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Harvester Podcast - Introduction to the Book of Isaiah (S6E1) · Collierville Radio Network

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  Welcome to the Harvester Podcast.
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  We are happy to be here to start a new season,
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  season six.
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  I am one of the hosts, Brian Kenyon,
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  and with me is
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  Steven Ford
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  and Forrest is busy. He's normally going to be with us,
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  and we expect to see him again in episode three or four-ish.
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  But he's busy now, and all of us are busy preachers,
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  and so I'm just thankful that Stephen is able to be here.
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  And we are able to start this magnificent season.
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  And it's magnificent, not because of your host,
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  but because of the topic, we are going to be addressing the theme.
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  Minoring in the majors. The major prophets,
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  that is, and by minoring we mean we're just going to give a couple lessons from each
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  of the books of the major prophets,
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  and then ~ we will have a a good ~ series going.
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  And this is a follow-up our majoring in the minors that we just completed
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  a while ago, and that was dealing with the minor prophets.
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  But in this first episode, we want to just kind of introduce
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  The book of Isaiah, we'll start with Isaiah.
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  In fact, we'll follow those prophets as they are ~ in the English Bibles.
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  it's important to note that a prophet is just simply a mouthpiece,
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  a mouthpiece for someone. And I think one of the greatest examples of this
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  is found in Exodus chapter 4, verses 10 through 15,
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  where Moses is giving an excuse that he is not eloquent,
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  so he can't go before Pharaoh to say,
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  Let God's people go. But as we know,
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  God always provides a way.
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  And so he tells them in those passages,
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  those verses, that he will provide Aaron,
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  his brother, to be his mouthpiece.
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  And then in Exodus 7, verse 1,
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  it actually calls Aaron Moses' prophet.
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  And so a prophet is simply a mouthpiece for God.
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  And we often think of prophets as foretelling the future,
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  which they do. In fact, Isaiah is going to do a whole lot of that.
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  But also prophets really were more like preachers.
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  And I did not invent this term,
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  and I'm sure Stevens heard this term before,
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  but forth telling. You know, prophets didn't just foretell,
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  but they forth tell. That is, they explained what was going on at
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  the moment that they were living.
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  And so we see that throughout the the prophets as well.
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  But Isaiah is very ~ interesting.
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  In fact, he's a very one of the major prophets,
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  obviously, and he is sometimes called the messianic prophet,
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  because maybe well
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  I don't know about per capita verses,
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  but he sure does talk a lot about the Messiah.
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  Now in Isaiah 1 1, it just simply says the vision Isaiah the son of Amos,
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  which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah,
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  Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
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  And so he is prophesying during this Assyrian period.
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  Now in as far as his family background is concerned,
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  he's a son of Amaz with a Z.
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  In English it comes out with a Z,
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  and this is to indicate perhaps that he is not the son of the prophet Amos,
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  but he is a son of Amaz that we don't know much about other than his mention
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  in the book here. But Jewish tradition suggests that Amos was the brother
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  of King Amaziah, who was the father of Uzziah.
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  Thus making Isaiah of royal lineage,
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  but again that's just Jewish tradition.
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  We do not know that. He was married in chapter eight,
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  verse three. His wife is referred to as the prophetess.
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  Also he had two sons, and I don't know,
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  Stephen, if you know how to pronounce these guys,
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  but Shir Jashab in chapter seven,
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  verse three, and that son's name means a remnant shall return.
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  And then Maher Shalahashbaz.
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  And that of course I think is the longest name in the Bible.
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  Have you heard that before?
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  Yeah, okay, so that's the one that Dan
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  Winkler had a good time with.
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  In
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  fact, there's some stickers you can get.
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  And I don't know if I got one or not,
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  but I know my granddaughter did when she was at ~ PTP Branson.
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  But anyway, but his name means the spoil speedeth,
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  the prey hasteneth. Or sometimes swift is the booty,
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  speedy is the prey. and booty there means
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  the captured treasure.
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  That a pirate would get pirate would get or something like that.
