{"id":1209,"date":"2024-10-21T14:02:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T14:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodchristadelphiantalks.com\/index.php\/podcast\/colin-badger-thematic-study-of-isaiah-class-2-hekiziah-the-great\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T06:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T06:41:10","slug":"colin-badger-thematic-study-of-isaiah-class-2-hekiziah-the-great","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/goodchristadelphiantalks.com\/index.php\/podcast\/colin-badger-thematic-study-of-isaiah-class-2-hekiziah-the-great\/","title":{"rendered":"Colin Badger – Thematic Study of Isaiah – Class 2 – Hekiziah the Great"},"content":{"rendered":"

Class 6 from this series was used in GCT Episode 318.<\/p>\n

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\nThis is day two of the 1988
\nIdyllwild Bible School. <\/p>\n

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\nOur third period speaker is
\nBrother Colin Badger, and his <\/p>\n

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\ngeneral subject is Thematic
\nStudy of Isaiah. <\/p>\n

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\nHis subtopic for today’s class
\nis Hezekiah, the Great Father <\/p>\n

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\nColin.
\nThey’ve either had them <\/p>\n

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\nunintentionally picked up, or if
\nyou need others, they’re here. <\/p>\n

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\nYou can take them at the end of
\nthe class. <\/p>\n

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\nWe will be referring to those
\nsheets periodically during the <\/p>\n

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\nweek, so if they’re kept perhaps
\nfolded or in your Bible or <\/p>\n

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\nbooks, it’ll be helpful.
\nYesterday we ended by taking a <\/p>\n

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\nlook at some references in the
\nKings and Chronicles which show <\/p>\n

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\nthe extent to which King A has.
\nHebekiah father had polluted the<\/p>\n

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\nworship of Israel, and when we
\nuse the word Israel there we <\/p>\n

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\nmean in general terms North and
\nSouth, for the effects of his <\/p>\n

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\napostasy had far reaching
\neffects all over the land. <\/p>\n

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\nI’d like just to recap some of
\nthose thoughts from yesterday as<\/p>\n

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\nwe lead into a particular study
\nof Hezekiah. <\/p>\n

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\nWe were looking at Second
\nChronicles chapter 28 as we <\/p>\n

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\nended yesterday, where we read
\nthat A has had sacrificed verse <\/p>\n

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\n23 of Second Chronicles 28.
\nHe had sacrificed unto the gods <\/p>\n

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\nof Damascus because he had said
\nthe gods of the kings of Syria <\/p>\n

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\nhelp them.
\nTherefore will I sacrifice to <\/p>\n

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\nthem, that they may help me.
\nBut they were the ruin of him <\/p>\n

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\nand of all Israel.
\nNow notice how the word Israel <\/p>\n

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\nis being used there.
\nAhab really was reigning in <\/p>\n

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\nJerusalem in the South over the
\ntwo tribes, but he had far <\/p>\n

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\nreaching effects over not just
\nJudah and Benjamin, but all <\/p>\n

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\nIsrael.
\nWe noticed yesterday how the <\/p>\n

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\nKing’s account, Second King 16,
\ngives very detailed descriptions<\/p>\n

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\nof how he introduced a new altar
\nfor burnt offering, a copy of <\/p>\n

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\nwhich he had received while
\nvisiting a Pagan country. <\/p>\n

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\nWe noticed how he had displaced
\nthe position of the burnt <\/p>\n

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\noffering altar as it had been
\nunder the law of Moses. <\/p>\n

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\nWe noticed how he had gone to
\nthe great brazen labor <\/p>\n

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\nconstructed under Solomon, how
\nhe had taken the legs from off <\/p>\n

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\nof it.
\nHe was constantly busying <\/p>\n

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\nhimself with the process of
\npaganizing God’s people. <\/p>\n

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\nHe set in motion a process of
\napostasy that was to eventually <\/p>\n

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\nbe almost the rock of the whole
\nland, North and South, but <\/p>\n

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\nespecially in the South.
\nHe was literally rearranging <\/p>\n

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\nGod’s plan and purpose in every
\nway that he could. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd here in verse 24, as we saw
\nyesterday, chapter 28, he <\/p>\n

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\ngathered together the vessels of
\nthe House of God and cut in <\/p>\n

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\npieces the vessels of the House
\nof God. <\/p>\n

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\nHe was a madman, this man, a
\nrampage for paganism and every <\/p>\n

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\nrespect.
\nThen he shut up the doors of the<\/p>\n

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\nHouse of the Lord, and he made
\nhim altars in every corner of <\/p>\n

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\nJerusalem and in every several
\ncity of Judah. <\/p>\n

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\nHe made high places to burn
\nincense unto other gods, and <\/p>\n

50
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\nprovoked to anger the Lord God
\nof his fathers. <\/p>\n

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\nAll of that created a gigantic
\nproblem for Hezekiah when he was<\/p>\n

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\nabout to come to the throne.
\nThis was the inheritance a <\/p>\n

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\nfather left his son.
\nIsaiah chapter 28, when read in <\/p>\n

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\nlight of what we’ve just seen in
\nthe days of Ahab, helped to be <\/p>\n

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\n00:04:08,560 –> 00:04:10,080
\nunderstood a little more
\nclearly. <\/p>\n

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\nIsaiah chapter 28 Keep in mind
\nthat phrase in Chronicles that <\/p>\n

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\nwe just met that he polluted and
\nhad effects on all Israel North <\/p>\n

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\nand South.
\nAnd remember he was a king in <\/p>\n

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\nthe South and yet he had effects
\nin the north. <\/p>\n

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\nIsaiah chapter 28 verse one, woe
\nto the crown of pride, to the <\/p>\n

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\ndrunkards of Iphraim, whose
\nglorious beauty is a fading <\/p>\n

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\nflower, which are on the head of
\nthe fat valleys of them that are<\/p>\n

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\novercome with wine.
\nNow Isaiah 1 verses 1 and 2 tell<\/p>\n

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\nus that Isaiah was sent really
\nto minister to Judah and <\/p>\n

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\nJerusalem.
\nSo then why is he issuing this <\/p>\n

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\nprophecy and warning to Iphraim
\nto possibilities? <\/p>\n

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\nThey’re not necessarily
\nexclusive. 1 is because Ahaz had<\/p>\n

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\nhad such far reaching effects in
\nhis apostasy, centering himself <\/p>\n

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\nin Judah but having these ripple
\neffects throughout the nation. <\/p>\n

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\nIsaiah here appeals to those who
\nhave been affected by his <\/p>\n

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\napostasy beyond even those of
\nhis immediate parameters as a <\/p>\n

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\nprophet.
\nOr it’s possible that he is <\/p>\n

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\nactually talking to Judah as
\nthough Judah has fallen the way <\/p>\n

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\nof Ibrahim.
\nAnd he may here be using a kind <\/p>\n

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\nof ironic address.
\nBut regardless, look at what it <\/p>\n

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\nsays.
\nThe crown of pride, the <\/p>\n

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\ndrunkards of Ibrahim, the
\ncondition of the land. <\/p>\n

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\nJust look at it.
\nVerse 7. <\/p>\n

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\nThis is what Hezekiah inherited.
\nVerse 7 But they also have erred<\/p>\n

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\nthrough wine and through strong
\ndrink and are out of the way. <\/p>\n

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\nThe priests and the prophets
\nhave erred through strong drink.<\/p>\n

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\nThey are swallowed up of wine.
\nThey are out of the way through <\/p>\n

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\nstrong drinks.
\nThey err in vision, they stumble<\/p>\n

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\nin judgement, for all tables are
\nfull of vomit and filthiness, so<\/p>\n

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\nthat there is no place clean,
\nstrong language, brothers and <\/p>\n

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\nsisters, to describe the
\ncondition of his people. <\/p>\n

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\nIt’s a land that is filled with
\nbonnets. <\/p>\n

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\nVerse 14 Wherefore hear the word
\nof the Lord, says Isaiah E <\/p>\n

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\nscornful men that rule this
\npeople, which is in Jerusalem, <\/p>\n

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\nbecause ye have said we have
\nmade a covenant with death and <\/p>\n

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\nwith hell.
\nAnd are we at agreement when the<\/p>\n

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\noverflowing scourge shall pass
\nthrough? <\/p>\n

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\nNow in our introductory remarks
\nyesterday we suggested that you <\/p>\n

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\nbe alert to that figure of
\nspeech overflowing waters <\/p>\n

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\noverflowing.
\nA word that refers to the <\/p>\n

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\nonslaught of Assyria time and
\nagain. <\/p>\n

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\nSo now Assyria is threatened
\nwith the overflowing scourge. <\/p>\n

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\nShall pass through it shall not
\ncome unto us. <\/p>\n

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\nFor we have made lies our
\nrefuge, and under falsehood have<\/p>\n

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\nwe hid ourselves.
\nNow that language doesn’t make <\/p>\n

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\ntoo much sense, unless you bear
\nin mind the background of Ahab, <\/p>\n

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\nwhere he had apostasized the
\nnation, changed the arrangements<\/p>\n

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\nin the temple.
\nIndeed, they had made lies their<\/p>\n

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\nrefuge, and under falsehood they
\nwere hiding themselves, <\/p>\n

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\nignorant, wilfully ignorant of
\nthe truth. <\/p>\n

106
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\nRebels, wayward children, a
\nthick nation. <\/p>\n

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\nWe looked yesterday, didn’t we,
\nat Isaiah chapter 1, which uses <\/p>\n

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\nthe language of leprosy and
\nweeping sores to describe the <\/p>\n

109
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\nsick body of Israel inherited
\nfrom this faithless king? <\/p>\n

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\nLike just to look again at some
\nof these details and notice how <\/p>\n

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\nthey are linked with something
\nlater on in Isaiah’s prophecy, <\/p>\n

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\nwhich is very useful to bear in
\nmind. <\/p>\n

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\nIn Isaiah chapter 1, the word
\nstricken in verse 5, if you were<\/p>\n

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\nto check it in a concordance,
\nyou’d find it’s the same word to<\/p>\n

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\ndescribe Job’s boils in Job 2
\nverse 7, which are understood <\/p>\n

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\ngenerally to be leprous boils.
\nThe word stricken there is also <\/p>\n

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\nthe same word to describe the
\ncondition elsewhere in scripture<\/p>\n

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\nof the leper in Leviticus.
\nIt seems to relate also to words<\/p>\n

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\nused to describe Aziah’s leprosy
\nin Second Chronicles 26. <\/p>\n

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\nHere, then, is a thick and
\nleprous nation. <\/p>\n

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\nNow something else to notice.
\nThis opens up a lot of fruitful <\/p>\n

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\nthought.
\nThe word stricken here in verse <\/p>\n

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\n5.
\nIf you’ve got a pencil, you <\/p>\n

124
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\nmight want to jot these down,
\nbecause I’m going to go through <\/p>\n

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\n00:09:01,120 –> 00:09:05,640
\nthis rather quickly.
\nThe word stricken in verse 5 is <\/p>\n

126
\n00:09:05,640 –> 00:09:12,520
\nthe same word as the word
\nsmitten in Isaiah 53, verse 4. <\/p>\n

127
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\nThat’s the suffering servant
\nprophecy. <\/p>\n

128
\n00:09:16,160 –> 00:09:19,920
\nThat’s the servant of Jesus
\nChrist, the one who would take <\/p>\n

