Isaías 5

Isaías 5

Meyer addresses this question in the following devotional… What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? - This is what the Owner of all souls will say of His dealings with each when the discipline and husbandry of time are over (cp Eph 5:16-note, Ps 90:12-note). Each of us is God’s vineyard, and for each God has done the best possible. At the end of all things God will have no reason to feel that had He adopted some other method, the barren waste of some heart would have brought forth fruit. It will be seen then, Omniscience itself being witness, that every soul of man had the chance of becoming a fruitful vineyard; and if he became the reverse, it was due to no failure in either the wisdom or grace of God. It is hard to believe this, hard to think that you would not have done better in some other circumstances; but it is nevertheless true that God could not have done better or more. He has trenched for water, gathered out stones which had hindered your fruitfulness, and planted you with slips from the True Vine (2Cor 5:17, Jn 15:5). There has been the tower of His protection, and the wine-press of suffering! Ah, how eagerly He has looked that you should bring forth grapes! The pity of it is that there has been nothing but the wild growth of nature (cp flesh)! But God cannot take the blame for this. He could not have done more than He has done. Alas that we should have so often thwarted Him! “When I looked.” (Isa 5:4KJV) “The Father seeketh,” our Savior said (Jn 4:23KJV). He comes down the garden path full often, seeking from us the fruits of the Spirit (Gal 5:22-note, Gal 5:23-note), the grace of prayer (1Th 5:17-note) and supplication (Php 4:6-note, Php 4:7-note), the plants of his delight. “Let us see,” He says, “whether the vine hath budded, and its blossom be opened, and the pomegranates be in flower.” (Song 7:12) Too often it is as when Jesus looked for figs — there was nothing but leaves! (See Mt 21:19,cp Lk 3:9, Lk 13:6, 7, 8,9) (Our Daily Homily) Isaiah 5:5 So now let Me tell you what I am going to do to My vineyard: I will remove its hedge and it will be consumed; I will break down its wall and it will become trampled ground: let Me: Ge 11:4,7 I will: Isa 27:10,11 Lev 26:31, 32, 33, 34, 35 Dt 28:49, 50, 51, 52 2Ch 36:4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 Neh 2:3 Ps 74:1-10 80:12, 13, 14, 15, 16 La 1:2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 4:12 trampled: Heb. for a treading, Isa 10:6 25:10 28:3,18 La 1:15 Da 8:13 Lk 21:24 Rev 11:2 Isaiah 5 Resources - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries So now - Because of what He has said ( provision, protection failed to bring forth production) Jehovah would judge His vineyard. Remove its hedge - Speaks of Jehovah's good hand of favor and protection being removed as a result of their disobedience. In fact notice who it is that will break down its wall -- Jehovah Himself! Hedge… wall - This suggest that it was even "double fenced"! It will become trampled ground - This prophecy (recall Isaiah prophesies from 740-680BC) was literally fulfilled in Nebuchadnezzar's third invasion and final demolition of Jerusalem. The Babylonian trampling of the holy city in 586BC began the times of the Gentiles (see chart) (Lk 21:24), which will continue (cp Re 11:2-note) until the Messiah returns (cp Ro 11:25, 26, 27-see notes on "times of Gentiles") at the end of the Great Tribulation. Although we see God's judgment against the Vineyard prophesied here in Isaiah 5, we see God's mercy to restore the Vineyard in Isaiah 27. In the context of the Day of the LORD, Jehovah promises to restore and root His vine declaring… In that day (see Isa 27:1 for the "day"), “A vineyard of wine, sing of it! 3 “I, the Lord, am its keeper; I water it every moment. So that no one will damage it, I guard it night and day. 4 “I have no wrath. Should someone give Me briars and thorns in battle, Then I would step on them, I would burn them completely. 5 “Or let him rely on My protection, Let him make peace with Me, Let him make peace with Me.” 6 In the days to come Jacob (cp the "Vine") will take root, Israel will blossom and sprout, and they will fill the whole world with fruit (Ed: Beloved Israel has never fulfilled this promise, which is not given the church but to Jacob and Israel. Don't replace Israel with the church! [See study on Israel of God] This verse clearly describes the glorious Messianic Age, when Christ returns to reign supreme on earth during the Millennium). (Isa 27:2, 3, 4, 5, 6) Charles Simeon writes that… MERCIES are obligations to obedience, and aggravations of the guilt of disobedience. This is declined under the similitude of an unfruitful vineyard. The parable in the text foretold the captivity of the Jews in Babylon. Our Lord applied it in reference to the approaching dissolution of their ecclesiastical and civil polity by the Romans. It is applicable also to the Church of God in all ages. (Simeon, C. 1832-63. Horae Homileticae Vol. 7: Proverbs to Isaiah XXVI. P. 490. London) Isaiah 5:6 I will lay it waste; It will not be pruned or hoed, but briars and thorns will come up. I will also charge the clouds to rain no rain on it: I will lay: Isa 5:9,10 6:11,12 24:1-3,12 32:13,14 Lev 26:33-35 Dt 29:23 2Ch 36:19-21 Jer 25:11 45:4 Lk 21:24 Will: Isa 7:23-25 Ho 3:4 also: Isa 30:23 Dt 28:23,24 Am 4:7 Zec 14:16,17 Heb 6:6-8 Rev 11:6 Isaiah 5 Resources - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries Septuagint renders it And I will forsake my vineyard; and it shall not be pruned, nor dug, and thorns shall come up upon it as on barren land; and I will command the clouds to rain no rain upon it. Briars and thorns - Instead of good grapes, the result of no rain in the land. This pair occurs five more times, all in Isaiah (Isa 7:23, 24, 25; Isa 9:18; Isa 27:4).