Class 6 from this series was used in GCT Episode 318.<\/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 1\/6 Nation and A Faithless <\/p>\n
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\nKing for the Badger.
\nGood morning, brothers and <\/p>\n
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\nsisters.
\nIsaiah, the son of Amos, is <\/p>\n
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\nregarded as one of the greatest,
\nif not. <\/p>\n
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\nThe greatest of Israel’s.
\nWriting prophets, There is no <\/p>\n
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\ngreater testimony, brothers and
\nsisters, to the importance of <\/p>\n
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\nIsaiah’s prophetic ministry than
\nthe evidence or the testimony <\/p>\n
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\nthat is offered in the New
\nTestament. <\/p>\n
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\nFor Isaiah’s prophecy is.
\nDirectly quoted or alluded to <\/p>\n
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\nsome 80.
\nFive times in the New Testament.<\/p>\n
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\nNow that’s a calculation that
\nwas done some years ago by <\/p>\n
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\nBollinger.
\nWe suggest that 85 quotations. <\/p>\n
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\nOr allusions to Isaiah in the
\nNew Testament is bare minimum. <\/p>\n
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\nWe.
\nSuspect that there are many more<\/p>\n
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\nthat perhaps have not been yet
\nso obvious. <\/p>\n
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\nNow consider the.
\nForts of those facts? <\/p>\n
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\nWhat other book?
\nIn the New Testament. <\/p>\n
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\nIs referred to or.
\nDirectly quoted from as that. <\/p>\n
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\n80.
\nFive times minimum. <\/p>\n
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\nSurely that in itself is an open
\ninvitation, brothers and <\/p>\n
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\nsisters.
\nAn open invitation to all <\/p>\n
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\nstudents.
\nOf the word to discover. <\/p>\n
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\nAnswers to the question Why
\nIsaiah? <\/p>\n
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\nThe frequent New Testament use
\nof Isaiah obviously implies, <\/p>\n
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\ndoesn’t it, that Isaiah’s
\nprophecy has numerous links with<\/p>\n
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\nthe gospel as it is in Christ
\nJesus? <\/p>\n
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\nOne Christadelphian writer
\npointedly stated. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I believe it.
\nCaptures a good. <\/p>\n
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\nSpirit, he said Isaiah’s
\nrevelation stands between <\/p>\n
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\nGenesis and the Apocalypse like
\na mighty art. <\/p>\n
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\nAcross which God’s purpose of
\nredeeming love in Christ. <\/p>\n
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\nAppears to take a mighty leap
\nforward toward its fulfillment <\/p>\n
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\nand climax Picture reinforced
\nthe point a little bit more. <\/p>\n
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\nLet me just return to some
\nstatistics the game. <\/p>\n
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\nConsider how some of those 85
\nodd references to Isaiah in the <\/p>\n
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\nNew Testament are distributed
\nover the New Testament. <\/p>\n
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\nRecord.
\nMatthew’s Gospel 9 references to<\/p>\n
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\nIsaiah that are fairly obvious.
\nMark’s Gospel, 6 references to <\/p>\n
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\nIsaiah, and of course.
\nThese statistics. <\/p>\n
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\nMight really be enlarged if
\nwe’ve missed them. <\/p>\n
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\nLuke refers to Isaiah,
\nobviously. <\/p>\n
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\nSome five times John’s Gospel,
\nfive times Acts, five times <\/p>\n
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\nRomans, 18 times Revelation
\nWildstein. <\/p>\n
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\nPut another way, seven out of
\nthe 27 New Testament books have <\/p>\n
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\nno obvious reference to Isaiah’s
\nprophecy. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s only 7 New Testament.
\nBooks out of a total. <\/p>\n
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\nOf 27 in a certain sense, then,
\nas you can see from those facts,<\/p>\n
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\nit’s very much a New Testament
\nbook is Isaiah, which we hope <\/p>\n
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\nwill become more.
\nObvious as we proceed through <\/p>\n
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\nour studies this week.
\nThis class is designed to be. <\/p>\n
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\nIntroductory there’s.
\nA lot, in a certain way, that <\/p>\n
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\nmost of us know about Isaiah.
\nBecause he is referred to. <\/p>\n
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\nSo many times in the New
\nTestament, in one way or <\/p>\n
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\nanother, we often hear Isaiah
\nbeing. <\/p>\n
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\nReferred to but.
\nThat’s somewhat of a delusion, <\/p>\n
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\nbecause although we often hear
\nof references to Isaiah, it’s <\/p>\n
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\nnot too often that we get down
\nto Isaiah as a personal. <\/p>\n
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\nStudy is it?
\nBecause there are some 66 books <\/p>\n
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\nin Isaiah, we are often
\ndiscouraged from trying to take <\/p>\n
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\na handle on that prophecy in our
\nown personal study. <\/p>\n
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\nEcclesial Bible classes might
\nsometimes venture into the Minor<\/p>\n
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\nProphets, or perhaps into Daniel
\nor a section of Ezekiel, but <\/p>\n
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\nrarely do Bible classes venture
\ninto Isaiah as a block study. <\/p>\n
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\nSo although there’s.
\nA sense in which we all know <\/p>\n
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\nsomething about Isaiah.
\nThere’s a sense in which that’s <\/p>\n
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\nnot so true because of its
\nlargeness. <\/p>\n
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\nWe hope that by the end of this
\nweek, by going through Isaiah <\/p>\n
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\nsome six different times from
\ndifferent perspectives, <\/p>\n
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\nthematically, you’ll at least go
\naway from the Bible school <\/p>\n
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\nfeeling you have some handle on
\nIsaiah that you didn’t before. <\/p>\n
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\nSome idea?
\nAs to what the big. <\/p>\n
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\nConcepts or the big spiritual?
\nIdeas are. <\/p>\n
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\nIn Isaiah and that you’ll.
\nFeel perhaps you have. <\/p>\n
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\nSome idea as to the Life and
\nTimes of Isaiah, and lastly some<\/p>\n
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\nunderstanding of the.
\nStructure of that large book now<\/p>\n
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\nlet’s.
\nTurn to the Prophet himself. <\/p>\n
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\nIsaiah, the son of Amos.
\nHis name appears immediately in <\/p>\n
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\nIsaiah chapter 1.
\nIsaiah the son of Amos now. <\/p>\n
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\nOf the Prophet’s personal.
\nLife we know very little, <\/p>\n
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\nbrothers and sisters.
\nFor what it’s worth, I will <\/p>\n
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\nshare with you.
\nWhat we might call traditional <\/p>\n
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\nreferences to Isaiah from the
\nancient Jewish writings outside <\/p>\n
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\nof Scripture.
\nThey’re not inspired and they’re<\/p>\n
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\nnot authoritative by any means.
\nBut quite. <\/p>\n
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\nOften some of these ancient.
\nJewish traditions that preceded <\/p>\n
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\neven the time of our Lord have
\nsome reliability on some time on<\/p>\n
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\nsome occasions, so I’ll share a
\nfew bits of information from <\/p>\n
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\nthat source.
\nAncient Jewish tradition holds. <\/p>\n
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\nThat Isaiah was of royal.
\nBlood that Amos, his father <\/p>\n
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\nmentioned here in chapter 1 that
\nAmos, Isaiah’s father was <\/p>\n
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\nsupposedly brother to.
\nKing. <\/p>\n
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\nUzziah, king of Judah, the king
\nwhose. <\/p>\n
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\nForehead broke.
\nOut in leprosy, you remember. <\/p>\n
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\nNow, if that is reliable, such
\nroyal origin would. <\/p>\n
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\nPerhaps account for Isaiah’s?
\nReady access to the court. <\/p>\n
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\nIn Jerusalem, for as you go
\nthrough the kings and Chronicles<\/p>\n
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\nin the times of Isaiah, you find
\nthat Isaiah has very. <\/p>\n
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\nFree and easy.
\nAccess to court life. <\/p>\n
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\nIn Jerusalem, from those records
\nand the middle section of <\/p>\n
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\nIsaiah, there are hints.
\nThat Isaiah moved about in <\/p>\n
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\nhigher circles in.
\nJerusalem as though he were. <\/p>\n
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\nActually a member of the.
\nCourt itself. <\/p>\n
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\nSo if that tradition can be.
\nTrusted it. <\/p>\n
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\nMight account for why Isaiah was
\nvery much part of Hezekiah’s <\/p>\n
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\nCorp.
\nNow the same ancient Jewish <\/p>\n
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\ntraditions.
\nAlso hold that Isaiah. <\/p>\n
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\nMeant met a miserable end.
\nThey tell us that Isaiah <\/p>\n
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\nperished.
\nIn the midst. <\/p>\n
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\nOf Manassas godless persecution.
\nCampaign when the same tradition<\/p>\n
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\nholds.
\nApparently, Isaiah took refuge. <\/p>\n
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\nIn the hollow tree and Manasseh
\nordered it to be. <\/p>\n
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\nSawn through while Isaiah
\nresided in the tree. <\/p>\n
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\nBut I know that sounds something
\nlike Robin Hood, doesn’t it? <\/p>\n
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\nBut it may not be.
\nStretching our credulity as much<\/p>\n
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\nas we might.
\nThink Hold your hand here. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd.
\nJust go over to Hebrews it. <\/p>\n
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\nJust.
\nMight not be as mythical. <\/p>\n
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\nAs perhaps we might.
\nFirst React Hebrews chapter. 11 <\/p>\n
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\nthat well known chapter.
\nOf the. <\/p>\n
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\nFaithful who sacrificed their
\nlives for their convictions in <\/p>\n
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\nfaith there’s a curious.
\nPhrase here that just might. <\/p>\n
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\nMatch tradition with reality
\nHebrews Chapter 11 we. <\/p>\n
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\nStart.
\nDown to verse. 30. 5 by way of <\/p>\n
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\nintroduction.
\nHebrews 11, verse 30. 5 women <\/p>\n
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\nreceived.
\nTheir dead raised to life. <\/p>\n
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\nAgain, and others were tortured,
\nnot accepting deliverance that <\/p>\n
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\nthey might obtain a better
\nresurrection. <\/p>\n
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\nVerse 30. 6.
\nAnd others had a trial of cruel <\/p>\n
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\nmockings and scourgings, gay
\nmoreover of bonds and <\/p>\n
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\nimprisonment.
\nThey were stoned. <\/p>\n
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\nNow notice.
