Class 6 from this series was used in GCT Episode 318.<\/p>\n
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\nOur third period speaker is
\nBrother Colin Badgers and his <\/p>\n
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\ngeneral subject is Schematic
\nStudy of Isaiah. <\/p>\n
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\nHis subtopic for today’s class
\nis Emmanuel and the Waters of <\/p>\n
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\nShiloha for the Badgers.
\nGood morning, brothers and <\/p>\n
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\nsisters and young people.
\nWe could have spent the whole <\/p>\n
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\nweek on Hezekiah.
\nI’m sure you’re perhaps aware of<\/p>\n
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\nthat, having just begun to
\nexplore some of the fringes of <\/p>\n
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\nthose chapters in Chronicles and
\nKings. <\/p>\n
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\nWe’ll continue with that just
\nfor a few moments this morning <\/p>\n
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\nand do a little recap, but we’ve
\ngot to move on. <\/p>\n
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\nOur intention is not to do a
\ndetailed study of Hezekiah. <\/p>\n
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\nOur mandate is to study Isaiah’s
\nprophecy and have a better idea <\/p>\n
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\nby the end of this week as to
\nwhat makes Isaiah’s prophecy <\/p>\n
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\nwhat it is.
\nAnd our intention was, as we set<\/p>\n
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\nout at the beginning of the
\nweek, to deal with six major <\/p>\n
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\nthemes that touch on Isaiah’s
\nprophecy. <\/p>\n
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\nHezekiah, you can see, is a
\nmajor one, figures largely both <\/p>\n
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\nbefore and after the midpoint of
\nthe prophecy. <\/p>\n
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\nYou can see.
\nYou can see perhaps that <\/p>\n
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\nobviously you need to draw from
\nKings and Chronicles if you’re <\/p>\n
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\nto get the full background of
\nIsaiah’s prophecy when you deal <\/p>\n
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\nwith Hezekiah.
\nWe’ve mentioned too, that you <\/p>\n
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\nneed a little bit of help from
\nHosea’s prophecy, that a reading<\/p>\n
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\nof Micah is also very helpful.
\nSo great was this man Hezekiah <\/p>\n
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\nreally, next to David, the
\ngreatest king of Israel. <\/p>\n
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\nNo question about it.
\nBesides those chapters 66 in <\/p>\n
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\nIsaiah, besides the chapters in
\nKings and Chronicles, beside the<\/p>\n
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\nprophecy of Micah, besides the
\nprophecy of Isaiah, and possibly<\/p>\n
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\ntwo other minor prophets, he
\nwrote a number of the Proverbs. <\/p>\n
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\nLater on you check Proverbs.
\nChapter 25 to chapter 30 are <\/p>\n
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\nHezekiah’s Proverbs, and it says
\nso. <\/p>\n
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\nWhen we think of the Proverbs,
\nwe often think of Solomon. <\/p>\n
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\nBut Hezekiah was a lover of
\nProverbs, and thus in the book <\/p>\n
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\nof Proverbs there’s an entry
\nfrom him. <\/p>\n
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\nMoreover, it seems that there’s
\na number of Psalms that have <\/p>\n
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\neither been written by Hezekiah
\nor organized by Hezekiah. <\/p>\n
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\nWe’re Speaking of Psalms 120 to
\n134. <\/p>\n
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\nA number of them have titles as
\nbeing attributed to David or <\/p>\n
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\nAsaph.
\nSome of them are anonymous, but <\/p>\n
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\nthere are good reasons which we
\ncan’t explore this week, to <\/p>\n
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\nconsider the songs of degrees,
\nPsalms 120 to 134 as either <\/p>\n
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\nbeing written or organized in
\nthe psaltery by Hezekiah. <\/p>\n
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\nIn fact, as you’re reading The
\nLife and Times of Isaiah and the<\/p>\n
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\nLife and Times of Hezekiah,
\nit’s. <\/p>\n
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\nVery fruitful to have those
\npsalms in mind. <\/p>\n
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\nThere are a number of thoughts
\nexpressed in Psalms 1:20 to 1:34<\/p>\n
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\nthat have some very useful
\nbearing on the times of Isaiah <\/p>\n
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\nand Hezekiah, but that’s another
\nstudy. <\/p>\n
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\nBack to Hezekiah for a few
\nmoments. <\/p>\n
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\nWe noticed yesterday he was a
\nman of action. <\/p>\n
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\nWe noticed in that passage in
\nChronicles that in the very <\/p>\n
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\nfirst month of the first year of
\nhis reign, in fact the very <\/p>\n
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\nfirst day of the first month of
\nhis reign, Hezekiah went into <\/p>\n
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\naction. 16 intensive days of
\nreform, rolling back 16 years of<\/p>\n
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\nAhaz’s corruption.
\nAll of which was intended to <\/p>\n
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\nprepare the people for a proper
\ncelebration of the Great <\/p>\n
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\nPassover, sometimes known as
\nHezekiah’s Great Passover. <\/p>\n
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\nWe haven’t time to look at that
\nPassover in any detail. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s just as rich in exhortation
\nas what we surveyed yesterday in<\/p>\n
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\nthe reform period.
\nNow, for the help of putting <\/p>\n
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\nthoughts on hooks in your minds,
\nit’s useful to think of three <\/p>\n
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\nmain chapters in Hezekiah’s
\nlife. <\/p>\n
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\nThree, the first, the early
\nyears, and his reform in those <\/p>\n
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\nsixteen days.
\nPerhaps instead of saying the <\/p>\n
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\nearly years, we could say the
\nearly days, the reform period of<\/p>\n
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\nHezekiah, which we considered
\nyesterday chapter 2 in his life <\/p>\n
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\nwould be the great Passover,
\nfalling right on the heels of <\/p>\n
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\nthe period of reform.
\nAnd perhaps we could say the 3rd<\/p>\n
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\nchapter in Hezekiah’s life was
\nthe Assyrian crisis, That period<\/p>\n
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\nwhich is covered for us in
\nchapters 36 to 39 in the middle <\/p>\n
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\nof Isaiah, found also in Kings
\nand Chronicles. <\/p>\n
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\nThe Assyrian crisis is the only
\nchapter in Hezekiah’s life that <\/p>\n
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\nis really given any detail in
\nIsaiah’s prophecy, because, as <\/p>\n
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\nwe said yesterday, it has an
\nimportant bearing on the first <\/p>\n
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\npart of Isaiah, and it’s a
\nspringboard for much which is <\/p>\n
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\nsaid in Isaiah after chapter 40.
\nMany of those chapters, many of <\/p>\n
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\nthe phrasing, point back to what
\nhas happened in the Assyrian <\/p>\n
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\ncrisis, the invasion by
\nSennacherib, and the great <\/p>\n
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\ndeliverance which we saw
\nyesterday. <\/p>\n
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\nVery briefly now, what do you
\nthink was the springboard for <\/p>\n
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\nHezekiah’s action, first day of
\nthe first month of the first <\/p>\n
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\nyear of his reign?
\nA man doesn’t suddenly spring <\/p>\n
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\ninto action with a program of
\nreform, a 16 day program of <\/p>\n
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\nreform, unless he’s had some
\nplan beforehand. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s clear Hezekiah must have
\nbeen ready for action before <\/p>\n
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\nthat very first day of the first
\nmonth. <\/p>\n
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\nNow what moved Hezekiah?
\nHe had come out of a dark and <\/p>\n
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\ndismal rain from his father.
\nWas there anything in the life <\/p>\n
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\nof Hezekiah that might shed some
\nlight on the reason for <\/p>\n
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\nmotivation for such quick
\naction? <\/p>\n
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\nand just a matter of putting it <\/p>\n
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\ninto action.
\nNow here’s where the other <\/p>\n
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\nprophets might be helpful.
\nWe suggest that Micah is the <\/p>\n
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\nanswer.
\nMicah was working, we think, <\/p>\n
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\njust a little before Hezekiah’s
\nreign, and Micah had pronounced <\/p>\n
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\na number of important
\nprophecies, 2 in particular, <\/p>\n
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\nthat Samaria was to be doomed,
\ndestroyed, and left like a <\/p>\n
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\nfield.
\nMicah also prophesied that Zion,<\/p>\n
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\nJerusalem would also be plowed
\nlike a field and left like a <\/p>\n
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\nheap.
\nBoth times. <\/p>\n
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\nThose two cities are described
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\nprophecy.
\nOne of the indictments that he <\/p>\n
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\nhas against the land and the
\npeople was that in Isaiah’s day <\/p>\n
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\nthere were greedy rulers, there
\nwere gluttonous overlords and <\/p>\n
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\nnobility who had by their own
\ngreedy means taken field upon <\/p>\n
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\nfield.
\nAnd Isaiah describes this in one<\/p>\n
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\nof his chapters.
\nField is against field. <\/p>\n
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\nLand against land has been taken
\nby these people and they <\/p>\n
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\ndispossessed the poor, greedy
\nland owners, taking as much <\/p>\n
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\nproperty as they could and with
\nvery little thought to the poor.<\/p>\n
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\nNow it seems to me, brothers and
\nsisters, that in those two <\/p>\n
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\nprophecies in Micah, when God
\nthreatens to make Samaria like a<\/p>\n
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\nfield and Zion like a field, God
\nis saying you have taken the <\/p>\n
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\nfields of the poor.
\nMy people, I am going to take <\/p>\n
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\nthe city of Samaria and make
\nthat my farm, and I’m going to <\/p>\n
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\ntake the city of Jerusalem and
\nI’m going to. <\/p>\n
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\nPlow it like a field.
\nI’m going to take it from you. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd by taking it from you, you
\nwill experience the desolation <\/p>\n
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\nthat your greedy nobles and
\nrulers have brought upon the <\/p>\n
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\npoor of this land.
\nSo God is going to, by the help <\/p>\n
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\nof the Assyrian, plow these two
\ncities and leave them like an <\/p>\n
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\nopen field.
\nAnd God threatens that through <\/p>\n
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\nMicah.
\nAnd we believe that those <\/p>\n
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\nthreats have come before
\nHezekiah came to the throne. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd there’s a reason for
\nbelieving that Jeremiah, one of <\/p>\n
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\nthe most remarkable threads
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\nconnects with our times.
\nConsider the force of this <\/p>\n
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\nJeremiah 26, a very fascinating
\nlittle section here, one of <\/p>\n
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\nthose that you read over in your
\nreadings and perhaps in your <\/p>\n
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\nmind don’t connect with Isaiah,
\nwhich you read the previous <\/p>\n
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\nmonth.
\nJeremiah 26. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is at a time when Jeremiah
\nis being cross examined by his <\/p>\n
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\naccusers.
\nThey are ready to send him to a <\/p>\n
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\ndismal end.
\nAnd there’s a court scene in <\/p>\n
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\nJeremiah 26.
\nThere are witnesses and there <\/p>\n
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\nare cross examiners, for we
\nhave, starting in verse 10, the <\/p>\n
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\nPrincess of Judah setting up a
\nkind of court scene to cross <\/p>\n
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\nexamine the prophet.
\nHowever, some come to Jeremiah’s<\/p>\n
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\ndefense.
\nNow notice the defense verse 16 <\/p>\n
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\nof Jeremiah 26.
\nThen said the Princess and all <\/p>\n
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\nthe people, unto the priests and
\nto the prophets, This man <\/p>\n
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\nJeremiah is not worthy to die.