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  But anyway. And then Isaiah served God in many ways.
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  In fact, you know, some say he was a theologian,
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  ~ some say he was a historian.
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  And based upon the context of the book,
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  he seems to have been a great statesman,
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  if you will. ~ he's very articulate in what he says.
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  And it's kind of like, you know,
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  God used the backgrounds of these biblical writers.
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  Even though every word, every jot and tittle,
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  as it were, were exactly as God would have it.
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  And so, but in the process of inspiration,
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  he did use their backgrounds, and so we see that through Isaiah.
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  In other words, Isaiah's writings differ a little bit in style and
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  so forth in Daniel or Jeremiah and so forth.
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  All right, and so ~ and it is said,
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  tradition does say there's no objective proof on this,
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  but tradition does say that Isaiah was
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  sawn asunder as per Hebrews eleven thirty seven,
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  but again, ~ we don't know that for sure either.
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  All right, but Isaiah does live.
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  We do know that he lived, and he mentions the kings in verse one in
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  the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz,
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  and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. And so he lived during that Assyrian period.
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  But and Steve and I were just mentioning this a moment ago off off the air,
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  but ~ Isaiah, you know, he's prophesied
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  in great detail about the Bab not only the Assyrian situation,
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  but the Babylonian situation and then the Medo Persian when they would return from
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  captivity. And because of that,
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  much is, you know, said about the canonicity or the you know,
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  the accuracy of or, you know, is this written by one Isaiah and we're gonna come
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  to that in just a moment. But that's why it is,
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  because he speaks in so much detail as if he were there
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  And all three of those eras where Assyria ruled and then Babylon ruled
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  and then Medo-Persia. All right,
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  he is, as he says in chapter 1,
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  verse 1, he writes during the days of these Judean kings,
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  and this was definitely a time when Assyria dominated the world.
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  And so the book of Isaiah was written primarily to address the Assyrian crisis,
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  which not only threatened the physical existence of God's people.
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  Both Israel and Judah, but it also threatened their understanding of God's plan.
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  The Assyrian invasion and eventual deportation of the northern kingdom
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  in about 722 BC placed a great deal of doubt as to God's ability
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  to work out his plan of a messianic kingdom.
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  this was really the first, I guess we could say the first,
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  worldwide major threat.
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  you know, coming coming on the divided kingdom anyway.
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  I mean, I Israel always had their enemies.
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  Right. But I'm just thinking there was no no enemy quite like this
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  ~ that was coming. And we'll see like at the end,
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  you know, in chapters thirty six through thirty nine of Isaiah's where
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  you have Sennacherib coming down and bragging in his own chronicles,
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  not not an inspiration, but in his own chronicles,
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  how he had Hezekiah shut up like a bird in a cage.
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  Yeah, that's one of the very neat things about Isaiah's prophecy.
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  You just mentioned, maybe we'll get into it a little bit later,
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  how there's some, not that it is essential or necessary to have these things,
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  but it's interesting that we do have these things,
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  these non-biblical, secular accounts that completely corroborate
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  the biblical record. And so you can go in museums and see Seneca Rib's prism
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  and read what he says, that he has,
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  has kind of shut up.
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  However, you don't read about him winning the victory,
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  which is kind of just a fascinating thing.
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  It's something that when we were in D.C.,
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  we went to all these different museums and all the stuff they show.
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  You know they don't show? They don't show that.
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  Of all the different things they show in these various museums,
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  Smithsonian and others, they don't demonstrate how,
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  you have to go to the Bible Museum to see this stuff.
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  That's actual, real, literal history.
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  So why isn't it in there? They talk about a caveman and all this kind of stuff.
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  but that stuff isn't in there.
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  That's a sidebar, but I just kinda wanted to.
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  It backs up what the Bible says,
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  even though we don't need that to know the Bible,
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  but it d it definitely is an awesome,
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  awesome thing. All right, but the entire invasion again was there,
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  and so, you know, they're they're wondering,
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  can God truly be sovereign when wicked and godless nations completely destroy God's
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  people? And it was during this time that,
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  the northern kingdom was taken taken captive.
