King James Bible Study – [And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. – Mark 8:34]
Date: Sunday, July 12, 2026
Chapters: Isaiah 5-7, II Chronicles 27
Lesson: Isaiah, II Chronicles: Throne of God
Hello My Friend,
As we continue in the reading of Isaiah, God describes Israel as His vineyard, one that should have produced good fruit but instead yielded wild, bitter grapes. Isaiah paints a vivid picture of Jerusalem in his day: a city thriving in prosperity and abundance, yet deeply corrupted by sin. God sends Isaiah, calling him to confront the nation and warn them of how far they had strayed and how bitter their hearts had become.
[Isaiah 5:1,2–5 Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: 3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard. 4 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes? 5 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down: 7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.]
When you stop to think about the question that God had given them, “What more could have been done?” In other words, “What more could I have done to get you to be faithful to me?” It is kind of sad really, we put our faith and trust in Christ, who gave His own life to save our soul, and what thanks do we give Him for such a great sacrifice? Out of all the six hundred and thirteen commandments that were given under the Law of Moses, Jesus narrowed it down to just two, [Mark 12:30-31 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. 31 And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.]
Today, many of our nations still enjoy God’s protection, but the time is fast approaching that He will take down the hedge. Just as He removed the hedge from Israel, He will do the same to any nation that refuses to repent and return to Him. Now, God, rebukes Judah for their spiritual blindness and their drunken condition.
[Isaiah 5:11-15 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them! 12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands. 13 Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst. 14 Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it. 15 And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:]
This is describing false religion. It is a sad fact that false religion will send more people to hell than those who are lost and have no clue who God is. Hell, is no respecter of persons. No one is condemned because God withheld His love, He has already demonstrated His love fully. People are lost because they refuse to humble themselves before the Lord of hosts and receive the grace He freely offers, [Romans 2:9-11 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; 10 But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile: 11 For there is no respect of persons with God.]
Have you ever noticed that the world’s idea of “saving” people usually ends up oppressing them even more? The world is blind to the things of God; in fact, it often despises the teachings of Jesus because His words confront the very foundations they’ve built their lives upon. But God has something to say about this.
[Isaiah 5:18-23 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope: 19 That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it! 20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! 21 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! 22 Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink: 23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!]
Can you hear God’s anger as well as His grief? First of all, they are tempting God as if to say, “Show yourself and we will believe in you.” God, shows Himself plenty, but in order to see Him we must as Jesus puts it, have the faith of a child, [Matthew 18:2-3 And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, 3 And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.]
Now, it is one thing to prove God by trusting in Him and asking Him to show His mighty works, but it is another thing to tempt Him is such a manner, that will only bring out His anger. Judah, was not calling on God because they longed for Him, they were challenging Him because they no longer feared Him. And that kind of provocation never leads to blessing; it only awakens His righteous anger. One day, we will not have to go through so much pain and in fact, never have to deal with sin itself again. Now, through Isaiah, God gives an amazing vision of a heavenly throne, one which brought great conviction to him.
[Isaiah 6:1-5 In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. 2 Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. 3 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory. 4 And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. 5 Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.]
Tell me that the people of old did not know the same things we learned through the New Testament teaching and I will point you to this book. The majority of what has been said actually in the New has come from Old. No one can stand before a holy God on their own and live. We are covered in the filth of our sin, and even on our best days our lips get us into more trouble than we care to admit. This is where the KING of kings, the Lord of hosts, Jesus Christ Himself, steps in with mercy. In Isaiah’s vision, one of the seraphim takes a live coal from the altar and touches it to his lips.
[Isaiah 6:6-10 Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar: 7 And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged. 8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me. 9 And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. 10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.]
Amazingly, just like the angel that laid the coal from the altar upon Isaiah’s mouth and purged his sin Jesus does for every soul who receives Him as their Saviour. The second we receive Him as our Saviour, the flaming fire of the Holy Spirit comes down upon our soul, [Acts 2:2-3 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. 3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.]
Now, we may not see drops of fire come down from the sky the second we receive Christ as our Saviour, but we are truly enlightened when we do. Isaiah, goes on to ask God how long He wanted him to reach out to them.
[Isaiah 6:11-13 Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate, 12 And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land. 13 But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.]
