00:00 Introduction and All-Star Game Tuesday

00:26 Vacation Bible School Excitement

01:00 ESV Spiral Bound Journaling Bible Review

02:44 Daily Bible Reading: Isaiah 13-17

03:04 Judgment on Babylon and God's Sovereignty

05:56 The Day of the Lord and Cosmic Response

12:21 Judgment on Surrounding Nations

17:43 Conclusion and Prayer

Hey, everybody.

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Welcome to today's episode

of the daily Bible podcast.

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In fact, it's not just any Tuesday.

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It is all star game Tuesday,

the baseball all-star game.

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If you're not aware, It's being held

here in Texas in the home of the

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Texas Rangers, the world champion.

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Texas Rangers they're hosting.

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The all-star game is tonight.

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Uh, it should be an interesting

game if you're into watching that.

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Of course, none of you are going to be

watching it because all of you are going

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to be with us at compass Bible church for.

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Vacation Bible school.

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So my wife reminded me of that this

week, as we were talking about.

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Uh, what's happening.

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I said, Hey, the all-star

games on Tuesday.

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She said, Hey, we're

not going to watch it.

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Cause we're going to

be at compass for VBS.

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And that's true.

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And you know what?

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That's better.

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That's better than an all-star game.

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It's better than a sporting event.

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It's going to be an awesome time.

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Uh, we're on day two

of it today on Tuesday.

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And so I trust that they one went well

looking forward to the rest of the week,

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but it is it's all star game Tuesday.

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So there you go.

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If you're at work and somebody

brings up the all-star game,

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you've got something to, to banter

about and, and talk to them about.

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Uh, something else that I thought

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we jump into the text today, maybe a

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But anyways, all that aside, why don't we

get into our daily Bible reading today?

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We got a full day to day.

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We got VBS tonight.

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So let's get right after it.

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Isaiah 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17.

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So we get five chapters today.

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Some Micah was seven chapters.

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A couple of days ago, you get two

chapters less today in this passage.

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Isaiah 13, Isaiah 13 opens

up and the theme shifts from

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where we've been in Isaiah.

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And now this is a little bit harder.

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You may want to, before you jump into

the reading today, and when we're

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going in and out of these prophetic

books, go back and, and kind of

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catch up, go to the chapter 12.

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You don't have to read the whole

thing, but just kind of let your eyes.

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Uh, bounce around in the, in the text

there, remind yourself of where we've

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been, because in chapter 12, we were

talking about the millennial kingdom.

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One chapter 13, we shift from

the millennial kingdom and

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the hope that's there to the

impending reality of judgment.

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And that's what Isaiah 13 is going to

be all about in verses one through five.

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Uh, God is going to

summon it Babylon again.

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Remember, like I said, I

think in yesterday's episode

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or maybe the day before.

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Babylon was not the world

power during this date.

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A serial was.

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And so all of this talk of Babylon.

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Would have been, uh, head-scratching,

uh, not only for the people, but also

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honestly, probably for Isaiah himself.

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I mean, he's yeah, he's gonna

record what, what the Lord wants

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him to record, but he's probably

got his own set of questions.

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Like why Babylon?

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Why not a Syria?

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A serious seems to be the

logical conclusion, but.

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Uh, chapter 13, verse one,

the Oracle concerning Babylon.

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Now.

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Uh, no.

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In these first five verses how the Lord

describes Babylon, he says in verse three,

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my consecrated ones to be consecrated

is to be set apart for the use of God.

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The vessels in the temple were consecrated

you and I, as Christians, we have

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been consecrated for use by the Lord.

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This word is a word that we don't expect

to be applied to a godless nation out a

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Gentile nation like Babylon, but that's

exactly what he does in Isaiah 13 three,

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the Lord speaking, he says I myself

have committed my consecrated ones.

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The ones that I've set apart from my

purposes is what the Lord is saying.

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I've summoned by mighty men to execute

my anger, my proudly exulting ones.

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So there's no doubt in our minds.

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There should be no doubt in our minds.

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There would've been no doubt in

Israel's minds or Isaiah's mind

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about who it was that was responsible

for the impending judgment.

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From the Babylonians.

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God is the one that's doing this.

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He calls them his consecrated once.

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Th that he's going to use this

godless nation to bring judgment

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upon the people of Judah.

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This is a mind boggling concept

so much so that that's really the

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heart of the book of Habakkuk.

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We've alluded to that.

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We've talked about that when we get to

Habakkuk, we'll talk about it in depth.

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But the profit is Habakkuk is so

astounded that God would use a

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godless nation like, like Babylon.

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He can't do that, but that's

what he's saying here.

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My consecrated ones, the

ones that I've set apart.

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So verses one through five God is, is

summoning, Babylon to be the instrument

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of his wrath and anger against Judah.