\nFor he hath. <\/p>\n
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\nSpoken to us in the name of the
\nLord our God then rose up <\/p>\n
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\ncertain of the elders of the
\nland and spake to all the <\/p>\n
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\nassembly of the people saying
\nnow picture this as a court <\/p>\n
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\nscene.
\nThere’s Jeremiah sitting in the <\/p>\n
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\nbox being cross examined back
\nand forth. <\/p>\n
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\nVerse 18.
\nSay the elders Micah the Moorish<\/p>\n
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\nsite.
\nThat’s the prophet Micah. <\/p>\n
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\nMicah, the Moorish site
\nprophesied in the days of <\/p>\n
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\nHezekiah, king of Judah, and
\nspake to. <\/p>\n
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\nAll.
\nThe people of Judah saying now <\/p>\n
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\nthey quote Micah 3 verse 12.
\nYour margin says so. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd what’s the quote?
\nThus saith the Lord. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is what Micah said in the
\ndays of Hezekiah. <\/p>\n
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\nThus saith the Lord of hosts,
\nZion shall be plowed like a <\/p>\n
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\nfield, and Jerusalem shall
\nbecome heaps, and the mountain <\/p>\n
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\nof the house as the high places
\nof a forest. <\/p>\n
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\nThey ask, did Hezekiah king of
\nJudah, and all Judah put him at <\/p>\n
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\nall to death?
\nDid they kill Micah for saying <\/p>\n
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\nsuch a horrendous thing?
\nDid they? <\/p>\n
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\nDid he not fear the Lord, and
\nbesought the Lord, And the Lord <\/p>\n
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\nrepented him of the evil which
\nhe had pronounced against them. <\/p>\n
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\nThus might we procure great evil
\nagainst our souls. <\/p>\n
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\nNow the result is that Jeremiah
\ntemporarily is freed because of <\/p>\n
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\nthis witness.
\nBut here’s the point to notice <\/p>\n
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\nin the days of Hezekiah.
\nMicah, the marsh site prophesied<\/p>\n
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\nthat Zion would be plowed like a
\nfield and Jerusalem would become<\/p>\n
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\nheaps.
\nDid that happen in the days of <\/p>\n
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\nHezekiah?
\nIt did not. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the key is verse 19 again,
\ndid Hezekiah king of Judah, and <\/p>\n
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\nall Judah put him at all to
\ndeath? <\/p>\n
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\nOf course they didn’t put Micah
\nto death, for who’s the he of <\/p>\n
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\nverse 19?
\nWe suggest it’s Hezekiah. <\/p>\n
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\nHe did not.
\nDid he not fear the Lord and <\/p>\n
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\nbesought the Lord, and the Lord
\nrepented him of the evil which <\/p>\n
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\nhe had prophesied against them.
\nIn other words, through the <\/p>\n
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\nintercession of Hezekiah and the
\nwork of Micah, Not, of course, <\/p>\n
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\nto neglect the importance of
\nIsaiah the prophet. <\/p>\n
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\nThe threat of the prophecy of
\nMicah chapter 3 and verse 12 was<\/p>\n
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\nthwarted.
\nSuggests, brothers and sisters, <\/p>\n
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\nthat we have a scene, something
\nlike this just before Hezekiah <\/p>\n
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\ngets the reins of power.
\nMicah has in some way issued <\/p>\n
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\nthis warning that Zion shall be
\nplowed as a field, that Zion and<\/p>\n
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\nJerusalem should become Heaps.
\nAnd thus it’s a no wonder that <\/p>\n
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\nwhen Hezekiah comes to the
\nthrone on the first day of the <\/p>\n
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\nfirst month of the first year,
\nhe’s ready to go. <\/p>\n
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\nHe’s a man of action.
\nWhat’s the first thing he does? <\/p>\n
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\nGet the people to repent.
\nGet the people to respond <\/p>\n
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\nquickly. 16 days.
\nIt’s done suddenly. <\/p>\n
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\nThen let’s have a great
\nPassover. <\/p>\n
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\nLet’s rededicate our lives.
\nWe’ve cleanse the temple. <\/p>\n
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\nThe house is ready.
\nLet’s bring in our brethren from<\/p>\n
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\nthe north.
\nWe send out invitations. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so the chapter reads and
\nchronicles. <\/p>\n
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\nHezekiah sent out posts to the
\nnorth of the country to the <\/p>\n
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\nremaining brethren that were
\nthere from Zabulin, Naphtali, <\/p>\n
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\nthe Aries of Galilee, those who
\nsat in darkness. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd he calls them to Jerusalem,
\nto a great light, as it were. <\/p>\n
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\nA contemporary application in a
\nminor way to the Emanuel <\/p>\n
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\nprophecies which we’re now
\nalluding to. <\/p>\n
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\nHe calls them down as brethren
\ncome to Jerusalem. <\/p>\n
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\nHe calls them, come and
\ncelebrate the Passover. <\/p>\n
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\nWe’ve cleansed the house.
\nWe have prepared the way for a <\/p>\n
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\ngreat celebration.
\nCome, my brethren, He bids them.<\/p>\n
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\nAnd the posts go all through the
\nland. <\/p>\n
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\nChronicles shows us that some
\nscorned. <\/p>\n
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\nAt all that.
\nWhat was it that motivated <\/p>\n
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\nHezekiah to have such an
\nimmediate, definite plan of <\/p>\n
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\naction?
\nThe jest, Brothers and sisters. <\/p>\n
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\nThe key is right here in
\nJeremiah. <\/p>\n
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\nHe went to that throne with a
\nvery definite intent in his <\/p>\n
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\nmind.
\nMicah’s prophecy. <\/p>\n
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\nCan we turn it back in our days?
\nIf the people repent and Yahweh <\/p>\n
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\nis merciful, perhaps it will not
\nbe in our days. <\/p>\n
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\nHezekiah hoped and no doubt
\nprayed. <\/p>\n
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\nSo you see, what seems at first
\nto be highly peculiar. <\/p>\n
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\nA man, a young man, coming so
\nquickly to the throne with such <\/p>\n
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\na definite program of immediate
\nreform, the focus of which was <\/p>\n
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\nto get them to repent, has no
\ndoubt a springboard from the <\/p>\n
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\nworkings of Micah the prophet.
\nAnd here in the days of <\/p>\n
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\nJeremiah, Micah’s prophecy and
\nHezekiah’s behavior as one who <\/p>\n
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\ndid not put Micah to death, not
\nhe nor the people say Jeremiah. <\/p>\n
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\nFor the whole logic of this
\nchapter is Hezekiah and the <\/p>\n
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\npeople did not take offense at
\nthe words of Micah. <\/p>\n
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\nIf Hezekiah and the people did
\nnot put Micah to death, who not <\/p>\n
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\nonly prophesied that there’d be
\ndestruction in the land, but <\/p>\n
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\ntold the monarch that his throne
\nand his city would be destroyed,<\/p>\n
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\nthat his capital city would
\nbecome heap. <\/p>\n
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\nIf Hezekiah didn’t put him to
\ndeath, but responded and <\/p>\n
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\nappealed to Yahweh for mercy and
\ngot the people to repent. <\/p>\n
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\nIf that’s what Hezekiah did, how
\ncan we put Jeremiah to death <\/p>\n
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\nbecause he speaks against this
\nland in this city? <\/p>\n
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\nHow can we?
\nSo the defense held. <\/p>\n
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\nSee, brothers and sisters, the
\nusefulness of bringing to bear <\/p>\n
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\non any of our Bible studies as
\nmuch information as we can from <\/p>\n
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\nother prophecies or from other
\nbooks that in some way touch on <\/p>\n
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\nour study at hand.
\nNow, we’ve said that the second <\/p>\n
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\nchapter in Hezekiah’s life, main
\nchapter was the Passover. <\/p>\n
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\nWe move on from there to the
\nAssyrian crisis. <\/p>\n
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\nWe’ll come back to some of the
\ndetails of that a little, little<\/p>\n
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\nlater on in the week.
\nLet’s just, however, notice a <\/p>\n
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\nfew final details.
\nSecond of Kings 18. <\/p>\n
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\nThe advance of the Assyrians
\ninto the land was no doubt <\/p>\n
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\nquickened by the actions of
\nHezekiah himself. <\/p>\n
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\nHe did something which triggered
\na reaction by the Assyrian lion.<\/p>\n
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\nSecond Kings chapter 18, verse
\n7, The Second Kings 18 verse 7. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the Lord was with him,
\nthat’s Hezekiah. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd he prospered whatever so
\never he went forth, and he <\/p>\n
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\nrebelled against the king of
\nAssyria and served him not. <\/p>\n
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\nHe smote the Philistines even
\nonto Gaza and the borders <\/p>\n
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\nthereof, from the tower of the
\nWatchmen to the fenced city. <\/p>\n
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\nNow we suggest that’s the
\ntrigger. <\/p>\n
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\nIt was inevitable that the
\nAssyrian lion would sooner or <\/p>\n
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\nlater come clawing down from the
\nnorth. <\/p>\n
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\nIt was a matter of time.
\nBut here, by doing what he did <\/p>\n
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\nin verse seven, it was as though
\nhe was taking a stick and poking<\/p>\n
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\nat the lion’s eyes.
\nGo on. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s not that he wished for the
\nlion to come down, but by <\/p>\n
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\nrebelling against him, it was
\ntantamount to poking a stick in <\/p>\n
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\nthe Assyrian lion’s eyes.
\nFor sure it would smart. <\/p>\n
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\nFor sure.
\nIt drew attention to Judah and <\/p>\n
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\nHezekiah for sure.
\nIt would mean some kind of <\/p>\n
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\nretaliation.
\nNow you might say then that was <\/p>\n
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\nsuicidal, wasn’t it?
\nIt wasn’t suicidal, as was <\/p>\n
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\nproven Hezekiah.
\nKnew. <\/p>\n
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\nThat a man of God, a city of
\nGod, a people of God could not <\/p>\n
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\ncontinue to give tribute to the
\nhand of the flesh, and so he cut<\/p>\n
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\nthe ties in faith.
\nIt wasn’t a mad act. <\/p>\n
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\nGo back to verse 5 and 6, for
\nthis is the prelude to those <\/p>\n
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\nwords in verse 7.
\nOne of the finest tributes to <\/p>\n
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\nany king of Israel.
\nVerse five. <\/p>\n
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\nHe trusted in the Lord God of
\nIsrael, so that after him was <\/p>\n
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\nnone like him among all the
\nkings of Judah, nor any that <\/p>\n
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\nwere before him.
\nFor he claimed to the Lord and <\/p>\n
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\ndeparted not from following him,
\nbut kept his commandments, which<\/p>\n
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\nthe Lord God commanded Moses,
\nand the Lord was with him, and <\/p>\n
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\nhe prospered.
\nNow it’s in that context that we<\/p>\n
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\nhave presented to us in the Book
\nof Kings, Hezekiah’s decision to<\/p>\n
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\nrebel against Assyria.
\nIt wasn’t some mad, arrogant act<\/p>\n
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\non Hezekiah’s part.
\nIt’s in the context of his <\/p>\n
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\nfaithfulness to Yahweh, in the
\ncontext of him prospering <\/p>\n
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\nwherever he went, and in the
\ncontext of him having defeat <\/p>\n
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\nover the Philistines.
\nWould you have done that, <\/p>\n
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\nbrothers and sisters, knowing
\nthe ferocity of the nation? <\/p>\n
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\nWe’ve had a small glimpse of it
\nfrom our slides and our studies <\/p>\n
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\nthus far.
