{"id":65234,"date":"2019-11-05T10:34:33","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T08:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=65234"},"modified":"2023-05-17T08:22:34","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T05:22:34","slug":"isaiah-a-prophet-for-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/isaiah-a-prophet-for-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Isaiah: A Prophet For Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[940,423,506],"acf":{"old_id":"65234","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":65182,"related_cahpter":"335","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"The events of that period and the prophet\u2019s struggles during that time connect his prophecies to our generation as we struggle to fashion Jewish society upon the land of our forefathers","content":"<p>A divine poet walked the streets of Jerusalem. His words rose up over the heads of the people who lived in the Golden City. It was the hey\u00adday of King Uzziah, the most praiseworthy and promising of the kings of Judah since the days of Solomon. The city grew and prospered with bustling complacency, and only Isaiah etched out the words that he felt in his heart. By day, he gazed up at the spiraling towers of the city; by night, heavenly visions spread themselves out before him, and his eyes constantly darted between the two. As the urban skyline spread out around him, his spiritual turmoil intensified within, until it could no longer be contained.\u00a0 That was when prophecy burst out.<\/p>\n<p>Isaiah was a poet, a man of the book. He was active in scholarly circles, and his melodious words rang out loftier than everyday speech. People who heard his prophecies mocked these lyrical words: \u201cFor with stammering lips and foreign tongue he will speak to this people\u201d (Is. 28:11). Each chapter is a magnificent aesthetic arrangement, a work of art so for\u00admidable that many fear to approach it. The noise, sights, and smells of the bustling marketplace shatter the reverent silence of Isaiah\u2019s ivory tower. Yet Isaiah does not shrink from appearing in public. Sometimes he casts himself in the role of a street-theater actor in order to win the attention of passersby, particularly those with power. He even enlists his own children as props for his prophecies. He is a real person, a family man, a citizen of Judah. He is a character who almost always swims against the tide\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 There is yet another dimension to Isaiah. For decades, he hovered around the royal palace in Jerusalem, a political thinker who sought to under\u00admine what he perceived as problematic governmental inclinations. The image of the future that Isaiah drew is directly related to how he saw the world around him, and how he operated within it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; This dimension expresses, more than anything else, his call to us today from 2,700 years ago. The events of that period and the prophet\u2019s struggles during that time connect his prophecies to our generation as we struggle to fashion Jewish society upon the land of our forefathers\u2026 His words are rousing, tumultuous, daring and explicit, exhibiting no fear or restraint towards the government or the wealthy sectors of society. In its historical context, the prophetic call penetrates deeply, conveying the depth and complexity of the reality that faced the rulers who were being challenged by the prophet. Once these dilemmas are understood, and the protests and warnings of the prophet are heard, there is no escaping the subsequent questions that arise in our own world in the twenty-first century.<\/p>\n<p>Our purpose is to transform the reading of the Bible into a living, relevant foundation for living, relevant dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>From: Lau and Bin Nun, <em>Isaiah: Prophet of Righteousness and Justice <\/em>(Maggid Books, 2019), chapter 1.<\/p>\n","image":{"ID":65184,"id":65184,"title":"Isaiah-LauBinNun","filename":"Isaiah-LauBinNun.png","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Isaiah-LauBinNun.png","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/a-vision-of-a-brighter-future\/isaiah-laubinnun\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"isaiah-laubinnun","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":65181,"date":"2019-11-04 21:10:18","modified":"2019-12-16 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