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  And then, you know, the question would arise,
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  are the idols of foreign gods stronger than Israel's God?
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  And of course, all the nations around that time,
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  unfortunately, even Israel, because they were very worldly,
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  you know, their success or victories they attributed to their gods.
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  And so if these other nations are defeating God's people,
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  what does that say about Israel's God?
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  And so that would be a question in their minds.
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  And then what is the role of God's people and the future of the Davidic kingdom
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  if Assyria is going to just tear them all away and destroy them,
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  at least in their minds? And so in the backdrop of the Assyrian crisis,
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  Isaiah prophetically addresses three different historical settings,
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  as we mentioned, which of course has led some to think that there must
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  be different Isaiah. And so he addresses again the historical events
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  of his ministry, which were from about seven
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  forty to seven hundred BC ish,
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  around in there. And that's in chapters one through thirty nine of Isaiah.
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  And then Isaiah addresses period of exile,
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  which occurred long after his death,
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  at least for the southern kingdom,
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  and that's from six hundred five to five thirty nine BC,
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  roughly. And that's in chapters forty through fifty-five.
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  And then Isaiah addresses the period of the return,
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  which that total period, remember they came back in about three waves and
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  That total period was about 539 to 400 BC,
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  but Isaiah's references are probably restricted just to 539 to 500-ish.
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  But anyway, throughout each section,
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  Isaiah gives messianic prophecies,
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  and there's going to be whole lot of those in that in that book.
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  All right, now again, we mentioned the canonicity of it,
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  and you know, one one thing is that,
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  critics of the Bible, they just try to
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  reduce the Bible to just a merely human document with no supernatural elements,
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  but you know, there it's impossible to look at the prophecies of Isaiah,
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  just for example, not really any of the prophecies that we've looked at
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  in the minor prophets as well,
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  but it's impossible for these to have been written
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  by mere human ingenuity or invention,
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  because I mean they're so detailed,
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  so precise that and then then we see the complete
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  unmistakable fulfillment of each of these prophecies that's impossible
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  for them to be the products of mint.
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  Absolutely one of the ~ there's two quick things the one is that even
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  if you Attempt which you can't but if you attempt to dismiss some
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  of the things about Isaiah well these were other writers later on If you
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  go back and look at Israel's history before they even get into the promised land
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  God is promising them But if you will obey me then you will stay on this land
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  But if you do not obey me you'll be swept off the land just like
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  the Canaanites have been and what do you find Israel?
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  the nation splits, they have these wicked kings in Israel,
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  some good kings in Judah, but overall,
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  there's a lot of wickedness in the land.
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  And what does God do? Exactly what he said he was gonna do.
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  So you might attempt to dismiss Isaiah,
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  which again, you cannot do, but you find that God had already told them what
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  was gonna happen. the second thing is that just a people thing
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  is a psychological thing that we want to...
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  kind of be dismissive of our own actions.
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  The reason I say that is you mentioned how Israel at various times would look around
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  at the nations and say, wow, their gods are winning.
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  And so what does that say about our God?
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  What does that tell us about our God if their God is winning?
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  Well, God had already told you what was going to happen.
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  And if they had just paid attention to the earlier prophecies that they would
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  be swept off the land, they'd be taken into captivity,
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  all these various things were gonna happen,
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  they could see where...
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  their God had always been in charge,
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  he had always been in control,
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  so there's no reason to start to waffle and think,
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  ~ Jehovah is not in control anymore,
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  but sometimes we just have this thing,
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  like what have you done for me lately,
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  sort of a syndrome, where if we don't see God actively doing something in our favor,
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  in the right here and right now,
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  then we somehow think that he is dismissive of us,
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  or he has forgotten us, or those sorts of things,
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  when in reality, he's always in control.
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  His will is always going to be done and we are always subject to it.
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  And so we shouldn't be doubtful that he's in control just because things aren't
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  going in our favor.
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  Yeah, and that's very true. And sometimes we start thinking like the world does.