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Notice it's not passive judgment

or simple permissive judgment.

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God is bringing them.

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He's not just allowing this.

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He is bringing it about he is

causing it to happen according

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to his decreed and perfect.

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I will.

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Verses six through nine then.

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Uh, the idea here, the concept

here is, Hey, you know what?

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We need to fear the Lord fear

the day of the Lord, both

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imminent and, and future fear.

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The judgment whale for the day of the Lord

is near as the destruction from almighty.

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He will come verse nine behold, the day of

the Lord comes cruel with wrath and fierce

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anger to make the land of desolation

into, to destroy sinners from it.

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And so we've talked about this before

the day of the Lord, there was a

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near term fulfillment of that with

the judgment of, of God's people

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at the hands of the Babylonians.

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Like we've been just alluding to

in this chapter, but then there's

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the, the future day of the Lord.

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The the end times, day of the Lord,

both of them shouldn't steal the fear.

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Uh, perhaps the end

times will not perhaps.

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Certainly the N times one, even more so

than the short-term fulfillment at the

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hands of the Babylonians verses 10 through

13, then we get the picture of the cosmic

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response to the impending judgment.

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Th the creation itself, the universe,

the heavens, the constellations.

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Uh, they are trembling at the judgment.

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That's going to come.

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They're going to darken the, the stars

are not going to give their light.

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The sun is not going to give its light.

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Uh, verse 12, people are going to

be more rare than find gold and

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mankind in the gold of oh, fear.

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Uh, verse 13, I'm going to make

the heavens tremble and the earth

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will be shaking out of its place

at the wrath of the Lord of hosts.

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This is a terrifying time.

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And it's this specifically I believe is

alluding to in, in pointing towards that

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ultimate future day of the Lord, uh,

the eschatological day of the Lord and

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that the cosmic response we read about

the earthquakes and the darkening of the

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stars and everything else, we read about

all of that in the book of revelation.

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Here it is with Isaiah about

700 years or so before Christ.

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And he's talking about the same things

as coming in the future day of the Lord.

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Uh, verses 14 through 16, then the focus

shifts back to the Babylonians and here.

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He's talking about the

ruthlessness of the Babylonians.

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He's talking about how, how terrible

they are as a people and what they

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will do to the people of Israel.

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And it's, it's horrific to read this.

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Uh, and, and yet at the same

time, we have to remember.

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Uh, when we read a verse like verse

16, which parents I'll go ahead and

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let you just read verse 16 on your own.

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And you can bring that to, into

light with your, your kids or not.

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But when we read verse 16, remember

what Judah was doing with Maleck.

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Remember what Ahab.

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was doing with Molech.

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And so it's not that they're too far

off the Babylonians and God's people,

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the people of Judah at this time.

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But verses 14 through 16.

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Uh, the ruthlessness there of the

Babylonians in their judgment, then

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verses 17 through 22 of chapter 13.

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Uh, God is going to judge the Babylonians

that's that's comes out in Habakkuk too.

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Listen, Babylon is not

going to just get off.

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Uh, Scott free with their ruthlessness,

that Babylon is, is not going to

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be able to come in and destroy

God's people and remain unpunished.

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In fact, in verse 17, he's going to

God, I'm going to stir up the Medes.

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And so again, God's sovereignty, who

are the Medes, the Mito Persians.

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It's the second empire as we think

of the book of Daniel and the

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statue, Babylon being the golden

head, the Mito Persians, being the.

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The chest and the arms

there that come next there.

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And so the Meads are going to come against

Babylon did end up taking out Babylon.

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So God's saying, Hey, you know what?

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Babylon is going to get theirs too.

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But in verse or chapter

13, Hey, judgment's coming.

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Judgment's coming.

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Chapter 14.

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Then we get into chapter 14 and

that focus shifts once more.

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Uh, back to the millennial kingdom.

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Uh, and, and this we see

in verses one through two.

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Uh, for the Lord will have compassion

on Jacob and we'll again, choose Israel

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and we'll set them in their own land.

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Now, Jacob and Israel, we're not

talking Northern kingdom here.

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We're talking Jacob and Israel

as the representation of the

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entirety of the people of God.

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Uh, and so this is back to thinking

about not the divided kingdom, but

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the United people of God, Jacob and

Israel, God's going to bring them back.

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And when he brings them back, Uh, they

are going to be put in their place.

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Even sojourners are gonna come and

attach themselves to the house of Jacob.

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This is going to be a good time.

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And this is that future

millennial kingdom.

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During this time verses three through 11.

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Israel is going to mock and rejoice

over the downfall of Babylon.

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So this is a near and future.

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And so in the short term, when the Meads

come in and take out the Babylonians.

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There's going to be some rejoicing

from the people of Israel over that.

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And you can understand when you read

about what they're going to do to the

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Israelite people, you can understand

that they would rejoice that this godless

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nation is being punished for that.

