March 2, 2025

Observational Outline: Isaiah 41

Observational Outline: Isaiah 41

An observational outline of Isaiah 41

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An observational outline of Isaiah 41

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Isaiah chapter forty one. First hour was all about transitioning

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between chapter forty to forty one. Now it's Isaiah forty one,

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and we're going to begin our study of this entire chapter.

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I'm not going to go back through. I'm not even

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going to do really a review. We spent the entire

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time working on how forty and forty one are connected,

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how they're different, all the similarities. Now, because we have

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chapter forty one in front of us and it's twenty

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nine versus, I have two options. We can just jump

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in and start breaking it down section by section or

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just walking through it. But we're going to do an

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observational outline. So this morning, the first this second hour

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is all about doing an observational outline of Isaiah forty one.

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Why do we do an observational outline? Let's start there.

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Why do we do observational outlines? Because you cannot interpret

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what you do not see. The quality of your interpretation

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is dependent upon the quality of your observation. What is

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the goal of an observational outline? Not too interpret, not

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too interpret. It's to see see see see. The more

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we see, the better prediction. And another thing we're doing

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observational outline. If I can show you what's in a

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chapter over and over and over and over and over.

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From that point on, the goal is that if you

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ever hear anyone else say something about a chapter, you

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should immediately be able to go, wait, I know that

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chapter because I've looked at it now a thousand times. Right.

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It's kind of the idea, how do you what's the

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best way to learn how to detect counterfeit money? Study

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the ruin. That's always the idea. The more you know

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the real, then within seconds you can learn the counterfeit.

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If you spend all your time studying counterfeits, you don't

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get anywhere. You got to know the real. So if

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you know what's really in forty one, then then we

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can avoid all the sermons that well, don't get me

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started on all the problems with sermons in Isaiah forty

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to fifty five. I've been talking about it now since

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October of last year. Right here we go. Isaiah forty

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one is structured almost like at least in parts, as

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a divine courtroom scene where God demonstrates his sovereignty over

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history and exposes the futility of idols and reassures Israel

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of his covenant care. So in part just if we're

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going to try to look at it, it's kind of

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structured somewhat like a courtroom. Right. God's going to demonstrate

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the following things, his sovereignty over what history. He's going

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to expose the futility of what idols, and he's going

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to reassure Israel of what his covenantal care. Israel about

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his covenantal care. The chapter transitions from a broad global

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perspective God's control over all nations to very specific personal

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promises to Israel. God over everything specifically to Israel. It's

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gonna move that direction, just like forty to forty one does.

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All right, So here we go. Look at chapter forty one,

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look at verses one through seven. Forty one one through seven,

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look at it. We'll gohead and read it together. I

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like you, I typically don't lie, but I know people

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online sometimes gripe at me. You don't. You don't when

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you're in church, you don't have you don't actually read it.

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You just tell the people in the congregation to look

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at it. Because if I read it, people, that's passive listening.

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If you're sitting there looking at it and you're reading it.

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What is that? That's your active You're engaged right now.

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You either you can sit there and just look at

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me and not participate. But if I don't do anything,

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at some point it becomes uncomfortable. Say you have to

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do something right forty one. Let's look at verses one

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through seven. Keep silence before me, oh islands, Let the

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people renew their strength, Let them come near, then let

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them speak. Let us come near together to judgment. Who

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raised up the righteous man from the east, called him

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to his foot, gave the nations before him, made his

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rule over kings. He gave them as the dust to

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his sword, and has driven stubble to his bow. He

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pursued them, passed safely, even by the way that he

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had not gone with his feet. Who has wrought and

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done it? Calling the generations from the beginning, I the lord,

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the first, and with the last I am He The

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isles saw it and feared. The ends of the earth

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were afraid, drew near and came. They helped. Everyone of

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his neighbor bore, and everyone said to his brother, be

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of good courage. So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and

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that and he that smoothed with the hammer him that

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smote the anvil, saying it is ready for the soldering,

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and he fastened it with knells that it should not

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be moved. Right, It's a very wordy section. A lot

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going on here. What should we possibly call this section

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forty one to one through seven? I am not even

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going to force you to try to figure it out

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because I didn't have a good idea either, because I'm like,

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what do I do with this? Right? I mean, like,

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sometimes you can read a section and immediately go, oh,

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that's simple. This one, I'm kind of like, do I Yeah,

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I definitely use AI here. I was like, what do

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I do here? Like, because I argued in how to

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break this up? Right? Do I do forty one? Because two, three,

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and four seems to kind of go together? Then five, six, seven,

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And I'm like, oh, well, does your Bibles breaking things

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into like sections? Oh? Okay, okay, so it separates four and five,

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all right? My Bible takes forty one and goes one

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through seven and then the next section begins verse eight, right,

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So okay, I think most do so. So Most breaks

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down forty one one through seven as a section. AI

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does the same thing. Ai says, we shall refer to

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this section as the Lord's sovereignty over nations. Okay, all right,

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I'm not gonna argue with that. That's fine, all right,

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Isaiah forty one through seven. Right, So now it's gonna

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break down one through seven into three parts. So Ai

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takes Isaiah forty one one through seven and calls it

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the Lord's Sovereignty over nations and then separate rates it

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into three separate parts. The first part is verse one

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forty one one. What do you see going on in

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forty one one? Keep silence before me, oh, islands, Let

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the people renew their strength, Let them come near, then,

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let them speak, Let us come near together to judgment. Okay,

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a wooing? Okay, an invitation? Assom see it as an invitation.

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That's interesting, Okay, maybe it's kind Maybe do you see

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an invitation positive or negative? Well? Well, Ai says it

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this way. This is God calling the nations to court.

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It's a summons. It's more of a summons. Okay, it's

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a summons. That's my word. He A. I didn't say summons.

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I'm saying summons. That's the way I feel that it is.

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It's like when I get a jury summons, I get

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those all the time, right whatever, Or you get a summons,

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do you have to appear in court? Right? It's it's

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calling everyone to court, and it says, keep silent. Whom

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okay O islands? How does the NIV translates O islands?

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You islands? Okay? But it's it's kind of a broad scope,

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right right, This is how Ai translates it. Listen to

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me and silence, Oh coast lands. Let the people renew

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their strength. Right. Ai translates it this way or breaks

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it down this way. God summons the nation's coast lands

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equals distant lands to a legal dispute to prove his power. Guys,

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come here, come to me. We're gonna talk, right, all

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of you come here because I'm gonna demonstrate something. I'm

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going to prove something. Remember forty was all this generic

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like philological truth. Now it's gonna get very specific. Right now,

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it's gonna get very specific. So he's calling them to

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prove his power in a sense. Uh. Basically, Ai says,

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the challenge here is basically who controls history, who directs

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the rise and fall of rulers? So it's a it's

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a summons to appear God is calling the nations to court.

