Moment of doubt…
Moment of doubt…
Abraham
Moses
David
Divide
Northern Kingdom until 722BC
Southern Kingdom
Isaiah
1-39 Bad news Assyria
40-66 Good news
Babylon
Situation
No defences
No allies
No worship
No army
No hope
The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.
Where’s your trust?
A perfect King
A wonderful saviour
A suffering Servant