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\n00:09:19,920 –> 00:09:22,360
\ntake our sins and our sorrows,
\nour griefs. <\/p>\n

130
\n00:09:24,240 –> 00:09:30,120
\nThe word sick in verse 5 of
\nIsaiah 1 also occurs in Isaiah <\/p>\n

131
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\n53 verse four, and there it’s
\ntranslated griefs verse 6. <\/p>\n

132
\n00:09:38,280 –> 00:09:44,360
\nHere in Isaiah 1 the word
\nbruises found here towards the <\/p>\n

133
\n00:09:44,360 –> 00:09:51,240
\nmiddle of verse 6 is translated
\nsame word in Isaiah 53 verse 5 <\/p>\n

134
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\nthe word stripes.
\nNow isn’t that curious? <\/p>\n

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\nWhy would it be, brothers and
\nsisters, that the Lord Jesus <\/p>\n

136
\n00:09:59,320 –> 00:10:03,040
\nChrist as the suffering Servant
\nshould be described in the very <\/p>\n

137
\n00:10:03,040 –> 00:10:06,640
\nterms used to describe the sick
\nnation? <\/p>\n

138
\n00:10:07,760 –> 00:10:11,480
\nWe can understand why the nation
\nwould be described as leprous <\/p>\n

139
\n00:10:11,760 –> 00:10:18,680
\nand thick, being smitten, having
\ngrief, having strife, but why <\/p>\n

140
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\nwould those terms be carried
\nover and applied to the Lord <\/p>\n

141
\n00:10:21,720 –> 00:10:25,400
\nJesus Christ?
\nThink about it brothers and <\/p>\n

142
\n00:10:25,400 –> 00:10:28,520
\nsisters, we won’t consider it
\nall of it right now in detail, <\/p>\n

143
\n00:10:28,840 –> 00:10:32,200
\nbut one thing is certain from
\nthose 3 keyword links. <\/p>\n

144
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\nThe thick nation and the thin
\nbearer. <\/p>\n

145
\n00:10:36,960 –> 00:10:44,000
\nJesus Christ has taken upon him
\nthe wounds and the sickness of <\/p>\n

146
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\nthe nation, and that’s why He’s
\ndescribed in those terms. <\/p>\n

147
\n00:10:48,400 –> 00:10:53,120
\nIt’s not that the Lord Jesus
\nChrist was afflicted, for He was<\/p>\n

148
\n00:10:53,120 –> 00:10:56,560
\nthe sinless servant.
\nHe was indeed tempted in all <\/p>\n

149
\n00:10:56,560 –> 00:10:59,680
\npoints, like as we are, yet
\nwithout sin. <\/p>\n

150
\n00:11:00,560 –> 00:11:04,400
\nWhen Peter in the New Testament
\nquotes Isaiah 53 in his epistle,<\/p>\n

151
\n00:11:04,760 –> 00:11:11,800
\nhe renders part of Isaiah 53 as
\nin His mouth was no guile, in <\/p>\n

152
\n00:11:11,800 –> 00:11:15,120
\nhis mouth was no guile, He was
\nsinless. <\/p>\n

153
\n00:11:15,840 –> 00:11:20,520
\nAnd yet the sins of the nation,
\ntheir wounds, their grief, their<\/p>\n

154
\n00:11:20,520 –> 00:11:26,760
\nputrefying swords, as it were,
\nare transferred in Isaiah 53 to <\/p>\n

155
\n00:11:26,760 –> 00:11:30,200
\nthe burden bearer.
\nYou see the extent to which He <\/p>\n

156
\n00:11:30,200 –> 00:11:35,760
\ntakes upon Him our burdens, the
\nextent to which God wishes us to<\/p>\n

157
\n00:11:35,760 –> 00:11:39,080
\nunderstand how He takes our sins
\nand our sicknesses. <\/p>\n

158
\n00:11:39,760 –> 00:11:44,960
\nIt makes better sense of why it
\nis in Matthew chapter 8 verse 16<\/p>\n

159
\n00:11:45,840 –> 00:11:50,400
\nthat Matthew says when He healed
\nthe demoniacs, it fulfilled <\/p>\n

160
\n00:11:50,440 –> 00:11:54,640
\nIsaiah 53.
\nThat said He took upon Him the <\/p>\n

161
\n00:11:54,640 –> 00:11:57,480
\ninfirmities and the sicknesses
\nof us all. <\/p>\n

162
\n00:11:58,680 –> 00:12:02,160
\nYes, Isaiah 53 is not talking
\nabout him taking literal <\/p>\n

163
\n00:12:02,160 –> 00:12:05,000
\nsickness.
\nIt’s showing him to be a burden <\/p>\n

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\nbearer of sins.
\nHis the our sins and our <\/p>\n

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\niniquities were laid upon him.
\nObviously, then, there’s an <\/p>\n

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\nascent in which physical
\nsickness, especially leprosy, is<\/p>\n

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\nbut a parable of the sinners.
\nAnd insofar as the nation could <\/p>\n

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\nfiguratively to be described as
\na sick body, a leprous <\/p>\n

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\ncommunity, it was appropriate in
\ndescribing Jesus as the burden <\/p>\n

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\nbearer of sin, to describe him
\nas having carried to himself the<\/p>\n

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\nsicknesses and the wounds of the
\nnation. <\/p>\n

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\nI wish we could explore that a
\nbit more. <\/p>\n

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\nHopefully we’ll come back to the
\ngame later this week. <\/p>\n

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\nBut perhaps you could pursue
\nthat in your own studies and see<\/p>\n

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\nthe force of what’s being said
\nthere in both passages. <\/p>\n

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\nNow, I’d like you to turn to
\nSecond Chronicles. <\/p>\n

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\nThis is jumping a step ahead.
\nWe will be dealing with it <\/p>\n

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\nmomentarily, though, as we look
\nat Hezekiah’s reform. <\/p>\n

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\nBut now on this theme of
\nsickness, Second Chronicles <\/p>\n

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\nchapter 30.
\nSecond Chronicles chapter 30 is <\/p>\n

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\na detailed chapter describing
\nthe Passover which Hezekiah <\/p>\n

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\ncalled for in the midst of his
\nreform program. <\/p>\n

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\n00:13:24,680 –> 00:13:26,760
\nWe’re going to work through
\nthese sections fairly <\/p>\n

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\n00:13:26,760 –> 00:13:29,960
\nchronological in a moment, but
\njust notice this. <\/p>\n

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\nWhen Hezekiah brought about his
\nreforms and when he admonished <\/p>\n

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\nthe people to the Levites
\nespecially to reform the land. <\/p>\n

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\nOnce that had been done and
\nHezekiah appealed in his little <\/p>\n

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\nPassover, we say little because
\nit was not celebrated at their <\/p>\n

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\nregular time.
\nProvision under the Law of Moses<\/p>\n

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\nallowed for it to be celebrated
\nin the second month, which was <\/p>\n

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\nwhen Hezekiah celebrated it.
\nThe priests and the Levites and <\/p>\n

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\nmost of the nation had not yet
\nbeen prepared when all that was <\/p>\n

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\ndone, and the Passover was at
\nits climatic point. <\/p>\n

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\nHere in Second Chronicles 30,
\nverse 18, going to verse 20, <\/p>\n

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\nnotice this progression of
\nthought for it says verse 18. <\/p>\n

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\nA multitude of the people, even
\nmany of Iphraim and Manasseh is <\/p>\n

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\nthe current Zebulun had not
\ncleansed themselves, hadn’t <\/p>\n

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\ncleansed themselves.
\nIndeed they hadn’t Look at the <\/p>\n

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\nconditions that had been left to
\nthem from Ahab wasn’t just that <\/p>\n

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\nthey all hadn’t taken a bath or
\nhadn’t washed their hands. <\/p>\n

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\nThey were spiritually unclean,
\nyet did they eat the Passover <\/p>\n

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\notherwise than it was written.
\nBut Hezekiah prayed for them, <\/p>\n

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\nsaying the good Lord, pardon
\neveryone, a nation that’s not <\/p>\n

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\nclean, a man who prays for those
\nunclean and relates in his <\/p>\n

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\nprayer the thought of pardoning.
\nYou see the sense of being <\/p>\n

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\nunclean, Then it’s in a sense of
\nhaving sinned. <\/p>\n

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\nVerse 19 that prepareth his
\nheart to seek God, the Lord God <\/p>\n

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\nof his fathers, though he be not
\ncleansed according to the <\/p>\n

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\npurification of the sanctuary.
\nAnd what was the Father’s <\/p>\n

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\nresponse to this faithful prayer
\nfor cleansing, pardoning? <\/p>\n

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\nVerse 20 and the Lord hearkened
\nto Hebekiah and heal the people,<\/p>\n

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\nheal them.
\nWhy use that kind of language, <\/p>\n

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\nbrothers and sisters?
\nIt hearkens back to Isaiah <\/p>\n

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\nchapter 1.
\nIt would make very little sense <\/p>\n

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\nto us unless we had first
\nconsidered that in Isaiah 1. <\/p>\n

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\nThe nation is sick.
\nIt needs healing, and what kind <\/p>\n

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\n00:15:57,360 –> 00:16:01,880
\nof healing does it need?
\nIt needs to be pardoned for <\/p>\n

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\ntheir sins and their apostasy.
\nThus, in Isaiah 53, when the <\/p>\n

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\nSuffering Servant is described
\nas one who looks like the nation<\/p>\n

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\nas it were, being described as
\nthough he has the sickness <\/p>\n

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\ntransferred to him from a sick
\nnation, Isaiah 53 shows us to <\/p>\n

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\nhave him as the pardoner, the
\none who will bear our <\/p>\n

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\niniquities.
\nFor to pardon sin is to cure a <\/p>\n

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\nsickness.
\nTo cleanse iniquity and <\/p>\n

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\ntransgression is to make
\nspiritually a body sound. <\/p>\n

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\nOnce again.
\nAll of that background in Isaiah<\/p>\n

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\n1 then shines its light upon the
\nforce of verse 20 as Hezekiah <\/p>\n

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\ntried to undo what A has his
\nfather had left to him. <\/p>\n

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\nHezekiah had spread the disease.
\nExcuse me? <\/p>\n

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\nIsaiah had spread the disease.
\nNo, we’ll get it yet. <\/p>\n

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\nWe’ll go through all the names
\nbefore we get them. <\/p>\n

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\nA has had spread the disease.
\nHe had initiated it and he had <\/p>\n

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\nbeen the carrier, and through
\nthe work of Isaiah and Hezekiah,<\/p>\n

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\nthe nation at the time of this
\nsmall Passover was able to come <\/p>\n

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\nbefore God and under imperfect
\nconditions, according to the law<\/p>\n

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\nof Moses, be cleansed.
\nAnother passage at the end of <\/p>\n

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\nJudah’s history as a monarchy at
\nthe end of Chronicles. <\/p>\n

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\nOne of the very last things that
\nis said to describe the nation <\/p>\n

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\nin her last hours.
\nNow this is going ahead to the <\/p>\n

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\ntime of the Babylonians.
\nThis is at the time of Jeremiah,<\/p>\n

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\nsome years later after Hezekiah
\nand Isaiah. <\/p>\n

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\nThis is when Nebuchadnezzar
\ncomes down as the second Great <\/p>\n

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\nNorthern invader.
\nAnd when Nebuchadnezzar comes <\/p>\n