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Verse one. That's what basically how it went. Now, I

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know I'm having to do a little bit of interpretation

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there because it is kind of hard to pick up, right.

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I mean, I'm gonna be honest. I mean, that's like

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when you read Isaiah anyone who's ever read the book,

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sometimes you're like, what is going on here? Right? So

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read that verse again and see if it makes a

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little bit more sense. I don't, I know, I don't

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want to read too much into it. It's hard doing

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an observational outline here. We're just gonna be honest. Some

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of this is gonna be hard. But keep silence before me?

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Right that see? You see that's not so uh, that's

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pretty abrupt and direct. That's somewhat aggressive. What is that saying?

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Everyone be quiet? Sh How does the NIV put it

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be silent? Keep silent, be quiet? And who is he

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telling to be quiet? All islands or now there we

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have to do a little interpretive work. But it's the

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coastlands or it's all distant nations. He's telling everyone be quiet.

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And now this particular party is not speaking directly towards

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Israel's talking basically to everyone else. Right, let the people

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renew their strength. How does the NIV have it? Well,

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let the nations renew their strength? Interesting, okay, all right,

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but he's not saying does he's not. This is not

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directed towards Israel? Right, so all right, and then what

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does he say? Let us come near together to what

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to speak? And IV says to judgment. The King James says,

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to judgment. I don't know if we have any other translations. Okay, Jesus,

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oh at the place a judgment? Okay, good, okay, it

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does have it there? All right. How so in other words,

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you're gonna come, you're gonna talk. But what if there's

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some judgment that's gonna be made. God's gonna this is

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to make some kind of judgment. Yes, yeah, yeah, it's

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it's not to me. It's a summons. It's very it's

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very aggressive, it's very like, come here, come on, come,

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we're gonna talk. Now. It's interesting. Now, let's just stop here,

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let's stop here, let's think this through. Now. I know

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this must be observational outline. I'm okay. If we do

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a little bit of extra work here, that's okay. So

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in our context, does it seem odd at this point

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that this is words of comfort to Israel. He's been

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teaching them philological lessons about himself, and then all of

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a sudden, in forty one, all nations appear in court

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to the place a judgment that seems odd? Does it not?

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Now I'm just gonna throw out of this is just

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my own hypothesis. I don't, I'm not. I don't have

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anything from Ai. This is just me doing my what

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I love to do with create a hypothetical and then

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we test it. Right. It's almost as when God talks

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about how great and wonderful and all his power and

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all this stuff that almost immediately someone could be like, what, well,

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if you're so great and you're so incomparable, Israel's a joke.

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They're garbage, they're trash, they're defeated, they're captive, and He's like,

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oh well, then let's talk about it. Come on, we're

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gonna talk about it. That That seems that's how I'm reading.

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And I could be wrong, right because I can. Again,

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I can. I can take anything and create a story

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or a narrative, right. I love storytelling, right, so I can.

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But that's kind of what it feels like, is it not.

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Let's see if I'm right or I'm wrong, or what

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happens in two through four? What happens in two through four?

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So this the section is one through seven. We're calling

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this God sovereignty of the Lord, sovereignty over nations. The

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first part of that is verse one, and we're gonna

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call that God calls the nations to court. What happens

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in verses two through four. I'll read them again? Who

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raised up the righteous Man? Now? When he says, who

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raised up the righteous man from the east, called him

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to his foot, gave the nations before him, made him

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rule over kings, there's the question mark after kings and

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the king James. It takes a while before it because

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that puts all of those questions together. So all of

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a sudden they're called into court, and what immediately happens.

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He starts rattling off questions to them. Boom boom, boom boom,

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rapid questions. Correct, All right, do we agree that that's

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what's happening? And then it kind of becomes very then

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much more making dogmatic statements. He gave them as the

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dust to his sword, as driven stubble to his bow,

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he pursued them, passed safely, even by the way that

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he had not gone with his feet. Who hath wrought

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and done it? Calling degenerations from the beginning? Then he

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goes back to the questions, so he immediately starts interrogating

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them or asking them questions, and those questions center around

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what the rise of I'm gonna I know this will

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sounding maybe a little too interpretive, the rise of what

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appears a conquering leader. Is everyone okay with that? The

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rise of a conquering leader. I'm not going to give

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the name of the conquering leader in the observational outline,

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but it's the rise of a conquering leader. Do you

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agree he sounds conquering? Do you think that's fair? Do

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you think I'm reading too much into it? Okay, I

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don't want to. Right, So, the first section was God

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calls the nations to court. Now this is the rise

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of a conquering leader Verses two through four. Who stirred

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up one from the east, whom victory meets at every step?

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up one from the east whom victory meets at every step?

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Every step is one he's raising up from the east.

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Victory victory victory, right, one from the east. Now, I'm

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gonna do a little observational work. Most likely this is whom.

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This is Cyrus. This is Cyrus, right, just remember that? Okay?

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All right? And what is it? Why is he? Why

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is he pointing this out to these to all the nations,

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all the nations, see what Judah where? And captivity? Seeming

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like God has lost control of what history are the nations?

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So he's like, oh, guys, guys, who's this person rising

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up from the east who's conquering everyone. Well, the implication

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is they're all going to be like, oh, that's Cyrus.

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And then what is God taking credit for he did it? Meanie,

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you think I'm not in control, I'm working right there.

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That's like tangible prier. Now he doesn't and what's interesting

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he doesn't point to whom as proof. He doesn't point

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to Judah, he doesn't point to Israel. He's like, oh,

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because in their mind they would be looking for what, well,

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God would be equaled with what victory power? Okay, well,

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I'm not gonna point to Judah because that's not gonna

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help my case. What will prove my case, Cyrus. Oh

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we heard about him. Oh yeah, we know that one

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on the Yeah, he is conquering everyone.

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Huh right God, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's all yes.

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This is all about God. He's trying to demonstrate that,

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all right, so everybody see that. So what he wants

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to do is here this rise, the rising or the

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raising of this conquering leader, proves God's control over history

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as it raises up the king according to his will.

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So all the nations come here, be quiet. He's not

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bringing them into court to hear them. He's bringing them

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into court for them to hear him. And he starts

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rattling off these questions. When you start rattling one question

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after another question after another question, what does that typically indicate?

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lot of times, that indicates I'm not interested in you

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answering it, I'm interesting in you hearing my questions. When

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God starts rattling off questions, that clearly is an indicator

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of why, Ah, I'm not interested in you answering. I'm

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interesting did in you listening?

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Because I'm gonna make a point in these questions? Does

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that make sense, right, Yeah, like he did with Joe, right,

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same concepts. So we have God's call to the nations,

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and verse one we have the rise of a conquering leader.

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Verses two through four, Now what.

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Do we have?

