And as that chapter

ends in verse 9, we read, “I will refine them as silver is refined, and

test them as gold is tested. They will call on My name, and I will

answer them. I will say, ‘This is My people; and each one will say,

‘The Lord is my God.’”

 Someone once said to me, “Never waste a good crisis.” What God is

allowing or bringing you through or in truth, bringing upon you, let it

turn you to Him and teach you of His goodness and strength, lest you

just rebuild altars of chalk over and over again…

Isaiah Chapter 27 Verses 10 - 13

 Notice the term Isaiah uses, “one by one.” That term speaks of the

process of salvation for Israel to come and for each of us. Zechariah

builds this idea out in Zechariah Chapter 12 Verses 10 – 14, “And I

will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem

the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will look on Me whom

they pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him as one mourns for his only

son, and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn. In that day

there shall be a great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning at

Hadad Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo. And the land shall mourn,

every family by itself: the family of the house of David by itself, and

their wives by themselves; the family of the house of Nathan by itself,

and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of Levi by itself,

and their wives by themselves; the family of Shimei by itself, and their

wives by themselves; all the families that remain, every family by

itself, and their wives by themselves.”

 This is exactly, uniquely, precisely how anyone comes to a saving faith

and then even those that have already come to a saving faith, this is

exactly, uniquely, precisely how someone grows in maturity. All on

their own. Your own decision, my own decision, ultimately me

leading me to repentance and understanding of who Jesus is and how

I am to serve Him, because in truth, He IS the King of kings.

 And then the final verse given to us in this chapter…, entirely in

alignment with the eschatological visions of Paul and Revelation of

John. That there is a time coming where the people of Israel will be

threshed as it were. Several wars remain ahead and the siege of the

Anti-Christ is yet ahead during a time where mercy is restrained until

all is accomplished at the end of the seven-year Great Tribulation.

 When the trumpet will be blown, that final trumpet of God, and as we

read in Revelation 11:15, “Then the seventh angel sounded: And there

was loud voices in heaven saying, “The kingdoms of this world have

become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall

reign forever and ever.” It’s then, that the face of the world will be

filled with the fruit of the true leadership of Jesus. Which is love, joy,

peace, longsuffering, kindness, humility, repentance, maturity,

goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control…