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  Speaker 1: There's something in Isaiah that most people read right past,
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  Speaker 1: something so profound that when you finally see it, you
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  Speaker 1: can't unsee it. It's not hidden in mysterious symbols or
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  Speaker 1: encryptid codes. It's right there in plain Hebrew text. But
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  Speaker 1: here's what's disturbing. For centuries, scholars have known this pattern exists,
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  Speaker 1: yet it's rarely taught. Why Because once you understand what
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  Speaker 1: Isaiah is actually revealing, it forces you to reconsider everything
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  Speaker 1: you thought you knew about prophecy, redemption and where this
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  Speaker 1: world is heading. This isn't about adding new doctrine. This
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  Speaker 1: is about recognizing what's already written, and what's written is
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  Speaker 1: far more unsettling and far more hope filled than what's
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  Speaker 1: preached from most pulpits. You're about to see five specific
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  Speaker 1: moments in Isaiah, five declarations that appear scattered throughout the book.
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  Speaker 1: But they're not scattered. They form something, a structure, a blueprint,
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  Speaker 1: and when you align them correctly, the implications are staggering.
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  Speaker 1: This changes how you read not just Isaiah, but the
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  Speaker 1: entire Biblical narrative. Stay with me, because what you're about
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  Speaker 1: to discover has the power to anchor you in truth.
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  Speaker 1: During the most chaotic season the world has ever seen.
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  Speaker 1: Let me ask you something, when was the last time
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  Speaker 1: someone explained to you why Isaiah matters now? Not as history,
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  Speaker 1: not as beautiful poetry, but as active, living revelation that
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  Speaker 1: speaks directly into this moment. Most Bible studies treat Isaiah
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  Speaker 1: like a museum artifact, fascinating ancient, but ultimately disconnected from
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  Speaker 1: modern life. But that approach misses the entire point. Isaiah
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  Speaker 1: wasn't writing devotional literature. He was documenting a divine intervention
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  Speaker 1: strategy that spans from humanity's first failure to its final restoration.
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  Speaker 1: And here's what should trouble us. The Church has largely
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  Speaker 1: domesticated Isaiah. We've turned prophetic thunder into gentle whispers. We've
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  Speaker 1: reduced cosmic warfare to personal inspiration. We've made Isaiah safe, comfortable, irrelevant.
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  Speaker 1: But the Hebrew text doesn't allow for that. The original
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  Speaker 1: language carries an intensity, an urgency, a precision that gets
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  Speaker 1: lost in translation. When you go back to the source,
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  Speaker 1: when you see the verb forms, the grammatical structures, the
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  Speaker 1: word choices, you realize Isaiah is not speaking to ancient
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  Speaker 1: Israel alone. He's speaking forward. He's speaking to us, and
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  Speaker 1: what he's revealing is both terrifying and magnificent. There's a
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  Speaker 1: reason Isaiah is the most quoted prophet in the New Testament,
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  Speaker 1: a reason Jesus himself anchored his entire mission in Isaiah's words,
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  Speaker 1: because Isaiah saw the complete ark from divine invitation to
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  Speaker 1: divine intervention to divine restoration, and buried in that ark
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  Speaker 1: is a pattern so clear, so intentional, that once you
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  Speaker 1: recognize it, you'll never read scripture the same way again.