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  Right. And that's that's always a bad thing.
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  All right, so let's first start out with the proof,
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  the canon it proof that Isaiah ~ is written by Isaiah,
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  just one Isaiah. And of course two major areas,
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  internal evidence, external evidence.
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  Sometimes internal is called biblical,
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  sometimes external is called extra biblical,
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  but don't freak out with that extra biblical,
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  it just simply means evidence outside the Bible.
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  Right.
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  Alright, so far as the internal,
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  the biblical evidence, evidence found in the Bible,
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  the title of the book claims Isaiah as its author.
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  Again, chapter one, verse one,
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  the vision of Isaiah, the son of Amos,
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  which he saw concerning Judah.
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  And then he talks about where went when he did this during the reign of those kings.
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  But notice he just says the vision,
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  the whole book, the vision singular of Isaiah,
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  which he saw concerning Judah.
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  And so that's the whole thing.
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  and so you know no other author is mentioned in the book,
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  but the word you know Isaiah's name occurs many times.
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  And I'm just gonna read the references,
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  chapter two, verse one, chapter seven,
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  verse three, chapter thirteen,
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  one, chapter twenty, verse two,
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  chapter thirty-seven, two, and verse six,
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  and verse twenty-one, chapter thirty-eight,
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  one.
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  And verse 4 and verse 21, chapter 39,
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  3 and 5, and 8. And so all those explicitly mention Isaiah.
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  And then Isaiah is referred to by other Old Testament writers,
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  for example, 2 Chronicles 26, 22,
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  and 2nd Chronicles 32, 32. They mention Isaiah the prophet.
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  New Testament writers also refer to Isaiah repeatedly without
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  any reference to multiple Isaiahs.
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  And the thing about that is, and we'll get to that in just a moment,
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  but the so-called multiple Isaiahs,
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  you know, both sections are quoted as one Isaiah in John 12,
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  38 through 39. And then of course we have the eunuch reading ~ what
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  we know as Isaiah 53 and Acts 8,
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  28, and several other places where Isaiah is quoted.
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  ~ but particularly John chapter twelve,
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  you know, if these these if these were two Isaiahs.
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  Jesus didn't know anything about that,
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  and he's omniscient, but he just quotes both those sections as if they
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  are one Isaiah, which of course they are.
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  Then the external evidence, that is,
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  evidence outside the actual scriptures,
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  the inspired scriptures, overwhelmingly supports the authenticity of Isaiah.
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  For example, the Septuagint, which you'll see that sometimes abbreviated with
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  the Roman numerals LX, which stands for seventy.
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  And that was written about 200 BC,
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  give or take, 50, 60 years. And it gives no indication that Isaiah
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  was written by multiple authors.
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  You know, and even the Koine Greek,
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  which the Septuagint is the Koine Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament,
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  and it's one that the apostles ~ used.
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  And so it doesn't mention anything about two Isaiahs.
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  And then the book of Ben Syriac,
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  or sometimes that's called Ecclesiasticus.
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  Not to be confused with the biblical book Ecclesiastes,
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  but Ecclesiasticus, which is one of those apocryphal writings written about 190 BC,
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  makes reference to the writings of Isaiah that comforted Zion.
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  And you'll hear that term comfort in Isaiah 40,
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  verse 1, and Isaiah 61, verses 1 and 2.
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  And ~ Ecclesiasticus mentions that in chapter 48 24,
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  48 verse 24.
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  Also the Dead Sea Scrolls, sometimes referred to as the Qumran writings,
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  and ~ those were collected,
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  as best we can tell, about 150 to 100 BC,
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  although they were not discovered until the 1940s,
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  but they go back to 150 to 100 BC.
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  They contain many fragments which refer to Isaiah along with
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  the Great Isaiah Scroll. And that great Isaiah scroll is found from that.
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  And that scroll is essentially identical to that of the normative Masoretic text
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  of ~ A.D. 950, which indicates that as early as 150 to 100 BC,
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  the book was considered of such authority that its final form
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  was already well established, and there's absolutely no indication at
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  all that there were more than one Isaiah that wrote that.
