00:00 Introduction and Welcome

00:35 Discussing Major Political Events

01:36 Christian Perspective on Political Events

05:34 Biblical Reflections and Teachings

06:06 Prophecies and Historical Context

11:13 Isaiah's Symbolic Actions

14:26 The Fall of Babylon

23:04 Final Thoughts and Prayer

Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another episode

of the daily Bible podcast.

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We're glad that you're with us.

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He tried to keep me away folks.

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I can't share ride to hold me down, buddy.

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I am back from the bed.

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Well, I would do that.

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Yeah.

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He tried to take me out,

but he couldn't do it.

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No, he couldn't do it.

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Man.

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I love black preaching.

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Let me just tell you.

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It could be Charles.

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I know HB Charles gets me going sometimes.

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Yeah.

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Well, You have to put up with me.

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So.

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That's right.

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You're not black.

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Right.

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Never been a curiosity.

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Never been accused of that.

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Wait.

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Um, okay, so we got to talk about

something cause you didn't talk about

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it on the podcast when you were going

solo and I take the blame for that.

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You weren't here.

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Uh, I wasn't here to hold you

accountable to say, Hey, pastor Pete,

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you don't forget to talk about that

major political event that took place.

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And so you completely forgot about it

because you were just all about the Bible.

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Well that, and I recorded all

those episodes before the oh yeah.

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That's that's not important.

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So let's talk about this

massive political event.

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That's going to go down in history.

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I mean, we've only had a few

political assassinations take

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place within our lifetime.

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Certainly.

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I mean, there was two right now.

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Two.

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Uh, anyway, this is a big deal.

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So someone tried to kill

president Trump and.

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Everyone's reeling about this.

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Uh, we don't want to do hot

takes, sometimes hot takes.

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Aren't all that helpful.

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Yeah, especially when you put

stuff in the microwave really hot,

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fast, and then it's just not good.

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Burned yourself.

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Uh, what I'd really like is a cold, take a

thoughtful reflection about how we should

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consider this, what we should do with it.

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Um, what we, as Christians should

think about this whole process,

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what do you got to say about that?

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Yeah.

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I want to borrow from actually

what Steve Lawson preached on.

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Um, he preached at grace community

church where John MacArthur preaches.

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Normally he preached this past weekend

and one of the things that he said.

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That I think is helpful is you

said, listen, the only reason.

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That he was not successful

in this attempt.

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And the other reason that that Trump is

still alive is because it wasn't his day.

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God has our days written in his book.

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Every one of them before we even

one comes to pass someone 39.

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And that day was not the day for Trump.

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There, there will be a

day eventually, right.

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At some point.

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And it just wasn't that day.

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So I think when we see people getting

caught up in, you know, the Providence

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of God and God's sovereignty, and

this means that he's, God's ordained

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one to lead the country next and to

take us into the next four years.

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And he's the one and he's.

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I w we as Christians need to

be careful on that because.

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I can't the only reason why he tilted

his head, the way that he tilted

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his head was that wasn't his day.

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And in that sense was God's sovereign

over that the flight of that bullet.

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Yes.

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A hundred percent.

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But can we conclude that, that thus means.

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That God has spec special things for Trump

to do in office in the next four years.

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If he gets elected.

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Maybe he does, but maybe he doesn't.

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I don't think we can make too

much out of this one event.

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And over sensationalize it.

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I think we can appreciate the

reminder that, Hey God is sovereign.

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Just like when you get in the car, the

reason why you made that left turn safely,

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and nobody ran that red light and T-boned

you is because it wasn't your day to day.

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It may be tomorrow.

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It wasn't today.

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And so I think we need to keep those

things in mind to help us have a

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balanced perspective on things.

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So I saw a post on one of the

social medias of an angel.

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Guarding president, former president

Trump on the platform and the

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angel diverted the bullet or

moved his head at the proper time.

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Something like that is.

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That is kind of the implication.

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God had his angels protecting

president Trump, true or false.

