318: Colin Badger – The Suffering Servant for Jubilee

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Welcome to good Chris Delphian
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I’m Chris.

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this week’s talk.
Hey everyone, it’s Jason Hensley

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and this week we are going to be
listening to a class by brother

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Colin Badger given at the 1988
Idyllwild Bible School.

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His overall topic is a thematic
study of Isaiah, and this

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particular class is actually
class number six, which I feel

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sort of funny about.
It’s kind of funny to do the

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last class as the one that we
listen to, but at the same time,

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I really felt like he did an
awesome job summarizing all of

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the themes that he had brought
out throughout the week and

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capping it off here in this
class number six.

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So we’re going to be listening
to class 6, the Suffering

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Servant for Jubilee.
The reason I chose this class is

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specifically because we don’t
hear a lot on Isaiah, or at

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least I, I haven’t.
It’s one of those books that I

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think it’s so big with 66
chapters that we tend to stay

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away from it.
We feel sort of like, oh, that’s

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so much, how can I grasp the
overall picture?

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And I think that brother Colin
did an awesome job at making it

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something that we feel like we
can experience and understand.

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He really brings Isaiah into the
time of Hezekiah and explains it

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in that light.
And then using that as a basis

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considering how the prophecy of
Isaiah will apply in the future.

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He talks a lot about the
jubilee, as you can probably

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tell from the topic of the
class.

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He discusses the servant.
He goes through the city of

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refuge, some of these ideas of
water.

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And I just think it’s it’s
really wonderful because some of

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these concepts can sometimes
feel somewhat abstract.

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And yet this becomes much more
manageable when brother Colin

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leads us through it and we can
really, I think, envision the

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power of the prophecy of Isaiah.
So I hope you enjoy it.

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And here we are, class number
six in Colin Badger, thematic

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study of Isaiah.
This is the suffering servant

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for Jubilee.
My dear brothers and sisters, as

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we come to this last session
together, it should be apparent

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that we’ve only really just
scratched the surface in some of

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these areas we’ve been
exploring.

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Our intention over this past
week was to look at a number of

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important themes that run
through Isaiah.

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Consider their background in the
prophecy itself.

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Try to explore whether those
themes had any roots in the Life

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and Times of the prophet
himself, and especially in the

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life and work of Hezekiah.
We have drawn fairly heavily

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upon Kings and Chronicles to
gain a keener insight into the

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life of Hezekiah and the
circumstances that form the

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background for these important
themes in Isaiah’s prophecy.

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We’ve carried through a number
of keywords or terms, as well as

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some important ideas and
concepts, seeing how they go

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right through the prophecy and
with some careful understanding

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of their meaning and the
associations they have elsewhere

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in Scripture.
They’re like master keys which

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open up the prophecy.
Yesterday we were considering

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that beautiful theme of the
water symbology in Isaiah’s

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prophecy and how it relates so
very much to the circumstances

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in and around Jerusalem at the
time of Hezekiah and the

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Assyrian crisis.
We ended yesterday by

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concentrating on the symbol of
the highway, the cleansing, the

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water that was there within
eyesight of all who would

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discern the words of the
prophets and search for a deeper

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meaning.
I’d like, brothers and sisters,

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just to pick up that thread and
round it off a little bit more

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before we consider in some
detail the importance of the

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Servant theme in Isaiah.
The Servant himself as Messiah

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brings certain blessings.
In the prophecy of Isaiah,

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obviously the blessing of
salvation.

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We’ve seen that he also brings
the wells of salvation.

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We see also in Isaiah 53 that
the suffering servant is a sin

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bearer.
We see throughout the pages of

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Isaiah that the great Servant,
God’s Son, usher’s in the

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Kingdom.
He is the righteous king,

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mentioned many times in the
prophecy, or at least described

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as being one who ruled, a
leader, a commander of the

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people.
He is first and foremost a

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Liberator, one who brings
freedom, and in the language of

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the prophecy of Isaiah, he is
one who proclaims a kind of

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jubilee.
And the work we’ve been doing in

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Joshua this week will provide a
useful background for that.

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As the Servant, he also, through
his messianic work of saving and

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the ushering in of a future
Kingdom, provides a place where

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that highway leads, a place of
refuge.

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And that language is what we’d
like to start with in this

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class, Isaiah chapter 40, the
section we were looking at

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fairly closely yesterday.
It is the springboard for

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another important image that
runs through the prophecy, and

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it’s rich in its exhortation,
thinking as we did yesterday

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about the symbology of a
highway, a way of holiness, the

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way of salvation that leads to
Zion, brings us to the place of

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the well of salvation, provides
a way by which the Zion, the

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daughters of Zion, might truly
be cleansed.

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Verse 3A key phrase.
The voice of him that crieth in

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the wilderness.
Prepare, prepare ye The way of

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the Lord makes straight in the
desert a highway for our God.

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We think of the words of our
Master in the Gospel where he

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described the way of salvation
as being narrow.

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He also used the word straight,
didn’t he?

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The way of salvation is narrow
in contrast to the Broadway that

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leads to destruction.
So the Master himself used terms

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to describe the way of salvation
as though it was a straight

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highway, narrow rather than
broad.

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So his words in the Gospels are
in some way an echo of verse 3.

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But more than that, this phrase
prepare.

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Ye.
The way in the Old Testament, in

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the book of Deuteronomy chapter
19, we believe there’s an

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important link which fills out
the Old Testament thought here,

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and I think it helps to have
that in order to fill out the

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picture that is given to us in
this cry of Isaiah 40.

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Would you turn then with me to
Deuteronomy 19?

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It’s dealing with the cities of
refuge.

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It provides another Old
Testament background that helps

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us to understand what these
words would have meant to one

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who has seized in the Old
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Deuteronomy 19 verse one.
When the Lord thy God hath cut

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off the nations, whose land the
Lord thy God giveth thee, and

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thou succeedest them, and
dwellest in their cities, and in

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their houses, thou shalt
separate 3 cities for thee.

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In the midst of thy land, which
the Lord thy God giveth thee to

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possess it, thou shalt prepare
thee away and divide the coasts

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of thy land, which the Lord thy
God giveth thee to inherit into

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three parts, that every Slayer
may flee there.

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Now if you look at the context,
it’s talking about about one who

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has unintentionally, through
either carelessness or

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ignorance, slain someone.
He has the opportunity of

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finding asylum within three
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They were called the cities of
refuge.

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And in these cities, brothers
and sisters, he would find

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protection for or rather from
death.

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And here you would see, I
shouldn’t say 3 cities, 3 parts

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of the land divided with the
cities within.

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In these cities of refuge, in
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there was to be a place provided
for him.

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But there was a certain onus
upon those who had those cities

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or territories within their
tribal lot.

