Colin Badger – Thematic Study of Isaiah – Class 1 – A Sick Nation and a Faithless King

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This is day one of the 1988
Idlewild Bible School.

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Our third period speaker is
Brother Colin Badger and his

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general subject is Thematic
Study of Isaiah.

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His subtopic for today’s class
is 1/6 Nation and A Faithless

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King for the Badger.
Good morning, brothers and

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sisters.
Isaiah, the son of Amos, is

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regarded as one of the greatest,
if not.

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The greatest of Israel’s.
Writing prophets, There is no

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greater testimony, brothers and
sisters, to the importance of

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Isaiah’s prophetic ministry than
the evidence or the testimony

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that is offered in the New
Testament.

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For Isaiah’s prophecy is.
Directly quoted or alluded to

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some 80.
Five times in the New Testament.

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Now that’s a calculation that
was done some years ago by

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Bollinger.
We suggest that 85 quotations.

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Or allusions to Isaiah in the
New Testament is bare minimum.

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We.
Suspect that there are many more

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that perhaps have not been yet
so obvious.

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Now consider the.
Forts of those facts?

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What other book?
In the New Testament.

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Is referred to or.
Directly quoted from as that.

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80.
Five times minimum.

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Surely that in itself is an open
invitation, brothers and

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sisters.
An open invitation to all

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students.
Of the word to discover.

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Answers to the question Why
Isaiah?

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The frequent New Testament use
of Isaiah obviously implies,

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doesn’t it, that Isaiah’s
prophecy has numerous links with

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the gospel as it is in Christ
Jesus?

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One Christadelphian writer
pointedly stated.

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And I believe it.
Captures a good.

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Spirit, he said Isaiah’s
revelation stands between

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Genesis and the Apocalypse like
a mighty art.

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Across which God’s purpose of
redeeming love in Christ.

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Appears to take a mighty leap
forward toward its fulfillment

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and climax Picture reinforced
the point a little bit more.

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Let me just return to some
statistics the game.

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Consider how some of those 85
odd references to Isaiah in the

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New Testament are distributed
over the New Testament.

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Record.
Matthew’s Gospel 9 references to

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Isaiah that are fairly obvious.
Mark’s Gospel, 6 references to

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Isaiah, and of course.
These statistics.

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Might really be enlarged if
we’ve missed them.

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Luke refers to Isaiah,
obviously.

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Some five times John’s Gospel,
five times Acts, five times

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Romans, 18 times Revelation
Wildstein.

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Put another way, seven out of
the 27 New Testament books have

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no obvious reference to Isaiah’s
prophecy.

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That’s only 7 New Testament.
Books out of a total.

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Of 27 in a certain sense, then,
as you can see from those facts,

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it’s very much a New Testament
book is Isaiah, which we hope

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will become more.
Obvious as we proceed through

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our studies this week.
This class is designed to be.

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Introductory there’s.
A lot, in a certain way, that

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most of us know about Isaiah.
Because he is referred to.

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So many times in the New
Testament, in one way or

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another, we often hear Isaiah
being.

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Referred to but.
That’s somewhat of a delusion,

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because although we often hear
of references to Isaiah, it’s

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not too often that we get down
to Isaiah as a personal.

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Study is it?
Because there are some 66 books

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in Isaiah, we are often
discouraged from trying to take

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a handle on that prophecy in our
own personal study.

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Ecclesial Bible classes might
sometimes venture into the Minor

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Prophets, or perhaps into Daniel
or a section of Ezekiel, but

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rarely do Bible classes venture
into Isaiah as a block study.

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So although there’s.
A sense in which we all know

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something about Isaiah.
There’s a sense in which that’s

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not so true because of its
largeness.

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We hope that by the end of this
week, by going through Isaiah

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some six different times from
different perspectives,

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thematically, you’ll at least go
away from the Bible school

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feeling you have some handle on
Isaiah that you didn’t before.

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Some idea?
As to what the big.

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Concepts or the big spiritual?
Ideas are.

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In Isaiah and that you’ll.
Feel perhaps you have.

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Some idea as to the Life and
Times of Isaiah, and lastly some

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understanding of the.
Structure of that large book now

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let’s.
Turn to the Prophet himself.

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Isaiah, the son of Amos.
His name appears immediately in

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Isaiah chapter 1.
Isaiah the son of Amos now.

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Of the Prophet’s personal.
Life we know very little,

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brothers and sisters.
For what it’s worth, I will

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share with you.
What we might call traditional

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references to Isaiah from the
ancient Jewish writings outside

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of Scripture.
They’re not inspired and they’re

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not authoritative by any means.
But quite.

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Often some of these ancient.
Jewish traditions that preceded

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even the time of our Lord have
some reliability on some time on

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some occasions, so I’ll share a
few bits of information from

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that source.
Ancient Jewish tradition holds.

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That Isaiah was of royal.
Blood that Amos, his father

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mentioned here in chapter 1 that
Amos, Isaiah’s father was

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supposedly brother to.
King.

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Uzziah, king of Judah, the king
whose.

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Forehead broke.
Out in leprosy, you remember.

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Now, if that is reliable, such
royal origin would.

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Perhaps account for Isaiah’s?
Ready access to the court.

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In Jerusalem, for as you go
through the kings and Chronicles

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in the times of Isaiah, you find
that Isaiah has very.

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Free and easy.
Access to court life.

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In Jerusalem, from those records
and the middle section of

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Isaiah, there are hints.
That Isaiah moved about in

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higher circles in.
Jerusalem as though he were.

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Actually a member of the.
Court itself.

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So if that tradition can be.
Trusted it.

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Might account for why Isaiah was
very much part of Hezekiah’s

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Corp.
Now the same ancient Jewish

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traditions.
Also hold that Isaiah.

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Meant met a miserable end.
They tell us that Isaiah

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perished.
In the midst.

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Of Manassas godless persecution.
Campaign when the same tradition

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holds.
Apparently, Isaiah took refuge.

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In the hollow tree and Manasseh
ordered it to be.

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Sawn through while Isaiah
resided in the tree.

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But I know that sounds something
like Robin Hood, doesn’t it?

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But it may not be.
Stretching our credulity as much

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as we might.
Think Hold your hand here.

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And.
Just go over to Hebrews it.

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Just.
Might not be as mythical.

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As perhaps we might.
First React Hebrews chapter. 11

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that well known chapter.
Of the.

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Faithful who sacrificed their
lives for their convictions in

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faith there’s a curious.
Phrase here that just might.

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Match tradition with reality
Hebrews Chapter 11 we.

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Start.
Down to verse. 30. 5 by way of

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introduction.
Hebrews 11, verse 30. 5 women

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received.
Their dead raised to life.

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Again, and others were tortured,
not accepting deliverance that

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they might obtain a better
resurrection.

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Verse 30. 6.
And others had a trial of cruel

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mockings and scourgings, gay
moreover of bonds and

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imprisonment.
They were stoned.

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Now notice.
Have you ever thought about?

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This before and asked yourself
of whom was this writing

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written?
They were stones, they were fawn

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asunder.
Was that Isaiah during Manassas

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persecution?
Remember Jewish tradition?

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For what it’s worth.
Of course had no bearing on

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Hebrews Chapter 11.
The Jewish.

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Tradition we’re referring to was
written sometime before Hebrews

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11 was ever written, with no
direct reference.

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To the person or the.
People it.

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Is interesting that the most
ancient.

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Records that the Jews ever.
Held.

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About the.
Life and background of Isaiah

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maintained that he sought refuge
in a tree during Manassas.

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Period.
And he was, brutally.