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  Speaker 1: If you're hungry for biblical truths most people overlook, make
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  Speaker 1: sure you're subscribed, because we're going deep. Now. Let's go
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  Speaker 1: to the text, because what Isaiah reveals in five specific
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  Speaker 1: passages will challenge everything you thought you understood about God's
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  Speaker 1: plan for humanity, and it starts with something most Christians
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  Speaker 1: have never been taught. Let's begin with Isaiah, Chapter one,
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  Speaker 1: verse eighteen. In Hebrew, it reads lekuna venivakcha yomar adunai
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  Speaker 1: im yihu chata akam kashanim kashaleg yalbinu. The English translation says, come, now,
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  Speaker 1: let us reason together, says the Lord. Though your sins
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  Speaker 1: are like scarlet, they shall be white as snow. But
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  Speaker 1: look at that opening verb lekhouna. It's not a one
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  Speaker 1: time command. It's an ongoing invitation. The nea particle adds urgency,
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  Speaker 1: but also continuity and venivakcha let us reason together. Is
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  Speaker 1: in the cohortative mood. It expresses mutual deliberation. God isn't
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  Speaker 1: issuing a decree. He's opening a dialogue with sinners, with rebels,
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  Speaker 1: with people covered in scarlet stained guilt, and he's offering
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  Speaker 1: something impossible, total cleansing. Now hold that thought. Don't try
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  Speaker 1: to solve it yet. Just notice the verb tense, Notice
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  Speaker 1: the inclusive language, Notice that God is initiating. Jump ahead
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  Speaker 1: to chapter seven, verse fourteen, h ne ha alma hurrah
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  Speaker 1: veoled at ben behold, the young woman shall conceive and
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  Speaker 1: bear a sun. The controversy around al has raged for centuries.
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  Speaker 1: Does it mean virgin, does it mean young woman? But
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  Speaker 1: focus on the grammatical structure instead. Hine behold. It's a
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  Speaker 1: prophetic attention marker. Something significant is about to be declared Hurrah.
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  Speaker 1: Conceiving veoledet and bearing both participles present tense action with
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  Speaker 1: future implication. Isaiah is describing an event that is both
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  Speaker 1: imminent and typological. It happened in his own time, yes,
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  Speaker 1: but the language structure suggests it's meant to echo forward
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  Speaker 1: into another time, another crisis, another divine intervention. Stay with me.
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  Speaker 1: We're building something here now. Isaiah fifty three, verse five,
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  Speaker 1: one of the most powerful verses in the entire Bible.
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  Speaker 1: Vehu mecho lal mipshayenu meduka me avonotenu. But he was
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  Speaker 1: pierced for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities. Two passive
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  Speaker 1: participles mechelal meduka, pierced, crushed. The subject is receiving the
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  Speaker 1: action violently, substitutionally. The prepositions are critical here mipsha enu
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  Speaker 1: because of our transgressions, maya vonotanu because of our iniquities.
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  Speaker 1: The suffering isn't arbitrary, it's transactional. Someone is bearing what
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  Speaker 1: we deserve, and the Hebrew grammar makes that unavoidable. This
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  Speaker 1: isn't poetic metaphor. This is forensic language, legal substitution, suffering
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  Speaker 1: that transfers guilt. But here's the question no one answers,
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  Speaker 1: who is this about and why does Isaiah describe it
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  Speaker 1: with such precision. We'll come back to that because it
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  Speaker 1: connects to something else. Something In chapter nine, verse six,
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  Speaker 1: key yelid yulad la u ben nitan lanu sar shalom,
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  Speaker 1: for to us, a child is born to us as
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  Speaker 1: so one is given prince of peace. Notice the double
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  Speaker 1: announcement yeleed yulad, a child is born passive voice birth
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  Speaker 1: happens to him, but ben Nitan, a son is given
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  Speaker 1: active divine involvement God gives and the title sa Shalom.
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  Speaker 1: Not just a peaceful person a prince, a ruler of
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  Speaker 1: Shalom and Shalom in Hebrew isn't merely the absence of conflict.
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  Speaker 1: Its wholeness, completion, universal harmony, covenant fulfillment. So Isiah is
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  Speaker 1: describing a figure who brings governmental peace, structural peace, the
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  Speaker 1: kind that reorganizes reality itself. And finally, Isaiah sixty five,
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  Speaker 1: verse seventeen, ki hinani bor shamayim chadashim va aretz chadashah
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  Speaker 1: for behold, I am creating new heavens and a new Earth.
