00:00 Introduction and Welcome

00:34 Upcoming Events at Compass Bible Church

03:30 Discussion on Scams and AI

05:07 Introduction to the Book of Isaiah

07:57 Isaiah Chapter 1: Indictment of Judah

11:43 Isaiah Chapter 2: The Ideal and the Day of the Lord

14:12 Isaiah Chapter 3: Society's Collapse

17:47 Isaiah Chapter 4: Future Hope for Israel

19:54 Conclusion and Encouragement

Okay, welcome.

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To Tuesday.

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Hello?

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Yeah.

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We're back with you.

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We got the Bible.

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We've got Isaiah chapters,

one through four.

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Hmm.

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Uh, yeah, it's going to

get, it's gonna be good.

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It's already good.

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I trust that a hundred percent.

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Yeah.

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Uh, in fact, if you've already done your

Bible reading, you might be like, man,

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I say a 1, 2, 3, there's a lot there.

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And then you're like,

oh, how long has four?

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And then you get to four

and it's only six verses.

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Yeah.

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It's still a lot though.

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It's still a lot.

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Yeah, it is needy.

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It is.

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And it's prophecy to you, which is why

this plan again, is so helpful because

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we have the backdrop to this prophecy.

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Right.

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Which is awesome.

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So awesome.

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But before we get there, Yeah, what do

we got coming up right now with, with

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compass Bible church, we got a few things.

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Yeah.

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Next week.

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This week, next week we got VBS.

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Oh yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, that's true.

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Yes next week.

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Yeah, that's going to be fun.

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We're doing.

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Ours from six to nine.

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O'clock right.

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Yep.

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In the evening.

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69.

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Yeah.

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So it's six to nine, so it's

just gonna be darker heat.

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Yeah.

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I remember that that was my

first experience with, uh,

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with that kind of weather.

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Yup.

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We've been Chewy's.

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Yeah, cause it's not the desert here.

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So the cool air does not come in.

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It does not.

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Although the hurricane came and so

that cool things down a little bit.

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Yeah.

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I mean, we gave us a really nice letter.

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Yeah.

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And that's hurricane what

hurricanes do to us up here.

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Some people you might be

thinking, did you get hit by?

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No.

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Because we are like six hours away from

any potential hurricane threatened.

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Uh, no, no, it doesn't.

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The effects.

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Yeah, some of the cloud coverage

and some of the cool air cooler.

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Which would be nice.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, for sure.

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Yeah.

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So we got DBS.

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That'll be a good time.

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Uh, looking forward to that.

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We've also got revival coming up for

our students, which is going to be good.

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God created.

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Down in a hill country.

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That's right.

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Yep.

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With our sister church down there.

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Evan and the crew.

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Yup.

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And then I know this feels like

a long time away, but it's really

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going to be here before we know it.

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Uh, we've got in November, the

transformed conference transformed,

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which is a conference that we're

doing on marriage and family.

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And we're going to have Dr.

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Albert Mohler.

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All about the headliners.

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Yeah.

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Dr.

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Albert Mohler is going to be here and,

uh, be looking for something special.

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On that front.

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I don't want to give away any spoilers.

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But we're going to PR.

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Possibly play something in our service

coming up here the next couple of weeks

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that you're not gonna want to miss.

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Yeah.

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So you should be there for it.

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But Dr.

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Albert Mueller is going

to be there with us.

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Uh, Dr.

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Mike Doris is going to be there with us.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I spent some time with him.

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Yeah, he's, uh, he's our

sending pastor in California.

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And so he's coming out for, uh, for that.

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He's going to be preaching for us as

well at that, which is gonna be awesome.

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Um, and then I'm going to

be preaching at it as well.

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Cleanup, huh?

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Ah, not that bad now I'm kind of slipped

in the middle so that it's like, okay.

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Well, at least we get more

from a pastor, Mike and Dr.

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Mullen.