\nHave you ever thought about? <\/p>\n
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\nThis before and asked yourself
\nof whom was this writing <\/p>\n
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\nwritten?
\nThey were stones, they were fawn<\/p>\n
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\nasunder.
\nWas that Isaiah during Manassas <\/p>\n
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\npersecution?
\nRemember Jewish tradition? <\/p>\n
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\nFor what it’s worth.
\nOf course had no bearing on <\/p>\n
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\nHebrews Chapter 11.
\nThe Jewish. <\/p>\n
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\nTradition we’re referring to was
\nwritten sometime before Hebrews <\/p>\n
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\n11 was ever written, with no
\ndirect reference. <\/p>\n
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\nTo the person or the.
\nPeople it. <\/p>\n
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\nIs interesting that the most
\nancient. <\/p>\n
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\nRecords that the Jews ever.
\nHeld. <\/p>\n
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\nAbout the.
\nLife and background of Isaiah <\/p>\n
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\nmaintained that he sought refuge
\nin a tree during Manassas. <\/p>\n
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\nPeriod.
\nAnd he was, brutally. <\/p>\n
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\nSawn asunder.
\nWell, Hebrews. 11 is referring <\/p>\n
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\nto somebody.
\nOr to some group. <\/p>\n
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\nIsaiah might be the one.
\nOr. <\/p>\n
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\nMight be typical of others.
\nJames in his epistle says <\/p>\n
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\nsomething that would be.
\nVery. <\/p>\n
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\nRelevant to an understanding of
\nIsaiah’s times and of course for<\/p>\n
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\nmany other prophets in his
\nexposition of faith and work. <\/p>\n
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\nJames reminds us and we quote
\nfrom James. <\/p>\n
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\nTake, my brethren, he.
\nSays the prophets who have. <\/p>\n
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\nSpoken in the name of the.
\nLord. <\/p>\n
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\nFor an example of suffering,
\naffliction, and patience, take <\/p>\n
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\nmy brethren the prophets.
\nThose. <\/p>\n
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\nWho have been an example of
\nsuffering and those who have <\/p>\n
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\nlived through it with patience.
\nGood examples of godliness in <\/p>\n
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\nisaiah’s prophecy we find that
\nIsaiah. <\/p>\n
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\nWalked barefoot as part.
\nOf an enacted parable. <\/p>\n
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\nIt wasn’t a difficult parable.
\nIt was not an easy parable to <\/p>\n
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\nenact Isaiah.
\nSaw. <\/p>\n
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\nVery brutal and ruthless times
\nall around him. <\/p>\n
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\nHe suffered through some of the
\ngreatest tensions and stresses <\/p>\n
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\nthat his nation ever had known
\nand were yet to experience. <\/p>\n
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\nWhen we consider Isaiah and his
\ntime, whether he was saw in <\/p>\n
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\nasunder or not, he lived in
\ntimes that were stressful and <\/p>\n
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\ndifficult, as we’ll shortly.
\nSee. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd as James admonishes us.
\nLet us look at the. <\/p>\n
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\nmeant Yahweh saved. <\/p>\n
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\nWell, let me give you this
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\nQuoted said makes a quantum leap<\/p>\n
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\nWould, by the Spirit’s guidance,<\/p>\n
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\ndealing with salvation, dealing <\/p>\n
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\nThrough the. <\/p>\n
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\nideas or key thoughts in Isaiah?<\/p>\n
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\nWe could call this.
\nNumber one, and I’m not going to<\/p>\n
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\nIt’s only a survey. <\/p>\n
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\nWas lifted up. <\/p>\n
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\nCase in point, Isaiah 1. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd give ye O. <\/p>\n
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\nSpoken now I have nourished. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd brought up children. <\/p>\n
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\nHe views Israel as his. <\/p>\n
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\nA rebellious group of brats. <\/p>\n
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\nThrough Isaiah very <\/p>\n
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\nBrat is children. <\/p>\n
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\nEmphasis in Isaiah the nation is<\/p>\n
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\noften described as being sick,
\nblind, deaf 2 chapters that <\/p>\n
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\nPlants. <\/p>\n
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\nHer lack of fruitfulness, but <\/p>\n
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\nand in that scene and as part of<\/p>\n
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\nThat when Jesus is portrayed. <\/p>\n
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\nIsaiah in one place. <\/p>\n
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\nBranch as a stem. <\/p>\n
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\nBut the nation is of vineyard, <\/p>\n
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\nanother point of stress.
\nGod’s awful judgments are <\/p>\n
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\ndescribed throughout Isaiah,
\ndescribed as being potentially <\/p>\n
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\nunleashed against his wayward
\nchildren. <\/p>\n
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\nunfolding through Isaiah, you’ll<\/p>\n
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\nAnd I’ll repeat. <\/p>\n
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\nThem the day of the Lord, the
\nday of the Lord, the day of the <\/p>\n
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\nLord, he phrase another that’s.
\nA little more interesting, and a<\/p>\n
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\nyou to decide quite often <\/p>\n
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\nfulfillment. <\/p>\n
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\napplication or whether it’s <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the phrase is. <\/p>\n
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\nIn that day he phrased in Isaiah<\/p>\n
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\nAnother point of stress in <\/p>\n
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\npunishment against his people, <\/p>\n
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\n40. <\/p>\n
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\npunishment all through those.
\nChapters is. <\/p>\n
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\nparticular, and it’s the mighty <\/p>\n
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\nAssyrian.
\nThe Assyrian people. <\/p>\n
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\nThe way they lived.
\nThe way they conducted battle <\/p>\n
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\nand their intentions in the
\nMiddle East as they rose in the <\/p>\n
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\nthought in the. <\/p>\n
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\nOne to 39 behind. <\/p>\n
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\nAll of those prophecies, there’s
\nalways. <\/p>\n
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\nthat’s looming in the <\/p>\n
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\nYou watch for it, You’ll find it<\/p>\n
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\nAnd Speaking of the Assyrian, <\/p>\n
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\nBut one of the most telling, and<\/p>\n
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\nOne of the most important <\/p>\n
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\nFlood. <\/p>\n
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\nAn overflowing flood, in fact. <\/p>\n
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\nGreat waters.
\nOften, there’s a reason for <\/p>\n
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\nOphyria was perched not far from<\/p>\n
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\ntwo of the mightiest rivers in
\nthe ancient East Tigris. <\/p>\n
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\nAnother point of stress, Isaiah.<\/p>\n
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\nBrothers and sisters in his. <\/p>\n
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\nProphecy that God’s.
\nArm is not. <\/p>\n
346
\n00:22:54,760 –> 00:22:59,720
\nShort to save he.
\nAccording to Isaiah’s visions <\/p>\n
347
\n00:22:59,720 –> 00:23:05,520
\nand prophecies, he God will
\nredeem them. <\/p>\n
348
\n00:23:05,640 –> 00:23:09,080
\nAnother keyword in Isaiah.
\nWatch for that. <\/p>\n
349
\n00:23:09,400 –> 00:23:15,000
\nRedeem and redemption and.
\nGod being pictured as their. <\/p>\n
350
\n00:23:15,120 –> 00:23:17,360
\nRedeemer.
\nRedeem. <\/p>\n
351
\n00:23:17,760 –> 00:23:22,920
\nRedemption and the Redeemer He.
\nThought as they displayed God. <\/p>\n
352
\n00:23:23,080 –> 00:23:27,560
\nAs one who will say, remember
\nIsaiah’s name, another point of.<\/p>\n
353
\n00:23:27,560 –> 00:23:32,520
\nStress related to this.
\nTheme of the Redemption Isaiah <\/p>\n
354
\n00:23:32,920 –> 00:23:38,960
\nholds out many graphics and
\nmoving pictures of how the <\/p>\n
355
\n00:23:38,960 –> 00:23:42,760
\nremnant.
\nWill be restored the. <\/p>\n
356
\n00:23:42,760 –> 00:23:47,400
\nRemnant a keyword in Isaiah A.
\nKind of word that’s worth. <\/p>\n
357
\n00:23:47,400 –> 00:23:51,680
\nCircling or shading so it stands
\nout the context of those <\/p>\n
358
\n00:23:51,680 –> 00:23:55,640
\nreferences to the remnant and to
\nbeing redeemed. <\/p>\n
359
\n00:23:55,640 –> 00:24:00,280
\nAre critical, especially.
\nIn Part 2 of Isaiah that is <\/p>\n
360
\n00:24:00,280 –> 00:24:06,880
\nchapter. 40 to Chapter 66.
\nAnd then finally, God describes <\/p>\n
361
\n00:24:07,120 –> 00:24:10,440
\nhis children his.
\nSons and daughters. <\/p>\n
362
\n00:24:11,880 –> 00:24:20,080
\nAnd he describes his saving.
\nSon by the term servant, or in <\/p>\n
363
\n00:24:20,080 –> 00:24:24,240
\nthe plural servant.
\nTwo very key. <\/p>\n
364
\n00:24:24,240 –> 00:24:27,240
\nExpressions in Isaiah.
\nWatch for those as well. <\/p>\n
365
\n00:24:27,440 –> 00:24:32,920
\nMy servant, My servant.
\nNow that’s. <\/p>\n
366
\n00:24:32,920 –> 00:24:36,280
\nJust a cursory overview.
\nOf some of the key ideas in <\/p>\n
367
\n00:24:36,280 –> 00:24:37,920
\nIsaiah.
\nBut that’s what we’re looking <\/p>\n
368
\n00:24:37,920 –> 00:24:39,760
\nfor this week we’re not going to
\ndo. <\/p>\n
369
\n00:24:39,760 –> 00:24:41,000
\nA verse by verse, we.
\nJust couldn’t. <\/p>\n
370
\n00:24:41,000 –> 00:24:44,880
\nPossibly you’d have to pay.
\nFor a second session at least, <\/p>\n
371
\n00:24:44,880 –> 00:24:47,720
\nor more.
\nAnd no, the committee wouldn’t <\/p>\n
372
\n00:24:47,720 –> 00:24:51,800
\nagree.
\nWould you, Paul, forget the camp<\/p>\n
373
\n00:24:52,320 –> 00:24:52,760
\nnow?
\nLet’s. <\/p>\n
374
\n00:24:52,760 –> 00:24:54,440
\nJust look at the structure of
\nthe prophecy. <\/p>\n
375
\n00:24:54,440 –> 00:24:56,120
\nWould you now?