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And verses five through seven. This, yeah, because verse five,

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what do we have? The ailes saw it? How's the

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NIV Transferverse five, The islands have seen it. They saw

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it and feared. The ends of the earth were afraid.

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They drew near and came. They helped everyone his neighbor.

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Everyone said to his brother, be of good courage. So

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the carpentering courage, the goldsmith, and he that's smooth, and

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he that smootheth if I can read correct with the hammer,

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him that smote the anvil, saying it is ready for

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the soldering. And he fastened it with nails, that it

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should not be moved. All right, So here we go

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verses five to seven. The nation's response one verse one

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is the call come to court. Two through four is

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almost proof the rise of this conquering leader. And in

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five through seven, the nations respond, the coast lands have

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seen and are afraid. But what do they do with

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their fear? Oh? Look at the entire section. What do

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they tend to do and what what have they seen?

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appear that they have seen in this context Cyrus? Yeah,

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there we go, thank you, Yeah, very good. They see

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the conquering king, and their solution was build some more idols.

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We need some more gods, because what could they do

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with those gods? They could do a ceremony. It was

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the name of that ceremony, Sarah opening the mouth. I

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can't remember the miss pie. There we go, miss Pie. Yeah, yeah,

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that miss Pie, the very good Bobby. I completely forgot

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it by the opening of the mouth, because by opening

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the mouth, what could they hear? In a sense, they

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would hear from their God telling them what to do

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to stop this conquering king that is coming. They'd run

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to their idolatry. So basically, God is like, hey guy,

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big quiet, here's my proof that I'm in charge. I'm

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raising someone from the east. And they're like, oh, what

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do we do? Boom boom boom, Let's make some more gods.

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Let's make some more gods. And maybe there's a little

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bit of irony in here, because how does it describe

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this well, they try to help one his neighbor, right,

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and they try to help each one have good courage.

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You see that in verse six, Right, we're gonna help,

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We're gonna help, all right, So everyone is neighbor and

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uh yeah, okay verse seven. Now I'm seeing verse six

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and I'm like, I think I was reading that completely wrong.

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But they help everyone his neighbor. And everyone said to

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his brother, be of good courage. Now we understand that. Right,

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They're trying to help each other out because everyone's scared.

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So then what do they do? So the carpenter encouraged

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the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer, him

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that smote the anvil, saying it is ready for the soldery,

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and he fastened it with nails that it should not

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be moved. It's a little sarcasm there at the end. Oh,

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so you see a conquering king, you get scared. It's

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great that you care about each other. It's great that

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you do to help your neighbor. Right, it's great about that,

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But then what happens You have to build something that

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you've got to hammer down so it won't fall over.

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That it's being sarcastic, it's being very sarcastic. There does

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that make sense? All right? So in fact, Ai said,

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they make gods that need to be fastened with nails

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so they won't topple over right, So all right, So

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the first section is called what God's sovereignty over nations? Right?

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Or we could actually say God's call to Court? All right?

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We could go a lot of different directions here, right.

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So there's three major sections. First, God's Call the Nations

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to court? Right, that's verse one. Then we have the

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rise of a conquering leader two through four, and then

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we have five through seven the nation's response. The nations

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are scared to death of the conquering king, and so

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they build idols to stop it. Do the idol stop Cyrus? No, no,

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it doesn't. Right now. That brings us to the next section,

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starting in verse eight. Now, this is where it gets

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a little difficult, okay, because we're trying to break it down.

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If I follow my Bible, it goes from eight to twenty.

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Who years went from one to twenty? Ai does not

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like any other way the Bibles break it down. AI

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was like, Nope, disagree with all of that, right, Ai said,

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what you should do is break it down from verse

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eight to thirteen. Now y'all look at that and tell

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me if that makes sense. Wolf read verse eight. But

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thou Israel, arn't my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen

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the seat of Abraham my friend, Now whom I have

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taken from the ends of the earth and called the

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the chief men thereof, and said, unto THEE, thou art

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my servant. I have chosen THEE, and not cast THEE away.

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Fear thou not, for I am with THEE. Be not dismayed.

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For I am thy God. I will strengthen THEE. YEA,

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I will help THEE. YEA, I will uphold THEE with

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the right hand of my righteousness. Behold, all they that

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were incensed against THEE shall be ashamed and confounded. They

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shall be as nothing. They shall strive with THEE. They

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that strive with THEE shall perish. Thou shalt seek them

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and shall not find them, even them that contended with THEE.

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That they that war against THEE shall be as nothing,

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as a thing of not. Then the very next verse

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is for I the Lord, thy God, will hold thy

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right hand. Ai says that we should go to thirteen

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and stop right there, and then fourteen starts a new section.

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What do you think I do? Okay, maybe kind of

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a that AI is picking up a shifting tone. That's

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a that's a good catch. That is a good catch,

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I know, right, Okay, that's true. I like that better

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almost going from eight to fourteen frail small yeah, well yeah,

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so let's say this. We'll go with AI's breakdown here.

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But I am skeptical of this. I am. I am

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skeptical of this. But at the same time, reading this,

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where to kind of put the section is kind of

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very difficult to do. I kind of went with where

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Sarah was going because I was kind of like, well,

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I think that next section to me is very different.

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So I would have gone to eight to fourteen. If

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it was up to me, I would have gone eight

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to fourteen.

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That's where I.

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Oh, oh, very good. Okay, that's good. Okay, I didn't

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catch that. I didn't catch that at first. Okay, right,

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all right, So this is what this is, how AI

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calls it, or what it calls it. It says, so

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the first section was the Lord's Sovereignty of our Nations

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one through seven, eight through thirteen. This is what AI

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refers to. It asks God's assurance to Israel, God's assurance

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to Israel. Now, looking at eight through thirteen, let's just

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go ahead and we're gonna challenge it. Can we clearly

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demonstrate the assurances going to Israel? And eight through thirteen?

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Is there any question? No question? Right? Because Israel is

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literally named are they not?

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All right, So that's not an interpretation, that's an observation.

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All right, all right, good now, all right, here we go.

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It breaks eight through thirteen down into three sections. It loves,

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if I've noticed one thing about AI's outlining, it loves

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to create a major section and then break down the

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major sections into three separate parts. It loves that way

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of outlining. So if you ever have student ever turns

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an outline and it does that, it's probably a because AI.

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I mean, almost every every outline I've seen AI do

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it does that. Make a section and break it down

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into three parts, three parts, three individual parts. It seems

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to be I'm not saying it's one hundred percent, but

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I use it a lot to check outlining, and I'll

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be like, whoa, there it goes again, There it goes again.