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  And you would think that if anybody,
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  you know, if if supposedly
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  you know, Deuterro Isaiah or some sometimes even they'll talk about three Isaiahs,
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  that if there was that many Isaiahs,
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  that would there would be an indication of that in 150 to 100 BC,
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  but no such indication exists.
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  But yet, in spite of the evidence,
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  some would deny that Isaiah was written by a single author.
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  And those who claim that, and it's kind of interesting because ~ I guess a lot
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  with with other things as well,
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  but the very things that they claim indicate two writers
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  or more are the very things that show that only one writer wrote it.
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  Yeah, really. And so anyway, so those who would try to do away with ~ one Isaiah,
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  and really again, the reason for this is 'cause they want to try
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  to eliminate the supernatural.
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  Yeah.
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  But the historical setting they would say chapters one through thirty-nine
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  are eighth century setting because of the explicit references to the kings that
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  we read about in Second Kings and Second Chronicles.
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  they'd say beginning chapter forty,
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  the setting changes because they have come through a war and need clothing.
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  And so f they would say, quote,
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  first Isaiah unquote. And if I forget to put the air quotes,
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  I'm not if I say first Isaiah,
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  I'm definitely not going along with this,
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  but this is what they say.
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  They say first Isaiah could not have experienced this.
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  And they also say that Cyrus was not around in First Isaiah's life,
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  you know, which is true, but again,
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  God knows the future,
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  Exactly.
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  and he can tell his prophet about that.
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  All right, then they would say chapters fifty six through sixty-six address Jews
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  after returning to Palestine, an event impossible for the lifetime
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  of quote first Isaiah.
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  Which again is true, but I mean,
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  you know, it's like God is omniscient and he knows.
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  And so, yes,
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  God can know all that. And then literary style,
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  vocabulary, and syntax, ~ many words,
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  phrases, and styles are different in the various sections.
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  For example, Isaiah chapters one through thirty-nine emphasize the present tense,
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  they would say, but forty through sixty-six emphasizes a future tense,
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  which of course would be
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  Just right, because Isaiah's talking about the future.
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  All right. And so Isaiah is mentioned by name only in chapters 1 through 39.
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  And then they say the religious message,
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  chapters 1 through 39, which they would say is first Isaiah,
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  mention false gods and a peaceful social situation.
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  And the mention of the suffering servant is only in chapters 40 through 66,
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  along with the themes of comfort,
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  reassurance, and restoration. And then they would say.
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  Jehovah or Yahweh as the only true God is the focus of the Holy One of Israel.
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  Found in those chapters. Alright,
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  then they would criticize the superscription.
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  That is the title in chapter 1,
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  verse 1, does not cover the whole book,
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  but just part of the book. And you'd say Isaiah contains several superscriptions
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  or titles. They would say chapter 2,
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  verse 1 mentions one, chapter 13,
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  verse 1, etc. And then Jeremiah,
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  they would
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  Compare that to Jeremiah that puts time frame of his book ~ in the past,
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  or actually puts the time frame on his book,
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  but not in Isaiah. Mm-hmm. And they would appeal to Jeremiah chapter one,
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  verses one through three. However,
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  Isaiah's ministry was forty years,
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  and so the title is for the whole book,
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  and even in the Dead Sea Scrolls and every other source,
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  it always, you know, have the book unified.
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  In fact, there's no evidence anywhere.
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  archaeological or otherwise that even suggest that there's more than one Isaiah.
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  And then the critics would talk about the New Testament,
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  the New Testament use of Isaiah.
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  They would say New Testament writers were not concerned about authorship,
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  but about the message. They would say that Isaiah is used to represent
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  all the prophets,
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  I just have another reference here.
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  If you want further more on that,
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  you can just ~ contact us if you want further more on that New Testament usage.
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  But of the twenty one direct quotations from Isaiah,
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  seven of them are from Isaiah chapters one through thirty-nine,
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  twelve are from chapters forty through fifty-five,
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  and two are from fifty-six through sixty-six,
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  plus many allusions. But as I said before,
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  John twelve, thirty eight through forty one quotes from both
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  so called Isaiah sections, attributing all of that to the single prophet Isaiah.
