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<h2><a onclick="return mV('Isa',30,'1-');">Isa 30</a> - Trust In the <span class="c6">Lord</span>, Not In Egypt</h2>
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<p>A. A rebuke to those in Judah who looked to Egypt for deliverance.</p>
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<p class="c1">1. (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',30,'1-2');">1-2</a>) God exposes the sin of those who put their trust in Egypt.</p>
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<p class="c2">“Woe to the rebellious children,” says the <span class="c6">Lord</span>, “Who take counsel, but not of Me, and who devise plans, but not of My Spirit, that they may add sin to sin; who walk to go down to Egypt, and have not asked My advice, to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!”</p>
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<p class="c4">a. <b><span class="c3">Who walk and go down to Egypt . . . To strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh</span></b>: This prophecy was given at a time when the Assyrian army was attacking Israel and Judah. The northern kingdom of Israel would be conquered by Assyria, and the people of Israel would be taken into exile. The Assyrians would then come against the southern kingdom of Judah, and because of this threat the leaders of Judah looked to Egypt for protection against the Assyrian invasion.</p>
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<p class="c4">b. In looking to Egypt, Judah forsook the <span class="c6">Lord</span>: <b><span class="c3">Who take counsel, but not of Me, and who devise plans, but not of My Spirit</span></b>. In one sense, it was wise and good for Judah to understand that they needed help and were willing to look outside of themselves for help. In the larger sense, it was foolish and evil of Judah to look to others - especially Egypt - for help, instead of looking to the <span class="c6">Lord</span>.</p>
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<p class="c5">i. You <b><span class="c3">take counsel</span></b> - but is it of the <span class="c6">Lord</span>? You <b><span class="c3">devise plans</span></b> - but are they of God’s Spirit? It is one sin to reject the <span class="c6">Lord</span>, and another sin all together to trust in something else. Therefore, to do what Judah did in this situation is to <b><span class="c3">add sin to sin</span></b>.</p>
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<p class="c1">2. (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',30,'3-5');">3-5</a>) The folly of trusting in Egypt.</p>
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<p class="c2">Therefore the strength of Pharaoh shall be your shame, and trust in the shadow of Egypt shall be your humiliation. For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes. They were all ashamed of a people who could not benefit them, or be help or benefit, but a shame and also a reproach.</p>
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<p class="c4">a. <b><span class="c3">Therefore the strength of Pharaoh shall be your shame, and trust in the shadow of Egypt shall be your humiliation</span></b>: From the perspective of heaven, the <b><span class="c3">strength of Pharaoh</span></b> was nothing. As the <span class="c6">Lord</span> saw it, Egypt was no substance, just a <b><span class="c3">shadow</span></b>.</p>
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<p class="c4">b. <b><span class="c3">They were all ashamed of a people who could not benefit them</span></b>: The ambassadors of Egypt came to Judah, and saw that Judah had nothing to “give” them. It was foolish for the leaders of Judah to trust in a nation that looked at them this way!</p>
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<p>B. The burden against Judah for their trust in Egypt.</p>
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<p class="c1">1. (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',30,'6-7');">6-7</a>) Their trust in Egypt will gain them nothing.</p>
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<p class="c2">The burden against the beasts of the South. Through a land of trouble and anguish, from which came the lioness and lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches on the backs of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, To a people who shall not profit; for the Egyptians shall help in vain and to no purpose. Therefore I have called her Rahab-Hem-Shebeth.</p>
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<p class="c4">a. <b><span class="c3">The burden against the beasts of the South</span></b>: Isaiah proclaims a burden against the pack animals of Judah, which will carry the riches of Judah down to Egypt, through the wilderness, in a foolish attempt to purchase protection against the Assyrians.</p>
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<p class="c4">b. It will be wasted money, because <b><span class="c3">the Egyptians shall help in vain and to no purpose</span></b>. No wonder Isaiah feels sorry for the donkeys that will carry the treasure of Judah down to Egypt! Despite the riches that the pack animals bring across the desert, Egypt will not help Judah at all, so one could call Egypt <b><span class="c3">Rahab-Hem-Shebeth</span></b>, which means “Rahab Sits Idle” of “Rahab the Do-Nothing.” <b><span class="c3">Rahab</span></b> is a name, but it is also the Hebrew word for <i>pride</i>, and is sometimes used as a title for Egypt (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',87,4);">Psa 87:4</a>). Egypt will sit idly by as the Assyrians trouble Judah.</p>
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<p class="c5">i. “It is all <i>useless</i>, bringing <i>neither help nor advantage</i>. ‘Well, of course!’ Isaiah might have said, for from the feared killer (Assyria) they were seeking help from the proved killer (Egypt)!” (Motyer)</p>