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\ndown with his Babylonians,
\nwhat’s the condition of the <\/p>\n

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\nnation at that time?
\nWell, verse 13 of our Second <\/p>\n

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\nChronicles 36 Speaking of
\nZedekiah, like Ahaz Second <\/p>\n

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\nChronicles 36, verse 13, he
\nZedekiah also rebelled against <\/p>\n

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\nKing Nebuchadnezzar, who had
\nmade him swear by God, but he <\/p>\n

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\nstiffened his neck and hardened
\nhis heart from turning unto the <\/p>\n

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\nLord God of Israel.
\nMoreover, all the chief of the <\/p>\n

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\npriests and the people
\ntransgressed very much. <\/p>\n

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\nYesterday we were talking with
\nsomeone about Joel’s prophecy <\/p>\n

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\nand we were trying to come to an
\nagreement as to when it might <\/p>\n

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\nhave been dated.
\nIt’s a curious thing that in <\/p>\n

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\nJoel’s prophecy there is nothing
\nthat is really said negatively <\/p>\n

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\nof the priests.
\nBut at the fall of Babylon, look<\/p>\n

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\nat the condition of the
\npriesthood in those last hours. <\/p>\n

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\nThe chief of the priests and the
\npeople transgressed very much <\/p>\n

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\nafter all the abominations of
\nthe heathen, and polluted the <\/p>\n

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\nhost of the Lord, just like Ahab
\nhad, which he had hollowed in <\/p>\n

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\nJerusalem, and the Lord God of
\ntheir fathers sent to them by <\/p>\n

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\nhis messengers.
\nPeople like Isaiah rising up the<\/p>\n

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\ntimes and sending because he had
\ncompassion on his people. <\/p>\n

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\nYou know, that’s an echo of a
\nNew Testament statement when <\/p>\n

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\nJesus turns to the people and
\nhad compassion on them and saw <\/p>\n

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\nthem as sheep having no
\nshepherd, that in passing he had<\/p>\n

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\ncompassion on his people and on
\nhis dwelling plate. <\/p>\n

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\nBut they they mocked the
\nmessengers of God and despised <\/p>\n

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\nhis words and misused his
\nprophets until the wrath of the <\/p>\n

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\nLord arose against his people,
\ntill there was no remedy. <\/p>\n

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\nRemedy sounds like medicine,
\ndoesn’t it? <\/p>\n

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\nMight that be harkening to the
\nkind of condition we’ve just <\/p>\n

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\nbeen considering in Isaiah 1 and
\nSecond Chronicles where Hezekiah<\/p>\n

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\nprayed and they were healed?
\nNow look at your margin. <\/p>\n

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\nThe word for remedy in your
\nmargin if you have one, Hebrew <\/p>\n

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\nhealing.
\nSo we’re right. <\/p>\n

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\nAt the very end of the nation’s
\nhistory, when Babylon comes <\/p>\n

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\ndown, the nation is sick.
\nSo we read that again. <\/p>\n

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\nUntil the wrath of the Lord
\narose against his people, till <\/p>\n

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\nthere was no healing, they were
\nso sick, there was no remedy, no<\/p>\n

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\nhealing of that body.
\nAnd thus, because there was no <\/p>\n

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\nhealing, no one who would be
\nreceptive to the great <\/p>\n

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\nphysicians words, no one who
\nwould turn back in the last <\/p>\n

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\nhours before another northern
\ninvader comes down. <\/p>\n

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\nGod says it’s a nation stick.
\nIt’s a standard picture from <\/p>\n

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\nboth Old and New Testament.
\nAnd it helps to provide a master<\/p>\n

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\nkey to an understanding as to
\nwhy so much attention in the New<\/p>\n

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\nTestament is given to those
\nmiracles of healing that we <\/p>\n

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\nmentioned on Sunday.
\nWell, that brings us to Hezekiah<\/p>\n

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\nand his great reforms.
\nWhen does Isaiah’s prophecy he <\/p>\n

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\nin to the reign of Hezekiah?
\nThat’s an important question. <\/p>\n

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\nGo back, if you will, to Isaiah,
\nfor it’s in the 1st chapter that<\/p>\n

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\nwe’re told he prophesied during
\nthe days of Hezekiah. <\/p>\n

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\nLet’s see if we can discover
\nwhere in our Bibles in Isaiah <\/p>\n

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\n00:21:40,560 –> 00:21:46,160
\nHezekiah plugs in.
\nWell, starting from Isaiah 1 <\/p>\n

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\nverse one, we travel over to
\nIsaiah 6 and Isaiah 6 has a time<\/p>\n

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\nclue.
\nRemember, chapter one has told <\/p>\n

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\nus that Isaiah ministered during
\nthe days of Uziah. <\/p>\n

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\n00:22:02,880 –> 00:22:07,040
\nHere in the Isaiah 6 verse one
\nUziah has died. <\/p>\n

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\nIsaiah 6, verse one, in the year
\nthat king Uzziah died, I saw <\/p>\n

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\nalso the Lord sitting upon a
\nthrone, high and lifted up. <\/p>\n

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\nNow that’s the kind of verse you
\nwant to grab a hold of, because <\/p>\n

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\nnow you know this, that from
\nIsaiah 1 to Isaiah chapter 6, <\/p>\n

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\nyou’re working in Isaiah’s
\nministry during the years of <\/p>\n

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\nUzziah.
\nBy the way, it’s interesting <\/p>\n

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\nthat Uzziah died of leprosy.
\nIn other words, look at this. <\/p>\n

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\nIt’s on one of those blunt,
\nundesigned coincidences here. <\/p>\n

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\nIsaiah 6 has told us that up to
\nthe 6th chapter, Uzziah was king<\/p>\n

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\non the throne.
\nIn other words, when Isaiah 1 <\/p>\n

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\nand verse 1 was heralded by
\nIsaiah, and when Isaiah showed <\/p>\n

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\nthe nation that they were
\nleprous and sick, who was on the<\/p>\n

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\nthrone?
\nUziah. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd you know what?
\nHe died of leprosy. <\/p>\n

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\nSee the point?
\nIt’s an incredible coincidence, <\/p>\n

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\nis it not, that when Isaiah
\nportrays the nation as a leprous<\/p>\n

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\nnation, they’ve got a king who’s
\na leper on the throne, who was a<\/p>\n

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\nrebellious man who thought that
\nhe could, in his arrogance, go <\/p>\n

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\nin and burn incense.
\nWe’ve referred to him a number <\/p>\n

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\nof times as we’ve looked at
\nseveral studies in the valley in<\/p>\n

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\nthe past week.
\nHe’s the man that leprosy broke <\/p>\n

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\nout over his forehead in a very
\nplace where the priest mitre <\/p>\n

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\nwas, where it said holiness unto
\nYahweh. <\/p>\n

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\nThere’s where leprosy broke out.
\nNow another clue from Isaiah 7. <\/p>\n

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\nWe travel during the days of
\nAhaz. <\/p>\n

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\nSo from Chapter 7 till the end
\nof chapter 14, you’re working in<\/p>\n

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\nthe years of Ahaz.
\nSome act to follow. <\/p>\n

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\nWasn’t it from Uziah the leper
\nto Ahaz the apostate? <\/p>\n

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\nNow, how do we know it’s just
\nthose chapters? <\/p>\n

329
\n00:24:05,320 –> 00:24:07,480
\nIsaiah 14 deserves a lot of
\nattention. <\/p>\n

330
\n00:24:07,480 –> 00:24:09,320
\nIt’s one of those chapters we
\nuse when we’re dealing with <\/p>\n

331
\n00:24:09,320 –> 00:24:11,600
\nfirst principles.
\nIt’s the Lucifer passage. <\/p>\n

332
\n00:24:12,320 –> 00:24:18,400
\nAnd often we miss a little tiny
\ndetail at the end of Isaiah 14. <\/p>\n

333
\n00:24:18,760 –> 00:24:25,920
\nLook at it in verse 28 in the
\nyear. <\/p>\n

334
\n00:24:26,600 –> 00:24:32,280
\nNo, in the year that King Ahab
\ndied was this burden. <\/p>\n

335
\n00:24:33,280 –> 00:24:36,480
\nAh, that’s interesting.
\nIf we know that chapter 6 was <\/p>\n

336
\n00:24:36,480 –> 00:24:44,360
\ngiven in the year that Uziah
\ndied, then chapter 78910111213 <\/p>\n

337
\n00:24:44,360 –> 00:24:49,200
\nand 14 must be given during the
\nyears of Ahaz. <\/p>\n

338
\n00:24:49,800 –> 00:24:53,680
\nFor by the time you get to verse
\n28 he has died also. <\/p>\n

339
\n00:24:55,440 –> 00:25:03,560
\nThat means Isaiah 15 to the end
\ncovers the reign of Hezekiah, <\/p>\n

340
\n00:25:03,920 –> 00:25:07,400
\nthe last of the three kings of
\nJudah that Isaiah said in <\/p>\n

341
\n00:25:07,400 –> 00:25:11,960
\nchapter 1 he worked with.
\nSo by looking carefully at a few<\/p>\n

342
\n00:25:11,960 –> 00:25:15,120
\nlittle details in the prophecy,
\nwe can now kind of divide it up <\/p>\n

343
\n00:25:15,120 –> 00:25:19,560
\nin terms of time periods all the
\nway from Isaiah 15 to the end. <\/p>\n

344
\n00:25:19,680 –> 00:25:22,920
\nAnything that’s said by Isaiah
\nis said during the reign of <\/p>\n

345
\n00:25:22,920 –> 00:25:25,760
\nHezekiah.
\nAnd does that ever help to know?<\/p>\n

346
\n00:25:27,000 –> 00:25:31,240
\nBear in mind the Life and Times
\nof Hezekiah as you read from <\/p>\n

347
\n00:25:31,240 –> 00:25:35,520
\nchapter 15 to the end of chapter
\n66, verse 24. <\/p>\n

348
\n00:25:38,000 –> 00:25:41,000
\nWhile Hezekiah deserves a great
\ndeal of attention, we could <\/p>\n

349
\n00:25:41,000 –> 00:25:43,600
\ndevote a Bible school to
\nHezekiah very easily. <\/p>\n

350
\n00:25:44,400 –> 00:25:48,680
\nThat green sheet that we gave
\nyou a few days back, which <\/p>\n

351
\n00:25:49,040 –> 00:25:53,240
\noutlines the structure, or at
\nleast the suggested structure of<\/p>\n

352
\n00:25:53,240 –> 00:25:56,000
\nIsaiah might find it useful to
\nlook at that now. <\/p>\n

353
\n00:25:57,840 –> 00:26:06,600
\nAnd as you do, take a look at
\nIsaiah 36, Isaiah 36. <\/p>\n

354
\n00:26:10,840 –> 00:26:16,040
\nThis is what could be called the
\nhinge or the axis of the <\/p>\n

355
\n00:26:16,040 –> 00:26:22,760
\nprophecy.
\nFor from chapter 36, 36373839, <\/p>\n

356
\n00:26:22,760 –> 00:26:25,440
\nyou’re in the middle of the
\nprophecy and you’re dealing with<\/p>\n

357
\n00:26:25,440 –> 00:26:30,040
\nhistorical chapters dealing with
\nthe invasion of Sennacherib, <\/p>\n

358
\n00:26:30,640 –> 00:26:34,320
\nchapters that are repeated in
\npart in Kings and Chronicles. <\/p>\n