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What are you reaching them?

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I don't man.

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Full cars on the T.

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I have no idea.

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I have no idea.

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I just, I was asked when you

take it to be a part of it.

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And I'm a part of that.

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I don't think that's a good idea.

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It to a marriage.

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I think that's a bad idea.

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Well, let's open the door.

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Let's see what happens.

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You can do is you might get something.

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That's a great email pastor out on that.

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And he will filter them for me.

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And.

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Bring me what?

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Nope.

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Nuno.

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No.

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rod@compassntx.org.

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It's an email.

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And I tell him, please don't please.

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Don't because I like you guys.

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I don't, I don't want

the bots are listening.

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Are they?

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Yes, the bots are.

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Always listening.

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Do they listen to the podcast?

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The bots?

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I feel like it does.

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How many times have we set our

compass, our podcast, email address.

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Or a podcast.

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Yes, that's true.

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We haven't gotten spammed on that.

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I guess.

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No, not yet.

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We're not big enough for bots yet.

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I get text messages all the

time from bought spammy people.

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The USP S they're like, Hey, we

tried to make a delivery and we

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didn't have your full address.

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We've got your phone number

somehow, but not your full address.

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You should call us and give us your social

security number to verify as well as your

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credit card, dude, those, those scammers.

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They there they're making money.

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Somehow people are falling for that.

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Because otherwise they

wouldn't be doing it anymore.

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Well, I heard it.

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I heard it as new tech.

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That will allow scammers

to utilize your voice.

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To make phone calls to your family.

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With your voice saying I'm in prison.

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Please send me this amount

of money so I can get up.

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Yeah, we're cooked on that

because our voices is out there.

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Yeah, everything that we would say, and

the way that we would say it is out there.

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Yeah, here's the problem though?

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I would imagine.

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Our family would like.

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Verify.

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How would you do that?

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Uh, I'm going to text my wife

and be like, Hey you in prison.

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Can I call her.

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I mean, honestly, that

would be my first thing.

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Like.

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Yeah, I think I would go home.

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I think I'll check.

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I think it would.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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I don't know, man.

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So some of the technology that's

allowing that kind of stuff to happen.

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It's it would not be surprising.

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That people would fall for

it and lose tons of money.

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Again, man, take AI, take it all away.

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Give me the old olden days and I'm good.

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Um, yeah.

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You didn't have AI.

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Uh, I had an IAA.

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But not AI, Isaiah,

actually, he did have AI.

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Yeah.

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You know, anyways.

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Spell his name.

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It's true.

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Yeah.

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So there you go.

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And you see Saya.

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Yeah.

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Anyways, Isaiah we're,

uh, we're diving in here.

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A book of Isaiah Isaiah, one through

four today, Isaiah is the most

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quoted prophet in the new Testament.

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Over 65 times is Isaiah quoted.

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Uh, he's a prophet of Judah.

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So he's in the south.

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Oh, hold on.

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Hold on over 65 times.

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Yeah.

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With just give us the number,

then I don't have the number.

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Okay.

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Over 60.

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Over 65 times less than 70.

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I don't.

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No

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66 times.

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I don't know.

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That's just what the commentary

that I was consulting told me.

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It was just an odd number to the over 65.

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Okay.

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Well, is it 66, 67.

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Listen, nine out of 10.

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Profits agree that he's the

most quoted prophet in the

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new Testament over 65 times.

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Anyways.

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Here's a profit during the

reigns of over three Kings.

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For even.

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Zaja who we've been talking about.

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Right.

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As a rye, I would say chapter six

in the year that king Uzziah died.

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We're going to get there.

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I'll put my cards on the table right now.

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I believe the call of Isaiah happens.

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In Isaiah chapter six, I believe

that's his call and commissioning.

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So I'll talk about these first

four chapters as we get into that.

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But so Jonathan who's Azariah son a has.

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And has a Kaia.