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<p class="c1">2. (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',30,'8-11');">8-11</a>) The <span class="c6">Lord</span> documents Judah’s rejection of His message.</p>
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<p class="c2">Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and note it on a scroll, that it may be for time to come, forever and ever: That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear the law of the <span class="c6">Lord</span>; who say to the seers, “Do not see,” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us right things; speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits. Get out of the way, turn aside from the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.”</p>
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<p class="c4">a. <b><span class="c3">Now go, write it before them on a tablet . . . that it may be for a time to come, forever and ever</span></b>: God tells Judah this before it happens, and wants it documented. This is so when it all unfolds exactly as the <span class="c6">Lord</span> had spoken, Judah can have greater trust in the <span class="c6">Lord</span>.</p>
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<p class="c4">b. <b><span class="c3">That this is a rebellious people, lying children . . . who say to the seers, “Do not see.”</span></b> God wanted Judah’s rejection of His message, and His messengers, to be documented. Judah wanted to hear from the prophets and God’s messengers, but they did not want to hear the truth from them. They want religion, but they don’t want the living God of heaven to be real in their life (<b><span class="c3">Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us</span></b>).</p>
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<p class="c5">i. The problem God confronted in Judah didn’t end in the days of Judah. Paul describes the same kind of heart in <a onclick="return mV('2Ti',4,'3-4');">2Ti 4:3-4</a>: <i>For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables</i>.</p>
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<p class="c1">3. (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',30,'12-14');">12-14</a>) The judgment to come upon Judah for their trust in Egypt and for their rejection of His message.</p>
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<p class="c2">Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel: “Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perversity, and rely on them, therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall, a bulge in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant. And He shall break it like the breaking of the potter’s vessel, which is broken in pieces; He shall not spare. So there shall not be found among its fragments a shard to take fire from the hearth, or to take water from the cistern.”</p>
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<p class="c4">a. <b><span class="c3">Because you despise this word . . . Therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall</span></b>: God promises that because Judah trusted in Egypt instead of Him, everything will be broken and collapsed. Judah will be like a collapsed wall, <b><span class="c3">whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant</span></b>. Judah will be like a shattered clay pot, <b><span class="c3">which is broken in pieces</span></b>.</p>
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<p class="c1">4. (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',30,'15-17');">15-17</a>) Judah brought low because of their self-reliance and rejection of God’s message.</p>
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<p class="c2">For thus says the Lord <span class="c6">God</span>, the Holy One of Israel: “In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and confidence shall be your strength.” But you would not, and you said, “No, for we will flee on horses”; therefore you shall flee! And, “We will ride on swift horses”; therefore those who pursue you shall be swift! One thousand shall flee at the threat of one, at the threat of five you shall flee, till you are left as a pole on top of a mountain and as a banner on a hill.</p>
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<p class="c4">a. <b><span class="c3">In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and confidence shall be your strength</span></b>: God offered to Judah the promise of protection from Assyria. They didn’t need to look to Egypt to help at all. They could have trusted God for His promise.</p>
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<p class="c5">i. Trusting God’s promise means <b><span class="c3">returning</span></b>. If there is conspicuous disobedience in our lives, we must return to the <span class="c6">Lord</span>’s ways. Outright disobedience is never consistent with real trust in God’s promise. <b><span class="c3">Returning</span></b> also has the idea of drawing close to the <span class="c6">Lord</span>.</p>
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<p class="c5">ii. Trusting God’s promise means <b><span class="c3">rest</span></b>. When we trust God, we don’t have to strive for ourselves. We don’t have to run all about trying to protect or guard ourselves. We have the best Protector, the best Guard in God. We can <b><span class="c3">rest</span></b> in Him, and when we do, it shows we are really trusting in God’s promise.</p>
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<p class="c5">iii. Trusting God’s promise means <b><span class="c3">quietness</span></b>. You don’t need to argue for your side when God is on your side. Be quiet before Him and before others. It shows that you really trust Him.</p>
