Isaiah 9-12

 I have said in numerous times already this year, but how many of us remember the 4 parts of the story we are reading through this year? Right, so the story, about Jesus, written by God the Father, using humans agents, can be broken up into 4 parts; creation, fall, redemption, and consummation. But what if we would think of these 4 parts and their names all in the idea of creation? So what if we would think of God creating in these 4 parts? Well if we would rename all 4 parts using the idea of God creating it might and would go something like this; creation, uncreation, recreation, and new creation. Let me say those again for us. The 4 plot points of the story of the Bible in terms of creation would go something like this; creation, uncreation, recreation, and new creation. How many chapters are there in the book of Isaiah? Right there are 66 chapters in the book of Isaiah. Now not sure if I said it before, but the chapter and verse divisions are not from God. God, when He was using the original writers did not tell them to make that a chapter and that a verse. Each original book was written in a solid single form and it was only human agents in the last 1500 years that divided them into the breaks we have. But God in His sovereign will still orchestrated that break up into chapters and verses, so God had a plan for Isaiah to be 66 chapters. Now, can someone please let me how many books there are in the Bible? Right, there are 66 books in the Bible. Many scholars then agree that Isaiah is in a sense a smaller scale of the whole Bible itself. So just like the Bible has the 4 points, we have relabeled today as creation, uncreation, recreation, and new creation, so to the book of Isaiah has all 4 points in it. Which points did you hear in the reading? Which of the 4 creations did you catch during the chapters we read through today? Did you see and hear much of the uncreation or see how God is attempting to bring about a recreation in His people? Did you see the section on the new creation and understand how that was compared to the original creation? In the days and weeks ahead see if you can find the 4 creations in the book of Isaiah.