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Sawn asunder.
Well, Hebrews. 11 is referring

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to somebody.
Or to some group.

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Isaiah might be the one.
Or.

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Might be typical of others.
James in his epistle says

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something that would be.
Very.

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Relevant to an understanding of
Isaiah’s times and of course for

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many other prophets in his
exposition of faith and work.

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James reminds us and we quote
from James.

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Take, my brethren, he.
Says the prophets who have.

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Spoken in the name of the.
Lord.

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For an example of suffering,
affliction, and patience, take

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my brethren the prophets.
Those.

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Who have been an example of
suffering and those who have

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lived through it with patience.
Good examples of godliness in

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isaiah’s prophecy we find that
Isaiah.

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Walked barefoot as part.
Of an enacted parable.

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It wasn’t a difficult parable.
It was not an easy parable to

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enact Isaiah.
Saw.

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Very brutal and ruthless times
all around him.

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He suffered through some of the
greatest tensions and stresses

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that his nation ever had known
and were yet to experience.

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When we consider Isaiah and his
time, whether he was saw in

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asunder or not, he lived in
times that were stressful and

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difficult, as we’ll shortly.
See.

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And as James admonishes us.
Let us look at the.

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Prophet himself as one who in
the name of the.

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Lord.
Was an example of suffering,

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afflictions and a man of
patience.

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There’s a little more direct.
Evidence in Scripture concerning

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something about Isaiah’s
personal life.

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Isaiah Chapter. 8 verse 3 tells
us that he was.

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Married to a woman.
Who was a prophetess?

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Now that’s rather curious that.
Wasn’t.

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Terribly typical, but I can’t.
Think of another major prophet

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in the Old Testament.
Who had a wife?

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That was termed a prophetess.
Think of that, brothers, and.

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Sisters, as you consider the.
Life and Times of Isaiah.

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As we progress through this
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Here was a rather interesting
household, a prophet and a wife.

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Who was a prophet test?
A team of.

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Prophets who work together a.
Powerful team in a bleak and

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rugged age.
On another, more personal note,

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not only do we know that Isaiah
was married to a prophet test,

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we also know that this.
Prophet.

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Test for Isaiah.
Two sons, We’ll come to them.

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Shortly, as we progress through
the week, they were to be

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called.
Men of sign or men of wonder?

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Both of Isaiah’s sons had
symbolic names, both

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representing very huge concepts
or themes in the prophecy of

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Isaiah.
Isaiah himself held a name that.

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Struck the.
Keynote of his prophecy Isaiah

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means.
Yahweh saved it.

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Can be construed.
As Yahweh is.

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Saving or Yahweh is salvation.
I think in brief it’s sufficient

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to say Isaiah’s name basically
meant Yahweh saved.

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You’ll find brothers and
sisters.

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If you look.
Carefully in Isaiah’s prophecy

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Austin, a play on Isaiah’s name
if you’ve never thought of

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looking through Isaiah with that
in mind.

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I’d suggest you do it.
Provides a lot of.

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Fruitful research A.
Play on Isaiah’s name.

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Yahweh is salvation.
Well, here’s just a little hint

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some 27 times in Isaiah.
The word.

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Salvation appears in the English
27 times salvation, 13 times the

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word.
Save is used well.

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You might say, So what?
Statistics aren’t worth much

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unless you compare them with
something else.

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Well, let me give you this
comparison then. 13 times the

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word.
Save appears and 27.

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Times salvation appears.
Now check Jeremiah’s prophecy by

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way of comparison.
Save.

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Or salvation appears twice in
Jeremiah, 0 in Ezekiel and 0 in

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Daniel, to the point it’s a
major theme in Isaiah’s

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prophecy.
More is said about saving and

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salvation in Isaiah’s prophecy
than any of the other major

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prophets.
So you can see there’s one very

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fruitful Ave. for discovery.
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Isaiah means Yahweh saved or
Yahweh is salvation and lo and

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behold.
As he goes through that.

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Prophecy More than Daniel, More
than Ezekiel more than Jeremiah

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30 times odd More Isaiah uses
the term save.

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Or.
Salvation Now think of something

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we just.
Said earlier we said that.

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Isaiah’s prophecy is.
Referred to directly or

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indirectly at least 80.
Five times in the New Testament,

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and we suggested that Isaiah is
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See why?
You see why in?

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Part that would be so for here
is the book of the Old Testament

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that’s like our brother that we.
Quoted said makes a quantum leap

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from the Old Testament covenant
background under Moses to an

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introduction of the new covenant
and one of the ways Isaiah

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impresses us with the.
Good.

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News introduction One of the
obvious reasons why the New

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Testament.
Would, by the Spirit’s guidance,

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constantly throwback threads
into.

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Isaiah constantly refer to
context in Isaiah is because in

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Isaiah there’s a major theme
dealing with salvation, dealing

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with God showing himself to be a
savior makes sense, doesn’t it?

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But by far, brothers and
sisters, the true greatness of

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Isaiah.
That should be.

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Associated with his name is.
Really.

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Of course the Spirit’s.
Vision that was entrusted to him

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through his ministry Now we
would estimate from a number of.

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Fairly good clues.
That Isaiah’s ministry lasted

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approximately 50 years.
That is the active.

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Part of his ministry about. 50
years.

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As we turn to the pages of
Isaiah’s prophecy, we find that

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it unveils.
For us.

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The full dimension of God’s
judgment, and conversely.

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God’s.
Salvation.

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Now I’m going to step through
some major thoughts in Isaiah,

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and you might want to just jot
them down.

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Or at least.
Hold them in your mind and use

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them perhaps?
As a little bit of.

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Help when they proceed.
Through the.

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Prophecies during the week, Key
ideas or key thoughts in Isaiah?

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We could call this.
Number one, and I’m not going to

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be exhausted.
It’s only a survey.

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Number one in Isaiah, the
holiness of God is a point of

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stress.
The holiness of God.

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Isaiah.
Six would be the classic.

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Package the Holy One of Israel,
seen in the year that Uzziah

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died and God.
Was lifted up.

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Secondly, in Isaiah.
Israel is often described as.

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Children, The concept of sons
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The daughter of Zion.
A major point of stress in his

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prophecy.
Thirdly, by Isaiah’s day, Israel

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had proven to be rebellious and
the concept of.

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Israel being a rebellious.
Nation is a typical way the

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nation is betrayed.
Case in point, Isaiah 1.

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Verse 2 Hear O heavens.
And give ye O.

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Earth for the Lord has.
Spoken now I have nourished.

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Says God to the prophet.
And brought up children.

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There’s the point.
And then secondly, he finishes

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in verse 2.
And they have rebelled against

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me.
There’s the introduction to

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Isaiah.
He views Israel as his.

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Children and he sees them as.
A rebellious group of brats.

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In some way and those kind of
terms, though I’m using a

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colloquial one those.
Kind of terms are.

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Used all.
Through Isaiah very

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uncomplimentary terms.
Brat is children.

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Well, another point of.
Emphasis in Isaiah the nation is

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often described as being sick,
blind, deaf 2 chapters that

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would be worth looking at Isaiah
6 and Isaiah 10 A nation blind

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and deaf a number of times in
Isaiah Isaiah.

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Portrays Israel as a.
Plant of some sort.

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Most importantly, a vineyard
that has been.

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Or rather, will be.
Trampled Isaiah 5 Israel the

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vineyard, but there are other.
Plants.

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Which are used through the
prophecy to portray her stunted.

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Growth.
Her lack of fruitfulness, but

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still as a.
Plant.