359
\n00:26:35,160 –> 00:26:37,760
\nNow we come back to a question
\nthat we raised earlier. <\/p>\n

360
\n00:26:39,120 –> 00:26:42,680
\nWhy, if these chapters occur in
\nKings and Chronicles, are they <\/p>\n

361
\n00:26:42,680 –> 00:26:45,480
\nrepeated mostly in the middle of
\nthis prophecy? <\/p>\n

362
\n00:26:46,200 –> 00:26:48,640
\nCan’t we go back to Kings and
\nChronicles and read them there? <\/p>\n

363
\n00:26:49,400 –> 00:26:53,840
\nWell, of course we can.
\nBut God seems to be showing us <\/p>\n

364
\n00:26:53,840 –> 00:27:00,400
\nthat in this prophecy of Isaiah.
\nHe wants us to meet somebody in <\/p>\n

365
\n00:27:00,400 –> 00:27:03,600
\nthe middle of the book.
\nAnd although he’s already gone <\/p>\n

366
\n00:27:03,600 –> 00:27:07,320
\nto great pains to put it in
\nKings and in Chronicles, it’s <\/p>\n

367
\n00:27:07,320 –> 00:27:10,040
\nnot enough.
\nHe puts it again in the middle <\/p>\n

368
\n00:27:10,040 –> 00:27:14,280
\nof this prophecy.
\nAnd who do we meet as we go and <\/p>\n

369
\n00:27:14,280 –> 00:27:16,440
\nlook from chapter 1 to the
\nmiddle of the book? <\/p>\n

370
\n00:27:16,440 –> 00:27:21,440
\nWho do we see ahead of it?
\nHezekiah And as you travel past <\/p>\n

371
\n00:27:21,440 –> 00:27:26,800
\nchapter 40 and look back at the
\nprophecies before you, who do <\/p>\n

372
\n00:27:26,800 –> 00:27:29,040
\nyou see behind you?
\nHezekiah. <\/p>\n

373
\n00:27:29,560 –> 00:27:32,680
\nHe’s meant to be a kind of
\ndouble mirror, we would suggest <\/p>\n

374
\n00:27:32,720 –> 00:27:36,320
\nin the middle of this prophecy.
\nAll that was said and done in <\/p>\n

375
\n00:27:36,320 –> 00:27:41,520
\nthe beginning of Isaiah pointed
\ntowards Hezekiah’s work and from<\/p>\n

376
\n00:27:41,520 –> 00:27:49,240
\nHezekiah’s monumental work in
\nchapter 36373839, really God’s <\/p>\n

377
\n00:27:49,240 –> 00:27:52,920
\nwork through Hezekiah, the
\ndefeat of the Assyrians, the <\/p>\n

378
\n00:27:52,920 –> 00:27:57,720
\nvictory over the great enemy.
\nFrom that section on the second <\/p>\n

379
\n00:27:57,720 –> 00:28:02,760
\npart of Isaiah is a springboard
\nfrom that great victory. <\/p>\n

380
\n00:28:03,000 –> 00:28:06,440
\nAnd you’ll find in the
\nsecond-half of Isaiah a number <\/p>\n

381
\n00:28:06,440 –> 00:28:11,720
\nof references that hearken back
\nin past tense to the fact that <\/p>\n

382
\n00:28:11,720 –> 00:28:15,800
\nthe enemy has been destroyed, to
\nthe fact that there is now <\/p>\n

383
\n00:28:15,800 –> 00:28:18,880
\nliberty.
\nPast tense to the fact that now <\/p>\n

384
\n00:28:18,880 –> 00:28:21,600
\nsomebody has been, has been
\nrestored. <\/p>\n

385
\n00:28:22,400 –> 00:28:26,040
\nPassages that refer in the past
\ntense or present as though there<\/p>\n

386
\n00:28:26,040 –> 00:28:29,040
\nalready is a remnant.
\nNot just that there will be a <\/p>\n

387
\n00:28:29,040 –> 00:28:31,760
\nremnant.
\nNot just that there will be some<\/p>\n

388
\n00:28:31,760 –> 00:28:35,120
\npeople redeemed.
\nSometimes the tenses in the past<\/p>\n

389
\n00:28:35,160 –> 00:28:39,520
\nand in the present tenses in Old
\nand New Testament are tricky. <\/p>\n

390
\n00:28:40,040 –> 00:28:42,640
\nSometimes God calls those things
\nwhich be not. <\/p>\n

391
\n00:28:42,680 –> 00:28:46,000
\nAs though they were.
\nBut there is meaning to <\/p>\n

392
\n00:28:46,000 –> 00:28:50,600
\nHezekiah’s contemporaries.
\nWhen we passed, passed into <\/p>\n

393
\n00:28:50,600 –> 00:28:57,760
\nchapter 40 and beyond, there has
\nbeen a great jubilee, the words <\/p>\n

394
\n00:28:57,800 –> 00:29:11,080
\nof Isaiah chapter 36 and into
\nchapter 37 describing the <\/p>\n

395
\n00:29:11,080 –> 00:29:15,840
\nAssyrian invasion and the
\nvictory over them. 37 just for a<\/p>\n

396
\n00:29:15,840 –> 00:29:26,640
\nquick peek, 37 verse 30 and 31
\nand 32 all speak in terms of the<\/p>\n

397
\n00:29:26,640 –> 00:29:31,000
\nliberation from the Assyrian in
\nthe language of jubilee. <\/p>\n

398
\n00:29:31,800 –> 00:29:35,960
\nThat’s Leviticus 25, the year of
\nJubilee, the year of liberation,<\/p>\n

399
\n00:29:36,600 –> 00:29:39,000
\nverse 30.
\nThat refers to a sign that would<\/p>\n

400
\n00:29:39,000 –> 00:29:45,080
\nbe given crops growing to the
\nthird year, sowing and reaping <\/p>\n

401
\n00:29:45,080 –> 00:29:49,440
\nland of fruitfulness, a remnant
\nthat would be escaping roots <\/p>\n

402
\n00:29:49,440 –> 00:29:51,440
\ndownward and bearing fruit
\nupward. <\/p>\n

403
\n00:29:51,680 –> 00:29:55,040
\nAll that language is pulling out
\nof Leviticus 25. <\/p>\n

404
\n00:29:55,360 –> 00:29:58,880
\nSo there was a contemporary
\nJubilee experience. <\/p>\n

405
\n00:29:59,440 –> 00:30:02,800
\nThere were a group of people
\nthat came out of Jerusalem that <\/p>\n

406
\n00:30:02,800 –> 00:30:06,880
\nnext day that were free and
\nliberated. <\/p>\n

407
\n00:30:07,440 –> 00:30:10,880
\nThere was an enemy that had in
\ncontemporary experience been <\/p>\n

408
\n00:30:10,880 –> 00:30:14,120
\ndestroyed.
\nThere were people, verse 32, <\/p>\n

409
\n00:30:14,240 –> 00:30:18,280
\nIsaiah 37, that had escaped from
\nJerusalem as a remnant. <\/p>\n

410
\n00:30:19,400 –> 00:30:25,560
\nYou see, in the Life and Times
\nof Hezekiah and Isaiah, they had<\/p>\n

411
\n00:30:25,560 –> 00:30:29,920
\na foretaste of a greater jubilee
\nto come in their days. <\/p>\n

412
\n00:30:29,920 –> 00:30:33,800
\nThere was a remnant that had
\ncome out of that great victory. <\/p>\n

413
\n00:30:34,520 –> 00:30:37,760
\nThere were some that would
\nregard themselves as redeemed in<\/p>\n

414
\n00:30:37,760 –> 00:30:41,400
\nthe temporal sense, purchased
\ntheir life having previously <\/p>\n

415
\n00:30:41,400 –> 00:30:44,200
\nhung in doubt.
\nAnd as they walked out and saw <\/p>\n

416
\n00:30:44,200 –> 00:30:47,720
\nthose dead Assyrian corpses
\nscattered around the hills of <\/p>\n

417
\n00:30:47,720 –> 00:30:52,800
\nJerusalem, they saw the
\nsalvation of Yahweh, the meaning<\/p>\n

418
\n00:30:52,800 –> 00:30:56,880
\nof Isaiah’s name and the meaning
\nof Hezekiah’s name. <\/p>\n

419
\n00:30:56,920 –> 00:31:00,280
\nYahweh is strength, for there
\nwas proof that Yahweh is <\/p>\n

420
\n00:31:00,280 –> 00:31:05,080
\nstrength, and there was proof as
\nthey walked out free that Yahweh<\/p>\n

421
\n00:31:05,080 –> 00:31:08,560
\nis salvation.
\nNow, that’s why we say that in <\/p>\n

422
\n00:31:08,560 –> 00:31:12,960
\nthe middle of Isaiah you have
\nthese records of history. <\/p>\n

423
\n00:31:13,400 –> 00:31:18,400
\nIt’s all focused on Hezekiah and
\nthe experience of delivery from <\/p>\n

424
\n00:31:18,400 –> 00:31:22,360
\nthe greatest Syrian enemy.
\nKeeping that in mind, the second<\/p>\n

425
\n00:31:22,360 –> 00:31:26,000
\npart of Isaiah opens up in a way
\nthat perhaps you might not have <\/p>\n

426
\n00:31:26,000 –> 00:31:30,560
\nconsidered, and it explains why
\nat times restoration and <\/p>\n

427
\n00:31:30,560 –> 00:31:35,160
\nredemption is spoken of as a
\nspoken of as a real experience. <\/p>\n

428
\n00:31:35,400 –> 00:31:38,440
\nIt was to them in a very limited
\nway. <\/p>\n

429
\n00:31:39,760 –> 00:31:44,360
\nNow, our friend Hezekiah, we
\ncan’t do complete justice to <\/p>\n

430
\n00:31:44,360 –> 00:31:46,680
\nhim.
\nOur study is Isaiah, not <\/p>\n

431
\n00:31:46,680 –> 00:31:50,160
\nHezekiah.
\nBut let’s just glean some <\/p>\n

432
\n00:31:50,160 –> 00:31:54,760
\nexhortations from his life which
\nhelp us to understand why his <\/p>\n

433
\n00:31:54,760 –> 00:31:58,760
\nexperience with the Assyrian was
\nso important to be put in the <\/p>\n

434
\n00:31:58,760 –> 00:32:02,120
\nmiddle of the prophecy.
\nSo we go back to the Old <\/p>\n

435
\n00:32:02,120 –> 00:32:09,760
\nTestament Chronicles, Second
\nChronicles, chapter 29. <\/p>\n

436
\n00:32:09,760 –> 00:32:14,320
\nAnd we’re going to stay here
\nwithin these chapters for the <\/p>\n

437
\n00:32:14,320 –> 00:32:16,200
\nlast part of our study this
\nmorning. <\/p>\n

438
\n00:32:16,960 –> 00:32:23,960
\nHezekiah the Great, whose name
\nmeant Yahweh, is strength, and <\/p>\n

439
\n00:32:23,960 –> 00:32:26,480
\nso in his lifetime it was proven
\nto be so. <\/p>\n

440
\n00:32:27,720 –> 00:32:32,720
\nWhy was he so great?
\nWell, let’s just notice Second <\/p>\n