\nIt would have to humanize, seem <\/p>\n
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\nto be the last thing to do to
\ncut official ties from Assyria. <\/p>\n
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\nYou would know what the reaction
\nwould be sooner or later. <\/p>\n
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\nHere, brothers and sisters, is a
\nman of remarkable faith. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s like David standing before
\nGoliath and defying the armies <\/p>\n
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\nof the Philistines, which by the
\nway, he did anyways, for in the <\/p>\n
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\nend of verse seven, he does
\nexactly what David did. <\/p>\n
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\nHe defied the Philistines.
\nHere was a man truly like David,<\/p>\n
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\nand his actions to the Assyrian
\nare like David before Goliath. <\/p>\n
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\nHis trust was on the Lord.
\nThere’s an excitation to all of <\/p>\n
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\nus, young or old, brothers and
\nsisters. <\/p>\n
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\nYou think you have problems at
\nhome. <\/p>\n
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\nI may think I have ecclesial
\ndifficulties or tensions and <\/p>\n
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\nproblems in my own family life
\nor for example, in my own <\/p>\n
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\ncommunity or in the larger world
\naround it. <\/p>\n
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\nYou think perhaps you’re
\nafflicted by certain sicknesses <\/p>\n
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\nand ailments and that that is a
\nnecessary impediment to the <\/p>\n
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\ntruth.
\nIt’s not necessarily through the<\/p>\n
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\neye of faith.
\nIt’s what you make of it or what<\/p>\n
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\nyou allow God to help you to
\nmake of it. <\/p>\n
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\nNot one of us in this room has
\nhad this kind of test to our <\/p>\n
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\nfaith.
\nAnd we notice the key was not to<\/p>\n
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\nput his trust on the arm of
\nflesh. <\/p>\n
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\nBut to trust God thoroughly.
\nNow, brothers and sisters, we go<\/p>\n
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\na little further.
\nIsaiah 10 now trying to use the <\/p>\n
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\nprophet’s words to throw more
\nlight on these circumstances. <\/p>\n
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\nIsaiah 10.
\nGod is nevertheless going to use<\/p>\n
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\nthe Assyrian in Hezekiah’s day,
\nbut unlike what was promised <\/p>\n
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\nimmediately by Micah, Zion will
\nnot be plowed. <\/p>\n
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\nIsaiah 10.
\nHowever, in verse 5, a very <\/p>\n
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\nimportant chapter well worth
\nreading against the backdrop of <\/p>\n
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\nthe Assyrian crisis, we look at
\nverse five. <\/p>\n
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\nFirst of all, oh, says God, O
\nAssyrian, the rod of my anger <\/p>\n
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\nand the staff in their hand is
\nmine indignation. <\/p>\n
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\nI will send him against an
\nhypocritical nation, and against<\/p>\n
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\nthe people of my wrath.
\nWill I give him a charge to take<\/p>\n
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\nthe spoil, and to take the prey,
\nand to tread them down like mire<\/p>\n
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\nin the streets?
\nHowbeit he meaneth not so. <\/p>\n
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\nNeither does his heart.
\nDoes his heart think so? <\/p>\n
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\nBut it is in his heart to
\ndestroy and cut off nations, not<\/p>\n
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\na few.
\nThere is God through Isaiah <\/p>\n
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\ntelling the people and Hezekiah
\nwould have known of this there. <\/p>\n
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\nWill be an invasion.
\nThe Assyrian will come into the <\/p>\n
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\nland.
\nHezekiah had no positive <\/p>\n
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\nassurance that the threat issued
\nhere and the one through Micah <\/p>\n
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\nthat Zion would become a heaps
\nwould necessarily be turned <\/p>\n
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\nback.
\nHe didn’t know at the time how <\/p>\n
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\nGod would respond.
\nHe got words from Isaiah which <\/p>\n
336
\n00:22:05,080 –> 00:22:08,160
\nassured him though finally in
\nthe end, not against an <\/p>\n
337
\n00:22:08,160 –> 00:22:11,040
\ninvasion, but against a total
\ndestruction. <\/p>\n
338
\n00:22:11,760 –> 00:22:14,520
\nSo yes, there would be an
\ninvasion, yes there would be <\/p>\n
339
\n00:22:14,520 –> 00:22:18,800
\ndestruction, but Jerusalem would
\nbe preserved if the people <\/p>\n
340
\n00:22:18,800 –> 00:22:21,960
\nfollowed the conditions.
\nSo it’s not like Hezekiah could <\/p>\n
341
\n00:22:21,960 –> 00:22:23,800
\nsimply sit back and know the
\nwhole plan. <\/p>\n
342
\n00:22:24,200 –> 00:22:28,400
\nHe was working through it by
\nfaith, and he felt at times <\/p>\n
343
\n00:22:28,400 –> 00:22:32,600
\ngreat drags on his faith, as is
\nobvious as he responds to the <\/p>\n
344
\n00:22:32,600 –> 00:22:34,360
\nprophet Isaiah and begs for
\nhelp. <\/p>\n
345
\n00:22:35,560 –> 00:22:38,320
\nWhat was it like to be in the
\nwalls of Jerusalem as this <\/p>\n
346
\n00:22:38,320 –> 00:22:43,040
\nmonster crept down the land one
\nafter the other, gobbling up the<\/p>\n
347
\n00:22:43,040 –> 00:22:45,400
\ncities?
\n46 and all before he came to <\/p>\n
348
\n00:22:45,400 –> 00:22:47,160
\nLakish?
\nWhat was it like? <\/p>\n
349
\n00:22:47,960 –> 00:22:50,240
\nWell, I think in Isaiah 10 we
\nhave an inkling. <\/p>\n
350
\n00:22:51,040 –> 00:22:55,640
\nStarting in verse 28, Isaiah’s
\nprophecy breaks into a kind of <\/p>\n
351
\n00:22:55,640 –> 00:22:58,920
\nverse, something like a poetic
\ndevice. <\/p>\n
352
\n00:22:59,880 –> 00:23:04,200
\nAnd it seems that starting in
\nverse 28, we have an echo of <\/p>\n
353
\n00:23:04,200 –> 00:23:07,400
\nwhat must have been like a
\nproverbial song at the time, or <\/p>\n
354
\n00:23:07,400 –> 00:23:12,560
\na a dirge, perhaps sung or
\nrepeated by the people in <\/p>\n
355
\n00:23:12,560 –> 00:23:16,800
\nJerusalem as they saw the
\nnorthern advance of this great <\/p>\n
356
\n00:23:16,800 –> 00:23:19,880
\nmonster.
\nHere’s the kind of panic <\/p>\n
357
\n00:23:19,880 –> 00:23:22,080
\nfeelings that must have swept
\nthrough Jerusalem in the <\/p>\n
358
\n00:23:22,080 –> 00:23:25,880
\nsouthern cities.
\nHe, that’s the Assyrian, he has <\/p>\n
359
\n00:23:25,880 –> 00:23:28,440
\ncome to AF.
\nNow if you have a map and take a<\/p>\n
360
\n00:23:28,440 –> 00:23:30,680
\nlook at this, you’ll see that
\nthese are cities starting in the<\/p>\n
361
\n00:23:30,680 –> 00:23:33,560
\nnorth, and he’s going down an
\norder from the north to the <\/p>\n
362
\n00:23:33,560 –> 00:23:36,200
\nSouth, as they would have been
\ngobbled up one after the other. <\/p>\n
363
\n00:23:36,720 –> 00:23:40,920
\nHe has come to AAF in the north.
\nHe has passed to Migron at <\/p>\n
364
\n00:23:40,960 –> 00:23:43,680
\nMikmash.
\nHe has laid up his carriages. <\/p>\n
365
\n00:23:44,040 –> 00:23:46,840
\nThey are gone over the passage.
\nThey have taken up their lodging<\/p>\n
366
\n00:23:46,840 –> 00:23:49,120
\nat Giba.
\nRhema is afraid. <\/p>\n
367
\n00:23:49,240 –> 00:23:52,440
\nGibby of Saul is fled.
\nLift up thy voice, O daughter of<\/p>\n
368
\n00:23:52,440 –> 00:23:54,640
\nGalam.
\nCause it to be heard unto Laish.<\/p>\n
369
\n00:23:54,920 –> 00:23:58,840
\nO poor Anapha.
\nA small little town that housed <\/p>\n
370
\n00:23:58,840 –> 00:24:00,680
\nmany priests just north of
\nJerusalem. <\/p>\n
371
\n00:24:02,200 –> 00:24:05,440
\nMadmanna is removed.
\nThe inhabitants of Gibbon gather<\/p>\n
372
\n00:24:05,440 –> 00:24:09,560
\nthemselves to flee.
\nYou see the pulp of those words,<\/p>\n
373
\n00:24:09,600 –> 00:24:12,520
\nbrothers and sisters.
\nIt’s like a flood of panic. <\/p>\n
374
\n00:24:13,440 –> 00:24:18,840
\nThe nations had toppled like
\nbowling pins, one after the <\/p>\n
375
\n00:24:18,880 –> 00:24:23,480
\nother, and the great monster
\nadvanced with his jaws wide open<\/p>\n
376
\n00:24:23,480 –> 00:24:27,320
\ntowards Jerusalem, until as he
\nends here in the last few verses<\/p>\n
377
\n00:24:27,680 –> 00:24:31,640
\nto name the small towns and
\nHamlets just about 10 miles <\/p>\n
378
\n00:24:31,640 –> 00:24:37,280
\nnorth of Jerusalem.
\nOn he advanced verse 32, says <\/p>\n
379
\n00:24:37,280 –> 00:24:45,160
\nIsaiah, As yet shall he remain
\nat Nob, small little town just a<\/p>\n
380
\n00:24:45,160 –> 00:24:49,040
\nfew miles north of Jerusalem.
\nAs yet shall he remain at Nob. <\/p>\n
381
\n00:24:49,040 –> 00:24:52,760
\nThat day he shall shake his hand
\nagainst the mount of the <\/p>\n
382
\n00:24:52,760 –> 00:24:54,840
\ndaughter of Zion, the hill of
\nJerusalem. <\/p>\n
383
\n00:24:55,400 –> 00:25:01,160
\nBehold, the Lord, the Lord of
\nHosts, shall lop the bow with <\/p>\n
384
\n00:25:01,160 –> 00:25:05,400
\nterror, and the high ones of
\nAssyria, the high ones of <\/p>\n
385
\n00:25:05,400 –> 00:25:08,480
\nstature, shall be hewn.
\nDown and a. <\/p>\n
386
\n00:25:08,480 –> 00:25:12,440
\nHottie shall be humbled, and he
\nshall cut down the thickets of <\/p>\n
387
\n00:25:12,440 –> 00:25:15,720
\nthe forest with iron, and
\nLebanon shall fall by a mighty <\/p>\n
388
\n00:25:15,720 –> 00:25:18,280
\none.
\nIt’s a prophetic assurance. <\/p>\n
389
\n00:25:19,280 –> 00:25:24,800
\nThe Assyrian will come no closer
\nthan Nob, and then God will cut <\/p>\n
390
\n00:25:24,800 –> 00:25:30,280
\ndown the hottie as a man prunes
\nthe upper branches of a tree, <\/p>\n
391
\n00:25:31,000 –> 00:25:33,600
\nthe high and mighty Pines of
\nIslewild. <\/p>\n
392
\n00:25:33,640 –> 00:25:38,080
\nJust picture them, God seeing
\nthem as symbols of a great <\/p>\n
393
\n00:25:38,080 –> 00:25:42,080
\nAssyrian might.
