Our Text today …

“GO ye forth of Babylon, FLEE ye from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing DECLARE ye, TELL this, UTTER it even to the end of the earth; SAY ye, The LORD hath redeemed his servant Jacob.” Isaiah 48:20

One verse … six imperative verbs (six in English, five in Hebrew) … all being commands from the Lord!

Go! (In Hebrew “yatzsa” meaning “to exit.”)

Flee! (Spelled “barach” and meaning “to hurry away, to go through, to make haste.”)

Declare! (Interesting, “nagad” actually means “to make something very conspicuous, to expound” it!”

Tell! (Meaning “to report” something, “to sound it out” … “shama” in Hebrew.)

Utter! (Again “yatzsa,” translated “proceed” 16 times in the Old Testament!)

Say! (The common “amar,” used 5308 times in the King James Version, simply meaning “to answer.”)

And all are words of “safety, protection, even deliverance!”

God giving the (stubborn) Jews (read the whole chapter, Isaiah 48) good news!About their upcoming deliverance from Babylon! Their arch-enemy! (At least in Isaiah’s day … and yet again in the future according to Revelation chapters 17 and 18. The final fall of Babylon!)

And WHO will effect, bring about this great deliverance?

The LORD, Jehovah God!

He is Israel’s “goel,” Hebrew for “Kinsman Redeemer!” (He is the kind, powerful, competent Boaz to Israel’s poor Ruth!)

Wow!

What a verse!

Be sure it will be read and studied thousands upon thousands of times in the coming period of Tribulation the Jews will yet face. Studied and claimed diligently!

And here’s another great thing …

This Same Lord is my Redeemer too!

And yours … if you are saved!

As I have ended so many of these recent Isaiah Lessons …

Hallelujah!

— Dr. Mike Bagwell

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