\nTurn those two handouts. <\/p>\n
376
\n00:24:58,720 –> 00:25:05,880
\nThe green one Christadelphians
\nare. <\/p>\n
377
\n00:25:05,880 –> 00:25:10,080
\nGreat plagiarists.
\nSo, So we’re not accused of <\/p>\n
378
\n00:25:10,080 –> 00:25:13,520
\nplagiarism, I’ll.
\nConfess something here at the. <\/p>\n
379
\n00:25:13,520 –> 00:25:17,120
\nOutset this.
\nIs not original to Colin Badger.<\/p>\n
380
\n00:25:19,080 –> 00:25:22,120
\nThis to me.
\nI’m only Speaking of my own <\/p>\n
381
\n00:25:22,120 –> 00:25:25,880
\npersonal likings.
\nHe is one of the best breakdowns<\/p>\n
382
\n00:25:25,920 –> 00:25:27,720
\nI’ve ever seen.
\nOf this. <\/p>\n
383
\n00:25:27,720 –> 00:25:29,560
\nProphecy, and I know I haven’t
\nseen them all. <\/p>\n
384
\n00:25:30,000 –> 00:25:31,800
\nBut we did.
\nSpend a lot of time looking at <\/p>\n
385
\n00:25:31,800 –> 00:25:34,240
\ndifferent possibilities and
\ntrying to work out some <\/p>\n
386
\n00:25:34,240 –> 00:25:38,960
\nourselves.
\nThe author is Edward Whitaker. <\/p>\n
387
\n00:25:40,000 –> 00:25:43,440
\nEdward is.
\nIn my humble estimation, one of <\/p>\n
388
\n00:25:43,440 –> 00:25:46,560
\nthe finest students of Isaiah
\nthat I’ve ever read in the <\/p>\n
389
\n00:25:46,560 –> 00:25:49,040
\nBrotherhood.
\nHe did a series of addresses at <\/p>\n
390
\n00:25:49,040 –> 00:25:51,000
\nthe.
\nOxford Conference in his heyday <\/p>\n
391
\n00:25:51,640 –> 00:25:55,120
\nback in the 60s and as.
\nA result of those studies they <\/p>\n
392
\n00:25:55,120 –> 00:25:56,480
\nwere.
\nPublished in The Testimony <\/p>\n
393
\n00:25:56,480 –> 00:25:57,840
\nmagazine.
\nThey are. <\/p>\n
394
\n00:25:57,840 –> 00:26:00,040
\nPriceless and I highly suggest
\nthem to you. <\/p>\n
395
\n00:26:00,360 –> 00:26:01,800
\nIf you want more information
\nabout that, I’d be. <\/p>\n
396
\n00:26:01,800 –> 00:26:04,400
\nGlad to talk to you.
\nAfterwards anyway, in the <\/p>\n
397
\n00:26:04,400 –> 00:26:06,760
\ntestimony.
\nEdward published this suggested.<\/p>\n
398
\n00:26:06,760 –> 00:26:11,520
\nBreakdown now no breakdown is.
\nAbsolutely able to be. <\/p>\n
399
\n00:26:11,520 –> 00:26:14,720
\nDogmatic, but consider.
\nThis as a way of. <\/p>\n
400
\n00:26:14,720 –> 00:26:19,680
\nGetting a handle on Isaiah.
\nFirst, over to the left. <\/p>\n
401
\n00:26:20,280 –> 00:26:21,760
\nIn heavy.
\nBlock letters. <\/p>\n
402
\n00:26:21,760 –> 00:26:27,880
\nThere’s a stress. .3 sections.
\nHistorically that’s the key <\/p>\n
403
\n00:26:27,880 –> 00:26:29,520
\npoint.
\nProgressive. <\/p>\n
404
\n00:26:29,760 –> 00:26:32,560
\nNow what are those?
\nThree well, just back up to the <\/p>\n
405
\n00:26:32,560 –> 00:26:37,920
\nboxes introduction to the.
\nProphecy of Isaiah, chapters <\/p>\n
406
\n00:26:37,920 –> 00:26:44,160
\n1:00 to 12:00.
\nThen break chapters 13 to 27, <\/p>\n
407
\n00:26:44,680 –> 00:26:48,200
\nthe period dealing with
\nHezekiah, and you can see the <\/p>\n
408
\n00:26:48,200 –> 00:26:54,760
\nsub breakdown. 5 burdens on five
\ncities Five more burdens on five<\/p>\n
409
\n00:26:54,760 –> 00:26:58,120
\ncities, ending with a climax
\nthat describes the Kingdom <\/p>\n
410
\n00:26:58,120 –> 00:27:00,800
\nperiod in the future if you
\nslip. <\/p>\n
411
\n00:27:00,800 –> 00:27:02,800
\nBack to the bottom of the first
\nbox. <\/p>\n
412
\n00:27:02,840 –> 00:27:04,920
\nYou’ll see it ends in a similar
\nnote. <\/p>\n
413
\n00:27:05,680 –> 00:27:09,880
\nA has his period ending with a
\nclimax that pictures the Kingdom<\/p>\n
414
\n00:27:09,880 –> 00:27:11,960
\nthird.
\nBox. <\/p>\n
415
\n00:27:12,560 –> 00:27:19,160
\nKnown as the Assyrian Crisis in
\nIsaiah, chapters 20. 8 to 35 <\/p>\n
416
\n00:27:19,840 –> 00:27:22,680
\nagain.
\nYou return to a fivesome 5 woes <\/p>\n
417
\n00:27:22,680 –> 00:27:27,760
\non Judah, then at the end of 35
\nor in that chapter you have once<\/p>\n
418
\n00:27:27,760 –> 00:27:31,600
\nagain a climatic ending like the
\nKingdom. <\/p>\n
419
\n00:27:32,600 –> 00:27:35,480
\nSounds familiar, doesn’t it?
\nThat’s a typical. <\/p>\n
420
\n00:27:35,480 –> 00:27:38,200
\nPattern in the prophet
\nZechariah. <\/p>\n
421
\n00:27:38,320 –> 00:27:42,320
\nThink of Zechariah.
\nYou have narrative and vision, <\/p>\n
422
\n00:27:42,640 –> 00:27:45,680
\nnarrative and vision, narrative
\nand vision. <\/p>\n
423
\n00:27:46,320 –> 00:27:48,040
\nNow that’s a clue for something
\nelse. <\/p>\n
424
\n00:27:48,840 –> 00:27:52,640
\nThink of the apocalypse.
\nNarrative vision. <\/p>\n
425
\n00:27:53,000 –> 00:27:56,240
\nNarrative vision all.
\nThrough the apocalypse, the same<\/p>\n
426
\n00:27:56,240 –> 00:27:57,840
\nbasic.
\nStructure where you have <\/p>\n
427
\n00:27:57,840 –> 00:28:01,600
\nnarrative sections and then you
\nhave those broken with <\/p>\n
428
\n00:28:01,600 –> 00:28:06,920
\ninterspersed visions.
\nOf the future you get a series <\/p>\n
429
\n00:28:06,920 –> 00:28:10,800
\nof doleful.
\nJudgments, then a stop and a <\/p>\n
430
\n00:28:10,800 –> 00:28:14,920
\nvision of the future, the
\n144,000, for example, or the <\/p>\n
431
\n00:28:14,920 –> 00:28:18,520
\nvision of the lamb on the throne
\nanother series of judgments, <\/p>\n
432
\n00:28:18,640 –> 00:28:20,360
\nwoeful judgments, whether it’s
\nthe. <\/p>\n
433
\n00:28:20,360 –> 00:28:21,840
\nVials.
\nOr whether it’s the trumpets. <\/p>\n
434
\n00:28:22,080 –> 00:28:23,800
\nThen a break.
\nA break. <\/p>\n
435
\n00:28:24,400 –> 00:28:26,600
\nAnd a.
\nVision of a brighter day that’s <\/p>\n
436
\n00:28:26,800 –> 00:28:28,360
\nvery.
\nSimilar to Isaiah. <\/p>\n
437
\n00:28:29,000 –> 00:28:32,880
\nThree boxes for you 3.
\nSections then. <\/p>\n
438
\n00:28:33,080 –> 00:28:36,160
\nAt the axis of the prophecy,
\nthe. <\/p>\n
439
\n00:28:36,160 –> 00:28:39,240
\nHinge the.
\nCenter point of Isaiah. <\/p>\n
440
\n00:28:39,760 –> 00:28:43,200
\nThat is Chapters 36.
\nTo 39. <\/p>\n
441
\n00:28:43,600 –> 00:28:47,200
\nYou have a curious.
\nHinge for. <\/p>\n
442
\n00:28:47,600 –> 00:28:50,880
\nYou have in here a.
\nSeries of historical chapters. <\/p>\n
443
\n00:28:50,880 –> 00:28:54,080
\nDealing with the life and time
\nof Hezekiah. <\/p>\n
444
\n00:28:54,560 –> 00:28:58,440
\nDuring the time of the.
\nAssyrian invasion, and you might<\/p>\n
445
\n00:28:58,440 –> 00:29:01,760
\nwonder why it’s there.
\nWhy might you wonder that it’s? <\/p>\n
446
\n00:29:01,760 –> 00:29:06,120
\nThere because it’s also.
\nIn Kings and Chronicles. <\/p>\n
447
\n00:29:06,160 –> 00:29:09,680
\nThat’s why.
\nInteresting repetition of <\/p>\n
448
\n00:29:09,680 –> 00:29:12,440
\nScripture.
\nThere are some differences, but <\/p>\n
449
\n00:29:12,440 –> 00:29:18,400
\nby and large 36 to 39 is found.
\nAlmost major idea for major idea<\/p>\n
450
\n00:29:18,560 –> 00:29:20,320
\nin Kings and Chronicles
\ncombined. <\/p>\n
451
\n00:29:21,040 –> 00:29:22,560
\nWe’ll come back to that some
\nother time. <\/p>\n
452
\n00:29:22,960 –> 00:29:25,800
\nBut notice Edward’s suggestion
\nhere. <\/p>\n
453
\n00:29:25,800 –> 00:29:29,400
\nI think is interesting.
\nEven in the hinge of this <\/p>\n
454
\n00:29:29,400 –> 00:29:34,640
\nhistorical section, A3 fold
\ndivision can be perceived. <\/p>\n
455
\n00:29:35,880 –> 00:29:38,200
\nNow.