\nHe will advance only so far, and<\/p>\n
394
\n00:25:42,080 –> 00:25:47,120
\nthen God will prune Assyria.
\nHe will cut off the top of the <\/p>\n
395
\n00:25:47,120 –> 00:25:49,280
\nbow.
\nThe proud and mighty and the <\/p>\n
396
\n00:25:49,280 –> 00:25:54,080
\nhaughty will fall, but not until
\nhe comes just on the verge. <\/p>\n
397
\n00:25:55,320 –> 00:25:59,120
\nNow, brothers and sisters, all
\nof this language in Isaiah is <\/p>\n
398
\n00:25:59,120 –> 00:26:03,920
\ndrawn and is based upon what’s
\ncalled the Emmanuel prophecy. <\/p>\n
399
\n00:26:04,720 –> 00:26:07,640
\nNow that’s a little section in
\nthe prophecy of Isaiah. <\/p>\n
400
\n00:26:08,760 –> 00:26:15,680
\nSo we go back.
\nIsaiah 7 to Isaiah 12 contains <\/p>\n
401
\n00:26:15,680 –> 00:26:19,560
\ndetails which really are the
\nspringboard for what we just <\/p>\n
402
\n00:26:19,560 –> 00:26:26,240
\nread in Isaiah 10.
\nSo think of Isaiah 7 to Isaiah <\/p>\n
403
\n00:26:26,240 –> 00:26:30,120
\n12 as a little unit known as the
\nImmanuel prophecies. <\/p>\n
404
\n00:26:31,280 –> 00:26:33,920
\nIn our first class we noticed
\nthat these were the days of <\/p>\n
405
\n00:26:33,960 –> 00:26:39,200
\nAhaz.
\nUziah died in chapter 6 and by <\/p>\n
406
\n00:26:39,200 –> 00:26:43,680
\nthe time we get over into 13 and
\n14 we’re in the area of <\/p>\n
407
\n00:26:43,680 –> 00:26:47,320
\nHezekiah’s reign.
\nSo 7:00 to 12:00 in the days of <\/p>\n
408
\n00:26:47,320 –> 00:26:51,520
\nAhaz.
\nNow here in these chapters 7:00 <\/p>\n
409
\n00:26:51,520 –> 00:26:55,800
\nto 12:00, just notice how this
\nties in with the threat of the <\/p>\n
410
\n00:26:55,800 –> 00:27:07,440
\nAssyrian crisis. 4IN Isaiah
\nchapter 8, verse one, we have a <\/p>\n
411
\n00:27:07,440 –> 00:27:11,840
\nkind of enacted parable once
\nagain, verse one of Isaiah 8 <\/p>\n
412
\n00:27:12,760 –> 00:27:17,720
\nsays Isaiah to us.
\nMoreover, the Lord said unto me,<\/p>\n
413
\n00:27:17,800 –> 00:27:22,200
\nIsaiah, take thee a great role,
\nand write in it with a men’s <\/p>\n
414
\n00:27:22,200 –> 00:27:25,520
\npen.
\nConcerning Maher Shallahel <\/p>\n
415
\n00:27:25,520 –> 00:27:30,360
\nHashfaz margin.
\nIf you’ll notice Hebrew, in <\/p>\n
416
\n00:27:30,360 –> 00:27:33,960
\nmaking speed to the spoil, he
\nhasteneth to pray. <\/p>\n
417
\n00:27:34,760 –> 00:27:38,640
\nSo it’s the threat of invasion.
\nAnd I took unto me faithful <\/p>\n
418
\n00:27:38,640 –> 00:27:42,760
\nwitnesses to record Uriah the
\npriest, and Zechariah the son of<\/p>\n
419
\n00:27:42,960 –> 00:27:48,200
\nJabbarakaya and of Isaiah.
\nI went unto the prophetess, and <\/p>\n
420
\n00:27:48,200 –> 00:27:53,200
\nshe conceived and bear a son.
\nThen said the Lord to me, call <\/p>\n
421
\n00:27:53,200 –> 00:27:57,720
\nhis name in making speed to the
\nspoil. <\/p>\n
422
\n00:27:57,720 –> 00:28:01,560
\nHe hasteneth the prey.
\nThat’s what his name is. <\/p>\n
423
\n00:28:02,600 –> 00:28:06,520
\nFor as I has told before, the
\nchild shall have knowledge to <\/p>\n
424
\n00:28:06,520 –> 00:28:08,520
\ncry.
\nMy father and my mother, the <\/p>\n
425
\n00:28:08,520 –> 00:28:12,240
\nriches of Damascus and the spoil
\nof Samaria shall be taken away <\/p>\n
426
\n00:28:12,240 –> 00:28:14,960
\nbefore the king of Assyria.
\nThere’s the invasion. <\/p>\n
427
\n00:28:15,480 –> 00:28:19,400
\nVerse 5.
\nThe Lord spake also unto me a <\/p>\n
428
\n00:28:19,400 –> 00:28:24,720
\ngainsaying, For as much as this
\npeople refuseth the waters of <\/p>\n
429
\n00:28:24,720 –> 00:28:30,840
\nShiloah, that go softly and
\nrejoice in resin, and Remelaya’s<\/p>\n
430
\n00:28:30,840 –> 00:28:34,320
\nson.
\nNow therefore, behold, the Lord <\/p>\n
431
\n00:28:34,320 –> 00:28:40,160
\nbringeth upon them the waters of
\nthe river strong, and many, even<\/p>\n
432
\n00:28:40,160 –> 00:28:45,280
\nthe king of Assyria, and all his
\nglory, and he shall come up over<\/p>\n
433
\n00:28:45,280 –> 00:28:49,720
\nall his channels, and go over
\nall his banks now. <\/p>\n
434
\n00:28:49,920 –> 00:28:53,320
\nThat there are some key phrases
\nto notice in Isaiah’s prophecy. <\/p>\n
435
\n00:28:53,760 –> 00:28:58,600
\nOne of them is that the enemy is
\noften described as great waters.<\/p>\n
436
\n00:28:58,840 –> 00:29:02,200
\nHere you have it, a great flood
\nis going to come down on the <\/p>\n
437
\n00:29:02,200 –> 00:29:06,880
\nland, and we saw the advance of
\nthe waves in Isaiah 10 as we <\/p>\n
438
\n00:29:06,880 –> 00:29:11,160
\nread and saw the towns being
\nswallowed by this advancing <\/p>\n
439
\n00:29:11,160 –> 00:29:14,880
\nwater, a great tidal wave coming
\ndown against Jerusalem. <\/p>\n
440
\n00:29:15,280 –> 00:29:19,160
\nHow far shall it go?
\nWell, the assurances in Isaiah <\/p>\n
441
\n00:29:19,160 –> 00:29:23,280
\n10, we said we’re the
\nspringboard from here, so let’s <\/p>\n
442
\n00:29:23,320 –> 00:29:27,280
\nread verse 8.
\nSo on comes this tidal wave, <\/p>\n
443
\n00:29:27,440 –> 00:29:30,840
\nverse 8 And he, the Assyrian,
\nshall pass through Judah. <\/p>\n
444
\n00:29:31,360 –> 00:29:37,400
\nHe shall overflow and go over.
\nHe shall reach even to the neck,<\/p>\n
445
\n00:29:38,480 –> 00:29:44,880
\nand the stretching out of his
\nwings shall fill the breadth of <\/p>\n
446
\n00:29:44,880 –> 00:29:51,000
\nthy land.
\nO Emmanuel, Emmanuel, God with <\/p>\n
447
\n00:29:51,000 –> 00:29:57,800
\nus, God with us.
\nThe promise of the child back to<\/p>\n
448
\n00:29:57,800 –> 00:30:03,240
\nChapter 7 is involved in this
\nAssyrian crisis. <\/p>\n
449
\n00:30:03,440 –> 00:30:07,160
\nNow this is peculiar.
\nWhy would there be a prophecy of<\/p>\n
450
\n00:30:07,160 –> 00:30:10,640
\nthe Christ child, the birth of
\nMessiah in the midst of an <\/p>\n
451
\n00:30:10,640 –> 00:30:14,680
\nAssyrian crisis?
\nWell, this we call Chapter 7 <\/p>\n
452
\n00:30:14,680 –> 00:30:19,240
\nverse 14.
\nThis was said to Ahaz after he <\/p>\n
453
\n00:30:19,240 –> 00:30:21,440
\nhad received a had refused a
\nsign. <\/p>\n
454
\n00:30:21,960 –> 00:30:25,240
\nA sign was nevertheless to be
\ngiven to Ahaz the faithless <\/p>\n
455
\n00:30:25,240 –> 00:30:33,280
\nking. 7 and 14 Therefore Isaiah
\ntold Ahaz, the Lord himself <\/p>\n
456
\n00:30:33,280 –> 00:30:39,600
\nshall give you a sign.
\nBehold, a virgin shall conceive <\/p>\n
457
\n00:30:39,840 –> 00:30:47,640
\nand bear a son, and shall call
\nhis name Emmanuel, God with us. <\/p>\n
458
\n00:30:48,480 –> 00:30:51,840
\nNow we know that that’s quoted
\nin the New Testament in Matthew <\/p>\n
459
\n00:30:51,840 –> 00:30:55,600
\nchapter one, verse 23.
\nIt’s in your margin, Matthew 1, <\/p>\n
460
\n00:30:55,600 –> 00:30:58,080
\nverse 23.
\nClearly it’s the Lord Jesus <\/p>\n
461
\n00:30:58,080 –> 00:31:03,400
\nChrist, Emmanuel, God with us.
\nBut now here’s a question. <\/p>\n
462
\n00:31:05,520 –> 00:31:11,480
\nWhat relevance was that as a
\nsign to Ahaz, Isaiah and their <\/p>\n
463
\n00:31:11,480 –> 00:31:16,240
\ncontemporaries?
\nNevertheless, I shall give you a<\/p>\n
464
\n00:31:16,240 –> 00:31:20,440
\nsign.
\nFurthermore, verse 16 of Isaiah <\/p>\n
465
\n00:31:20,440 –> 00:31:23,760
\n7.
\nFor before the child shall know <\/p>\n
466
\n00:31:23,760 –> 00:31:27,400
\nto refuse the evil, and choose
\nthe good, the land that thou <\/p>\n
467
\n00:31:27,400 –> 00:31:30,360
\nabhorrest shall be forsaken of
\nboth her kings. <\/p>\n
468
\n00:31:30,960 –> 00:31:35,160
\nThe Lord shall bring upon thee
\nand upon thy people Ahaz, and <\/p>\n
469
\n00:31:35,160 –> 00:31:39,760
\nupon thy father’s house.
\nDays that have not come from the<\/p>\n
470
\n00:31:39,760 –> 00:31:44,640
\nday that Ifreum departed from
\nJudah, even the king of Assyria.<\/p>\n
471
\n00:31:45,280 –> 00:31:47,880
\nAnd it shall come to pass, and
\nthat day that the Lord shall <\/p>\n
472
\n00:31:47,880 –> 00:31:51,240
\nhiss for the fly that is in the
\nuttermost parts of the rivers of<\/p>\n
473
\n00:31:51,240 –> 00:31:55,880
\nEgypt, and for the bee that is
\nin the land of Assyria, and they<\/p>\n
474
\n00:31:55,880 –> 00:32:00,360
\nshall come.
