Isaiah 63

It's previewed in the Old Testament.

Nehemiah chapter four, verse 20 says, "Our God will fight for us." Psalm 40, verse five says, "Many, Lord my God, are the wonders you have done, the things you have planned for us." Psalm 47, verse four says, "He chose our inheritance for us." Psalm 126 and verse three says, "The Lord has done great things for us, whereof we are glad." Isaiah 26, verse 12 says, "Lord, you establish peace for us; all that we have done, you have accomplished for us." Isaiah 63, verse seven says, "I will tell of the kindnesses of the Lord, the deeds for which he is to be praised, according to all the Lord has done for us." Now, Paul is saying if all of that is true, and if the gospel is real, and if God is for us to such an unimaginable extent, who could be against us? Who could destroy us or divert us from God's plan? Well, Paul answers that question with yet another, "He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all, how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?" God the Father did not spare his own Son.

He sent him to live a purely righteous life on this sinful planet, and then to be subjected to a death so painful we cannot grasp it.

He did it in order to shed his blood for the forgiveness of our sins.

He's rebuking a rebellious group inside the house of Israel and promising a return of a righteous group.

You know, since you're here, let's just look at verse 16 of Isaiah 63.

Verse 16 seems to indicate a visionary community that was ousted by the centralized authority in Jerusalem.

They were rejected by Israel and Abraham, and to me, those are code words for the authorities in Jerusalem.

There's a shift right after these first verses in the 63rd chapter where we leave that image of the divine warrior, and then we get into a lament.

Victor Ludlow sees this pattern as a lament, but he calls it, and I love this label, he says, "This is Isaiah's intercessory prayer for Israel." And so if you want to block this off, it, th- these are the verses that we're gonna talk about.

Isaiah 63:7 to the end of 64.

So these two chapters, once you get past the divine warrior imagery in the beginning of the 63rd chapter, we get into this intercessory prayer.

So, here it is.

Isaiah 63, 3, right? So Jesus is coming back to fight the Antichrist.

No, I'm asking you a question.

Jesus is coming back to fight the Antichrist.

How can that not be Jesus? If Jesus is not God, how has he come back? If he's doing it himself, right? Because God's won.

I have trodden the winepress alone.

Isaiah 63, 3.

I what? He said, I've trodden the wine press alone, which means he's going to be the one to, you know.

And so the promise of the human, the skull crusher that would crush the head of the nechash, of the serpent, and God Almighty who will come from heaven shining like the sun with myriads of holy ones, That they are one and the same.

You see it in Isaiah 63.

Isaiah looks to the south.

He says, who is this marching from the south? Marching with feet, human feet, right? He says, you know, why are your robes red like one who's been stomping the wine press all day? The skull crusher, the one who's crushing.

And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

Now, this vesture dipped in blood is probably a reference to Isaiah 63.

It is not his own blood.

but the blood of his enemies that he tramples as he tramples out the rebellious.

Isaiah 63, who is this that comes from Edom with dyed garments from Bozrah? This that is glorious in his apparel, traveling in the greatness of his strength.

And that is the question the prophet answers Jesus, Jesus answers, I that speak in righteousness mighty to save.

The prophet asked, why are you red in your apparel and your garments like those that have been treading in the wine fat? It used to be, of course, that they would put the grapes in the vat and then they would all, you know, they'd crush them with their feet.

But the Bible reveals that Yovi Elohim is our Father in Heaven.

Isaiah 63, 16, 64, 8, Malachi 1, 6, and other places too.

Remember, our Father which are in heaven.

That's the Lord's Prayer.

So I looked into it.

And when I looked into it, there's a narrative out of Isaiah 63, and I really expand on this in the book, And when Jesus comes back, there's the potential that he does something before he hits the battlefield of Armageddon.

And the reason you're drawn to this is because when he arrives at Armageddon, when Jesus shows up at the battle of Armageddon, he arrives and his robes are dipped in blood.

They're covered in blood.

And that's what caused me to write this book.

He's coming back.

And when you look at Isaiah 63, Isaiah 63 has this really interesting narrative where it goes into it.

And I'll just maybe read from the book even and just try to get right into this.