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Their responsibility in verse 3
is spelled out.

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Thou shalt prepare thee our way.
Now brothers and sisters, the

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force of the original is that
they were to make or to maintain

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some form of root to those
cities of refuge.

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Every tribal area that took in
these cities, the municipal

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areas around them were to ensure
that there is these roads were

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maintained, that they were clear
and that they were kept up so

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that one who was fleeing for his
life or for her life would

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always be guaranteed of a proper
Ave. to the city of refuge.

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Now what’s important to notice
here, brothers and sisters, is

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this phrase which is echoed, we
believe in Isaiah 40, for the

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one who is guilty or the one who
has inadvertently brought guilt

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upon himself in slaying another
who flees for refuge and

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protection.
Our way was to be prepared for

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that person.
Thou shalt prepare thee away.

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Prepare away.
And in verse 3 of Isaiah 40, the

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voice of him that crieth in the
wilderness to those who have

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been guilty, or to those who are
in need of pardoning, those in

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need of asylum, the voice of him
crieth in the wilderness.

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And for them he says, Prepare ye
the way.

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The way of the Lord makes
straight in the desert a highway

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for our God.
It was a call to prepare an Ave.

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by which those who were fleeing
for asylum and protection, those

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who were in need of pardoning
and forgiveness, would find

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refuge.
Verse 2 Speak ye comfortably to

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Jerusalem, and cry unto her that
her warfare is accomplished,

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that her iniquity is pardoned,
for she hath received of the

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Lord’s hand double for all her
sins.

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Now the apostle Paul in Hebrews
picks up this picture in part

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and in reference to the cities
of refuge.

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He tells us that we have a city
of refuge, we have an anchor to

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our soul, and we must flee unto
it.

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So clearly the cities of refuge
in the Old Testament where

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obviously symbolic of something
greater.

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Paul picking that up in Hebrews
shows that in a certain sense

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the Lord Jesus Christ is our
city of refuge and we must flee

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unto that city for protection.
But who has provided the way?

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The Master has provided the way
for here in Isaiah 40, the way

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was prepared to those areas of
refuge in the Old Testament, and

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now more fully to the city of
refuge that we have in Christ

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Jesus.
The way has been prepared.

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It has been made straight, a
highway for our God and for the

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remnant that shall go therein.
You see, brothers and sisters,

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once again the language of
Isaiah is drawing upon Old

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Testament imagery.
Now consider how this is built

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up a little further in the
prophecy elsewhere.

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Let’s go to Isaiah chapter 4,
the language of the future age,

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describing the place of asylum
that we have in Christ and that

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the nation shall have when
Christ establishes His Kingdom.

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Now think carefully of the
language of the highway and the

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relationship to washing that we
picked up yesterday.

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Here also in Isaiah 4, verse 4,
when the Lord shall have washed

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away the filth of the daughters
of Zion.

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Remember, the fuller’s field,
when the Lord has washed away

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the filth of the daughters of
Zion, shall have purged the

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blood of Jerusalem from the
midst thereof by the spirit of

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judgment and by the spirit of
burning.

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And the Lord will create upon
every dwelling place of Mount

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Zion, and upon her assemblies, a
cloud and a smoke by day, and

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the shining of a flaming fire by
night.

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For upon all the glory shall be
a defense or a covering, the

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Martin suggests, and there shall
be a Tabernacle for a shadow in

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the daytime from the heat, and
for a place of refuge, and for a

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covert from storm and from rain.
To see that in the future age,

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Zion with the presence of the
King, will be pictured truly as

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though it was a place of refuge,
a city of refuge.

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A highway has been prepared
there, the way of holiness, and

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when God has cleansed the filth
of the daughters of Zion, they

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will be welcomed to tread that
highway, a way of holiness, for

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as we read yesterday, the
unclean shall not pass through

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it.
Cleansing must take place 1st

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and advance by washing.
And those who come will find in

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Zion, in whom there is all her
springs, or their springs, a

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place like the city of refuge of
the Old Testament.

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And so the words of Isaiah for
emerge with this picture.

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Prepare, prepare ye the way,
says the voice.

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Make it straight, make it plain,
take out the crooked, make it

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obvious, and make it sure.
See how elsewhere in Isaiah the

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same imagery is carried through.
Building on these themes, Isaiah

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chapter 25, perhaps with this
background that we’ve

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accumulated over the course of
our studies, brothers and

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sisters, when we come across
these terms in the future as we

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read Isaiah, they’ll have a
little more meaning, more of a

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concrete picture behind them,
what they would have meant for

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the readers in those days and
what they mean more importantly

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for us now in the future.
Notice verse 2 of Isaiah 25 As a

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lead in For Thou hast Made of a
city and heap of a defence city,

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a ruin, a palace of strangers,
to be no city, it shall never be

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built.
That’s called in Isaiah quite

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often the city of confusion.
It’s speaking, of course, not

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only of Babylon, but in
particular of the nations and

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their cities and powers that
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Now verse 3.
Therefore shall the strong

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people glorify thee.
The city of the terrible nations

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shall fear thee now in contrast,
for thou hast been a strength to

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the poor, a strength to the
needy in his distress.

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We think of a man who fled to
the city of refuge, to the needy

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in his distress, a refuge from
the storm, a shadow from the

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heat, when the blast of the
terrible one is as a storm

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against the wall.
Do you remember the picture we

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painted a few days ago?
The small remnant of those

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within the walls, the sheep
within the pen, Like the

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language of Micah chapter 2, The
onslaught of the Assyrian army,

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the great waters that came down
but only went up to the neck.

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According to the language of
Isaiah chapter 8, the blast of

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the terrible one is as a storm
against the wall.

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So brothers and sisters, these
brethren who were faithful

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within those walls with
Hezekiah, whose hearts were

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tried in this crisis, would
appreciate the force of this

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language.
For indeed, around them, beating

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against the walls of Jerusalem,
was the Assyrian and the

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psychological threats posed by
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But within that city of
Jerusalem in those days, they

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found a covert from the blast of
the heat.

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They found protection from the
jaws of the mighty Assyrian

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lion.
They found by fleeing to it not

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just those who were native
citizens of Jerusalem, as we’ve

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said before, but those who from
other tribes and towns, had

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taken the opportunity when time
allowed and gone down to join

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Hezekiah and Isaiah.
Those who perhaps had

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experienced the infusion of
spiritual strength when Hezekiah

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celebrated the Passover knew
what it was to be around a

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Hezekiah, a righteous king.
Those who had tasted of that

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experience in the hour of crisis
had gone down there to join

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others who were native to the
area and put in their lot with

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Hezekiah and Isaiah.
They had come seeking refuge

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from the storm shadow, from the
heat and the blast of the

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terrible ones, and the storm of
the Assyrians did not touch

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them.
As Isaiah told Hezekiah, not an

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arrow shall be fired within
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Not an arrow.
You see, brothers and sisters,

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once again we find that the
experience of Hezekiah and his

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small flock within those walls
was intended by God to be a

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cameo, just a small picture of
something greater.