From the moment Isaiah delivered this prophecy, ten kings would rise in Judah before the final judgment fell. Those kings were Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, Manasseh, Amon, Josiah, Jehoahaz, Jehoiakim, Jehoiachin, and Zedekiah. After their reigns, the nation would face a devastating consumption: the people carried away into captivity, Jerusalem laid waste, and the land left desolate. Yet even in judgment, God preserved a remnant, His holy seed. The holy seed refers to the small remnant of Judah who survived after being exiled to Babylon, returned to Jerusalem, rebuilt the Temple, and restored true worship. Spiritually, it points to the work of God within the soul, the very foundation upon which all believers stand, [I Corinthians 3:11,15 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 15 If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.]
So, here is the scenario in Jerusalem during Isaiah’s time, he prophesied during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah. We recall that Isaiah confronted Uzziah, who was a Godly king until he became arrogant in his own strength, [II Chronicles 26:22-23 Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, did Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, write. 23 So Uzziah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the field of the burial which belonged to the kings; for they said, He is a leper: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.]
At this point, the city was prosperous, and bountiful, but full of sin, even if the king had been Godly, he was not strong enough to remove all of the wicked devices used to entice the people in their sin. II Chronicles, also gives the account of Jotham, who had to take over as king, and was a Godly king as far as his father was in the beginning, but the people were still corrupt.
[II Chronicles 27:1-3,8-9 Jotham was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok. 2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Uzziah did: howbeit he entered not into the temple of the LORD. And the people did yet corruptly. 3 He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of Ophel he built much. He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. 9 And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.]
Our ways have never been God’s ways, and they never will be. Jotham’s success did not come from perfection, it came from the fact that he ordered his life with the conviction that the LORD was his God. But after Jotham came Ahaz, and the tone of Judah shifted dramatically. War pressed in on every side, fear gripped the nation, and instead of turning to God, Ahaz turned to idols and foreign alliances. That was when God sent Isaiah.
[Isaiah 7:1-4 And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it. 2 And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind. 3 Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shear-jashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller’s field; 4 And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.]
When God tells you to be quiet, it is very wise to do so, but the key to hearing what He is saying all lies in with our faith. When we quiet ourselves before Him in faith, we stop reacting to fear, stop striving in our own strength, and become able to hear what He is truly saying. Only then can His voice cut through the noise of our circumstances and guide us with clarity, which God goes on to tell them.
[Isaiah 7:7-12 Thus saith the Lord GOD, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass. 8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people. 9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established. 10 Moreover the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying, 11 Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above. 12 But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD.]
It was Jeroboam, of the tribe of Ephraim, who caused Israel to turn away from God when he had the golden calves made. These fools were not only trying to ruin their neighbors, they themselves were near to ruin. People of the world do not want to hear the truth, and quite frankly, many who do get saved do not want to either. Ahaz, did not want to hear what God had to say, but God was going to give him the sign whether he liked it or not.
[Isaiah 7:14-17,21-22 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. 15 Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good. 16 For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings. 17 The LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father’s house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria. 21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep; 22 And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land.]
What an incredible prophecy, and true believers will understand who God referring to is His very own Son, Jesus Christ, [Luke 1:30-31 And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God. 31 And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS.]
Remember, David, and Isaiah too, had the same faith that we have, they believed that God was sending His Son to save them. I always think of Jesus when I see honey and butter because it reminds me that Jesus ate it too and since Jesus ate it, it pleases Him that I enjoy it too because it is not the honey and butter that I am trusting to sustain me, it is the living bread, [John 6:35-37 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. 36 But I said unto you, That ye also have seen me, and believe not. 37 All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.]
Today’s Prayer: Jesus, It still amazes me that You went through so much pain to save me and only my simple faith and trust in Your finished work is all I need to be saved from my sins. I have Your seal, Your blood in me and when I think of where I would be if I died before I knew the truth, I cringe. Lord, I want to live my life as a Godly example, one in which You shine through me every day, so, give me Your power, strength, and wisdom to glorify You. Use me to be a witness to the lost, and help me to be bold enough to tell all how they can know You. I pray this in Your name Jesus. Amen.
God Bless You, I am praying for you,
Christina
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