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705. Bible Study: Isaiah 10 (Foreshadowing, Double Prophecy? The Assyrian? God's Wrath) · Faith by annm2705

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We are on chapter 10 of the book of Isaiah.
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Before we start, let's pray. Dear God, please be with us as
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we read through this chapter and help us understand and receive
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wisdom from what we read. We ask for this in Jesus name.
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Chapter 10. Woe to those who make unjust
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laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees to deprive
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the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the
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oppressed of My people, making widows their prey and robbing
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the fatherless. What will you do on the day of
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reckoning, when disaster comes from afar?
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To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your
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riches? Nothing will remain but to
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cringe among the captives or fall among the slain.
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Yet for all this, his anchor is not turned away.
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His hand is still upraised. Woe to the Assyrian.
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The rod of my anger, in whose hand is the club of my wrath.
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So there's a couple things right there.
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This is verse 5. Woe to the Assyrian.
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So God is going to, he's pronouncing judgment on his
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people and he's using the Assyrian.
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So we remember when the northern Kingdom and the southern Kingdom
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were split apart, first the northern Kingdom called Israel
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was conquered by the Assyrians, and then after that the tribe of
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Judah or the southern Kingdom of Judah was then conquered by the
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Babylonians. And I think ultimately then it
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was the Assyrians after that too.
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So this as we read through it, I will comment, but there's a lot
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of it that really sounds like it's one of those foreshadowing
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prophecies or a double fulfillment type prophecy where
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it it meant something at the time it was stated.
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But there are some things in here that are definitely future.
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And so I think this actually applies to all of us because the
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things that I will point out sound like it's the future from
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now. So is God going to use someone
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from the land of Assyria? Again, that's northern Iraq, SE,
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Turkey, Syria, Iran, all that kind of area that at one time
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had been the land of Assyria. So will God use that?
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And it's interesting because God is using.
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So this is what happens is we find in the Bible that God gives
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everybody free will and some people choose to do evil with
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that free will. And God sometimes brings
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judgment on his children or disciplines his children when
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they turn away from him and they worship, they get into idolatry.
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And idolatry is something we should really all pay attention
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to because even if we are not like worshipping statues,
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because that's what I used to think idolatry was.
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And I was like, no, I don't have any idolatry.
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But today, anything that we put as a priority above God, if God
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is not our number one priority, that's probably our idol.
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And, and it's, I mean, for real, it really is.
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And that's something that a lot of people probably don't even
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think about. But it's, it's worth saying
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because we need to remember that it's, it's, I guess in a way
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it's, it's hard because we don't see God and it takes effort on
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our part to communicate with God.
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God is trying. There's lots of different ways
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that he communicates with us, but if we're not in tune with
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that, we don't, we miss out on it and we don't see it.
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But today, God still communicates with people.
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There are things that happen that when you get closer to God,
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you just realize that it could have never ever happened except
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for God. That's the only way it would
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have happened. And it's a good thing.
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It's like a blessing. And you know, sometimes when
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people have been saved from some disaster and there's just, it's
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like a supernatural way, like it just makes 0 logical sense how
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they were actually survived or saved from being involved in
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something tragic. And that's God.
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And there's, there's lots of different times and God still
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speaks to people and dreams. Lots of people are having dreams
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more and more. And lots of children are now
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having dreams and claiming to see Jesus and talking about
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Jesus and having like open visions seeing Jesus.
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I mean, we are in this incredible time where I, it does
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really seem like God is pouring out his spirit on people, even
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children. And it says that in Joel, I
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think chapter 3 where it's, you know, old men will dream dreams,
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young men will see visions, men and women will prophecy.
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So I mean, it's, it's, it is happening.
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That is definitely happening right now.
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So anyway, getting back to the scripture, it talks about using
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God using the Assyrian. So the Assyrian is against
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Israel and actually those lands today are pretty much against
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Israel. So I don't know if God will use
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an Assyrian again and but we will just have to wait and see.