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<p class="c5">iv. Trusting God’s promise means <b><span class="c3">confidence</span></b>. You aren’t given to despair or fear, because you trust God’s promise. You know He can and will come through, and you have a profound confidence in the God who loves you.</p>
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<p class="c5">v. All of these things together mean a real trust in God’s promise, and it means that we <b><span class="c3">shall be saved</span></b>, and it means that we will find <b><span class="c3">strength</span></b>. There is no person walking this earth more powerful than a child of God boldly and properly trusting the promise of the living God!</p>
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<p class="c4">b. <b><span class="c3">But you would not, and you said, “No, for we will flee on horses” - Therefore you shall flee!</span></b> Because Judah rejected God’s promise, and trusted in <b><span class="c3">horses</span></b> and other such things instead, they would need to flee! If they would have trusted God’s promise instead, they would never had reason to flee, and would have seen the <span class="c6">Lord</span>’s salvation and strength instead.</p>
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<p class="c4">c. <b><span class="c3">One thousand shall flee at the threat of one</span></b>: This is reversal of the promise of <a onclick="return mV('Lev',26,8);">Lev 26:8</a>, and a fulfillment of the curse promised in <a onclick="return mV('Lev',26,17);">Lev 26:17</a>: <i>I will set My face against you, and you shall be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you shall reign over you, and you shall flee when no one pursues you</i>.</p>
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<p>C. The blessing of restoration for Judah.</p>
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<p class="c1">1. (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',30,18);">18</a>) A call to trust in God’s timing.</p>
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<p class="c2">Therefore the <span class="c6">Lord</span> will wait, that He may be gracious to you; and therefore He will be exalted, that He may have mercy on you. For the <span class="c6">Lord</span> is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for Him.</p>
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<p class="c4">a. <b><span class="c3">Therefore the <span class="c6">Lord</span> will wait, that He may be gracious to you</span></b>: We often wonder why the <span class="c6">Lord</span> waits to do things in our lives. Isaiah tells us plainly that it is so <b><span class="c3">He may be gracious to you</span></b>. Whenever the <span class="c6">Lord</span> waits or seems to delay, it always has a loving purpose behind it. We can trust that even when we don’t understand it.</p>
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<p class="c4">b. <b><span class="c3">And therefore He will be exalted, that He may have mercy on us</span></b>: When God has mercy on us, it exalts Him. Mercy does nothing to exalt the person who receives it; mercy recognizes the <i>guilt</i> of the one who deserves the punishment. But mercy exalts the goodness of the person who gives it. It shows them to be loving, generous, and full of mercy.</p>
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<p class="c4">c. <b><span class="c3">For the <span class="c6">Lord</span> is a God of justice</span></b>: On the surface, <b><span class="c3">mercy</span></b> and <b><span class="c3">justice</span></b> seem to oppose each other. If a guilty criminal stands before the judge, he has the choice to show either <b><span class="c3">mercy</span></b> or <b><span class="c3">justice</span></b>. But God is so great, He can show both at the same time. Because on the cross, Jesus took the punishment we deserve, God’s <b><span class="c3">justice</span></b> is satisfied. At the same time, He shows <b><span class="c3">mercy</span></b> by extending the work of Jesus to us as payment for our sins. Only God can reconcile <b><span class="c3">mercy</span></b> and <b><span class="c3">justice</span></b>, <i>that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus</i> (<a onclick="return mV('Rom',3,26);">Rom 3:26</a>).</p>
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<p class="c4">d. <b><span class="c3">Blessed are all those who wait for Him</span></b>: Because God is so great, there is a built-in blessing for <b><span class="c3">those who wait for Him</span></b>. Isaiah doesn’t mean <b><span class="c3">wait</span></b> just in the sense of passing time, but in the sense of patiently waiting for and trusting God’s promise.</p>
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<p class="c5">i. “<span>Certain of God’s people are in trouble and distress, and they are eager for immediate rescue. They cannot wait God’s time, nor exercise submission to his will. He will surely deliver them in due season; but they cannot tarry till the hour cometh; like children, they snatch at unripe fruit. ‘To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven’; but their one season is the present; they cannot, they will not wait. They must have their desire instantaneously fulfilled, or else they are ready to take wrong means of attaining it. If in poverty, they are in haste to be rich; and they shall not long be innocent. If under reproach, their heart ferments towards revenge. They would sooner rush under the guidance of Satan into some questionable policy, than in childlike simplicity trust in the Lord and do good. It must not be so with you, my brethren, you must learn a better way.” (Spurgeon)</span></p>
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<p class="c1">2. (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',30,19);">19</a>) God promises to bless His people by responding to their cry.</p>