\nThe second part of the prophecy.<\/p>\n
456
\n00:29:38,680 –> 00:29:41,720
\nYou might wonder why this is.
\nArranged in vertical columns. <\/p>\n
457
\n00:29:42,840 –> 00:29:44,160
\nI won’t.
\nLabor this too much, but. <\/p>\n
458
\n00:29:44,160 –> 00:29:46,400
\nJust give you a clue, you’ll
\nnotice. <\/p>\n
459
\n00:29:46,480 –> 00:29:52,800
\nAgain, a threesome. 40 to 48. 49
\nto 57. 58 to 60. <\/p>\n
460
\n00:29:52,800 –> 00:29:57,160
\nSix, what justifies breaking out
\nthe second part of Isaiah in <\/p>\n
461
\n00:29:57,160 –> 00:29:59,760
\nsuch a way?
\nWell, there’s a very good <\/p>\n
462
\n00:29:59,760 –> 00:30:02,480
\nreason.
\nBrothers and sisters at the end <\/p>\n
463
\n00:30:02,480 –> 00:30:07,560
\nof chapter. 48 You have a key
\ntrigger phrase used which seems.<\/p>\n
464
\n00:30:07,560 –> 00:30:10,440
\nTo mark the end of a section,
\nand here it is. <\/p>\n
465
\n00:30:10,920 –> 00:30:12,840
\nNo peace.
\nFor the for the wicked. <\/p>\n
466
\n00:30:13,400 –> 00:30:15,280
\nNo.
\nPeace for the wicked. <\/p>\n
467
\n00:30:15,840 –> 00:30:19,720
\nThen from 49 to 57 you have
\nanother section. <\/p>\n
468
\n00:30:19,880 –> 00:30:22,960
\nAnd it.
\nToo ends by this phrase. <\/p>\n
469
\n00:30:23,480 –> 00:30:27,760
\nNo peace for the wicked.
\nAnd that expression does not <\/p>\n
470
\n00:30:27,760 –> 00:30:32,000
\noccur within those columns or
\nwithin those internal sections. <\/p>\n
471
\n00:30:32,560 –> 00:30:36,640
\nFinally, you travel from
\nchapter. 58 to 66. <\/p>\n
472
\n00:30:37,080 –> 00:30:39,560
\nAnd at the end of. 66 What have
\nyou got? <\/p>\n
473
\n00:30:40,480 –> 00:30:43,000
\nNo wicked.
\nNo wicked. <\/p>\n
474
\n00:30:43,440 –> 00:30:46,280
\nThe expression does not.
\nDirectly occur, but read the <\/p>\n
475
\n00:30:46,280 –> 00:30:49,520
\nlast two or three.
\nVerses of Isaiah 66 in your <\/p>\n
476
\n00:30:49,520 –> 00:30:51,840
\nspare time and you’ll see what
\nit’s saying. <\/p>\n
477
\n00:30:52,040 –> 00:30:55,320
\nNo wicked, they’re gone.
\nSomething else that’s <\/p>\n
478
\n00:30:55,320 –> 00:30:57,880
\ninteresting as.
\nYou go across. <\/p>\n
479
\n00:30:57,880 –> 00:31:00,640
\nHorizontally, the way this is
\narranged on your sheet. <\/p>\n
480
\n00:31:01,440 –> 00:31:04,640
\nThis is curious.
\nConsidering the importance of <\/p>\n
481
\n00:31:04,640 –> 00:31:06,760
\nIsaiah.
\n‘S name Yahweh says. <\/p>\n
482
\n00:31:07,440 –> 00:31:08,720
\nAnd the importance?
\nOf the word. <\/p>\n
483
\n00:31:08,720 –> 00:31:15,120
\nSalvation in Isaiah 4.
\nAt chapter. 44 you have a key <\/p>\n
484
\n00:31:15,120 –> 00:31:17,600
\nchapter.
\nDealing with salvation to Zion <\/p>\n
485
\n00:31:17,880 –> 00:31:20,760
\nright in the.
\nMiddle of that section and. <\/p>\n
486
\n00:31:20,760 –> 00:31:25,040
\nExactly at the same midpoint of
\nthe next section. <\/p>\n
487
\n00:31:25,320 –> 00:31:29,200
\nYou have the.
\nFamous Isaiah 53 chapter dealing<\/p>\n
488
\n00:31:29,200 –> 00:31:31,840
\nwith the Savior, the suffering
\nServant. <\/p>\n
489
\n00:31:32,240 –> 00:31:36,280
\nThen in the last section,
\nconsisting of the same number of<\/p>\n
490
\n00:31:36,280 –> 00:31:41,440
\nchapters, Isaiah 62 Keynote.
\nOf the chapter Salvation. <\/p>\n
491
\n00:31:41,440 –> 00:31:43,360
\nTo Zion.
\nI don’t think that’s <\/p>\n
492
\n00:31:43,360 –> 00:31:45,840
\ncoincidence.
\nThere seems to be very <\/p>\n
493
\n00:31:45,840 –> 00:31:50,280
\ndefinitely some symmetry and
\nsome intended structure in <\/p>\n
494
\n00:31:50,280 –> 00:31:54,040
\nIsaiah.
\nIn summary, when you think of <\/p>\n
495
\n00:31:54,040 –> 00:31:56,840
\nIsaiah.
\nThis layout suggests that you. <\/p>\n
496
\n00:31:56,840 –> 00:32:01,000
\nThink of a three someness.
\nThree blocks. <\/p>\n
497
\n00:32:01,360 –> 00:32:05,160
\nGoing up to the middle of
\nIsaiah, a threefold division at <\/p>\n
498
\n00:32:05,160 –> 00:32:06,480
\nthe axes.
\nOf the book. <\/p>\n
499
\n00:32:06,960 –> 00:32:10,720
\nAnd then the second part of
\nIsaiah having a threefold <\/p>\n
500
\n00:32:10,720 –> 00:32:14,560
\nsection, each section ending no
\npeace. <\/p>\n
501
\n00:32:14,680 –> 00:32:18,160
\nFor the wicked.
\nWe’ll come back to that later. <\/p>\n
502
\n00:32:24,040 –> 00:32:28,080
\nYour second sheet brothers and
\nsisters, I’d suggest if you can <\/p>\n
503
\n00:32:28,080 –> 00:32:29,920
\nbring these.
\nTo the classes this week. <\/p>\n
504
\n00:32:30,320 –> 00:32:33,360
\nPeriodically, even when I’m not
\nreferring to them, you might <\/p>\n
505
\n00:32:33,360 –> 00:32:38,760
\nfind it useful to turn to them.
\nLet’s put Isaiah in historical <\/p>\n
506
\n00:32:38,760 –> 00:32:41,880
\ncontext.
\nDates. <\/p>\n
507
\n00:32:41,880 –> 00:32:45,960
\nWhile we can’t be totally
\ndogmatic, but there are some key<\/p>\n
508
\n00:32:45,960 –> 00:32:49,800
\ndates in Isaiah that are
\nmilestones that we can be <\/p>\n
509
\n00:32:49,800 –> 00:32:52,160
\nfairly.
\nSure of the date that. <\/p>\n
510
\n00:32:52,160 –> 00:32:55,680
\nMarks the fall of Samaria.
\nIt’s a fairly definite date in <\/p>\n
511
\n00:32:55,680 –> 00:33:02,080
\nancient history, about 720-2723.
\nWell, let’s just see Isaiah. <\/p>\n
512
\n00:33:02,080 –> 00:33:04,680
\nWhere is he placed in God’s plan
\nand purpose? <\/p>\n
513
\n00:33:05,240 –> 00:33:10,280
\nFirst, my pen is pointing to his
\ncontemporaries and there might <\/p>\n
514
\n00:33:10,280 –> 00:33:13,280
\nbe more depending on one’s
\npersonal judgments. <\/p>\n
515
\n00:33:14,040 –> 00:33:19,280
\nIsaiah is contemporary for most
\nof his career with Micah. <\/p>\n
516
\n00:33:20,400 –> 00:33:22,160
\nNow you might say, well, So
\nwhat? <\/p>\n
517
\n00:33:22,520 –> 00:33:23,680
\nYou know you’ve.
\nTold it that. <\/p>\n
518
\n00:33:23,760 –> 00:33:24,560
\nWhat’s the?
\nPoint. <\/p>\n
519
\n00:33:24,960 –> 00:33:27,440
\nWell, here’s the point.
\nIf you want to find out a <\/p>\n
520
\n00:33:27,440 –> 00:33:28,920
\nlittle.
\nBit more about the life. <\/p>\n
521
\n00:33:28,920 –> 00:33:32,720
\nAnd Times of Isaiah sometimes
\nbrowse through. <\/p>\n
522
\n00:33:32,720 –> 00:33:35,360
\nMicah and take a look.
\nAt what it says. <\/p>\n
523
\n00:33:35,360 –> 00:33:38,480
\nAbout the Assyrian invader, see
\nWhat a Micah. <\/p>\n
524
\n00:33:38,480 –> 00:33:40,880
\nHas to say about messianic
\nprophecies. <\/p>\n
525
\n00:33:42,000 –> 00:33:46,120
\nSee Isaiah chapter 4 using.
\nWord for word the. <\/p>\n
526
\n00:33:46,120 –> 00:33:51,400
\nSame language as Isaiah also.
\nIn Micah conditions in the. <\/p>\n
527
\n00:33:51,520 –> 00:33:55,360
\nTime of the Prophet, the
\nwaywardness of Israel and Judah.<\/p>\n
528
\n00:33:55,560 –> 00:33:57,320
\nWhat, Micah?
\nTells us. <\/p>\n
529
\n00:33:57,400 –> 00:34:02,760
\nIs insightful and youthful.
\nHosea another prophet. <\/p>\n
530
\n00:34:02,760 –> 00:34:05,880
\nWell worth looking at when
\nyou’re thinking about Isaiah’s <\/p>\n
531
\n00:34:05,920 –> 00:34:08,920
\nlife and time.
\nHe was contemporary. <\/p>\n
532
\n00:34:10,080 –> 00:34:12,880
\nThere are others that are
\npossibilities some have <\/p>\n
533
\n00:34:12,880 –> 00:34:17,080
\nsuggested.
