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298 illustrations — Lessons from history, biography, and world events
Before such strangers, it was supremely important to exhibit nothing that would dishonour Yahweh.
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First, in *number*: Under the ancient dispensation, spiritual Israel remained comparatively few.
the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day." The Lord abases human pride whenever He makes His presence felt by the power of His Spirit upon the heart.
The guilt of forsaking God rests upon a fundamental truth: man is bound by the law of his nature to obey the Almighty Being who made him an intelligent and immortal creature.
The Lord keeps His people in six distinct ways.
Wickedness and peace are mutually destructive terms—not because God arbitrarily withholds peace, but because wickedness itself is incompatible with it.
"He will swallow up death in victory"—a promise echoed throughout Scripture.
The prophet teaches that an evangelical law—the law of Christ, the law of faith (Isaiah 42:3)—proceeds from God Himself, bringing both righteousness and salvation to the children of men.
but Israel doth not know." The prophet addressed a people surrounded by idolatrous nations, prone to regarding Jehovah as merely one god among many, or worse, as a provincial deity rather than the God of all the earth.
To those imprisoned both in darkness and in chains, the Lord Jesus speaks: "Show yourselves; rise, and come out of the darkness; hide away no longer, come forth into the light, and enjoy it." Consider the characters mentioned in this...
The particle "therefore" (*dio*) anchors judgment in three ascending causes: first, their impiety itself; second, their refusal to repent despite God's discipline ("they turned not to Him that smote them"); and third, their continued obstinacy in refusing to seek the...
Jerusalem's rocky peninsula becomes the symbol, but the true city of God transcends geography.
The passage presents three critical pieces of this celestial armour, each representing a facet of God's redemptive nature.
First, he worketh righteousness—not confined to manual, commercial, or professional spheres alone, but in all his labors rectitude governs him, not expediency.
In us it flows as a little stream; in God it springs forth as a fountain that never runs dry.
The prophet presents three essential truths about obedience to Yahweh.
This declaration reveals three dimensions of Divine creativity and purpose.
The human mind's finite grasp of the Infinite does not account for our blindness to Yahweh; rather, our sinful moral nature darkens His countenance and dulls our spiritual perception.
Exell's Victorian homily traces how humanity perpetually distorts the divine nature through carnal reasoning.
Jesus becomes the Sun Himself, shining immediately upon all inhabitants.
God's anger burns hotter against His covenant people because they sin beneath a greater light.
The dominant image throughout this passage is courtroom litigation—the great controversy of God *versus* Idols, where God Himself appears at the bar of men to plead His cause and call witnesses.
The prophet's promise reaches its climax precisely where the people need it most: not in the initial rush of joy and anticipation, when they rose "on the wings of an eagle," but in the exhausting, monotonous tramp of the actual...
The winepress figure denotes supreme contempt—the Mighty Conqueror compares His victory over enemies to the crushing of grapes beneath His feet.