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<p class="c2">For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem; you shall weep no more. He will be very gracious to you at the sound of your cry; when He hears it, He will answer you.</p>
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<p class="c4">a. <b><span class="c3">You shall weep no more . . . He will be very gracious to you at the sound of your cry</span></b>: When God’s people wait on Him and patiently trust His promise, God pours out His grace at the cry of their heart. Even if it feels God is distant, He hears and promises to answer.</p>
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<p class="c1">3. (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',30,'20-21');">20-21</a>) God promises to bless His people with guidance.</p>
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<p class="c2">And though the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your teachers will not be moved into a corner anymore, but your eyes shall see your teachers. Your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it,” whenever you turn to the right hand or whenever you turn to the left.</p>
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<p class="c4">a. <b><span class="c3">Though the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction . . . your eyes shall see your teachers</span></b>: When Judah was prosperous and comfortable, they wouldn’t listen to God. Now, God has given them the <b><span class="c3">bread of adversity and water of affliction</span></b>, but they can hear God and be guided by Him again. It’s always better to be uncomfortable and in tune with the Lord than to be comfortable and out of step with God.</p>
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<p class="c1">4. (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',30,22);">22</a>) God promises to bless His people with the desire for purity.</p>
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<p class="c2">You will also defile the covering of your graven images of silver, and the ornament of your molded images of gold. You will throw them away as an unclean thing; you will say to them, “Get away!”</p>
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<p class="c4">a. <b><span class="c3">You will also defile the covering of your graven images of silver</span></b>: The people of Judah kept household idols that they used to honor or worship other gods. The <span class="c6">Lord</span> promises a day when they will <b><span class="c3">defile</span></b> those images, and <b><span class="c3">throw them away as an unclean thing</span></b>. What a wonderful thing it is when God’s people say to wicked and idolatrous things, <b><span class="c3">“Get away!”</span></b></p>
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<p class="c4">b. <b><span class="c3">You will throw them away as an unclean thing</span></b>: The literal Hebrew for <b><span class="c3">unclean thing</span></b> is literally a <i>menstrual cloth</i>. The people of God would come to hate their idols so much that they would throw them away as readily as they would throw away a used menstrual cloth. Interestingly, the King James Version and the New International Version both translate these words as <i>menstrual cloth</i>, but the New King James Version uses the euphemistic <b><span class="c3">unclean thing</span></b>.</p>
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<p class="c1">5. (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',30,'23-26');">23-26</a>) God promises to bless nature with abundance.</p>
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<p class="c2">Then He will give the rain for your seed with which you sow the ground, and bread of the increase of the earth; it will be fat and plentiful. In that day your cattle will feed in large pastures. Likewise the oxen and the young donkeys that work the ground will eat cured fodder, which has been winnowed with the shovel and fan. There will be on every high mountain and on every high hill rivers and streams of waters, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall. Moreover the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the <span class="c6">Lord</span> binds up the bruise of His people and heals the stroke of their wound.</p>
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<p class="c4">a. <b><span class="c3">Then He will give the rain for your seed</span></b>: When Judah puts away their idols, boldly trusting God’s promise, then God will send material blessings on Judah. For a nation of farmers, it was a wonderful promise to make them <b><span class="c3">fat and plenteous</span></b>. In a naturally dry land, it was a wonderful promise to give abundant <b><span class="c3">rivers and streams of waters</span></b>.</p>
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<p class="c4">b. Better than the material blessing of the <span class="c6">Lord</span> is His loving care: <b><span class="c3">In the day that the <span class="c6">Lord</span> binds up the bruise of His people and heals the stroke of their wound</span></b>.</p>
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<p class="c1">6. (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',30,'27-29');">27-29</a>) God promises His people will have gladness in the day of judgment.</p>
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<p class="c2">Behold, the name of the <span class="c6">Lord</span> comes from afar, burning with His anger, and His burden is heavy; His lips are full of indignation, and His tongue like a devouring fire. His breath is like an overflowing stream, which reaches up to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of futility; and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err. You shall have a song as in the night when a holy festival is kept, and gladness of heart as when one goes with a flute, to come into the mountain of the <span class="c6">Lord</span>, to the Mighty One of Israel.</p>
