As the first line in this song says, one book undertakes a gargantuan task in The Bible. Likewise, I undertook a gargantuan task in trying to sort of summarize this book in a short song. Hopefully, this at least gets across some of the highlights. Scholars have called this book a "mini Bible" because it holds a lot of parallels to The Bible, having 66 chapters, just like The Bible has 66 books. Isaiah is by far the most quoted Old Testament book in the New Testament, having been quoted 55 times! (You can read about numerous connections here- http://isaiahminibible.com/) Of course, if I was to try to give you a miniature version of The Bible, it would be the Gospel- The Bible is all about the Good News of Jesus. Our sins are like scarlet but He can make them white as snow when we put faith in the One who had all our iniquities laid on Him. It's no wonder Philip used Isaiah 53 to witness to the eunuch as he was already reading it. Even if he hadn't been, Philip probably would have pointed him there as it's one of the clearest pictures in the Old Testament of the sacrifice Christ made to save us- a prophecy made 700 years in advance! Read all about this and so much more in Isaiah- mini-Bible.
"Isaiah: Mini-Bible"
(Parody of "I Can't Drive 55" by Sammy Hagar; copyright by Nathan Ludwick 6/12/2020)
(Book of Isaiah; particularly 1:17-18, 2:4, chapter 6, 7:14, 9:1-7, 40:1-9, chapter 53, 55:8-11; also Luke 3:1-6 and Luke 4:16-21)
One book undertakes a gargantuan task- hey!
Well, the news is tragic- judgment's passed, yo!
Eyes are blind- won't just perceive the truth
Isaiah prophesied coming judgment of Judah's sin!
Gonna write it up- 1 through 39
OT's same judgment- similar vibe
Grace next 27- NT's vibe
Isaiah- mini-Bible! Oh yeah!
Uh!
So Isaiah is made up of chapters- 66, hey!
Yeah, it's just like books in God's Word
It's gonna blow your mind- all the book's retweets
Look- chapter 40 lines up with Baptist (in) Luke 3
He said good- Good News!
Evangelize- Is. 40:9
Scroll to place Jesus read Isaiah's lines
Luke 4 writes this- there're more times
Isaiah's in The Bible!
Quoted
How many times? 55!
How many times? 55!
How many times with this guy-
Isaiah? 55!
Uh!
Well- some lines to know- you know each part's revered
In Isaiah first part- 18- sin's washed here
Swords beat to make plowshares- verse 2:4 says. Huh!
In chapter 6, read how prophet saw The Lord- hey!
God sends sign (of) Messiah- 7:14 line
Show's Christ's traits- promised Son born in 9
Pay for all sins- 53 find
Isaiah- mini Bible
Oh! Oh! Oh!
God's mind's higher
(Isaiah 55!)
Point will drive
(Isaiah 55!)
(Isaiah 55!)
(Isaiah- mini Bible)
Nice song, and nice mapping to the NT!
ReplyDeleteThanks. Yes, I thought it was important to show how this Old Testament book fits in with the New Testament. Of course, I wanted to be careful about generalizing either the OT or NT. To be sure, there are both judgment and grace in both of them.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I had originally planned to do "Isaiah 55" as the title but Apologetix beat me to releasing a song by that title and I didn't want to reinvent the wheel. Then I remembered studying all the connections in Isaiah to the rest of The Bible in Sunday School back in the 9th. grade or so and I thought would actually even be a better tack for this song, which would allow me to do more of an overview of the whole book, as super condensed as it is. :-)