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The Bible does allude to the, the

factor or state the fact that we

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have angels and that's where we get

this concept of guardian angels.

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But.

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You know, I think we, we get into

too sketchy territory when we

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get into the realm of the unseen

and begin to draw conclusions

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about things that we don't know.

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We don't know.

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I mean, Right.

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That's it at the end of the day.

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I mean, when you look at an evil,

desperate who survived an assassination

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attempt, and this is a wicked human

being who does awful things, are we

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going to say the same thing for that guy?

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Um, that, that there was an angel

that turned his head at the last

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minute and or that caused him not to

show up at that event and where he

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would've been blown up and taken out.

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Where are we going to say.

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No.

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This is part of God's sovereign

ordained plan for human history.

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That's working itself out

and it wasn't that guy's day.

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And that that's where I'm more

comfortable falling than I am saying.

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This was an angelic intervention

that prevented him from being

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killed because we don't know, it

could have been, could have been.

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God could have moved his head at the

right time with the angel orange.

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Could you just use Trump's own

will to move his head at the right

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time and have all that take place.

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Ultimately, the end of the day,

we're just gonna say God sovereign

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over bullets and overhead tilts and

over wind and bullet trajectory,

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et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

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There's literally nothing.

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Outside of his sovereign

control and purposes.

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Right.

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Okay.

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So at the end of the day, then.

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Uh, final thoughts about this whole thing.

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I mean, I shared it on Sunday.

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I just, I think.

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Uh, you know, there was that like,

Motivating kind of bravado moment where he

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gets up and he throws his fist in the air.

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Fight right.

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Um, the application.

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Right.

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USA USA.

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The implication and conclusion being okay.

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Hey.

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Republicans go out and

do like let's fight.

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Let's win this thing.

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Let's go do what.

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What our task is at hand.

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And I just found myself thinking, man,

we've got a savior that walked out

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of the grave, never to enter again.

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When he didn't throw his fist in the

air and say fight, but he said, Hey,

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go and make disciples of all nations.

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And that's, that's a better rallying.

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That's a way better rallying cry, and he's

a way better savior to follow than any

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human being running for political office.

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So that's what I was reminded of is

just that, that I got excited about

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that and it was a little convicting.

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I was like, man, I need to be just

as excited about following my savior.

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And doing the work that he's got for us

to do in the meantime, I'm into that.

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Well, I know we also want to hear about

some of your thoughts about JD Vance.

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He was recently announced as president

Trump's VP, and of course, that has

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implications for what kind of policy

we can expect to see down the line.

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If in fact Trump does take office,

but let's put a pause on that.

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Put a pin in that until

tomorrow's recording.

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Cause we have a lot of ground to cover

in today's reading and today's expose.

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Positing some today summarizing.

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If Isaiah chapters 18 through what?

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112 or 18 through 22.

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Just shy of a hundred, 1,218 through 22.

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Yeah.

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Um, yeah, so let's jump in.

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We are, uh, jumping back into

this book kind of midstream.

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And so that's something that just

as you're going through this,

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let's see yesterday we were.

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It's still an Isaiah 13 through 17.

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So that's a little bit easier, but some

of these you're going to be jumping

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out of Isaiah and into like coming up.

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We're going to be in second Kings

and second Chronicles, even a

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Psalm 13, then Hosea for two

days and then back in Isaiah.

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So remember, it's, it's helpful to get

a running start sometimes to get back

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into everything going on, but we pick up

here coming off of yesterday's reading.

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We still kind of have.

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Some familiarity.

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And he's turning now

to talk about Kush now.

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Kush represents modern day.

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What we assume to be in

believed to be Ethiopia.

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Um, and, and yet what he's really

talking about here is, is not just

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Ethiopia, but Kush is, is serving as

a Synectics, which is the singular

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serving for representation represent.

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Taishan of the whole.

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And so it's doing that for the entire

world at large kind of all of the nations.