\nThat Nahum comes just before or <\/p>\n
534
\n00:34:17,199 –> 00:34:20,159
\nsomewhere into the period of
\nIsaiah’s prophecy. <\/p>\n
535
\n00:34:21,159 –> 00:34:23,920
\nSome would place Joel.
\nAnd this is controversial. <\/p>\n
536
\n00:34:24,280 –> 00:34:27,320
\nSome would.
\nPlace Joel before the prophecy. <\/p>\n
537
\n00:34:27,320 –> 00:34:30,760
\nOf Isaiah, or at least sometime
\ncontemporary. <\/p>\n
538
\n00:34:31,639 –> 00:34:35,280
\nThe brethren, of course, have
\nhad differences of points of <\/p>\n
539
\n00:34:35,280 –> 00:34:36,920
\nview on.
\nJoel over the years. <\/p>\n
540
\n00:34:37,239 –> 00:34:40,800
\nSome would place Joel back in
\nthe time of Jehoshaphat, prior <\/p>\n
541
\n00:34:40,800 –> 00:34:44,960
\nto Isaiah, that’s where Eileen.
\nBut some would also place Joel <\/p>\n
542
\n00:34:44,960 –> 00:34:48,560
\nas being written at the eve of
\nthe Babylonian invasion. <\/p>\n
543
\n00:34:49,760 –> 00:34:52,840
\nSome would say that it was a
\nblueprint for both invasions and<\/p>\n
544
\n00:34:52,840 –> 00:34:56,320
\nyet for a future northern
\ninvasion anyways. <\/p>\n
545
\n00:34:56,320 –> 00:34:59,200
\nJoel is a possibility.
\nWell. <\/p>\n
546
\n00:34:59,200 –> 00:35:03,080
\nWhen did Isaiah begin to?
\nWork, we say. <\/p>\n
547
\n00:35:03,720 –> 00:35:05,920
\nHe ministered for some 50.
\nYears. <\/p>\n
548
\n00:35:06,720 –> 00:35:09,160
\nWell, we can’t be dogmatic, but
\nwe think. <\/p>\n
549
\n00:35:09,520 –> 00:35:12,600
\nIt’s fair to say that.
\nIsaiah began his active <\/p>\n
550
\n00:35:12,600 –> 00:35:16,480
\nministry.
\nAt about 740 BC. <\/p>\n
551
\n00:35:17,080 –> 00:35:20,320
\nAbout 740 BC.
\nYou might want to note. <\/p>\n
552
\n00:35:20,320 –> 00:35:28,120
\nThat we know that that’s not too
\ninaccurate for Isaiah and Kings <\/p>\n
553
\n00:35:28,120 –> 00:35:32,600
\nand Chronicles mentioned the
\nnumber of Assyrian kings on the <\/p>\n
554
\n00:35:32,600 –> 00:35:37,120
\nrise and from Assyrian records
\nand Assyrian. <\/p>\n
555
\n00:35:37,120 –> 00:35:38,960
\nStudies which we’ll look at.
\nTonight in our. <\/p>\n
556
\n00:35:38,960 –> 00:35:42,840
\nSlides we have a.
\nFairly good idea as to the <\/p>\n
557
\n00:35:42,840 –> 00:35:47,920
\naccuracy of that 740 date.
\nNow, concerning the Life and <\/p>\n
558
\n00:35:47,920 –> 00:35:51,360
\nTimes of Isaiah.
\nSomething else worth noting. <\/p>\n
559
\n00:35:53,800 –> 00:36:00,440
\nWhat was it like to?
\nLive in isaiah’s times very <\/p>\n
560
\n00:36:00,440 –> 00:36:02,280
\nimportant to an understanding of
\nthe. <\/p>\n
561
\n00:36:02,280 –> 00:36:05,840
\nIssues of the day.
\nWhenever we turn to a section in<\/p>\n
562
\n00:36:05,840 –> 00:36:08,320
\nscripture.
\nWhether it’s Paul’s epistles or <\/p>\n
563
\n00:36:08,320 –> 00:36:10,440
\nwhether it’s a prophecy.
\nLike Isaiah? <\/p>\n
564
\n00:36:11,040 –> 00:36:13,680
\nWe’ve got to get.
\nSome feeling for the times in <\/p>\n
565
\n00:36:13,680 –> 00:36:15,000
\nwhich.
\nThe Prophet lived. <\/p>\n
566
\n00:36:15,520 –> 00:36:18,440
\nIf you don’t know what was
\nhappening in his world, it’s <\/p>\n
567
\n00:36:18,440 –> 00:36:21,440
\nhard to understand what the.
\nIssues of the day really were. <\/p>\n
568
\n00:36:21,920 –> 00:36:25,600
\nOr why the prophet says certain
\nthings when he does on God’s <\/p>\n
569
\n00:36:25,600 –> 00:36:28,800
\nbehalf.
\nThis is absolutely. <\/p>\n
570
\n00:36:28,800 –> 00:36:34,880
\nImportant to know in.
\nIsaiah’s day there were great <\/p>\n
571
\n00:36:35,160 –> 00:36:38,680
\npolitical ships.
\nTaking place in the Middle East.<\/p>\n
572
\n00:36:39,400 –> 00:36:43,200
\nNow, as I sketched some of this
\nfor you, I want you to think in <\/p>\n
573
\n00:36:43,200 –> 00:36:47,320
\nmodern times.
\nFor as I sketch out what was. <\/p>\n
574
\n00:36:47,320 –> 00:36:50,920
\nHappening in his days, it has
\nsome rather interesting <\/p>\n
575
\n00:36:50,920 –> 00:36:52,880
\nparallels.
\nNo doubt to our own. <\/p>\n
576
\n00:36:54,560 –> 00:36:59,600
\nHere’s the Middle East, and that
\nperhaps will be a focus as we <\/p>\n
577
\n00:36:59,600 –> 00:37:04,600
\nconsider the following around
\n7:00. 140 BC. <\/p>\n
578
\n00:37:05,680 –> 00:37:10,680
\nThere were brothers and sisters
\non in movement a number of <\/p>\n
579
\n00:37:10,680 –> 00:37:16,880
\nimportant political situations
\nwhich were to have a profound <\/p>\n
580
\n00:37:16,880 –> 00:37:20,880
\neffect on the whole.
\nMiddle East especially. <\/p>\n
581
\n00:37:21,160 –> 00:37:24,720
\nOn Israel to the north.
\nLittle there were that was left.<\/p>\n
582
\n00:37:25,120 –> 00:37:29,480
\nAnd of course, on Judah
\nHezekiah’s people in particular.<\/p>\n
583
\n00:37:30,600 –> 00:37:34,640
\nFor at this time there was
\nrising, after a rather sleepy <\/p>\n
584
\n00:37:34,640 –> 00:37:41,080
\nperiod of decline, a new, and
\nit’s new in quotations, great <\/p>\n
585
\n00:37:41,080 –> 00:37:46,080
\nand mighty power beginning to
\norganize itself and flex its <\/p>\n
586
\n00:37:46,080 –> 00:37:48,920
\nmuscles.
\nEver so slightly at first. <\/p>\n
587
\n00:37:49,760 –> 00:37:54,520
\nAnd we’re talking about Assyria
\ncapital being in Nineveh up here<\/p>\n
588
\n00:37:54,520 –> 00:37:58,960
\nsomewhere.
\nNineveh and Assyria, ancient had<\/p>\n
589
\n00:37:58,960 –> 00:38:02,280
\ngone through a long period of
\nsleepy decline. <\/p>\n
590
\n00:38:02,360 –> 00:38:06,080
\nBefore Isaiah’s days.
\nThat is, back in the days of <\/p>\n
591
\n00:38:06,080 –> 00:38:09,240
\nJehoshaphat, Assyria was not
\nmuch of A power. <\/p>\n
592
\n00:38:09,560 –> 00:38:12,920
\nBut.
\nAs you come to the period of 740<\/p>\n
593
\n00:38:12,920 –> 00:38:16,960
\nBC and as you open your pages to
\nIsaiah 1. <\/p>\n
594
\n00:38:17,360 –> 00:38:22,320
\nTo the voice of Isaiah.
\nYou’re living in times that are <\/p>\n
595
\n00:38:22,320 –> 00:38:26,760
\nmost critical.
\nAssyria now is about to mount <\/p>\n
596
\n00:38:26,760 –> 00:38:31,160
\nyourself up with renewed power
\nand strength, like the old <\/p>\n
597
\n00:38:31,160 –> 00:38:35,840
\nmythical phoenix.
\nA resurrected power, physically <\/p>\n
598
\n00:38:35,840 –> 00:38:38,040
\nspeaking.
\nAn ancient power, not a new one.<\/p>\n
599
\n00:38:38,640 –> 00:38:40,600
\nBut.
\nGoing through now a kind of <\/p>\n
600
\n00:38:40,600 –> 00:38:45,760
\nrenaissance, the old Assyria had
\nchanged and knew. <\/p>\n
601
\n00:38:45,760 –> 00:38:50,200
\nAssyria was about to arise.
\nIn unparalleled fashion. <\/p>\n
602
\n00:38:50,960 –> 00:38:55,760
\nA ruthless, godless, brutal
\npower. <\/p>\n
603
\n00:38:55,760 –> 00:38:59,160
\nAs she was about to.
\nBecome throughout the Middle <\/p>\n
604
\n00:38:59,160 –> 00:39:02,240
\nEast, tremors were found all
\naround the. <\/p>\n
605
\n00:39:02,480 –> 00:39:05,480
\nArea of the Tigers Rufredis.
\nTremors. <\/p>\n
606
\n00:39:05,600 –> 00:39:09,120
\nPolitically speaking, the small
\npowers that were around the <\/p>\n
607
\n00:39:09,120 –> 00:39:12,720
\nskirts of Assyria began to feel.
\nHer. <\/p>\n
608
\n00:39:12,720 –> 00:39:17,400
\nFlexing might as.
\nShe slowly tested her power. <\/p>\n
609
\n00:39:17,400 –> 00:39:20,120
\nAgainst some of the small.
\nCity States. <\/p>\n
610
\n00:39:20,960 –> 00:39:25,120
\nNews ever so slowly began to
\ntrickle down through the <\/p>\n
611
\n00:39:25,120 –> 00:39:30,520
\nMediterranean, to Israel and to
\nEgypt about this new rising. <\/p>\n
612
\n00:39:30,520 –> 00:39:32,200
\nPower.