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It's almost like, yeah, it's you can pick that up

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that's an AI outline, all right. Now people may do

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the same thing, and it may be great to do

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it this way, but and just ever remember if you

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ever ask Ai to do an outline or help you

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with an outlining of anything in the Bible, you have

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to ask it to do an observational outline. You have

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to be specific or it's going to be pulling outlining

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like you'll get in commentaries and other things that will

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be more interpretive. So if you want it to do

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an outline for you, ask it to do an observational one, right,

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be specific on the kind of outline you want. An

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observational is different than an interpretive one.

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Does that make sense? Okay, so just keep that in mind,

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all right. So the first section, they say, our Ai says,

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goes from verses eight through nine. What do we have

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going on in eight through nine? Oh? There we go. Okay.

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So AI calls this Israel's identity as God's chosen servant.

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So this whole section is God's assurance to Israel. The

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first section sub section is Israel's identity is God's chosen servant.

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All right, everybody see that? All right? Now, this is

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how it breaks this down or talks about this section.

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It gives me a quote, and again sometimes it's using

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a different translation than King James. I could ask it

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to use the King James, but I let it quote

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whatever it wants to quote. But you Israle, my servant Jacob,

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whom I have chosen. But you Israel, my servant Jacob.

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How does the NIV go read it? All? Right? He

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gives those exact words, okay, the King James Sarah. Okay,

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So there's no question who it's referencing, right, I mean,

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it's making it abundantly clear. Right. So there's a contrast

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the nation's fear right, we see that in verse five.

456
00:30:19.519 --> 00:30:22.839
Remember the nations are fearful, but Israel is securing God's

457
00:30:22.920 --> 00:30:27.640
choosing verse nine. Right, Hey, Israel, I've got you. Now,

458
00:30:27.759 --> 00:30:30.759
why do you think it goes from now? Just ask

459
00:30:30.759 --> 00:30:34.400
yourself this question. We have the rise of the conquering leader.

460
00:30:35.559 --> 00:30:38.880
In that first section. We have a court case going on.

461
00:30:38.960 --> 00:30:41.559
We have a court trial going on. God is upset

462
00:30:41.599 --> 00:30:44.480
with these nations, and he's asking them these questions. All

463
00:30:44.519 --> 00:30:46.319
of a sudden, when you get to eight through nine,

464
00:30:46.920 --> 00:30:51.559
he speaks, this is about assurance. Right, So he gives

465
00:30:51.599 --> 00:30:55.359
them Israel's identity is God's chosen servant. But what is

466
00:30:55.400 --> 00:31:00.319
he doing? He's contrasting something. The nations are afraid. What

467
00:31:00.759 --> 00:31:04.319
Israel could be afraid because Israel could be thinking, oh,

468
00:31:04.359 --> 00:31:07.680
you gotta be kidding me. There's another king coming. He

469
00:31:07.759 --> 00:31:10.640
can be, he can be worse than these these guys.

470
00:31:10.960 --> 00:31:15.519
You is this ever going to end? And He's like, hey, no, no, no, no, no, guys, guys, guys, guys,

471
00:31:16.079 --> 00:31:18.480
you may be in Babylonian captivity, but who are you?

472
00:31:19.680 --> 00:31:26.839
Who servant? Are you my servant? Who chose you? I

473
00:31:27.000 --> 00:31:30.599
have chosen you? So in verse five, the nation's fear.

474
00:31:30.960 --> 00:31:33.240
But Israel look at verse nine, what does it say

475
00:31:33.240 --> 00:31:46.359
in verse nine, specifically, in verse nine, I've chosen you.

476
00:31:46.599 --> 00:31:51.240
I've got you right, I've got you all right. God

477
00:31:51.319 --> 00:31:54.880
reaffirms his covenant with Israel, reminding them of their special role.

478
00:31:55.119 --> 00:31:59.559
So he identifies, Hey, guys, I'm identifying who you are.

479
00:31:59.799 --> 00:32:04.400
You belong to me. Don't be afraid because they they've

480
00:32:04.480 --> 00:32:07.119
just and it since Israel's heard this court case, right,

481
00:32:07.200 --> 00:32:10.359
they've heard the court case, and they're like, oh no, no,

482
00:32:10.519 --> 00:32:12.839
I can see why they're building more idols. In fact,

483
00:32:12.839 --> 00:32:15.279
they may have been tempted to go do what, Hey,

484
00:32:15.279 --> 00:32:19.559
could you build a couple of idols for me? They

485
00:32:19.559 --> 00:32:23.720
could have been very tempted to do that. Okay, So

486
00:32:23.960 --> 00:32:26.079
the first section goes from eight through nine. This is

487
00:32:26.079 --> 00:32:29.319
Israel's identity as God's servant. What happens in verse ten,

488
00:32:33.720 --> 00:32:37.039
that's straight up the words AI get used, the command

489
00:32:37.079 --> 00:32:42.759
to fear not. That's very Sarah's talking Ai. Now, oh okay,

490
00:32:43.160 --> 00:32:45.960
I'm like, that's the exact language of Ai, the command

491
00:32:46.079 --> 00:32:49.480
to fear not, and it says, fear not if I

492
00:32:49.519 --> 00:32:55.039
am with you, being not dismayed, for I am your God. Now,

493
00:32:55.240 --> 00:32:57.960
three reasons are given for them not to fear. Three

494
00:32:58.000 --> 00:32:59.920
reasons are given for them not to fear. What are

495
00:33:00.160 --> 00:33:06.000
three reasons? Okay, God's presence, I am with you. Second,

496
00:33:07.720 --> 00:33:12.480
God's covenant relationship, I am your God. I cannot do

497
00:33:12.680 --> 00:33:16.839
not forget the covenant, right, I gotta drive the covenantal

498
00:33:17.039 --> 00:33:21.640
relationship in because that gives them. That's that covenant gives

499
00:33:21.640 --> 00:33:24.119
it about them all right, So what's the first reason

500
00:33:24.160 --> 00:33:31.279
they shouldn't fear God's presence? Second God's covenant. Number three,

501
00:33:31.839 --> 00:33:37.759
God was sustaining power. God's sustaining power. Right, So verse

502
00:33:37.799 --> 00:33:41.519
ten This is the second section or the subsection. The

503
00:33:41.559 --> 00:33:44.759
command to fear not is verse ten. On the reasons

504
00:33:44.759 --> 00:33:47.599
they're not to fear is God's presence, God's covenant relationship,

505
00:33:47.599 --> 00:33:51.079
and God's sustaining power. Right now, what do we have

506
00:33:51.160 --> 00:34:06.240
in verses eleven through thirteen, Oh, okay, you're going the

507
00:34:06.279 --> 00:34:12.480
right direction, Ai says the fate of Israel's enemies. Okay,

508
00:34:13.000 --> 00:34:16.400
the fate of their enemies. And it says, behold all

509
00:34:16.440 --> 00:34:22.039
who are incensed against you shall be put to shame.

510
00:34:24.039 --> 00:34:29.280
All who are incensed against you. Who's the you, Israel?