441
\n00:32:32,720 –> 00:32:36,320
\nChronicles chapter 29, first
\none. <\/p>\n

442
\n00:32:36,680 –> 00:32:40,240
\nHezekiah began to reign when he
\nwas 5 and 20 years old. <\/p>\n

443
\n00:32:40,640 –> 00:32:44,080
\nYoung man, then 25, but as old
\nas Bob Lloyd. <\/p>\n

444
\n00:32:44,080 –> 00:32:51,040
\nThat’s what Bob tells me.
\nHe reigned 9 and 20 years in <\/p>\n

445
\n00:32:51,040 –> 00:32:55,840
\nJerusalem, and his mother’s name
\nwas Abijah, the daughter of <\/p>\n

446
\n00:32:55,840 –> 00:32:59,160
\nZechariah.
\nDid you notice the omission? <\/p>\n

447
\n00:33:00,880 –> 00:33:04,880
\nNo mention of Ahaz here as an
\nintroduction In the Chronicle’s <\/p>\n

448
\n00:33:04,880 –> 00:33:09,960
\naccount, his father is forgotten
\nas though he never existed, and <\/p>\n

449
\n00:33:09,960 –> 00:33:14,320
\nall we’re told is, importantly,
\nwhat his mother’s name was. <\/p>\n

450
\n00:33:15,080 –> 00:33:21,480
\nAbijah in the Hebrew her name
\nmeans My father is Yahweh. <\/p>\n

451
\n00:33:23,040 –> 00:33:27,600
\nNotice that it was as though the
\nscriptural record was disowning <\/p>\n

452
\n00:33:27,600 –> 00:33:32,720
\nAhaz as the father of Hezekiah.
\nThe attention is given to his <\/p>\n

453
\n00:33:32,720 –> 00:33:37,880
\nmum and her name meant My father
\nis Yahweh whose father was <\/p>\n

454
\n00:33:37,880 –> 00:33:41,080
\nHezekiah.
\nIt was more Yahweh in the real <\/p>\n

455
\n00:33:41,080 –> 00:33:45,840
\nsense than it was Ahaz.
\nVery subtle point, but it’s <\/p>\n

456
\n00:33:45,840 –> 00:33:49,600
\nimportant as striking the
\nkeynote for the life of Hezekiah<\/p>\n

457
\n00:33:50,280 –> 00:33:53,560
\nand sisters.
\nDon’t gloss over that too <\/p>\n

458
\n00:33:53,560 –> 00:33:58,600
\nquickly.
\nConsider the import a lousy, no <\/p>\n

459
\n00:33:58,600 –> 00:34:03,440
\ngood for nothing husband.
\nWas Ahaz an apostate? <\/p>\n

460
\n00:34:03,680 –> 00:34:07,920
\nThoroughly all the way.
\nA poor role model for the son. <\/p>\n

461
\n00:34:08,600 –> 00:34:11,360
\nBut consider the work of this
\nwoman. <\/p>\n

462
\n00:34:11,840 –> 00:34:15,480
\nScripture wants us to know who
\nthe mother was, and her name <\/p>\n

463
\n00:34:15,480 –> 00:34:18,760
\nspeaks something of both her
\ncharacter and the relation her <\/p>\n

464
\n00:34:18,760 –> 00:34:23,679
\nson had to our Heavenly Father.
\nIt was no doubt her mother that <\/p>\n

465
\n00:34:23,679 –> 00:34:27,320
\nhad the his mother that had the
\ncritical influence in the <\/p>\n

466
\n00:34:27,320 –> 00:34:32,159
\nformative years on Hezekiah in
\nthe midst of the most horrid <\/p>\n

467
\n00:34:32,159 –> 00:34:38,440
\nconditions in a household that
\nhad a poor, poor father who not <\/p>\n

468
\n00:34:38,440 –> 00:34:41,280
\nonly was not in the truth, in a
\ncertain sense, he had <\/p>\n

469
\n00:34:41,280 –> 00:34:45,600
\napostasized the truth not only
\nfor himself, but had apostasized<\/p>\n

470
\n00:34:45,600 –> 00:34:48,520
\nthe whole nation.
\nSisters, I don’t think there’s <\/p>\n

471
\n00:34:48,520 –> 00:34:50,880
\none of you in this room, whether
\nyou have your husband in the <\/p>\n

472
\n00:34:50,880 –> 00:34:53,400
\ntruth or not, that has a husband
\nlike a has. <\/p>\n

473
\n00:34:54,600 –> 00:34:57,760
\nBut I’m glad to hear you say
\nthat. <\/p>\n

474
\n00:34:59,120 –> 00:35:03,640
\nAnd the nods are encouraging.
\nBut consider, brothers and <\/p>\n

475
\n00:35:03,640 –> 00:35:07,800
\nsisters, consider the power of
\nthat exhortation. <\/p>\n

476
\n00:35:08,960 –> 00:35:11,960
\nWe concern ourselves, and
\nrightly so, about raising our <\/p>\n

477
\n00:35:11,960 –> 00:35:14,640
\nchildren in the truth.
\nAnd there’s not too many of us <\/p>\n

478
\n00:35:14,640 –> 00:35:17,800
\nthat have a perfect home that
\ncould say that there’s perfect <\/p>\n

479
\n00:35:17,800 –> 00:35:21,480
\ndomestic bliss in our walls.
\nThere are always times when our <\/p>\n

480
\n00:35:21,480 –> 00:35:24,560
\nhomes are imperfect, and some of
\nus have a harder job of it than <\/p>\n

481
\n00:35:24,560 –> 00:35:26,560
\nothers.
\nAnd some of us do not have our <\/p>\n

482
\n00:35:26,560 –> 00:35:28,880
\nhusbands in the truth for one
\nreason or another. <\/p>\n

483
\n00:35:29,600 –> 00:35:33,920
\nThat’s no reason to subtract the
\nimportance of your role, <\/p>\n

484
\n00:35:34,240 –> 00:35:38,720
\nalthough you may feel Hanford
\nHezekiahs can sometimes come <\/p>\n

485
\n00:35:38,720 –> 00:35:40,640
\nfrom the households that are
\nimperfect. <\/p>\n

486
\n00:35:41,120 –> 00:35:45,200
\nA word of encouragement.
\nVerse two he did that was yours <\/p>\n

487
\n00:35:45,200 –> 00:35:49,600
\nright in the sight of the Lord
\naccording to all that David his <\/p>\n

488
\n00:35:49,600 –> 00:35:53,720
\nfather had done.
\nNow look at the force of how <\/p>\n

489
\n00:35:53,720 –> 00:35:59,120
\nthis man’s presented.
\nHe, in the first year of his <\/p>\n

490
\n00:35:59,120 –> 00:36:04,480
\nreign, in the first month,
\nopened the doors of the House of<\/p>\n

491
\n00:36:04,480 –> 00:36:07,080
\nthe Lord and repaired them.
\nWhy did he have to open them? <\/p>\n

492
\n00:36:08,440 –> 00:36:13,520
\nBecause Ahaz had shut them at
\nthe very beginning of his reign,<\/p>\n

493
\n00:36:13,880 –> 00:36:16,440
\nin the first year, in the first
\nmonth. <\/p>\n

494
\n00:36:16,720 –> 00:36:21,160
\nThe very thing that he begins
\nwith is something that reverses <\/p>\n

495
\n00:36:21,160 –> 00:36:24,200
\nthe acts of his father, as
\nthough the first thing he wants <\/p>\n

496
\n00:36:24,200 –> 00:36:27,000
\nthe nation to know is that he
\ndisowns his dad. <\/p>\n

497
\n00:36:27,960 –> 00:36:32,880
\nHe opens the doors which his
\nfather had shut, and look at how<\/p>\n

498
\n00:36:32,880 –> 00:36:35,160
\nquickly he gets about his
\nfather’s business. <\/p>\n

499
\n00:36:35,680 –> 00:36:39,120
\nLike Jesus said, I must be about
\nmy father’s business. <\/p>\n

500
\n00:36:39,240 –> 00:36:41,040
\nAnd he said that as a very young
\nlad. <\/p>\n

501
\n00:36:41,480 –> 00:36:45,560
\nHezekiah, as young as he is,
\nthrows himself into the work of <\/p>\n

502
\n00:36:45,560 –> 00:36:49,720
\nreform, tries immediately to
\nreverse the sordid conditions <\/p>\n

503
\n00:36:49,720 –> 00:36:54,080
\nleft to him from his father.
\nI want you to slip down to verse<\/p>\n

504
\n00:36:54,080 –> 00:36:59,480
\n17.
\nNow this is looking back on what<\/p>\n

505
\n00:36:59,480 –> 00:37:03,000
\nwas started in verse 3,
\nsomething worth penciling in at <\/p>\n

506
\n00:37:03,000 –> 00:37:06,520
\nverse three.
\nNow looking back to verse 3, <\/p>\n

507
\n00:37:06,600 –> 00:37:11,000
\nverse 17.
\nNow they began on the first day <\/p>\n

508
\n00:37:11,000 –> 00:37:16,320
\nof the first month to sanctify
\nand on the 8th day of the month <\/p>\n

509
\n00:37:16,560 –> 00:37:18,400
\ncame they to the porch of the
\nLord. <\/p>\n

510
\n00:37:19,640 –> 00:37:25,000
\nNow that tells you that Hezekiah
\nnot only began the work of <\/p>\n

511
\n00:37:25,000 –> 00:37:29,600
\ncleansing in the first month of
\nthe first year, he began on the <\/p>\n

512
\n00:37:29,600 –> 00:37:35,200
\nfirst day of the first month of
\nthe first year of his work, of <\/p>\n

513
\n00:37:35,200 –> 00:37:38,480
\nhis reign.
\nNow you can see, brothers and <\/p>\n

514
\n00:37:38,480 –> 00:37:41,960
\nsisters, the exhortation in that
\nit’s not just that he took 30 <\/p>\n

515
\n00:37:41,960 –> 00:37:44,120
\ndays of the first month of the
\nfirst year. <\/p>\n

516
\n00:37:44,760 –> 00:37:49,080
\nHe began setting this whole
\nreform in motion on the first <\/p>\n

517
\n00:37:49,080 –> 00:37:53,480
\nday of his reign, in the very
\nfirst month of the first year. <\/p>\n

518
\n00:37:54,480 –> 00:37:58,120
\nHezekiah was a man of action.
\nWould it be, brothers and <\/p>\n

519
\n00:37:58,120 –> 00:38:01,280
\nsisters, that in Christadelphia
\ntoday we had more Hezekiahs? <\/p>\n

520
\n00:38:02,280 –> 00:38:05,000
\nPeople who will turn off the
\ntelevision and the radio and get<\/p>\n

521
\n00:38:05,000 –> 00:38:08,520
\ndown to this kind of work.
\nPeople who will put aside the <\/p>\n

522
\n00:38:08,520 –> 00:38:13,080
\nwomen’s magazines and the soap
\noperas, Who will think more of <\/p>\n

523
\n00:38:13,080 –> 00:38:16,560
\nthis kind of contribution to the
\nChristadelphian body than <\/p>\n

524
\n00:38:16,560 –> 00:38:20,040
\nspending hours and hours
\nindulging in their own pleasures<\/p>\n

525
\n00:38:20,120 –> 00:38:23,120
\nand desires.
\nWe speak strongly, brothers and <\/p>\n

526
\n00:38:23,120 –> 00:38:25,920
\nsisters, but it applies as much
\nto me as it does to you. <\/p>\n

