Colin Badger – Thematic Study of Isaiah – Class 3 – Emmanuel and the Waters of Shiloh

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This is day three of the 1988
Idlewild Bible School.

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Our third period speaker is
Brother Colin Badgers and his

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general subject is Schematic
Study of Isaiah.

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His subtopic for today’s class
is Emmanuel and the Waters of

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Shiloha for the Badgers.
Good morning, brothers and

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sisters and young people.
We could have spent the whole

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week on Hezekiah.
I’m sure you’re perhaps aware of

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that, having just begun to
explore some of the fringes of

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those chapters in Chronicles and
Kings.

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We’ll continue with that just
for a few moments this morning

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and do a little recap, but we’ve
got to move on.

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Our intention is not to do a
detailed study of Hezekiah.

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Our mandate is to study Isaiah’s
prophecy and have a better idea

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by the end of this week as to
what makes Isaiah’s prophecy

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what it is.
And our intention was, as we set

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out at the beginning of the
week, to deal with six major

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themes that touch on Isaiah’s
prophecy.

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Hezekiah, you can see, is a
major one, figures largely both

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before and after the midpoint of
the prophecy.

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You can see.
You can see perhaps that

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obviously you need to draw from
Kings and Chronicles if you’re

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to get the full background of
Isaiah’s prophecy when you deal

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with Hezekiah.
We’ve mentioned too, that you

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need a little bit of help from
Hosea’s prophecy, that a reading

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of Micah is also very helpful.
So great was this man Hezekiah

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really, next to David, the
greatest king of Israel.

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No question about it.
Besides those chapters 66 in

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Isaiah, besides the chapters in
Kings and Chronicles, beside the

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prophecy of Micah, besides the
prophecy of Isaiah, and possibly

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two other minor prophets, he
wrote a number of the Proverbs.

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Later on you check Proverbs.
Chapter 25 to chapter 30 are

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Hezekiah’s Proverbs, and it says
so.

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When we think of the Proverbs,
we often think of Solomon.

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But Hezekiah was a lover of
Proverbs, and thus in the book

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of Proverbs there’s an entry
from him.

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Moreover, it seems that there’s
a number of Psalms that have

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either been written by Hezekiah
or organized by Hezekiah.

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We’re Speaking of Psalms 120 to
134.

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A number of them have titles as
being attributed to David or

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Asaph.
Some of them are anonymous, but

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there are good reasons which we
can’t explore this week, to

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consider the songs of degrees,
Psalms 120 to 134 as either

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being written or organized in
the psaltery by Hezekiah.

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In fact, as you’re reading The
Life and Times of Isaiah and the

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Life and Times of Hezekiah,
it’s.

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Very fruitful to have those
psalms in mind.

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There are a number of thoughts
expressed in Psalms 1:20 to 1:34

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that have some very useful
bearing on the times of Isaiah

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and Hezekiah, but that’s another
study.

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Back to Hezekiah for a few
moments.

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We noticed yesterday he was a
man of action.

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We noticed in that passage in
Chronicles that in the very

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first month of the first year of
his reign, in fact the very

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first day of the first month of
his reign, Hezekiah went into

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action. 16 intensive days of
reform, rolling back 16 years of

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Ahaz’s corruption.
All of which was intended to

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prepare the people for a proper
celebration of the Great

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Passover, sometimes known as
Hezekiah’s Great Passover.

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We haven’t time to look at that
Passover in any detail.

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It’s just as rich in exhortation
as what we surveyed yesterday in

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the reform period.
Now, for the help of putting

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thoughts on hooks in your minds,
it’s useful to think of three

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main chapters in Hezekiah’s
life.

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Three, the first, the early
years, and his reform in those

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sixteen days.
Perhaps instead of saying the

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early years, we could say the
early days, the reform period of

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Hezekiah, which we considered
yesterday chapter 2 in his life

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would be the great Passover,
falling right on the heels of

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the period of reform.
And perhaps we could say the 3rd

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chapter in Hezekiah’s life was
the Assyrian crisis, That period

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which is covered for us in
chapters 36 to 39 in the middle

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of Isaiah, found also in Kings
and Chronicles.

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The Assyrian crisis is the only
chapter in Hezekiah’s life that

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is really given any detail in
Isaiah’s prophecy, because, as

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we said yesterday, it has an
important bearing on the first

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part of Isaiah, and it’s a
springboard for much which is

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said in Isaiah after chapter 40.
Many of those chapters, many of

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the phrasing, point back to what
has happened in the Assyrian

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crisis, the invasion by
Sennacherib, and the great

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deliverance which we saw
yesterday.

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Very briefly now, what do you
think was the springboard for

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Hezekiah’s action, first day of
the first month of the first

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year of his reign?
A man doesn’t suddenly spring

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into action with a program of
reform, a 16 day program of

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reform, unless he’s had some
plan beforehand.

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It’s clear Hezekiah must have
been ready for action before

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that very first day of the first
month.

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Now what moved Hezekiah?
He had come out of a dark and

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dismal rain from his father.
Was there anything in the life

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of Hezekiah that might shed some
light on the reason for

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motivation for such quick
action?

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A ready program already devised,
and just a matter of putting it

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into action.
Now here’s where the other

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prophets might be helpful.
We suggest that Micah is the

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answer.
Micah was working, we think,

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just a little before Hezekiah’s
reign, and Micah had pronounced

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a number of important
prophecies, 2 in particular,

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that Samaria was to be doomed,
destroyed, and left like a

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field.
Micah also prophesied that Zion,

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Jerusalem would also be plowed
like a field and left like a

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heap.
Both times.

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Those two cities are described
as fields or farms in Isaiah’s

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prophecy.
One of the indictments that he

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has against the land and the
people was that in Isaiah’s day

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there were greedy rulers, there
were gluttonous overlords and

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nobility who had by their own
greedy means taken field upon

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field.
And Isaiah describes this in one

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of his chapters.
Field is against field.

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Land against land has been taken
by these people and they

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dispossessed the poor, greedy
land owners, taking as much

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property as they could and with
very little thought to the poor.

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Now it seems to me, brothers and
sisters, that in those two

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prophecies in Micah, when God
threatens to make Samaria like a

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field and Zion like a field, God
is saying you have taken the

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fields of the poor.
My people, I am going to take

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the city of Samaria and make
that my farm, and I’m going to

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take the city of Jerusalem and
I’m going to.

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Plow it like a field.
I’m going to take it from you.

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And by taking it from you, you
will experience the desolation

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that your greedy nobles and
rulers have brought upon the

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poor of this land.
So God is going to, by the help

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of the Assyrian, plow these two
cities and leave them like an

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open field.
And God threatens that through

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Micah.
And we believe that those

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threats have come before
Hezekiah came to the throne.

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And there’s a reason for
believing that Jeremiah, one of

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the most remarkable threads
outside of Isaiah, which

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connects with our times.
Consider the force of this

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Jeremiah 26, a very fascinating
little section here, one of

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those that you read over in your
readings and perhaps in your

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mind don’t connect with Isaiah,
which you read the previous

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month.
Jeremiah 26.