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  Speaker 1: The verb boor creight is the same word used in
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  Speaker 1: Genesis one one. It's divine creation language. Only God bore,
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  Speaker 1: humans make form, build, but only God creates ex Nahilo
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  Speaker 1: and it's in the present participle form. In any bore,
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  Speaker 1: I am creating, not I will create someday. It's already
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  Speaker 1: in motion. The new creation has already begun. So now
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  Speaker 1: you have five passages, five moments, five declarations from Isaiah,
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  Speaker 1: an invitation to return, an intervention in history, a substitutionary death,
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  Speaker 1: a ruling peace, and a new creation. They span the
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  Speaker 1: entire book. They're separated by chapters and decades. But here's
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  Speaker 1: what you need to ask yourself. Are these random or
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  Speaker 1: are they sequential? Are they isolated prophecies or are they
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  Speaker 1: stages in a single plan. Don't answer yet, because we're
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  Speaker 1: not done. Here's what most people miss. Isaiah didn't write
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  Speaker 1: it book chronologically. The chapters aren't arranged in the order
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  Speaker 1: the prophecies were given. They're arranged thematically theologically, And when
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  Speaker 1: you step back and look at the structure, you start
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  Speaker 1: to see something breath taking. These five passages we just examined,
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  Speaker 1: they're not describing five different topics. They're describing five stages
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  Speaker 1: of one redemptive movement, one cosmic rescue operation that God initiates, executes,
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  Speaker 1: and completes. Let's test that. Go back to Isaiah one eighteen. Come, now,
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  Speaker 1: let us reason together. Though your sins are like scarlet,
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  Speaker 1: they shall be white as snow. What does this passage assume.
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  Speaker 1: It assumes guilt, It assumes separation. It assumes that humanity
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  Speaker 1: has broken covenant with God and is living under just condemnation.
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  Speaker 1: But it also assumes something else. That God hasn't walked away,
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  Speaker 1: that restoration is still possible, that the door is still open.
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  Speaker 1: This is stage one, the divine invitation. God reaches toward
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  Speaker 1: humanity while humanity is still in rebellion. He doesn't wait
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  Speaker 1: for us to fix ourselves first. He calls us while
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  Speaker 1: we're still covered in scarlet. Now look at Isaiah seven fourteen.
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  Speaker 1: Behold the young woman shall conceive and bear a son.
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  Speaker 1: This isn't just a sign for King Ahaz. This is
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  Speaker 1: stage two divine intervention. God doesn't stand at a distance
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  Speaker 1: and yell instructions. He enters, He takes on form, He
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  Speaker 1: shows up in the mess. The word Immanuel, God with
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  Speaker 1: us follows immediately. In verse fourteen. God doesn't rescue from
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  Speaker 1: a throne in the sky. He steps into the wreckage,
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  Speaker 1: and that leads directly to Isaiah fifty three five. He
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  Speaker 1: was pierced for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities. Now
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  Speaker 1: we see stage three, substitutionary atonement. The intervention isn't passive,
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  Speaker 1: it's violent, It's sacrificial. Somebody absorbs the guilt, Somebody pays
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  Speaker 1: the price. Somebody dies so that the scarlet can be
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  Speaker 1: made white. The punishment that should fall on us falls
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  Speaker 1: on him. Have you ever noticed this before, that these
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  Speaker 1: passages form a progression, That they are not random theological
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  Speaker 1: ideas scattered across Isaiah, but a deliberate sequence, an invitation,
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  Speaker 1: an incarnation, an atonement. But there's more. Isaiah ninety six
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  Speaker 1: introduces stage four. For to us, a child is born
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  Speaker 1: prince of peace. After the death comes the rain, after
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  Speaker 1: the sacrifice comes the throne. This isn't just personal salvation.
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  Speaker 1: This is cosmic reordering. The child who was born, the
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  Speaker 1: son who was given, the one who was pierced. He
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  Speaker 1: doesn't just forgive sin. He rules, He governs. He establishes peace,
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  Speaker 1: not temporary peace, not political peace. Shaloam complete, unshakable, eternal peace.