527
\n00:38:26,920 –> 00:38:29,120
\nHow much action is there in your
\nhouse? <\/p>\n

528
\n00:38:29,760 –> 00:38:33,880
\nAre the doors open and who opens
\nthem, or are they shut to the <\/p>\n

529
\n00:38:33,880 –> 00:38:36,360
\necclesia?
\nDo they just open a crack on <\/p>\n

530
\n00:38:36,360 –> 00:38:39,120
\nSunday morning or when you go
\ntrotting off to Bible class? <\/p>\n

531
\n00:38:39,560 –> 00:38:41,880
\nOr are the doors of your house
\nopen? <\/p>\n

532
\n00:38:42,320 –> 00:38:45,640
\nWhat about your ecclesia?
\nAre doors those doors open? <\/p>\n

533
\n00:38:46,320 –> 00:38:49,720
\nAre they open to a complete
\ninfusion of God’s influence? <\/p>\n

534
\n00:38:50,360 –> 00:38:55,400
\nThey ought to be look at also as
\nwe progress through verse four. <\/p>\n

535
\n00:38:55,840 –> 00:38:58,440
\nHe brought in the priests and
\nthe Levites, and gathered them <\/p>\n

536
\n00:38:58,440 –> 00:39:03,160
\ntogether into the East St.
\nAnd he said unto them, Now he’s <\/p>\n

537
\n00:39:03,160 –> 00:39:04,800
\ntalking to the arranging
\nbrethren. <\/p>\n

538
\n00:39:05,480 –> 00:39:10,680
\nHe said unto them, Hear me, ye
\nLevites, sanctify now <\/p>\n

539
\n00:39:10,680 –> 00:39:14,800
\nyourselves, and sanctify the
\nHouse of the Lord God of your <\/p>\n

540
\n00:39:14,800 –> 00:39:20,320
\nFather’s.
\nResponsibility begins at home, <\/p>\n

541
\n00:39:20,320 –> 00:39:24,120
\ndoesn’t it?
\nFirst and foremost, they had to <\/p>\n

542
\n00:39:24,120 –> 00:39:26,960
\nsee that they themselves were on
\nthe right wavelength before they<\/p>\n

543
\n00:39:26,960 –> 00:39:30,680
\ntry to help the nation.
\nJesus understood that principle <\/p>\n

544
\n00:39:31,000 –> 00:39:35,920
\nwhen he said in the Gospels,
\nPhysician, heal thyself, <\/p>\n

545
\n00:39:37,120 –> 00:39:40,680
\nphysician, heal thyself.
\nAnd this is a physician’s work. <\/p>\n

546
\n00:39:40,720 –> 00:39:45,400
\nRemember a few moments ago we
\nread that when God responded to <\/p>\n

547
\n00:39:45,400 –> 00:39:48,520
\nHezekiah’s prayer, he healed
\nthem. <\/p>\n

548
\n00:39:48,600 –> 00:39:53,400
\nSo the whole reform and the
\nPassover work was targeting <\/p>\n

549
\n00:39:53,400 –> 00:39:58,520
\ntowards that climax that finally
\nwhen a when Hezekiah prayed to <\/p>\n

550
\n00:39:58,520 –> 00:40:01,960
\nGod, God would pardon the nation
\nand heal them. <\/p>\n

551
\n00:40:02,160 –> 00:40:04,880
\nThat’s the objective.
\nSo everything we read here, <\/p>\n

552
\n00:40:05,320 –> 00:40:08,760
\neverything that he’s about and
\ndoing has that objective that <\/p>\n

553
\n00:40:08,760 –> 00:40:11,360
\nthe nation might be pardoned and
\nhealed. <\/p>\n

554
\n00:40:12,680 –> 00:40:15,480
\nSo.
\nIt began first with those who <\/p>\n

555
\n00:40:15,480 –> 00:40:17,200
\nwere in positions of
\nresponsibility. <\/p>\n

556
\n00:40:17,960 –> 00:40:22,680
\nSecondly, verse 5, let’s go on.
\nHe, he tells the priests and <\/p>\n

557
\n00:40:22,680 –> 00:40:26,760
\nLevites, carry forth the
\nfilthiness out of the holy <\/p>\n

558
\n00:40:26,760 –> 00:40:31,000
\nplace.
\nWhat filthiness in the holy <\/p>\n

559
\n00:40:31,000 –> 00:40:34,920
\nplace?
\nThat was the present left by <\/p>\n

560
\n00:40:35,000 –> 00:40:38,080
\nAhaz.
\nThat was the condition of the <\/p>\n

561
\n00:40:38,080 –> 00:40:42,240
\nsanctuary of God.
\nDo you think you got problems in<\/p>\n

562
\n00:40:42,240 –> 00:40:44,240
\nyour Ecclesia?
\nPerhaps you do. <\/p>\n

563
\n00:40:44,800 –> 00:40:47,520
\nDo you think we as a body have
\nour problems worldwide? <\/p>\n

564
\n00:40:47,520 –> 00:40:49,960
\nIndeed we do.
\nLet’s not minimize them. <\/p>\n

565
\n00:40:51,000 –> 00:40:53,480
\nDo you think the problems are
\ninsurmountable? <\/p>\n

566
\n00:40:54,400 –> 00:40:58,440
\nAs we go through these details,
\nconsider how potentially <\/p>\n

567
\n00:40:58,440 –> 00:41:00,560
\ninsurmountable were these
\nproblems. <\/p>\n

568
\n00:41:00,960 –> 00:41:03,640
\nThere’s not one of us in this
\nroom that has to fight against a<\/p>\n

569
\n00:41:03,640 –> 00:41:05,640
\ncondition like this in the
\necclesia. <\/p>\n

570
\n00:41:06,600 –> 00:41:11,000
\nAnd concerning that filthiness,
\njust slip over here in the same <\/p>\n

571
\n00:41:11,000 –> 00:41:13,560
\nchapter to verse 15, when the
\nwork is done. <\/p>\n

572
\n00:41:15,120 –> 00:41:18,920
\nVerse 15 And they gathered their
\nbrethren and sanctified <\/p>\n

573
\n00:41:18,920 –> 00:41:22,080
\nthemselves, and came according
\nto the commandment of the king, <\/p>\n

574
\n00:41:22,520 –> 00:41:26,160
\nby the words of the Lord, to
\ncleanse the House of the Lord. <\/p>\n

575
\n00:41:26,480 –> 00:41:30,360
\nAnd the priests went into the
\ninner part of the House of the <\/p>\n

576
\n00:41:30,360 –> 00:41:36,840
\nLord, the inner part of the
\nhouse, to cleanse it, and <\/p>\n

577
\n00:41:36,840 –> 00:41:40,920
\nbrought out all the uncleanness
\nthat they found in the temple of<\/p>\n

578
\n00:41:40,920 –> 00:41:44,160
\nthe Lord, into the court of the
\nHouse of the Lord. <\/p>\n

579
\n00:41:44,440 –> 00:41:48,560
\nAnd the Levites took it out to
\ncarry it out abroad into the <\/p>\n

580
\n00:41:48,560 –> 00:41:55,160
\nbrook, Kidron, barrels, wagon
\nloads, it would seem, of some <\/p>\n

581
\n00:41:55,160 –> 00:41:57,400
\nkind of filthiness, whatever
\nthat was. <\/p>\n

582
\n00:41:58,360 –> 00:42:03,120
\nCan you imagine what A has had
\ndone and what he had tolerated <\/p>\n

583
\n00:42:03,120 –> 00:42:07,040
\nor encouraged so that in the
\nvery inner parts of the house <\/p>\n

584
\n00:42:07,760 –> 00:42:10,240
\nthere was filthiness, not
\nfigurative. <\/p>\n

585
\n00:42:10,800 –> 00:42:14,160
\nThere was some literal
\nfilthiness that needed to be <\/p>\n

586
\n00:42:14,160 –> 00:42:17,600
\nshipped out and dumped over into
\nthe valley down below. <\/p>\n

587
\n00:42:18,480 –> 00:42:22,080
\nThat was the condition of the
\ntimes in which Isaiah and <\/p>\n

588
\n00:42:22,080 –> 00:42:25,960
\nHezekiah worked.
\nNow can you see why the prophet <\/p>\n

589
\n00:42:25,960 –> 00:42:28,280
\ndescribed the nation as sick and
\nleprous? <\/p>\n

590
\n00:42:28,880 –> 00:42:32,920
\nThat passage we read in Isaiah
\n28 that described the priests <\/p>\n

591
\n00:42:32,920 –> 00:42:37,360
\nand the people as both being
\npolluters, sick, drunk, blind, <\/p>\n

592
\n00:42:37,480 –> 00:42:39,880
\ndeaf.
\nSuch was the condition. <\/p>\n

593
\n00:42:40,560 –> 00:42:46,680
\nThen verse 7, following on the
\norders of great Hezekiah. <\/p>\n

594
\n00:42:48,680 –> 00:42:52,760
\nAlso, says Hezekiah, they have
\nshut up the doors of the porch, <\/p>\n

595
\n00:42:53,880 –> 00:42:58,640
\nput out the lamps, and have not
\nburned incense nor offered burnt<\/p>\n

596
\n00:42:58,640 –> 00:43:02,000
\nofferings in the holy place unto
\nthe God of Israel. <\/p>\n

597
\n00:43:02,840 –> 00:43:07,480
\nProblem after problem stacks up,
\nthe doors have been shut, the <\/p>\n

598
\n00:43:07,480 –> 00:43:14,880
\nlamps extinguished, no incense
\nto heaven, no burnt offerings of<\/p>\n

599
\n00:43:14,880 –> 00:43:18,720
\ndedication and commitment.
\nEvery one of those pieces of <\/p>\n

600
\n00:43:18,720 –> 00:43:23,560
\nfurniture which Hezekiah picks
\non were highly symbolic of the <\/p>\n

601
\n00:43:23,560 –> 00:43:25,640
\nwretched condition that had been
\ngoing on. <\/p>\n

602
\n00:43:26,680 –> 00:43:31,240
\nThe doors needed to be opened.
\nThe lamps needed to be filled <\/p>\n

603
\n00:43:31,240 –> 00:43:37,240
\nwith oil and burning incense.
\nThe symbol of prayer need to be <\/p>\n

604
\n00:43:37,240 –> 00:43:42,000
\nonce more offered to God.
\nAnd the symbol of commitment and<\/p>\n

605
\n00:43:42,000 –> 00:43:46,280
\ndedication, the principle of
\nsacrifice, brought into being <\/p>\n

606
\n00:43:46,280 –> 00:43:48,440
\nonce again.
\nNow do you know, brothers and <\/p>\n

607
\n00:43:48,440 –> 00:43:51,960
\nsisters, every one of those
\nterms in verse 7 is worth almost<\/p>\n

608
\n00:43:51,960 –> 00:43:57,920
\ncircling as a kind of package.
\nThat is Hezekiah’s reform <\/p>\n

609
\n00:43:57,920 –> 00:44:01,000
\nprogram.
\nIf you were to say to Hezekiah, <\/p>\n

610
\n00:44:01,520 –> 00:44:05,160
\nhow would you reform an
\necclesia, how would you reform a<\/p>\n

611
\n00:44:05,160 –> 00:44:09,440
\ncommunity, he would no doubt
\nsay, first open the doors to <\/p>\n