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And so historically, during

this period, the Kush Heights

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were looking to form a larger

multinational kind of conglomeration.

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That was hopeful to

withstand the Assyrians.

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And so instead.

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God wanted them to acknowledge him.

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And eventually they will when

the Lord reigns from Jerusalem.

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So there's this future anticipation of

the redemption of the crusades of this.

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And it's going to be true for Egypt

as well that there's going to be a.

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A millennial kingdom era.

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Uh, return to the Lord or submission

to the Lord at that point.

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But in the short term, like he's been

doing, he's reminding Israel, Hey,

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don't put your trust in all of these

other nations thinking you're going to

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escape what's coming because even the

Kush Heights who are trying to form

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this, this multinational conglomerations

to go to war against the Assyrians,

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it's not going to work for them.

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So one of the cool things about scripture,

I think that we often miss and is

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often reminded us when we read texts.

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Like this is that the Bible

is not American centric.

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It's not Western centric.

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There's peoples that we don't even know.

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This is this the Ethiopians?

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Maybe, maybe not.

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Now I read something about

a Southern Sudan Northern.

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We don't know.

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We just don't know exactly who

this is, but here's what I can see.

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Scripture has a much wider

scope than we typically do.

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And I think this is a really helpful

thing for us to wrap our minds around

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the, the world does not revolve around.

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America.

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The scripture does not

revolve around American.

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This is a really good reminder.

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Keep your self in perspective, even

as we think about president Trump and.

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The political or the

attempted assassination.

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Th this is not what God has in mind.

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This is not the centerpiece of American

history or rather global history.

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God has a much larger plan and purpose.

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And this is just one part of it.

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Yeah, chapter 19, then we get

into the first part of chapter 19.

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There's an internal conflict here

that would plague Egypt and foreigners

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would exercise control over them.

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Uh, Syria in Babylon in particular, there.

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Uh, verses five through 10 Egypt's main

source of life in economy was the Nile

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river in God is going to declare that

it's going to dry up and they're going

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to have nothing to sustain themselves.

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I was reading it.

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A book a while ago on

the history of Egypt.

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And it really does all

revolve around the Nile river.

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So when it's talking about

the now drawing up, it means

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devastation in end for the nation.

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There's no survival for that nation

even today without the Nile river.

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Uh, versus 60 15, then God is

going to confound the wisdom

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of the wisest men in Egypt.

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And so he's going to go after

their intellect as well.

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So he's systematically.

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Uh, dismantling everything

that the Egyptians rely on.

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Interesting.

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Verses 16 through 25.

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Then during the millennial kingdom,

though, there's going to be a national

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repentance in Egypt and the Lord is going

to make himself known to the Egyptians

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and they are going to worship him.

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This is always kind of a cool

section where I'm like, what.

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W w where does this come from?

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Like why all of a sudden got, are

you setting your affections on the

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Egyptians in the millennial kingdom?

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And they're going to.

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They're going to worship you

and there's going to be a peace.

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Eh, piece between the

Egyptians and the Assyrians.

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There's going to be this road

that goes all the way from the, a

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series in the north, all the way

to the Egyptians and the south.

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Kind of again, representing the

whole of, of all of the enemies

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of God are going to be reconciled.

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In large part to him, not perfectly,

there's still going to be sin during the

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millennial kingdom, but at least in, in

large part, there's going to be a, uh, a

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turning towards the Lord from all of these

nations that hate him during that season.

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What a crazy thought to have

that eventually, and this we

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can look backward on this.

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We're looking post cross

post-resurrection, we're looking

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backward into what's happened.

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This would have been

scandalizing to the Israelite.

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What on earth do you mean that the

Assyrians and the Egyptians are

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going to be a third with Israel?

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Of course we know now this is a

reference to Gentile inclusion.

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God's going to include.

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All sorts of people, his enemies.

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His enemies become his friends.

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They become more than that.

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They're his family and

that's you and me folks.

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That's us.

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Yep.

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That's the Germans and the Mexicans.