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This is at a time when Jeremiah
is being cross examined by his

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accusers.
They are ready to send him to a

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dismal end.
And there’s a court scene in

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Jeremiah 26.
There are witnesses and there

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are cross examiners, for we
have, starting in verse 10, the

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Princess of Judah setting up a
kind of court scene to cross

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examine the prophet.
However, some come to Jeremiah’s

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defense.
Now notice the defense verse 16

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of Jeremiah 26.
Then said the Princess and all

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the people, unto the priests and
to the prophets, This man

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Jeremiah is not worthy to die.
For he hath.

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Spoken to us in the name of the
Lord our God then rose up

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certain of the elders of the
land and spake to all the

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assembly of the people saying
now picture this as a court

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scene.
There’s Jeremiah sitting in the

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box being cross examined back
and forth.

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Verse 18.
Say the elders Micah the Moorish

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site.
That’s the prophet Micah.

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Micah, the Moorish site
prophesied in the days of

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Hezekiah, king of Judah, and
spake to.

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All.
The people of Judah saying now

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they quote Micah 3 verse 12.
Your margin says so.

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And what’s the quote?
Thus saith the Lord.

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This is what Micah said in the
days of Hezekiah.

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Thus saith the Lord of hosts,
Zion shall be plowed like a

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field, and Jerusalem shall
become heaps, and the mountain

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of the house as the high places
of a forest.

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They ask, did Hezekiah king of
Judah, and all Judah put him at

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all to death?
Did they kill Micah for saying

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such a horrendous thing?
Did they?

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Did he not fear the Lord, and
besought the Lord, And the Lord

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repented him of the evil which
he had pronounced against them.

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Thus might we procure great evil
against our souls.

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Now the result is that Jeremiah
temporarily is freed because of

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this witness.
But here’s the point to notice

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in the days of Hezekiah.
Micah, the marsh site prophesied

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that Zion would be plowed like a
field and Jerusalem would become

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heaps.
Did that happen in the days of

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Hezekiah?
It did not.

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And the key is verse 19 again,
did Hezekiah king of Judah, and

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all Judah put him at all to
death?

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Of course they didn’t put Micah
to death, for who’s the he of

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verse 19?
We suggest it’s Hezekiah.

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He did not.
Did he not fear the Lord and

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besought the Lord, and the Lord
repented him of the evil which

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he had prophesied against them.
In other words, through the

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intercession of Hezekiah and the
work of Micah, Not, of course,

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to neglect the importance of
Isaiah the prophet.

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The threat of the prophecy of
Micah chapter 3 and verse 12 was

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thwarted.
Suggests, brothers and sisters,

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that we have a scene, something
like this just before Hezekiah

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gets the reins of power.
Micah has in some way issued

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this warning that Zion shall be
plowed as a field, that Zion and

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Jerusalem should become Heaps.
And thus it’s a no wonder that

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when Hezekiah comes to the
throne on the first day of the

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first month of the first year,
he’s ready to go.

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He’s a man of action.
What’s the first thing he does?

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Get the people to repent.
Get the people to respond

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quickly. 16 days.
It’s done suddenly.

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Then let’s have a great
Passover.

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Let’s rededicate our lives.
We’ve cleanse the temple.

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The house is ready.
Let’s bring in our brethren from

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the north.
We send out invitations.

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And so the chapter reads and
chronicles.

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Hezekiah sent out posts to the
north of the country to the

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remaining brethren that were
there from Zabulin, Naphtali,

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the Aries of Galilee, those who
sat in darkness.

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And he calls them to Jerusalem,
to a great light, as it were.

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A contemporary application in a
minor way to the Emanuel

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prophecies which we’re now
alluding to.

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He calls them down as brethren
come to Jerusalem.

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He calls them, come and
celebrate the Passover.

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We’ve cleansed the house.
We have prepared the way for a

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great celebration.
Come, my brethren, He bids them.

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And the posts go all through the
land.

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Chronicles shows us that some
scorned.

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At all that.
What was it that motivated

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Hezekiah to have such an
immediate, definite plan of

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action?
The jest, Brothers and sisters.

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The key is right here in
Jeremiah.

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He went to that throne with a
very definite intent in his

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mind.
Micah’s prophecy.

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Can we turn it back in our days?
If the people repent and Yahweh

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is merciful, perhaps it will not
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Hezekiah hoped and no doubt
prayed.

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So you see, what seems at first
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A man, a young man, coming so
quickly to the throne with such

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a definite program of immediate
reform, the focus of which was

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to get them to repent, has no
doubt a springboard from the

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workings of Micah the prophet.
And here in the days of

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Jeremiah, Micah’s prophecy and
Hezekiah’s behavior as one who

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did not put Micah to death, not
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For the whole logic of this
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people did not take offense at
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If Hezekiah and the people did
not put Micah to death, who not

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only prophesied that there’d be
destruction in the land, but

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told the monarch that his throne
and his city would be destroyed,

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that his capital city would
become heap.

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If Hezekiah didn’t put him to
death, but responded and

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appealed to Yahweh for mercy and
got the people to repent.

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If that’s what Hezekiah did, how
can we put Jeremiah to death

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because he speaks against this
land in this city?

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How can we?
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See, brothers and sisters, the
usefulness of bringing to bear

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on any of our Bible studies as
much information as we can from

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other prophecies or from other
books that in some way touch on

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our study at hand.
Now, we’ve said that the second

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chapter in Hezekiah’s life, main
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We move on from there to the
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We’ll come back to some of the
details of that a little, little

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later on in the week.
Let’s just, however, notice a

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few final details.
Second of Kings 18.

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The advance of the Assyrians
into the land was no doubt

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quickened by the actions of
Hezekiah himself.

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He did something which triggered
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Second Kings chapter 18, verse
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And the Lord was with him,
that’s Hezekiah.

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And he prospered whatever so
ever he went forth, and he

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rebelled against the king of
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He smote the Philistines even
onto Gaza and the borders

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thereof, from the tower of the
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Now we suggest that’s the
trigger.

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It was inevitable that the
Assyrian lion would sooner or

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later come clawing down from the
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It was a matter of time.
But here, by doing what he did

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in verse seven, it was as though
he was taking a stick and poking

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at the lion’s eyes.
Go on.

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It’s not that he wished for the
lion to come down, but by

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rebelling against him, it was
tantamount to poking a stick in

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the Assyrian lion’s eyes.
For sure it would smart.

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For sure.
It drew attention to Judah and

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Hezekiah for sure.
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retaliation.
Now you might say then that was

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suicidal, wasn’t it?
It wasn’t suicidal, as was

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proven Hezekiah.
Knew.

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That a man of God, a city of
God, a people of God could not

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continue to give tribute to the
hand of the flesh, and so he cut

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the ties in faith.
It wasn’t a mad act.