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It meant something to them, and
when we consider how it was

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worked out in their real
experience, we look forward to

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the time when the Master will
come and establish Zion as a

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culvert for all the world, a
place where He will invite all

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nations to come, from which
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And he will teach the nation and
his brethren, as Hezekiah taught

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those of his own people.
We saw how Hezekiah in Chronicle

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spake comfortably to the heart
of the Levites and those who

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would teach and instruct the
law.

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You see, even in that limited
application, they too could take

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some meaning from those words.
For in his days the law went

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forth from Zion, and under his
leadership in Isaiah, the law

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went forth, and they taught the
people all once again, but a

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microcosm of something much
grander of the future once

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again.
Then we see a theme which runs

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all through Isaiah, building as
it goes through the prophecies,

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creating a complete picture.
Once again we see how important

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it is to grasp the relevance it
would have had in those days.

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Well, let’s go back to Isaiah,
to the middle portion that we’ve

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been often in.
Take a look at something else

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that we haven’t really touched
on yet.

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In the middle of the Assyrian
crisis, Isaiah 37.

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God’s assurances that the
Assyrian will be turned back.

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The mighty raging storm, verse
29 of Isaiah 37 speaking as it

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were to the Assyrian, verse 29
Isaiah 37 Because thy Rage

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Against me and thy tumult is
come up into mine ears,

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therefore I will put my hook in
thy nose, and my bridle in thy

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lips.
Where have we heard that before?

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Well, we showed you a slide
Monday evening, I believe it

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was, which showed from an
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practice amongst the Assyrians
of taking hooks or rings and

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putting them in the noses of
their captives and then

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stringing chords from captive to
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A rather painful way of walking
along.

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And how they would use this as a
source of daily torment when

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they’re captive, often naked, as
you saw in that slide, would

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follow along all the way to the
cities that they were to be

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placed in, whether it was back
to Nineveh or some other

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surrounding place of deportment.
So, brothers and sisters, that

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language drawing from the
practice of the Assyrians would

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have had special meaning.
Now it’s that very kind of

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language that is used to
describe the latter day

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Assyrian.
Perhaps it echoes something in

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your mind.
It’s used in Kings elsewhere,

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giving a parallel record to
Isaiah 37 of the Assyrians.

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But hold your hand here and slip
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This brings perhaps a little
more relevance to our time here

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in Ezekiel 38 we have the threat
of another northern invader,

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with many parallels to the
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And Speaking of this Great
Northern invader, whose

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objective is to come down to the
same city that Sennacherib came

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to, whose objective is to
annihilate the same people as

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the Assyrian had intended to in
the days of Hezekiah.

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Of this future power it is said,
verse 3.

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Ezekiel 38.
And say thus saith the Lord God,

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Behold, I am against thee, O
Gog, the chief Prince of Meshach

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and Tubal, and I will turn thee
back.

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Now notice the language of the
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And put books into thy jaws, and
I will bring thee forth.

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And all thine army, and horses
and horsemen, all of them

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clothed with all sorts of armor,
even a great company with

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bucklers and Shields, all of
them handling swords.

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Now the language of Ezekiel 38
describes an army, and of course

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it doesn’t describe this
invading northern army in terms

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of Modern Warfare, but the
language is reminiscent of the

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Assyrian invasion, the same kind
of forces, the same kind of

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approach from the north.
In your margin, you might want

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to note Second Kings 19 verse
28, Second Kings 19, verse 28,

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where part of this language is
used in application to the

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Assyrians as an addition to the
Isaiah 37 passage we just began

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from.
Now let’s flip over to Micah, a

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prophet contemporary with
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See how Micah puts this,
Speaking of the latter days and

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yet no doubt having meaning to
his contemporaries, thinking of

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the backdrop of the Assyrian
invasion in Micah’s day, but

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looking forward to something the
Lord Jesus Christ must handle in

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the future against another
Assyrian, Micah 5.

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We know it’s a Messianic
chapter.

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We know that because it refers
to the Lord Jesus Christ in

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verse two well known words to
all of us.

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But thou Bethlehem Afrata,
though thou be little among the

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thousands of Judah, yet out of
thee shall he come forth unto

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me.
That is to be ruler in Israel,

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whose goings forth.
Earlier in the week we said, it

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means to spring, or to send out
whose going forth or spring from

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of old from everlasting.
Therefore will he give them up

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until the time that she which
prevaileth travaileth hath

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brought forth.
Then the remnant of his brethren

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shall return unto the children
of Israel, and he, Jesus, shall

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stand and feed in the strength
of the Lord, in the majesty of

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the name of the Lord his God,
and he shall abide, for now

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shall he be great unto the ends
of the earth.

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And this man like Hezekiah,
shall be the peace, when the

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Assyrian shall come into our
land.

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Verse 6.
And they shall waste the land of

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Assyria with the sword, and the
land of Nimrod in the entrances

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thereof.
Thus shall He deliver us from

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the Assyrian when he cometh into
our land, when he treadeth

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within our borders.
Who is this?

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Brothers and sisters?
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It’s the one who shall be our
peace when the latter day

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Assyrian comes into the land of
old, the land of Israel.

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Taking Ezekiel 38 and the
language of the hooks in the

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Jaws, the language of Micah
chapter 5, describing this

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northern invader Gog as a latter
day Assyrian, and bringing with

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it the language of Isaiah 37 and
a passage in Second Kings.

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A picture form showing us
clearly that once again the

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events in Hezekiah’s day, the
backdrop for much of Isaiah’s

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prophecy only is a microcosm of
something on a much grander

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scale.
And we suggest that a careful

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examination of this Assyrian
crisis and the movement of the

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Assyrian himself is perhaps a
kind of blueprint that should

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guide us into an understanding
of how these events shall stack

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up in the latter days when we
have once again an Assyrian in

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the land.
Well, we could explore that much

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further.
It’s to show us how valuable it

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is to watch for these
connections and to use them as

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keys for an understanding of
future events.

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Back to Isaiah 37, for there’s
more here that opens doors

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through the prophecy.
Isaiah 37, we ended verse 29, I

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will turn thee back.
Exactly what is said in Ezekiel

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38.
I will turn thee back by the

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way, by which thou camest.
So perhaps in your margin at

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verse 29 you want to write in
Ezekiel 38, verses 1-2 and

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three.
Then verse 30 we move on to a

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sign.
This is one of four signs given

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to Hezekiah, verse 30.
This shall be a sign unto thee.