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And what is, what is Kelly?

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She Scandinavian.

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Scandinavia Irish.

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What's mark.

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Giant.

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Mark's a giant, all different kinds

of people, large and small become

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the family of Christ with Israel.

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What an incredible thought.

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And this is the benefit that we now see in

part, because there's a day coming home.

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Every tribe, tongue, and nation

is going to sing his praises.

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And I trust that we'll be there.

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Yep.

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And that's, that's the thing, right?

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We've read this and you should

want to be there church and.

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Part of the impact on you day-to-day

should be just thinking about living

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a godly life, ready for the return

of Christ, because we don't want

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to shrink and shame it is returned.

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We want to be ready to go

and say, let's do this.

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Let's go ahead.

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Let's let's get this thing going.

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Um, Hastening the day.

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Yeah.

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Yup.

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I'd say 20.

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This is an interesting one, because

this is the first of a couple of times

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where Isaiah does these kind of living.

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Uh, metaphors were, uh, in

this one for three years.

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Are you going to do this?

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Nope.

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Nope not.

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Is there any chance.

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Not a chance.

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Oh, he got told Isaiah

to do at Cannon's closed.

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If he shows up and tells

me to do this, then.

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You need the commitment to an asylum.

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For three years, beginning in

about seven 11 BC, give or take.

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Isaiah is going to go around naked and

barefoot as a depiction of what the

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Lord was about to do to Egypt and Kush.

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Uh, cause remember judgment

is going to proceed.

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The redemption, the redemption is

coming in the millennial kingdom, the

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reconciliation, the repentance is coming

in the millennial kingdom era for now.

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God's going to pour his

judgment out on these nations.

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So Isaiah does this.

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He goes around naked and

barefoot for three years.

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Now.

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There's questions.

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Does that mean for three years?

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365, 24 7.

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He was on call only that, or was

there even periods of that timeframe

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where he was unclothed in barefoot?

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I tend to think, I think there were,

there were periods of time that he went

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about and did this during the course of

three years as a demonstration dude, I

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can't even admit, can you imagine this?

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No.

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God tells you this.

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Are you sure God came here.

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Give me a confirmation.

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Right?

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I don't know.

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Hold on a second.

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Why?

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It's like, hold on.

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I gotta hit the gym for a little bit.

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Seriously, let me get my six pack.

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I got to imagine that for Isaiah,

something like this has got to.

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It's just got to make sure you say.

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Are you really.

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Right.

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Because this is okay.

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We talked about scandalizing Israel

and Judah by saying, look, you're

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going to have your enemies included

in this, and they're going to be

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part of God's favorite people.

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And now God's telling us.

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I'm really going to push the envelope with

these people and have them do this really.

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Uh, inappropriate.

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Uh, Is it difficult to see?

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Okay.

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Explain that this seems to

be super inappropriate and

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yet God has Isaiah do that.

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What's behind that.

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Inappropriate.

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Yes.

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However, I think we also view it

as such even more so in our overly

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sexualized culture that we live in today.

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Um, I think in, in this day

it would have been different.

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It was more about shame and humiliation

than it was anything sexual.

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And so this was meant to represent the

shame and humiliation that was going to

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be poured out on these other nations.

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And God wanted to drive the point home

and make sure that his people understood

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this because the temptation was again,

and they're still going to do it.

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They're still not going to listen to them.

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They're still gonna look at Egypt and say,

Hey, Egypt, we need help against a Syria.

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Yeah.

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And he's trying to get them to

understand, man, you don't want to put

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your trust in these nations because

God is still through the prophet.

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Isaiah, try to get the people in Judah

to repent before judgment counts and.

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As much as yes.

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Judgment is coming in, the

Babylonians are being summoned.

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There's still time.

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And yet the people are still going to.

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Long for these other nations and

deliverance from human beings.

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And so I think this is.

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For them in this moment, this would

have been more about the humiliation

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than it would have been anything

perverted or, or anything that maybe

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our culture today would think of.