\nHow is it that this Emmanuel <\/p>\n
475
\n00:32:00,360 –> 00:32:05,320
\nprophecy is intertwined with
\ncontemporary events? <\/p>\n
476
\n00:32:06,480 –> 00:32:08,320
\nWhat do you think we are to
\nconclude? <\/p>\n
477
\n00:32:09,280 –> 00:32:16,240
\nIt’s not only a prophecy of
\nMessiah to come as of so many <\/p>\n
478
\n00:32:16,240 –> 00:32:21,720
\nyears BC or AD.
\nThe prophet clearly wants us to <\/p>\n
479
\n00:32:21,720 –> 00:32:26,280
\nunderstand by God’s inspiration
\nthat of all the Almighty will <\/p>\n
480
\n00:32:26,280 –> 00:32:30,040
\nsend one who will be Emmanuel,
\nGod with us. <\/p>\n
481
\n00:32:30,760 –> 00:32:36,440
\nThere is clearly in the context
\nof contemporary events, some <\/p>\n
482
\n00:32:36,440 –> 00:32:40,520
\nkind of assurance that God was
\nwith them too. <\/p>\n
483
\n00:32:41,080 –> 00:32:44,640
\nHe would be with the redeemed or
\nthe remnant of that day. <\/p>\n
484
\n00:32:45,600 –> 00:32:48,280
\nThe events are that Assyria is
\nabout to come down. <\/p>\n
485
\n00:32:48,920 –> 00:32:54,480
\nHezekiah will very shortly rebel
\nagainst Assyria as we saw and as<\/p>\n
486
\n00:32:54,480 –> 00:32:57,680
\nwe read in chapter 8, the
\ngreatest Syrian flood is about <\/p>\n
487
\n00:32:57,680 –> 00:33:00,880
\nto come down and flood the whole
\nland. <\/p>\n
488
\n00:33:02,320 –> 00:33:05,280
\nWhat’s the hope?
\nAnything contemporary? <\/p>\n
489
\n00:33:05,640 –> 00:33:10,200
\nAny assurances for the day?
\nOr was it simply saying Jesus <\/p>\n
490
\n00:33:10,200 –> 00:33:15,480
\nChrist will come some 700 and
\nsome odd years in the future? <\/p>\n
491
\n00:33:16,080 –> 00:33:18,600
\nWhat did that mean to them,
\nbrothers and sisters? <\/p>\n
492
\n00:33:19,240 –> 00:33:22,560
\nWell, the fact that He would
\ncome certainly is a great and <\/p>\n
493
\n00:33:22,560 –> 00:33:25,960
\nmighty token of the fact that
\nGod will not forsake His people.<\/p>\n
494
\n00:33:26,320 –> 00:33:31,320
\nGod is always with His people,
\nnot just when Jesus Christ came.<\/p>\n
495
\n00:33:31,560 –> 00:33:35,040
\nAlthough that was the greatest
\ntestimony of it all to the <\/p>\n
496
\n00:33:35,040 –> 00:33:37,320
\ncontemporaries, there must have
\nbeen some meaning. <\/p>\n
497
\n00:33:37,840 –> 00:33:43,000
\nWhat assurance was there that
\nGod was Emmanuel with them? <\/p>\n
498
\n00:33:45,840 –> 00:33:55,640
\nChapter 8 Again I will give you
\na sign. <\/p>\n
499
\n00:33:55,680 –> 00:33:59,840
\nIt was said.
\nNow we read this, we’ll read it <\/p>\n
500
\n00:33:59,840 –> 00:34:03,560
\nagain in part.
\nChapter 8, verse 6. <\/p>\n
501
\n00:34:04,240 –> 00:34:08,440
\nFor as much as this people
\nrefuseth the waters of Shiloah, <\/p>\n
502
\n00:34:09,000 –> 00:34:12,080
\nwe’ll come to that in a moment
\nwhat those waters exactly were. <\/p>\n
503
\n00:34:12,360 –> 00:34:15,639
\nBut they were waters that were
\nlike a wellspring coming out <\/p>\n
504
\n00:34:15,639 –> 00:34:18,520
\nfrom underneath the city of
\nJerusalem, well known to <\/p>\n
505
\n00:34:18,520 –> 00:34:21,120
\nHezekiah.
\nFor it was those waters, as we <\/p>\n
506
\n00:34:21,120 –> 00:34:25,520
\nsaid the other night, that he
\nblocked up in the north part so <\/p>\n
507
\n00:34:25,520 –> 00:34:29,120
\nthat the water would be diverted
\nthrough Hezekiah’s conduit, <\/p>\n
508
\n00:34:29,440 –> 00:34:32,920
\nwhich we saw in the slides, and
\nfinally be saved and retrieved <\/p>\n
509
\n00:34:33,080 –> 00:34:37,000
\nin the waters of Shiloh.
\nSo for as much as this people <\/p>\n
510
\n00:34:37,400 –> 00:34:41,639
\nrefuseth the waters of Shiloa
\nthat go softly and rejoice in <\/p>\n
511
\n00:34:41,639 –> 00:34:44,639
\nresin and remalai a son,
\nthere’ll be a great invasion. <\/p>\n
512
\n00:34:45,360 –> 00:34:50,320
\nBut now see verse 8 again.
\nThis great flood, the Assyrian <\/p>\n
513
\n00:34:50,320 –> 00:34:54,719
\nshall pass through Judah.
\nHe shall overflow, go over, He <\/p>\n
514
\n00:34:54,719 –> 00:35:02,720
\nshall reach even to the neck,
\nbut that’s important to the <\/p>\n
515
\n00:35:02,720 –> 00:35:08,000
\nNeck, to the walls of Jerusalem.
\nTake all the cities, flood all <\/p>\n
516
\n00:35:08,000 –> 00:35:14,160
\nof the land from north to South
\nand encircle Jerusalem, the last<\/p>\n
517
\n00:35:14,160 –> 00:35:17,200
\ncity to be taken, the city of
\nGod. <\/p>\n
518
\n00:35:17,560 –> 00:35:20,480
\nAnd he’ll come right against the
\nwalls, as it were, and like a <\/p>\n
519
\n00:35:20,480 –> 00:35:24,560
\nmighty flood, he will come right
\naround it, up to the neck. <\/p>\n
520
\n00:35:25,120 –> 00:35:31,120
\nBut the Assyrian will not drown
\nJerusalem, nor Isaiah, nor <\/p>\n
521
\n00:35:31,120 –> 00:35:35,480
\nHezekiah, nor the faithful
\nremnant within its walls. <\/p>\n
522
\n00:35:35,960 –> 00:35:40,600
\nCome, he will write to the
\nextremity, but he will not drown<\/p>\n
523
\n00:35:40,720 –> 00:35:43,640
\nZion, the city of God’s
\nchoosing. <\/p>\n
524
\n00:35:44,200 –> 00:35:49,400
\nAnd then he will reach even to
\nthe neck, and that stretcheth <\/p>\n
525
\n00:35:49,400 –> 00:35:52,440
\nout.
\nHis wings shall fill the breadth<\/p>\n
526
\n00:35:52,440 –> 00:35:54,640
\nof thy land, which the Assyrian
\ndid. <\/p>\n
527
\n00:35:55,640 –> 00:35:59,000
\nNow the Emmanuel prophecy is
\nwoven in again. <\/p>\n
528
\n00:35:59,840 –> 00:36:06,120
\nFor why does he call the land by
\nthis harkening the breath of thy<\/p>\n
529
\n00:36:06,120 –> 00:36:12,800
\nland, O God with us, O Emmanuel,
\nthat demands. <\/p>\n
530
\n00:36:12,800 –> 00:36:15,640
\nWe suggest, brothers and
\nsisters, that the Emmanuel <\/p>\n
531
\n00:36:15,640 –> 00:36:20,720
\nprophecy in Chapter 7 had
\ndefinite meaning, concrete <\/p>\n
532
\n00:36:20,760 –> 00:36:26,920
\nassurance, some kind of limited
\nfulfillment in the days of this <\/p>\n
533
\n00:36:26,920 –> 00:36:30,440
\nAssyrian crisis.
\nOtherwise, why is it folded in <\/p>\n
534
\n00:36:30,440 –> 00:36:34,240
\nlike it is there in verse 8 with
\nthe mention of the Assyrian <\/p>\n
535
\n00:36:34,240 –> 00:36:38,840
\nflood?
\nI will flood the land, but only <\/p>\n
536
\n00:36:38,840 –> 00:36:44,640
\nto the neck, Oh, Emmanuel,
\nbecause it would only go to the <\/p>\n
537
\n00:36:44,640 –> 00:36:49,360
\nneck and not drown the city, the
\nfinal city, the city of God’s <\/p>\n
538
\n00:36:49,360 –> 00:36:52,560
\nchoosing.
\nThat in itself would be proof to<\/p>\n
539
\n00:36:52,560 –> 00:36:58,040
\nHezekiah that God is Emmanuel.
\nHe is with us. <\/p>\n
540
\n00:36:58,560 –> 00:37:02,720
\nAnd the next morning when the
\nAssyrian army lay like dead ants<\/p>\n
541
\n00:37:02,760 –> 00:37:06,000
\nall over the hills, and the
\npeople went out of the city <\/p>\n
542
\n00:37:06,000 –> 00:37:10,160
\ngates or peered over the walls
\nand looked across the Kidron, <\/p>\n
543
\n00:37:11,280 –> 00:37:15,000
\nand they saw thousands of dead
\nAssyrians. <\/p>\n
544
\n00:37:15,680 –> 00:37:20,320
\nWas there assurance of Emmanuel,
\nof God with us through the <\/p>\n
545
\n00:37:20,320 –> 00:37:25,400
\nsaving work of Isaiah, Yahweh, a
\nSavior, through the work of <\/p>\n
546
\n00:37:25,400 –> 00:37:30,160
\nfaithful Hezekiah and his
\npreparatory reforms, Hezekiah, <\/p>\n
547
\n00:37:30,320 –> 00:37:34,160
\nYahweh’s strength, There was
\ntestimony and proof through the <\/p>\n
548
\n00:37:34,160 –> 00:37:38,960
\nwork of those two men that God
\nwas with the land. <\/p>\n
549
\n00:37:39,640 –> 00:37:44,240
\nHe was with the remnant of his
\npeople, those who had chosen to <\/p>\n
550
\n00:37:44,240 –> 00:37:48,840
\ncome down from their cities and
\nstay in the walls of Jerusalem, <\/p>\n
551
\n00:37:49,360 –> 00:37:53,360
\nfound security for is it not so
\nwith us? <\/p>\n
552
\n00:37:53,360 –> 00:37:56,520
\nBrothers and sisters?
\nJust turn over. <\/p>\n
553
\n00:37:57,040 –> 00:38:01,720
\nLook at the force and the beauty
\nof these psalms that have this <\/p>\n
554
\n00:38:01,720 –> 00:38:05,760
\nkind of background behind them.
\nPsalm 87, please. <\/p>\n
555
\n00:38:08,760 –> 00:38:13,000
\nNow remember that phrase, the
\nwaters of Shiloa, that the <\/p>\n
556
\n00:38:13,000 –> 00:38:17,920
\npeople had refused, or at least
\nas a has had refused, the waters<\/p>\n
557
\n00:38:17,920 –> 00:38:22,560
\nof Shiloa, those waters that
\nwent out from Jerusalem, from <\/p>\n
558
\n00:38:22,560 –> 00:38:29,400
\nunderneath the Temple Mount.
\nLet’s just keep those in mind as<\/p>\n
559
\n00:38:29,400 –> 00:38:36,000
\nwe read Psalm 87.