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This is the, the, the time

period of ministry for.

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Before.

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Isaiah.

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And again, all in the Southern

kingdom, this is Judah.

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Dates.

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If you're looking for dates.

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Rough and dirty 7 30, 9 to 6 86 BC.

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Uh, it was a contemporary

of Hosea and Micah.

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And administered during a time of

spiritual decline in Israel, except

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for has a CA has a kind of, has some

reforms that he brings to the table, but.

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Uh, outside of, of Hezekiah it's it's not

a great scene in Israel at this point.

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Anything else on background

or the book in general?

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Uh, I would say.

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Uh, high level outline.

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That's helpful to keep in mind.

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Yep.

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Yes, chapters one to 39, which kind

of functions like an old Testament.

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Um, and then chapters 40 through

66, which kind of functions.

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Promises restoration

hope and Jesus coming.

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So it's really, it's a really

easy breakdown, although it's

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a very simplistic breakdown.

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So chapters one through 39

is kind of the first half.

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God's coming judgment.

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And then 42 56, the second

half, I mean, rough and dirty.

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Isn't that half, but you get the idea.

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Do you do 66 and it's God's

promise for hope and restoration.

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That is good.

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And that's.

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You're going to see that there, there

is a balance even earlier in the

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book, there's still a balance of this

idea of, of the impending judgment.

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But, uh, the, uh, The hope.

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And we're going to see that in even

some of, I think tomorrow's reading.

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Uh, when we get into it, uh, That

there is some, some mercy in judgment.

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I think it's, it's in a

Habakkuk, the prophet praise

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in your wrath, remember mercy.

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And I think we see God do that

multiple times with his people.

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Israel, as he's giving both.

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Uh, sides of the equation there.

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As the chapter one opens up with the

Isaiah, the vision of Isaiah son of

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Amos, which he saw concerning Judah

and Jerusalem in the days of Isaiah,

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Jonathan a has Hezekiah Kings of Judah.

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And so here he's, he's laying out

his ministry there in verse one.

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Uh, and so what I think is happening

in verses or chapters one through five.

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Uh, is, is I Isaiah's painting the

picture of the context for his ministry.

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His ministry is really going to

start in earnest after chapter six.

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That's why I believe chapter six

is the call of, of, of Isaiah,

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the con commissioning of Isaiah

that the first five chapters is

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Isaiah, really kind of saying, this

is the state of things in Israel.

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This is the state of things in Judah here.

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And so in verses two through nine

of chapter, one creation is someone

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to serve as a witness against Judah

as to why she found herself in this

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state of destruction suffering.

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God's wrath for her rebellion.

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Against him.

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So, uh, this could be the

destruction that's taking place here.

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I could be depicting a couple of things.

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It could be the Syrian invasion from

second Kings chapter 15 through 16.

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So remember Pekka and Syria that we

just left off talking about yesterday.

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Coming against Judah.

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And in that could be some of the

destruction that's in view here.

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Or it could look all the

way forward to Sennacherib.

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Uh, in second Chronicles, chapter 32,

that's a destruction in an attack.

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That's going to take place in 7 0 1 BC.

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Uh, it could be really

either of those two.

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Uh, that that's being depicted here

in these, these opening verses.

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Uh, verses 10 through 20,

then in this section, the Lord

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confronts the spiritual show.

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At the facade that Judah had put on

for so long, going through the motions

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without a heart of true devotion.

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And God had had enough of their

ritualism and call them out on

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it, commanding them to repent.

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Uh, verses 16 through 17 there.

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And if they wouldn't, then they

would be cleaned in or if they

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would rather, they would be cleaned

and forgiven and that's verse 18.

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So there's, there's some gospel imagery,

like we were just talking about there.

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There's the threat of judgment, but

there's also that, that hope there.

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Uh, and the, the path back is, Hey,

you know, stop, stop your sinful

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ways, learn new habits of living

and behavior and seek new goals and

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objectives, justice, the reformation

of society, so forth and so on.