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So God's taking extreme measures in

order to do something, to awaken them

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to their need and to, for both the

disaster that awaits them on their

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current course, it seems like right.

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What a kind act of God, difficult

for Isaiah and I thank God

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that he was willing to do that.

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Yeah.

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I don't know many men or women that

would be willing to follow a God, if

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God's telling you to do it, you do it.

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But still he did it.

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And I'm grateful for that because

it was an act of God's mercy

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to say, here's what's coming.

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If you keep on this path.

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Yeah, for sure.

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For sure.

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All right.

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Is he a 21?

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Verses one through 10, you get

the fall of Babylon depicted here.

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Now, this is important for us to realize

because Babylon is going to rise again

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because Babylon is going to be the

instrument of judgment against Jerusalem.

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But before that, Babylon is

going to fall to a Syria.

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Uh, there's going to be this imminent

fall that is being discussed here in

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this first 10 verses of Babylon in 6

89 BC when Sidak rib and his Assyrian

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forces end up destroying the city.

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And so that that's the.

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The first one second later.

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As is, this is talking about, uh, an

imminent fall kind of a mid-range fall and

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then an eventual fallen into the in time.

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So the second fall is going to

come from the Mito Persians.

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And that's going to take

place in 5 30, 9 BC.

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And so when Isaiah 21 2 in this

passage, he references the Medes

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and some say, well, he's just

referencing a random nation.

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I think this is even

alluding to that future fall.

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That's going to take place from

the Mito Persians in 5 30, 9 BC,

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but then it's not just those two

falls that, and by the way, that's

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talked about in Daniel chapter five.

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Look down at verse five in Isaiah 21,

they prepare the table, they spread

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the rugs, they eat and they drink

arisal princess oil, the shield.

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In Daniel chapter five.

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The Babylonians are throwing a

party and they're getting drunk

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when the Medes and the Persians come

and attack them in besieged them.

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So I think you have an allusion to

that even there with, with Isaiah 21

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5, but then finally this call that

we read in verse nine, fallen, fallen

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is Babylon that I think is ultimately

pointing towards the final fall of

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Babylon, which is eschatological Babylon.

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This is during the tribulation period.

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And this is when the Babylon

represents the nations and the,

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the godless world in that will be

overcome ultimately in the future.

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So there's three falls of

Babylon, I think in view here.

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The imminent one from, uh, Syria.

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The intermediate one from the

Medes and the Persians and that the

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ultimate final, which is in the Anton.

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So I could take a guess

as to why you think this.

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And, and we also know that

fallen, fallen is Babylon is

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going to appear in revelation 14.

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And 18.

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But talk to us about something that

often eludes, novice Bible readers,

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your eye, you're identifying a past.

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Multiple past iterations and

then a final future iteration.

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How can you tell, as you read

through Isaiah or any other,

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any of the other prophets.

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When you're looking at a past fulfillment

and only a past fulfillment or a past

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multiple layered past and a future.

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What gives you this sense?

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As you're reading through the

text to say, oh, this is probably

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talking about another time.

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Yeah.

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Have some trusted friends with you,

meaning some good commentaries and

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good study Bible resources with you

that are going to help you with that.

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Now I will say this, um, we've

commended, the ESV study Bible.

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To you multiple times.

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The qualifications it's as.

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It is a good resource.

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It's solid.

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What you need to understand is it's

written from a character perspective.

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I mean a covenant.

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That's what I was trying to say.

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Not.

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Not heritage.

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It's written from a

covenantal perspective.

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So when we talk about the tribulation,

when we talk about the rapture, when we

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talk about the millennial kingdom, The

editors of the ESV study Bible are not

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going to have those things included in

their notes because they take a different

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approach to the N times than we do.

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They take what's called an AMR millennial

approach, which means the millennial

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is metaphorically happening right now.

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The millennial kingdom

is happening right now.

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We're in this metaphorical thousand

year reign where Christ is reigning

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from our hearts here on earth.

