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<h2><span><a onclick="return mV('Isa',20,'1-');">Isa 20</a> - Don’t Trust In Egypt!</span></h2>
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<p><span>A. Isaiah acts out a sign.</span></p>
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<p class="c1"><span>1. (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',20,1);">1</a>) The political setting for the sign.</span></p>
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<p class="c2"><span>In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and took it,</span></p>
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<p class="c4"><span>a. <b><span class="c3">In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod</span></b></span>: This describes the time when the army of Assyria conquered the Philistine city of <b><span class="c3">Assyria</span></b>. Isaiah’s sign is a response to this victory of Assyria.</p>
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<p class="c5">i. This invasion has a concrete marking point in secular history: 711 <span class="c6">b.c.</span></p>
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<p class="c4">b. The Philistines were both neighbors and thorns to Israel, and the fall of <b><span class="c3">Ashdod</span></b> would certainly make Israel think, “We’re next. We need protection.”</p>
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<p class="c1">2. (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',20,2);">2</a>) The <span class="c6">Lord</span> gives Isaiah a sign to act out.</p>
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<p class="c2"><span>At the same time the <span class="c6">Lord</span> spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, “Go, and remove the sackcloth from your body, and take your sandals off your feet.” And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.</span></p>
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<p class="c4">a. <b><span class="c3">Remove the sackcloth from your body, and take your sandals off your feet</span></b>: Before this, Isaiah wore an outer garment of <b><span class="c3">sackcloth</span></b> - clothes of mourning. Now, God tells him to remove his outer garment of <b><span class="c3">sackcloth</span></b>, and to take his <b><span class="c3">sandals off</span></b>.</p>
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<p class="c5">i. “God would sometimes have his prophets to add to their word a visible sign, to awaken people’s minds to a more serious consideration of the matters proposed to them.” (Poole)</p>
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<p class="c4">b. <b><span class="c3">And he did so, walking naked and barefoot</span></b>: We shouldn’t think that Isaiah was nude, completely without clothing. Instead, he only wore the inner garment customary in that day - sort of like wearing only your underwear or a nightshirt. The message wasn’t <i>nudity</i>, it was complete <i>poverty</i> and <i>humiliation</i>. Isaiah dressed as the poorest and most destitute would dress.</p>
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<p class="c5"><span>i. </span>“One need not imagine that Isaiah walked around stripped for the entire three years or that Ezekiel lay on his side for 390 days without getting up (<a onclick="return mV('Eze',4,9);">Ezek. 4:9</a>). Perhaps part of each day was used for those designated purposes.” (Wolf)</p>
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<p class="c5"><span>ii. </span>“Not stark naked, but stripped as a prisoner, his mantle or upper garment cast off.” (Trapp)</p>
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<p class="c5"><span>iii. </span>“Other prophets were asked to go through equally difficult experiences as signs to Israel. Hosea endured a trying marriage, and Ezekiel’s wife died as an illustration for the nation (<a onclick="return mV('Eze',24,'16-24');">Ezek. 24:16-24</a>).” (Wolf)</p>
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<p><span>B. The meaning of the sign.</span></p>
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<p class="c1"><span>1. (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',20,'3-4');">3-4</a>) The sign announces the judgment and humiliation of Egypt.</span></p>
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<p class="c2"><span>Then the <span class="c6">Lord</span> said, “Just as My servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years <i>for </i>a sign and a wonder against Egypt and Ethiopia, so shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians as prisoners and the Ethiopians as captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.”</span></p>
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<p class="c4"><span>a. <b><span class="c3">My servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years as a sign and wonder against Egypt</span></b></span>: Under the command of the <span class="c6">Lord</span>, Isaiah dressed in this poor and humble way for three years. It was a message <b><span class="c3">against Egypt</span></b>, because <b><span class="c3">the king of Assyria</span></b> would <b><span class="c3">lead away the Egyptians as prisoners</span></b>.</p>
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<p class="c4">b. As the Assyrians took the Egyptians captive, they would humiliate them by stripping them and leading them away as prisoners. This would all be <b><span class="c3">to the shame of Egypt</span></b>.</p>
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<p class="c5">i. “So dealeth the devil with all his wretched captives, whom he driveth away hellward, naked a barefoot with their buttocks uncovered, the shame of their nakedness exposed to public view for want of the white raiment of Christ’s righteousness that they might be clothed.” (Trapp)</p>
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<p class="c1">2. (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',20,'5-6');">5-6</a>) The sign’s message to Judah.</p>
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<p class="c2"><span>“Then they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation and Egypt their glory. And the inhabitant of this territory will say in that day, ‘Surely such <i>is </i>our expectation, wherever we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria; and how shall we escape?’”</span></p>
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<p class="c4">a. <b><span class="c3">They shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation and Egypt their glory</span></b>: When God judges Ethiopia and Egypt, it will be evident how foolish it was for Judah to look to them for protection against Assyria.</p>
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<p class="c5">i. Whenever our <b><span class="c3">expectation</span></b> is in something wrong, or our <b><span class="c3">glory</span></b> is in something wrong, the <span class="c6">Lord</span> will find a way to make those things disappoint us. Judah set their <b><span class="c3">expectation</span></b> on Ethiopia, and looked to Egypt for <b><span class="c3">glory</span></b>, but now they are left <b><span class="c3">afraid and ashamed</span></b>.</p>
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<p class="c5">ii. “There is no place of security for the people of God, other than that to be found in the rule of God. All expectation not centred in God, is doomed to disappointment and discomfiture.” (Morgan)</p>
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<p class="c4">b. <b><span class="c3">How shall we escape?</span></b> The <span class="c6">Lord</span> allowed Judah to be backed into a corner, caught between two mighty Empires (Egypt and Assyria), without being able to trust either one. There was no <b><span class="c3">escape</span></b> - except in the <span class="c6">Lord</span>.</p>
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<p class="c5">i. Because of the glorious promise of revival and restoration among Egypt in <a onclick="return mV('Isa',19,'1-');">Isa 19</a>, Judah might have been even more tempted to say, “Well, we can trust in Egypt. They are all going to come to the <span class="c6">Lord</span> someday anyway!” But with the dramatic three-year sign, Isaiah shows Judah how vain it was to make Egypt their <b><span class="c3">expectation</span></b> or <b><span class="c3">glory</span></b>.</p>
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