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Go back to verse 5 and 6, for
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words in verse 7.
One of the finest tributes to

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any king of Israel.
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He trusted in the Lord God of
Israel, so that after him was

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none like him among all the
kings of Judah, nor any that

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were before him.
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departed not from following him,
but kept his commandments, which

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the Lord God commanded Moses,
and the Lord was with him, and

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he prospered.
Now it’s in that context that we

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have presented to us in the Book
of Kings, Hezekiah’s decision to

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rebel against Assyria.
It wasn’t some mad, arrogant act

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on Hezekiah’s part.
It’s in the context of his

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faithfulness to Yahweh, in the
context of him prospering

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wherever he went, and in the
context of him having defeat

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over the Philistines.
Would you have done that,

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brothers and sisters, knowing
the ferocity of the nation?

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We’ve had a small glimpse of it
from our slides and our studies

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thus far.
It would have to humanize, seem

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to be the last thing to do to
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You would know what the reaction
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Here, brothers and sisters, is a
man of remarkable faith.

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It’s like David standing before
Goliath and defying the armies

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of the Philistines, which by the
way, he did anyways, for in the

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end of verse seven, he does
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He defied the Philistines.
Here was a man truly like David,

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and his actions to the Assyrian
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His trust was on the Lord.
There’s an excitation to all of

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us, young or old, brothers and
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You think you have problems at
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I may think I have ecclesial
difficulties or tensions and

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problems in my own family life
or for example, in my own

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community or in the larger world
around it.

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You think perhaps you’re
afflicted by certain sicknesses

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and ailments and that that is a
necessary impediment to the

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truth.
It’s not necessarily through the

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eye of faith.
It’s what you make of it or what

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you allow God to help you to
make of it.

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Not one of us in this room has
had this kind of test to our

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faith.
And we notice the key was not to

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put his trust on the arm of
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But to trust God thoroughly.
Now, brothers and sisters, we go

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a little further.
Isaiah 10 now trying to use the

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prophet’s words to throw more
light on these circumstances.

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Isaiah 10.
God is nevertheless going to use

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the Assyrian in Hezekiah’s day,
but unlike what was promised

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immediately by Micah, Zion will
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Isaiah 10.
However, in verse 5, a very

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important chapter well worth
reading against the backdrop of

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the Assyrian crisis, we look at
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First of all, oh, says God, O
Assyrian, the rod of my anger

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and the staff in their hand is
mine indignation.

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I will send him against an
hypocritical nation, and against

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the people of my wrath.
Will I give him a charge to take

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the spoil, and to take the prey,
and to tread them down like mire

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in the streets?
Howbeit he meaneth not so.

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Neither does his heart.
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But it is in his heart to
destroy and cut off nations, not

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a few.
There is God through Isaiah

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telling the people and Hezekiah
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Will be an invasion.
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land.
Hezekiah had no positive

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assurance that the threat issued
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that Zion would become a heaps
would necessarily be turned

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back.
He didn’t know at the time how

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God would respond.
He got words from Isaiah which

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assured him though finally in
the end, not against an

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invasion, but against a total
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So yes, there would be an
invasion, yes there would be

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destruction, but Jerusalem would
be preserved if the people

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followed the conditions.
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simply sit back and know the
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He was working through it by
faith, and he felt at times

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great drags on his faith, as is
obvious as he responds to the

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prophet Isaiah and begs for
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What was it like to be in the
walls of Jerusalem as this

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monster crept down the land one
after the other, gobbling up the

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cities?
46 and all before he came to

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Lakish?
What was it like?

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Well, I think in Isaiah 10 we
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Starting in verse 28, Isaiah’s
prophecy breaks into a kind of

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verse, something like a poetic
device.

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And it seems that starting in
verse 28, we have an echo of

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what must have been like a
proverbial song at the time, or

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a a dirge, perhaps sung or
repeated by the people in

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Jerusalem as they saw the
northern advance of this great

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monster.
Here’s the kind of panic

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feelings that must have swept
through Jerusalem in the

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southern cities.
He, that’s the Assyrian, he has

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come to AF.
Now if you have a map and take a

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look at this, you’ll see that
these are cities starting in the

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north, and he’s going down an
order from the north to the

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South, as they would have been
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He has come to AAF in the north.
He has passed to Migron at

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Mikmash.
He has laid up his carriages.

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They are gone over the passage.
They have taken up their lodging

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at Giba.
Rhema is afraid.

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Gibby of Saul is fled.
Lift up thy voice, O daughter of

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Galam.
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O poor Anapha.
A small little town that housed

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many priests just north of
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Madmanna is removed.
The inhabitants of Gibbon gather

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themselves to flee.
You see the pulp of those words,

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brothers and sisters.
It’s like a flood of panic.

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The nations had toppled like
bowling pins, one after the

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other, and the great monster
advanced with his jaws wide open

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towards Jerusalem, until as he
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to name the small towns and
Hamlets just about 10 miles

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north of Jerusalem.
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Isaiah, As yet shall he remain
at Nob, small little town just a

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few miles north of Jerusalem.
As yet shall he remain at Nob.

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That day he shall shake his hand
against the mount of the

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daughter of Zion, the hill of
Jerusalem.

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Behold, the Lord, the Lord of
Hosts, shall lop the bow with

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terror, and the high ones of
Assyria, the high ones of

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stature, shall be hewn.
Down and a.

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Hottie shall be humbled, and he
shall cut down the thickets of

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the forest with iron, and
Lebanon shall fall by a mighty

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one.
It’s a prophetic assurance.

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The Assyrian will come no closer
than Nob, and then God will cut

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down the hottie as a man prunes
the upper branches of a tree,

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the high and mighty Pines of
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Just picture them, God seeing
them as symbols of a great

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Assyrian might.
He will advance only so far, and

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then God will prune Assyria.
He will cut off the top of the

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bow.
The proud and mighty and the

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haughty will fall, but not until
he comes just on the verge.

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Now, brothers and sisters, all
of this language in Isaiah is

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drawn and is based upon what’s
called the Emmanuel prophecy.

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Now that’s a little section in
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So we go back.
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details which really are the
springboard for what we just

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read in Isaiah 10.
So think of Isaiah 7 to Isaiah

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12 as a little unit known as the
Immanuel prophecies.

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In our first class we noticed
that these were the days of

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Ahaz.
Uziah died in chapter 6 and by

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the time we get over into 13 and
14 we’re in the area of

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Hezekiah’s reign.
So 7:00 to 12:00 in the days of

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Ahaz.
Now here in these chapters 7:00

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to 12:00, just notice how this
ties in with the threat of the

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Assyrian crisis. 4IN Isaiah
chapter 8, verse one, we have a

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kind of enacted parable once
again, verse one of Isaiah 8

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says Isaiah to us.
Moreover, the Lord said unto me,

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Isaiah, take thee a great role,
and write in it with a men’s

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pen.
Concerning Maher Shallahel

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Hashfaz margin.
If you’ll notice Hebrew, in

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making speed to the spoil, he
hasteneth to pray.

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So it’s the threat of invasion.
And I took unto me faithful

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witnesses to record Uriah the
priest, and Zechariah the son of

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Jabbarakaya and of Isaiah.
I went unto the prophetess, and

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she conceived and bear a son.
Then said the Lord to me, call

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his name in making speed to the
spoil.

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He hasteneth the prey.
That’s what his name is.