511
00:34:29.519 --> 00:34:32.719
All who are upset with you? Don't worry about them.

512
00:34:33.360 --> 00:34:38.000
Divine look uh divide. Basically, a divine reversal is going

513
00:34:38.000 --> 00:34:40.679
to occur. The enemies are going to vanish, Israel is

514
00:34:40.760 --> 00:34:45.719
going to stand. God is personally helping them. I the Lord,

515
00:34:45.760 --> 00:34:51.039
your God, will hold your right hand. Everybody see that.

516
00:34:52.119 --> 00:34:55.000
So in eleven through thirteen we read that behold all

517
00:34:55.119 --> 00:34:58.360
they that were incensed against these should be ashamed and confounded,

518
00:34:58.719 --> 00:35:01.920
they that they shoul be as nothing. And they that

519
00:35:02.039 --> 00:35:05.719
strive with THEE shall perish. Thou shalt seek them and

520
00:35:05.840 --> 00:35:09.280
shall not find them, even them that contend with THEE.

521
00:35:09.360 --> 00:35:12.679
That war against thee shall be as nothing as a

522
00:35:12.719 --> 00:35:15.800
thing of not, for I the Lord that God will

523
00:35:15.840 --> 00:35:19.320
hold thy right hand, saying, under thee, fear not, I

524
00:35:19.400 --> 00:35:23.719
will help thee. All right, So he has a court

525
00:35:23.800 --> 00:35:28.639
case letting everyone know this raising king is coming. How

526
00:35:28.679 --> 00:35:33.760
does the Babylonians handle that bill? More her idols? And

527
00:35:33.840 --> 00:35:37.280
so then God steps in Israel, Israel, Israel, Calm down,

528
00:35:37.320 --> 00:35:43.800
calm down, Who are you my servant, my chosen. I'm

529
00:35:43.800 --> 00:35:48.039
gonna remind you of your identity, your identity right, you

530
00:35:48.440 --> 00:35:50.840
belong to God. And hey, I'm gonna give you a

531
00:35:50.840 --> 00:35:53.400
command to do what do not fear? And I'm going

532
00:35:53.440 --> 00:35:55.400
to give you three reasons not to fear. One of

533
00:35:55.440 --> 00:36:03.920
those three reasons God's presence, God's covenant, and God's sustaining power.

534
00:36:04.280 --> 00:36:07.679
Then He's gonna tell them the fate of all your enemies, basically,

535
00:36:07.679 --> 00:36:10.360
what's the fate of all their enemies Verses eleven through thirteen.

536
00:36:11.320 --> 00:36:14.800
They're gonna be destroyed, They're not gonna be found, they're

537
00:36:14.840 --> 00:36:16.800
not gonna be anywhere near you. You're not gonna have

538
00:36:16.840 --> 00:36:22.760
to worry about them. Then we now move to the

539
00:36:22.800 --> 00:36:27.400
next section, section three, and Israel and Ai says this

540
00:36:27.480 --> 00:36:32.599
goes from fourteen through twenty. Okay, with another way we

541
00:36:32.599 --> 00:36:33.199
could divide it.

542
00:36:52.000 --> 00:37:12.960
Oh okay, so that would be oh okay.

543
00:37:14.400 --> 00:37:17.800
Oh so you see in a pattern, a pattern within

544
00:37:17.840 --> 00:37:21.639
the language used. Okay, all right, that's that's good. That's

545
00:37:22.400 --> 00:37:24.920
that's good. Now I haven't asked AI to do that.

546
00:37:25.000 --> 00:37:28.719
I could ask give me the linguistic structure and it

547
00:37:28.760 --> 00:37:30.679
will break it down in the linguist destruction. But that's

548
00:37:30.760 --> 00:37:31.199
really good.

549
00:37:31.280 --> 00:37:43.760
Yeah, right, right, right right, But so it always and

550
00:37:43.760 --> 00:37:46.639
in fact, if it if you see what Sarah is saying,

551
00:37:46.800 --> 00:37:48.719
it kind of goes with our pattern from Isaiah forty

552
00:37:48.800 --> 00:37:49.360
to forty one.

553
00:37:50.079 --> 00:37:54.039
It all starts with the philological foundation. Here's who I am.

554
00:37:54.079 --> 00:37:57.119
That that doesn't change now in forty one though he

555
00:37:57.199 --> 00:38:01.400
takes that theology and now applies in a specific way.

556
00:38:02.280 --> 00:38:04.840
That's that's really good. That's that's very good. That's very

557
00:38:04.840 --> 00:38:08.920
good observation. Right, And maybe i'll i'll maybe next week

558
00:38:08.920 --> 00:38:10.480
we'll come back when we go through it. I'll try

559
00:38:10.559 --> 00:38:13.920
hopefully I will remember that linguistic pattern. If I forget it,

560
00:38:13.960 --> 00:38:17.960
you can bring it up, because that's really good. All right. Now, next,

561
00:38:18.000 --> 00:38:19.880
so this is what AI does. It breaks the next

562
00:38:19.880 --> 00:38:24.440
section down from verse fourteen to twenty fourteen to twenty.

563
00:38:25.679 --> 00:38:29.079
All right, now, let's read fourteen through twenty. Everybody there,

564
00:38:30.800 --> 00:38:35.599
fear not thou worm, Jacob, and ye men of Israel.

565
00:38:35.639 --> 00:38:38.360
I will help thee saith the Lord and thy redeemer,

566
00:38:38.440 --> 00:38:40.880
the Holy One of Israel. Behold. I will make thee

567
00:38:40.960 --> 00:38:45.519
a new sharp threshing instrument, having teeth. Thou shall thresh

568
00:38:45.559 --> 00:38:48.480
the mountains and beat them small, and shall make the

569
00:38:48.559 --> 00:38:52.159
hills as chef. Thou shalt fan them, and the wind

570
00:38:52.239 --> 00:38:55.960
shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them,

571
00:38:56.159 --> 00:38:58.440
and thou shall rejoice in the Lord, and thou shall

572
00:38:58.440 --> 00:39:00.920
glory in the Holy One of Israel. When the poor

573
00:39:00.960 --> 00:39:03.400
and needy seek water and there is none, and their

574
00:39:03.440 --> 00:39:06.679
tongue faileth for thirst, I the Lord will hear them. I,

575
00:39:06.880 --> 00:39:09.199
the God of Israel, will not forsake them. I will

576
00:39:09.239 --> 00:39:11.760
open the rivers in high places, and fountains in the

577
00:39:11.760 --> 00:39:13.960
midst of the valleys. I will make the wilderness a

578
00:39:14.000 --> 00:39:17.320
pool of water, and the dry lens springs of water.

