Healing for the human race
Isaiah 34-37/Luke 17-18
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OT
35:1-6 Even the wilderness will rejoice in those days. The desert will blossom with flowers. Yes, there will be an abundance of flowers and singing and joy! The deserts will become as green as the mountains of Lebanon, as lovely as Mount Carmel’s pastures and the plain of Sharon. There the LORD will display his glory, the splendor of our God. With this news, strengthen those who have tired hands, and encourage those who have weak knees. Say to those who are afraid, “Be strong, and do not fear, for your God is coming to destroy your enemies. He is coming to save you.” And when he comes, he will open the eyes of the blind and unstop the ears of the deaf. The lame will leap like a deer, and those who cannot speak will shout and sing! Springs will gush forth in the wilderness, and streams will water the desert.
NT
17:26-30 “When the Son of Man returns, the world will be like the people were in Noah’s day. In those days before the flood, the people enjoyed banquets and parties and weddings right up to the time Noah entered his boat and the flood came to destroy them all. And the world will be as it was in the days of Lot. People went about their daily business–eating and drinking, buying and selling, farming and building– until the morning Lot left Sodom. Then fire and burning sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all. Yes, it will be business as usual right up to the hour when the Son of Man returns.“
OT Flash Points
Message to the nations: The end of all things in God’s judgment
Splendor will return to the earth
The path for the redeemed is established
NT Flash Points
Keep forgiving & have faith
Healing follows in the train of forgiveness & faith
Perspective
The whole human race has been set right with God on the basis of what Jesus has done
Any man can enter upon the experience of salvation now because the foundation & power of sin-doing, which is sin-being, has been defeated