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But he said, whose hand is the club of my wrath?
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So God can use other people's intentions to bring about wrath
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when people have turned away from him.
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So the question is, I mean, This is why it's so important right
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now. We could be in this moment of
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revival since people are having dreams like this.
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And, and Jesus, like he, God is so compassionate and merciful
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that maybe he's just calling us right now as a wake up call.
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We've kind of been asleep. We haven't been paying attention
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to God. God's been our number 23456 on
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our list, you know, and he really needs to be #1 on our
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list. And if he isn't number one on
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our list, then we need to re evaluate and we need to get
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closer to God. Because I believe that this is a
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warning time. And it, it could be like a, a
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revival time where it's just that there's a lot of like
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biblically prophetic things in the world that are seeming to
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happen right now. And they could be, they could
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drag out over a long period of time or they could like
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instantly, virtually, I mean almost instantly be fulfilled
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like this year, next year, something like that.
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Like it could be really soon, we won't know until hindsight, but
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now is not the time to delay that.
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Because we are seeing these signs.
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We are seeing the signs that Jesus talked about in Matthew
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chapter 24. And because we are seeing those
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signs, it's it's so important for people to prioritize our
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relationship with God every single day.
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OK, so going back, so God is saying, I send him against a
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godless nation. I dispatch him against the
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people who anger me to seize loot and snatch plunder and to
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trample them down like mud in the streets.
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But this is not what he intends. This is not what he has in mind.
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His purpose is to destroy, to put an end to many nations.
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So when I've read that, I was thinking like, even though God's
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going to use the Assyrian against Israel, he did back
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then, and he may in the future, I'm not sure, but he said that
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his purpose is to destroy. And that made me think of what
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Satan Satan's purpose is, to kill and destroy and to put an
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end to many nations. Do we have any nations that come
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to mind that want to conquer the world, to put an end to many
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nations? Would they prefer to have
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everybody submit to them and be the one that would rule
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everything? I think there's probably a few
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nations that are that would fit that description.
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And that made me think about the beast with, you know, 10 heads,
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the Kingdom, the last, the last Kingdom that Daniel dreams
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about. I know we haven't covered that
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yet, but many people know about that.
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There's like 4 beasts which are 4 kingdoms.
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They are representative of that. That was a dream he had.
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And this last Kingdom it, there's multiple kings that are
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part of it. And so these are things just to
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keep an eye out for. Are not my commanders all kings,
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he says. So this is this is like the
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Assyrian now when if you think about in the past, if people say
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this was already fulfilled. So when did an Assyrian have all
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these commanders as kings that were going after putting an end
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to nations and destroying everything?
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To me it sounds like this is where it's future.
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It sounds like because it talks about the 10 kings and then one
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is 1 uproots three of them and he becomes the 8th.
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And so there's there's multiple people who are involved in this
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last Kingdom and they are set on conquering.
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And anyway, so it says has not Kalno fared like Char Charmish,
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Karmish. Now, these are all of these
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places that he talks about are in like Turkey or Syria.
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They're next to Euphrates River. I was looking up where they
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were. And so they're like around
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Syria. Yeah, all of these are near
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Syria that he mentions. So has not Kalno fared like
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Charmiche is not Hemeth like Arpad and Samaria like Damascus?
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So Samaria is the West Bank area today and Damascus is in Syria.
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So he's doing a comparison of all these and I don't know Lanic
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about I mean, Samaria was the capital of the northern Kingdom
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of Israel and that was conquered.
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And I'm not really sure about Damascus, but Damascus in
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prophecy it says that someday Damascus will no longer be and
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that's kind of critical right now.
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This is July 18th, 2025. Because there's, there's a lot
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of activity right now between Israel and Syria.
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And so I'm not sure, you know, everybody's kind of watching
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Damascus because it says at some point in the future Damascus is
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going to be gone. So as my hand sees the Kingdom
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of idols, kingdoms whose images excelled those of Jerusalem and
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Samaria. So I know back then they had
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they had images. But I wonder like in the future
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that talks about the mark of the beast and setting up an image
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that could speak. So again, this is like a
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foreshadowing of a future event as well.