612
\n00:44:09,440 –> 00:44:14,520
\nheaven, open the doors to
\nheaven, get those doors open in <\/p>\n

613
\n00:44:14,520 –> 00:44:18,000
\nyour ecclesia and in your own
\nhome and in particular in your <\/p>\n

614
\n00:44:18,000 –> 00:44:22,200
\nown mind and heart.
\nOpen the doors, open the doors. <\/p>\n

615
\n00:44:22,720 –> 00:44:27,440
\nSecondly, he would tell us, put
\nin some oil and ignite the <\/p>\n

616
\n00:44:27,440 –> 00:44:29,800
\nlamps.
\nWhat about the lamp in your <\/p>\n

617
\n00:44:29,800 –> 00:44:31,320
\nhouse?
\nIs it burning bright? <\/p>\n

618
\n00:44:31,880 –> 00:44:33,760
\nWhat do the children think, if
\nyou were to ask them? <\/p>\n

619
\n00:44:34,400 –> 00:44:36,600
\nDo we just go to meeting once or
\ntwice a week? <\/p>\n

620
\n00:44:36,960 –> 00:44:39,960
\nAre the readings in our family
\ncircle done haphazardly and with<\/p>\n

621
\n00:44:39,960 –> 00:44:43,640
\ndisinterest?
\nDoes father come home after <\/p>\n

622
\n00:44:43,640 –> 00:44:46,800
\nspending some 8 or 9 hours at
\nwork, plunk himself in the <\/p>\n

623
\n00:44:46,800 –> 00:44:49,200
\nliving room, pick up the
\nnewspaper, turn on the stereo <\/p>\n

624
\n00:44:49,320 –> 00:44:51,440
\nand wait for dinner?
\nAnd then after dinner, go back <\/p>\n

625
\n00:44:51,440 –> 00:44:54,960
\nto the same posture.
\nIs that the role model of our <\/p>\n

626
\n00:44:54,960 –> 00:44:58,760
\nfathers at home?
\nDoes mum spend most of most of <\/p>\n

627
\n00:44:58,760 –> 00:45:01,160
\nher day getting about in the
\nmalls and spending money? <\/p>\n

628
\n00:45:02,160 –> 00:45:04,920
\nOr is she pouring over that book
\nso that she can train up her <\/p>\n

629
\n00:45:04,920 –> 00:45:06,480
\nchildren in the way that they
\nshould go? <\/p>\n

630
\n00:45:07,440 –> 00:45:12,960
\nDo we have the mothers that
\nHezekiah had in our homes? <\/p>\n

631
\n00:45:13,280 –> 00:45:15,560
\nBecause if we don’t, we won’t
\nhave the effects in the <\/p>\n

632
\n00:45:15,560 –> 00:45:19,440
\necclesia.
\nHezekiah would also tell us that<\/p>\n

633
\n00:45:19,440 –> 00:45:24,640
\nas a program for reform there
\nneeds to be a burnt offering <\/p>\n

634
\n00:45:25,360 –> 00:45:29,120
\nthat hearkens to Paul’s words in
\nin Romans chapter 12. <\/p>\n

635
\n00:45:29,600 –> 00:45:34,720
\nTherefore he says to the Romans,
\nthis is your reasonable <\/p>\n

636
\n00:45:34,720 –> 00:45:38,640
\nsacrifice.
\nOffer your bodies as a living <\/p>\n

637
\n00:45:38,640 –> 00:45:41,960
\nsacrifice, holy and acceptable
\nunto God. <\/p>\n

638
\n00:45:42,680 –> 00:45:49,080
\nSo open the doors, ignite the
\nlamps, prayer, incense, <\/p>\n

639
\n00:45:49,080 –> 00:45:53,840
\ncommunication to God, and
\nfinally put into process the <\/p>\n

640
\n00:45:53,840 –> 00:45:57,960
\nprinciples and examples of
\noffering ourselves as burnt <\/p>\n

641
\n00:45:57,960 –> 00:46:01,920
\nofferings in His service.
\nIt’s not a matter of saying no, <\/p>\n

642
\n00:46:01,920 –> 00:46:03,600
\nwe can’t do this.
\nNo, we can’t do that. <\/p>\n

643
\n00:46:03,880 –> 00:46:05,600
\nIt’s a matter of doing the
\npositive. <\/p>\n

644
\n00:46:05,600 –> 00:46:10,040
\nAnd when you do the positive
\nlike Hezekiah in the first day <\/p>\n

645
\n00:46:10,520 –> 00:46:16,040
\nof the first month of the first
\nyear and age 25, when you have <\/p>\n

646
\n00:46:16,040 –> 00:46:19,040
\nthat kind of commitment, you
\ndon’t need to worry about <\/p>\n

647
\n00:46:19,040 –> 00:46:20,840
\ntalking about where you
\nshouldn’t go and what you <\/p>\n

648
\n00:46:20,840 –> 00:46:23,720
\nshouldn’t read because it’s a
\nfull time occupation. <\/p>\n

649
\n00:46:25,360 –> 00:46:32,000
\nNow the mind of Hezekiah, look
\nat this verse 9 and 10:00 and <\/p>\n

650
\n00:46:32,000 –> 00:46:36,920
\n11:00 of the 29th chapter here.
\nWhat an insight into Hezekiah’s <\/p>\n

651
\n00:46:36,920 –> 00:46:42,200
\nmentality.
\nVerse 9, he says a continuing <\/p>\n

652
\n00:46:42,200 –> 00:46:45,440
\nexhortation from the lips of a
\n25 year old man. <\/p>\n

653
\n00:46:46,560 –> 00:46:50,640
\nFor lo, he says, our fathers
\nhave fallen by the sword, and <\/p>\n

654
\n00:46:50,640 –> 00:46:53,920
\nour sons and our daughters and
\nour wives are in captivity for <\/p>\n

655
\n00:46:53,920 –> 00:46:59,360
\nthis now.
\nHe says it is in mine heart to <\/p>\n

656
\n00:46:59,360 –> 00:47:02,800
\nmake a covenant with the Lord
\nGod of Israel. <\/p>\n

657
\n00:47:03,040 –> 00:47:05,760
\nIt was a consuming concern for
\nhim. <\/p>\n

658
\n00:47:06,000 –> 00:47:10,800
\nIt’s in my heart, he says, to
\nmake a covenant that his fierce <\/p>\n

659
\n00:47:10,800 –> 00:47:14,040
\nwrath may turn away from us.
\nWhat wrath? <\/p>\n

660
\n00:47:14,720 –> 00:47:17,040
\nWhat had to be turned away?
\nWhat do you think he was <\/p>\n

661
\n00:47:17,040 –> 00:47:20,080
\nworrying about?
\nWell, if you had nothing in <\/p>\n

662
\n00:47:20,080 –> 00:47:23,840
\nbackground about the Assyrians
\nand you didn’t know that by now <\/p>\n

663
\n00:47:23,840 –> 00:47:27,520
\nTiglath Pleaser had already
\nproven himself to be the new <\/p>\n

664
\n00:47:27,520 –> 00:47:29,880
\narchitect of the Assyrian
\nEmpire. <\/p>\n

665
\n00:47:30,400 –> 00:47:33,560
\nAnd if you didn’t know, brothers
\nand sisters, that the Assyrians <\/p>\n

666
\n00:47:33,560 –> 00:47:37,040
\nwere already on the March by the
\ntime these words were put out, <\/p>\n

667
\n00:47:37,840 –> 00:47:41,800
\nyou wouldn’t appreciate the need
\nfor urgency. <\/p>\n

668
\n00:47:42,120 –> 00:47:44,000
\nThat’s the wrath he’s referring
\nto. <\/p>\n

669
\n00:47:44,080 –> 00:47:47,320
\nHezekiah knew it was on the
\ndoorsteps, and he knew of the <\/p>\n

670
\n00:47:47,320 –> 00:47:50,560
\nfilthiness of his nation.
\nVerse 11. <\/p>\n

671
\n00:47:51,880 –> 00:47:56,360
\nA 25 year old says this to the
\nfathers and the arranging <\/p>\n

672
\n00:47:56,360 –> 00:48:02,160
\nmembers of his ecclesia.
\nHe says as a 25 year old, My <\/p>\n

673
\n00:48:02,160 –> 00:48:06,720
\nsons, my sons, how many were
\nthere that were probably old <\/p>\n

674
\n00:48:06,720 –> 00:48:09,200
\nenough to be his grandfather as
\npriests and Levites? <\/p>\n

675
\n00:48:09,560 –> 00:48:15,240
\nBut see how he addresses them.
\nMy sons, be not now negligent, <\/p>\n

676
\n00:48:15,920 –> 00:48:21,280
\nfor the Lord hath chosen you to
\nstand before him, to serve him, <\/p>\n

677
\n00:48:22,360 –> 00:48:25,640
\nand that ye should minister unto
\nhim and burn incense. <\/p>\n

678
\n00:48:26,120 –> 00:48:30,240
\nBe in prayerful communication.
\nHe’s talking to the Levites and <\/p>\n

679
\n00:48:30,240 –> 00:48:33,320
\nthe priests.
\nKeep in mind, they had that <\/p>\n

680
\n00:48:33,400 –> 00:48:37,400
\nprecious privilege.
\nHow is it that he would call <\/p>\n

681
\n00:48:37,400 –> 00:48:40,600
\nthem?
\nMy sons, do you see how he <\/p>\n

682
\n00:48:40,600 –> 00:48:45,400
\nviewed his family in Christ?
\nHow he viewed his relationship. <\/p>\n

683
\n00:48:45,440 –> 00:48:47,920
\nAs.
\nKing over the land. <\/p>\n

684
\n00:48:48,720 –> 00:48:51,280
\nIt’s not the language that’s
\ntypical of a monarch. <\/p>\n

685
\n00:48:51,480 –> 00:48:54,520
\nCan you see one of our monarchs
\ntoday? <\/p>\n

686
\n00:48:54,600 –> 00:48:59,040
\nNow I’m talking as a Canadian
\nfor the Queen still is over my <\/p>\n

687
\n00:48:59,040 –> 00:49:01,920
\nland in one way or another.
\nTeka smiling. <\/p>\n

688
\n00:49:03,080 –> 00:49:06,400
\nWe look to a monarch, let’s say
\nlike Queen Elizabeth. <\/p>\n

689
\n00:49:06,840 –> 00:49:10,320
\nCan you imagine her standing in
\nfront of all of the <\/p>\n

690
\n00:49:10,320 –> 00:49:14,800
\nrepresentatives of her nations
\nas a 25 year old girl and saying<\/p>\n

691
\n00:49:14,960 –> 00:49:17,480
\nmy sons and daughters?
\nCan you imagine? <\/p>\n

692
\n00:49:17,480 –> 00:49:19,000
\nThat wouldn’t be very suitable,
\nwould it? <\/p>\n

693
\n00:49:19,800 –> 00:49:25,040
\nHe views himself as a father,
\ndoesn’t he? <\/p>\n

694
\n00:49:25,040 –> 00:49:29,560
\nAnd he’s only 25 years old.
\nHe took his job seriously as a <\/p>\n

695
\n00:49:29,560 –> 00:49:32,720
\nreformer in the ecclesia.
\nIt wasn’t a position of <\/p>\n

696
\n00:49:32,720 –> 00:49:34,960
\narrogance.
\nIn fact, he doesn’t think of <\/p>\n

