An Old Testament Prophet for Today’s America

2025-03-03

There are those who dismiss the relevance of the Bible to twenty-first century Americans, calling it archaic and obsolete. However, a careful reading of the observations and pronouncements of the Old Testament Prophets leads one to the sense that they could just as readily be spoken in the United States of America today. Nowhere is this more evident than in the Book of Isaiah in its record of that prophet’s message to his own Southern Kingdom of Israel in the eighth century B.C. ...

There are those who dismiss the relevance of the Bible to twenty-first century Americans, calling it archaic and obsolete.

However, a careful reading of the observations and pronouncements of the Old Testament Prophets leads one to the sense that they could just as readily be spoken in the United States of America today.

Nowhere is this more evident than in the Book of Isaiah in its record of that prophet’s message to his own Southern Kingdom of Israel in the eighth century B.C. As we consider that message we can legitimately wonder: “If Isaiah were to address the moral and spiritual condition of the U.S. and the American people today, what would he say?” It would seem that his words would be strikingly similar to those spoken by him over two and a half millennia ago.

In today’s study we listen in on Isaiah’s God-given commission to confront his own people in his day, while carefully facing the question: “Could this also be God’s message to America in 2025?”

So, with Bibles open to Isaiah five, verses eight through thirty, we continue the series, “I Saw the Lord: Studies in the Book of Isaiah,” in an episode entitled, “An Old Testament Prophet for Today’s America.”

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