579
00:39:17.519 --> 00:39:20.320
I will plant in the wilderness the cedar of the

580
00:39:20.360 --> 00:39:23.639
shitta tree, and the myrtle and the oil tree. I

581
00:39:23.639 --> 00:39:25.719
will set in the desert, and the fir tree and

582
00:39:25.760 --> 00:39:30.039
the pine and the box tree together they that they

583
00:39:29.880 --> 00:39:33.480
may see and know and consider and understand together that

584
00:39:33.559 --> 00:39:35.800
the hand of the Lord hath done this, and the

585
00:39:35.840 --> 00:39:40.559
Holy One of Israel hath created it. Now immediately, what

586
00:39:40.679 --> 00:39:42.920
jumps out at me in this section is the language

587
00:39:42.960 --> 00:39:47.480
gets very poetic, very poetic. This is a very very

588
00:39:47.519 --> 00:39:50.280
I can't a major shift in language, at least from

589
00:39:50.320 --> 00:39:52.719
my out my perspective. I could be wrong, but at

590
00:39:52.800 --> 00:39:55.360
least that's what I'm seeing. So I kind of see

591
00:39:55.400 --> 00:39:57.840
why AI wants to put this in its separate section.

592
00:39:57.960 --> 00:40:00.559
I can kind of see why, but it what do

593
00:40:00.599 --> 00:40:03.920
you think? AI refers to this as it calls verse

594
00:40:03.960 --> 00:40:12.840
fourteen to twenty the transformation of Israel, the transformation of Israel. Right,

595
00:40:13.840 --> 00:40:16.000
And this is interesting, and I think this is why

596
00:40:16.039 --> 00:40:20.599
it includes verse fourteen right, because what is Israel referred

597
00:40:20.599 --> 00:40:26.039
to in verse fourteen a worm? Now, a worm should

598
00:40:26.119 --> 00:40:32.599
be what pretty concern of anything bigger than it? I mean,

599
00:40:32.760 --> 00:40:36.679
worms are slow typically, right, they can be taken by anything.

600
00:40:36.719 --> 00:40:38.719
They can be stepped on, they can be picked up,

601
00:40:38.760 --> 00:40:41.679
they can be carried, they can be blown away. Right,

602
00:40:42.000 --> 00:40:45.599
They're worms. So to refer to Jacob as a worm,

603
00:40:45.679 --> 00:40:48.920
as Sarah pointed out, because that's what she saw linguistically.

604
00:40:49.440 --> 00:40:51.320
That's kind of where did that come from?

605
00:40:51.480 --> 00:40:51.719
Right?

606
00:40:52.599 --> 00:40:54.800
He's being all nice to them, and then all of

607
00:40:54.840 --> 00:40:59.079
a sudden, you're a worm, Like, well, that's that's not

608
00:40:59.280 --> 00:41:02.320
very nice. I don't want to be referred to as

609
00:41:02.320 --> 00:41:05.840
a worm, right, So I think that that's why Ai

610
00:41:05.880 --> 00:41:08.800
puts it here. Let's see if I'm right. Okay, So,

611
00:41:09.159 --> 00:41:11.480
and now, of course, how many sections is it gonna? Oh? Wait?

612
00:41:11.519 --> 00:41:13.840
This is It breaks the pattern here. It actually breaks

613
00:41:13.880 --> 00:41:17.239
the pattern. It actually breaks fourteen to twenty down to

614
00:41:17.360 --> 00:41:21.519
only two parts. It breaks the pattern here. I always

615
00:41:21.519 --> 00:41:24.679
see the three. This breaks it all right. So here's

616
00:41:24.920 --> 00:41:27.920
fourteen through twenty is the entire section. The Transformation of

617
00:41:28.000 --> 00:41:34.480
Israel Verses fourteen through sixteen is the first section. And

618
00:41:34.599 --> 00:41:41.079
Ai refers to this Israel as a worm. It's turned

619
00:41:41.239 --> 00:41:51.480
into a warrior. A worm is transformed. Okay, and look

620
00:41:51.480 --> 00:41:57.199
at it, fear not you worm, Jacob. And what does

621
00:41:57.199 --> 00:41:59.760
he say immediately after he refers to them as you worm, Jacob?

622
00:42:01.840 --> 00:42:06.559
What does he say immediately after that, you mean of Israel? Okay?

623
00:42:06.599 --> 00:42:10.960
Then immediately I will help you. There you go all right, hey,

624
00:42:11.119 --> 00:42:15.880
your worm, but I'm going to help you. Right, Israel

625
00:42:16.000 --> 00:42:19.119
is weak like a worm. But with God's help, what

626
00:42:19.280 --> 00:42:24.000
do they become? Well, how does it describe them? What happens?

627
00:42:24.039 --> 00:42:30.400
This worm begins to do what becomes a threshing instrument

628
00:42:30.679 --> 00:42:34.159
with sharp teeth. That's no longer a worm, is it?

629
00:42:38.119 --> 00:42:42.719
You're gonna thresh the mountains? Can a worm thresh a mountain? Now?

630
00:42:43.159 --> 00:42:46.440
It's using very poetic language to show the absurdity of

631
00:42:46.480 --> 00:42:49.079
this transformation, right, or I'm let me think about it.

632
00:42:49.119 --> 00:42:52.400
Not the absurdity, the improbability of the transformation. Is that

633
00:42:52.440 --> 00:42:55.880
a better word? Right? And it is absurd to think about.

634
00:42:55.880 --> 00:42:58.519
But it's improbable when you put a worm before a

635
00:42:58.599 --> 00:43:03.679
mountain and like, go thresh it. That's everyone's gonna laugh,

636
00:43:03.840 --> 00:43:05.920
right If I if I were like, hey, guys, we're

637
00:43:05.920 --> 00:43:08.159
gonna have a field trip. Let's go, we're gonna get

638
00:43:08.119 --> 00:43:10.159
We're gonna leave the church across the street. And what

639
00:43:10.159 --> 00:43:12.280
do we call that? What's that thing called right here?

640
00:43:12.320 --> 00:43:16.280
This hill mountain? What do we call it? Bald eagle mountain?

641
00:43:16.360 --> 00:43:19.559
Is that what they call it? Or whatever they call

642
00:43:19.639 --> 00:43:22.440
this thing over here? Okay, that's where teenagers used to

643
00:43:22.440 --> 00:43:24.360
go when I was in high school and go get

644
00:43:24.480 --> 00:43:26.760
drunk on top of that thing. Okay, but but wherever

645
00:43:26.800 --> 00:43:30.199
they were doing over there, Okay, if we went across

646
00:43:30.199 --> 00:43:32.599
the street right now, walked over to the base of it,

647
00:43:32.800 --> 00:43:35.000
and we put a worm like worm, go thresh it?