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Shall I not deal with Jerusalem and her images as I dealt with
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Samaria and her idols? When the Lord has finished all
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his work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, he will say I will
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punish the king of Assyria for this is what he's getting
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punished for. The willful pride of his heart
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and the haughty look in his eyes, the proud look in the
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eyes, the haughty look in the eyes.
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That is something that it says God hates.
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And I forgot which book that's in, but there is scripture that
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says there are 7 things that God hates are 6 things that God
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hates and seven that are detestable to him.
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And then it lists through these things.
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And so anyway, he is, this is just pay attention to what God's
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doing here. He's he's upset with Israel
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because they are being idolatrous and they've turned
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away from him and they're a godless nation and they're not
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relying on him. They have no relationship with
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him. And so he's upset and he's going
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to bring Assyria to wake them up and to bring about his wrath,
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his anger about about this condition that they're in and to
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wake them up. But he's not happy about what
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Assyria wants to do. He's allowing this to happen,
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but that's not what he ultimately wants.
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And Assyria wants to take it a lot further than God wants.
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God wants it to wake him up. Syria just wants to have them
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completely destroyed. And think about the chance that
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we're going around, you know, a couple years ago, from the river
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to the sea and that kind of stuff.
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I mean, that's the annihilation of Israel.
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That's very similar to what was happening back here.
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The Assyrians, you know, they just wanted to take it over to
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conquer it all. And anyway, so God is, you know,
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he says he's going to use that. He's going to use their will,
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and he has willful pride, but he's going to punish him for
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doing it. So he's going to let it happen
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for a bit, but then he's going to punish him.
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So for the haughty looking in slice four, he says, so this is
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the Assyrian he's referring to. By the strength of my hand, I
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have done this. And by my wisdom, because I have
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understanding, I remove the boundaries of nations.
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I plundered their treasures like a mighty one.
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I subdued their kings. And when I read that, I was
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thinking, boy, is that the future?
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Because there are these, I think, 10 kings in the end, but
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one is subdued or three of them are subdued and replaced.
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And so I was wondering like, is it the horn that subdues the
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three where he says, like a mighty one, I subdue their kings
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and I remove the boundaries of nations.
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Does that mean like a global governance?
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Because that is what the future, that's what the last Kingdom is
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going to desire to have control over everything.
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So again, this seems like it. You know, when Assyria was
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conquering Israel, they weren't, it didn't seem like they were
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looking to do like to expand everywhere, unless this was just
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an ancient thing that they always wanted to conquer
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everywhere and they just never were able to, just like Israel
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never expanded their territory to what God originally gave
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them. So anyway, this Assyrians very
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proud and he thinks he's really wise and he says, I removed the
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boundaries of nations and I plunder their treasures like a
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mighty one. I subdued their kings as one
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reaches into a nest. So my hand reached for the
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wealth of the nations. As people gathered abandoned
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eggs, I so I gathered all the countries.
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Not one of them flapped a wing or opened its mouth to chirp.
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So it's like all these people just submitted to him and and
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that's what there's going to be this like horrible wicked ruler
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it that's prophesied about in the end that people submit to
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does and then here is what God is saying.
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Does the axe raise itself above the person who swings it or the
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saw boast against the one who uses it as if a rod were to
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wield to the person who lifts it up or a club brandish the one
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who is not wood, Therefore, so God's saying, you know, I'm the
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one that's using you. He's kind of putting him in his
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place, the king of Assyria. He's like, no, no, I'm in
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control of all this. This guy thinks he's going to do
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all this and he has much greater intent that I'm going to let him
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do. I'm going to let him punish
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them, but he's not going to do all that he wants to do and he's
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going to be punished. So God's like saying, wait a
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minute, he, you are not in control, just like none of us
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are in control. God is the ultimate one,
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therefore the Lord, the Lord Almighty will send a wasting
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disease upon his sturdy warriors.