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  Speaker 1: And that brings us to the fifth passage Isaiah sixty
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  Speaker 1: five seventeen. Behold, I am creating new heavens and a
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  Speaker 1: new Earth. Stage five total renewal, not improvement, not reformation, creation,
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  Speaker 1: the same word used in Genesis. God doesn't fix the
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  Speaker 1: broken world, He creates a new one, and the new
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  Speaker 1: creation absorbs the old, redeems, it transforms it, fulfills it.
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  Speaker 1: So here's where we are. Five stages, five movements, divine invitation,
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  Speaker 1: divine intervention, substitutionary death, governmental peace, new creation, and all
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  Speaker 1: of it. Every single stage is declared in Isaiah centuries
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  Speaker 1: before it happened. But now you have to ask who
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  Speaker 1: executes this plan, who fulfills these five stages, and why
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  Speaker 1: does Isaiah describe them with such forensic precision. We'll answer that,
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  Speaker 1: but first you need to understand why this matters right
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  Speaker 1: now in your life, in this moment, in this generation.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get personal, because this isn't just ancient prophecy. This
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  Speaker 1: is a mirror, and what you see when you look
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  Speaker 1: into it might shake you think about your own spiritual
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  Speaker 1: journey for a moment. If you're honest, it probably started
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  Speaker 1: the same way it started for most of us, with guilt,
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  Speaker 1: with awareness, with the crushing realization that something was desperately
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  Speaker 1: wrong inside you. You didn't need a theology degree to
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  Speaker 1: know it you've felt it. That scarlet stain Isaiah talks
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  Speaker 1: about in chapter one, you've worn it. We all have
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  Speaker 1: the lies you've told, the people you've hurt, the things
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  Speaker 1: you've done in secret that you pray. No one ever discovers,
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  Speaker 1: the bitterness you've harbored, the lust you've fed, the selfishness
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  Speaker 1: you've justified, and maybe your to clean yourself up. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: you made promises. I'll never do that again. I'll be better,
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  Speaker 1: I'll try harder. But the scarlet doesn't wash out, does it.
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  Speaker 1: You can scrub all you want, You can perform religious rituals,
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  Speaker 1: you can attend church every week, you can volunteer, you
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  Speaker 1: can give money, you can pray longer, but that stain
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  Speaker 1: remains because you can't cleanse yourself. That's stage one, the invitation,
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  Speaker 1: and it's not an invitation to try harder. It's an
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  Speaker 1: invitation to admit defeat, to stop pretending you can fix yourself,
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  Speaker 1: to come to God exactly as you are, covered in scarlet,
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  Speaker 1: and let him do what only he can do, make
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  Speaker 1: you white as snow. Now here's where it gets uncomfortable.
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  Speaker 1: Most people stop there. They hear the gospel, They respond
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  Speaker 1: to the invitation. They experience forgiveness, and they think that's
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  Speaker 1: the whole story. Salvation check it. Eternal life secured. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I just wait for heaven. But Isaiah doesn't stop there,
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  Speaker 1: and neither does God, because stage two isn't about you
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  Speaker 1: doing anything. It's about God doing something, intervening, entering, taking
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  Speaker 1: on flesh. And this is where the modern Church has
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  Speaker 1: become dangerously weak. We've reduced the incarnation to a nice
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  Speaker 1: Christmas story, A baby in a manger shepherds wise men. Cute.
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  Speaker 1: But Isaiah seven fourteen isn't cute. It's a declaration of war.