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For as I has told before, the
child shall have knowledge to

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cry.
My father and my mother, the

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riches of Damascus and the spoil
of Samaria shall be taken away

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before the king of Assyria.
There’s the invasion.

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Verse 5.
The Lord spake also unto me a

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gainsaying, For as much as this
people refuseth the waters of

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Shiloah, that go softly and
rejoice in resin, and Remelaya’s

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son.
Now therefore, behold, the Lord

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bringeth upon them the waters of
the river strong, and many, even

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the king of Assyria, and all his
glory, and he shall come up over

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all his channels, and go over
all his banks now.

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That there are some key phrases
to notice in Isaiah’s prophecy.

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One of them is that the enemy is
often described as great waters.

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Here you have it, a great flood
is going to come down on the

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land, and we saw the advance of
the waves in Isaiah 10 as we

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read and saw the towns being
swallowed by this advancing

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water, a great tidal wave coming
down against Jerusalem.

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How far shall it go?
Well, the assurances in Isaiah

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10, we said we’re the
springboard from here, so let’s

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00:29:23,320 –> 00:29:27,280
read verse 8.
So on comes this tidal wave,

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verse 8 And he, the Assyrian,
shall pass through Judah.

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He shall overflow and go over.
He shall reach even to the neck,

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and the stretching out of his
wings shall fill the breadth of

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thy land.
O Emmanuel, Emmanuel, God with

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us, God with us.
The promise of the child back to

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Chapter 7 is involved in this
Assyrian crisis.

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Now this is peculiar.
Why would there be a prophecy of

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the Christ child, the birth of
Messiah in the midst of an

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Assyrian crisis?
Well, this we call Chapter 7

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verse 14.
This was said to Ahaz after he

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had received a had refused a
sign.

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A sign was nevertheless to be
given to Ahaz the faithless

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king. 7 and 14 Therefore Isaiah
told Ahaz, the Lord himself

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shall give you a sign.
Behold, a virgin shall conceive

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and bear a son, and shall call
his name Emmanuel, God with us.

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Now we know that that’s quoted
in the New Testament in Matthew

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chapter one, verse 23.
It’s in your margin, Matthew 1,

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00:30:55,600 –> 00:30:58,080
verse 23.
Clearly it’s the Lord Jesus

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Christ, Emmanuel, God with us.
But now here’s a question.

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What relevance was that as a
sign to Ahaz, Isaiah and their

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contemporaries?
Nevertheless, I shall give you a

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sign.
Furthermore, verse 16 of Isaiah

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7.
For before the child shall know

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to refuse the evil, and choose
the good, the land that thou

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00:31:27,400 –> 00:31:30,360
abhorrest shall be forsaken of
both her kings.

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The Lord shall bring upon thee
and upon thy people Ahaz, and

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upon thy father’s house.
Days that have not come from the

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day that Ifreum departed from
Judah, even the king of Assyria.

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And it shall come to pass, and
that day that the Lord shall

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hiss for the fly that is in the
uttermost parts of the rivers of

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00:31:51,240 –> 00:31:55,880
Egypt, and for the bee that is
in the land of Assyria, and they

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shall come.
How is it that this Emmanuel

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00:32:00,360 –> 00:32:05,320
prophecy is intertwined with
contemporary events?

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00:32:06,480 –> 00:32:08,320
What do you think we are to
conclude?

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It’s not only a prophecy of
Messiah to come as of so many

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years BC or AD.
The prophet clearly wants us to

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00:32:21,720 –> 00:32:26,280
understand by God’s inspiration
that of all the Almighty will

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00:32:26,280 –> 00:32:30,040
send one who will be Emmanuel,
God with us.

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There is clearly in the context
of contemporary events, some

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kind of assurance that God was
with them too.

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He would be with the redeemed or
the remnant of that day.

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The events are that Assyria is
about to come down.

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Hezekiah will very shortly rebel
against Assyria as we saw and as

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we read in chapter 8, the
greatest Syrian flood is about

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to come down and flood the whole
land.

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00:33:02,320 –> 00:33:05,280
What’s the hope?
Anything contemporary?

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00:33:05,640 –> 00:33:10,200
Any assurances for the day?
Or was it simply saying Jesus

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Christ will come some 700 and
some odd years in the future?

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00:33:16,080 –> 00:33:18,600
What did that mean to them,
brothers and sisters?

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Well, the fact that He would
come certainly is a great and

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00:33:22,560 –> 00:33:25,960
mighty token of the fact that
God will not forsake His people.

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God is always with His people,
not just when Jesus Christ came.

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00:33:31,560 –> 00:33:35,040
Although that was the greatest
testimony of it all to the

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contemporaries, there must have
been some meaning.

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What assurance was there that
God was Emmanuel with them?

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00:33:45,840 –> 00:33:55,640
Chapter 8 Again I will give you
a sign.

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It was said.
Now we read this, we’ll read it

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again in part.
Chapter 8, verse 6.

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For as much as this people
refuseth the waters of Shiloah,

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we’ll come to that in a moment
what those waters exactly were.

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But they were waters that were
like a wellspring coming out

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00:34:15,639 –> 00:34:18,520
from underneath the city of
Jerusalem, well known to

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00:34:18,520 –> 00:34:21,120
Hezekiah.
For it was those waters, as we

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00:34:21,120 –> 00:34:25,520
said the other night, that he
blocked up in the north part so

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that the water would be diverted
through Hezekiah’s conduit,

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00:34:29,440 –> 00:34:32,920
which we saw in the slides, and
finally be saved and retrieved

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in the waters of Shiloh.
So for as much as this people

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refuseth the waters of Shiloa
that go softly and rejoice in

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resin and remalai a son,
there’ll be a great invasion.

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00:34:45,360 –> 00:34:50,320
But now see verse 8 again.
This great flood, the Assyrian

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shall pass through Judah.
He shall overflow, go over, He

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00:34:54,719 –> 00:35:02,720
shall reach even to the neck,
but that’s important to the

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Neck, to the walls of Jerusalem.
Take all the cities, flood all

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00:35:08,000 –> 00:35:14,160
of the land from north to South
and encircle Jerusalem, the last

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00:35:14,160 –> 00:35:17,200
city to be taken, the city of
God.

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00:35:17,560 –> 00:35:20,480
And he’ll come right against the
walls, as it were, and like a

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00:35:20,480 –> 00:35:24,560
mighty flood, he will come right
around it, up to the neck.

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00:35:25,120 –> 00:35:31,120
But the Assyrian will not drown
Jerusalem, nor Isaiah, nor

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00:35:31,120 –> 00:35:35,480
Hezekiah, nor the faithful
remnant within its walls.

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Come, he will write to the
extremity, but he will not drown

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Zion, the city of God’s
choosing.

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00:35:44,200 –> 00:35:49,400
And then he will reach even to
the neck, and that stretcheth

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00:35:49,400 –> 00:35:52,440
out.
His wings shall fill the breadth

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00:35:52,440 –> 00:35:54,640
of thy land, which the Assyrian
did.

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00:35:55,640 –> 00:35:59,000
Now the Emmanuel prophecy is
woven in again.

