A Study of Isaiah by Chad Sychtysz

Most Christians know Isaiah in pieces. This study gives you the whole book.

A Study of Isaiah is a 232-page workbook by Chad Sychtysz that covers all sixty-six chapters in twenty-seven lessons.

How This Study Helps

A Christmas reading from chapter 9, a funeral text from chapter 40, the Suffering Servant in chapter 53: those pieces only land the way Isaiah meant them when you can see what surrounds them. Isaiah moves without warning between Israel's sin and glimpses of a King still centuries away, and classes that only visit the famous chapters miss most of the message.

Sychtysz sets Isaiah in his time, through roughly sixty years and four kings of Judah while Assyria swallowed the northern kingdom and camped outside Jerusalem. He makes the case for Isaiah as the sole author of the book, answering the arguments for a second and third writer, and he reads the kingdom passages consistently, showing why the wolf and the lamb, the mountain of the Lord's house, and the new heavens and earth belong to the reign of the Branch that began at Pentecost.

What's Inside

A full introduction covers how prophecy works, Isaiah's life and era, the authorship question, and the book's major themes. Then twenty-seven lessons in eight sections:

• Chapters 1-12, from the two Jerusalems to the reign of the Branch
• Chapters 13-23, judgment on the surrounding nations
• Chapters 24-27, the "Little Apocalypse"
• Chapters 28-35, warnings to Israel and Judah
• Chapters 36-39, Assyria, Judah, and Hezekiah
• Chapters 40-48, consolation for God's people
• Chapters 49-55, the Servant, including the Suffering Servant (52:13-53:12)
• Chapters 56-66, Israel's future and the new heavens and new earth

Format & Features

A 6 x 9 paperback. Every lesson closes with discussion questions and room to write. A closing chapter, "Reflections on Isaiah," pulls the whole argument together, a chart lists the kings of Israel and Judah, and more than two hundred endnotes carry the supporting detail. Scripture quotations are from the NASB (1995). It is also available as a PDF eBook, with an individual-use version and a class-use license for churches.

Who It's For

Adult Bible class teachers who want a full year of Old Testament material laid out lesson by lesson, preachers working through the major prophets, and anyone who has read Isaiah 53 and wondered what the other sixty-five chapters are doing.

Common Questions

Can I use it to teach a class?
Yes. Its 27 lessons fill about two quarters of weekly classes. Order a workbook for each student, or buy the class-use PDF license to print copies for your class.

How does it handle the kingdom prophecies?
Consistently. Sychtysz shows why the prophets' kingdom and restoration passages are fulfilled in Christ and His church, and he holds that reading throughout rather than switching to a future earthly kingdom when the poetry gets vivid.

What are the eBook options?
The individual-use PDF is for one reader. The class-use PDF license lets a church print or share copies for a whole class.

More Old Testament Studies by Chad Sychtysz

A Study of the Book of Psalms, A Study of Proverbs, A Study of Ecclesiastes and Song of Solomon, A Study of Jeremiah and Lamentations, A Study of Ezekiel, A Study of Daniel, and A Study of the Minor Prophets.

About the Author

Chad Sychtysz has preached the gospel since 1994, serving churches in Alaska and Washington state. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in History and has written more than twenty-five books and workbooks on the Bible, including the Quick Study Commentary and Personal Study series on the New Testament. He lives in Billings, Montana.

Product Details

• Author: Chad Sychtysz
• Publisher: Spiritbuilding Publishers
• Lessons: 27, in eight sections, plus a full introduction
• Translation: NASB (1995)
• Pages: 232
• Size: 6 x 9 inches
• Format: Paperback; PDF eBook (individual or class use)
• ISBN: 9781964805900