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The potential to produce fruit
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that context, it’s no surprise.
That when Jesus is portrayed.

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As coming into the world in
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He’s pictured as a.
Branch as a stem.

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As a root.
But the nation is of vineyard,

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another point of stress.
God’s awful judgments are

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described throughout Isaiah,
described as being potentially

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unleashed against his wayward
children.

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And as these judgments are
unfolding through Isaiah, you’ll

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often hear these terms.
And I’ll repeat.

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Them the day of the Lord, the
day of the Lord, the day of the

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Lord, he phrase another that’s.
A little more interesting, and a

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trigger phrase at that, helping
you to decide quite often

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whether it’s got a past
fulfillment.

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Whether it has a future
application or whether it’s

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both.
And the phrase is.

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Watch for it.
In that day he phrased in Isaiah

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in that day, in that day.
Another point of stress in

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Isaiah, the instrument of God’s
punishment against his people,

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is described in chapters 1 to.
40.

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Roughly, or 1 to 39.
The instrument of God’s

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punishment all through those.
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One ruthless nation in
particular, and it’s the mighty

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Assyrian.
The Assyrian people.

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The way they lived.
The way they conducted battle

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and their intentions in the
Middle East as they rose in the

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times of Isaiah is a major
thought in the.

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Prophecy, especially chapters.
One to 39 behind.

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All of those prophecies, there’s
always.

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Something about the Assyrian
that’s looming in the

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background.
You watch for it, You’ll find it

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to be helpful.
And Speaking of the Assyrian,

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the Assyrian is described in a
number of ways in Isaiah’s

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prophecy.
But one of the most telling, and

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by far figuratively.
One of the most important

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metaphors used to describe
Assyria is.

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That of being a.
Flood.

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Or a mighty water.
An overflowing flood, in fact.

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Great waters.
Often, there’s a reason for

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that.
Ophyria was perched not far from

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two of the mightiest rivers in
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And Euphrates.
Another point of stress, Isaiah.

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Revealed.
Brothers and sisters in his.

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Prophecy that God’s.
Arm is not.

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Short to save he.
According to Isaiah’s visions

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and prophecies, he God will
redeem them.

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Another keyword in Isaiah.
Watch for that.

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Redeem and redemption and.
God being pictured as their.

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Redeemer.
Redeem.

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Redemption and the Redeemer He.
Thought as they displayed God.

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As one who will say, remember
Isaiah’s name, another point of.

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Stress related to this.
Theme of the Redemption Isaiah

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holds out many graphics and
moving pictures of how the

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remnant.
Will be restored the.

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Remnant a keyword in Isaiah A.
Kind of word that’s worth.

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Circling or shading so it stands
out the context of those

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references to the remnant and to
being redeemed.

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Are critical, especially.
In Part 2 of Isaiah that is

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chapter. 40 to Chapter 66.
And then finally, God describes

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his children his.
Sons and daughters.

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And he describes his saving.
Son by the term servant, or in

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the plural servant.
Two very key.

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Expressions in Isaiah.
Watch for those as well.

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My servant, My servant.
Now that’s.

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Just a cursory overview.
Of some of the key ideas in

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Isaiah.
But that’s what we’re looking

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for this week we’re not going to
do.

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A verse by verse, we.
Just couldn’t.

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Possibly you’d have to pay.
For a second session at least,

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or more.
And no, the committee wouldn’t

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agree.
Would you, Paul, forget the camp

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now?
Let’s.

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Just look at the structure of
the prophecy.

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Would you now?
Turn those two handouts.

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The green one Christadelphians
are.

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Great plagiarists.
So, So we’re not accused of

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plagiarism, I’ll.
Confess something here at the.

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Outset this.
Is not original to Colin Badger.

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This to me.
I’m only Speaking of my own

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personal likings.
He is one of the best breakdowns

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I’ve ever seen.
Of this.

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Prophecy, and I know I haven’t
seen them all.

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But we did.
Spend a lot of time looking at

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different possibilities and
trying to work out some

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ourselves.
The author is Edward Whitaker.

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Edward is.
In my humble estimation, one of

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the finest students of Isaiah
that I’ve ever read in the

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Brotherhood.
He did a series of addresses at

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the.
Oxford Conference in his heyday

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back in the 60s and as.
A result of those studies they

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were.
Published in The Testimony

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magazine.
They are.

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Priceless and I highly suggest
them to you.

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If you want more information
about that, I’d be.

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Glad to talk to you.
Afterwards anyway, in the

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testimony.
Edward published this suggested.

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Breakdown now no breakdown is.
Absolutely able to be.

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Dogmatic, but consider.
This as a way of.

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Getting a handle on Isaiah.
First, over to the left.

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In heavy.
Block letters.

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There’s a stress. .3 sections.
Historically that’s the key

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point.
Progressive.

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Now what are those?
Three well, just back up to the

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boxes introduction to the.
Prophecy of Isaiah, chapters

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1:00 to 12:00.
Then break chapters 13 to 27,

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the period dealing with
Hezekiah, and you can see the

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sub breakdown. 5 burdens on five
cities Five more burdens on five

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cities, ending with a climax
that describes the Kingdom

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period in the future if you
slip.

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Back to the bottom of the first
box.

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You’ll see it ends in a similar
note.

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A has his period ending with a
climax that pictures the Kingdom

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third.
Box.

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Known as the Assyrian Crisis in
Isaiah, chapters 20. 8 to 35

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again.
You return to a fivesome 5 woes

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on Judah, then at the end of 35
or in that chapter you have once

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again a climatic ending like the
Kingdom.

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Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?
That’s a typical.

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Pattern in the prophet
Zechariah.

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Think of Zechariah.
You have narrative and vision,

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narrative and vision, narrative
and vision.

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Now that’s a clue for something
else.

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Think of the apocalypse.
Narrative vision.

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Narrative vision all.
Through the apocalypse, the same

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basic.
Structure where you have

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narrative sections and then you
have those broken with

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interspersed visions.
Of the future you get a series

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of doleful.
Judgments, then a stop and a

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vision of the future, the
144,000, for example, or the

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vision of the lamb on the throne
another series of judgments,

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woeful judgments, whether it’s
the.

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Vials.
Or whether it’s the trumpets.

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Then a break.
A break.

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And a.
Vision of a brighter day that’s

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very.
Similar to Isaiah.

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Three boxes for you 3.
Sections then.

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At the axis of the prophecy,
the.

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Hinge the.
Center point of Isaiah.

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That is Chapters 36.
To 39.

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You have a curious.
Hinge for.

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You have in here a.
Series of historical chapters.

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Dealing with the life and time
of Hezekiah.

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During the time of the.
Assyrian invasion, and you might

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wonder why it’s there.
Why might you wonder that it’s?

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There because it’s also.
In Kings and Chronicles.

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That’s why.
Interesting repetition of

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Scripture.
There are some differences, but

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by and large 36 to 39 is found.
Almost major idea for major idea

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00:29:18,560 –> 00:29:20,320
in Kings and Chronicles
combined.

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00:29:21,040 –> 00:29:22,560
We’ll come back to that some
other time.

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00:29:22,960 –> 00:29:25,800
But notice Edward’s suggestion
here.

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00:29:25,800 –> 00:29:29,400
I think is interesting.
Even in the hinge of this

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00:29:29,400 –> 00:29:34,640
historical section, A3 fold
division can be perceived.

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00:29:35,880 –> 00:29:38,200
Now.
The second part of the prophecy.

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00:29:38,680 –> 00:29:41,720
You might wonder why this is.
Arranged in vertical columns.