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00:35:59,840 –> 00:36:06,120
For why does he call the land by
this harkening the breath of thy

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land, O God with us, O Emmanuel,
that demands.

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00:36:12,800 –> 00:36:15,640
We suggest, brothers and
sisters, that the Emmanuel

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prophecy in Chapter 7 had
definite meaning, concrete

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00:36:20,760 –> 00:36:26,920
assurance, some kind of limited
fulfillment in the days of this

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00:36:26,920 –> 00:36:30,440
Assyrian crisis.
Otherwise, why is it folded in

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00:36:30,440 –> 00:36:34,240
like it is there in verse 8 with
the mention of the Assyrian

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00:36:34,240 –> 00:36:38,840
flood?
I will flood the land, but only

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00:36:38,840 –> 00:36:44,640
to the neck, Oh, Emmanuel,
because it would only go to the

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00:36:44,640 –> 00:36:49,360
neck and not drown the city, the
final city, the city of God’s

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00:36:49,360 –> 00:36:52,560
choosing.
That in itself would be proof to

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00:36:52,560 –> 00:36:58,040
Hezekiah that God is Emmanuel.
He is with us.

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00:36:58,560 –> 00:37:02,720
And the next morning when the
Assyrian army lay like dead ants

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00:37:02,760 –> 00:37:06,000
all over the hills, and the
people went out of the city

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00:37:06,000 –> 00:37:10,160
gates or peered over the walls
and looked across the Kidron,

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00:37:11,280 –> 00:37:15,000
and they saw thousands of dead
Assyrians.

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00:37:15,680 –> 00:37:20,320
Was there assurance of Emmanuel,
of God with us through the

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00:37:20,320 –> 00:37:25,400
saving work of Isaiah, Yahweh, a
Savior, through the work of

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00:37:25,400 –> 00:37:30,160
faithful Hezekiah and his
preparatory reforms, Hezekiah,

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00:37:30,320 –> 00:37:34,160
Yahweh’s strength, There was
testimony and proof through the

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00:37:34,160 –> 00:37:38,960
work of those two men that God
was with the land.

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00:37:39,640 –> 00:37:44,240
He was with the remnant of his
people, those who had chosen to

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00:37:44,240 –> 00:37:48,840
come down from their cities and
stay in the walls of Jerusalem,

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00:37:49,360 –> 00:37:53,360
found security for is it not so
with us?

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00:37:53,360 –> 00:37:56,520
Brothers and sisters?
Just turn over.

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00:37:57,040 –> 00:38:01,720
Look at the force and the beauty
of these psalms that have this

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00:38:01,720 –> 00:38:05,760
kind of background behind them.
Psalm 87, please.

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00:38:08,760 –> 00:38:13,000
Now remember that phrase, the
waters of Shiloa, that the

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people had refused, or at least
as a has had refused, the waters

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00:38:17,920 –> 00:38:22,560
of Shiloa, those waters that
went out from Jerusalem, from

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00:38:22,560 –> 00:38:29,400
underneath the Temple Mount.
Let’s just keep those in mind as

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00:38:29,400 –> 00:38:36,000
we read Psalm 87.
His foundation is in the Holy

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00:38:36,000 –> 00:38:39,120
Mountains.
So it was Jerusalem.

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00:38:39,720 –> 00:38:44,040
The Lord love the gates of Zion
more than all the dwellings of

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00:38:44,040 –> 00:38:49,720
Jacob, For by the way they were
sacrificed, the Assyrian took

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00:38:49,720 –> 00:38:51,200
them.
Verse 3.

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00:38:51,760 –> 00:38:54,520
Glorious things are spoken of
the old city of God.

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00:38:55,240 –> 00:38:59,560
I will make mention of Rahab.
A word for Egypt and Babylon.

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00:38:59,560 –> 00:39:03,440
To them that know me.
Behold Philistia and Tyre with

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00:39:03,440 –> 00:39:08,160
Ethiopia.
This man was born there, and of

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00:39:08,160 –> 00:39:14,120
Zion it shall be said this and
that man was born in her, and

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00:39:14,120 –> 00:39:16,600
the highest himself shall
establish her.

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00:39:17,520 –> 00:39:21,880
Now the Greek of verse 5, if you
were to read the Septuagint, the

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00:39:21,880 –> 00:39:25,120
old Greek translation that was
done from the Hebrew before

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00:39:25,120 –> 00:39:31,680
Christ reads this way in verse
5, a man shall say, Zion is my

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00:39:31,680 –> 00:39:36,280
mother, and such a man was born
in her.

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00:39:36,960 –> 00:39:40,280
Zion is my mother.
There are definite connections

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00:39:40,280 –> 00:39:43,160
there with Galatians. 4.
We haven’t time to explore it.

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Let’s go on.
A man shall say, Zion is my

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00:39:47,320 –> 00:39:49,400
mother, and such a man was born
in her.

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00:39:49,400 –> 00:39:51,960
Verse 6.
The Lord shall count, when he

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00:39:51,960 –> 00:39:57,760
writeth up his people, that this
man was born there as well.

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The singers as the players on
instruments shall be there.

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All my springs.
The word means gushings.

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00:40:06,520 –> 00:40:10,320
All my springs or my gushings
are in thee.

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It’s a prophetic, figurative
picture of God’s eternal care

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and love for Zion.
For despite all her, her

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00:40:21,120 –> 00:40:24,520
waywardness and her
rebelliousness, God looks at

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00:40:24,520 –> 00:40:27,880
Zion like he looks on no other
city of the world.

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00:40:29,000 –> 00:40:35,120
All our springs are in her.
You know, that would have been

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00:40:35,120 –> 00:40:39,040
very graphically portrayed,
especially in the days of

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00:40:39,040 –> 00:40:42,680
Hezekiah.
Four underneath that Temple

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00:40:42,680 –> 00:40:47,120
Mount gushed out periodically
and mysteriously from time to

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00:40:47,120 –> 00:40:50,960
time.
The waters of Shiloa, the waters

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00:40:50,960 –> 00:40:54,680
came out from an opening up here
in Guyhon, which, as we’ve said,

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00:40:54,960 –> 00:40:58,840
were tapped by Hezekiah and
channelled through his conduit.

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00:40:58,840 –> 00:41:02,080
So they emptied out within the
city walls so the Assyrian would

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00:41:02,080 –> 00:41:05,960
have no water supply.
But where that water originated,

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00:41:06,480 –> 00:41:10,880
nobody yet really knows.
The geologists have done studies

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00:41:10,880 –> 00:41:12,840
of Jerusalem.
They know what the rot formation

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00:41:12,840 –> 00:41:17,400
is like.
But exactly how far down or

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00:41:17,400 –> 00:41:21,280
where under the Temple of Mount
this water springs from, no one

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00:41:21,280 –> 00:41:24,840
is totally sure.
Now there’s a geologist’s

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00:41:24,840 –> 00:41:31,320
profile of the city, and you’ll
notice that where Jerusalem is

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00:41:31,320 –> 00:41:34,600
perched is obviously a high
point in the land of the hills

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00:41:34,600 –> 00:41:38,040
of Judea.
Underneath Jerusalem, especially

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00:41:38,040 –> 00:41:41,800
under the Temple Mount, are
obviously a number of very

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00:41:41,800 –> 00:41:47,520
important geological formations,
essentially limestone beds.

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00:41:47,560 –> 00:41:50,520
Now, limestone is known to be a
very porous rock.

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00:41:51,200 –> 00:41:55,760
Geologists that have studied the
area have noted the scarcity of

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00:41:55,760 –> 00:41:58,360
springs in and around the city
of Jerusalem.

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00:41:58,880 –> 00:42:02,760
But they have always noted the
fact that seemingly by

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00:42:02,760 –> 00:42:08,040
coincidence, there in the very
center of the city of Jerusalem,

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00:42:08,280 –> 00:42:12,680
right under the Temple Mount,
there is some kind of eternal

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00:42:12,680 –> 00:42:15,600
spring.
Geologists have suggested it

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00:42:15,600 –> 00:42:19,640
seems to be a collecting point
in the limestone beds, and being

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00:42:19,640 –> 00:42:23,280
fairly porous, the limestone
beds under the Temple Mount

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00:42:23,400 –> 00:42:28,040
manage to act like a sponge and
absorb, somehow drain off or

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00:42:28,040 –> 00:42:31,160
water from other areas around
the hills of Judea.

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00:42:31,240 –> 00:42:35,400
It’s a collecting point, and
somehow, mysteriously, it gushes

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00:42:35,400 –> 00:42:39,040
forth at Guyhon, which means to
gush forth.

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Thus, brothers and sisters, is
the meaning of the waters of

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Shiloa, which God says you have
refused.

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What did he mean by that?
You’ve refused the waters of

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00:42:51,920 –> 00:42:54,800
Shiloa?
Ahaz had just done it.

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00:42:55,520 –> 00:43:00,640
Ask me a sign, says God through
Isaiah in Chapter 7 to Ahaz.

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00:43:00,800 –> 00:43:04,000
Ask me a sign, either from
heaven above or from earth

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00:43:04,000 –> 00:43:05,280
below.
Ask me a sign.

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00:43:05,760 –> 00:43:08,160
No, Ahaz says, I won’t ask you a
sign.

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00:43:08,280 –> 00:43:10,440
Can’t tempt the Lord Won’t do
that.

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00:43:10,760 –> 00:43:14,720
Well, says Isaiah, I’ll give you
a sign anyways, and the sign

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will be Emmanuel.
There’s your sign.

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00:43:19,440 –> 00:43:24,200
And Ahaz had refused it.
So had many people refused it.

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Not everybody, but many in
Israel and Judah had refused.

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00:43:28,440 –> 00:43:32,560
They had refused God for years.
Ahaz had clearly refused God,

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00:43:33,160 –> 00:43:35,760
and many people obviously went
with him in their lot.

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00:43:36,360 –> 00:43:39,360
And by doing so, what were they
refusing?

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00:43:40,600 –> 00:43:46,120
They were refusing, figuratively
the waters of God, the

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00:43:46,120 –> 00:43:49,520
wellspring, the source of
eternal life.

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00:43:50,720 –> 00:43:54,600
They had refused the waters of
Shiloh that went softly.

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00:43:55,440 –> 00:43:58,320
Now do you think that figure of
speech is brought in there just

639
00:43:58,360 –> 00:44:03,400
for coincidence sake?
It’s not, for in refusing the

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00:44:03,400 –> 00:44:08,120
waters of Shiloa, Isaiah 8 puts
that against what?

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00:44:09,000 –> 00:44:13,280
The mighty rivers of Assyria.
Assyria will come down like a

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00:44:13,280 –> 00:44:22,080
mighty thundering tidal wave.
And you’ve refused the waters of

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00:44:22,080 –> 00:44:28,400
Shiloa that go softly a very
mysterious source of water

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00:44:28,920 –> 00:44:33,640
springing out of Guy Han in
gushes unpredictably from an

645
00:44:33,640 –> 00:44:39,280
invisible source.
Soft but sure, like the still

646
00:44:39,280 –> 00:44:42,080
small voice that was mentioned
to Elijah.

647
00:44:42,880 –> 00:44:48,880
The still small voice, not a
great Monty mighty torrent like

648
00:44:48,880 –> 00:44:51,840
the Euphrates as pictured
figuratively of the Assyrians.

649
00:44:52,360 –> 00:44:56,000
Not a great mighty flood that
would impress mankind through

650
00:44:56,000 –> 00:44:58,480
the might of its own power and
fleshly greatness.

651
00:44:58,840 –> 00:45:05,720
No God pictured himself and the
life giving power he could offer

652
00:45:05,720 –> 00:45:11,560
to the nations through Emmanuel
as the waters of Shiloa that go

653
00:45:11,560 –> 00:45:14,640
softly.
Think of Paul’s words in

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00:45:14,640 –> 00:45:18,280
Corinthians, brothers and
sisters, that which is despised

655
00:45:18,280 –> 00:45:23,840
by man, that which appears to be
weak and ignoble, that which man

656
00:45:23,840 –> 00:45:26,680
would despise and take very
little of attention of, says

657
00:45:26,680 –> 00:45:30,240
Paul.
That is what God has made strong

658
00:45:30,240 –> 00:45:34,800
for himself, that no flesh will
be able to glory in his

659
00:45:34,800 –> 00:45:39,240
presence.
So God works consistently on

660
00:45:39,240 –> 00:45:42,600
that principle.
Who is Emmanuel?

661
00:45:43,480 –> 00:45:49,280
Well.
A man on a cross, Isaiah 53 is

662
00:45:49,280 –> 00:45:52,040
Emmanuel.
That which the nation has

663
00:45:52,040 –> 00:45:58,120
despised, Isaiah 53, The
despising of Isaiah 53 is to be

664
00:45:58,120 –> 00:46:01,680
lined up with Isaiah 8.
The waters that were refused?

665
00:46:03,480 –> 00:46:08,600
Unlikely, said man.
Not a saviour on a cross, not a

666
00:46:08,600 –> 00:46:13,600
crucified individual, not one
whom we would unlikely take as

667
00:46:13,600 –> 00:46:16,640
our Messiah, not one who we
would despise.

668
00:46:16,720 –> 00:46:20,320
Surely not.
That the waters of Shiloh,

669
00:46:20,480 –> 00:46:24,760
that’s what’s on the cross.
That which was despised and not

670
00:46:24,760 –> 00:46:27,000
highly esteemed by most of the
nation.

671
00:46:27,560 –> 00:46:32,920
That’s what God used.
That’s who God used, that is

672
00:46:32,960 –> 00:46:36,520
Emmanuel.
So in Ahaz’s refusal of the

673
00:46:36,520 –> 00:46:41,040
waters of Shiloa, very much like
name in the leper who said my

674
00:46:41,040 –> 00:46:44,480
I’ve got all kinds of great
rivers back in Syria, why would

675
00:46:44,480 –> 00:46:47,120
you want me to wash in this
dirty Creek called Jordan?