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But then in the future, in the

eschatological period of time in

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the millennial kingdom, The you

read the book of revelation in

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during the tribulation period.

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Uh, Babylon is on the scene.

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Again, not Babylon in the same sense that

it is here, but there's a new Babylon

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that's going to show up in the end times.

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And that Babylon just like this

Babylon is going to be judged.

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And at that time, just like

here, the people of God are going

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to rejoice over that judgment.

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So 13.

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Or three through 11 there of chapter 14.

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Uh, is, is Israel rejoicing

now and in the future as well.

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And then verses 14 or verses 12

through 23, then 12 through 23.

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Uh, this focuses on God's

judgment, which features both,

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uh, the king of Babylon and Satan.

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And so this is an important text

because in here you get a reference

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to in verse 12, how you are fallen

from heaven O day star of Dawn.

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Lucifer is the translation O'Day star

Lucifer there, another name for Satan.

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And so here there's a recognition

on the part of God through his

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prophet, that there is a, a coalition

of demonic forces and sometimes

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Satan himself and the evil nations.

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Th the, the world.

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And so this gives us a glimpse

in, in kind of a peek into

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how all of this comes about.

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Uh, similar to when.

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Satan showed up to God before.

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Um, going after job and in God

said, go and, and do what you

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will only do not touch his body.

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Don't take his life from him.

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And then Satan comes back and says,

well, we'll let me touch your body now.

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And God says, okay, fine.

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Go and you may have flipped his

body, but don't take his life.

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Don't kill him.

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Satan.

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It is the, the executer of the

evil, but under the divine and

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permissive decreed will of God.

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And so here in Isaiah, chapter 14,

verses 12 through 23, we see that.

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Satan is working with Babylon to

bring about God's judgment over.

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Uh, his people.

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And so just a crazy.

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Um, multi-layered concept here to get

a glimpse into the divine throne room.

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And yet that's, what's happening in

Isaiah chapter 14, verses 12 through 23.

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Hey, you know what?

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God's going to judge both

Babylon and Satan and, and.

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The language of judgment here.

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Um, in this text, sometimes it

applies to Satan and other times to

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the human king of Babylon and other

times it's, it applies to both.

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And so there's, there's multiple

levels at work there, but it's, it's

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Satan and Babylon and it's Kings are

all being judged by God in verses

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12 through 23 of Isaiah chapter 14.

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Now after this, the focus

shifts to the nations.

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And so from here through the rest of

our reading, Uh, what is going to happen

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is the prophet is going to prophesy

about how God is going to judge some

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of these other nations, uh, Syria.

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In chapter 14, verses 24 through 27.

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Uh, the Philistines in chapter

14, verses 28 through 32.

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In chapter 15, the Moabites in chapter 16.

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Again, still focused

on the Moabites there.

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And then chapter 17, the Syrians

and the Northern kingdom.

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And so the focus shifts to all

of these and we might think,

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okay, well, whiplash year, right?

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We've been talking about Babylon

and Judah, and now all of a sudden

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we're talking about a Syria.

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We're talking about the Philistines.

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We're talking about the Moabites

we're talking about the Syrians.

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What, what is going on?

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Well, here.

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It is my best read on this

section here after God threatens

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judgment with the Babylonians.

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I believe what he's doing here

is he is through the prophet.

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Exhorting his people not to put

their trust in these other nations

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as though they would deliver them

from this impending judgment.

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I think he's saying to, to the

people of Judah saying, Hey, don't

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trust in the Assyrians, because

they're going to be punished.

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They're going to be judged in

chapter 14, verses 24 through 27.

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And then he's saying, you know what?

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As for the Philistines, don't put

your trust in the Philistines.

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Don't think that that they're going

to rejoice, that, that they're

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going to be able to help you because

verses 28 through 32 of chapter

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14, They're going to be judged.

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They're going to fall as well.

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Oh.

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And by the way, the Moabites Hey

judgments, come into the Moabites as well.

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So don't think that you might

be able to turn to the Moabites

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and look for help from them.

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In fact, this is such an interesting

section chapter 15 and 16, because

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the Moabites hold such a unique place

in God's economy with his people.

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Uh, they were the descendants of

the impure relationship of a lot.

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And his daughter, if you remember

that story, that's who the Moabites

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came from to send it from, um, In

this section, it appears that the

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Asian of destruction for the mobile

it's, it's going to be the Assyrians.

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Uh, but, uh, but the, the mobile

remember historically these are the

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people of Baylock who impeded Israel's

journey towards the promised land.

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And he tried to curse them through Baylor.

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These are the people who their

immorality bled into Israel and

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became a snare to the people.

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Numbers 25.

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Uh, these are the people

that David had won a decisive

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victory over during his reign.