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  That's one of the strongest arguments.
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  Think so too.
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  I was going to mention that, but then you just did that in the
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  New Testament you find ~ quotations from Isaiah,
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  as the prophet Isaiah has said,
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  especially like in Matthew, but also in John,
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  that you'll find Isaiah, Isaiah,
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  Isaiah, and it's from various sections.
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  And so if it were the case that these various writers or various authors were
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  in fact, you know, exist if they were real,
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  they will say it. But if the New Testament is to be trusted,
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  and it is, and the New Testament verifies that there was just a single Isaiah,
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  then we have to have the conclusion that it's just a single Isaiah,
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  plus the other part that you mentioned is the main thing.
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  There's no reason to think otherwise.
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  There's no reason in the world to think that there's some other Isaiah who's
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  out there writing it. There's never been any kind of separated sections
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  and all this kind of business to make us think that there's all these things
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  we need to be looking for.
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  Yeah, and that brings us to the the next thing,
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  the extra biblical evidence. You know,
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  outs and the the critics would say outside the quotations or outside quotations
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  do not explicitly refer to the book as from one author.
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  And of course, and then they would say Isaiah and his company,
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  and they would his company I'm putting in air quotes here,
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  because there's a view, there's a view that
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  and this is I guess first put forth in the second century Babylonian Talmud,
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  second century AD, that, you know,
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  Isaiah put down his pen and then another Isaiah came along and he took
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  up the pen and he put it down for a while,
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  then another one, and that's where they call get Isaiah and his quote company.
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  Okay. But in reality, as Stephen just mentioned,
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  there's absolutely no evidence suggesting multiple authors.
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  You know, the sep both the Septuagint and the Dead Sea Scrolls
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  Show unity. And those are some of the biggest pieces of ~ external evidence that
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  we have on any you know, a lot of the Bible,
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  but they you know, there's nothing found.
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  And so why you know, why b build a whole assumption on something there's absolutely
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  no evidence?
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  And we know why, we know why they don't just create the scriptures.
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  you mentioned the John 12 one,
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  the John 12 is like the smoking gun almost for us in that it demonstrates,
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  he says, here's what Isaiah says,
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  here's what Isaiah says, and writing from two sections that if those were
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  two different writers, he could have very easily said,
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  here's what Isaiah said, here's what the other guy said.
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  It attributes both Isaiah 53 and Isaiah 6 to the one author.
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  Yep. And so some further evidence that Isaiah was written before the exile.
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  The same evils are present in both sections.
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  You know, in chapter one fifteen,
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  ~ that same evil is repeated in chapter fifty-nine one,
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  ~ chapters ten or chapter ten,
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  verses one and two. ~ that same theme is found again in Isaiah fifty-nine,
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  four through nine, and the same hypocrisy is found in both sections.
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  Isaiah twenty-nine thirteen and compares with Isaiah fifty eight
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  two through four and Isaiah one twenty-nine compares with Isaiah fifty-seven five.
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  We also the sin of chapters the sin in chapters forty through sixty-six
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  is as in the time of Manasseh,
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  and we can read that in Second Kings twenty-one and compare that with Isaiah
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  fifty-nine. ~ also idolatry is a major problem in chapters forty through sixty six.
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  But we see all that also in chapter 44,
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  9 through 20, and chapter 57, 4 and 5.
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  We have harlotry to Molech,
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  2 Kings 21, and we find that in Isaiah 65,
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  2 through 4, and Isaiah 66, 17.
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  Also, the type of worship described in Manasseh is a major problem in Israel,
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  but the returning Jews did not bring idolatry with them.
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  And so.
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  we have that. And of course, you know,
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  Isaiah is writing from the background of the Assyrian situation and
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  so what he sees around him, you know,
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  he can use that to describe, even if he's not describing Assyria,
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  if he's describing Babylon or Medo Persia,
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  he's still using some of the his his own what he's experiencing himself.