648
00:43:35.079 --> 00:43:38.000
Everybody like this church is really stupid and why are

649
00:43:38.039 --> 00:43:40.880
you out here? Okay, well, first you go, I would

650
00:43:40.880 --> 00:43:42.880
like gets outside, you guys, go and tell me what

651
00:43:42.920 --> 00:43:46.599
happens FaceTime me. Right, but it's not going to do anything,

652
00:43:46.679 --> 00:43:51.039
is it. The worm is not going to In fact,

653
00:43:51.079 --> 00:43:54.039
it'll probably be bird food before we got back to

654
00:43:54.079 --> 00:43:56.599
the church. Right, It's not gonna do with it. That

655
00:43:56.639 --> 00:43:59.679
mountain would still be standing next week. All of a sudden,

656
00:43:59.760 --> 00:44:04.360
now this worm is turned into what uh what how

657
00:44:04.400 --> 00:44:09.679
do how does your translation read a threshing sledge a

658
00:44:09.719 --> 00:44:14.800
threshing instrument? So Israel is a worm? But with God

659
00:44:15.039 --> 00:44:17.239
they are gonna become a threshing sledge or get there

660
00:44:17.239 --> 00:44:20.079
we go AI uses the same word. Or it's gonna

661
00:44:20.119 --> 00:44:33.360
crush mountains. Oh, oh, very good, very good. That's that's

662
00:44:33.400 --> 00:44:37.039
a good. That's awesome. Forty Hey, he's gonna lay outside

663
00:44:37.039 --> 00:44:40.880
every mountain, make everything straight Israel, you're the little worm,

664
00:44:41.239 --> 00:44:45.400
and now you're gonna be used. And who does Cyrus

665
00:44:45.440 --> 00:44:48.800
call to prepare and get everything ready to go forward?

666
00:44:49.239 --> 00:44:52.039
Israel's gonna be the one marching forward, gonna rebuild everything.

667
00:44:52.119 --> 00:44:54.440
So but it's all because of God. God is gonna

668
00:44:54.559 --> 00:44:58.599
utilize them to march forward. That's really that's a good idea.

669
00:44:58.719 --> 00:45:02.880
Now Ai does of or an interpretive thing here, but

670
00:45:03.039 --> 00:45:07.559
I'll just read it after mountains. Ai puts it in parentheses,

671
00:45:09.000 --> 00:45:28.360
and the mountains are nations is what AI thinks, right, Okay, yeah,

672
00:45:28.400 --> 00:45:34.880
I like that better, right, yeah, instead of them? Yeah,

673
00:45:35.840 --> 00:45:40.079
I agree, So, yeah, I agree if you're using warriors

674
00:45:40.079 --> 00:45:46.679
simply in a descriptive way. But warrior seems to conquering

675
00:45:46.760 --> 00:45:49.679
and defeating, and I think it's more like Israel's just

676
00:45:49.760 --> 00:45:53.679
now going to go from a worm to a marching nation,

677
00:45:54.199 --> 00:45:57.480
going back to their nation to rebuild, and not conquering

678
00:45:57.480 --> 00:46:00.320
and defeating. So I don't like the warrior analogy either.

679
00:46:00.519 --> 00:46:03.639
You're gonna do a lot of it requires you have

680
00:46:03.679 --> 00:46:06.000
to do a lot of explaining. If it just goes

681
00:46:06.159 --> 00:46:23.239
from a worm to that's frail, right, so home right, right,

682
00:46:23.320 --> 00:46:26.000
So I would describe this section more from a worm

683
00:46:26.039 --> 00:46:29.199
to a threshing instrument and just use the language that's used, right,

684
00:46:29.639 --> 00:46:32.159
Does that make sense a worm turned into a threshing

685
00:46:32.199 --> 00:46:35.360
instrument instead of a warm worm turned into a warrior.

686
00:46:35.639 --> 00:46:38.800
I agree with that. The warrior gives the wrong image

687
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in my mind. Right, It's like Israel's gonna come out

688
00:46:41.199 --> 00:46:43.639
and they're gonna just go conquer every nation. They don't

689
00:46:43.679 --> 00:46:45.920
go conquer every nation. They go back home and they

690
00:46:45.920 --> 00:46:48.440
get well lazy, but they do make it back home.

691
00:46:48.760 --> 00:46:51.559
And you're right, everything that would be opposing them getting

692
00:46:51.599 --> 00:46:56.840
back home, they get. Everything is laid is made flat, right,

693
00:46:56.920 --> 00:47:02.280
All the obstacles are removed, right, So the lowly are

694
00:47:02.280 --> 00:47:06.480
empowered by God, which is a recurring theme in Isaiah.

695
00:47:06.519 --> 00:47:11.280
And I agree, right, So we got that all right.

696
00:47:11.719 --> 00:47:16.320
So the first let's go all the way back here.

697
00:47:17.199 --> 00:47:20.599
We have a first major section is the Lord's sovereignty

698
00:47:20.679 --> 00:47:24.159
over nations Isaiah forty one one through seven. Everybody got that.

699
00:47:24.159 --> 00:47:28.079
That was broken into three parts. God's call. God calls

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00:47:28.199 --> 00:47:31.559
the nations to court verses two through four, the rise

701
00:47:31.599 --> 00:47:33.920
of a conquering leader, and verses five through seven the

702
00:47:34.000 --> 00:47:38.039
nation's response. Then in verses eight through thirteen, this is

703
00:47:38.119 --> 00:47:41.920
God's assurance to Israel broken into three parts. Israel's identity

704
00:47:42.000 --> 00:47:44.920
is God's chosen, the commands to fear not, and the

705
00:47:44.920 --> 00:47:47.960
fate of Israel's enemies. Then we have the transformation of

706
00:47:48.039 --> 00:47:51.599
Israel and verses fourteen through twenty Israel is turned from

707
00:47:51.639 --> 00:47:54.239
a goes from a worm to a threshing instrument. That's

708
00:47:54.239 --> 00:47:57.519
the way we're gonna describe that. And then the second

709
00:47:57.559 --> 00:48:01.960
section here within that major set, the subsection this is

710
00:48:02.360 --> 00:48:05.400
verses seventeen through twenty. What happens in verses seventeen through

711
00:48:05.400 --> 00:48:19.400
twenty God's Can we say God's provision here seventeen through

712
00:48:19.400 --> 00:48:22.079
twenty or forty one seventeenth through twenty. I think I

713
00:48:22.119 --> 00:48:26.119
said forty forty one through seventeenth through twenty. The poor

714
00:48:26.159 --> 00:48:29.239
and needy seek water, but there is none. Is that

715
00:48:29.320 --> 00:48:31.679
a fair that that's almost a direct quote from one

716
00:48:31.679 --> 00:48:36.159
of those verses, Or see that This is kind of

717
00:48:36.239 --> 00:48:40.599
exile imagery. They're gonna be weary, they're gonna be thirsty.