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  Speaker 1: God looked at humanity drowning in sin and didn't send
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  Speaker 1: a prophet, didn't send an angel, didn't send instructions. He
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  Speaker 1: came himself, Immanuel, God with us. And that phrase should
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  Speaker 1: terrify every demonic power in existence, because when God shows
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  Speaker 1: up in person, everything changes. Think about what that means
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  Speaker 1: in your life right now, facing your battles alone, You're
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  Speaker 1: not navigating this chaos by yourself. You're not left to
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  Speaker 1: figure out faith through trial and error. God didn't save
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  Speaker 1: you and then disappear. He's with you, present, tense, ongoing
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  Speaker 1: in the mess, in the fear, in the confusion in
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  Speaker 1: the spiritual warfare that's raging around you, whether you see
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  Speaker 1: it or not. But here's what most believers never grapple with.
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  Speaker 1: Intervention comes at a cost, and that cost is revealed
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  Speaker 1: in Isaiah fifty three. This is stage three, and it's
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  Speaker 1: the hardest stage to truly comprehend. He was pierced for
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  Speaker 1: our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities. Do you understand what
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  Speaker 1: that means. It means your sin didn't just disappear, It
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  Speaker 1: didn't evaporate, it didn't get overlooked. It was transferred placed
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  Speaker 1: on someone else, and that someone absorbed the full weight
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  Speaker 1: of divine wrath that you deserved. Every lie, every betrayal,
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  Speaker 1: every act of rebellion, every moment of pride, every broken vow,
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  Speaker 1: every evil thought. It was all accounted for and it
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  Speaker 1: was all punished. But not on you, on him. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think we sit with that long enough. We sing
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  Speaker 1: about the cross, we wear jewelry with crosses on them,
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  Speaker 1: we celebrate Easter, but do we really grasp the violence,
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  Speaker 1: the substitution, the horror of what happened. Isaiah didn't use
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  Speaker 1: gentle language. Mechelol pierced through Meduca, crushed pulverized. This wasn't
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  Speaker 1: a dignified death. This was torture, divine torture, where the
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  Speaker 1: sinless one became sin so that the guilty could become righteous.
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  Speaker 1: And here's the part that should wreck you. He did
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  Speaker 1: it willingly. He didn't have to. He chose it, knowing
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  Speaker 1: full well what it would cost, knowing the agony, knowing
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  Speaker 1: the rejection, knowing the weight of every sin ever committed
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  Speaker 1: by every person who would ever live. He bore it
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  Speaker 1: for you personally, specifically your scarlet, his blood, your guilt,
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  Speaker 1: his death, your condemnation, his cross. Do you feel the
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  Speaker 1: weight of that or have you become numb to it?
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  Speaker 1: Because in this generation we've lost the owe, We've domesticated grace.
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  Speaker 1: We've turned the most violent act of love in history
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  Speaker 1: into a casual transaction. Jesus died for my sins. Cool,
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  Speaker 1: Now I get to go to heaven. No, that's not
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  Speaker 1: the response, Isiah demands. The proper response is to fall
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  Speaker 1: on your face in absolute shock that this kind of
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  Speaker 1: love even exists, that God would go that far, that
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  Speaker 1: he would pay that much for rebels, for enemies, for
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  Speaker 1: people who spit in his face. But it doesn't stop
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  Speaker 1: at the cross, and this is where most preaching fails.
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  Speaker 1: We love to talk about atonement, we love to talk
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  Speaker 1: about forgiveness, but we're terrified I to talk about what
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  Speaker 1: comes next. Stage four rulership Isaiah ninety six. The government
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  Speaker 1: shall be upon his shoulder, prince of peace. The one
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  Speaker 1: who died didn't stay dead. And when he rose, he
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  Speaker 1: didn't retire. He took the throne. He began to rule.
