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Topic: What are the major themes in the prophesy of Isaiah

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|TABLE OF CONTENTS |
|INTRODUCTION………………………………………………………………………………...2 |
|REDEMPTION FROM BANYLON……………………………………………………………...3 |
|ISRAEL, SERVANT OF THE LORD AND YAHWEH THE SOVEREIGN RULER………….3 |
|THE TRUE GOD OR FALSE GODS?...........................................................................................4 |
|PROPHECIES CENTERED ON JUDAH AND JERUSALEM…….……………………………4 |
|THE THEME OF HOLINESS AND THE REMNANT……………………………………….…5 |
|PROPHECIES AGAINST FOREIGN AND AND HOSTILE NATIONS……………………….6 |
|JUDGMENTS OF JEHOVAH AGAINST THE WORLD'S SIN………………………………...6 |
|PROPHECIES CONCERNING JUDAH, JERUSALEM EGYPT AND ASSYRIA……..……...7 |
|PROPHECIES PROCLAIMING THE DOOM OF EDOM AND THE REDEMPTION OF ISRAEL……7 |
|DELIVERANCE FROM THE DOMINION OF BABYLON……………………………………7 |
|REDEMPTION THROUGH SUFFERING AND SACRIFICE………………………………….8



References: |According to Addison, J, A. (1971), Isaiah lived in Jerusalem, and that the capital city features prominently in his prophecies. Isaiah | |referred to Jerusalem by using more than 30 names |According to Oswalt, T. (1974), the prophet had a very broad appreciation of the political situation in which he lived. He demonstrated | |awareness of all the nations around his homeland

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