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And then chapter one in verses 21

through 31 concludes with the Lord.

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Uh, declaring that he's going

to enter into judgment with

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Judah, for her faithlessness.

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Uh, but the judgment was going

to be restorative in and we see

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that even in verses 25 through 27.

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Um, that, that there's going to be,

he's going to restore the judges

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as at the first verse 26, your

counselors as at the beginning.

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So there's a, there's a hopefulness here.

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Uh, still in the midst of

the judgment of the Lord.

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Uh, but the, for those who

refused, they would become Tinder

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for the Lord's consuming fire.

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So chapter one, kind of the indictment of,

of Judah and that's its current situation.

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One of the things that I think is helpful.

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In looking at stuff like that.

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I can pick it.

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The average Christian

reading doesn't seem as.

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Well, so what.

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What does this have to do with me?

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What does this have to do with

the price of tea in China?

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And I think one of the most brilliant

things that J I packer says in his

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book, knowing God, is that the reason

that the whole Bible is relevant to

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us is because God doesn't change.

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He's immutable.

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His personality is his character

is still on display it's evergreen

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because how he dealt with them.

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It is in some ways, the way that he

still deals with us, granted there is

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a big shift and a difference in the

new covenant, but I think it's helpful

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to see the way that God looks at our

worship, the way that God looks at the

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expect expected response of his people.

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And it's not.

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Formalism.

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It's not ritualism God expects

us to bring our full hearts and

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our full heads to the occasion.

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And that includes our, I think

our Sunday worship services.

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And that includes our

small groups that includes.

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I don't know everything.

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If all of life is worshiped and all of

life, that is not a matter of performance.

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It's a matter of bringing what you

have to God and utilizing that in

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a way that is authentic and real.

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So I would say that's, what's helpful

in chapter one, although there's so

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many more things, but as you make your

way through a book that has a lot of

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history, Uh, remember God doesn't change.

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How has his character on display

and how does that matter to you?

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I think there's a lot there.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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That's good.

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That's good.

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Chapter two then.

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Uh, something that this could have been

a separate writing of Isaiah's in fact, I

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read one commentary that said this could

have even been kind of like a newspaper

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that was posted on the bulletin board for

the people that needed to be able to see.

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Again, a call, uh, for, for attention

and, and really that's kind of

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all chapters two through four.

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And so that's, that's what we're

looking at here from, from this

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point forward, is this kind of.

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Hey, cultural attention for the

people to hear and to understand.

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Uh, chapter two, verses two through five.

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Uh, this is the ideal.

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This is what is eventually going to

come to pass in the millennial kingdom.

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That's what Isaiah hasn't view here

that this, this is going to be when

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the people flock to the Lord, that

when, when justice goes forth, when

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he's going to judge between the

nations verse four, this is the

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millennial kingdom that's in view here.

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But then from there, he turns in

verses six through 22 and says, as

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it is right now, uh, that's that.

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KA com right now, because right now

what's needed is, is the day of the Lord.

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It's the judgment.

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That's going to come.

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And this is a day where he's going

to humble, the proud he's going

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to execute judgment so severe that

people are going to beg on the Mount

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for the mountains to fall on them

and to hide them from his wrath.

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If you've read the book of revelation,

some of the same ideas come forth

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in revelation that the judgment

of God they're going to be calling

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to the caves to collapse on them.

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To save them from the wrath of

God, such a terrifying thing.

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And the idols that they love so much

right now, if they're gonna be tossed

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aside as worthless and powerless

to save them from what's coming.

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So here in, in chapter two, he's saying,

look, here's the millennial kingdom.

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This is what's ideal.

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But it can't happen right now.

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And it can't happen right now

because you need to be cleansed

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and you need to be judged.

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And the wrath of God is coming, and

this is what it's going to look like.