\nAnd it came. <\/p>\n
613
\n00:39:32,200 –> 00:39:35,880
\nRather slowly at first.
\nBut mounted in its strength, <\/p>\n
614
\n00:39:37,200 –> 00:39:43,600
\nthen came a man called Tiglath
\nPulizer, known in the Bible as <\/p>\n
615
\n00:39:43,600 –> 00:39:45,560
\nPull PU.
\nL. <\/p>\n
616
\n00:39:45,960 –> 00:39:49,640
\nA number of times.
\nTiglath Pulizer was to be the <\/p>\n
617
\n00:39:49,680 –> 00:39:54,320
\narchitect.
\nOf the new power of Athyria, a <\/p>\n
618
\n00:39:54,320 –> 00:40:00,400
\nvery ingenious man by human
\nstandards, a conniving political<\/p>\n
619
\n00:40:00,400 –> 00:40:03,400
\ngenius, a kind of Hitler.
\nAs it were. <\/p>\n
620
\n00:40:04,240 –> 00:40:06,400
\nHe knew what it was to build an
\nempire. <\/p>\n
621
\n00:40:06,760 –> 00:40:09,240
\nHe knew what it was to
\nstrengthen his borders <\/p>\n
622
\n00:40:09,240 –> 00:40:11,320
\nimmediately around his own
\nterritory. <\/p>\n
623
\n00:40:11,960 –> 00:40:14,240
\nAnd he knew.
\nWhat it was to work? <\/p>\n
624
\n00:40:14,240 –> 00:40:17,600
\nFrom that parameter out to the
\nsurrounding powers the. <\/p>\n
625
\n00:40:17,600 –> 00:40:21,120
\nLittle powers like Israel, Moab,
\nEdom. <\/p>\n
626
\n00:40:21,320 –> 00:40:26,960
\nAnd Ammon progressively this
\narchitect of the new Assyrian. <\/p>\n
627
\n00:40:26,960 –> 00:40:32,520
\nPower Tiglath Pleaser marshalled
\nhis forces cautiously, but. <\/p>\n
628
\n00:40:32,520 –> 00:40:38,000
\nEver so ingeniously strengthened
\nhis borders, and came to be <\/p>\n
629
\n00:40:38,000 –> 00:40:41,400
\nknown as the Great Mighty
\nGeneral. <\/p>\n
630
\n00:40:41,400 –> 00:40:46,880
\nOf Assyria to quote.
\nSome sources at this time from <\/p>\n
631
\n00:40:46,880 –> 00:40:51,560
\nhistorians, Assyria.
\nOne source. <\/p>\n
632
\n00:40:51,560 –> 00:40:55,080
\nSays.
\nA nation of ruthless conquerors,<\/p>\n
633
\n00:40:55,720 –> 00:41:00,200
\nwho more than any of the ancient
\ntyrannies, spread their evil. <\/p>\n
634
\n00:41:00,200 –> 00:41:06,480
\nNatures with a sadistic delight.
\nIn cruelty, if you go to the <\/p>\n
635
\n00:41:06,480 –> 00:41:09,600
\nmuseum such as the British
\nMuseum or the one in. <\/p>\n
636
\n00:41:09,600 –> 00:41:13,800
\nBerlin and take a look.
\nAt what’s there from the old. <\/p>\n
637
\n00:41:13,880 –> 00:41:17,280
\nAssyrian inscriptions in stone
\nand. <\/p>\n
638
\n00:41:17,280 –> 00:41:21,160
\nPictorially, look at how they
\nviewed. <\/p>\n
639
\n00:41:21,160 –> 00:41:24,960
\nThemselves and how they carried
\non their daily business. <\/p>\n
640
\n00:41:27,000 –> 00:41:30,120
\nExcuse me, you would?
\nFind a great emphasis on <\/p>\n
641
\n00:41:30,120 –> 00:41:32,280
\nbrutality.
\nExcuse me? <\/p>\n
642
\n00:41:33,360 –> 00:41:36,960
\nHere’s what you’d see.
\nScenes, often in stone. <\/p>\n
643
\n00:41:37,680 –> 00:41:39,960
\nShowing the Assyrians stretching
\ntheir. <\/p>\n
644
\n00:41:39,960 –> 00:41:41,880
\nVictims out in.
\nTorture. <\/p>\n
645
\n00:41:43,000 –> 00:41:46,920
\nThey had a preference.
\nFor flaying their victims alive <\/p>\n
646
\n00:41:46,920 –> 00:41:50,200
\nthat is peeling off the.
\nSkin of a whole body. <\/p>\n
647
\n00:41:51,000 –> 00:41:54,400
\nAnd then laying out the victim
\nunder the hot Assyrian Middle <\/p>\n
648
\n00:41:54,400 –> 00:42:00,880
\nEast sun to rise and die slowly
\nin pain when they besieged the <\/p>\n
649
\n00:42:01,000 –> 00:42:03,040
\ncity such as.
\nJerusalem. <\/p>\n
650
\n00:42:03,520 –> 00:42:08,240
\nThey had a favorite method.
\nOf psychological warfare they <\/p>\n
651
\n00:42:08,240 –> 00:42:10,600
\nwould.
\nTry to capture the defectors <\/p>\n
652
\n00:42:10,600 –> 00:42:12,360
\nthat might try to.
\nCreep out of the city. <\/p>\n
653
\n00:42:12,840 –> 00:42:15,160
\nOr any that.
\nThey had previously gotten. <\/p>\n
654
\n00:42:15,160 –> 00:42:19,800
\nFrom the earlier towns or cities
\nand they would take them and <\/p>\n
655
\n00:42:19,800 –> 00:42:24,520
\nthey would decapitate them and
\npile their heads in great mounds<\/p>\n
656
\n00:42:24,560 –> 00:42:26,920
\naround the city that was being
\nbesieged. <\/p>\n
657
\n00:42:27,520 –> 00:42:30,240
\nCan you imagine being in
\nJerusalem in the days of <\/p>\n
658
\n00:42:30,240 –> 00:42:34,040
\nHezekiah when the Assyrian
\nencircled them and peering over <\/p>\n
659
\n00:42:34,040 –> 00:42:36,360
\nthe city walls to see a scene
\nlike that? <\/p>\n
660
\n00:42:37,400 –> 00:42:40,000
\nAnother thing they prefer to do.
\nI don’t want to dwell on this, <\/p>\n
661
\n00:42:40,000 –> 00:42:42,880
\nbut I want you to.
\nAppreciate the brutality of <\/p>\n
662
\n00:42:42,880 –> 00:42:43,520
\nthis.
\nNation. <\/p>\n
663
\n00:42:43,800 –> 00:42:48,200
\nThey were unique in the extent
\nto which they went and when you <\/p>\n
664
\n00:42:48,200 –> 00:42:50,880
\nunderstand the the.
\nBarbarism of this. <\/p>\n
665
\n00:42:50,880 –> 00:42:55,640
\nPeople you canmore keenly.
\nAppreciate how living terror. <\/p>\n
666
\n00:42:55,800 –> 00:42:59,760
\nMust have been struck into
\nIsaiah’s contemporaries and into<\/p>\n
667
\n00:42:59,760 –> 00:43:03,320
\nthe city of Jerusalem.
\nWhen the Assyrian came down, <\/p>\n
668
\n00:43:04,440 –> 00:43:08,600
\nthey often decapitated their
\ncaptives and used those heads as<\/p>\n
669
\n00:43:08,600 –> 00:43:12,640
\nnecklaces around.
\nThose who are still alive, they <\/p>\n
670
\n00:43:12,640 –> 00:43:15,560
\nwould take their captives.
\nNaked and allow them to. <\/p>\n
671
\n00:43:15,560 –> 00:43:18,040
\nTramp over the hot sands on the
\nway to Assyria. <\/p>\n
672
\n00:43:18,120 –> 00:43:21,560
\nIf they died, they died.
\nThey often preferred to take <\/p>\n
673
\n00:43:21,560 –> 00:43:24,880
\nmetal rings and put them in the
\nnoses of their captives and <\/p>\n
674
\n00:43:24,880 –> 00:43:28,840
\nstring them nose to nose, ring
\nto ring and a chain affair. <\/p>\n
675
\n00:43:29,080 –> 00:43:31,520
\nAnd if you moved much, you can
\nimagine what would happen. <\/p>\n
676
\n00:43:32,920 –> 00:43:36,000
\nThose.
\nWere cruel and ferocious people <\/p>\n
677
\n00:43:36,520 –> 00:43:39,640
\nanother.
\nSource says this psychological <\/p>\n
678
\n00:43:39,640 –> 00:43:42,600
\nterror.
\nWas Assyria’s most. <\/p>\n
679
\n00:43:42,600 –> 00:43:45,760
\nEffective weapon it was
\nruthlessly. <\/p>\n
680
\n00:43:45,760 –> 00:43:50,840
\nApplied with corpses impaled on.
\nStakes severed, heads stacked. <\/p>\n
681
\n00:43:50,840 –> 00:43:53,800
\nIn heaps, captives skinned
\nalive. <\/p>\n
682
\n00:43:54,800 –> 00:43:56,160
\nNotice that last.
\nPoint. <\/p>\n
683
\n00:43:56,880 –> 00:44:00,520
\nPsychological terror.
\nNow, brothers and sisters, later<\/p>\n
684
\n00:44:00,520 –> 00:44:05,280
\non, we’ll do this tomorrow when
\nyou read in Kings and Chronicles<\/p>\n
685
\n00:44:05,280 –> 00:44:08,080
\nand the middle of Isaiah the
\nspeeches. <\/p>\n
686
\n00:44:08,080 –> 00:44:11,600
\nOf Rab Shaka.
\nYou have there. <\/p>\n
687
\n00:44:12,200 –> 00:44:15,640
\nClassic speeches of
\npsychological terror. <\/p>\n
688
\n00:44:16,600 –> 00:44:19,840
\nThere isn’t anywhere in all.
\nScripture where you have a <\/p>\n
689
\n00:44:19,840 –> 00:44:22,040
\nbetter.
\nExample better in quotation <\/p>\n
690
\n00:44:22,040 –> 00:44:25,520
\nmarks a better example of
\npsychological. <\/p>\n
691
\n00:44:25,520 –> 00:44:29,360
\nWarfare.