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Ye shall eat this year such as
groweth of itself, and the

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second year that which springeth
of the same.

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And in the third year sow ye and
reap, and plant vineyards, and

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eat the fruit thereof.
And the remnant that is escaped

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to the House of Judah shall
again take root downward and

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bear fruit upward.
Once again we ask ourselves,

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what is the source of this
language?

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Where have we heard this kind of
language before in the Old

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Testament?
This reference to fruitfulness,

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the promise of a blessing of
harvest, the mention of the 1st

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and 2nd and 3rd year, well, some
margins will tip you off that

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the background for this is
Leviticus 25, Speaking of the

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year of Jubilee and the Sabbath
years.

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So we pause, put a marker there
and go back to Leviticus 25.

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I’d like just to survey that
chapter for a moment and pick

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out some of the key thoughts and
terms.

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Leviticus 25 and I think we’ll
prove, we’ll find that it’s very

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useful for Isaiah’s prophecy.
Back we go to Leviticus 25.

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I project you read the chapter
when you’ve time in detail to

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get the full context.
Let’s just pick out these key

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ideas as they have a relation to
Isaiah 37, verse 2.

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Moses is told, Speak unto the
children of Israel, and say unto

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them, When ye come into the land
which I give you, then shall the

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land keep a Sabbath unto the
Lord.

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Six years thou shalt, so thy
feel.

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Now listen carefully to those
words that run parallel to

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Isaiah. 6 years thou shalt so
thy feel, and six years thou

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shalt through thy vineyard.
But in the seventh year shall be

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a Sabbath of rest unto the land,
a Sabbath for the Lord.

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Thou shalt neither sow thy field
nor prune thy vineyards.

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That which groweth of its own
accord of thy harvest thou shalt

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not reap, neither gather the
grapes of thy vine undressed.

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For it is a year of rest when we
come down and expand that a

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little more.
Read over here now to verse 18.

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Wherefore ye shall do my
statutes, and keep my judgments,

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00:31:58,200 –> 00:32:01,160
and do them.
And ye shall dwell in the land

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00:32:01,160 –> 00:32:06,320
in safety, and the land shall
yield her fruit, and ye shall

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eat your fill, and dwell therein
in safety.

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00:32:10,200 –> 00:32:16,520
Now God anticipates a question.
Verse 20 And if ye shall say,

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What shall we eat the 7th year,
behold, we shall not sow nor

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gather in our increase.
Good question, God says.

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00:32:26,160 –> 00:32:30,960
And the answer.
Verse 21 then says, God, I will

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command my blessing upon you in
the sixth year, and it shall

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00:32:35,760 –> 00:32:39,280
bring forth fruit for three
years.

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00:32:40,920 –> 00:32:45,200
Now that means the harvest in
that year would be bountiful

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00:32:45,200 –> 00:32:51,200
enough to carry them over for
three years, not 3 full years.

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In fact, why does it say that?
Because the land is to rest in

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the seventh year, so that when
the 7th year is over, what must

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they do?
They must sow and then after

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sowing, they must wait through
that year before the harvest

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00:33:10,160 –> 00:33:13,160
comes.
And it must be a good enough

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harvest, brothers and sisters,
to provide them food and ample

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seed for the next sowing.
So there’s about a three-year

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period here related to the time
of rest in the land in the

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operation of these Sabbath
years.

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And God is saying, I promise in
that sixth year to give you

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00:33:34,480 –> 00:33:38,880
sufficient to carry you over
almost a three-year period,

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enough seed and enough fruit to
look after you.

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It’s my promise if you’ll
respond in faith.

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00:33:47,720 –> 00:33:51,760
Now that’s the background beyond
any shadow of a doubt in those

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words in Isaiah, of those words
in Isaiah 37.

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What’s it saying to Hezekiah and
the people?

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00:33:58,800 –> 00:34:04,040
It’s a promise that at the end
of the Assyrian crisis, this

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will be a sign.
I will bless you with the terms

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00:34:08,920 –> 00:34:11,840
of blessing from the Sabbath
year.

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00:34:12,760 –> 00:34:16,560
It’s a promise that the remnant
that had stayed with Hezekiah

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00:34:16,880 –> 00:34:20,080
and would come out into that
city would be blessed with

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00:34:20,080 –> 00:34:23,120
fruitfulness.
But first they would be carried

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00:34:23,120 –> 00:34:27,080
through sufficiently.
And the promise is in terms of

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the Jubilee or the Sabbath
language, brothers and sisters.

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Now taking another look here at
Leviticus 25, pick up some of

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the keywords in this whole
context.

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Verse one mention of a Sabbath.
Verse 5, a rest year, a year of

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00:34:46,040 –> 00:34:50,679
rest, key idea, rest course.
It’s married with the idea of

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00:34:50,679 –> 00:34:54,120
Sabbath.
Then in this context of the

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Sabbath year’s reckoning, the
jubilee is introduced in verse

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nine. 7 * 749 years marked out,
and at the end a jubilee marked

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in verse 9 by a trumpet.
And when the jubilee is to be

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marked at the end of seven
sevens, it shall be in

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00:35:14,320 –> 00:35:17,640
conjunction with the Day of
Atonement, Verse 9.

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Thou shalt pause the trumpet of
the jubilee to sound on the 10th

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00:35:22,160 –> 00:35:27,600
day of the 7th month in the day
of Atonement, and he shall make

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00:35:27,600 –> 00:35:30,160
the trumpet sound throughout all
your land.

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00:35:30,960 –> 00:35:36,160
So a trumpet, the day of
Atonement, Sabbath rest, verse

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10, proclaim liberty throughout
all the land.

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00:35:41,560 –> 00:35:44,960
At the end of verse 10,
assurance that they shall return

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to their possessions.
Then other key terms.

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00:35:49,600 –> 00:35:54,080
Verse 25, the word redeem is
introduced in this context.

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Middle of verse 25, redeem.
And verse 26, If a man shall

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have none to redeem it, and
himself be able to redeem it,

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00:36:03,560 –> 00:36:08,720
and so on, then elsewhere in the
chapter concern about the poor.

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00:36:08,880 –> 00:36:12,720
Verse 35.
And if thy brother be wax and

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00:36:12,720 –> 00:36:17,040
poor, and fallen in decay, such
and such shall be provided for

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00:36:17,040 –> 00:36:20,720
him.
Verse 39 The idea of being a

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00:36:20,720 –> 00:36:24,680
prisoner, or being sold in
bondage, is brought to our

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00:36:24,680 –> 00:36:28,440
attention.
For verse 39, If thy brother

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00:36:28,440 –> 00:36:33,160
that dwelleth by thee be wax and
poor, and be sold unto thee,

501
00:36:33,880 –> 00:36:37,240
thou shalt not compel him to
serve as a bondservant.