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<p class="c4">a. <b><span class="c3">Behold, the name of the <span class="c6">Lord</span> comes from afar, burning with His anger</span></b>: Isaiah sees the judgment of the <span class="c6">Lord</span> quickly coming, <b><span class="c3">to sift the nations with the sieve of futility</span></b>. However, God’s people do not need to fear: <b><span class="c3">You shall have a song . . . and gladness of heart as when one goes with a flute, to come into the mountain of the <span class="c6">Lord</span></span></b>. What a contrast!</p>
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<p class="c5">i. “The truth is that God’s people are here portrayed rejoicing at his judgment on sin because they must take his point of view on everything, and because this judgment is at the same time their salvation.” (Grogan)</p>
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<p class="c4">b. <a onclick="return mV('1Jo',4,17);">1Jo 4:17</a> expresses the same idea: <i>Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world.</i> Boldness and joy in the day of judgment are precious gifts from God.</p>
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<p class="c1">7. (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',30,'30-33');">30-33</a>) The glory of the judgment of the <span class="c6">Lord</span>.</p>
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<p class="c2">The <span class="c6">Lord</span> will cause His glorious voice to be heard, and show the descent of His arm, with the indignation of His anger and the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, tempest, and hailstones. For through the voice of the <span class="c6">Lord</span> Assyria will be beaten down, as He strikes with the rod. And in every place where the staff of punishment passes, which the <span class="c6">Lord</span> lays on him, it will be with tambourines and harps; and in battles of brandishing He will fight with it. For Tophet was established of old, yes, for the king it is prepared. He has made it deep and large; its pyre is fire with much wood; the breath of the <span class="c6">Lord</span>, like a stream of brimstone, kindles it.</p>
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<p class="c4">a. <b><span class="c3">The <span class="c6">Lord</span> will cause His glorious voice to be heard</span></b>: Isaiah wants God’s people see the <i>glory</i> of God’s judgments. When we understand how God’s perfect judgment exalts His justice and His righteousness, we see the <i>glory</i> of the judgment of the <span class="c6">Lord</span>.</p>
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<p class="c4">b. <b><span class="c3">Assyria will be beaten down</span></b>: In the near view, Isaiah sees the judgment of the <span class="c6">Lord</span> against Assyria. Judah had no business trusting in Egypt for help against the Assyrians, but they should have trusted the <span class="c6">Lord</span> instead, because the <span class="c6">Lord</span> will take care of the Assyrians</p>
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<p class="c5">i. As it happened, this was exactly the case. <a onclick="return mV('2Ki',19,35);">2Ki 19:35</a> describes how God simply sent the angel of the <span class="c6">Lord</span>, and killed 185,000 Assyrians in one night. When the people woke up, there were 185,000 dead Assyrian soldiers.</p>
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<p class="c4">c. <b><span class="c3">For Tophet was established of old, yes for the king it is prepared</span></b>: <b><span class="c3">Tophet</span></b> was a place in the Valley of Hinnom, just outside of Jerusalem’s walls (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',7,31);">Jer 7:31</a>). The Valley of Hinnom served as Jerusalem’s garbage dump, and the combination of disgusting rubbish and smoldering fires made it a picture of hell. The Hebrew word for hell (<i>gehenna</i>) comes from the word for the Valley of Hinnom. Therefore, God says He has a special place in hell for the Assyrian king!</p>
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<p class="c5">i. Trapp on <b><span class="c3">Tophet</span></b>: “Hence it is here used for <i>hell</i>, together with that eternity of extremity which the damned there endure; and this the Assyrians are here threatened with, yea, their very king, whose preservation from the stroke of the angel was but a reservation to a worse mischief here and hereafter.”</p>
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<p class="c5">ii. God had an eternal place for the Assyrian king who attacked Judah and Jerusalem (<b><span class="c3">He has made it deep and large; its pyre is fire with much wood</span></b>). But God also had a special judgment for that king on earth. <a onclick="return mV('2Ki',19,'36-37');">2Ki 19:36-37</a> describes how when the king of the Assyrians returned home after attacking Judah, his own sons murdered him as he worshipped in the temple of Nisroch his god. “Great men, if not good, shall be greatly tormented; and the more they have of the fat of the earth, the more they are sure to fry in hell.” (Trapp)</p>
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<p class="c5">iii. “Isaiah starts with the ‘real’ day of the Lord. He is Lord over all the nations. (By implication, what is Assyria, compared with such a God!) The Lord’s people will be safe in his Day: their part will be to sing amid the judgments of God. So then, regarding Assyria in the here and now, they will be shattered, Judah will sing, the funeral pyre is ready and so is the fire.” (Motyer)</p>
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