\nHis foundation is in the Holy <\/p>\n
560
\n00:38:36,000 –> 00:38:39,120
\nMountains.
\nSo it was Jerusalem. <\/p>\n
561
\n00:38:39,720 –> 00:38:44,040
\nThe Lord love the gates of Zion
\nmore than all the dwellings of <\/p>\n
562
\n00:38:44,040 –> 00:38:49,720
\nJacob, For by the way they were
\nsacrificed, the Assyrian took <\/p>\n
563
\n00:38:49,720 –> 00:38:51,200
\nthem.
\nVerse 3. <\/p>\n
564
\n00:38:51,760 –> 00:38:54,520
\nGlorious things are spoken of
\nthe old city of God. <\/p>\n
565
\n00:38:55,240 –> 00:38:59,560
\nI will make mention of Rahab.
\nA word for Egypt and Babylon. <\/p>\n
566
\n00:38:59,560 –> 00:39:03,440
\nTo them that know me.
\nBehold Philistia and Tyre with <\/p>\n
567
\n00:39:03,440 –> 00:39:08,160
\nEthiopia.
\nThis man was born there, and of <\/p>\n
568
\n00:39:08,160 –> 00:39:14,120
\nZion it shall be said this and
\nthat man was born in her, and <\/p>\n
569
\n00:39:14,120 –> 00:39:16,600
\nthe highest himself shall
\nestablish her. <\/p>\n
570
\n00:39:17,520 –> 00:39:21,880
\nNow the Greek of verse 5, if you
\nwere to read the Septuagint, the<\/p>\n
571
\n00:39:21,880 –> 00:39:25,120
\nold Greek translation that was
\ndone from the Hebrew before <\/p>\n
572
\n00:39:25,120 –> 00:39:31,680
\nChrist reads this way in verse
\n5, a man shall say, Zion is my <\/p>\n
573
\n00:39:31,680 –> 00:39:36,280
\nmother, and such a man was born
\nin her. <\/p>\n
574
\n00:39:36,960 –> 00:39:40,280
\nZion is my mother.
\nThere are definite connections <\/p>\n
575
\n00:39:40,280 –> 00:39:43,160
\nthere with Galatians. 4.
\nWe haven’t time to explore it. <\/p>\n
576
\n00:39:43,600 –> 00:39:47,320
\nLet’s go on.
\nA man shall say, Zion is my <\/p>\n
577
\n00:39:47,320 –> 00:39:49,400
\nmother, and such a man was born
\nin her. <\/p>\n
578
\n00:39:49,400 –> 00:39:51,960
\nVerse 6.
\nThe Lord shall count, when he <\/p>\n
579
\n00:39:51,960 –> 00:39:57,760
\nwriteth up his people, that this
\nman was born there as well. <\/p>\n
580
\n00:39:57,880 –> 00:40:02,040
\nThe singers as the players on
\ninstruments shall be there. <\/p>\n
581
\n00:40:02,760 –> 00:40:05,840
\nAll my springs.
\nThe word means gushings. <\/p>\n
582
\n00:40:06,520 –> 00:40:10,320
\nAll my springs or my gushings
\nare in thee. <\/p>\n
583
\n00:40:11,640 –> 00:40:16,720
\nIt’s a prophetic, figurative
\npicture of God’s eternal care <\/p>\n
584
\n00:40:16,720 –> 00:40:21,120
\nand love for Zion.
\nFor despite all her, her <\/p>\n
585
\n00:40:21,120 –> 00:40:24,520
\nwaywardness and her
\nrebelliousness, God looks at <\/p>\n
586
\n00:40:24,520 –> 00:40:27,880
\nZion like he looks on no other
\ncity of the world. <\/p>\n
587
\n00:40:29,000 –> 00:40:35,120
\nAll our springs are in her.
\nYou know, that would have been <\/p>\n
588
\n00:40:35,120 –> 00:40:39,040
\nvery graphically portrayed,
\nespecially in the days of <\/p>\n
589
\n00:40:39,040 –> 00:40:42,680
\nHezekiah.
\nFour underneath that Temple <\/p>\n
590
\n00:40:42,680 –> 00:40:47,120
\nMount gushed out periodically
\nand mysteriously from time to <\/p>\n
591
\n00:40:47,120 –> 00:40:50,960
\ntime.
\nThe waters of Shiloa, the waters<\/p>\n
592
\n00:40:50,960 –> 00:40:54,680
\ncame out from an opening up here
\nin Guyhon, which, as we’ve said,<\/p>\n
593
\n00:40:54,960 –> 00:40:58,840
\nwere tapped by Hezekiah and
\nchannelled through his conduit. <\/p>\n
594
\n00:40:58,840 –> 00:41:02,080
\nSo they emptied out within the
\ncity walls so the Assyrian would<\/p>\n
595
\n00:41:02,080 –> 00:41:05,960
\nhave no water supply.
\nBut where that water originated,<\/p>\n
596
\n00:41:06,480 –> 00:41:10,880
\nnobody yet really knows.
\nThe geologists have done studies<\/p>\n
597
\n00:41:10,880 –> 00:41:12,840
\nof Jerusalem.
\nThey know what the rot formation<\/p>\n
598
\n00:41:12,840 –> 00:41:17,400
\nis like.
\nBut exactly how far down or <\/p>\n
599
\n00:41:17,400 –> 00:41:21,280
\nwhere under the Temple of Mount
\nthis water springs from, no one <\/p>\n
600
\n00:41:21,280 –> 00:41:24,840
\nis totally sure.
\nNow there’s a geologist’s <\/p>\n
601
\n00:41:24,840 –> 00:41:31,320
\nprofile of the city, and you’ll
\nnotice that where Jerusalem is <\/p>\n
602
\n00:41:31,320 –> 00:41:34,600
\nperched is obviously a high
\npoint in the land of the hills <\/p>\n
603
\n00:41:34,600 –> 00:41:38,040
\nof Judea.
\nUnderneath Jerusalem, especially<\/p>\n
604
\n00:41:38,040 –> 00:41:41,800
\nunder the Temple Mount, are
\nobviously a number of very <\/p>\n
605
\n00:41:41,800 –> 00:41:47,520
\nimportant geological formations,
\nessentially limestone beds. <\/p>\n
606
\n00:41:47,560 –> 00:41:50,520
\nNow, limestone is known to be a
\nvery porous rock. <\/p>\n
607
\n00:41:51,200 –> 00:41:55,760
\nGeologists that have studied the
\narea have noted the scarcity of <\/p>\n
608
\n00:41:55,760 –> 00:41:58,360
\nsprings in and around the city
\nof Jerusalem. <\/p>\n
609
\n00:41:58,880 –> 00:42:02,760
\nBut they have always noted the
\nfact that seemingly by <\/p>\n
610
\n00:42:02,760 –> 00:42:08,040
\ncoincidence, there in the very
\ncenter of the city of Jerusalem,<\/p>\n
611
\n00:42:08,280 –> 00:42:12,680
\nright under the Temple Mount,
\nthere is some kind of eternal <\/p>\n
612
\n00:42:12,680 –> 00:42:15,600
\nspring.
\nGeologists have suggested it <\/p>\n
613
\n00:42:15,600 –> 00:42:19,640
\nseems to be a collecting point
\nin the limestone beds, and being<\/p>\n
614
\n00:42:19,640 –> 00:42:23,280
\nfairly porous, the limestone
\nbeds under the Temple Mount <\/p>\n
615
\n00:42:23,400 –> 00:42:28,040
\nmanage to act like a sponge and
\nabsorb, somehow drain off or <\/p>\n
616
\n00:42:28,040 –> 00:42:31,160
\nwater from other areas around
\nthe hills of Judea. <\/p>\n
617
\n00:42:31,240 –> 00:42:35,400
\nIt’s a collecting point, and
\nsomehow, mysteriously, it gushes<\/p>\n
618
\n00:42:35,400 –> 00:42:39,040
\nforth at Guyhon, which means to
\ngush forth. <\/p>\n
619
\n00:42:40,120 –> 00:42:43,240
\nThus, brothers and sisters, is
\nthe meaning of the waters of <\/p>\n
620
\n00:42:43,240 –> 00:42:47,640
\nShiloa, which God says you have
\nrefused. <\/p>\n
621
\n00:42:48,680 –> 00:42:51,920
\nWhat did he mean by that?
\nYou’ve refused the waters of <\/p>\n
622
\n00:42:51,920 –> 00:42:54,800
\nShiloa?
\nAhaz had just done it. <\/p>\n
623
\n00:42:55,520 –> 00:43:00,640
\nAsk me a sign, says God through
\nIsaiah in Chapter 7 to Ahaz. <\/p>\n
624
\n00:43:00,800 –> 00:43:04,000
\nAsk me a sign, either from
\nheaven above or from earth <\/p>\n
625
\n00:43:04,000 –> 00:43:05,280
\nbelow.
\nAsk me a sign. <\/p>\n
626
\n00:43:05,760 –> 00:43:08,160
\nNo, Ahaz says, I won’t ask you a
\nsign. <\/p>\n
627
\n00:43:08,280 –> 00:43:10,440
\nCan’t tempt the Lord Won’t do
\nthat. <\/p>\n
628
\n00:43:10,760 –> 00:43:14,720
\nWell, says Isaiah, I’ll give you
\na sign anyways, and the sign <\/p>\n
629
\n00:43:14,720 –> 00:43:18,120
\nwill be Emmanuel.
\nThere’s your sign. <\/p>\n
630
\n00:43:19,440 –> 00:43:24,200
\nAnd Ahaz had refused it.
\nSo had many people refused it. <\/p>\n
631
\n00:43:24,200 –> 00:43:27,880
\nNot everybody, but many in
\nIsrael and Judah had refused. <\/p>\n
632
\n00:43:28,440 –> 00:43:32,560
\nThey had refused God for years.
\nAhaz had clearly refused God, <\/p>\n
633
\n00:43:33,160 –> 00:43:35,760
\nand many people obviously went
\nwith him in their lot. <\/p>\n
634
\n00:43:36,360 –> 00:43:39,360
\nAnd by doing so, what were they
\nrefusing? <\/p>\n
635
\n00:43:40,600 –> 00:43:46,120
\nThey were refusing, figuratively
\nthe waters of God, the <\/p>\n
636
\n00:43:46,120 –> 00:43:49,520
\nwellspring, the source of
\neternal life. <\/p>\n
637
\n00:43:50,720 –> 00:43:54,600
\nThey had refused the waters of
\nShiloh that went softly. <\/p>\n
638
\n00:43:55,440 –> 00:43:58,320
\nNow do you think that figure of
\nspeech is brought in there just <\/p>\n
639
\n00:43:58,360 –> 00:44:03,400
\nfor coincidence sake?
\nIt’s not, for in refusing the <\/p>\n
640
\n00:44:03,400 –> 00:44:08,120
\nwaters of Shiloa, Isaiah 8 puts
\nthat against what? <\/p>\n
641
\n00:44:09,000 –> 00:44:13,280
\nThe mighty rivers of Assyria.
\nAssyria will come down like a <\/p>\n
642
\n00:44:13,280 –> 00:44:22,080
\nmighty thundering tidal wave.
\nAnd you’ve refused the waters of<\/p>\n
643
\n00:44:22,080 –> 00:44:28,400
\nShiloa that go softly a very
\nmysterious source of water <\/p>\n
644
\n00:44:28,920 –> 00:44:33,640
\nspringing out of Guy Han in
\ngushes unpredictably from an <\/p>\n
645
\n00:44:33,640 –> 00:44:39,280
\ninvisible source.