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So this is very much like God uses plagues to send upon
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people. So there was a disease on the
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Assyrian that the study Bible does elaborate on that so I will
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read that a little bit later. Under his pomp a fire will be
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kindled like a blazing flame. The light of Israel will become
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a fire, their holy 1A flame. I think this refers to Jesus.
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This is verse 17 of chapter 10. The light of Israel will become
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a fire, their holy 1A flame. So who's the holy one that
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becomes a flame? Who is someone that's described
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in the Bible with eyes red as fire and when it comes to
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judgement time, that's Jesus. So I believe this is talking
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about Jesus. It says in a single day it will
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burn and consume his thorns and his Breers.
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When Jesus comes back, when he returns, he's coming back for
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wrath. This is not, you know, the the
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loving, kind person that he was because he came to save people
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the first time, and now when he comes back, this is for wrath.
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The splendor of his forest and fertile trees.
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It will completely destroy, as when a sick person wastes away,
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and the remaining trees of his forest will be so few that a
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child could write them down. In that day, the remnant of
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Israel, the survivors of Jacob, will no longer rely on him who
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struck them down, but they will truly rely on the Lord, the Holy
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One of Israel. A remnant will return.
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A remnant of Jacob will return to the mighty God.
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I wonder if this is the 144,012 thousand from each tribe that's
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talked about in the Book of Revelation though.
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Your people will be like though, your people be like the sand by
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the sea, Israel. Only a remnant will return.
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Destruction has been decreed. Now again, this could be a
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double prophecy where it probably there were people that
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were exiled and then came back. But I also think there's going
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to be when it talks about the Holy One of Israel, Jesus.
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Jesus isn't reigning from Jerusalem yet.
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So I think this is a future prophecy.
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Destruction has been decreed, overwhelming and righteous.
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The Lord, the Lord Almighty will carry out the destruction
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decreed upon the whole land. Therefore, this is what the Lord
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the Lord Almighty says. My people who live in Zion, do
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not be afraid of the Assyrians, Turkey, Iraq, Iran who beat you
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with a rod and lift up a club against you as Egypt did.
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Now this is like a reference back to the slavery they were in
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in Egypt when Moses delivered them from slavery.
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Very soon my anger will end and my wrath will be directed to
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their destruction. The Lord Almighty will lash them
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with a whip, as when He struck down Midian at the rock of Oreb,
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and He will raise his staff over the waters as he did in Egypt.
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Like when God parted the seas for them to escape, so God is in
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control. This is a reference back to the
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Book of Exodus. In that day their burden will be
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lifted from your shoulders, their yoke from your neck.
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The yoke will the yoke will be broken because you have grown so
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fat. They enter AF.
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It's just like central Palestine.
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They pass through Migron, which is the Hill Country.
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They store supplies at Mikmash. This is about like northeast of
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Jerusalem. A lot of these cities are within
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8 miles of Jerusalem that are being talked about, so I won't
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mention where they are, but I had to look them up earlier.
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They go over the past and say we will camp overnight at Geeba
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Rama. Treble trembles.
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Gibia of Saul flees. Cry out daughter Galem.
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Listen Leishesh. Now Leishesh is a city that used
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to be called. It used to be called Dan and
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then was renamed. So I don't know if there's some
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connection there. Poor Anna, Anna thought.
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Medmena is in flight. The people of Gibbon take over
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this day. They will halt at Nob.
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They will shake their fist at the mount of daughter of
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daughter Zion at the hill of Jerusalem.
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See the Lord. The Lord Almighty will lop off
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the bows, the bows with great power.
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The lofty trees will be felled, The tall ones will be brought
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low. He will cut down the forest
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thickets with an axe. Lebanon will fall before the
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mighty 1. So Lebanon still exists.
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So Lebanon will fall before the mighty one again.