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It is how it's described

by, by an amillennialist.

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This is not a heretical view.

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It's a different view and it's

one that is going to impact the

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way that we interpret scripture.

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So if you you've, you've got

your ESV study Bible open.

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You're not going to see the same

type of interpretation in the

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ESV study Bible, as you will.

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For example, in the MacArthur

study, Bible MacArthur being a

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dispensationalist, which is what we are.

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So I would encourage

you to have some good.

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Uh, trusted resources there that the

MacArthur commentary on the whole Bible

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is helpful in going through the prophesy

as is, uh, the Tindale commentary on

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Isaiah, um, will also be a benefit to

you that is written by Alec Uh, who

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himself is also dispensationalist so

having some, some good commentators.

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I'm from the south end.

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That's how I pronounce it.

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Fine.

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M a T Y E R.

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I, I think it was mature, but okay.

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And I say, mom, I say it the way I see it.

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So what I'm saying.

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So the ESB though.

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Uh, to, to its credit.

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Yeah.

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Occasionally, we'll say things

like, oh, if you're a, this or that,

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they may, it may refer to this.

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I recall reading this in Isaiah

about the millennial kingdom.

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So it's not.

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Yeah.

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There are self-aware they're

not teaching it as this.

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As though it's the only option, but just

to be aware, it's still a great resource.

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Just know that they're going to lean a

different direction than what we believe.

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And, and the other thing I would encourage

you to do is read your Bible more, right?

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I mean, the more you do what we're doing

right now, the more you read through the

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Bible every single year, and the more

you spend time in it, you're going to

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see something pop up like the Meads and,

and think to yourself, wait a minute.

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Babylon media, that sounds

familiar because I've read

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Daniel and I know that needs.

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Talking about the seeds and the Persians.

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Yeah.

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And that's going to make,

you're going to begin to start

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to draw some connections to.

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Yeah.

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Do mastery the Bible.

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I mean, I've been reading the, we've been

reading the Bible and I, for years and

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the older I get, the more I realized, oh,

I'm starting to see patterns and language.

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I mean fallen.

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Fallen is Babylon.

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If you didn't need your cross-references

to tell you, oh, this sounds familiar.

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I remember this in the book of revelation,

then you're doing a great job already.

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Yep.

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That's part of the work

here because these guys.

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Uh, especially in John and revelation,

he's citing old Testament left and right.

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And center.

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You just may not be aware of it, right.

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If you're not familiar.

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So reading it is such a great suggestion.

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It's such a simple one and it's not

a shortcut by any stretch, but it's a

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helpful one because it will continue

to fill your mind, saturate your mind

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with scripture and thus help you to

make those connections that are so.

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Evident across the

entirety of the candidate.

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And in a lot of times,

those will be breadcrumbs.

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Like, you'll be like, wait a minute.

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I think I remember that from Daniel and

that will drive you to a commentary,

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which will either confirm or go, oh wait,

no, maybe that connection is not there.

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Yeah.

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Which is helpful.

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Yeah.

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And listen a good podcast by the way.

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Yeah, that's a good,

that's a good thing too.

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Verses 11 through 12, you

get a reference to Duma here.

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Duma is a word that means silence.

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Um, it refers to the one from

CIHR, which would have been

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part of Edam in the Edomites.

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Uh, and so here, you've

got them asking for news.

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Is there any changes?

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Are there any, is, is,

are things getting better?

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And the answer basically is no

things are not getting better.

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And that's the, the idea of, of

the silence in the response there.

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And then you've got an Oracle

regarding Arabia there in verses

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13 through 17 at the Arab.

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At lands and Arab tribes again.

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Uh, are also going to seek to

form an Alliance against this

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year only to find themselves to

feed it, just like all the others.

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And so the message in this section

of Isaiah, as we continue is,

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Hey, put your trust in the Lord.

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Don't turn to these nascent nations.

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Don't turn to others, repent

and come back to the Lord.