676
00:46:48,240 –> 00:46:50,240
Well, it was a question of
obedience.

677
00:46:50,560 –> 00:46:55,040
That which was despised by man
brought life to the leper.

678
00:46:55,840 –> 00:46:59,040
God wasn’t looking for some
great mighty display of the

679
00:46:59,040 –> 00:47:02,160
flesh when the Word was made
flesh.

680
00:47:02,600 –> 00:47:04,560
There was no room for him in the
city.

681
00:47:05,240 –> 00:47:09,160
Man rejected him right from the
beginning and his birth was in a

682
00:47:09,160 –> 00:47:14,280
lowly stable, the waters of
Shiloa, which you have refused.

683
00:47:15,040 –> 00:47:18,920
Ahaz was typical of the
rebellious nation, the faithless

684
00:47:18,920 –> 00:47:22,080
king and the sick people both
together.

685
00:47:22,800 –> 00:47:27,280
And you see, brothers and
sisters, in in Psalm 87, those

686
00:47:27,280 –> 00:47:30,800
of us who will allow ourselves
to be enlightened about this

687
00:47:30,800 –> 00:47:35,760
great city, the city of Zion,
and like the people in

688
00:47:35,760 –> 00:47:40,640
Hezekiah’s day, will flee to
Zion.

689
00:47:41,240 –> 00:47:45,320
Those of us who wish to be the
remnant and be redeemed and

690
00:47:45,320 –> 00:47:47,480
drink of the waters, where do we
go?

691
00:47:48,520 –> 00:47:51,400
Los Angeles, Toronto, where do
we go?

692
00:47:52,480 –> 00:47:56,960
We go to Zion.
And thus in Hezekiah’s days, you

693
00:47:56,960 –> 00:48:01,480
can be sure that before the
Assyrian reached Jerusalem,

694
00:48:01,680 –> 00:48:05,280
there were people from all over
the towns, North and South that

695
00:48:05,280 –> 00:48:09,480
thought wisely.
Some thought wisely and said,

696
00:48:09,680 –> 00:48:12,200
I’m leaving.
I’m going to Hezekiah.

697
00:48:12,680 –> 00:48:15,560
I’m going to where Isaiah is.
I’m going to Jerusalem.

698
00:48:15,680 –> 00:48:17,680
I’ll forsake my house.
I’ll leave this town.

699
00:48:17,880 –> 00:48:20,800
And before the Assyrian gets any
further down here, I’m going

700
00:48:21,400 –> 00:48:24,400
There were no doubt people who
immigrated and came into that

701
00:48:24,400 –> 00:48:28,560
city as a faithful remnant,
besides those who always lived

702
00:48:28,560 –> 00:48:31,360
in Jerusalem.
There’s no doubt, brothers and

703
00:48:31,360 –> 00:48:33,160
sisters, I think that it worked
that way.

704
00:48:33,480 –> 00:48:37,560
For when you look at Hezekiah’s
Passover, there were some from

705
00:48:37,560 –> 00:48:40,160
the north and the other towns
that responded.

706
00:48:40,440 –> 00:48:43,760
Some came down and responded to
Hezekiah’s call.

707
00:48:44,120 –> 00:48:47,920
Some realized that although
they’d always lived in the north

708
00:48:48,000 –> 00:48:51,360
around Samaria, the real capital
was Jerusalem.

709
00:48:52,120 –> 00:48:57,160
And thus Hezekiah’s Passover
must have prepared the minds of

710
00:48:57,160 –> 00:49:00,800
a few in the north who had gone
down on that day for the

711
00:49:00,800 –> 00:49:05,320
Passover and had rejoiced in its
festivities and realized that

712
00:49:05,320 –> 00:49:09,800
their springs were in Jerusalem,
not Samaria.

713
00:49:10,320 –> 00:49:14,080
Thus it’s likely that when the
Assyrian began his advance, some

714
00:49:14,080 –> 00:49:17,120
of those people who came down to
the Passover, their first

715
00:49:17,120 –> 00:49:19,000
reaction would be, I’m getting
out of here.

716
00:49:19,200 –> 00:49:22,240
I’m going down to Jerusalem.
I was in the Passover.

717
00:49:22,920 –> 00:49:26,720
I know where my springs are.
For it’s there that a man of

718
00:49:26,720 –> 00:49:31,920
Israel is born, as the psalmist
has said, beautiful Psalms,

719
00:49:31,920 –> 00:49:35,560
brothers and sisters, and
passages in Isaiah which stress

720
00:49:35,560 –> 00:49:39,480
the beauty and the importance of
Jerusalem.

721
00:49:40,400 –> 00:49:42,360
You know those passages as well
as I do.

722
00:49:42,560 –> 00:49:48,080
Isaiah 2, Isaiah 11, Isaiah 66,
Isaiah 65.

723
00:49:48,640 –> 00:49:51,800
Passage after passage in
Isaiah’s prophecy.

724
00:49:52,480 –> 00:49:56,480
Why are they there?
Because in his days there was a

725
00:49:56,480 –> 00:50:00,760
literal fulfillment of the
reality of those prophecies, a

726
00:50:00,760 –> 00:50:03,040
foretaste of greater things to
come.

727
00:50:03,720 –> 00:50:09,280
In the Assyrian crisis, the
waters of Shiloah were protected

728
00:50:09,280 –> 00:50:12,160
by God.
The whole project had been

729
00:50:12,160 –> 00:50:16,160
inspired by him.
Those waters were not taken by

730
00:50:16,160 –> 00:50:20,160
the Assyrian, they were only for
the inhabitants within those

731
00:50:20,160 –> 00:50:25,760
walls.
And thus all our springs are in

732
00:50:25,960 –> 00:50:30,560
the nowhere else.
Now, brothers and sisters, we

733
00:50:30,560 –> 00:50:35,320
sample just a few more of these
passages to have perhaps a

734
00:50:35,320 –> 00:50:44,640
deeper appreciation.
Isaiah 22, most of the chapter

735
00:50:46,280 –> 00:50:50,800
is dealing with a rebuff against
the people that have been

736
00:50:50,800 –> 00:50:54,720
faithless.
Verse 5, the Assyrian invasion

737
00:50:54,720 –> 00:51:00,080
is in the background here. 22
and verse 5, four, says Isaiah

738
00:51:00,080 –> 00:51:03,560
to the faithless.
It’s a day of trouble, and of

739
00:51:03,560 –> 00:51:08,680
treading down and of perplexity
by the Lord God of hosts in the

740
00:51:08,680 –> 00:51:12,160
valley of vision breaking down
the walls, and of crying to the

741
00:51:12,160 –> 00:51:15,720
mountains.
And Elam, mercenary troops used

742
00:51:15,720 –> 00:51:18,760
by the Assyrians.
Elam, bear the quiver with

743
00:51:18,760 –> 00:51:22,640
Chariots of men and horsemen.
And Kerr uncovered the shield.