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These are the people also though that Ruth

came from that David's grandmother came

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from a, these are the people that rebelled

against Israel and establish their own

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independence during the divided monarchy.

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Moab in Israel has such a

unique history together.

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And here God is saying, you know what?

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Don't look to the mobile.

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Don't think that you're going to be

able to get help from the mobile it's.

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In fact, in chapter 16, what's interesting

is God prophesies through the prophet.

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God says through the prophet that

the mobiles are actually going to

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come to Judah and look for help.

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And that's 16 one that they're going to

send the peace lamb to Judah, and they're

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going to be looking for help from the,

from Judah and saying, Hey, can our.

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Can our fugitives can our, are our

exiles, can we take shelter in Judah?

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Can you protect us from the wrath of

the Assyrians in verses six through

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eight of chapter 16, Isaiah reminds the

Moabites here as they're seeking shelter.

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Look, the only way that

you're going to find.

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Shelter.

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The only way that you're gonna find

shelter is if you find shelter by, by

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repenting, if you find shelter, uh, by, by

getting right with the God of Israel, and

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that's the profits response there, sorry.

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Verses four through five.

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Uh, but then in the rest of chapter

16, Isaiah reminds the reader of why

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Moab was suffering the way they were.

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They were not innocent.

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Uh, at verse six alone,

the word pride shows up.

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Six times to, to describe Moab.

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And so Isaiah's conclusion is, as he

says there in verse, I believe it's

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eight, let Moab whale from Moab.

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And so there was not

going to be hope for Moab.

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There was not going to be deliverance

from Moab and also, Hey, you know what?

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Moab was also not going to be able

to provide any help for Israel.

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And that's what he's

reminding them of chapter 17.

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Then chapter 17, it focuses on Sirius.

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So we've said, Hey, Don't trust in

the Assyrians don't trust in the

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Philistines don't trust in the Moabites.

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Hey, don't trust in the Syrians.

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Uh, this chapter opens.

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By addressing Damascus and Isaiah 17

one, but then notice that who's tucked

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in there in verse three, Ethereum that's

Israel, that's in the Northern kingdom.

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And so the Northern kingdom is

assumed under this Oracle against

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the maskus because the Northern

kingdom had compromised so much.

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And because the Northern

kingdom had had really.

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Just wedded themselves to the Syrians

in so many ways for help against the

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us Syrians that here, they're kind

of brought under the umbrella of

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the judgment against Damascus, and

God is telling the people of Judah.

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Don't trust them.

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Also don't trust the people there.

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Uh, in, in Israel, don't

look to the Syrians.

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Don't look to the Israelites.

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Uh, to the north, they're not

going to help you because they're

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going to be judged as well.

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So Isaiah, this whole section that

we've just read this morning or today.

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We get this focus on this.

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Hey, you know what, judgment's coming on,

Judah at the hands of the Babylonians.

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And by the way, Judah, if you're

looking to escape that judgment,

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don't trust the nations around you.

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Don't look to them for hope because you

know, what's going to happen to them.

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They're going to be judged as well.

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There's one thing that would spare

the people of God and, and really not

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even necessarily from the judgment,

but just that would allow them to be

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part of the remnant that would allow

them to experience some of God's

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mercy in the midst of all of this.

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And that is if they were right

with the Lord, if that is as.

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As we read from Micah, you know,

oh man, what is required of you,

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but to do justice, to love mercy,

to walk humbly with your Lord.

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Uh, there would be some

that would do that.

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Think Daniel and his three friends.

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But for the others.

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Uh, judgment was coming and

there wasn't going to be found

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any hope in any other nation.

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That's what we're looking at

in today's daily Bible reading.

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Let me pray for us.

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And then we'll wrap up God.

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Thanks for this day.

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Uh, thanks for our VBS that's going on

and we should pray for another great

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night tonight for that, we pray that it

would be, uh, just a, an, an awesome.

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Camp that it would be an awesome

experience for those that are gathered

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there for these kiddos, that they

would learn a lot about the gospel.

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Learn a lot about who Jesus is, that

these would be seized, that you would

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water and bring to full growth later on.

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And God, we pray that we would trust you.

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We pray that when we experience your hand

of discipline in our life and judgment

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in our life, that we would not turn like

the Israelites were attempted to, to.

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Other sources to try to escape

your discipline, but that we would

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understand that your discipline

is meant to drive us to you.

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That has meant to produce repentance.

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And so God help us to be quick

along those lines to repent.

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And to fleet to you.

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And so we thank you for this.

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Thank you for this reading.

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Thank you for today.

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We pray this all in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Hey, keep it in your Bibles

and be back with us tomorrow.

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Cause pastor rods back

on the podcast tomorrow.

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And looking forward to

that, I know you are too.

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So keep bring your Bibles and

don't miss tomorrow's reading.

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Bye-bye.