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00:29:42,840 –> 00:29:44,160
I won’t.
Labor this too much, but.

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00:29:44,160 –> 00:29:46,400
Just give you a clue, you’ll
notice.

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00:29:46,480 –> 00:29:52,800
Again, a threesome. 40 to 48. 49
to 57. 58 to 60.

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00:29:52,800 –> 00:29:57,160
Six, what justifies breaking out
the second part of Isaiah in

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00:29:57,160 –> 00:29:59,760
such a way?
Well, there’s a very good

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00:29:59,760 –> 00:30:02,480
reason.
Brothers and sisters at the end

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00:30:02,480 –> 00:30:07,560
of chapter. 48 You have a key
trigger phrase used which seems.

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00:30:07,560 –> 00:30:10,440
To mark the end of a section,
and here it is.

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No peace.
For the for the wicked.

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00:30:13,400 –> 00:30:15,280
No.
Peace for the wicked.

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00:30:15,840 –> 00:30:19,720
Then from 49 to 57 you have
another section.

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00:30:19,880 –> 00:30:22,960
And it.
Too ends by this phrase.

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00:30:23,480 –> 00:30:27,760
No peace for the wicked.
And that expression does not

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00:30:27,760 –> 00:30:32,000
occur within those columns or
within those internal sections.

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00:30:32,560 –> 00:30:36,640
Finally, you travel from
chapter. 58 to 66.

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00:30:37,080 –> 00:30:39,560
And at the end of. 66 What have
you got?

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00:30:40,480 –> 00:30:43,000
No wicked.
No wicked.

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00:30:43,440 –> 00:30:46,280
The expression does not.
Directly occur, but read the

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00:30:46,280 –> 00:30:49,520
last two or three.
Verses of Isaiah 66 in your

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00:30:49,520 –> 00:30:51,840
spare time and you’ll see what
it’s saying.

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00:30:52,040 –> 00:30:55,320
No wicked, they’re gone.
Something else that’s

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00:30:55,320 –> 00:30:57,880
interesting as.
You go across.

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00:30:57,880 –> 00:31:00,640
Horizontally, the way this is
arranged on your sheet.

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00:31:01,440 –> 00:31:04,640
This is curious.
Considering the importance of

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00:31:04,640 –> 00:31:06,760
Isaiah.
‘S name Yahweh says.

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00:31:07,440 –> 00:31:08,720
And the importance?
Of the word.

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00:31:08,720 –> 00:31:15,120
Salvation in Isaiah 4.
At chapter. 44 you have a key

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00:31:15,120 –> 00:31:17,600
chapter.
Dealing with salvation to Zion

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00:31:17,880 –> 00:31:20,760
right in the.
Middle of that section and.

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00:31:20,760 –> 00:31:25,040
Exactly at the same midpoint of
the next section.

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00:31:25,320 –> 00:31:29,200
You have the.
Famous Isaiah 53 chapter dealing

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00:31:29,200 –> 00:31:31,840
with the Savior, the suffering
Servant.

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00:31:32,240 –> 00:31:36,280
Then in the last section,
consisting of the same number of

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00:31:36,280 –> 00:31:41,440
chapters, Isaiah 62 Keynote.
Of the chapter Salvation.

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00:31:41,440 –> 00:31:43,360
To Zion.
I don’t think that’s

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00:31:43,360 –> 00:31:45,840
coincidence.
There seems to be very

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00:31:45,840 –> 00:31:50,280
definitely some symmetry and
some intended structure in

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00:31:50,280 –> 00:31:54,040
Isaiah.
In summary, when you think of

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00:31:54,040 –> 00:31:56,840
Isaiah.
This layout suggests that you.

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00:31:56,840 –> 00:32:01,000
Think of a three someness.
Three blocks.

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00:32:01,360 –> 00:32:05,160
Going up to the middle of
Isaiah, a threefold division at

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00:32:05,160 –> 00:32:06,480
the axes.
Of the book.

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00:32:06,960 –> 00:32:10,720
And then the second part of
Isaiah having a threefold

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00:32:10,720 –> 00:32:14,560
section, each section ending no
peace.

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00:32:14,680 –> 00:32:18,160
For the wicked.
We’ll come back to that later.

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00:32:24,040 –> 00:32:28,080
Your second sheet brothers and
sisters, I’d suggest if you can

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00:32:28,080 –> 00:32:29,920
bring these.
To the classes this week.

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00:32:30,320 –> 00:32:33,360
Periodically, even when I’m not
referring to them, you might

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00:32:33,360 –> 00:32:38,760
find it useful to turn to them.
Let’s put Isaiah in historical

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00:32:38,760 –> 00:32:41,880
context.
Dates.

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00:32:41,880 –> 00:32:45,960
While we can’t be totally
dogmatic, but there are some key

508
00:32:45,960 –> 00:32:49,800
dates in Isaiah that are
milestones that we can be

509
00:32:49,800 –> 00:32:52,160
fairly.
Sure of the date that.

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00:32:52,160 –> 00:32:55,680
Marks the fall of Samaria.
It’s a fairly definite date in

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00:32:55,680 –> 00:33:02,080
ancient history, about 720-2723.
Well, let’s just see Isaiah.

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00:33:02,080 –> 00:33:04,680
Where is he placed in God’s plan
and purpose?

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00:33:05,240 –> 00:33:10,280
First, my pen is pointing to his
contemporaries and there might

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00:33:10,280 –> 00:33:13,280
be more depending on one’s
personal judgments.

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00:33:14,040 –> 00:33:19,280
Isaiah is contemporary for most
of his career with Micah.

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00:33:20,400 –> 00:33:22,160
Now you might say, well, So
what?

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00:33:22,520 –> 00:33:23,680
You know you’ve.
Told it that.

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00:33:23,760 –> 00:33:24,560
What’s the?
Point.

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00:33:24,960 –> 00:33:27,440
Well, here’s the point.
If you want to find out a

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00:33:27,440 –> 00:33:28,920
little.
Bit more about the life.

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00:33:28,920 –> 00:33:32,720
And Times of Isaiah sometimes
browse through.

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00:33:32,720 –> 00:33:35,360
Micah and take a look.
At what it says.

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00:33:35,360 –> 00:33:38,480
About the Assyrian invader, see
What a Micah.

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00:33:38,480 –> 00:33:40,880
Has to say about messianic
prophecies.

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00:33:42,000 –> 00:33:46,120
See Isaiah chapter 4 using.
Word for word the.

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00:33:46,120 –> 00:33:51,400
Same language as Isaiah also.
In Micah conditions in the.

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00:33:51,520 –> 00:33:55,360
Time of the Prophet, the
waywardness of Israel and Judah.

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00:33:55,560 –> 00:33:57,320
What, Micah?
Tells us.

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00:33:57,400 –> 00:34:02,760
Is insightful and youthful.
Hosea another prophet.

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00:34:02,760 –> 00:34:05,880
Well worth looking at when
you’re thinking about Isaiah’s

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00:34:05,920 –> 00:34:08,920
life and time.
He was contemporary.

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00:34:10,080 –> 00:34:12,880
There are others that are
possibilities some have

533
00:34:12,880 –> 00:34:17,080
suggested.
That Nahum comes just before or

534
00:34:17,199 –> 00:34:20,159
somewhere into the period of
Isaiah’s prophecy.

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00:34:21,159 –> 00:34:23,920
Some would place Joel.
And this is controversial.

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00:34:24,280 –> 00:34:27,320
Some would.
Place Joel before the prophecy.

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00:34:27,320 –> 00:34:30,760
Of Isaiah, or at least sometime
contemporary.