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Hey, a great verse for your

evangelism chapter two, verse 22.

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Stop regarding man.

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And whose nostrils is breath.

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We're of what the count is.

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Heat.

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You don't fear, man.

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God, God wants you to fear him.

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In fact, Mr.

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Reiterate here the day of the

Lord, as we talked about before.

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It has both near and far fulfillment.

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The near fulfillment is God's

judgment upon the people and that can

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happen over various days and various

seasons over the course of history.

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There've been many days of the Lord.

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Uh, lower case D and a capital L, but

there's going to be an ultimate day of the

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Lord, where he sets all things in order.

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And so all those big scary people

that you thought were so powerful

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and so threatening, they're

going to be cut down to size.

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No one is going to stand

up before God and boast.

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No, one's going to say.

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Come at me, bro.

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No one's going to do that.

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God's going to exercise his strength,

his justice, his power, and all

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the people that we were afraid of.

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We are so afraid of nor are we so

terrified about don't fear people, but the

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message out there be bold as a Christian

and God's going to take care of you.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Well, chapter three.

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You've heard me say time and time again,

and I'll say it again before I get in and

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make the point that I'm about to make.

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We are not Israel.

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2.0, right.

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Yeah.

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That's not who we are

here in the United States.

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We are not supposed to take what

happened with Israel and apply it here.

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But I think there's again, to

your point in chapter one about

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how we can, God never changes.

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I think there's something here for us

to pay attention to because what we

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see in chapter three is society there

in Jerusalem is ultimately going to

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collapse because the Lord is going to

remove his gracious hand of support

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from the people it's going to devolve

into the result of its depravity.

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Uh, that's really the first eight

verses God is saying, in fact,

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he says as much, Hey, I'm taking

away the support and supply.

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So we're not, we're not Israel 2.0.

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And the fact that God is not

supporting and supplying us in the

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same way that he did his people.

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But when, when godlessness

just takes over a nation.

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Uh, God can all Romans chapter one, turn

that nation over to its own desires.

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And part of me wonders is we're seeing

all of the chaos going on right now.

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In our, uh, our political nation in our

society and everything else going on.

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I got to think, man.

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I wonder if this has got looking

at our nation going okay.

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Here have it.

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I have this chaos have the, the,

the nonsense that's going on.

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And here we see with, with.

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Chapter three God is through Isaiah,

the prophet saying, I'm done.

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I'm going to let you see what it's like

to live without my hand of favor upon you.

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And it's not going to be pretty here.

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So that you say that.

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Cause I didn't think about that in

terms of the way that our culture acts.

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I think that's a fair point.

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Yeah.

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One of the things that exists here

that stood out to me is that the

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youth will be insolent to the elder.

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That young people will

not respect their elders.

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They won't show that the kind

of deference and honor that is.

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Warranted, even from a

common grace perspective.

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I thought that's, that's interesting

because I guess that points to

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the integrity of our culture.

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If, if the culture's integrity is

intact, The young people respect

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and honor the elders and the elders.

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Seek to serve and to support the young

people by issuing wisdom and guidance

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and even seeking to protect them.

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Right now you have the opposite.

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You have young people

that don't care about.

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In fact, that's one of the reasons

I love Texas is that you see a

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lot of people that say yes, sir.

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And no, ma'am.

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Thank you.

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Ma'am.

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Those kinds of things

that I really appreciate.

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You didn't really see that a whole

lot in California, but even now, is

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it a broadly speaking or culture is

not that we don't respect our elders.

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And those who are elders seem not to

want to serve their people, but to steal

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from them or to oppress into, to exploit.

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Their constituency.

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And that's a sad place to be.

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I think Isaiah's judgment, even though it

was for them at that place in that time.

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And you see elements, some of these

things here, uh, if history doesn't repeat

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itself, it certainly does Ryan here.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And the, uh, the rest of this.

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Uh, chapter here in chapter three,

what you see is really a great

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reversal of fortunes take place here.