697
\n00:49:34,960 –> 00:49:38,720
\nhimself so much as a monarch as
\nhe thinks of himself as a <\/p>\n

698
\n00:49:38,720 –> 00:49:41,560
\nfather.
\nAnd that implies that he sees <\/p>\n

699
\n00:49:41,560 –> 00:49:47,240
\nthe ecclesia as a family.
\nMy sons, My sons. <\/p>\n

700
\n00:49:47,600 –> 00:49:49,400
\nHe’s speaking from the heart
\nhere. <\/p>\n

701
\n00:49:50,320 –> 00:49:53,440
\nBrothers and sisters, these are
\nwords you just can’t trip over <\/p>\n

702
\n00:49:53,440 –> 00:49:56,520
\nquickly.
\nEvery phrase deserves careful <\/p>\n

703
\n00:49:56,520 –> 00:50:00,040
\nweighing in our minds.
\nIt shows us by the words he <\/p>\n

704
\n00:50:00,040 –> 00:50:02,360
\nspeaks and the method of his
\nappeal. <\/p>\n

705
\n00:50:02,720 –> 00:50:06,560
\nIt shows us why.
\nHezekiah was a man after God’s <\/p>\n

706
\n00:50:06,560 –> 00:50:12,560
\nown heart, like David.
\nAnd so as a response, verse 12, <\/p>\n

707
\n00:50:12,560 –> 00:50:16,800
\nlook at the reaction.
\nThen the Levites arose, and from<\/p>\n

708
\n00:50:16,800 –> 00:50:21,720
\nthat section on, you see the way
\nin which they respond to <\/p>\n

709
\n00:50:21,720 –> 00:50:25,120
\nHezekiah’s appeal, right?
\nThe king has told us we’ve got <\/p>\n

710
\n00:50:25,120 –> 00:50:26,520
\nto clean the temple, and they do
\nit. <\/p>\n

711
\n00:50:27,080 –> 00:50:29,840
\nHe’s told us that we’ve got to
\nreform the people, and they do <\/p>\n

712
\n00:50:29,840 –> 00:50:31,160
\nit.
\nNow. <\/p>\n

713
\n00:50:31,200 –> 00:50:39,680
\nVerse 20 having got all of that
\ndone, Hezekiah the king rose <\/p>\n

714
\n00:50:39,680 –> 00:50:43,480
\nearly.
\nWell now how much time took <\/p>\n

715
\n00:50:43,720 –> 00:50:47,080
\nplace up to verse 20 from the
\nbeginning of the reform? <\/p>\n

716
\n00:50:47,720 –> 00:50:51,280
\nHow long did it take for
\nHezekiah to busy this group of <\/p>\n

717
\n00:50:51,280 –> 00:50:58,600
\npeople into reform action?
\nWell, verse 17 says so, for by <\/p>\n

718
\n00:50:58,600 –> 00:51:04,320
\nthe 16th day it was done.
\nEnd of verse 17, you can see it.<\/p>\n

719
\n00:51:04,640 –> 00:51:07,080
\nBy the 16th day they had made an
\nend. <\/p>\n

720
\n00:51:08,600 –> 00:51:11,000
\nWhy do you think it tells us
\n16th day? <\/p>\n

721
\n00:51:12,800 –> 00:51:16,400
\nWell, it certainly stresses how
\nquickly it was done, but I think<\/p>\n

722
\n00:51:16,400 –> 00:51:21,400
\nthere’s another reason.
\nGo back to chapter 28, if you <\/p>\n

723
\n00:51:21,400 –> 00:51:26,520
\nwill, and verse one, one of
\nthose golden threads. <\/p>\n

724
\n00:51:28,160 –> 00:51:35,640
\nVerse one, Ahaz was 20 years old
\nwhen he began to reign, and he <\/p>\n

725
\n00:51:35,640 –> 00:51:43,800
\nreigned 16 years, 16 years to
\npollute the land, and Hezekiah <\/p>\n

726
\n00:51:43,800 –> 00:51:48,480
\nin 16 days reversed it.
\nAnd it was done. <\/p>\n

727
\n00:51:49,400 –> 00:51:54,600
\nSo quickly was it done that if
\nyou go to the end of chapter 29 <\/p>\n

728
\n00:51:54,600 –> 00:52:01,520
\nhere in verse 36, here’s the
\nlast word, the very last word of<\/p>\n

729
\n00:52:01,520 –> 00:52:05,480
\nthis chapter.
\nWhat is it suddenly? <\/p>\n

730
\n00:52:06,280 –> 00:52:13,800
\nAnd Hezekiah rejoiced, and all
\nthe people that God had prepared<\/p>\n

731
\n00:52:13,800 –> 00:52:16,720
\nthe people for the thing was
\ndone. <\/p>\n

732
\n00:52:16,720 –> 00:52:20,920
\nSuddenly, not enough time, you
\nsay, to change the ecclesia. <\/p>\n

733
\n00:52:20,920 –> 00:52:26,880
\nNow Christadelphian body has
\ngone too far over the Cliff. 16 <\/p>\n

734
\n00:52:26,880 –> 00:52:30,760
\ndays to reverse 16 years of
\npollution. <\/p>\n

735
\n00:52:31,880 –> 00:52:37,280
\nNow a man of action.
\nBack to verse 20 of chapter 29 <\/p>\n

736
\n00:52:38,080 –> 00:52:41,280
\non the day in which this reform
\nwas celebrated. <\/p>\n

737
\n00:52:43,000 –> 00:52:45,000
\nJust look at the character of
\nthe man. <\/p>\n

738
\n00:52:45,000 –> 00:52:47,960
\nIt’s so much in keeping with
\neverything we’ve now seen about <\/p>\n

739
\n00:52:47,960 –> 00:52:54,240
\nhim on that day at the end of
\nthe 16 days of cleansing, the <\/p>\n

740
\n00:52:54,240 –> 00:52:58,640
\nday he’d been waiting for, for
\nit was in his heart to make a <\/p>\n

741
\n00:52:58,640 –> 00:53:02,120
\ncovenant, and this is the day
\nthe covenant can be made. <\/p>\n

742
\n00:53:03,280 –> 00:53:08,360
\nVerse 20, Hezekiah, the king
\nrose early and gathered the <\/p>\n

743
\n00:53:08,360 –> 00:53:10,760
\nrumors of the city and went to
\nthe House of the Lord. <\/p>\n

744
\n00:53:10,960 –> 00:53:13,440
\nYou can just see him jumping out
\nof bed that morning, perhaps <\/p>\n

745
\n00:53:13,440 –> 00:53:16,200
\neven before the sun rose.
\nThis is the day he said to <\/p>\n

746
\n00:53:16,200 –> 00:53:18,120
\nhimself, that we have been
\nwaiting for. <\/p>\n

747
\n00:53:18,400 –> 00:53:20,760
\nIn his heart it was to make a
\ncovenant. <\/p>\n

748
\n00:53:21,000 –> 00:53:25,200
\nHere’s the day, 16 days of
\nturning back history. <\/p>\n

749
\n00:53:25,720 –> 00:53:29,160
\nHe bounds out of bed early in
\nthe morning and he calls for an <\/p>\n

750
\n00:53:29,160 –> 00:53:32,600
\narranging meeting.
\nAnd he gets the elders together,<\/p>\n

751
\n00:53:33,040 –> 00:53:36,400
\nand down they go to the temple,
\nto the House of God in <\/p>\n

752
\n00:53:36,400 –> 00:53:40,800
\nanticipation of the crowd.
\nAnd from verse 21 down, brothers<\/p>\n

753
\n00:53:40,800 –> 00:53:44,160
\nand sisters, you see Hezekiah,
\nthe priests and the Levites <\/p>\n

754
\n00:53:44,440 –> 00:53:49,480
\noffering the sacrifices, for it
\nwas in his heart to make a <\/p>\n

755
\n00:53:49,480 –> 00:53:55,560
\ncovenant with God.
\nBrothers and sisters, chapter 30<\/p>\n

756
\n00:53:55,560 –> 00:53:59,480
\nis a study in itself as well.
\nWe’ll take a quick look at that <\/p>\n

757
\n00:53:59,480 –> 00:54:02,080
\ntomorrow.
\nBut let us end, brothers and <\/p>\n

758
\n00:54:02,080 –> 00:54:09,320
\nsisters, on this note once
\nagain, verse 36 of chapter 29. <\/p>\n

759
\n00:54:11,040 –> 00:54:16,240
\nHere was the character of the
\nman, the great reformer, the one<\/p>\n

760
\n00:54:16,240 –> 00:54:23,600
\nwho came from a has the terrible
\nHezekiah rejoiced, and all the <\/p>\n

761
\n00:54:23,600 –> 00:54:29,800
\npeople that God had prepared the
\npeople. <\/p>\n

762
\n00:54:30,920 –> 00:54:34,520
\nWhen we have success in the
\necclesia, through some effort of<\/p>\n

763
\n00:54:34,520 –> 00:54:38,920
\nours in quotation marks, when
\nwe’ve gone about and done what <\/p>\n

764
\n00:54:38,920 –> 00:54:44,360
\nwas right, do we sit back and
\nsilently pat ourselves on the <\/p>\n

765
\n00:54:44,360 –> 00:54:47,760
\nback?
\nHas anyone in Christadelphia <\/p>\n

766
\n00:54:47,760 –> 00:54:52,280
\never affected a reform like that
\n16 years, reversed in 16 days, <\/p>\n

767
\n00:54:52,560 –> 00:54:55,680
\non such a scale, with such great
\nsuccess? <\/p>\n

768
\n00:54:55,800 –> 00:55:00,000
\nNone of us have.
\nBut this man came to the <\/p>\n

769
\n00:55:00,000 –> 00:55:04,920
\nrealization immediately that
\nsuccess came from God. <\/p>\n

770
\n00:55:05,160 –> 00:55:07,160
\nIt was all given to God in
\ncredit. <\/p>\n

771
\n00:55:07,480 –> 00:55:10,480
\nHe rejoiced.
\nNot that Hezekiah, son of A has <\/p>\n

772
\n00:55:10,480 –> 00:55:16,280
\nhad done a great thing.
\nHe rejoiced that Hezekiah son of<\/p>\n

773
\n00:55:16,280 –> 00:55:22,080
\nAhaz had been blessed by
\nAlmighty God, that God had <\/p>\n

774
\n00:55:22,080 –> 00:55:27,960
\nblessed the labor of his hands,
\nresponded to his prayers, and <\/p>\n

775
\n00:55:27,960 –> 00:55:31,200
\nthat God had prepared the
\necclesia. <\/p>\n

776
\n00:55:31,920 –> 00:55:35,120
\nMay it be, brothers and sisters,
\nthat we capture some of <\/p>\n

777
\n00:55:35,120 –> 00:55:39,360
\nHezekiah’s spirit, no matter how
\nbleak the ecclesial or the <\/p>\n

778
\n00:55:39,360 –> 00:55:43,440
\ncommunity seen may may appear.
\nMay it be that we have fire in <\/p>\n

779
\n00:55:43,440 –> 00:55:47,880
\nour bones to rise up early.
\nAnd may it be in our hearts that<\/p>\n

780
\n00:55:47,880 –> 00:55:51,200
\nwe work for the Ecclesia in
\ntheir cleansing and healing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Colin Badger – Thematic Study of Isaiah – Class 2 – Hekiziah the Great<\/a><\/blockquote>