\nSoft but sure, like the still <\/p>\n
646
\n00:44:39,280 –> 00:44:42,080
\nsmall voice that was mentioned
\nto Elijah. <\/p>\n
647
\n00:44:42,880 –> 00:44:48,880
\nThe still small voice, not a
\ngreat Monty mighty torrent like <\/p>\n
648
\n00:44:48,880 –> 00:44:51,840
\nthe Euphrates as pictured
\nfiguratively of the Assyrians. <\/p>\n
649
\n00:44:52,360 –> 00:44:56,000
\nNot a great mighty flood that
\nwould impress mankind through <\/p>\n
650
\n00:44:56,000 –> 00:44:58,480
\nthe might of its own power and
\nfleshly greatness. <\/p>\n
651
\n00:44:58,840 –> 00:45:05,720
\nNo God pictured himself and the
\nlife giving power he could offer<\/p>\n
652
\n00:45:05,720 –> 00:45:11,560
\nto the nations through Emmanuel
\nas the waters of Shiloa that go <\/p>\n
653
\n00:45:11,560 –> 00:45:14,640
\nsoftly.
\nThink of Paul’s words in <\/p>\n
654
\n00:45:14,640 –> 00:45:18,280
\nCorinthians, brothers and
\nsisters, that which is despised <\/p>\n
655
\n00:45:18,280 –> 00:45:23,840
\nby man, that which appears to be
\nweak and ignoble, that which man<\/p>\n
656
\n00:45:23,840 –> 00:45:26,680
\nwould despise and take very
\nlittle of attention of, says <\/p>\n
657
\n00:45:26,680 –> 00:45:30,240
\nPaul.
\nThat is what God has made strong<\/p>\n
658
\n00:45:30,240 –> 00:45:34,800
\nfor himself, that no flesh will
\nbe able to glory in his <\/p>\n
659
\n00:45:34,800 –> 00:45:39,240
\npresence.
\nSo God works consistently on <\/p>\n
660
\n00:45:39,240 –> 00:45:42,600
\nthat principle.
\nWho is Emmanuel? <\/p>\n
661
\n00:45:43,480 –> 00:45:49,280
\nWell.
\nA man on a cross, Isaiah 53 is <\/p>\n
662
\n00:45:49,280 –> 00:45:52,040
\nEmmanuel.
\nThat which the nation has <\/p>\n
663
\n00:45:52,040 –> 00:45:58,120
\ndespised, Isaiah 53, The
\ndespising of Isaiah 53 is to be <\/p>\n
664
\n00:45:58,120 –> 00:46:01,680
\nlined up with Isaiah 8.
\nThe waters that were refused? <\/p>\n
665
\n00:46:03,480 –> 00:46:08,600
\nUnlikely, said man.
\nNot a saviour on a cross, not a <\/p>\n
666
\n00:46:08,600 –> 00:46:13,600
\ncrucified individual, not one
\nwhom we would unlikely take as <\/p>\n
667
\n00:46:13,600 –> 00:46:16,640
\nour Messiah, not one who we
\nwould despise. <\/p>\n
668
\n00:46:16,720 –> 00:46:20,320
\nSurely not.
\nThat the waters of Shiloh, <\/p>\n
669
\n00:46:20,480 –> 00:46:24,760
\nthat’s what’s on the cross.
\nThat which was despised and not <\/p>\n
670
\n00:46:24,760 –> 00:46:27,000
\nhighly esteemed by most of the
\nnation. <\/p>\n
671
\n00:46:27,560 –> 00:46:32,920
\nThat’s what God used.
\nThat’s who God used, that is <\/p>\n
672
\n00:46:32,960 –> 00:46:36,520
\nEmmanuel.
\nSo in Ahaz’s refusal of the <\/p>\n
673
\n00:46:36,520 –> 00:46:41,040
\nwaters of Shiloa, very much like
\nname in the leper who said my <\/p>\n
674
\n00:46:41,040 –> 00:46:44,480
\nI’ve got all kinds of great
\nrivers back in Syria, why would <\/p>\n
675
\n00:46:44,480 –> 00:46:47,120
\nyou want me to wash in this
\ndirty Creek called Jordan? <\/p>\n
676
\n00:46:48,240 –> 00:46:50,240
\nWell, it was a question of
\nobedience. <\/p>\n
677
\n00:46:50,560 –> 00:46:55,040
\nThat which was despised by man
\nbrought life to the leper. <\/p>\n
678
\n00:46:55,840 –> 00:46:59,040
\nGod wasn’t looking for some
\ngreat mighty display of the <\/p>\n
679
\n00:46:59,040 –> 00:47:02,160
\nflesh when the Word was made
\nflesh. <\/p>\n
680
\n00:47:02,600 –> 00:47:04,560
\nThere was no room for him in the
\ncity. <\/p>\n
681
\n00:47:05,240 –> 00:47:09,160
\nMan rejected him right from the
\nbeginning and his birth was in a<\/p>\n
682
\n00:47:09,160 –> 00:47:14,280
\nlowly stable, the waters of
\nShiloa, which you have refused. <\/p>\n
683
\n00:47:15,040 –> 00:47:18,920
\nAhaz was typical of the
\nrebellious nation, the faithless<\/p>\n
684
\n00:47:18,920 –> 00:47:22,080
\nking and the sick people both
\ntogether. <\/p>\n
685
\n00:47:22,800 –> 00:47:27,280
\nAnd you see, brothers and
\nsisters, in in Psalm 87, those <\/p>\n
686
\n00:47:27,280 –> 00:47:30,800
\nof us who will allow ourselves
\nto be enlightened about this <\/p>\n
687
\n00:47:30,800 –> 00:47:35,760
\ngreat city, the city of Zion,
\nand like the people in <\/p>\n
688
\n00:47:35,760 –> 00:47:40,640
\nHezekiah’s day, will flee to
\nZion. <\/p>\n
689
\n00:47:41,240 –> 00:47:45,320
\nThose of us who wish to be the
\nremnant and be redeemed and <\/p>\n
690
\n00:47:45,320 –> 00:47:47,480
\ndrink of the waters, where do we
\ngo? <\/p>\n
691
\n00:47:48,520 –> 00:47:51,400
\nLos Angeles, Toronto, where do
\nwe go? <\/p>\n
692
\n00:47:52,480 –> 00:47:56,960
\nWe go to Zion.
\nAnd thus in Hezekiah’s days, you<\/p>\n
693
\n00:47:56,960 –> 00:48:01,480
\ncan be sure that before the
\nAssyrian reached Jerusalem, <\/p>\n
694
\n00:48:01,680 –> 00:48:05,280
\nthere were people from all over
\nthe towns, North and South that <\/p>\n
695
\n00:48:05,280 –> 00:48:09,480
\nthought wisely.
\nSome thought wisely and said, <\/p>\n
696
\n00:48:09,680 –> 00:48:12,200
\nI’m leaving.
\nI’m going to Hezekiah. <\/p>\n
697
\n00:48:12,680 –> 00:48:15,560
\nI’m going to where Isaiah is.
\nI’m going to Jerusalem. <\/p>\n
698
\n00:48:15,680 –> 00:48:17,680
\nI’ll forsake my house.
\nI’ll leave this town. <\/p>\n
699
\n00:48:17,880 –> 00:48:20,800
\nAnd before the Assyrian gets any
\nfurther down here, I’m going <\/p>\n
700
\n00:48:21,400 –> 00:48:24,400
\nThere were no doubt people who
\nimmigrated and came into that <\/p>\n
701
\n00:48:24,400 –> 00:48:28,560
\ncity as a faithful remnant,
\nbesides those who always lived <\/p>\n
702
\n00:48:28,560 –> 00:48:31,360
\nin Jerusalem.
\nThere’s no doubt, brothers and <\/p>\n
703
\n00:48:31,360 –> 00:48:33,160
\nsisters, I think that it worked
\nthat way. <\/p>\n
704
\n00:48:33,480 –> 00:48:37,560
\nFor when you look at Hezekiah’s
\nPassover, there were some from <\/p>\n
705
\n00:48:37,560 –> 00:48:40,160
\nthe north and the other towns
\nthat responded. <\/p>\n
706
\n00:48:40,440 –> 00:48:43,760
\nSome came down and responded to
\nHezekiah’s call. <\/p>\n
707
\n00:48:44,120 –> 00:48:47,920
\nSome realized that although
\nthey’d always lived in the north<\/p>\n
708
\n00:48:48,000 –> 00:48:51,360
\naround Samaria, the real capital
\nwas Jerusalem. <\/p>\n
709
\n00:48:52,120 –> 00:48:57,160
\nAnd thus Hezekiah’s Passover
\nmust have prepared the minds of <\/p>\n
710
\n00:48:57,160 –> 00:49:00,800
\na few in the north who had gone
\ndown on that day for the <\/p>\n
711
\n00:49:00,800 –> 00:49:05,320
\nPassover and had rejoiced in its
\nfestivities and realized that <\/p>\n
712
\n00:49:05,320 –> 00:49:09,800
\ntheir springs were in Jerusalem,
\nnot Samaria. <\/p>\n
713
\n00:49:10,320 –> 00:49:14,080
\nThus it’s likely that when the
\nAssyrian began his advance, some<\/p>\n
714
\n00:49:14,080 –> 00:49:17,120
\nof those people who came down to
\nthe Passover, their first <\/p>\n
715
\n00:49:17,120 –> 00:49:19,000
\nreaction would be, I’m getting
\nout of here. <\/p>\n
716
\n00:49:19,200 –> 00:49:22,240
\nI’m going down to Jerusalem.
\nI was in the Passover. <\/p>\n
717
\n00:49:22,920 –> 00:49:26,720
\nI know where my springs are.
\nFor it’s there that a man of <\/p>\n
718
\n00:49:26,720 –> 00:49:31,920
\nIsrael is born, as the psalmist
\nhas said, beautiful Psalms, <\/p>\n
719
\n00:49:31,920 –> 00:49:35,560
\nbrothers and sisters, and
\npassages in Isaiah which stress <\/p>\n
720
\n00:49:35,560 –> 00:49:39,480
\nthe beauty and the importance of
\nJerusalem. <\/p>\n
721
\n00:49:40,400 –> 00:49:42,360
\nYou know those passages as well
\nas I do. <\/p>\n
722
\n00:49:42,560 –> 00:49:48,080
\nIsaiah 2, Isaiah 11, Isaiah 66,
\nIsaiah 65. <\/p>\n
723
\n00:49:48,640 –> 00:49:51,800
\nPassage after passage in
\nIsaiah’s prophecy. <\/p>\n
724
\n00:49:52,480 –> 00:49:56,480
\nWhy are they there?
\nBecause in his days there was a <\/p>\n
725
\n00:49:56,480 –> 00:50:00,760
\nliteral fulfillment of the
\nreality of those prophecies, a <\/p>\n
726
\n00:50:00,760 –> 00:50:03,040
\nforetaste of greater things to
\ncome. <\/p>\n
727
\n00:50:03,720 –> 00:50:09,280
\nIn the Assyrian crisis, the
\nwaters of Shiloah were protected<\/p>\n
728
\n00:50:09,280 –> 00:50:12,160
\nby God.
\nThe whole project had been <\/p>\n
729
\n00:50:12,160 –> 00:50:16,160
\ninspired by him.
\nThose waters were not taken by <\/p>\n
730
\n00:50:16,160 –> 00:50:20,160
\nthe Assyrian, they were only for
\nthe inhabitants within those <\/p>\n
731
\n00:50:20,160 –> 00:50:25,760
\nwalls.
