Read 177.) Isaiah 4:2-6:13, II Kings 15:8-28, II Chronicles 26:16-27:6 and II Kings 15:6+7. Beginning at Isaiah 4:2 to chapter's end, we have a Millennial hope passage! It begins with, 'In that day…,' and speaks of the Branch or Messiah and His deliverance of Israel and beginning of His reign. Why can we say this? It is interpreted for us in 11:1-5. This is Jesus! This is our God!!! With chapter 5:1-7, the Lord breaks out into song. It is a song of love gone bad, as it were, to result in Judah's judgment. Beginning at 5:8, Isaiah pronounces as Jesus did, 7 woes, but with a difference. We read of the first 6 on Israel and Judah with verses 8 thru 25. Verse 13 pronounces the fulfillment of The 5th Prophecy again, as with Amos, it is exile! 5:26 thru 30 is a Tribulation passage, the time when all the nations of the earth will join to eliminate Israel. It is at the very end of that 7-year period.

Isaiah 6 is incredibly awesome however. In it, Isaiah pronounces his 7th woe, but unlike Jesus, this one is upon himself in verse 5. It's right about 739 BC and Uzziah dies. Isaiah is given a vision of the Lord! But just who is this really? John tells us in his Gospel, 12:39 thru 41… That Isaiah saw Jesus!!! Try to tell me again how Jesus is not God?!?!? What an awesome vision! What an awesome truth!!! Isaiah is told his ministry will likewise appear unfruitful, since its 'success' would hinge on Israel's repentance, which he is told they will not do. The end result of his ministry and of all God's calls to His people to return unto Him will be their exile in judgment! But within the last verse, there remains a seed of hope, the idea that God will preserve for Himself a remnant from Israel unto which He will fulfill all His promises in the Millennium. He is the ever-faithful God. We can trust Him!

Coming back to II Kings and Israel's historical record, we also return to about 753 BC and the rapid successive reigns of 5 kings in Israel in a period of only some 30 years, because it is the very beginning of the very end of the 10 northern tribe kingdom of Israel, as had been prophesied all along. The failure and fault is entirely their own, as God warned them repeatedly, and called them back to Him by His prophets, if only they would repent of their many grievous wickednesses and sins. And so we read of the brief reigns of Zechariah, Shallum, Menahem, Pekahiah and Pekah, which will take us down to the very time of Israel's exile.

The II Chronicles reading tells us of how Uzziah became unfaithful toward the very end of his reign and was stricken with leprosy from the Lord. His son Jotham then became co-regent with his father at the age of 25, to rule on his own after his father died. We conclude with 2 last verses from II Kings 15, verses 6+7 of that very time when Uzziah passed and Isaiah was given his vision of Jesus on His Throne! It's what the Book is all about!