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00:36:37,880 –> 00:36:43,240
Now the terms in this context of
that of a jubilee, and that of

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00:36:43,240 –> 00:36:47,720
the promise of promised blessing
and fruitfulness, stack up one

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00:36:47,720 –> 00:36:49,720
after another, about 10 key
terms.

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00:36:50,280 –> 00:36:56,840
Sabbath rest, a trumpet,
atonement, liberty, returning,

506
00:36:57,320 –> 00:37:01,200
possessing, redeeming and being
redeemed.

507
00:37:01,680 –> 00:37:06,280
Concern for the poor, for those
who were sold, for those who are

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00:37:06,280 –> 00:37:10,360
in bonds.
At least 10 key terms.

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00:37:11,200 –> 00:37:15,000
Now brothers and sisters, when
you go through Isaiah beyond

510
00:37:15,000 –> 00:37:19,840
chapter 37, you see that
although Hezekiah and his people

511
00:37:20,200 –> 00:37:26,880
experienced a kind of 7th year
blessing, there was also

512
00:37:26,920 –> 00:37:32,800
experienced in that a kind of
Jubilee experience for those who

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00:37:32,800 –> 00:37:35,120
were within the walls were
liberated.

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00:37:36,240 –> 00:37:40,560
There had indeed been a Sabbath
or a rest within those walls

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00:37:40,880 –> 00:37:43,000
from the bondage of the
Assyrian.

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00:37:44,160 –> 00:37:48,080
The mention of a trumpet is
mentioned elsewhere in Isaiah in

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00:37:48,080 –> 00:37:50,560
Jubilee terms.
We’ll notice that in a moment.

518
00:37:51,560 –> 00:37:54,720
Terms that relate to an
atonement are referred to in

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00:37:54,720 –> 00:37:59,080
Isaiah’s prophecy, often in
those passages that speak of

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00:37:59,080 –> 00:38:04,280
liberation and freedom, the
promise of returning the remnant

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00:38:04,600 –> 00:38:08,600
of possessing their possessions
that were rightly theirs, the

522
00:38:08,600 –> 00:38:13,240
promise of being redeemed,
concern for the poor and those

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00:38:13,240 –> 00:38:16,920
who had been sold, and those who
had become bond servants.

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00:38:17,720 –> 00:38:19,920
All of the.
Language surrounding these few

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00:38:19,920 –> 00:38:25,200
verses in Isaiah 37 are built on
elsewhere in the restoration

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00:38:25,200 –> 00:38:30,520
passages, so let’s look for a
sample using this as a key to an

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00:38:30,520 –> 00:38:34,360
understanding of what it meant
to Hezekiah and the remnant with

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00:38:34,360 –> 00:38:36,360
him, and then further in the
Kingdom.

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00:38:36,800 –> 00:38:43,320
Isaiah 35A restoration passage,
but words that hearken back to

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00:38:43,320 –> 00:38:46,840
the terms of the Sabbath year,
blessings and the terms of

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jubilee.
Isaiah 35.

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00:38:53,960 –> 00:38:58,800
Notice the terms of blessing and
fruitfulness from that which had

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00:38:58,800 –> 00:39:01,720
been waste, that which was dry
without hope.

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00:39:02,200 –> 00:39:05,080
Verse one.
The wilderness in the solitary

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00:39:05,080 –> 00:39:10,160
place shall be glad for them,
and the desert shall rejoice and

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00:39:10,160 –> 00:39:12,880
blossom as the Rose.
Verse 2.

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00:39:13,200 –> 00:39:15,640
Promises of fruitfulness and
blessing.

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00:39:16,040 –> 00:39:19,800
Caramel means fruitfulness down
to verse 10.

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00:39:19,840 –> 00:39:23,240
This is the key one.
Well, verse 9, perhaps for

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00:39:23,240 –> 00:39:28,080
context, no lion shall be there,
nor any ravenous beast shall go

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00:39:28,120 –> 00:39:32,520
up thereon.
It shall not be found there, but

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00:39:33,000 –> 00:39:37,120
the redeemed shall walk there.
Verse 10.

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00:39:37,360 –> 00:39:43,880
And the ransomed of the Lord
shall return, and come to Zion

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00:39:44,240 –> 00:39:47,320
with songs and everlasting joy
upon their heads.

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00:39:47,680 –> 00:39:51,320
They shall obtain joy and
gladness and sorrow and sighing

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00:39:51,320 –> 00:39:56,080
shall flee away.
Here language that promises

547
00:39:56,160 –> 00:40:01,200
fruitfulness, the blessings of
God’s goodness, the promise

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00:40:01,200 –> 00:40:05,560
though of liberation and
freedom, the promise of the

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00:40:05,560 –> 00:40:10,840
ransomed being liberated and
freed, those who now can return

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00:40:10,840 –> 00:40:14,440
and come to Zion.
The promise, brothers and

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00:40:14,440 –> 00:40:17,760
sisters of a future kind of
jubilee.

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00:40:18,840 –> 00:40:22,120
Let’s go elsewhere.
Isaiah chapter 58.

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00:40:23,600 –> 00:40:31,120
Many have noticed that the terms
in Isaiah 58 contain a kind of

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00:40:32,000 –> 00:40:36,240
double strand.
Many of the terms in Isaiah 58

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00:40:36,240 –> 00:40:41,280
hearken back to the Day of
Atonement, but also many of the

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00:40:41,280 –> 00:40:47,160
terms in Isaiah 58 hearken back
to the days of Jubilee, and

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00:40:47,160 –> 00:40:50,080
they’re not disassociated.
Remember.

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00:40:50,080 –> 00:40:56,680
Leviticus 25 talks about the
Jubilee being pronounced in

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00:40:56,680 –> 00:41:00,520
conjunction with the Day of
Atonement for that year.

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00:41:01,160 –> 00:41:06,240
So thoughts related to Jubilee
and thoughts related to the Day

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00:41:06,240 –> 00:41:09,760
of Atonement are actually
married together in Leviticus

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00:41:09,760 –> 00:41:14,400
25, and thus there’s two strands
running through the language of

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00:41:14,400 –> 00:41:18,560
Isaiah 58.
First, notice the trumpet, verse

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00:41:18,560 –> 00:41:27,520
one, Cry aloud, spare not, lift
up thy voice like a trumpet, and

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00:41:27,520 –> 00:41:30,720
show my people their
transgression, and the House of

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00:41:30,720 –> 00:41:34,120
Jacob their sins.
And what’s the promise?

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00:41:34,120 –> 00:41:37,200
What’s the hope?
Well, here’s how it ought to be

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00:41:37,200 –> 00:41:38,680
viewed.
Verse 6.

