Isaiah 1:1
Today marks the beginning of a three-month scripture reading plan in the Old Testament book of Isaiah. Dr. Bo Lim of Seattle Pacific University, our scholar guide for this reading, has assigned Isaiah 1:1. Some of you may want to read more scripture this week, so here are my suggestions. They correspond to Dr. Lim's online commentary which focuses on the importance of Isaiah for Christians because it was so important for Jesus and the New Testament.
Try starting out your reading of Isaiah with these five readings that show the links between the New Testament and Isaiah:
- Matthew 1:23 & Isaiah 7:14
- Matthew 4:12-17 & Isaiah 9:1-2
- Luke 4:16-21 & Isaiah 61:1-2
- Acts 13:44-52 & Isaiah 49:6
- Romans 15:7-13 & Isaiah 11:1
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I was particularly struck that Isaiah was the early Christians' go-to book. That we all have books or beliefs that heavily influenced us and that Isaiah is clearly the book that Jesus, that Paul, that Peter were heavily influenced by. I used to see Isaiah more as a big prophecy so it is interesting to me to be open to the book as source of inspiration.
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