Nineveh is destroyed completely for their rejection of God 130 years after Jonah saw them repent.  Josiah, good king of Judah has repairs done in the House of the Lord where the Law is found and humbles himself before God and goes to his grave in peace.  Paul stands trial before Festus and appeals to be seen before Caesar in Rome as God had instructed.

Hezekiah builds a miraculous tunnel as Sennacherib invades Judah.  God is awesome in power, the victor of  all who come against Him.  Paul, brought before governor Felix is imporsoned for two years for shouting about the resurrection of the dead in the Temple of The Lord.

Judah's good king Hezekiah is given 15 years of extended life by God when Isaiah told him that he was to die soon.  Following his reign two bad kings followed that abandoned God and worshipped idols.  The Lord instructed Paul that he was to now be the Lord's witness in Rome and was guarded from a plot to kill him by a group of Jews.

When Jesus began His ministry he opened up this chapter and verses of Isaiah 61:1-2 to proclaim Himself as The anointed of The Lord and closed the scroll.  Chapter 63 is what Jesus is going to say at His second coming in His anger and calling Israel to remember the days of old, return to Me.  

Paul,  before the people of Jerusalem, presents his testimony of persecuting the people of the Way and the transformation that came upon meeting Jesus on the road to Damascus.  He is using the law against the pagan world to stop his scourging and begin his journey to Rome.

God gets the people the people of Zion to come to terms with their sin, lovingly reaching out to them by all means necessary.  Then in fullfillment of His word the Messiah is going to come to restore and be the light of the world from Zion, Jerusalem, where all the nations will come to bow before Him.

God's ways and thoughts are not our ways and thoughts, and like rain His word will like rain cause growth.  There are rewards for obedience to God, as God freely offers mercy in the Messiah to the people of Israel who stay faithful.  Paul is seized from the temple upon pushing into Jerusalem and sharing that God's salvation message is for all men.

The balance and harmony of the Old and New Testament are brought together.  For Israel a big rebuke and a glorious promise to eventually be reclaimed by God due to their rejecting Him.  Chapters 52 & 53 are pivotal chapters for understanding the entire bible as they link Jesus to both the Old and New Testament.  When God returns to claim their Jewish nation the second time He will be recognized and they will be joyously praising Him.

More of the near and far prophecy with Jesus being foretold.  God's salvation plan reaches to the ends of the earth.  God comfort His people and inscribed on the palms of His hands.   A powerful parting of Paul from Miletus, on his last missionary journey knowing that savage wolves of false teaches will come in after him.  He leaves to take money donated to the starving church in Jerusalem.

Isaiah gives Hezekiah God's word of defeat for the Assyrians.  God calls Israel to cease striving and know I am God.  The people of Israel are praying for rescue.  Paul's closing greeting to all the different people groups naming them one by name.