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We see it very plainly

verse 24 instead of perfume.

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And there's going to be rottenness

instead of belt, you're going

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to have a rope and stuff.

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Well, sit here.

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You're going to baldness instead of a

rich rope, you're gonna put on sackcloth.

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And so God is talking about

his judgment through Isaiah.

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He's talking about the fact that the

Lord is going to enter into judgment

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with the people, for their sins in

this great reversal of fortunes.

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You love how things are going right now.

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Fine.

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Wait, wait to see how it's going to

go then everything that, that again

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is so comfortable for you right now.

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It's going to be gone.

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And where, what are you

going to have at that point?

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And, and one of the key themes

in prophecy is God continually

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looks at the people and such.

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You want your idols?

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How are your idols going to deliver

you from what's about to come.

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And I think that's implied here as well.

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What's what's going to happen.

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Hey, you know what?

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No idol is going to be able to

spare you from what's coming here.

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Chapter four then.

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Uh, bookends, uh, chapters two through

four, because remember the beginning of

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chapter two was a focus on the millennial

kingdom that this is what's coming.

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That this is what's good that

this is what God is going to do.

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This is the ideal can't happen right

now because of this individual,

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but this is what's coming.

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Well, chapter four ends that way as well.

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And it's the book end of the section.

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So verses two through six.

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Uh, this again, returns to the

vision of the millennial kingdom.

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The judgment is coming upon the

people, but the Lord's not going

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to be done with them in that day.

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The branch of the Lord is going to be

beautiful and glorious and chapter five.

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Uh, which is in tomorrow's reading.

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We're going to talk

about the vine of Israel.

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And God is going to talk about how

that vine produces wild grapes.

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Well, the, in chapter two in

the millennial kingdom, it's

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going to be a healthy branch.

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There's still a future hope for

the nation and those who choose to

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be faithful rather than faithless.

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There's two ways to approach the

branch in verses two through six.

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And some people will suggest that the

branch referred to here, the holy Brendan.

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Is referring to Christ himself.

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He called the branch later.

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We're going to see that.

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If you got symbology, for

sure, where it's obvious that

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he's not talking about Israel.

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But here, I think the ESD shows

its cards here and that they don't

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capitalize be for branch here.

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Other Bible translations we'll do that.

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So here, I think.

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And now I'd love to hear

your thoughts on this pastor.

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PG.

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I do think that this, the holy

remnant actually refers to.

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Holy Israel, holy Jerusalem, holy Judah.

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Those people that make up God's

people who will be preserved, even

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though there's going to be judgment.

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He says here in verse chapter two,

verse 10, until the righteous that it

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shall be well with them, where they

shall eat the fruit of their deeds.

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Uh, in other words, the righteous will

be preserved, will be protected and

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they are in that sense, the branch of

the Lord, there'll be the ones that

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are preserved through the judgment.

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Uh, but again, some people

believe that's Jesus.

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What, where do you stand?

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Pastor PK?

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I am with you.

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I think it's Israel.

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I would agree with the

interpretation that ESP here.

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Um, I think.

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Uh, the, the branch of the Lord.

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And again, I think that chapter five,

the agricultural analogy that continues

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into chapter five, that contrast.

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Okay.

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But in, but right now that brings

us not doing well right now that

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branch is producing wild vines.

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And so I think that the contrast

again, and in that sense, it's

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going to be Israel and chapter five.

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So here chapter four, I think the branch

is Israel, but it's that future redeemed

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Israel in the millennial kingdom.

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Well, there you go.

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Keep, bring your Bibles

and, uh, stay with us.

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I know there's a, there's a lot going on.

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We're jumping around,

but it's all really good.

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And this is important.

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So keep reading your Bibles

and tune in again tomorrow.

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We'll continue in Isaiah for a

little bit before we get back to

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second Kings and we'll see you then.

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Bye.