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00:34:31,639 –> 00:34:35,280
The brethren, of course, have
had differences of points of

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00:34:35,280 –> 00:34:36,920
view on.
Joel over the years.

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00:34:37,239 –> 00:34:40,800
Some would place Joel back in
the time of Jehoshaphat, prior

541
00:34:40,800 –> 00:34:44,960
to Isaiah, that’s where Eileen.
But some would also place Joel

542
00:34:44,960 –> 00:34:48,560
as being written at the eve of
the Babylonian invasion.

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00:34:49,760 –> 00:34:52,840
Some would say that it was a
blueprint for both invasions and

544
00:34:52,840 –> 00:34:56,320
yet for a future northern
invasion anyways.

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00:34:56,320 –> 00:34:59,200
Joel is a possibility.
Well.

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00:34:59,200 –> 00:35:03,080
When did Isaiah begin to?
Work, we say.

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00:35:03,720 –> 00:35:05,920
He ministered for some 50.
Years.

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00:35:06,720 –> 00:35:09,160
Well, we can’t be dogmatic, but
we think.

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00:35:09,520 –> 00:35:12,600
It’s fair to say that.
Isaiah began his active

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00:35:12,600 –> 00:35:16,480
ministry.
At about 740 BC.

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00:35:17,080 –> 00:35:20,320
About 740 BC.
You might want to note.

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00:35:20,320 –> 00:35:28,120
That we know that that’s not too
inaccurate for Isaiah and Kings

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00:35:28,120 –> 00:35:32,600
and Chronicles mentioned the
number of Assyrian kings on the

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00:35:32,600 –> 00:35:37,120
rise and from Assyrian records
and Assyrian.

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00:35:37,120 –> 00:35:38,960
Studies which we’ll look at.
Tonight in our.

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00:35:38,960 –> 00:35:42,840
Slides we have a.
Fairly good idea as to the

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00:35:42,840 –> 00:35:47,920
accuracy of that 740 date.
Now, concerning the Life and

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00:35:47,920 –> 00:35:51,360
Times of Isaiah.
Something else worth noting.

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00:35:53,800 –> 00:36:00,440
What was it like to?
Live in isaiah’s times very

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00:36:00,440 –> 00:36:02,280
important to an understanding of
the.

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00:36:02,280 –> 00:36:05,840
Issues of the day.
Whenever we turn to a section in

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00:36:05,840 –> 00:36:08,320
scripture.
Whether it’s Paul’s epistles or

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00:36:08,320 –> 00:36:10,440
whether it’s a prophecy.
Like Isaiah?

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00:36:11,040 –> 00:36:13,680
We’ve got to get.
Some feeling for the times in

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00:36:13,680 –> 00:36:15,000
which.
The Prophet lived.

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00:36:15,520 –> 00:36:18,440
If you don’t know what was
happening in his world, it’s

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00:36:18,440 –> 00:36:21,440
hard to understand what the.
Issues of the day really were.

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00:36:21,920 –> 00:36:25,600
Or why the prophet says certain
things when he does on God’s

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00:36:25,600 –> 00:36:28,800
behalf.
This is absolutely.

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00:36:28,800 –> 00:36:34,880
Important to know in.
Isaiah’s day there were great

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00:36:35,160 –> 00:36:38,680
political ships.
Taking place in the Middle East.

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00:36:39,400 –> 00:36:43,200
Now, as I sketched some of this
for you, I want you to think in

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00:36:43,200 –> 00:36:47,320
modern times.
For as I sketch out what was.

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00:36:47,320 –> 00:36:50,920
Happening in his days, it has
some rather interesting

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00:36:50,920 –> 00:36:52,880
parallels.
No doubt to our own.

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00:36:54,560 –> 00:36:59,600
Here’s the Middle East, and that
perhaps will be a focus as we

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00:36:59,600 –> 00:37:04,600
consider the following around
7:00. 140 BC.

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00:37:05,680 –> 00:37:10,680
There were brothers and sisters
on in movement a number of

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00:37:10,680 –> 00:37:16,880
important political situations
which were to have a profound

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00:37:16,880 –> 00:37:20,880
effect on the whole.
Middle East especially.

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00:37:21,160 –> 00:37:24,720
On Israel to the north.
Little there were that was left.

582
00:37:25,120 –> 00:37:29,480
And of course, on Judah
Hezekiah’s people in particular.

583
00:37:30,600 –> 00:37:34,640
For at this time there was
rising, after a rather sleepy

584
00:37:34,640 –> 00:37:41,080
period of decline, a new, and
it’s new in quotations, great

585
00:37:41,080 –> 00:37:46,080
and mighty power beginning to
organize itself and flex its

586
00:37:46,080 –> 00:37:48,920
muscles.
Ever so slightly at first.

587
00:37:49,760 –> 00:37:54,520
And we’re talking about Assyria
capital being in Nineveh up here

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00:37:54,520 –> 00:37:58,960
somewhere.
Nineveh and Assyria, ancient had

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00:37:58,960 –> 00:38:02,280
gone through a long period of
sleepy decline.

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00:38:02,360 –> 00:38:06,080
Before Isaiah’s days.
That is, back in the days of

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00:38:06,080 –> 00:38:09,240
Jehoshaphat, Assyria was not
much of A power.

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00:38:09,560 –> 00:38:12,920
But.
As you come to the period of 740

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00:38:12,920 –> 00:38:16,960
BC and as you open your pages to
Isaiah 1.

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00:38:17,360 –> 00:38:22,320
To the voice of Isaiah.
You’re living in times that are

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00:38:22,320 –> 00:38:26,760
most critical.
Assyria now is about to mount

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00:38:26,760 –> 00:38:31,160
yourself up with renewed power
and strength, like the old

597
00:38:31,160 –> 00:38:35,840
mythical phoenix.
A resurrected power, physically

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00:38:35,840 –> 00:38:38,040
speaking.
An ancient power, not a new one.

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00:38:38,640 –> 00:38:40,600
But.
Going through now a kind of

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00:38:40,600 –> 00:38:45,760
renaissance, the old Assyria had
changed and knew.

601
00:38:45,760 –> 00:38:50,200
Assyria was about to arise.
In unparalleled fashion.

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00:38:50,960 –> 00:38:55,760
A ruthless, godless, brutal
power.

603
00:38:55,760 –> 00:38:59,160
As she was about to.
Become throughout the Middle

604
00:38:59,160 –> 00:39:02,240
East, tremors were found all
around the.

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00:39:02,480 –> 00:39:05,480
Area of the Tigers Rufredis.
Tremors.

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00:39:05,600 –> 00:39:09,120
Politically speaking, the small
powers that were around the

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00:39:09,120 –> 00:39:12,720
skirts of Assyria began to feel.
Her.

608
00:39:12,720 –> 00:39:17,400
Flexing might as.
She slowly tested her power.

609
00:39:17,400 –> 00:39:20,120
Against some of the small.
City States.

610
00:39:20,960 –> 00:39:25,120
News ever so slowly began to
trickle down through the

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00:39:25,120 –> 00:39:30,520
Mediterranean, to Israel and to
Egypt about this new rising.

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00:39:30,520 –> 00:39:32,200
Power.
And it came.

613
00:39:32,200 –> 00:39:35,880
Rather slowly at first.
But mounted in its strength,

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00:39:37,200 –> 00:39:43,600
then came a man called Tiglath
Pulizer, known in the Bible as

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00:39:43,600 –> 00:39:45,560
Pull PU.
L.

