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God’s Forming of Israel
In this chapter, Isaiah contrasts God’s forming of Israel (vv. 1-8) to the Gentiles forming of their gods (vv. 9-20). This chapter also contains one of the most amazing prophesies found anywhere in the Old Testament (v. 28). Cyrus, the king of Persia, is named as the coming …

Idolatry is Foolishness
In this passage Isaiah describes how people make their own god’s. This exposure of idolatry is the most powerful in the Bible. How absurd to make a god from the same tree that gives firewood. It shows how those who make idols are just like them: blind and ignorant and not …

Prediction of Cyrus
God said that we should serve our Creator. Idolaters do the opposite by serving or worshiping what they have made rater than the One who make them. Having pointed out the foolishness of idolatry, Isaiah reminds His people of their proper relationship to God (vv 21-22). Al …