\nUsed against God’s people, Rab <\/p>\n
692
\n00:44:29,360 –> 00:44:33,960
\nSheka was not a military man.
\nHis name in the original means <\/p>\n
693
\n00:44:33,960 –> 00:44:35,520
\nthat he was either a.
\nButler or a. <\/p>\n
694
\n00:44:35,520 –> 00:44:39,640
\nCupbearer, but he was employed
\nby the Assyrians. <\/p>\n
695
\n00:44:40,280 –> 00:44:45,080
\nTo effect psychological warfare.
\nAgainst the walls of Jerusalem. <\/p>\n
696
\n00:44:45,760 –> 00:44:49,360
\nEvery tactic, every phrase,
\nevery strategy. <\/p>\n
697
\n00:44:49,640 –> 00:44:51,320
\nWhich?
\nRab Shaker used as he. <\/p>\n
698
\n00:44:51,320 –> 00:44:54,240
\nRailed against the walls of
\nJerusalem was. <\/p>\n
699
\n00:44:54,240 –> 00:44:57,640
\nCarefully calculated, very
\nsubtle. <\/p>\n
700
\n00:44:57,640 –> 00:45:01,080
\nAs you analyze it and intended
\nto penetrate. <\/p>\n
701
\n00:45:01,080 –> 00:45:04,320
\nThose walls without.
\nHaving to shed an ounce of <\/p>\n
702
\n00:45:04,320 –> 00:45:07,200
\nAssyrian blood.
\nPsychological warfare. <\/p>\n
703
\n00:45:08,200 –> 00:45:10,840
\nNow all of that, brothers and
\nsisters, is not to dwell on <\/p>\n
704
\n00:45:10,840 –> 00:45:13,280
\nthings that are morbid.
\nBut as you. <\/p>\n
705
\n00:45:13,280 –> 00:45:17,520
\nRead Isaiah and Micah and Nahem.
\nYou do receive those kinds of <\/p>\n
706
\n00:45:17,520 –> 00:45:19,800
\ndescriptions.
\nThey are there in Scripture for <\/p>\n
707
\n00:45:19,800 –> 00:45:24,480
\nyou, and they do help us to more
\nkeenly understand what it was. <\/p>\n
708
\n00:45:24,480 –> 00:45:29,720
\nLike to have the possibility.
\nOf an Assyrian army coming down <\/p>\n
709
\n00:45:29,720 –> 00:45:33,280
\nagainst your town or hamlet, or
\nagainst your capital city. <\/p>\n
710
\n00:45:33,960 –> 00:45:37,440
\nIt wasn’t like the.
\nEgyptians coming down, it wasn’t<\/p>\n
711
\n00:45:37,440 –> 00:45:40,840
\nlike Moab attacking.
\nIt wasn’t as if you were having <\/p>\n
712
\n00:45:40,840 –> 00:45:42,920
\na raid by Edom.
\nOr Ammon. <\/p>\n
713
\n00:45:43,360 –> 00:45:49,800
\nThis was Astyria, a ruthless,
\ngodless, brutal war. <\/p>\n
714
\n00:45:49,800 –> 00:45:53,880
\nMachine that not only used
\nbattering Rams, but used. <\/p>\n
715
\n00:45:54,280 –> 00:45:57,840
\nThe power of a psychology to
\nstrike terror. <\/p>\n
716
\n00:45:57,840 –> 00:46:00,800
\nInto her victims to be.
\nNow. <\/p>\n
717
\n00:46:01,000 –> 00:46:03,240
\nYou can see when you consider
\nall that together. <\/p>\n
718
\n00:46:03,560 –> 00:46:05,200
\nThe.
\nGreat need for faith. <\/p>\n
719
\n00:46:05,920 –> 00:46:10,320
\nThese were trying and tense
\ntimes and in many senses <\/p>\n
720
\n00:46:10,360 –> 00:46:14,240
\nunparalleled.
\nCan you more keenly appreciate <\/p>\n
721
\n00:46:14,240 –> 00:46:20,240
\nnow the job that Isaiah had to
\ndo to put calm and peace into <\/p>\n
722
\n00:46:20,240 –> 00:46:24,440
\nthat nation, but at the same
\ntime to evoke reform? <\/p>\n
723
\n00:46:25,040 –> 00:46:27,280
\nKenya Moore keenly appreciate
\nhow. <\/p>\n
724
\n00:46:27,560 –> 00:46:30,720
\nHezekiah’s.
\nReforms were on a tight <\/p>\n
725
\n00:46:30,720 –> 00:46:33,560
\nschedule.
\nEverything Hezekiah did, and <\/p>\n
726
\n00:46:33,560 –> 00:46:35,240
\nwe’ll see this tomorrow, was on
\na. <\/p>\n
727
\n00:46:35,240 –> 00:46:40,280
\nVery tight schedule Chronicle.
\nSays it was done suddenly. <\/p>\n
728
\n00:46:40,720 –> 00:46:43,320
\nWhy?
\nBecause in God’s providential <\/p>\n
729
\n00:46:43,320 –> 00:46:51,080
\nhand there wasn’t much time
\nleft, for within only 20 or 30 <\/p>\n
730
\n00:46:51,080 –> 00:46:54,080
\nyears, the Middle East.
\nWas to look like this. <\/p>\n
731
\n00:46:55,120 –> 00:47:00,400
\nCompletely reshaped and very
\nmuch under one power’s <\/p>\n
732
\n00:47:00,400 –> 00:47:04,040
\ndomination.
\nIt wasn’t to be long in the days<\/p>\n
733
\n00:47:04,040 –> 00:47:08,840
\nof Isaiah or Hezekiah that the
\nMiddle East would be under the <\/p>\n
734
\n00:47:08,840 –> 00:47:10,600
\npower.
\nOf this great might. <\/p>\n
735
\n00:47:10,800 –> 00:47:13,800
\nIn the old E Assyria was soon
\nto. <\/p>\n
736
\n00:47:13,800 –> 00:47:16,280
\nGobble up territory after
\nterritory. <\/p>\n
737
\n00:47:17,040 –> 00:47:20,400
\nThen when you turn to Isaiah 1
\nverse one. <\/p>\n
738
\n00:47:20,880 –> 00:47:23,800
\nHere’s the picture.
\nA small little nation. <\/p>\n
739
\n00:47:24,160 –> 00:47:26,040
\nWith a faithless.
\nKing. <\/p>\n
740
\n00:47:26,360 –> 00:47:28,400
\nHis name was Ahaz.
\nWe’ll look at him in just a <\/p>\n
741
\n00:47:28,400 –> 00:47:32,800
\nmoment, very quickly.
\nA faithless king, a nation <\/p>\n
742
\n00:47:32,800 –> 00:47:37,720
\ndescribed often in Isaiah as
\nthick and weak and very much in <\/p>\n
743
\n00:47:37,720 –> 00:47:42,480
\nneed of reform.
\nAnd against that rather pathetic<\/p>\n
744
\n00:47:42,480 –> 00:47:44,560
\nscene.
\nThere is a. <\/p>\n
745
\n00:47:44,560 –> 00:47:49,040
\nGreat Lion in the Middle East.
\nWho has already by? <\/p>\n
746
\n00:47:49,040 –> 00:47:52,320
\nThe time of Isaiah 1.
\nArched over through the top of <\/p>\n
747
\n00:47:52,320 –> 00:47:54,280
\nthe.
\nFertile, present and with <\/p>\n
748
\n00:47:54,280 –> 00:47:57,480
\nvicious and hungry eyes ready
\nto. <\/p>\n
749
\n00:47:57,520 –> 00:48:01,200
\nTear Judah apart as well.
\nAs the north. <\/p>\n
750
\n00:48:01,880 –> 00:48:03,720
\nThat’s the scene in Isaiah 1 and
\none. <\/p>\n
751
\n00:48:04,520 –> 00:48:07,360
\nIt’s.
\nA time of great urgency. <\/p>\n
752
\n00:48:07,520 –> 00:48:12,040
\nThere’s not much time left.
\nAnd God raises up Micah, and he <\/p>\n
753
\n00:48:12,040 –> 00:48:17,560
\nraises up Hosea, and he raises
\nup Isaiah to warn this nation, <\/p>\n
754
\n00:48:17,840 –> 00:48:19,960
\nand he.
\nRaises up Hezekiah the <\/p>\n
755
\n00:48:19,960 –> 00:48:23,720
\nRighteous.
\nKing who will do and undo? <\/p>\n
756
\n00:48:23,840 –> 00:48:27,040
\nAll that A has his.
\nFather had done for wicked. <\/p>\n
757
\n00:48:27,600 –> 00:48:31,040
\nNow, in the few moments.
\nThat remain What about this <\/p>\n
758
\n00:48:31,040 –> 00:48:33,440
\nfaithless king?
\nThat had created such a. <\/p>\n
759
\n00:48:33,440 –> 00:48:37,960
\nTerrible scene for Isaiah and
\nHezekiah to have to unravel. <\/p>\n
760
\n00:48:39,120 –> 00:48:42,960
\nSecond Kings, consider this
\nchapter 16. <\/p>\n
761
\n00:48:45,920 –> 00:48:49,040
\nThese are the days of Ahaz,
\nfather of Hezekiah. <\/p>\n
762
\n00:48:49,920 –> 00:48:51,440
\nThis.
\nIs the mess. <\/p>\n
763
\n00:48:51,440 –> 00:48:54,440
\nThat was to be left.
\nTo Isaiah and Hezekiah. <\/p>\n
764
\n00:48:55,040 –> 00:49:03,680
\nFor it says this verse.
\nTen of Second Kings 16 and King <\/p>\n
765
\n00:49:03,680 –> 00:49:07,720
\nAhaz went to Damascus.
\nThis just before the. <\/p>\n
766
\n00:49:07,720 –> 00:49:13,000
\nTime of Isaiah’s main ministry.
\nHe went to Damascus to meet. <\/p>\n
767
\n00:49:13,040 –> 00:49:15,280
\nTigleth Pleaser.
\nThe man we just mentioned. <\/p>\n
768
\n00:49:15,560 –> 00:49:18,120
\nThe architect of Assyria.
\nKing of Assyria and. <\/p>\n
769
\n00:49:18,560 –> 00:49:20,960
\nWhat does he do?
\nHe saw an altar that was at <\/p>\n
770
\n00:49:20,960 –> 00:49:23,120
\nDamascus.