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00:41:38,840 –> 00:41:40,800
Now in the language of the
Sabbath.

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00:41:41,960 –> 00:41:46,960
Verse 6 Is not this the fast
that I have chosen to loose the

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00:41:46,960 –> 00:41:50,080
bands of wickedness?
Remember freedom from bondage,

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00:41:50,960 –> 00:41:55,880
to undo the heavy burdens, and
to let the oppressed go free.

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00:41:56,240 –> 00:41:59,600
Did she break every yolk?
The one who was in bondage was

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00:41:59,600 –> 00:42:01,880
to be liberated.
Leviticus 25.

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00:42:02,400 –> 00:42:07,080
Is it not to deal thy bread to
the hungry, and that thou bring

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00:42:07,080 –> 00:42:09,920
the poor that are cast out to
thy house?

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00:42:10,400 –> 00:42:14,720
The concern about the poor.
Leviticus 25 Again, when thou

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00:42:14,720 –> 00:42:18,520
seest the naked, that thou cover
him, and that thou hide not

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00:42:18,520 –> 00:42:23,160
thyself from thine own flesh,
then we come down to liberation.

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00:42:23,160 –> 00:42:27,600
Again in verse 9 Then shalt thou
call, and the Lord shall answer,

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00:42:28,080 –> 00:42:31,560
thou shalt cry, and he shall
say, Here I am.

582
00:42:32,600 –> 00:42:36,920
If thou take away from the midst
of thee the yoke, the putting

583
00:42:36,920 –> 00:42:40,840
forth of the finger, and
speaking vanity, if thou draw

584
00:42:40,840 –> 00:42:45,640
out thy soul to the hungry, and
satisfy the afflicted soul, then

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00:42:45,640 –> 00:42:49,040
shall thy light rise in
obscurity, and the darkness be

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00:42:49,040 –> 00:42:52,120
as the noonday.
Now the language of fruitfulness

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00:42:52,160 –> 00:42:54,320
and blessing.
Verse 11.

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00:42:54,880 –> 00:42:58,800
The Lord shall guide thee
continually, and satisfy thy

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00:42:58,800 –> 00:43:02,520
soul in drought, and make fat
thy bones.

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00:43:02,760 –> 00:43:06,880
And thou shalt be like a watered
garden, and like a spring of

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00:43:06,880 –> 00:43:14,000
water, whose waters fail not.
Verse 12 And they shall be, and

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00:43:14,000 –> 00:43:18,080
they that shall be of thee shall
build the old waste places

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00:43:18,360 –> 00:43:21,600
rejuvenation.
Thou shalt raise up the

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00:43:21,600 –> 00:43:24,720
foundations of many generations
restoration.

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00:43:25,240 –> 00:43:30,840
And thou shalt be called the
repairer of the breach, the

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00:43:30,840 –> 00:43:36,240
restorer of paths to dwell in.
And then in verse 13, the

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00:43:36,240 –> 00:43:40,840
prophet merges into the language
of a true Sabbath, a Sabbath

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00:43:41,400 –> 00:43:46,040
liberation, concern for those
who were poor and needy, concern

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00:43:46,040 –> 00:43:50,640
about liberation from bondage,
and if done properly, the

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00:43:50,640 –> 00:43:55,800
promise of God’s restoration,
health and blessing for

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00:43:55,800 –> 00:44:01,440
fruitfulness and all introduced
by the blast of a trumpet. 58

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00:44:01,440 –> 00:44:07,080
verse one, and the mention of
sin and transgression in terms

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00:44:07,080 –> 00:44:11,320
of the day of Atonement
announced by that trumpet sound.

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00:44:12,040 –> 00:44:15,480
He’s seen, brothers and sisters,
as you look at these restoration

605
00:44:15,480 –> 00:44:20,640
passages in Isaiah, his people
knew what a jubilee was, as it

606
00:44:20,640 –> 00:44:25,000
were, or the promise of a
Sabbath blessing, The 7th year

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00:44:25,000 –> 00:44:29,200
Sabbath blessing given on the
6th insurance that if they were

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00:44:29,200 –> 00:44:33,680
faithful would walk in His ways,
God would bless them.

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00:44:34,280 –> 00:44:39,360
So that when Isaiah and his
people heard these words, Isaiah

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00:44:39,360 –> 00:44:42,480
37.
This shall be a sign unto thee,

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00:44:42,840 –> 00:44:47,920
ye shall eat of this year such
as groweth of itself, and the

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00:44:47,920 –> 00:44:50,680
second year that which springeth
of the same.

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00:44:50,800 –> 00:44:55,480
It’ll carry you through.
And in the. 3rd year sow ye and

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00:44:55,480 –> 00:44:59,280
reap, and plant vineyards, and
eat the fruit thereof.

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00:44:59,680 –> 00:45:03,960
They were being told in the
terms of Leviticus 25.

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00:45:04,560 –> 00:45:08,600
God would bless them if they
were faithful, and they would

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00:45:08,600 –> 00:45:12,440
experience a Sabbath year
blessing such as they’d never

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00:45:12,440 –> 00:45:14,520
known.
Verse 31.

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00:45:15,120 –> 00:45:19,200
And the remnant that is escaped
of the House of Judah, those

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00:45:19,200 –> 00:45:23,200
who’ve been liberated shall
again take root downward and

621
00:45:23,200 –> 00:45:27,960
bear fruit upward.
Such a beautiful Old Testament

622
00:45:27,960 –> 00:45:32,760
context, giving such concrete
meaning to the promises

623
00:45:32,760 –> 00:45:36,240
experienced in the days of
Hezekiah after the Assyrian

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00:45:36,240 –> 00:45:39,320
crisis.
One of us brothers and sisters,

625
00:45:39,840 –> 00:45:42,760
he has showered upon us
blessings.

626
00:45:43,400 –> 00:45:47,360
We have the promise of the
future age, no matter how

627
00:45:47,360 –> 00:45:52,120
difficult our various trials
are, no matter how many

628
00:45:52,120 –> 00:45:56,280
distresses we have at home in
the domestic scene, no matter

629
00:45:56,280 –> 00:45:59,160
how many disappointments we
might experience in our

630
00:45:59,160 –> 00:46:02,640
ecclesial life and in our own
personal lack of health.