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  And so but again
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  You know, all this deuterose Isaiah stuff is just meant to try
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  to take the supernatural ~ out of the book of Isaiah.
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  But we're gonna see some things during the season ~ on minoring and
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  the majors that it's just impossible to take away the supernatural out
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  of the book of Isaiah, and for that matter,
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  any of the books of the Bible,
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  but especially Isaiah.
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  Yeah, I'm really looking forward to this.
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  As the minor prophets I thought was great,
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  but these major prophets, especially Isaiah,
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  well I say especially because I'm really looking forward to Ezekiel and Daniel too,
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  but Isaiah covers such a large span and his,
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  there's some details we'll get to on some of the next episodes.
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  They show various facets of God.
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  So you've got all these,
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  periods of time that Isaiah covers.
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  All of these different facets of God,
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  he covers a lot of history and reveals a lot of Israel's past,
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  their future and things they're going through.
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  And there's a lot that we can,
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  in my opinion, there's a lot that we can draw from to understand the nature
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  of God through the book of Isaiah.
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  How he prophesied, how do we understand God?
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  How do we understand his holiness in relationship to man?
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  How do we understand his judgment in relationship to man?
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  And all of those things
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  are in harmony. his judgment, his love,
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  his forgiveness, his kindness,
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  ~ they all work together. And I think Isaiah ~ very uniquely does
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  well to bring some of those things out as well.
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  Yes, and through this through this season we hope to to show that even when times
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  get rough, and you know, Isaiah,
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  as far as we know, he's living right,
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  doing what's right, but the world is collapsing around him,
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  mm-hmm and we we live in a time like that as well.
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  I mean the world is collapsing around us it seems sometimes,
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  but we can always trust in God.
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  We always know that God's in control,
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  that he is omniscient, he's got a plan,
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  and we just need to stay faithful to him.
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  And so we'll we'll see this throughout Isaiah and the other books as well.
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  I'm looking forward to it.
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  All right, we appreciate you joining us for the beginning of our season number six,
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  minoring in the majors. And our next episode,
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  we will have a lesson coming out of Isaiah chapter one that will set
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  the stage for the rest of our studies in Isaiah before we move on to
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  the other major prophets. Again,
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  we'd like to hear from you, and thanks again for listening.
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  you
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  One month Calory, cruel Calvary,
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  paved away by blood that we might win a bright shining crown.
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  Salvation has been brought down,
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  glory, praise the way the Lord Salvation has been brought down from heaven,
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  God showed into the world. ~
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  today to people in
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  Sorrow
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  till today and till tomorrow, preach the word of God that we will shining bright.
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  salvation sinners,
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  This full and preachers
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  brethren, and sinners all over the land and sea.
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  Go teach them. Arm in hand. Telling up our all.
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  Tell the for every nation of
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  the creation. Praise the Lord.
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  Bless the Lord, salvation has been.
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  the Lord without
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  a friendly. Yes,
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  he paid all. Jesus prayed.
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  His blessed promise and sweet victory can be found.
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  Praise the Lord.
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  Salvation has been brought down,
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  glory, praise the Lord, salvation has been brought down from heaven,
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  you
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  sounds until today
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  You
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  to people in sorrow, tell today until tomorrow,
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  preach the word of God that we might win a shining brown.
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  you
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  Blessed
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  Lord, salvation has been brought down.
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  There's a blessing, hungry pathway over in glory land,
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  in bright glory land, blessed glory land.
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  ~
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  Relax.
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  I am trusted in his love.
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  Praise is all seen, salvation has been brought down,
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  glory, praise the gospel. Salvation has been brought down,
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  glow and show and show and show until today
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  to be
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  Sorrow
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  until tomorrow, preach
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  you
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  that we might win a
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  Tell us the law of our self, fool,
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  to sinners, freemen, and merciless all over the land and sea.
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  Tell
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  it a farm in every nation, Telada Far,
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  all over creation, praise the Lord,
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  bless the Lord,