\nAnd King Ahaz. <\/p>\n
771
\n00:49:23,120 –> 00:49:26,200
\nSent to Urijah the priest.
\nA Jewish priest. <\/p>\n
772
\n00:49:27,680 –> 00:49:31,800
\nThe fashion of the altar and the
\npattern of it, according to all <\/p>\n
773
\n00:49:31,800 –> 00:49:36,120
\nthe workmanship thereof.
\nAnd what does Ahaz have in mind?<\/p>\n
774
\n00:49:36,840 –> 00:49:41,080
\nHaving seen this apostate altar?
\nHe sends back the blueprints for<\/p>\n
775
\n00:49:41,080 –> 00:49:45,160
\nit to be made in Jerusalem.
\nVerse 14. <\/p>\n
776
\n00:49:45,640 –> 00:49:48,920
\nAhaz he brought also.
\nThe brazen altar, which was. <\/p>\n
777
\n00:49:48,920 –> 00:49:52,400
\nBefore the Lord.
\nFrom the forefront of the house,<\/p>\n
778
\n00:49:52,600 –> 00:49:55,760
\nfrom between the altar and the.
\nHouse of the Lord. <\/p>\n
779
\n00:49:56,000 –> 00:49:58,360
\nAnd put it on the north.
\nSide of the altar. <\/p>\n
780
\n00:49:58,920 –> 00:49:59,760
\nAnd King.
\nAhaz. <\/p>\n
781
\n00:49:59,760 –> 00:50:03,360
\nCommanded you ride to the
\npriest, saying, upon the great <\/p>\n
782
\n00:50:03,360 –> 00:50:07,240
\naltar, that is burn the morning
\nburnt offering and evening meat <\/p>\n
783
\n00:50:07,240 –> 00:50:09,920
\noffering and the King’s burnt
\nsacrifice. <\/p>\n
784
\n00:50:10,680 –> 00:50:14,640
\nVerse 17 and king.
\nAhaz cut off the borders of the <\/p>\n
785
\n00:50:14,640 –> 00:50:16,880
\nbases.
\nThis is the Labor referred. <\/p>\n
786
\n00:50:16,880 –> 00:50:21,360
\nTo in verse 16 and 15 and
\nremoved the labor from them and <\/p>\n
787
\n00:50:21,360 –> 00:50:24,480
\ntook down the sea.
\nThat’s the labor from the brazen<\/p>\n
788
\n00:50:24,480 –> 00:50:26,480
\noxen that were under it and put
\nit. <\/p>\n
789
\n00:50:26,480 –> 00:50:30,600
\nUpon a pavement of stones.
\nCan you imagine what he’s doing?<\/p>\n
790
\n00:50:30,960 –> 00:50:35,120
\nHere’s the father of Hezekiah.
\nChanging the worship of Israel. <\/p>\n
791
\n00:50:35,560 –> 00:50:39,840
\nDeep rooted apostasy borrowed.
\nFrom the ancient Middle East in <\/p>\n
792
\n00:50:39,840 –> 00:50:44,400
\nall its superstitions, then turn
\nover to Second Chronicles 28 <\/p>\n
793
\n00:50:45,240 –> 00:50:49,880
\nappointed summary of this wicked
\nand perverse man who did so much<\/p>\n
794
\n00:50:50,440 –> 00:50:53,960
\nto create problems for the days
\nof Isaiah and Hezekiah. <\/p>\n
795
\n00:50:56,600 –> 00:50:59,560
\nSecond Chronicles, 28.
\nAs we get a. <\/p>\n
796
\n00:50:59,560 –> 00:51:04,960
\nSummary of Ahaz and his reign.
\nNotice this Second Chronicles <\/p>\n
797
\n00:51:04,960 –> 00:51:10,920
\n28, verse 22 and in the time of
\nhis. <\/p>\n
798
\n00:51:10,920 –> 00:51:16,080
\nDistress that they has did he?
\nTrespass yet more against the. <\/p>\n
799
\n00:51:16,080 –> 00:51:20,160
\nLord, this is that.
\nKing A has, and he sacrificed <\/p>\n
800
\n00:51:20,160 –> 00:51:23,560
\nunto the gods of Damascus, which
\nsmote him, and he. <\/p>\n
801
\n00:51:23,560 –> 00:51:27,480
\nSaid because the gods of.
\nThe kings of Syria help them <\/p>\n
802
\n00:51:27,880 –> 00:51:29,680
\ntherefore.
\nLook at this logic. <\/p>\n
803
\n00:51:30,240 –> 00:51:34,240
\nTherefore I will sacrifice to
\nthem. <\/p>\n
804
\n00:51:34,680 –> 00:51:37,120
\nThat they may help me.
\nBut they were the. <\/p>\n
805
\n00:51:37,120 –> 00:51:41,640
\nRuin of him and of all Israel
\nand ahaz gathered together the. <\/p>\n
806
\n00:51:41,640 –> 00:51:44,320
\nVessels of the House of.
\nGod and cut in pieces the <\/p>\n
807
\n00:51:44,320 –> 00:51:45,720
\nvessels.
\nOf the House of God. <\/p>\n
808
\n00:51:46,080 –> 00:51:49,000
\nAnd shut up the.
\nDoors of the House of the Lord. <\/p>\n
809
\n00:51:49,320 –> 00:51:52,880
\nAnd he made him altars in every
\ncorner of Jerusalem. <\/p>\n
810
\n00:51:54,880 –> 00:51:59,000
\nThere’s the scene when we open
\nto Isaiah 1 verse one. <\/p>\n
811
\n00:51:59,360 –> 00:52:03,720
\nWe’re living in times.
\nOf two problems. 2 Not only. <\/p>\n
812
\n00:52:03,720 –> 00:52:07,400
\nDo we have the?
\nAdvance of Assyria as an enemy <\/p>\n
813
\n00:52:07,400 –> 00:52:11,240
\nfrom without.
\nWe have a scene in Isaiah 1 and <\/p>\n
814
\n00:52:11,240 –> 00:52:14,240
\none.
\nThat is riddled with apostasy. <\/p>\n
815
\n00:52:14,680 –> 00:52:18,680
\nIt’s a.
\nSick nation and a faithless king<\/p>\n
816
\n00:52:19,680 –> 00:52:22,680
\nBy way of conclusion Isaiah 1
\nverse one. <\/p>\n
817
\n00:52:26,440 –> 00:52:30,320
\nNotice this graphic description
\nof the sick nation. <\/p>\n
818
\n00:52:30,720 –> 00:52:33,280
\nAs a result of the.
\nFaithless King. <\/p>\n
819
\n00:52:34,960 –> 00:52:37,720
\nWe’ll come back to these details
\nin more detail in the next few <\/p>\n
820
\n00:52:37,720 –> 00:52:44,880
\nlessons, but let’s just notice
\nIsaiah 1, verse 2, second part <\/p>\n
821
\n00:52:44,880 –> 00:52:47,720
\nof the verse.
\nI have nourished and brought up <\/p>\n
822
\n00:52:47,720 –> 00:52:50,200
\nchildren, and they have rebelled
\nagainst me. <\/p>\n
823
\n00:52:50,920 –> 00:52:54,440
\nThe ox knoweth his owner, and
\nthe asked his master. <\/p>\n
824
\n00:52:54,440 –> 00:53:00,320
\n‘S crib, but Israel.
\nDo not know my doth not know my <\/p>\n
825
\n00:53:00,320 –> 00:53:03,800
\npeople doth not.
\nConsider look how he describes. <\/p>\n
826
\n00:53:03,800 –> 00:53:12,160
\nHis nation, ah, sinful nation, a
\npeople laden with iniquity. <\/p>\n
827
\n00:53:12,280 –> 00:53:14,800
\nI think of our woman yesterday
\nwith her curved back. <\/p>\n
828
\n00:53:15,360 –> 00:53:18,280
\nA feed of evil doers like the
\nwords. <\/p>\n
829
\n00:53:18,280 –> 00:53:20,160
\nOf the master, when he described
\nthem as a brood. <\/p>\n
830
\n00:53:20,160 –> 00:53:21,960
\nOf Vipers.
\nChildren. <\/p>\n
831
\n00:53:21,960 –> 00:53:24,600
\nThere’s that word, children that
\nare corrupters. <\/p>\n
832
\n00:53:24,880 –> 00:53:28,680
\nThey have forsaken the Lord.
\nThey have provoked the holy. <\/p>\n
833
\n00:53:28,680 –> 00:53:32,880
\nOne of Israel unto anger.
\nThey are gone away, backward. <\/p>\n
834
\n00:53:33,600 –> 00:53:36,640
\nAnd he appeals to them.
\nWhy should ye be stricken? <\/p>\n
835
\n00:53:36,840 –> 00:53:41,160
\nA word describing leprosy?
\nHe will revolt more and more. <\/p>\n
836
\n00:53:41,200 –> 00:53:45,520
\nThe whole head is thick.
\nAnd the heart faint. <\/p>\n
837
\n00:53:46,080 –> 00:53:49,320
\nFrom the sole of the foot.
\nEven unto the head there’s no <\/p>\n
838
\n00:53:49,320 –> 00:53:54,480
\nsoundness in it but wounds and
\nbruises and putrefying sores. <\/p>\n
839
\n00:53:55,400 –> 00:53:59,080
\nThey have not been closed,
\nneither bound up, neither <\/p>\n
840
\n00:53:59,080 –> 00:54:02,280
\nmollified with ointment.
\nThere it is. <\/p>\n
841
\n00:54:02,760 –> 00:54:06,840
\nOne of the most condensed and
\nmost graphic descriptions in the<\/p>\n
842
\n00:54:06,840 –> 00:54:11,360
\nOld Testament of the.
\nWhole ecclesia as a thick, <\/p>\n
843
\n00:54:11,840 –> 00:54:16,840
\nputrefying body, ready to die
\nlike the body of a. <\/p>\n
844
\n00:54:16,840 –> 00:54:19,720
\nLeper and how?
\nDid it get that way? <\/p>\n
845
\n00:54:20,360 –> 00:54:25,960
\nA sick nation inherited the
\nwaywardness of a faithless king.<\/p>\n
846
\n00:54:26,360 –> 00:54:30,160
\nBut tomorrow we’ll consider
\nHezekiah, who is going to <\/p>\n
847
\n00:54:30,160 –> 00:54:30,840
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