631
00:46:02,640 –> 00:46:08,840
At times, as Hezekiah well knew,
no matter how we may feel like

632
00:46:08,840 –> 00:46:13,560
looking at the wall and feeling
that we were down by the bars of

633
00:46:13,560 –> 00:46:18,240
death, there is hope.
There is always the vision of a

634
00:46:18,240 –> 00:46:21,960
better day.
Let us take heart, brothers and

635
00:46:21,960 –> 00:46:25,880
sisters, at those people with
Hezekiah, in the pressure

636
00:46:26,120 –> 00:46:31,120
experienced within their walls,
when everything looked so dismal

637
00:46:31,520 –> 00:46:35,240
and their king was sick nigh on
to death in the critical hour,

638
00:46:35,880 –> 00:46:41,600
there was nevertheless a spring,
a spring of righteousness, a

639
00:46:41,600 –> 00:46:46,000
spring of refreshing water,
constantly an assurance of God’s

640
00:46:46,000 –> 00:46:49,200
blessing.
There was always the hope of a

641
00:46:49,200 –> 00:46:54,720
brighter vision in the future,
the promise of a jubilee of a

642
00:46:54,720 –> 00:46:59,440
Sabbath rest, the hope of being
finally liberated and

643
00:46:59,440 –> 00:47:03,600
experiencing the freedom of one
who could walk in the ways of

644
00:47:03,600 –> 00:47:06,680
holiness.
Never let us think that we have

645
00:47:06,680 –> 00:47:10,480
it too bad or that others have
not walked in our steps.

646
00:47:10,840 –> 00:47:14,120
We’ve never yet walked in these
kind of conditions.

647
00:47:15,080 –> 00:47:17,320
It’s a source of hope and
strength.

648
00:47:17,840 –> 00:47:22,440
It’s an encouragement against
despair on those cloudy days.

649
00:47:23,360 –> 00:47:26,600
And if we are tending to looking
at the earth, it’s an

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encouragement to look up to
heaven.

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Brothers and sisters, the one
who promises himself in Isaiah

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to be the faithful servant who
will bring ultimately this

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jubilee, this liberation into
effect is described, as most of

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you know, I’m sure, in Isaiah
53.

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But Isaiah 53, Brothers and
Sisters is but a climatic

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chapter that is part of another
theme running through Isaiah.

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If you look up the word in the
concordance, there’s a pattern

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that emerges very intriguing.
From chapters 1 to 40, the term

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Servant singular is only applied
to individuals as follows.

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Isaiah, Eliakim and David all
described as God’s servants.

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00:48:21,240 –> 00:48:26,240
The other uses of servant would
be even apply applying in Isaiah

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14 to Babylon and his servants.
Other references are to other

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nations or powers.
These would be the personal

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applications in the first part
of Isaiah.

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Now as you advance from Isaiah
40, the hinge of the book, just

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notice how the term servant
singular is applied and I have I

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think an exhaust list here. 41
verse 8 and 9 it applies to

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Israel the nation and 42 verse
one it applies to Messiah 42 and

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19 to Israel the nation and 43
the nation. 44 numerous

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00:49:04,200 –> 00:49:09,400
references Israel the servant as
a nation. 48 and 20 Israel the

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nation.
Then a congested series that

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apply to Messiah chapter 49,
chapter 50, chapter 52, chapter

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53, the Servant, Messiah the
Servant, Israel, the Servant,

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the singular Servant.
But now here’s something to

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note.
After Isaiah 53, every reference

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to servant becomes plural.
Every reference to servant

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00:49:45,000 –> 00:49:50,120
becomes plural after Isaiah 53,
and in every case it has no

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00:49:50,120 –> 00:49:53,800
reference to the nations or to
their slaves or servants, as it

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00:49:53,800 –> 00:49:55,480
does in the first part of
Isaiah.

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00:49:55,880 –> 00:49:59,760
It always has reference to the
redeemed, either from the nation

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of Israel or to the Saints
themselves directly.

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00:50:04,200 –> 00:50:07,080
So there’s a transition at
Isaiah 53.

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Why there Isaiah 53 ends by
mentioning a plural seed.

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For the suffering servant shall
see his seed plural and shall be

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00:50:20,840 –> 00:50:24,120
satisfied.
God shall prolong his days.

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00:50:24,560 –> 00:50:30,480
And thus right after Isaiah 53,
all references to the servant is

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plural and we have chapter 54
redeemed, the redeemed called

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00:50:37,080 –> 00:50:42,680
the servants in verse 17, once
again, verse 6 of chapter 56,

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then my servants 63 and 17
applying it would seem to the

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00:50:48,360 –> 00:50:52,720
nation first of all, 65 and 8,
the nation of Israel.

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00:50:53,480 –> 00:50:57,240
Then in those verses of chapter
65, you can see on the overhead

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they’re redeemed from the nation
of Israel and no doubt having a

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00:51:01,480 –> 00:51:03,200
double application to the
Saints.

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00:51:03,600 –> 00:51:06,920
And that would seem in 66 and 14
plural.

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00:51:06,920 –> 00:51:11,520
The servants there is referring
to the redeemed as a whole both

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00:51:11,520 –> 00:51:14,400
from the nation of Israel and
the Saints themselves.

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00:51:16,120 –> 00:51:21,200
Now, once that pattern is
grasped, you can take a look at

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00:51:21,200 –> 00:51:27,200
Isaiah’s prophecy and you’ll
observe there are 4 Servant

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00:51:27,200 –> 00:51:31,920
songs in Isaiah.
The one we are most familiar

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00:51:31,920 –> 00:51:37,720
with, therefore, in Isaiah 53,
which begins actually back in

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00:51:37,720 –> 00:51:44,480
chapter 52, is not the only key
Servant section in Isaiah.

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00:51:45,440 –> 00:51:48,520
I must admit I hadn’t
appreciated this myself until we

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00:51:48,520 –> 00:51:53,080
looked at this in detail.
The Servant Song, as it is

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00:51:53,080 –> 00:51:59,880
sometimes called in Isaiah 53,
is but the fourth of four songs.

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00:52:00,800 –> 00:52:04,560
Each of those songs are worth a
detailed examination.

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00:52:05,240 –> 00:52:10,040
Each throw out light on
different aspects of the servant

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00:52:10,080 –> 00:52:15,000
Messiah of the nation of Israel
to become ultimately his

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00:52:15,000 –> 00:52:19,640
national servant.
And most importantly, pictures

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00:52:20,000 –> 00:52:24,400
of the servants, plural, the
redeemed, the Saints of God.

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00:52:25,560 –> 00:52:28,520
Now, brothers and sisters, time
doesn’t allow for a careful

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00:52:28,520 –> 00:52:32,960
examination by any means of
those four servant songs.

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00:52:34,040 –> 00:52:37,200
But in each of them, brothers
and sisters, there is hope.

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00:52:38,120 –> 00:52:42,880
In each there is the assurance,
the vision of a brighter day to

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00:52:42,880 –> 00:52:47,280
come.
Each promises for all of us, as

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00:52:47,280 –> 00:52:50,040
it promised for the people of
Hezekiah’s day.