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00:39:45,960 –> 00:39:49,640
A number of times.
Tiglath Pulizer was to be the

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00:39:49,680 –> 00:39:54,320
architect.
Of the new power of Athyria, a

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00:39:54,320 –> 00:40:00,400
very ingenious man by human
standards, a conniving political

619
00:40:00,400 –> 00:40:03,400
genius, a kind of Hitler.
As it were.

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00:40:04,240 –> 00:40:06,400
He knew what it was to build an
empire.

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00:40:06,760 –> 00:40:09,240
He knew what it was to
strengthen his borders

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00:40:09,240 –> 00:40:11,320
immediately around his own
territory.

623
00:40:11,960 –> 00:40:14,240
And he knew.
What it was to work?

624
00:40:14,240 –> 00:40:17,600
From that parameter out to the
surrounding powers the.

625
00:40:17,600 –> 00:40:21,120
Little powers like Israel, Moab,
Edom.

626
00:40:21,320 –> 00:40:26,960
And Ammon progressively this
architect of the new Assyrian.

627
00:40:26,960 –> 00:40:32,520
Power Tiglath Pleaser marshalled
his forces cautiously, but.

628
00:40:32,520 –> 00:40:38,000
Ever so ingeniously strengthened
his borders, and came to be

629
00:40:38,000 –> 00:40:41,400
known as the Great Mighty
General.

630
00:40:41,400 –> 00:40:46,880
Of Assyria to quote.
Some sources at this time from

631
00:40:46,880 –> 00:40:51,560
historians, Assyria.
One source.

632
00:40:51,560 –> 00:40:55,080
Says.
A nation of ruthless conquerors,

633
00:40:55,720 –> 00:41:00,200
who more than any of the ancient
tyrannies, spread their evil.

634
00:41:00,200 –> 00:41:06,480
Natures with a sadistic delight.
In cruelty, if you go to the

635
00:41:06,480 –> 00:41:09,600
museum such as the British
Museum or the one in.

636
00:41:09,600 –> 00:41:13,800
Berlin and take a look.
At what’s there from the old.

637
00:41:13,880 –> 00:41:17,280
Assyrian inscriptions in stone
and.

638
00:41:17,280 –> 00:41:21,160
Pictorially, look at how they
viewed.

639
00:41:21,160 –> 00:41:24,960
Themselves and how they carried
on their daily business.

640
00:41:27,000 –> 00:41:30,120
Excuse me, you would?
Find a great emphasis on

641
00:41:30,120 –> 00:41:32,280
brutality.
Excuse me?

642
00:41:33,360 –> 00:41:36,960
Here’s what you’d see.
Scenes, often in stone.

643
00:41:37,680 –> 00:41:39,960
Showing the Assyrians stretching
their.

644
00:41:39,960 –> 00:41:41,880
Victims out in.
Torture.

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00:41:43,000 –> 00:41:46,920
They had a preference.
For flaying their victims alive

646
00:41:46,920 –> 00:41:50,200
that is peeling off the.
Skin of a whole body.

647
00:41:51,000 –> 00:41:54,400
And then laying out the victim
under the hot Assyrian Middle

648
00:41:54,400 –> 00:42:00,880
East sun to rise and die slowly
in pain when they besieged the

649
00:42:01,000 –> 00:42:03,040
city such as.
Jerusalem.

650
00:42:03,520 –> 00:42:08,240
They had a favorite method.
Of psychological warfare they

651
00:42:08,240 –> 00:42:10,600
would.
Try to capture the defectors

652
00:42:10,600 –> 00:42:12,360
that might try to.
Creep out of the city.

653
00:42:12,840 –> 00:42:15,160
Or any that.
They had previously gotten.

654
00:42:15,160 –> 00:42:19,800
From the earlier towns or cities
and they would take them and

655
00:42:19,800 –> 00:42:24,520
they would decapitate them and
pile their heads in great mounds

656
00:42:24,560 –> 00:42:26,920
around the city that was being
besieged.

657
00:42:27,520 –> 00:42:30,240
Can you imagine being in
Jerusalem in the days of

658
00:42:30,240 –> 00:42:34,040
Hezekiah when the Assyrian
encircled them and peering over

659
00:42:34,040 –> 00:42:36,360
the city walls to see a scene
like that?

660
00:42:37,400 –> 00:42:40,000
Another thing they prefer to do.
I don’t want to dwell on this,

661
00:42:40,000 –> 00:42:42,880
but I want you to.
Appreciate the brutality of

662
00:42:42,880 –> 00:42:43,520
this.
Nation.

663
00:42:43,800 –> 00:42:48,200
They were unique in the extent
to which they went and when you

664
00:42:48,200 –> 00:42:50,880
understand the the.
Barbarism of this.

665
00:42:50,880 –> 00:42:55,640
People you canmore keenly.
Appreciate how living terror.

666
00:42:55,800 –> 00:42:59,760
Must have been struck into
Isaiah’s contemporaries and into

667
00:42:59,760 –> 00:43:03,320
the city of Jerusalem.
When the Assyrian came down,

668
00:43:04,440 –> 00:43:08,600
they often decapitated their
captives and used those heads as

669
00:43:08,600 –> 00:43:12,640
necklaces around.
Those who are still alive, they

670
00:43:12,640 –> 00:43:15,560
would take their captives.
Naked and allow them to.

671
00:43:15,560 –> 00:43:18,040
Tramp over the hot sands on the
way to Assyria.

672
00:43:18,120 –> 00:43:21,560
If they died, they died.
They often preferred to take

673
00:43:21,560 –> 00:43:24,880
metal rings and put them in the
noses of their captives and

674
00:43:24,880 –> 00:43:28,840
string them nose to nose, ring
to ring and a chain affair.

675
00:43:29,080 –> 00:43:31,520
And if you moved much, you can
imagine what would happen.

676
00:43:32,920 –> 00:43:36,000
Those.
Were cruel and ferocious people

677
00:43:36,520 –> 00:43:39,640
another.
Source says this psychological

678
00:43:39,640 –> 00:43:42,600
terror.
Was Assyria’s most.

679
00:43:42,600 –> 00:43:45,760
Effective weapon it was
ruthlessly.

680
00:43:45,760 –> 00:43:50,840
Applied with corpses impaled on.
Stakes severed, heads stacked.

681
00:43:50,840 –> 00:43:53,800
In heaps, captives skinned
alive.

682
00:43:54,800 –> 00:43:56,160
Notice that last.
Point.

683
00:43:56,880 –> 00:44:00,520
Psychological terror.
Now, brothers and sisters, later

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00:44:00,520 –> 00:44:05,280
on, we’ll do this tomorrow when
you read in Kings and Chronicles

685
00:44:05,280 –> 00:44:08,080
and the middle of Isaiah the
speeches.

686
00:44:08,080 –> 00:44:11,600
Of Rab Shaka.
You have there.

687
00:44:12,200 –> 00:44:15,640
Classic speeches of
psychological terror.

688
00:44:16,600 –> 00:44:19,840
There isn’t anywhere in all.
Scripture where you have a

689
00:44:19,840 –> 00:44:22,040
better.
Example better in quotation

690
00:44:22,040 –> 00:44:25,520
marks a better example of
psychological.

691
00:44:25,520 –> 00:44:29,360
Warfare.
Used against God’s people, Rab

692
00:44:29,360 –> 00:44:33,960
Sheka was not a military man.
His name in the original means

693
00:44:33,960 –> 00:44:35,520
that he was either a.
Butler or a.

694
00:44:35,520 –> 00:44:39,640
Cupbearer, but he was employed
by the Assyrians.

