My slot in a short series on Isaiah 1–39 at Above Bar Church, Southampton, UK. It's a whistlestop tour - this is the 10th in a series of 11 sermons.

1. The Joy of Salvation
Isaiah 34 – 35

2. What matters more to you
than anything else?

3. JUDGEMENT JOY

4. JUDGEMENT IS COMING

5. Come near, you nations, and listen;
pay attention, you peoples!
Let the earth hear, and all that is in it,
the world, and all that comes out of it!
Isaiah 34:1

6. Hear me, you heavens!
Listen, earth!
For the Lord has spoken . . .
Isaiah 1:2

7. Hezekiah
after 716 BC
before 701 BC

8. looking further

9. Come near, you nations, and listen;
pay attention, you peoples!
Let the earth hear, and all that is in it,
the world, and all that comes out of it!
Isaiah 34:1

10. summons for sentencing

11. four explanations

12. for the LORD is angry . . .
34:2

13. for my sword has drunk its fill . . .
34:5

14. for the LORD has a sacrifice . . .
34:6

15. for the LORD has a day
of vengeance . . .
34:8

16. angry with all nations
34:2

17. . . . wrath is on all their armies
34:2

18. sentence: total destruction

19. why?

20. All the host of heaven shall rot away,
and the skies roll up like a scroll.
All their host shall fall,
as leaves fall from the vine,
like leaves falling from the fig tree.
Isaiah 34:4 ESV

21. judgement on stars?

22. stars = heavens
stars = heavens = gods

23. 3 main Babylonian gods
represented by sky not stars

24. final judgement on other gods

25. judgement on Edom

26. Map

27. hostility between
Israel and Edom
Numbers 20:14–21; 1 Samuel 14:47; 2 Samuel
8:11–14; 1 Kings 11:17–25; 2 Kings 8:20; 14:7

28. Bozrah rebellious, evil city

29. Jerusalem God’s righteous city

30. Edom = final enemy

31. sacrifice payment for sin

32. why?

33. judgement on opposition to God

34. result of God’s holiness

35. result of human sinfulness

36. We think that idols are bad things, but that
is almost never the case. The greater the
good, the more likely we are to expect
that it can satisfy our deepest needs and
hopes. Anything can serve as a counterfeit
god, especially the very best things in life.
Tim Keller
36

37. We love idols. We trust idols. We obey
idols. We look to idols to love us and
provide value, beauty, sense of significance
and worth.
Tim Keller
37

38. cataclysmic judgement

39. utter desolation
34:10–12

40. inhabited only by wild animals
and demons
34:10–17

41. everlasting judgement

42. measured judgement

43. Hell is just a freely chosen identity, based on
something else besides God, going on for
ever.
Tim Keller

44. It’s not a question of God ‘sending’ us to
Hell. In each of us there is something
growing up which will of itself be Hell unless
it is nipped in the bud. The matter is
serious: let us put ourselves in His hands at
once – this very day, this hour.
C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock

45. JOY IS COMING

46. joy for the wilderness

47. transformed world

48. end of decay = end of sin

49. joy for the weak

50. encouragement to be strong

51. why?

52. Behold your God . . .

53. Behold your God . . .
will come with vengeance

54. Behold your God . . .
will come to save you

55. In that day they will say,
‘Surely this is our God; we trusted in
him, and he saved us.
This is the Lord, we trusted in him;
let us rejoice and be glad in his salvation.’
Isaiah 29:5

56. joy for the suffering

57. opening of eyes and ears

58. renewal of nature

59. joy for God’s people

60. highway = way of holiness

61. highway
for people who trust God

62. everlasting joy

63. They will enter Zion with singing;
everlasting joy will crown their heads.
Gladness and joy will overtake them,
and sorrow and sighing will flee away.
Isaiah 35:10

64. A CHOICE TO BE MADE