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  Speaker 1: And his rule isn't just spiritual. It's not just in
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  Speaker 1: some distant future. It's now right now. He's exercising authority
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  Speaker 1: over nations, over systems, over powers and principalities, over everything
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  Speaker 1: that exalts itself against the knowledge of God. And he's
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  Speaker 1: bringing Shalam, not by committee, not by democracy, not by negotiation,
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  Speaker 1: by divine decree. Look at the world around you, chaos, division, fear,
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  Speaker 1: government's collapsing, economies, teetering, morality disintegrating, and the Church is
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  Speaker 1: wringing its hands, wondering what to do. But Isaiah already
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  Speaker 1: told the government is on his shoulder, not ours. He's
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  Speaker 1: in control. He's advancing his kingdom, and nothing, no political party,
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  Speaker 1: no global elite, no demonic agenda can stop it. So
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  Speaker 1: the question isn't whether God's plan will succeed. The question
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  Speaker 1: is are you aligned with it? Are you living under
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  Speaker 1: his rule? Or are you still trying to build your
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  Speaker 1: own kingdom, your own peace, your own version of shalam,
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  Speaker 1: Because that never works, it never has and it never will.
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  Speaker 1: There's only one prince of peace, and he's reigning right now,
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  Speaker 1: whether the world acknowledges it or not, which brings us
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  Speaker 1: to the final stage, the one that should make your
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  Speaker 1: heart explode with hope. Stage five Isaiah sixty five seventeen. Behold,
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  Speaker 1: I am creating new heavens and a new Earth, not someday,
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  Speaker 1: not eventually, right now, present participle in any bore, I
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  Speaker 1: am creating. The new Creation isn't waiting for you to die.
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  Speaker 1: It's breaking in, invading, transforming everything it touches. Every time
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  Speaker 1: the gospel is preached, every time someone is born again,
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  Speaker 1: every time darkness is pushed back, every time truth wins,
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  Speaker 1: every time love overcomes hate. That's the new creation bursting
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  Speaker 1: through the cracks of the old, and one day it
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  Speaker 1: will consume the old, entirely complete transformation, total renewal. Everything
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  Speaker 1: sad will become untrue, Everything broken will be made whole,
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  Speaker 1: Everything stolen will be restored, and we will live forever
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  Speaker 1: in the presence of the one who made it all possible.
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  Speaker 1: But here's the urgency. We are living in the in between.
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  Speaker 1: The old is passing away, the new is breaking in,
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  Speaker 1: and every single person has to choose which reality they're
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  Speaker 1: going to align with. The old creation that's dying or
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  Speaker 1: the new creation that's coming. You can't straddle both. You
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  Speaker 1: can't play it safe. You have to choose. Now, let
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  Speaker 1: me show you what Isaiah knew, what the early Church understood,
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  Speaker 1: what has been buried under centuries of theological debate and
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  Speaker 1: religious tradition. These five stages we've been examining. They're not
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  Speaker 1: abstract theology, their biography. They're the life, death, and reign
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  Speaker 1: of one person, Jesus the Messiah, the fulfillment of everything
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  Speaker 1: Isaiah prophesied. Let me show you how it all connects
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  Speaker 1: Isaiah one eighteen. Come now, let us reason together. Though
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  Speaker 1: your sins are like scarlet, they shall be white as snow.
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  Speaker 1: That invitation was issued to Israel in the eighth century BC.
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  Speaker 1: But it didn't stop there. Every gospel invitation you've ever
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  Speaker 1: heard is an echo of that verse. Every altar call,
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  Speaker 1: every moment of conviction. Every time the Holy Spirit whispers come.