695
00:44:40,280 –> 00:44:45,080
To effect psychological warfare.
Against the walls of Jerusalem.

696
00:44:45,760 –> 00:44:49,360
Every tactic, every phrase,
every strategy.

697
00:44:49,640 –> 00:44:51,320
Which?
Rab Shaker used as he.

698
00:44:51,320 –> 00:44:54,240
Railed against the walls of
Jerusalem was.

699
00:44:54,240 –> 00:44:57,640
Carefully calculated, very
subtle.

700
00:44:57,640 –> 00:45:01,080
As you analyze it and intended
to penetrate.

701
00:45:01,080 –> 00:45:04,320
Those walls without.
Having to shed an ounce of

702
00:45:04,320 –> 00:45:07,200
Assyrian blood.
Psychological warfare.

703
00:45:08,200 –> 00:45:10,840
Now all of that, brothers and
sisters, is not to dwell on

704
00:45:10,840 –> 00:45:13,280
things that are morbid.
But as you.

705
00:45:13,280 –> 00:45:17,520
Read Isaiah and Micah and Nahem.
You do receive those kinds of

706
00:45:17,520 –> 00:45:19,800
descriptions.
They are there in Scripture for

707
00:45:19,800 –> 00:45:24,480
you, and they do help us to more
keenly understand what it was.

708
00:45:24,480 –> 00:45:29,720
Like to have the possibility.
Of an Assyrian army coming down

709
00:45:29,720 –> 00:45:33,280
against your town or hamlet, or
against your capital city.

710
00:45:33,960 –> 00:45:37,440
It wasn’t like the.
Egyptians coming down, it wasn’t

711
00:45:37,440 –> 00:45:40,840
like Moab attacking.
It wasn’t as if you were having

712
00:45:40,840 –> 00:45:42,920
a raid by Edom.
Or Ammon.

713
00:45:43,360 –> 00:45:49,800
This was Astyria, a ruthless,
godless, brutal war.

714
00:45:49,800 –> 00:45:53,880
Machine that not only used
battering Rams, but used.

715
00:45:54,280 –> 00:45:57,840
The power of a psychology to
strike terror.

716
00:45:57,840 –> 00:46:00,800
Into her victims to be.
Now.

717
00:46:01,000 –> 00:46:03,240
You can see when you consider
all that together.

718
00:46:03,560 –> 00:46:05,200
The.
Great need for faith.

719
00:46:05,920 –> 00:46:10,320
These were trying and tense
times and in many senses

720
00:46:10,360 –> 00:46:14,240
unparalleled.
Can you more keenly appreciate

721
00:46:14,240 –> 00:46:20,240
now the job that Isaiah had to
do to put calm and peace into

722
00:46:20,240 –> 00:46:24,440
that nation, but at the same
time to evoke reform?

723
00:46:25,040 –> 00:46:27,280
Kenya Moore keenly appreciate
how.

724
00:46:27,560 –> 00:46:30,720
Hezekiah’s.
Reforms were on a tight

725
00:46:30,720 –> 00:46:33,560
schedule.
Everything Hezekiah did, and

726
00:46:33,560 –> 00:46:35,240
we’ll see this tomorrow, was on
a.

727
00:46:35,240 –> 00:46:40,280
Very tight schedule Chronicle.
Says it was done suddenly.

728
00:46:40,720 –> 00:46:43,320
Why?
Because in God’s providential

729
00:46:43,320 –> 00:46:51,080
hand there wasn’t much time
left, for within only 20 or 30

730
00:46:51,080 –> 00:46:54,080
years, the Middle East.
Was to look like this.

731
00:46:55,120 –> 00:47:00,400
Completely reshaped and very
much under one power’s

732
00:47:00,400 –> 00:47:04,040
domination.
It wasn’t to be long in the days

733
00:47:04,040 –> 00:47:08,840
of Isaiah or Hezekiah that the
Middle East would be under the

734
00:47:08,840 –> 00:47:10,600
power.
Of this great might.

735
00:47:10,800 –> 00:47:13,800
In the old E Assyria was soon
to.

736
00:47:13,800 –> 00:47:16,280
Gobble up territory after
territory.

737
00:47:17,040 –> 00:47:20,400
Then when you turn to Isaiah 1
verse one.

738
00:47:20,880 –> 00:47:23,800
Here’s the picture.
A small little nation.

739
00:47:24,160 –> 00:47:26,040
With a faithless.
King.

740
00:47:26,360 –> 00:47:28,400
His name was Ahaz.
We’ll look at him in just a

741
00:47:28,400 –> 00:47:32,800
moment, very quickly.
A faithless king, a nation

742
00:47:32,800 –> 00:47:37,720
described often in Isaiah as
thick and weak and very much in

743
00:47:37,720 –> 00:47:42,480
need of reform.
And against that rather pathetic

744
00:47:42,480 –> 00:47:44,560
scene.
There is a.

745
00:47:44,560 –> 00:47:49,040
Great Lion in the Middle East.
Who has already by?

746
00:47:49,040 –> 00:47:52,320
The time of Isaiah 1.
Arched over through the top of

747
00:47:52,320 –> 00:47:54,280
the.
Fertile, present and with

748
00:47:54,280 –> 00:47:57,480
vicious and hungry eyes ready
to.

749
00:47:57,520 –> 00:48:01,200
Tear Judah apart as well.
As the north.

750
00:48:01,880 –> 00:48:03,720
That’s the scene in Isaiah 1 and
one.

751
00:48:04,520 –> 00:48:07,360
It’s.
A time of great urgency.

752
00:48:07,520 –> 00:48:12,040
There’s not much time left.
And God raises up Micah, and he

753
00:48:12,040 –> 00:48:17,560
raises up Hosea, and he raises
up Isaiah to warn this nation,

754
00:48:17,840 –> 00:48:19,960
and he.
Raises up Hezekiah the

755
00:48:19,960 –> 00:48:23,720
Righteous.
King who will do and undo?

756
00:48:23,840 –> 00:48:27,040
All that A has his.
Father had done for wicked.

757
00:48:27,600 –> 00:48:31,040
Now, in the few moments.
That remain What about this

758
00:48:31,040 –> 00:48:33,440
faithless king?
That had created such a.

759
00:48:33,440 –> 00:48:37,960
Terrible scene for Isaiah and
Hezekiah to have to unravel.

760
00:48:39,120 –> 00:48:42,960
Second Kings, consider this
chapter 16.

761
00:48:45,920 –> 00:48:49,040
These are the days of Ahaz,
father of Hezekiah.

762
00:48:49,920 –> 00:48:51,440
This.
Is the mess.

763
00:48:51,440 –> 00:48:54,440
That was to be left.
To Isaiah and Hezekiah.

764
00:48:55,040 –> 00:49:03,680
For it says this verse.
Ten of Second Kings 16 and King

765
00:49:03,680 –> 00:49:07,720
Ahaz went to Damascus.
This just before the.

766
00:49:07,720 –> 00:49:13,000
Time of Isaiah’s main ministry.
He went to Damascus to meet.

767
00:49:13,040 –> 00:49:15,280
Tigleth Pleaser.
The man we just mentioned.

768
00:49:15,560 –> 00:49:18,120
The architect of Assyria.
King of Assyria and.

769
00:49:18,560 –> 00:49:20,960
What does he do?
He saw an altar that was at

770
00:49:20,960 –> 00:49:23,120
Damascus.
And King Ahaz.

771
00:49:23,120 –> 00:49:26,200
Sent to Urijah the priest.
A Jewish priest.