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That's what he's wanting.

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And then finally, chapter 22,

our last chapter for today.

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The worst for last.

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Yep.

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This is Jerusalem is fate Jerusalem

in dire straits here, probably at

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this point, the siege from forces.

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Uh, the Assyrians is there laying siege

to the city and primed for return of

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the Lord in repentance, but instead

of sackcloth and groaning, Which has

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worked out, was designed from them.

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The city produced the sounds of

rejoicing and partying as they simply

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resigned themselves to their impending

fate, they kind of say, all right,

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We're going to eat, drink and die

tomorrow because that's, it seems

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like that's, what's going to happen.

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So there they're not doing

what God wants them to do.

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So one of the things that stands

out to me from today's reading is

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that Isaiah has a very interesting

response to Babylon's fall.

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Uh, I take that as a, as an,

as an encouragement on my part.

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Two.

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Not just pray that God judged the Wiccan.

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But to pray in a way that says

I care about their, their fate.

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I care about what happens to

my lost neighbors, to my lost.

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You know, fill in the blank, friends who.

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Don't follow the Lord.

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Uh, I think it's a really instructive

passage for us to see that Isaiah

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is not celebrating their demise,

although I'm sure there was a

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part of him that said, praise God,

that his justice is being enacted.

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But he says in verse four in chapter 21,

my heart staggers horror has appalled me.

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The Twilight I long for has been turned

into a turn for me in a trembling because

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of the impending judgment upon Babylon.

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It ought to be a warning for us.

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If we become too callous to the

plight of our neighbors, our friends.

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Democrats Republicans, whoever it

is that you see in your political

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cross hairs, or even just people

that you would consider your enemies.

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It's good to pray for.

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God's justice.

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But that should not cause us

to feel callous toward them.

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The chapter ends highlighting,

uh, two individuals.

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You've got shoved a I'm sorry.

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I thought you were done.

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Oh, that's all right.

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That's okay.

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That's a good word either way.

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All right, you got shepherd who

represented the general mindset

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of the people resigned to die

and be buried in the choice tube.

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So he's like, Hey, I've got

this tomb cut out for myself.

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I'm ready.

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Diamond to be buried there.

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It's going to be great.

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And he, the messages you're

going to be dishonored.

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And then this other

man who's put in place.

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Elia Kim.

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Uh, who's going to provide at least

a glimpse of hope and security for

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the people serving kind of as the

governor prime minister, but he too

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is eventually going to fall as well.

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So it's, it's, it's not a pretty picture.

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It's a bleak picture

for, for Jerusalem here.

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Is what chapter 2 22 is,

is portraying for us.

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Well, Hey, let's pray.

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And then we'll wrap up this

episode and, uh, move on.

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Got thanks for another.

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The day where we get to discuss your

word and spend time in your word.

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And we're thankful that you do

use your word to help us week or

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year after year to, to learn more

and to make more connections.

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And.

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Uh, we just pray that you'd give us the

ability to do that until the day we die.

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Um, that we continue to, to

learn more and grow more in our

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understanding of the scriptures.

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And as pastor rod was just saying,

we do want to have a heart like

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Isaiah did towards our enemies

towards those that don't know Christ.

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Not of.

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Of gloating or being conceited towards

them, but of genuine concern and

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care and love for them and desire

to see them come to faith in Jesus.

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And so give us a heart towards them.

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Break our hearts.

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Over their plights and over their future

and help us to think of them, not just as.

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The person living across the street, who

I've got a conflict with, but as a soul

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who is destined for any eternity apart

from you, unless they hear the gospel.

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Unless I share the gospel with them.

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And so give us a, an evangelistic

mindset towards those that are around us.

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And so we thank you for this time.

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And pray for a great rest

of our day in Christ's name.

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And then.

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We'll catch you guys tomorrow.

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Keep her in your Bibles and tune

in again for another exciting,

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thrilling, thrilling, amazing episode.

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With the daily Bible pocket by.