Isaiah 20: Trusting In The Arm Of Flesh Sucks!

Alrighty! I’ve got a chance to do this finally. Sorry I didn’t get to post anything yesterday, y’all. I’m trying to adapt to having my family back home with me. XD

Anyway. Today I finally got back into gear and had a great scripture study. I wasn’t sure what to focus on today, so I’m going to take a look at Isaiah 20. This is one of the chapters where Isaiah makes it clear that God is about to drop the hammer on Israel. Jerusalem has become faithless yet again, and are relying on the arm of flesh instead of the arm of God.

This is one of the chapters of Isaiah that isn’t also cited somehow in the Book of Mormon. Probably because it really wasn’t relevant to the Nephite story. They already knew that Israel was doomed, so the message in Isaiah 20 was more specific to Jerusalem. Still, there’s a warning we can draw from it as well, especially in modern times: When you trust in the arm of flesh, you’re going to lose every time.

Isaiah 6: Take It From The Angels

Alrighty! I am back, y’all. Sorry I missed a post yesterday. To be perfectly honest with ya, after my morning studies, I was debating writing about something very personal from my own life. But, I decided against it. Maybe I’ll write about it in the future, but for now, I’ll wait a little longer before doing that.

Either way, today I wanted to highlight a verse from Isaiah 6, because as we all know, Isaiah is kinda hard to understand, and verse 2 of this chapter really stuck out to me. Even though it’s just one verse, the meaning of it carries a lot of weight in light of modern revelation.

Verse 2 is really interesting, because it’s one of those lines that’s laden with symbolism. Isaiah describes seeing angels around God’s throne – specifically Seraphim – and notes this about them: