Colin Badger – Thematic Study of Isaiah – Class 5 – A Jubilee for the Redeemed

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This is day five 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 a Jubilee for the Redeemed

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Brother Badger.
Good morning my dear brothers

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and sisters and young people.
I understand there were a few

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sisters from California that
were talking yesterday about the

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fact they were very grateful
that if Ahaz was as worst as the

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husband could be, as bad as the
husband could be, they had a lot

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to be thankful for.
It’s encouraging that at a Bible

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school we go away with such rich
exhortation.

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I appreciate that insight from
that which was provided

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yesterday.
Brothers and sisters, we

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approached the Emanuel
prophecies, which are.

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Really.
A very.

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Important section in Isaiah’s
prophecy.

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A springboard for much of the
language and the imagery to be

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used later on in Isaiah’s
prophecy.

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We approached that section
yesterday, first by coming to

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the Emanuel prophecy itself,
noting that it had some hint of

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application to contemporary
events.

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For when the Assyrian invaded, O
Emanuel was appealed to as one

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who would be present when the
Assyrian overflowed and filled

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the land.
And then we backed up out of

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those prophecies in Isaiah and
examined how the phrase emmanue

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was rooted in Deuteronomy
chapter 31 and elsewhere in the

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Old Testament as being something
that was anticipatory of what

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came finally in the Emanuel
prophecy.

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We also noticed that by looking
at some Psalms that are related

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to those events, we have a
keener insight into the use and

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the significance of Emanu, God
with us, at least the phrase

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with us being used Emanu in key
phrases and sections that have a

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bearing that have a parallel
with the events of the Assyrian

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crisis we noticed yesterday.
But from from some of Hezekiah’s

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own speeches, Emanu was found in
his lips as he described the

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assurances of deliverance from
the Assyrian.

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And as we considered that kind
of approach to the Emanuel

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prophecies, we found that the
context beyond those chapters

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was helpful to an understanding
of what we read in chapters 7 to

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12.
Now similarly this morning in

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that section, the Emanuel
prophecies, we read this.

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Let’s go back there.
Chapter 8.

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Isaiah says that his children
were symbolic, His two boys.

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Isaiah chapter 8 and verse 18
says Isaiah, Behold, I and the

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children whom the Lord hath
given me are for signs and for

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wonders in Israel from the Lord
of hosts which dwelleth in Mount

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Zion.
Now, of course, that last phrase

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touches on much of what we said
yesterday and the day before.

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How Jerusalem and Micah too, was
pictured as a sheep pen, and the

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people within those walls as
sheep are gathered inside a pen.

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And how God was looking over as
the Great Shepherd.

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And how it emphasizes in so many
ways the great symbolic

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importance of God’s dwelling in
Zion, not only in the future

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age, but its significance then
in the age of Hezekiah and

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Isaiah, and how that small
remnant enclosed within the

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sheepfold, as it were, on Mount
Zion.

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Were able.
To see God’s hand and assurance

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that He was Emmanuel truly with
them as they saw the dead

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Assyrian soldiers the next day.
But Isaiah says that he who

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dwelleth on Mount Zion has given
to Isaiah and his children

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symbolic significance.
They are for signs now, the

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second son born to him.
We’ve only mentioned him

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casually in our previous
remarks.

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His name chapter 8 verse one.
It’s a mouthful Maher Shellel

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hash Baz margin is helpful, for
it renders the meaning of that

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son of sign In making speed to
the spoil, he hasteneth to pray.

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Sometimes rendered simply speed
the.

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Spoil.
Haste the prey.

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Thus the one son was a portent
negatively of the overflowing

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invasion of the Assyrians.
It was a warning, or he was a

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warning prophetically, that the
invasion was coming.

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It was close, it would make
haste, and there would be great

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spoil taken by the invader.
But he had another son.

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Didn’t he Notice how this second
son’s name is on a more positive

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note rather than stressing the
negative aspects of an invasion

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and seizing the spoil and taking
a prey?

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Chapter 7, verse 3.
The name of the other son again.

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It’s rather a mouthful.
Sheer Jashub.

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Sheer Jashub, or however you
would like to say that.

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I’m sure none of us are
proficient in pronouncing these

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words.
The importance is to grasp their

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significance.
Sheer Jashub verse 3.

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Then said the Lord unto Isaiah,
Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou

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and Sheer Jashub thy Son, at the
end of the conduit of the upper

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pool in the highway of the
fuller’s field.

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Notice, brothers and sisters,
how specific those instructions

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are.
It was foreordained by God that

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the meeting should take place in
this location, specifically at

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the end, not the beginning of
the conduit of the upper pool,

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not the lower pool, for there
was a lower pool in the highway

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of the Fuller’s field.
Now it seems when Scripture

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makes that kind of specific
reference as to the venue for

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this meeting, there must be some
importance in it, and we’ll come

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back to that momentarily here.
Sheer Jashub, this young lad

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whose name, if you checked your
margin, meant the remnant shall

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return.
Now, brothers and sisters, just

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bring to.
Bear, if you will.

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All that.
We’ve.

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Said in these last two sessions
this week concerning the remnant

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that little sheepfold described
by Micah 2 within the pen of

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Jerusalem, those who had come
down in support and in

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allegiance to Hezekiah.
And who appreciated?

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The presence of Isaiah the
prophet, those who had fled for

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refuge within those walls, who
were tested and tempered and

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tried, as we saw yesterday from
Psalm 46, Psalm 122, Psalm 124.

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Even Sennacherib on his prism,
the Taylor prism, as we said

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yesterday, could see the picture
as a small group within the

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wall.
For the Taylor Prism, by

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Sennacherib’s own words, had
described Hezekiah the Jew as

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being shut up in a cage like a
bird.

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And Psalm 120.
Four said that we are.

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Like a bird in a snare, the
imagery rather from the whether

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from the Assyrian perspective or
from the perspective of Hezekiah

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and those in the crisis, was
really the same small group,

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trapped as it were, or seemingly
trapped, hedged about.

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By the walls.
Within this little area of

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Jerusalem, and we saw the
importance of the imagery of a

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remnant yesterday.
We mentioned it slightly the day

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before here in verse 3,
remembering what we’ve just read

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in chapter 8 that Isaiah and his
children were given for signs

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and wonders in Israel.
One son negatively, meaning feed

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the spoil, haste the pray.
Now the second son, a positive

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hope, conviction that God would
effect a deliverance, at least

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for a few.
A remnant shall return.

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I’d like just to look at how
Scripture prepares us for this

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symbolic sign, a promise of a
remnant for brothers and

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sisters.
When you go back and at your

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leisure look at Isaiah again,
whether it’s in the readings

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next year or when your private
study, the concept of a remnant

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in Isaiah is extremely important
and it springs out of here, this

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section in Chapter 7, just as
the Emmanuel significance

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springs out of the same context
and runs right through the

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prophecy.
We’re being given master keys

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here at the beginning of the
prophecy to equip us to

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understand what’s said elsewhere
in the prophecy now.

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How are we prepared?
For this concept of sheer

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Jashub, once again Chronicles
and Kings have to be brought to

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bear.
Would you go back in the days of

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Ahaz as it’s recorded in Second
Chronicles 28, a most important

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event prior to Hezekiah’s own
day and prior to the time of

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Isaiah 7?
Just slightly.

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Isaiah 7, we said earlier in the
week, was written in the days of

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Ahaz when we structured out the
book.

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Now in Second Chronicles 28 we
are in the days of Ahaz.

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The events here in 28 Second
Chronicles, I do believe, are

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just slightly before the events
of Isaiah 7, but Ahaz is

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certainly on the throne.
We have a kind of civil war

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breaking out in Second
Chronicles 28, verse 6.

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For Pika the son of Remeliah
flew in Judah.

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Now notice Pika’s from the
north.

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Here is the king of the northern
Kingdom, the 10 tribes.

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Pika the son of Remeliah, flew
in Judah 120,000 in one day,

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which were all valiant men,
because they had forsaken the

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Lord God of their fathers, and
Zikry, a mighty man of Iphraim.

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Flew.
Massieiah the King’s son, and

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Azraqayam the governor of the
house, and Elkanah, that was

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next to the king and the
children of Israel, carried away

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captive of their brethren, of
their brethren, 200,000 women,

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sons, daughters, and took also
away much spoil.

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Now think of that much spoil.
One of Isaiah’s sons meant haste

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the prey.
Excuse me, haste the spoil, feed

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the prey, or the other way
around.

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It can be rendered either way.
Now keep that in mind next,

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verse 9 But a prophet of the
Lord was there, whose name was

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Obed.
His name, brothers and sisters,

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if you check it.
And the concordance means to

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restore, to set up, or to
restore.

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So here’s the civil war.
The northern tribes have

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plundered Judah, and as a
result, the northern tribes are

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obviously victors, and they’ve
taken close to 200,000 of their

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brethren from the South.
Now what’s to be done?

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God raises up a prophet whose
name in a positive application

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meant restoring or to set up
again.

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And verse 9 He went out before
the host that came to Samaria,

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and said unto them, Behold,
behold, because the Lord God of

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your Father’s was wroth with
Judah, he hath delivered them

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into your hand, and he have
slain them in a rage that

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reaches up unto heaven, like the
Assyrian, who was a rod in God’s

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hand, an instrument of his
wrath.

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Assyria had overstepped their
bounds, for they have they had

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wrecked vicious vengeance on
God’s people far beyond what was

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reasonable.
And now, although God intended

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Judah to be punished and taught
a lesson, the northern tribes

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have gone beyond what is
reasonable. 200,000 slain.

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And So what do we find here?
Excuse me 200,000 held captive.

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We go on verse 10.
The prophet speaks Now ye

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purpose to keep under the
children of Judah and Jerusalem,

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for bond men and bond women unto
you.

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But are there not with you, even
with you sins against the Lord

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your God?
How can you take such a

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provocative action when you
yourselves are sinners?

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So a man stands up whose name
means a restorer, and he appeals

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to their consciences, and he
succeeds.

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Verse 15.
And the men, which were

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expressed by name, rose up and
took the captives, and with the

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spoil clothed all that were
naked among them, and arrayed

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them and shod them, and gave
them to eat and to drink, and

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anointed them and carried.
All the.

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Feeble of them upon asses, and
brought them to Jericho, the

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city of palm trees, to their
brethren.

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So they returned to Samaria.
Now in the Hebrew the word

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return or.
Restore it could be rendered.

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Is the word Hebrew word SHUB.
It’s 1/2 of the name of the

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Prophet’s son.
Cheer Jashub was his name and.

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Here in the.
Days of Hezekiah just preceding

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the events of Isaiah 7 We have a
situation that is important as a

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preparation for an understanding
to Ahaz and the people and to

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the significance of Isaiah’s
son’s name. 4 Bring these three

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events together, or these three
aspects in verse 8 of chapter

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28. 2. 100,000 were taken
captive and much spoil.

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One of Isaiah’s sons was a
portent as a man of sign.

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That there would.
Be an invasion speed the.

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Spoil.
Haste the Prey, Maher, Shellel

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Hashbaz.
The spoil here has been taken,

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and in the context by God’s
prophet, O Dead one, whose name

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means to restore or set back up,
there is intervention in the

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hour of prices, and the
consciences of the invader are

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turned back, and as a result
they return their brethren to

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Samaria.
To.

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Return shob now.
A little.

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Further over Second Chronicles
chapter 30, part of Isaiah’s

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son’s name occurs again in
Second Chronicles 30, verse 6,

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during the time of the reform
preparatory to Passover.

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Chapter 30, verse 6, when
Hezekiah appealed to his

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brethren in the north to come
down and join the brothers in

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the South to celebrate the
Passover and accept the terms of

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reform.
Verse 6.

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Notice the message.
So the post went with the

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letters from the king and his
Princess.

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Throughout all Israel and Judah.
And according to the commandment

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of the king, saying, Now watch
the choice of words, Ye children

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of Israel, turn again unto the
Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and

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Jacob, and he will in the
Hebrew.

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Shob.
He.

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Will we turn to the Remnant?
Of you that are escaped.

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Out of the hand of the kings of
Assyria, ever so subtly,

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brothers and sisters.
Part of that symbolic name is

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included in Hezekiah’s appeal to
the remnant of his people.

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Sheer Jashub.
Sheer the.

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Remnant.
Shob to return Here we have in

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Hezekiah’s appeal to his
brethren both.

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Words brought together.
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Remnant, the other part of the
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Remnant.
In fact, as you work through

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Isaiah’s prophecy, with only one
exception, sheer this part of

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the word down here.
Shea.

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R in English shear is the Hebrew
word.

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For every occasion.
Except one in Isaiah’s prophecy

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where the word remnant appears.
Every time you see remnant in

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Isaiah, with one exception only,
it’s the word shear, part of

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Isaiah’s son’s name.
And every time the word return

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is used or the word restore in
Isaiah’s prophecy, it’s always

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the Hebrew word shub.
SHUB.

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You see then, how in Isaiah?
Chapter.

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Seven these two symbolic sons 1A
portent of something negative,

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the one who said by his name
that there will be an invader

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who will come take a spoil, make
a prey, and the other son a

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positive sign of hope, although
there will be an invasion,

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although there will be a.
Crisis for the Ecclesia.

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Although there will be a testing
of faith, nevertheless was the

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assurance nevertheless sheer
Jashub?

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A remnant shall return.
And from that point on in

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Isaiah, every reference to those
words comes from that symbolic

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name, whether it’s talking about
a remnant.

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Or whether it’s using the.
Word return or to restore.

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You see that before the events
of Isaiah Chapter 7, before he

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was asked to go down to that
special location with his son,

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there had been preparation made
in the experiences of Ahaz, as

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we’ve just seen, and later on
worked out in the experience of

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Hezekiah that would draw upon
that symbolic significant

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promise for a has was without
excuse, and so was the nation in

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his experience.
Just before the events of

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Chapter 7, he had waged a wicked
warfare on his brethren in

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Judah, and one had come in his
midst whose name meant.

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A restorer O dead.
One who will set up And he had

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appealed to the conscience of
Ahab and his military commanders

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and to the people and his
appeal.

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Let my people go.
Let those who are captives be

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liberated.
And they responded, and they let

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Ashab, our remnant, go.
Excuse me, A sheer go a little

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group.
Go out.

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And go back and be restored.
In those events prior to Isaiah

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7, those principles were
demonstrated to Ahaz, the

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working out of a prophecy before
another one was given.

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Ahaz and the people therefore
were not reasoning in a vacuum

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when Isaiah 7 transpired.
Let’s go back there.

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P.
Indeed, Ahaz had already gone

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through events in which our
remnants were spared and allowed

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to go back, in which restoration
was affected.

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God clearly showing that he
would not exterminate Judah, not

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under any circumstances.
And the people of the north had

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been the invader in that case.
And they’ve been reminded that

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they too were flesh.
They too had committed sins, so

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their act was overbearing and
arrogant.

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Now back to Chapter 7.
Keeping in mind those.

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Former events?
What about these?

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Details in Chapter 3.
What are we to make of them,

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brothers and sisters?
For sheer, Jasheb.

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Our remnant shall return was to
go with his father Isaiah,

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specifically in verse. 3.
At the end of the conduit of the

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upper pool in the highway of
the.

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Fuller’s field.
And as Isaiah was to stand there

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with one whose name meant our
remnant shall return, they were

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to conduct their dialogue with
Ahab starting as we have down to

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verse 10.
We’d like just to return

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brothers and sisters to this
diagram.

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It helps us to.
See what was happening.

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Picture these events in your
mind’s eye, Isaiah.

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Is told that.
He and his son must meet King

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Ahaz at the end of the conduit.
Of the upper pool.

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The upper pool.
Guyhan, sometimes known as the

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Virgin’s Pool.
They were to meet Ahaz.

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There at.
The end of the conduit.

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Of the upper pool in the
highway.

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Of the Fuller’s field.
Now it’s.

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Difficult to get a clear grasp.
As to where this location was

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exactly, we do know that there
was a.

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Highway which went through this
area of the.

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Kidron and followed on up.
Through connecting into other

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highways to the.
North, it was a fairly.

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Direct Line on the West.
Side of the Jordan, straight

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from the Kidron Valley up to the
north.

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That much is certain from
ancient records and other

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mentionings in scripture of the
same basic location.

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The fuller’s field we’re not.
Sure, exactly where that was,

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but some.
Accounts Ancient accounts

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indicate.
That it was on the West side of

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the Kidron, north of Guyhon The.
Fuller’s field.

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What was a Fuller’s field?
It was a place apparently used.

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By the women for scrubbing and
for obtaining and using soap of

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some sort or whatever.
Cleanser they used.

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It was a place.
Also apparently where the.

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Laundry was sometimes drawn out.
After.

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Washing and getting water in
Guyhon.

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According to one source, it
seems to indicate that the

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daughters of Zion.
Or the daughters of Judah.

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Would come down.
Here, gather their water.

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Perhaps do some of their?
Washing in the early stages of

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it.
And then if some kind of

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additional cleansing or drawing
needed to be done, they would go

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a little.
Bit further up into the fuller’s

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field.
Some have suggested there there

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were perhaps.
Some kind of merchantmen that

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sold various cleansing devices.
Now why are all?

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Those details mentioned,
remember Isaiah is told to bring

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his child with him.
So now we picture the.

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Scene up goes Isaiah here.
Near the fuller’s field or

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within sight.
Of the fuller’s field standing

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in the highway next to.
Guyhan, now we bring to.

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Bear what we’ve taken earlier.
We’ve seen the great

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significance of Guyhan, whose
maker Isaiah 22 was God.

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The symbolic significance of
these mysterious underground

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springs.
How Isaiah has drawn elsewhere

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in his prophecy upon the symbol
of Guyon.

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Or the symbol of Siloam.
These mysterious sources of life

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giving water ho everyone who
thirsteth, we considered.

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That yesterday waters springing
up Jesus.

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Use of Isaiah 12 verse one.
Let’s go there, for Jesus draws

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partly upon.
This in John 7 when he talks

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about rivers of water flowing
from him.

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Isaiah chapter 12, verses 1-2
and.

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Three clearly alluded.
To in John 7 and more than that,

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when Jesus said what he did.
In John 7 about the Living

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Waters.
That would come from him.

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He.
Said that according to John 7.

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In the.
Last day of the feast.

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That is the last day of the
feast of.

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Tabernacles, which according to
Edersheim and.

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Other Jewish authorities was a.
Day in.

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Which like the days previous,
the seven days previous, priests

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would leave the gates of.
The temple and the.

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City area.
Go down to Guy Han.

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Take a golden pitcher.
Dip it in the waters.

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Excuse me, not Guyhon, but down
to Siloam, this end of the city

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and this end of the conduit,
down through the gates.

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Take a golden.
Pitcher, dip it into the waters.

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In a procession, a very solemn
procession March.

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Back up to the altar of burnt
offering in the temple area.

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And pour it out with wine before
the sacrifice of that.

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Day in the morning was ignited.
Now, Edersheim says they did

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that every day.
And he also indicates that

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Isaiah chapter 12 and.
Verse two and three were.

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Sung as a kind of.
Chant as the priests proceeded.

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Down and back from the.
Pool of Siloam, the pool.

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That meant scent fed.
From the.

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Waters of Gahan and as they went
back.

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And came to that altar.
They then sung part of the songs

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of Degrees.
Now, brothers and sisters.

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It’s important to see here that
in Isaiah chapter 12, verses 1-2

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and three.
There was good reason for Jesus

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to allude to it.
And there was good reason for

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him to say what he did at that
particular feast seeing.

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What the procession of the
priest was doing.

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Behold, verse 2.
God is my salvation.

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I will trust and not be afraid
for the Lord.

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Jehovah is my strength and my
song.

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He also has become my salvation.
Verse 3.

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Therefore with joy shall ye draw
water out of the wells of

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salvation.
Say why the Jews in Christ Day

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would chant such a section from
Isaiah as they went down here

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through the gates of the old
city and dipped their golden

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pitcher into the water of
Siloam, which had come of course

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from Guy Han.
And how they would chant that

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perhaps also on the way back as
they proceeded back to the

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temple courts.
And how as they poured out that

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water and the wine and ignited
the daily sacrifice for that

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great feast, the last day of the
feast, Jesus seized that

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opportunity to allude to all of
this imagery and especially

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Isaiah 12, verse 3.
For out of him the true source

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of godly water, Out of him would
proceed.

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Water that would be living what
they were doing would only

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satisfy, of course, for a day or
for a feast.

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Jesus was offering a water that
would come and satisfy men and

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women forever.
When you see then Jesus

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referring back to this kind of
language in Isaiah, which finds

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its source historically in these
events and with these locations

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back to Isaiah 7 again verse
three, there is now good reason

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to look at these location
references and see in them no

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doubt some definite
significance.

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Isaiah was a man of sign, Sheer
Jashub was a man of sign.

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And here a group of people
represented in the son of

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Isaiah.
A remnant shall return.

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One stands here, a remnant shall
return by this conduit, this

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source of water, and they stand
by a highway which led up to the

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northern tribes and which led
the northern tribes down a

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highway.
And next to this highway, this

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remnant stands next to the
highway and next to this source

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of mysterious water.
And beside them is Father

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Isaiah, whose name means Yahweh
is salvation, Yahweh is

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salvation.
A remnant shall return, and

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thereby the pool of waters
symbolic by Jesus own reference

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of the wells of salvation.
Isaiah 12 verse 3 and their near

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brothers and sisters, the
fuller’s field, that place

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within view.
That was the place where the

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daughters of Zion cleanse their
garments.

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See the point Brothers and
sisters.

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Symbol after symbol is brought
to bear in this most incredible

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location.
Gahan simple enough of the wells

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of salvation, the waters of
Shiloa that go softly.

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Isaiah 8 verse six that we
referred to yesterday.

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God was their Maker.
Isaiah 22 a source of

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refreshment, referring
ultimately to the Lord Jesus

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Christ and the waters He would
offer mankind, the Saviour of

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mankind.
And there by this eternal source

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of water stands a son, perhaps a
young lad, whose name symbolized

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the remnant shall return but a
few, but nevertheless a remnant.

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And he stands with His Father
Yahweh, His salvation, next to a

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highway which Isaiah is going to
play upon a number of times

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later on in his prophecy.
A highway come back to that.

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And it’s within sight of the
place where the daughters of

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Zion wash their clothes.
Now let’s just expand brothers

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and sisters in and around the
book of Isaiah and just notice

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how these details are now going
to be built upon from this

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springboard and Isaiah 7 and 8.
So let’s go out beyond these

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chapters.
First of all, chapter 35 of

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Isaiah.
We said at the beginning of the

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week we couldn’t possibly go
verse by verse or chapter by

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chapter.
We would go thematically through

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the book of Isaiah, grasp the
main concepts, get a hold of the

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keys of the key ideas laid out
in the early chapters of Isaiah,

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and then use them to unlock the
doors elsewhere in the prophecy.

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So Isaiah 35, keep in mind what
we’ve just said, verse eight,

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look at this, brothers and
sisters, what a beautiful

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passage in the context of the
events of sheer Jashub by the

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conduit of the upper pool
standing next to the highway,

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within sight of where the
daughters of Zion wash their

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clothes.
Verse 8.

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And an highway shall be there.
Well, when’s this?

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Back to verse one.
The wilderness and the solitary

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place shall be glad for them,
ooze them, and the desert shall

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rejoice and blossom as the Rose.
Verse 3.

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Strengthen ye the weak hands,
and confirm the feeble knees.

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Say to them that are of a
fearful heart, Be strong, fear

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not.
Behold, your God will come with

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vengeance, and God will the
recompense.

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He will come and save you.
It’s the remnant.

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Verse 5.
Then the eyes of the blind shall

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be opened, and the ears of the
deaf shall be unstopped.

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John 9.
The blind man.

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The man also in John 5 by the
pool water.

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Drawn from Siloam.
Significantly, where the blind

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and the sick were healed.
Verse 6 Then shall the lame man

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leap as in heart, and the tongue
of the dumb sing.

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For in the wilderness back to
the symbol of water, shall

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waters break out, and streams in
the desert.

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Now verse 8 again.
And an highway shall be there

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and away, and it shall be called
the way of holiness.

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From Isaiah 7 springs out an
imagery that runs right through

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Isaiah, the language of a
highway, a highway leading

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00:36:12,400 –> 00:36:16,440
brothers and sisters To where?
Where did the highway go?

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To Zion.
That’s where it went.

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00:36:20,680 –> 00:36:26,520
It drew potentially remnant of
people from the tribes, north or

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00:36:26,520 –> 00:36:30,000
South that came down for
Hezekiah’s Passover or at any

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other time of worship.
It was one of those highways, an

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artery.
In the land that came.

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Right down to Jerusalem and
terminated somewhere in the

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Kidron Valley, within the walls
of Jerusalem, next to the

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Fuller’s Field by the waters of
Guyon.

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And so out of Chapter 7 springs
an image that that of a highway

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is a symbol for the way of
salvation.

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Where did Hezekiah tell the
people they had to come if they

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were to be reformed as part of
his reform program?

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As we saw earlier in the week,
there was only one place the

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northern brethren could come if
they were to celebrate the feast

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00:37:15,480 –> 00:37:20,160
of Passover, save themselves
from the Angel of death, be

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renewed and strengthened in
their vows.

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00:37:22,520 –> 00:37:26,680
They had to come from the north
to the South, and there was a

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00:37:26,680 –> 00:37:31,760
highway, a highway LED to
Jerusalem, down into that valley

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00:37:31,760 –> 00:37:37,160
next to those walls, and it led
to the waters, to the waters of

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00:37:37,160 –> 00:37:42,720
Guyon.
It was symbolically the way used

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in the Acts of the Apostles, by
the way, as an abbreviation for

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those who knew the truth.
You watch it in the Acts, the

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way, this way, the way, this
way.

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It’s used numerously in the
Acts.

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That way, excuse the pun, it
shall be called the way of

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00:38:00,160 –> 00:38:03,840
holiness.
But let’s not finish there.

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00:38:05,800 –> 00:38:10,200
What does this highway do?
Where does this highway lead as

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00:38:10,200 –> 00:38:14,560
the way of holiness?
What are the qualifications to

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00:38:14,560 –> 00:38:19,000
ride on this highway?
Now verse 8 at the end.

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The unclean shall not Passover
it.

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A word, part of which forms the
word Hebrew to Passover, used

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00:38:31,840 –> 00:38:37,280
also in the time of Joshua.
The unclean shall not Passover

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00:38:37,280 –> 00:38:39,720
it.
Well then, brothers and sisters,

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00:38:40,000 –> 00:38:43,640
who can pass over it?
That means not to shift from

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side to side, by the way.
It means who shall run along it?

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Who shall walk along the way of
holiness?

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00:38:50,680 –> 00:38:55,280
Who shall tread God’s Hwy.
Not the unclean.

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00:38:55,760 –> 00:39:00,480
Well then, who the clean?
How are they cleansed?

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The fuller’s field.
That’s how the cleansing the

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00:39:06,480 –> 00:39:11,480
fuller’s field significant in
the events of Isaiah Chapter 7.

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As if Isaiah and as if Ahaz
didn’t know where to go,

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brothers and sisters, when they
were to meet at the pool, the

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upper pool, pool of the conduit.
That would have been quite fine.

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00:39:24,400 –> 00:39:27,440
I’ll meet you, Ahaz.
It could have been said by the

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pool, the upper pool by Guy Han,
or it could have been said, I’ll

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00:39:31,320 –> 00:39:33,840
meet you by the highway next to
Guy Han.

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00:39:34,120 –> 00:39:36,280
But that wasn’t good enough
either.

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00:39:36,880 –> 00:39:41,720
We will have a meeting next to
Guy Hon by the highway

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00:39:42,320 –> 00:39:45,840
overlooking the place where the
daughters of Zion wash their

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00:39:45,840 –> 00:39:50,680
clothes.
So how are those to walk?

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Who will walk along that
highway?

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00:39:53,920 –> 00:39:59,480
It’s on the condition that they
are cleansed by the waters, that

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00:39:59,480 –> 00:40:04,280
they have their ways forgiven
and pardoned, and their clothes

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cleansed.
And what waters do that?

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The waters of salvation, no
doubt.

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Brothers and sisters, Isaiah
chapter 12, come to the waters.

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00:40:14,880 –> 00:40:18,120
We are all bidden.
Come to the waters and drink.

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00:40:18,920 –> 00:40:23,920
Dip down into those wells and
you will find joy.

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Draw waters out of the wells of
salvation.

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And how were we saved?
It’s a basic fundamental

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principle that by imbibing the
waters from Jesus well, not only

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do we receive life giving
sustenance, in the process we

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are cleansed.
Ephesians chapter 5, The

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daughters of Zion cleansed by
the water from Guy Han over in

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the location of the Fuller’s
field, standing by a highway.

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And Paul in Ephesians chapter 5
describes how the daughters of

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Zion under the new covenant are
to go through the same exercise

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if they are truly the daughters
of Zion.

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00:41:19,160 –> 00:41:23,360
So we read in verse 23 of
Ephesians 5.

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For the husband is the head of
the wife, even as Christ is the

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head of the church.
He is the Savior of the body.

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Verse 25 Husbands, love your
wives, even as Christ also loved

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the church and gave himself for
it.

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Why?
That He might sanctify and

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00:41:52,160 –> 00:41:59,400
cleanse it with the washing of
water by the Word, that it

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might, that He might present it
to Himself a glorious church,

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00:42:03,440 –> 00:42:09,000
not having spot or wrinkle, or
any such thing, but that it

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should be holy and without
blemish.

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You see, brothers and sisters,
that water mentioned in John 7

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as a water which we must all
drink deeply of in order that we

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might be regenerated and given
life now and in the future, is a

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00:42:26,960 –> 00:42:31,200
water that has a dual purpose.
The giving of life and the

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00:42:31,200 –> 00:42:35,760
cleansing of our carnal minds,
the cleansing that must take

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00:42:35,760 –> 00:42:40,000
place day by day that our
garments might be made clean.

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So what is it any amazement that
here in Isaiah 35, the way of

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holiness, the highway is looked
upon as the place only upon

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which the.
Clean shall tread, not the.

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Unclean, no unclean shall
Passover or pass through.

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And Speaking of the Fuller’s
field brothers and sisters, with

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its obvious significance, is
there not also perhaps a similar

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thought, or if not an echo in
Mark’s Gospel?

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00:43:15,680 –> 00:43:19,640
At the time of the
Transfiguration, when Jesus is

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glorified before them, he is
pictured as one whose garments

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were very, very clean and white,
whiter than what a fuller’s soap

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00:43:30,920 –> 00:43:33,600
could do.
A fuller’s soap.

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00:43:34,120 –> 00:43:37,600
See the point?
Jesus in glorified

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00:43:37,600 –> 00:43:42,320
transfiguration is pictured as
the ideal to which we are

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00:43:42,320 –> 00:43:45,760
moving.
And when this brightness, this

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00:43:45,760 –> 00:43:49,560
glorified ideal, is pictured
before the disciples?

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00:43:50,240 –> 00:43:53,040
Mark.
Typical to those graphic terms,

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00:43:53,040 –> 00:43:57,160
he often uses in his Gospel
pictures the Lord Jesus Christ

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00:43:57,160 –> 00:44:00,200
as having garments cleaner than
what a fuller could do with his

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00:44:00,200 –> 00:44:03,600
soap.
Well, brothers and sisters,

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00:44:03,600 –> 00:44:06,040
there’s more.
Back to Isaiah.

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00:44:06,520 –> 00:44:08,840
Let’s run with these thoughts a
little further through the

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00:44:08,840 –> 00:44:11,400
prophecy.
Let them be master keys.

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00:44:11,400 –> 00:44:15,640
To open up the significance of
these terms, let’s go to Isaiah

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chapter 49.
Isaiah chapter 49.

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00:44:31,270 –> 00:44:34,830
Keep in mind these events as we
read these words, perhaps from a

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fresher perspective.
Isaiah 49, verse 9, That thou

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00:44:42,390 –> 00:44:47,160
mayest say to the prisoners, Go
forth to them that are in

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00:44:47,160 –> 00:44:51,280
darkness, show yourselves.
They shall feed in the ways, and

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00:44:51,280 –> 00:44:53,840
their pastures shall be in all
high places.

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00:44:54,760 –> 00:45:00,800
They shall not hunger nor
thirst, neither shall the heat

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00:45:00,800 –> 00:45:06,040
nor sun smite them.
For he that have mercy on them

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00:45:06,640 –> 00:45:09,840
shall now watch.
This language shall lead them.

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00:45:09,840 –> 00:45:13,800
The idea of a path, the idea of
some direction, He shall lead

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00:45:13,800 –> 00:45:19,520
them even by the springs of
water shall he guide them.

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It’s a picture of the redeemed
or the remnant being LED along

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00:45:25,800 –> 00:45:30,480
some path or course, and the
redeemed are taken to the

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00:45:30,480 –> 00:45:34,920
springs of water.
Guyhon, which means to gush or

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00:45:34,920 –> 00:45:39,920
to spring forth.
Verse 11, Look at this, and I

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will make all my mountains away.
By the way, how will he make his

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mountains away?
Well, Isaiah too tells you,

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because the mountains will be
flattened, and the high place

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00:45:53,000 –> 00:45:56,320
will be lowered, high places
will be lowered, and the haughty

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00:45:56,320 –> 00:45:59,520
and the lofty shall be humbled.
It’s the language of Isaiah

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00:45:59,520 –> 00:46:02,880
chapter 2.
The mountains will be gotten out

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of the way.
We’ll come back to that.

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I will make all my mountains
away, and my highways shall be

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exalted, leading God’s people,
guiding them to the springs of

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water away, being prepared a
highway.

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And verse 12 Look at this.
Behold, these shall come from

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far, and lo, these from the
north, and from the West, and

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00:46:32,320 –> 00:46:37,640
these from the land of Synem.
O sing, O heavens, and be

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00:46:37,640 –> 00:46:42,040
joyful, O earth, and break forth
into singing, O mountains, For

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00:46:42,040 –> 00:46:46,520
the Lord hath comforted his
people, and will have mercy upon

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00:46:46,520 –> 00:46:50,880
his afflicted.
The people of Isaiah’s day could

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fit right into an understanding
of what that meant.

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00:46:54,200 –> 00:46:58,640
Those Speaking of the future.
Most importantly, to take people

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and lead them to the springs of
water, to take them by a

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00:47:02,520 –> 00:47:05,760
highway, even those who had come
from far.

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00:47:06,040 –> 00:47:09,000
And where would they go?
No other place, brothers and

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00:47:09,000 –> 00:47:13,480
sisters to Zion.
For as Psalm 87 said, all my

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00:47:13,480 –> 00:47:17,480
springs are in thee.
That’s where such and such a man

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00:47:17,480 –> 00:47:22,440
or woman is born.
Psalm 87 over to Isaiah 40.

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00:47:25,080 –> 00:47:29,240
Use the same key to unlock the
meaning of these images.

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00:47:33,520 –> 00:47:37,320
Well known chapter which heralds
the second part of the prophecy.

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Here we are, verse one of Isaiah
40.

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Comfort ye, comfort ye my
people, saith God.

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00:47:48,400 –> 00:47:54,520
Speak ye comfortably to
Jerusalem, and cry unto her.

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00:47:55,480 –> 00:47:59,280
Now think of the Assyrian crisis
that now has passed by the time

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00:47:59,280 –> 00:48:04,880
Isaiah 40 was penned or spoken.
Cry on to her that her warfare

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00:48:04,920 –> 00:48:06,520
is accomplished.
Now.

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00:48:06,520 –> 00:48:08,840
What did that mean to the people
of Isaiah’s day?

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00:48:09,120 –> 00:48:11,520
They had now seen the Assyrian
crushed.

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00:48:12,440 –> 00:48:15,240
They knew what?
That meant in part that her

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00:48:15,240 –> 00:48:19,520
iniquity is pardoned, for she
hath received at the Lord’s hand

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00:48:19,680 –> 00:48:24,160
double for all her sins.
Now comes the voice, the voice

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00:48:24,160 –> 00:48:26,160
of him that crieth.
In the wilderness.

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00:48:27,080 –> 00:48:35,640
Prepare ye the way of the Lord,
make straight in the desert a

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00:48:35,640 –> 00:48:39,040
highway for our God.
Now where would that highway

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00:48:39,040 –> 00:48:40,600
lead?
Verse 4.

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Every valley shall be exalted.
Remember what we said about

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mountains just a moment ago.
How will the mountains be

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prepared?
And every mountain and hill

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shall be made low, and the
crooked shall be made straight,

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and the rough place is plain,
and the glory of the Lord shall

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be revealed.
Where does Scripture say the

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glory of the Lord shall be
revealed?

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You know, and I know verse 9,
there’s the answer, O Zion,

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Zion, that bring us good
tidings.

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Get thee up to the high
mountain, O Jerusalem, that

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bringest good tidings.
Lift up thy voice with strength.

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Lift it up, be not afraid, Say
unto the cities of Judah.

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Behold your God.
Brothers and sisters, once again

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we find the language
symbolically of that of a

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highway, a place that leads the
remnant to Jerusalem.

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Away prepared the obstacles
removed an opportunity to come

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and drink of the wells of
salvation.

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Christ’s bride cleansed in the
Fuller’s field by the water

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drawn from Guyhon, from that
mysterious source of water below

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the Temple Mount, and in real
terms, coming for the sake of

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worship and for the hope of
redemption.

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Place after place opens up.
Now back to verse 2.

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We’re not finished.
Speak ye comfortably to

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Jerusalem.
How, brothers and sisters, that

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phrasing would be particularly
relevant to the people of

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Hezekiah’s day.
How so?

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Back to Second Chronicles,
chapter 30.

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Second Chronicles, chapter 30.
At the time of the Passover, in

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the days of Hezekiah, when he
beckoned to his brethren to come

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down to the South, come along
that highway, come to Jerusalem

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to celebrate the feast.
Once Hezekiah got the people

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there as a small remnant of the
nation and had prayed for them,

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as we’ve read earlier and in
verse 20 of Second Chronicles

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30, God responded by healing the
people, in other words,

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pardoning their sin, cleansing
their garments.

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Verse 22, Hezekiah uses the same
Hebrew word as is used in Isaiah

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40, verse 2.
Comfort he, comfort He my people

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speak ye comfortably to
Jerusalem.

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The word comfortably means to
speak to the heart.

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You look at the margin of Isaiah
40 verse 1, and here Hezekiah

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look at your margin spake
comfortably.

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Same Hebrew word as Isaiah 40
verse one.

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Hezekiah spake comfortably unto
all the Levites, and your margin

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Hebrew to the heart.
So Hezekiah’s words wrung out on

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that Passover occasion once he
had got all the people down as

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he could, as much as he could,
that remnant into Jerusalem, and

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he spake to their heart all the
Levites, and he taught the good

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knowledge of the Lord.
And so the words of Isaiah 40

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were but an echo of good King
Hezekiah.

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For he and Isaiah both said,
Speak ye to the heart, to

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

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that her iniquity is pardoned.
Brothers and sisters, let us

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tread that highway.
Let us accept the invitation to

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come to the wells of salvation,
and let us accept the process of

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our garments being cleansed and
washed to be his bride.

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That, brothers and sisters, our
warfare will finally be

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accomplished, our iniquity
pardoned, and let U.S.

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Open our ears to those words of
comfort, intended, as in the

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words of Isaiah and Hezekiah
before him, to speak to our

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hearts.