772
00:49:27,680 –> 00:49:31,800
The fashion of the altar and the
pattern of it, according to all

773
00:49:31,800 –> 00:49:36,120
the workmanship thereof.
And what does Ahaz have in mind?

774
00:49:36,840 –> 00:49:41,080
Having seen this apostate altar?
He sends back the blueprints for

775
00:49:41,080 –> 00:49:45,160
it to be made in Jerusalem.
Verse 14.

776
00:49:45,640 –> 00:49:48,920
Ahaz he brought also.
The brazen altar, which was.

777
00:49:48,920 –> 00:49:52,400
Before the Lord.
From the forefront of the house,

778
00:49:52,600 –> 00:49:55,760
from between the altar and the.
House of the Lord.

779
00:49:56,000 –> 00:49:58,360
And put it on the north.
Side of the altar.

780
00:49:58,920 –> 00:49:59,760
And King.
Ahaz.

781
00:49:59,760 –> 00:50:03,360
Commanded you ride to the
priest, saying, upon the great

782
00:50:03,360 –> 00:50:07,240
altar, that is burn the morning
burnt offering and evening meat

783
00:50:07,240 –> 00:50:09,920
offering and the King’s burnt
sacrifice.

784
00:50:10,680 –> 00:50:14,640
Verse 17 and king.
Ahaz cut off the borders of the

785
00:50:14,640 –> 00:50:16,880
bases.
This is the Labor referred.

786
00:50:16,880 –> 00:50:21,360
To in verse 16 and 15 and
removed the labor from them and

787
00:50:21,360 –> 00:50:24,480
took down the sea.
That’s the labor from the brazen

788
00:50:24,480 –> 00:50:26,480
oxen that were under it and put
it.

789
00:50:26,480 –> 00:50:30,600
Upon a pavement of stones.
Can you imagine what he’s doing?

790
00:50:30,960 –> 00:50:35,120
Here’s the father of Hezekiah.
Changing the worship of Israel.

791
00:50:35,560 –> 00:50:39,840
Deep rooted apostasy borrowed.
From the ancient Middle East in

792
00:50:39,840 –> 00:50:44,400
all its superstitions, then turn
over to Second Chronicles 28

793
00:50:45,240 –> 00:50:49,880
appointed summary of this wicked
and perverse man who did so much

794
00:50:50,440 –> 00:50:53,960
to create problems for the days
of Isaiah and Hezekiah.

795
00:50:56,600 –> 00:50:59,560
Second Chronicles, 28.
As we get a.

796
00:50:59,560 –> 00:51:04,960
Summary of Ahaz and his reign.
Notice this Second Chronicles

797
00:51:04,960 –> 00:51:10,920
28, verse 22 and in the time of
his.

798
00:51:10,920 –> 00:51:16,080
Distress that they has did he?
Trespass yet more against the.

799
00:51:16,080 –> 00:51:20,160
Lord, this is that.
King A has, and he sacrificed

800
00:51:20,160 –> 00:51:23,560
unto the gods of Damascus, which
smote him, and he.

801
00:51:23,560 –> 00:51:27,480
Said because the gods of.
The kings of Syria help them

802
00:51:27,880 –> 00:51:29,680
therefore.
Look at this logic.

803
00:51:30,240 –> 00:51:34,240
Therefore I will sacrifice to
them.

804
00:51:34,680 –> 00:51:37,120
That they may help me.
But they were the.

805
00:51:37,120 –> 00:51:41,640
Ruin of him and of all Israel
and ahaz gathered together the.

806
00:51:41,640 –> 00:51:44,320
Vessels of the House of.
God and cut in pieces the

807
00:51:44,320 –> 00:51:45,720
vessels.
Of the House of God.

808
00:51:46,080 –> 00:51:49,000
And shut up the.
Doors of the House of the Lord.

809
00:51:49,320 –> 00:51:52,880
And he made him altars in every
corner of Jerusalem.

810
00:51:54,880 –> 00:51:59,000
There’s the scene when we open
to Isaiah 1 verse one.

811
00:51:59,360 –> 00:52:03,720
We’re living in times.
Of two problems. 2 Not only.

812
00:52:03,720 –> 00:52:07,400
Do we have the?
Advance of Assyria as an enemy

813
00:52:07,400 –> 00:52:11,240
from without.
We have a scene in Isaiah 1 and

814
00:52:11,240 –> 00:52:14,240
one.
That is riddled with apostasy.

815
00:52:14,680 –> 00:52:18,680
It’s a.
Sick nation and a faithless king

816
00:52:19,680 –> 00:52:22,680
By way of conclusion Isaiah 1
verse one.

817
00:52:26,440 –> 00:52:30,320
Notice this graphic description
of the sick nation.

818
00:52:30,720 –> 00:52:33,280
As a result of the.
Faithless King.

819
00:52:34,960 –> 00:52:37,720
We’ll come back to these details
in more detail in the next few

820
00:52:37,720 –> 00:52:44,880
lessons, but let’s just notice
Isaiah 1, verse 2, second part

821
00:52:44,880 –> 00:52:47,720
of the verse.
I have nourished and brought up

822
00:52:47,720 –> 00:52:50,200
children, and they have rebelled
against me.

823
00:52:50,920 –> 00:52:54,440
The ox knoweth his owner, and
the asked his master.

824
00:52:54,440 –> 00:53:00,320
‘S crib, but Israel.
Do not know my doth not know my

825
00:53:00,320 –> 00:53:03,800
people doth not.
Consider look how he describes.

826
00:53:03,800 –> 00:53:12,160
His nation, ah, sinful nation, a
people laden with iniquity.

827
00:53:12,280 –> 00:53:14,800
I think of our woman yesterday
with her curved back.

828
00:53:15,360 –> 00:53:18,280
A feed of evil doers like the
words.

829
00:53:18,280 –> 00:53:20,160
Of the master, when he described
them as a brood.

830
00:53:20,160 –> 00:53:21,960
Of Vipers.
Children.

831
00:53:21,960 –> 00:53:24,600
There’s that word, children that
are corrupters.

832
00:53:24,880 –> 00:53:28,680
They have forsaken the Lord.
They have provoked the holy.

833
00:53:28,680 –> 00:53:32,880
One of Israel unto anger.
They are gone away, backward.

834
00:53:33,600 –> 00:53:36,640
And he appeals to them.
Why should ye be stricken?

835
00:53:36,840 –> 00:53:41,160
A word describing leprosy?
He will revolt more and more.

836
00:53:41,200 –> 00:53:45,520
The whole head is thick.
And the heart faint.

837
00:53:46,080 –> 00:53:49,320
From the sole of the foot.
Even unto the head there’s no

838
00:53:49,320 –> 00:53:54,480
soundness in it but wounds and
bruises and putrefying sores.

839
00:53:55,400 –> 00:53:59,080
They have not been closed,
neither bound up, neither

840
00:53:59,080 –> 00:54:02,280
mollified with ointment.
There it is.

841
00:54:02,760 –> 00:54:06,840
One of the most condensed and
most graphic descriptions in the

842
00:54:06,840 –> 00:54:11,360
Old Testament of the.
Whole ecclesia as a thick,

843
00:54:11,840 –> 00:54:16,840
putrefying body, ready to die
like the body of a.

844
00:54:16,840 –> 00:54:19,720
Leper and how?
Did it get that way?

845
00:54:20,360 –> 00:54:25,960
A sick nation inherited the
waywardness of a faithless king.

846
00:54:26,360 –> 00:54:30,160
But tomorrow we’ll consider
Hezekiah, who is going to

847
00:54:30,160 –> 00:54:30,840
reverse that.