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  Speaker 1: That's God fulfilling Isaiah's prophecy. The invitation never closed, It's
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  Speaker 1: still open right now. Isaiah seven fourteen. Behold the young
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  Speaker 1: woman shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call
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  Speaker 1: his name Immanuel. Matthew quotes this directly in chapter one,
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  Speaker 1: verse twenty three. Behold the virgin shall conceive and bear
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  Speaker 1: a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel. The
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  Speaker 1: intervention happened. God became flesh Jesus born in Bethlehem, raised
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  Speaker 1: in Nazareth, walking among us, touching lepers, healing the blind,
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  Speaker 1: casting out demons, teaching with authority, living perfectly, and embodying
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  Speaker 1: what Isaiah saw. Immanuel God with us, not metaphorically literally
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  Speaker 1: Isaiah fifty three five. He was pierced for our transgressions,
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  Speaker 1: crushed for our iniquities. Read the Crucifixion Counts Matthew twenty seven,
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  Speaker 1: Mark fifteen, Luke twenty three, John nineteen. Every detail Isaiah
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  Speaker 1: described happened, the piercing, the crushing, the rejection, the suffering,
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  Speaker 1: the substitution. Peter quotes Isaiah fifty three in First Peter,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter two, He himself bore our sins in his body
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  Speaker 1: on the tree, or Paul references it in Second Corinthians
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  Speaker 1: five twenty one. For our sake, he made him to
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  Speaker 1: be sin, who knew no sin, so that in him
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  Speaker 1: we might become the righteousness of God. The early Church
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  Speaker 1: understood Jesus is the suffering servant, the one who absorbed
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  Speaker 1: divine wrath so that scarlet could become white, the one
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  Speaker 1: who died so that we could live Isaiah ninety six.
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  Speaker 1: For to us a child is born, to us, a
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  Speaker 1: son is given, and the government shall be upon his
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  Speaker 1: shoulder udret after the resurrection, Jesus declared in Matthew twenty
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  Speaker 1: eight eighteen, all authority in heaven and on earth has
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  Speaker 1: been given to me. Paul writes in Philippians two nine
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  Speaker 1: to ten. Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed
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  Speaker 1: on him the name that is above every name, so
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  Speaker 1: that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow.
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  Speaker 1: The child who was born is now the king who reigns.
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  Speaker 1: The son who was given is now the lord who rules.
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  Speaker 1: The government is on his shoulder, not symbolically, actually, right
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  Speaker 1: now he's advancing his kingdom. He's establishing his peace, and
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  Speaker 1: every power that opposes him will be crushed under his feet.
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  Speaker 1: And finally Isaiah sixty five seventeen. Behold, I am creating
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  Speaker 1: new heavens and a new Earth Tewod Corinthians five seventeen.
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  Speaker 1: If any one is in Christ, he is a new creation.
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  Speaker 1: The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come
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  Speaker 1: Revelation twenty one one. Then I saw a new heaven
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  Speaker 1: and a new earth, for the first heaven and the
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  Speaker 1: first earth had passed away. The new creation isn't just future.
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  Speaker 1: It started the moment Jesus rose from the grave. Every
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  Speaker 1: believer is part of it. Every church is an outpost
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  Speaker 1: of it. Every act of obedience advances it. And one
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  Speaker 1: day it will be fully consummated, total transformation, complete restoration,
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  Speaker 1: new heavens and new earth. Do you see it now?
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  Speaker 1: Do you see how every stage connects, how every prophecy
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  Speaker 1: points to one person, How Isiah's entire message is the gospel.
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  Speaker 1: This is why Jesus opened the scroll in Luke chapter
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  Speaker 1: four and read from Isaiah sixty one. The spirit of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me
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  Speaker 1: to proclaim good news to the poor. And then he said,
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  Speaker 1: to day this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing,
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  Speaker 1: he wasn't just Isaiah. He was declaring, I am the fulfillment.
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  Speaker 1: I am the one Isaiah saw. I am the divine invitation.
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  Speaker 1: I am the Intervention. I am the Atoning sacrifice. I
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  Speaker 1: am the ruling King. I am the new Creation. Everything
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  Speaker 1: Isaiah prophesied converges in me. This is the pattern, this
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  Speaker 1: is the blueprint. This is the redemptive arc that spans
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  Speaker 1: from Genesis to Revelation. And Isaiah saw it with stunning
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  Speaker 1: clarity seven centuries before it happened. He saw the invitation,
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  Speaker 1: he saw the incarnation, he saw the crucifixion, he saw
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  Speaker 1: the coronation, he saw the consummation, and he wrote it
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  Speaker 1: down so that when it happened we would know. This
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  Speaker 1: wasn't random, This wasn't improvised. This was planned from before
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  Speaker 1: the foundation of the world. And now you know, you
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  Speaker 1: can't unknow it, you can't unsee it. Isiah isn't just
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  Speaker 1: an Old Testament prophet. He's a New Testament evangelist, declaring
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  Speaker 1: the Gospel before the Gospel was lived, announcing the Messiah
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  Speaker 1: before the Messiah was born, describing the Cross before the
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  Speaker 1: cross was raised, and revealing the kingdom before the kingdom came.
