Thank you and Welcome for coming to study the quick study of Isaiah with me. Today we continue the judgement and prophecy against Moab.
You can read the whole chapter, it’s only 14 verses. But for this study we’re just going to look at the last two.
Before we do, let’s pray:
Lord Jesus, help us to learn and see that Your word are always true, and what You’ve said will happen. Thank You for being eternally faithful. Lead us, Lord. Amen.
Please read Isaiah 16:13-14
13 This is the word which the Lord spoke earlier concerning Moab [when Moab’s pride and resistance to God were first known]. 14 But now the Lord speaks, saying, “Within [b]three years, as the years of a hired man [who will not serve longer than the agreed time], the glory of Moab will be degraded along with all [c]the great population, and the remnant [that survives] will be very small and of no account.”
Moab’s pride and resistance to God are why Judgment and Prophecy come upon them. We saw in chapter 15 that they were arrogant and had no belief in God. If God will do this to a whole country of arrogant and prideful people, he will do the same to those of us who are arrogant, prideful and resistant to Him. Repent. Turn around and Live by faith.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 16:14 This prophecy was fulfilled after the death of King Ahaz of Judah (Is 14:28), about the third year of King Hezekiah’s reign. Moab was not left completely without population at this time; there was still a “remnant.” The final desolation of Moab was reserved for King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon in 582 b.c., some five years after the taking of Jerusalem. The ruins of Elealeh, Heshbon, Medeba, Dimon, etc., still exist to confirm through modern research the accuracy of the fulfillment of this prophecy.
- Isaiah 16:14 Lit all the great number.