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00:52:50,640 –> 00:52:55,320
The hope of a jubilee, the hope
of promised blessings,

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00:52:55,920 –> 00:53:00,920
liberation from bondage, the
opportunity of returning to our

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00:53:01,000 –> 00:53:06,480
possessions, to our spiritual
inheritance, the hope of

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00:53:06,480 –> 00:53:11,120
fruitfulness, God’s blessing in
our lives, and most importantly,

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00:53:11,200 –> 00:53:15,720
in our salvation.
For each of the servants songs

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there are terms which richly
describe our hope.

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00:53:20,200 –> 00:53:25,600
So see Isaiah 53, the better
known one against this context,

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00:53:26,720 –> 00:53:30,640
and it helps us to more keenly
appreciate that this one that we

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00:53:30,640 –> 00:53:37,360
know so well is but the climatic
picture focused in the servant.

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00:53:38,040 –> 00:53:43,240
For insomuch as the national
servant failed as the servant of

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00:53:43,240 –> 00:53:47,920
God, Messiah, the Servant
succeeded where the national

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00:53:47,920 –> 00:53:51,640
servant failed.
A key idea in these prophecies,

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00:53:51,640 –> 00:53:56,160
brothers and sisters, the
servant failed as a nation,

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00:53:56,840 –> 00:53:59,840
Jacob, my servant, whom I have
called.

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00:54:00,320 –> 00:54:05,440
But in Jesus, where the national
Servant fails, we find victory,

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the conquering of sin and death.
And thus the nation that is sick

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00:54:10,640 –> 00:54:17,080
and afflicted in Isaiah 1 is
therefore saved by the Servant

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in Isaiah 53, who takes upon him
the graphic terms of a kind of

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00:54:23,320 –> 00:54:26,840
leprous individual.
Not that he has sinned, but

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00:54:26,840 –> 00:54:32,480
insofar as he is a sin bearer,
he takes upon him descriptions,

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00:54:32,480 –> 00:54:36,120
as we saw in our second class
this week, descriptions of the

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00:54:36,120 –> 00:54:39,400
sick nation.
For He bears their iniquities,

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He bears their sins.
For brothers and sisters, what

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00:54:43,920 –> 00:54:48,840
is a servant but one who helps?
What is a servant but one who

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00:54:48,840 –> 00:54:52,240
bears burdens?
What are brothers and sisters

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00:54:52,240 –> 00:54:58,080
together as a sheepfold, but
fellow servants, the one who in

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00:54:58,080 –> 00:55:02,000
the upper room, brothers and
sisters who knelt down by a

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00:55:02,000 –> 00:55:07,200
basin, who took an apron and
girded himself and washed the

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00:55:07,200 –> 00:55:11,280
feet of his disciples, show them
what it is to be a servant.

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00:55:11,480 –> 00:55:16,040
Brother to brother, sister to
sister, brothers and sisters.

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We end on that theme, and let’s
read the following passages by

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00:55:21,040 –> 00:55:23,160
way of conclusion.
Just a few verses.

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00:55:24,400 –> 00:55:29,560
Isaiah 30.
The thoughts brought together,

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00:55:29,920 –> 00:55:34,320
we believe, gives us a rounded
picture of all that we’ve been

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00:55:34,320 –> 00:55:38,000
considering in this past week.
These beautiful and marvelous

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00:55:38,000 –> 00:55:41,760
themes from Isaiah’s prophecy.
Here is our hope.

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00:55:42,240 –> 00:55:44,720
We’ll just walk through these
three references.

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00:55:45,560 –> 00:55:51,480
Isaiah 30, verse 15.
For thus saith the Lord God to

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00:55:51,600 –> 00:55:54,360
all of us here, the Holy One of
Israel.

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00:55:55,240 –> 00:56:01,040
He says to us in returning and
rest shall ye be saved.

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00:56:01,680 –> 00:56:06,880
In quietness and in confidence
shall be your strength.

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00:56:07,120 –> 00:56:13,360
Brothers and sisters.
Chapter 32, verse one, we look

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00:56:13,360 –> 00:56:15,520
forward to this as we leave our
school.

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00:56:16,160 –> 00:56:21,080
Come down the mountain once
again to the land surrounded by

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00:56:21,080 –> 00:56:23,960
Assyria.
Behold verse one.

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00:56:24,000 –> 00:56:28,120
A king shall reign in
righteousness, and Princess

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00:56:28,120 –> 00:56:32,200
shall rule in judgement, and a
man shall be as an hiding place

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00:56:32,200 –> 00:56:37,080
from the wind, and a covert from
The Tempest, as rivers of water

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00:56:37,080 –> 00:56:42,880
in a dry place, as the shadow of
a great rock in a weary land.

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00:56:43,240 –> 00:56:46,760
The eyes of them that see shall
not be dim, and the ears of them

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00:56:46,760 –> 00:56:54,080
that hear shall hearken.
And finally, chapter 33, a

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00:56:54,080 –> 00:56:56,680
warning and an exhortation to
all of us.

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00:56:56,720 –> 00:57:02,080
Verse 14, as those who wish to
pass through our own crises.

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00:57:02,600 –> 00:57:07,560
Verse 14, The sinners in Zion
are afraid, fearfulness have

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00:57:07,560 –> 00:57:11,960
surprised the hypocrites.
Who among us shall dwell with

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00:57:11,960 –> 00:57:15,560
the devouring fire?
Who among us shall dwell with

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00:57:15,560 –> 00:57:20,520
everlasting burnings?
Who he that walketh righteously

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00:57:20,800 –> 00:57:24,800
and speaketh uprightly, He that
despiseth the gain of

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00:57:24,800 –> 00:57:28,520
oppressions, that shaketh his
hands from holding of bribes,

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00:57:29,000 –> 00:57:32,480
that stoppeth his ears from
hearing of blood, and shutteth

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00:57:32,480 –> 00:57:36,240
his eyes from seeing evil, he
shall dwell on high.

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00:57:36,760 –> 00:57:39,880
His place of defence shall be
the munitions of rocks.

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00:57:40,520 –> 00:57:45,080
Bread shall be given him, his
waters shall be sure.

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00:57:45,760 –> 00:57:49,040
Thine eyes, brothers and
sisters, shall see the King in

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00:57:49,040 –> 00:57:52,520
his beauty.
They shall behold the land that

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00:57:52,520 –> 00:57:56,400
is very far off.
On that note, the vision of a

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00:57:56,400 –> 00:57:58,840
brighter day.
We end, but not totally of

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00:57:58,840 –> 00:58:01,840
course, our studies and the
themes of Isaiah.

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00:58:02,880 –> 00:58:05,040
We will be leaving this
afternoon, brothers and sisters,

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00:58:05,040 –> 00:58:22,280
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