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  Speaker 1: So when you read Isaiah now you're not reading ancient history.
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  Speaker 1: You're reading prophecy that is still being fulfilled because the
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  Speaker 1: invitation is still open, the king is still reigning, and
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  Speaker 1: the new creation is still breaking in. So where does
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  Speaker 1: that leave you? If Isiah reveals the complete redemptive plan,
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  Speaker 1: if Jesus is the fulfillment of every stage, if the
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  Speaker 1: pattern is this clear, what do you do with it? First,
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  Speaker 1: you stop treating the Bible like a collection of random
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  Speaker 1: inspirational quotes. It's not. It's a unified narrative, once to worry,
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  Speaker 1: one plan, one redeemer, from Genesis to Revelation, and Isaiah
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  Speaker 1: is right at the center of it, showing you how
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  Speaker 1: God rescues, restores, and reins. Second, you realize that the
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  Speaker 1: invitation from Isaiah one eighteen is still active. No matter
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  Speaker 1: what you've done, no matter how far you've run, no
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  Speaker 1: matter how scarlet your sin, the door is still open.
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  Speaker 1: God is still saying, come, let us reason together. And
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  Speaker 1: if you've never responded to that invitation, today is the day.
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  Speaker 1: Don't wait, don't assume you have more time respond turn trust,
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  Speaker 1: let the scarlet become white. Third, you understand that Christianity
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  Speaker 1: isn't just forgiveness, it's transformation. It's not just about escaping Hell.
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  Speaker 1: It's about entering the Kingdom. It's about living under the
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  Speaker 1: rule of the Prince of Peace, submitting every area of
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  Speaker 1: your life to his authority, letting him bring shalom, real peace,
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  Speaker 1: real wholeness into every broken place, and forth you live
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  Speaker 1: with hope, unshakable, immovable, eternal hope, because the New Creation
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  Speaker 1: isn't a fantasy. It's a reality that's already begun, and
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  Speaker 1: one day it will fully arrive. Every tear wiped away,
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  Speaker 1: every wrong made right, every enemy defeated, every promise fulfilled.
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  Speaker 1: That's your future if you're in Christ. That's what Isaiah saw,
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  Speaker 1: that's what he proclaimed, and that's what we now live
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  Speaker 1: in the light of. But here's the question you have
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  Speaker 1: to answer. Are you living like it's true or are
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  Speaker 1: you still trying to navigate life on your own terms,
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  Speaker 1: still clinging to the old creation, still trusting in your
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  Speaker 1: own strength. Because if Isaiah reveals anything, it's that God's
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  Speaker 1: plan doesn't need your help, It just needs your surren
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  Speaker 1: your faith, your obedience. So where are you in the pattern?
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  Speaker 1: Are you still at stage one, resisting the invitation. Are
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  Speaker 1: you at stage three, struggling to believe the atonement was enough?
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  Speaker 1: Are you at stage four, refusing to bow to the king,
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  Speaker 1: Or are you at stage five living in the new creation,
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  Speaker 1: watching it break into the world around you. Wherever you are,
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  Speaker 1: don't stop here, keep going deeper, keep studying Isaiah, keep
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  Speaker 1: tracing the pattern, because the more you see how it
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  Speaker 1: all connects, the more unshakable your faith becomes. And in
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  Speaker 1: days like these, you need faith that cannot be moved.
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  Speaker 1: If this changed how you see scripture, share this video
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  Speaker 1: them discover what Isaiah really reveals.