Isaías 50
J. Vernon McGee · Citado em PreceptAustin
Isaías 50
Vernon McGee - Under the Mosaic Law (see Deut. 24:1) a man could put away his wife on the slightest pretext (SEE FOLLOWING NOTE). A cruel and hardhearted man would take advantage of this to get rid of his wife. God asks Israel if they know on what grounds He set them aside. Certainly God is not cruel or brutal. Israel is spoken of as the wife of Jehovah—this is the theme of Hosea. It was not a whim of God that caused Israel to be set aside, but God makes it very clear that their sin brought about their rejection. (See Thru the Bible) How different the faithful God is from fickle men for Hebrew men could (and would) give a certificate of divorce to the wife of their youth with whom there were in covenant for a number of missteps. The Talmud cites three opinions as to when one could get a divorce... The School of Shammai rules: A man should not divorce his wife unless he discovers in her an immoral matter... The School of Hillel holds: [He may divorce her] even if she burnt his meal. Rabbi Akiva says: Even if he found another more beautiful than she. Jesus alluded to this when He declared "Because of your hardness of heart Moses permitted you to divorce your wives; but from the beginning it has not been this way." (Mt 19:8) Thank God that He does not seek to break covenant with Israel (or with us in the New Covenant) if we "burn the toast"! God's heart is not hard like men's hearts, but is filled with lovingkindness and compassion. Thank You Jesus!
Isaías 50
Vernon McGee - When I came”—when did Jehovah come directly to His people, not through His prophets but Himself, to Israel and expect such a welcome? It was not when He descended on Mount Sinai to give them the Mosaic Law. He looked for no welcome then, but insisted that they keep their distance. But He came again as a man, a humble man, and there was no reception of Him at all. Israel did not welcome Him at His birth; they didn’t receive Him when He began His ministry. They rejected and killed their Messiah. (See context in Thru the Bible Vol. 23: The Prophets Isaiah 36-66) W E Vine - The past tense is prophetic. He “came,” not merely by His prophets, nor would He come simply by deliverance from captivity. He would come in the Person of His Servant, the Messiah-Redeemer Himself. But how was it that there was no man, none willing to receive the message? (cp. Isa 53:1). How was it that “when He called, there was none to answer”? His hand was not shortened (an emblem of weakness) that it could not redeem (cp. Isa 59:1). He who could dry up the sea, make rivers a wilderness, clothe the heavens with blackness and make sackcloth their covering (telling especially of His retributive judgments upon Babylon), had power to deliver. And with this in view, He would send His Servant. Eventually He came, and declared at the outset of His ministry, that He had been sent “to proclaim release to the captives … to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord” (Luke 4:18). Instead of receiving Him and His message, they cast Him forth to destroy Him. S Lewis
Isaías 50
Vernon McGee writes "First it is the wooing word as He implores them; then He gives a warning word to those who walk in the light of their own fire, rejecting the One who is the light of the world." (See context in Thru the Bible Vol. 23: The Prophets Isaiah 36-66) Cornerstone Bible Commentary - The Servant warned them against attempting to live by their own light or warm themselves by their own fires (Isa 50:11). Rather than turning in repentance to the Lord and his revelation for light and direction, the wayward people preferred their own ideas and plans for help. (See context Cornerstone Biblical Commentary: Isaiah) Scott Grant: How are we to survive in this place? Isaiah presents us with two options: 1) We can trust in the name of the Lord and rely on our God. 2) We can kindle a fire, encircle ourselves with torches and walk in the light of our own fire. We can rely on our God in the darkness of confusion, or we can try to dispel the darkness of confusion with our own light. By relying on God, we draw close to him, abide by his word and trust that dawn will break. By lighting our own fire, we reject the opportunity to draw near to God, and we devise our own methods to make life more manageable, more quickly. At more extreme levels, this means resorting to deception, manipulation, intimidation and the like. At less extreme levels, it means making the elimination of the confusion a greater goal than drawing near to God. All you who kindle a fire - In other words you make your own light. He is speaking figuratively in this context. How can we be sure? Notice that the result of one "making their own fire" is not that they will be warmed by it or be able to cook over it, but that from the hand of God, they will lie down in torment. So clearly "making one's own fire" is a picture of one's own attempts to merit salvation. It is a picture of self-sufficiency. Motyer: Those who continue in their own way, dealing with life’s darkness by a “do-it-yourself” remedy, are doomed. How true it is to this life that those who trust walk in darkness and those who are self-sufficient walk in light! . . . The picture here is of people seeking to equip themselves, out of earthly resources, to deal with earth’s dark experiences. They feel the need of nothing they cannot generate for themselves. Wolf - Those who ‘light fires’ refers to men who had their own schemes and their own gods. Because they had rejected the light of God’s Word, they would face terrible punishment.” J Vernon McGee writes "Some time ago a man said to me, “McGee, I heard you on the radio, and I disagree with you about salvation. Let me tell you what I think about it.” Well, he was ready to build a fire, and he wanted both of us to sit there and warm ourselves by his fire. I knew it was a phony fire, which would give off no heat or light. So I frankly said to him, “I don’t mean to be ugly or rude, but I don’t want to hear what you think, because what you think and what I think are quite meaningless. It is what God says that we need to know.” And we need to walk in the light of the Lord Jesus. He is the Light of the World (John 8:12, 9:5, 12:36, 46). If we reject Him who is the Light of the World, then we generally walk in the light of our own little fire down here (cf Jesus' words in Jn 12:35, 36). The Holy Spirit gives this warning: You will lie down by that little fire of yours in sorrow, which means you will be eternally lost." (Thru the Bible)