One Page Summary of Isaiah with Memory Guide

One page summary of Isaiah with Memory Guide

Harold Shank

This page contains a way to keep the whole book of Isaiah in mind at one time and a device for committing it to memory.

1. Numbers
   1. 39+27=66
   2. The Bible has 66 books; Isaiah has 66 chapters
   3. There is a break between the 39 books of the Old Testament and the 27 books of the New Testament; there is a break between the first 39 chapters of Isaiah (1-39) directed to the 8th century B. C. and the last 27 chapters of Isaiah (40-66) directed to the 6th and 5th centuries B.C.
2. Letters
   1. OWHG
   2. The following four words summarize the book of Isaiah: Oppressive World, Holy God.  These words start with the letters OWHG.
      1. Isaiah writes to people who are oppressing each other and people who are being oppressed by powerful nations.
      2. Isaiah writes about a holy God
         1. Isaiah 6:3: And one called out to another and said, “Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord of hosts, The whole earth is full of His glory.”
         2. Isaiah 57:15: For thus says the high and exalted One Who lives forever, whose name is Holy, “I dwell on a high and holy place, And also with the contrite and lowly of spirit In order to revive the spirit of the lowly And to revive the heart of the contrite.”
      3. Isaiah can be divided into 8 sections which begin with the letters OWHG
         1. Oppression judgment hope—1-12
         2. Oracles against the nations—13-23

• World apocalyptic—24-27

1. Woes—28-33
2. Herem and homecoming—34-35 [Herem is a Hebrew word that means doom]
3. Hezekiah—36-39

• God of history & hope sends a servant—40-55
• God high & holy sends a preacher—56-66