\nAnd thus all our springs are in <\/p>\n
732
\n00:50:25,960 –> 00:50:30,560
\nthe nowhere else.
\nNow, brothers and sisters, we <\/p>\n
733
\n00:50:30,560 –> 00:50:35,320
\nsample just a few more of these
\npassages to have perhaps a <\/p>\n
734
\n00:50:35,320 –> 00:50:44,640
\ndeeper appreciation.
\nIsaiah 22, most of the chapter <\/p>\n
735
\n00:50:46,280 –> 00:50:50,800
\nis dealing with a rebuff against
\nthe people that have been <\/p>\n
736
\n00:50:50,800 –> 00:50:54,720
\nfaithless.
\nVerse 5, the Assyrian invasion <\/p>\n
737
\n00:50:54,720 –> 00:51:00,080
\nis in the background here. 22
\nand verse 5, four, says Isaiah <\/p>\n
738
\n00:51:00,080 –> 00:51:03,560
\nto the faithless.
\nIt’s a day of trouble, and of <\/p>\n
739
\n00:51:03,560 –> 00:51:08,680
\ntreading down and of perplexity
\nby the Lord God of hosts in the <\/p>\n
740
\n00:51:08,680 –> 00:51:12,160
\nvalley of vision breaking down
\nthe walls, and of crying to the <\/p>\n
741
\n00:51:12,160 –> 00:51:15,720
\nmountains.
\nAnd Elam, mercenary troops used <\/p>\n
742
\n00:51:15,720 –> 00:51:18,760
\nby the Assyrians.
\nElam, bear the quiver with <\/p>\n
743
\n00:51:18,760 –> 00:51:22,640
\nChariots of men and horsemen.
\nAnd Kerr uncovered the shield. <\/p>\n
744
\n00:51:23,320 –> 00:51:26,320
\nAnd it shall come to pass that
\nthy choicest valley shall be <\/p>\n
745
\n00:51:26,320 –> 00:51:30,360
\nfull of Chariots, as they were,
\nand the horsemen shall set <\/p>\n
746
\n00:51:30,360 –> 00:51:35,440
\nthemselves an array at the gate.
\nAnd he discovered the covering <\/p>\n
747
\n00:51:35,440 –> 00:51:37,120
\nof Judah.
\nThe Assyrian did. <\/p>\n
748
\n00:51:37,720 –> 00:51:41,520
\nAnd thou didst look in that day
\nto the armor of the House of the<\/p>\n
749
\n00:51:41,520 –> 00:51:45,040
\nforest, relying on the arm of
\nflesh, as some did. <\/p>\n
750
\n00:51:45,960 –> 00:51:49,560
\nVerse 9.
\nYe have seen also the breaches <\/p>\n
751
\n00:51:49,560 –> 00:51:52,240
\nof the city of David, that they
\nwere many. <\/p>\n
752
\n00:51:52,320 –> 00:51:55,280
\nAnd ye gathered together the
\nwaters of the lower pool. <\/p>\n
753
\n00:51:56,040 –> 00:51:58,760
\nAnd ye have numbered the House
\nof Jerusalem, and the houses <\/p>\n
754
\n00:51:58,760 –> 00:52:01,720
\nhave been broken down to fortify
\nthe wall. <\/p>\n
755
\n00:52:03,040 –> 00:52:06,640
\nYe have made also a ditch
\nbetween the two walls for the <\/p>\n
756
\n00:52:06,640 –> 00:52:15,920
\nwater of the old pool.
\nBut but ye have not looked unto <\/p>\n
757
\n00:52:15,960 –> 00:52:23,400
\nthe Maker thereof, neither have
\nrespect unto Him that fashioned <\/p>\n
758
\n00:52:23,480 –> 00:52:29,600
\nit long ago.
\nWas it just human ingenuity that<\/p>\n
759
\n00:52:29,600 –> 00:52:32,240
\nthe waters of Shiloha were there
\nwhen they were needed? <\/p>\n
760
\n00:52:33,160 –> 00:52:36,040
\nWas it just coincidence that
\nthere was a water supply that <\/p>\n
761
\n00:52:36,040 –> 00:52:39,200
\ncould be blocked from the
\nAssyrian and kept within the <\/p>\n
762
\n00:52:39,200 –> 00:52:41,320
\nwalls of Jerusalem during the
\nsiege? <\/p>\n
763
\n00:52:42,120 –> 00:52:46,280
\nWas it mere coincidence that
\nthere was such a source of life <\/p>\n
764
\n00:52:46,280 –> 00:52:50,160
\ngiving water when holding out
\nagainst the enemy of God? <\/p>\n
765
\n00:52:50,400 –> 00:52:54,440
\nNo coincidence.
\nFor many years before those <\/p>\n
766
\n00:52:54,440 –> 00:52:59,160
\nevents, God had ensured that
\nthere’d be a water supply, a <\/p>\n
767
\n00:52:59,160 –> 00:53:03,720
\nmysterious gushing forth of
\nlife, giving water from beneath <\/p>\n
768
\n00:53:03,720 –> 00:53:09,000
\nthe Temple, the Mount of Moriah.
\nGod claims to have been the <\/p>\n
769
\n00:53:09,000 –> 00:53:14,640
\nmaker thereof, and he fashioned
\nit long ago. <\/p>\n
770
\n00:53:16,120 –> 00:53:19,800
\nNow let’s just conclude Micah
\nFive. <\/p>\n
771
\n00:53:21,000 –> 00:53:24,760
\nLook at once again how the
\nevents of the coming of Messiah <\/p>\n
772
\n00:53:25,440 –> 00:53:31,640
\nare intertwined with the mention
\nof the Assyrian verse. <\/p>\n
773
\n00:53:31,640 –> 00:53:37,080
\nOne now says, Micah, gather
\nthyself in troops, O daughter of<\/p>\n
774
\n00:53:37,080 –> 00:53:41,440
\ntroops, he hath laid siege
\nagainst us, and now you know <\/p>\n
775
\n00:53:41,440 –> 00:53:44,280
\nwhat that’s all about.
\nThey shall smite the judge of <\/p>\n
776
\n00:53:44,280 –> 00:53:46,280
\nIsrael with a rod upon the
\ncheek. <\/p>\n
777
\n00:53:47,360 –> 00:53:52,480
\nBut thou Bethlehem Ephrata,
\nthough thou be notice this. <\/p>\n
778
\n00:53:53,280 –> 00:53:57,520
\nLittle.
\nThe waters of Shiloh that go <\/p>\n
779
\n00:53:57,560 –> 00:54:02,120
\nsoftly, the still small voice to
\nElijah. <\/p>\n
780
\n00:54:02,880 –> 00:54:08,800
\nThough thou be little among the
\nthousands of Judah, yet out of <\/p>\n
781
\n00:54:08,800 –> 00:54:13,440
\nthee shall he come forth unto me
\nthat is to be ruler in Israel, <\/p>\n
782
\n00:54:14,120 –> 00:54:18,400
\nwhose goings forth have been
\nfrom old, from everlasting. <\/p>\n
783
\n00:54:18,760 –> 00:54:22,280
\nNow don’t miss the connection,
\nbrothers and sisters, whose <\/p>\n
784
\n00:54:22,280 –> 00:54:24,280
\ngoings forth, what’s the word
\nmean? <\/p>\n
785
\n00:54:24,640 –> 00:54:27,160
\nCheck it in Strongs peculiar
\nwhat it says. <\/p>\n
786
\n00:54:27,400 –> 00:54:32,360
\nIt says a sewer or a descent or
\na draft house. <\/p>\n
787
\n00:54:33,160 –> 00:54:36,040
\nNow when you look at that, you
\nthink, well, that’s puzzling. <\/p>\n
788
\n00:54:36,040 –> 00:54:39,320
\nHow would that ever be
\nassociated with this kind of <\/p>\n
789
\n00:54:39,320 –> 00:54:43,600
\nmessianic prophecy?
\nBut a careful check and strongs,<\/p>\n
790
\n00:54:44,000 –> 00:54:48,120
\nespecially at the origin of the
\nword, shows that the base <\/p>\n
791
\n00:54:48,120 –> 00:54:53,320
\nmeaning of that word goings
\nforth means to spring out or to <\/p>\n
792
\n00:54:53,320 –> 00:54:59,080
\ndescend, to be as a fountain,
\nand it is translated <\/p>\n
793
\n00:54:59,440 –> 00:55:04,200
\nwatercourse.
\nIn Second Chronicles 32 and 30 <\/p>\n
794
\n00:55:04,960 –> 00:55:10,240
\nit’s translated spring, part of
\na word spring, and Isaiah 58 and<\/p>\n
795
\n00:55:10,240 –> 00:55:13,800
\n11.
\nIt’s also translated spring and <\/p>\n
796
\n00:55:13,800 –> 00:55:19,800
\nIsaiah 41 verse 8, so it’s
\nassociated with a water spring <\/p>\n
797
\n00:55:20,560 –> 00:55:24,240
\nwhose water springs have been
\nfrom old. <\/p>\n
798
\n00:55:24,480 –> 00:55:29,320
\nThe language of Isaiah 22.
\nYou have not looked unto the <\/p>\n
799
\n00:55:29,320 –> 00:55:36,080
\nMaker of Shiloha, the Maker who
\nknew it and did it of old, says <\/p>\n
800
\n00:55:36,080 –> 00:55:40,560
\nIsaiah 22.
\nThus here in Micah 5 is the <\/p>\n
801
\n00:55:40,560 –> 00:55:44,440
\npromise of one whose water
\nsprings, or whose springing <\/p>\n
802
\n00:55:44,440 –> 00:55:48,400
\nforth have been from old, like
\nthe waters of Shiloh. <\/p>\n
803
\n00:55:48,400 –> 00:55:52,720
\nAnd thus, brothers and sisters,
\nlook at this assurance, both for<\/p>\n
804
\n00:55:52,720 –> 00:55:56,280
\npast days and Micah’s time, and
\nnow for us in the future. <\/p>\n
805
\n00:55:56,920 –> 00:56:01,000
\nHe shall stand and feed in the
\nstrength of the Lord, in the <\/p>\n
806
\n00:56:01,000 –> 00:56:05,240
\nmajesty of the name of the Lord
\nhis God, and they shall abide, <\/p>\n
807
\n00:56:05,920 –> 00:56:09,360
\nfor now shall he be great unto
\nthe ends of the earth. <\/p>\n
808
\n00:56:10,040 –> 00:56:15,000
\nAnd this man shall be the peace
\nwhen the Assyrian shall come <\/p>\n
809
\n00:56:15,000 –> 00:56:18,840
\ninto our land, and when he shall
\ntread in our palaces. <\/p>\n
810
\n00:56:19,440 –> 00:56:23,560
\nThen shall we raise against him
\n7 shepherds and eight principal <\/p>\n
811
\n00:56:23,560 –> 00:56:27,920
\nmen.
\nYou see the point, the events of<\/p>\n
812
\n00:56:27,920 –> 00:56:32,120
\nHezekiah and Isaiah interwoven
\nwith events for us in the <\/p>\n
813
\n00:56:32,120 –> 00:56:35,920
\nfuture, and the focus, the
\ncenter of attention. <\/p>\n
814
\n00:56:36,920 –> 00:56:42,280
\nEmmanuel.
\nAll our springs are in Him, for <\/p>\n
815
\n00:56:42,280 –> 00:56:46,080
\nHe is as the waters of Shiloa
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