744
00:51:23,320 –> 00:51:26,320
And it shall come to pass that
thy choicest valley shall be

745
00:51:26,320 –> 00:51:30,360
full of Chariots, as they were,
and the horsemen shall set

746
00:51:30,360 –> 00:51:35,440
themselves an array at the gate.
And he discovered the covering

747
00:51:35,440 –> 00:51:37,120
of Judah.
The Assyrian did.

748
00:51:37,720 –> 00:51:41,520
And thou didst look in that day
to the armor of the House of the

749
00:51:41,520 –> 00:51:45,040
forest, relying on the arm of
flesh, as some did.

750
00:51:45,960 –> 00:51:49,560
Verse 9.
Ye have seen also the breaches

751
00:51:49,560 –> 00:51:52,240
of the city of David, that they
were many.

752
00:51:52,320 –> 00:51:55,280
And ye gathered together the
waters of the lower pool.

753
00:51:56,040 –> 00:51:58,760
And ye have numbered the House
of Jerusalem, and the houses

754
00:51:58,760 –> 00:52:01,720
have been broken down to fortify
the wall.

755
00:52:03,040 –> 00:52:06,640
Ye have made also a ditch
between the two walls for the

756
00:52:06,640 –> 00:52:15,920
water of the old pool.
But but ye have not looked unto

757
00:52:15,960 –> 00:52:23,400
the Maker thereof, neither have
respect unto Him that fashioned

758
00:52:23,480 –> 00:52:29,600
it long ago.
Was it just human ingenuity that

759
00:52:29,600 –> 00:52:32,240
the waters of Shiloha were there
when they were needed?

760
00:52:33,160 –> 00:52:36,040
Was it just coincidence that
there was a water supply that

761
00:52:36,040 –> 00:52:39,200
could be blocked from the
Assyrian and kept within the

762
00:52:39,200 –> 00:52:41,320
walls of Jerusalem during the
siege?

763
00:52:42,120 –> 00:52:46,280
Was it mere coincidence that
there was such a source of life

764
00:52:46,280 –> 00:52:50,160
giving water when holding out
against the enemy of God?

765
00:52:50,400 –> 00:52:54,440
No coincidence.
For many years before those

766
00:52:54,440 –> 00:52:59,160
events, God had ensured that
there’d be a water supply, a

767
00:52:59,160 –> 00:53:03,720
mysterious gushing forth of
life, giving water from beneath

768
00:53:03,720 –> 00:53:09,000
the Temple, the Mount of Moriah.
God claims to have been the

769
00:53:09,000 –> 00:53:14,640
maker thereof, and he fashioned
it long ago.

770
00:53:16,120 –> 00:53:19,800
Now let’s just conclude Micah
Five.

771
00:53:21,000 –> 00:53:24,760
Look at once again how the
events of the coming of Messiah

772
00:53:25,440 –> 00:53:31,640
are intertwined with the mention
of the Assyrian verse.

773
00:53:31,640 –> 00:53:37,080
One now says, Micah, gather
thyself in troops, O daughter of

774
00:53:37,080 –> 00:53:41,440
troops, he hath laid siege
against us, and now you know

775
00:53:41,440 –> 00:53:44,280
what that’s all about.
They shall smite the judge of

776
00:53:44,280 –> 00:53:46,280
Israel with a rod upon the
cheek.

777
00:53:47,360 –> 00:53:52,480
But thou Bethlehem Ephrata,
though thou be notice this.

778
00:53:53,280 –> 00:53:57,520
Little.
The waters of Shiloh that go

779
00:53:57,560 –> 00:54:02,120
softly, the still small voice to
Elijah.

780
00:54:02,880 –> 00:54:08,800
Though thou be little among the
thousands of Judah, yet out of

781
00:54:08,800 –> 00:54:13,440
thee shall he come forth unto me
that is to be ruler in Israel,

782
00:54:14,120 –> 00:54:18,400
whose goings forth have been
from old, from everlasting.

783
00:54:18,760 –> 00:54:22,280
Now don’t miss the connection,
brothers and sisters, whose

784
00:54:22,280 –> 00:54:24,280
goings forth, what’s the word
mean?

785
00:54:24,640 –> 00:54:27,160
Check it in Strongs peculiar
what it says.

786
00:54:27,400 –> 00:54:32,360
It says a sewer or a descent or
a draft house.

787
00:54:33,160 –> 00:54:36,040
Now when you look at that, you
think, well, that’s puzzling.

788
00:54:36,040 –> 00:54:39,320
How would that ever be
associated with this kind of

789
00:54:39,320 –> 00:54:43,600
messianic prophecy?
But a careful check and strongs,

790
00:54:44,000 –> 00:54:48,120
especially at the origin of the
word, shows that the base

791
00:54:48,120 –> 00:54:53,320
meaning of that word goings
forth means to spring out or to

792
00:54:53,320 –> 00:54:59,080
descend, to be as a fountain,
and it is translated

793
00:54:59,440 –> 00:55:04,200
watercourse.
In Second Chronicles 32 and 30

794
00:55:04,960 –> 00:55:10,240
it’s translated spring, part of
a word spring, and Isaiah 58 and

795
00:55:10,240 –> 00:55:13,800
11.
It’s also translated spring and

796
00:55:13,800 –> 00:55:19,800
Isaiah 41 verse 8, so it’s
associated with a water spring

797
00:55:20,560 –> 00:55:24,240
whose water springs have been
from old.

798
00:55:24,480 –> 00:55:29,320
The language of Isaiah 22.
You have not looked unto the

799
00:55:29,320 –> 00:55:36,080
Maker of Shiloha, the Maker who
knew it and did it of old, says

800
00:55:36,080 –> 00:55:40,560
Isaiah 22.
Thus here in Micah 5 is the

801
00:55:40,560 –> 00:55:44,440
promise of one whose water
springs, or whose springing

802
00:55:44,440 –> 00:55:48,400
forth have been from old, like
the waters of Shiloh.

803
00:55:48,400 –> 00:55:52,720
And thus, brothers and sisters,
look at this assurance, both for

804
00:55:52,720 –> 00:55:56,280
past days and Micah’s time, and
now for us in the future.

805
00:55:56,920 –> 00:56:01,000
He shall stand and feed in the
strength of the Lord, in the

806
00:56:01,000 –> 00:56:05,240
majesty of the name of the Lord
his God, and they shall abide,

807
00:56:05,920 –> 00:56:09,360
for now shall he be great unto
the ends of the earth.

808
00:56:10,040 –> 00:56:15,000
And this man shall be the peace
when the Assyrian shall come

809
00:56:15,000 –> 00:56:18,840
into our land, and when he shall
tread in our palaces.

810
00:56:19,440 –> 00:56:23,560
Then shall we raise against him
7 shepherds and eight principal

811
00:56:23,560 –> 00:56:27,920
men.
You see the point, the events of

812
00:56:27,920 –> 00:56:32,120
Hezekiah and Isaiah interwoven
with events for us in the

813
00:56:32,120 –> 00:56:35,920
future, and the focus, the
center of attention.

814
00:56:36,920 –> 00:56:42,280
Emmanuel.
All our springs are in Him, for

815
00:56:42,280 –> 00:56:46,080
He is as the waters of Shiloa
that go softly.