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This is why I think it's future prophecy.
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So that's the end of chapter 10. I'm going to read the questions
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and answers and then we'll wrap that up.
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So let's see who is speaking in 10/8 verses through 11.
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Isaiah puts his quotation, as well as the quota quotation in
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verses 13 through 14 in the mouth of the king of Assyria.
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Assyria and its boastful monarchs certainly had no
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intention of serving the punitive ends of the God of
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Israel. Rather, they had sought conquest
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and territorial expansion for their own glory.
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Kalina was a city in northern Aram or Syria, and Hameth and
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Arpad were in the same vicinity. Karmesh was an ancient city on
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the Euphrates River. Samaria and Damascus were the
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capitals of Israel and Aram, respectively.
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All these areas submitted to Assyria by about 7:17 BC.
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What was what wasting disease struck Assyrians?
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This sickness could be symbolic of the Assyrians army
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destruction. It could also refer to an actual
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plague which may have been the reason for the death of 185,000
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Assyrian soldiers during the time seen.
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A cherub threatened Jerusalem in 701 BC.
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The Greek historian Herodotus says the Assyrian army was
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afflicted with a plague near Egypt.
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The Jewish historian Josephus notes that mice and rats were on
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the battlefield. Rodents often carried the
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bubonic plague. What remnant was Isaiah
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referring to? This remnant of Israel could
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refer to those who survived the Assyrian invasion of Judah in
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seven O 1 BC and or those who returned to Judah following the
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Babylonians destruction of Jerusalem and 586 BC.
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Some think this refers to a time beyond even when a remnant of
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people would return to a deep trust in God.
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Why not fear the cruel Assyrian? What Judas should have feared
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was not the Assyrians or any other enemy, but the Holy One of
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Israel. Here Isaiah was prophesying that
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a believing remnant would be saved.
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Even in the midst of judgement, God offered comfort to His
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people. He called them to faith, not
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fear. Does God pour out his wrath
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today? The media communicates events
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quickly and from obscure areas of the world, expanding our
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knowledge of tragedies and disasters.
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But we can't judge whether one city is more sinful than another
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just because of an earthquake destroys one while the other is
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prosperous. Isaiah tells us that the
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Assyrians were defeated because of God's wrath.
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We also know that near the end of the age there will be
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worldwide desolation. What does growing fat have to do
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with a broken yolk? This is a prediction of Judah's
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deliverance from Assyrian oppression.
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King Hezekiah had to pay tribute to keep Assyria from conquering
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Jerusalem. God promised that the heavy
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burden of yoke of oppression would be lifted from Judah.
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The oxen. God's people, would grow so fat
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or heavy that the Assyrian yoke would be broken by the strength
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of the oxen. In this way, God would empower
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His people. And why did Isaiah list these
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places? As Isaiah's original audience
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heard these details of the invasion, the tension would have
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grown. These places are names trace the
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advancing Assyrian forces as they approach Jerusalem from
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north to South. Then, just when the end was
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insight, God decisively stepped in to halt the invaders at Nob,
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a Foothill of Mount Zion. Why did God punish Lebanon for
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Judah sin? Lebanon itself was not involved
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in the Assyrians March. This prophecy refers to the
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Assyrians destruction when they invaded Judah.
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The forest of Lebanon were known for their towering cedar trees,
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some of which Solomon had purchased for the temple.
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The trees and Lebanon itself had become a symbol of grandeur.
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This image of greatness applied figuratively, figuratively to
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the vast Assyrian army, well, I also think it means that Lebanon
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will fall before the mighty one. I think it may also be a
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literal. It could be a metaphorical and a
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literal because it does talk about Tyre in the Bible, in
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Bible prophecy. So we can learn from other
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prophets the in totality. I mean, both of there's so many
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different prophets and you learn something a little bit
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different, a little perspective from each one.
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So anyway, that concludes Chapter 10 and hope you come
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back and subscribe and join us for Chapter 11 next time.