718
00:48:40.639 --> 00:48:46.800
But what's going to happen. God's going to provide, right,

719
00:48:47.280 --> 00:48:51.119
God is gonna miraculously transform transform the desert into a

720
00:48:51.159 --> 00:48:54.920
fertile land. This is kind of an Exodus motif of renewal,

721
00:48:55.719 --> 00:48:58.599
God's gonna provide. He's gonna give them everything they need. Now,

722
00:48:59.000 --> 00:49:02.400
how far do we take this language of renewing everything?

723
00:49:02.760 --> 00:49:04.559
This is where some people would want to jump and

724
00:49:04.599 --> 00:49:08.039
go where to the millennial kingdom? This is where some

725
00:49:08.039 --> 00:49:10.159
people would want to jump to the millennial kingdom. I

726
00:49:10.159 --> 00:49:12.719
think we just see what God is saying is when

727
00:49:12.719 --> 00:49:16.960
you go back, Who's gonna get them there? God? Whatever

728
00:49:17.039 --> 00:49:21.800
they need from Babylon, back to Judah, back to Jerusalem.

729
00:49:22.360 --> 00:49:25.000
As Sarah already pointed out, go back to the language

730
00:49:25.039 --> 00:49:28.480
in forty Every mountain, every hill, every obstacle is gonna

731
00:49:28.519 --> 00:49:31.480
be made. The way is gonna be made smooth, the

732
00:49:31.559 --> 00:49:35.000
road's gonna be made plane, the mountains are gonna be laid. Everything,

733
00:49:35.039 --> 00:49:37.039
and you're gonna be able to march right back. And

734
00:49:37.079 --> 00:49:40.719
God's gonna provide everything. Nothing's gonna be the way, not

735
00:49:40.920 --> 00:49:44.519
even physical hunger or any He's gonna provide for them,

736
00:49:44.559 --> 00:49:46.440
just in a sense like he provided them from coming

737
00:49:46.480 --> 00:49:50.800
out of Egypt's the same motif, in the same concept.

738
00:49:50.840 --> 00:49:54.320
All right, now I want to go further. Oh, we

739
00:49:54.360 --> 00:49:56.320
can do this. We can do this because we only

740
00:49:56.320 --> 00:49:58.039
really have one more section. We only have twenty one

741
00:49:58.079 --> 00:50:01.280
to twenty nine left to go, right, okay, twenty one,

742
00:50:01.360 --> 00:50:05.079
twenty nine, all right? He breaks Oh well, ay, I

743
00:50:05.119 --> 00:50:07.159
breaks it down into three parts like always, all right,

744
00:50:07.199 --> 00:50:09.400
so I gotta go through these quickly, all right, twenty

745
00:50:09.440 --> 00:50:11.280
one through twenty nine. I was gonna read it, but

746
00:50:11.639 --> 00:50:13.840
we don't have time to read it. Okay, twenty one

747
00:50:13.840 --> 00:50:18.000
through twenty nine. Everyone looking at it. First sub section.

748
00:50:18.159 --> 00:50:21.480
AI breaks it down twenty one to twenty four, twenty

749
00:50:21.480 --> 00:50:27.960
one to twenty four. What is happening here? God begins

750
00:50:28.000 --> 00:50:31.159
to challenge the idols basically? And what is he challenging

751
00:50:31.199 --> 00:50:38.639
the idols here? Can idols predict the future? Set forth

752
00:50:38.719 --> 00:50:42.280
your case? Says the Lord? He challenges the idols? Can

753
00:50:42.320 --> 00:50:46.039
they declare the past? Can they predict the future? Can

754
00:50:46.079 --> 00:50:49.360
they do anything meaningful? And what is his verdict? Look

755
00:50:49.360 --> 00:50:51.599
at verse twenty four. What is the verdict of this section?

756
00:50:53.480 --> 00:50:58.599
Less than nothing? They're less than nothing? All right? So

757
00:50:58.719 --> 00:51:02.599
this is God challenge the idols. He's challenging that. This

758
00:51:02.639 --> 00:51:05.639
goes back to the courtroom concept that we've already established

759
00:51:05.719 --> 00:51:09.559
is happening in this section? Right, He's like, hey, let

760
00:51:09.559 --> 00:51:12.760
me speak directly to the idols and a roundabout way,

761
00:51:12.800 --> 00:51:14.840
what was happening here? All right? What happens in verse

762
00:51:14.880 --> 00:51:28.199
twenty five through twenty seven? What's going on in twenty

763
00:51:28.239 --> 00:51:33.280
five through twenty seven? All right? Now he challenged the

764
00:51:33.320 --> 00:51:36.199
idols twenty five through twenty seven. God, that demonstrates that

765
00:51:36.280 --> 00:51:41.159
he alone can predict, and he alone can control. He

766
00:51:41.199 --> 00:51:44.880
predicts and he controls. What is it? First thing it's

767
00:51:44.920 --> 00:51:50.800
talked about here? Did he stir someone up? Or? And

768
00:51:50.880 --> 00:51:55.559
he has again? The most likely This is also our

769
00:51:55.559 --> 00:51:58.360
reference to Cyrus the Great, whom God raised up to

770
00:51:58.400 --> 00:52:02.280
defeat Babylon and deliver is Unlike idols. God proves his

771
00:52:02.360 --> 00:52:08.519
power by revealing history before it happens. The idols can't predict,

772
00:52:09.679 --> 00:52:13.119
the idols can't rise up. God can take care of

773
00:52:13.199 --> 00:52:17.639
all of this, right, so he challenges the idols in

774
00:52:17.639 --> 00:52:21.119
twenty one through twenty four, twenty five through twenty seven.

775
00:52:21.360 --> 00:52:24.000
It demonstrates God can predict and God can control. And

776
00:52:24.039 --> 00:52:30.239
then what happens in twenty eight through twenty nine. This

777
00:52:30.320 --> 00:52:33.039
is the final verdict of the entire chapter. What's the

778
00:52:33.079 --> 00:52:45.039
final verdict twenty eight through twenty nine? For I beheld

779
00:52:45.039 --> 00:52:47.239
and there was no man even among them? There was

780
00:52:47.320 --> 00:52:51.800
no counselor, and when I asked of them could answer

781
00:52:51.800 --> 00:52:54.159
a word. There's none that can answer a word. Behold,

782
00:52:54.159 --> 00:52:57.119
they are all vanity. Their works are nothing, Their multen

783
00:52:57.119 --> 00:53:00.599
images are wind and confusion. The final verdict is they

784
00:53:00.800 --> 00:53:08.960
are worthless. The idols are worthless. They are completely worthless.

785
00:53:13.760 --> 00:53:16.760
All right. So I'm gonna summarize the chapter into four points.

786
00:53:16.840 --> 00:53:21.920
Here we go, You ready, Here we go. Number one.

787
00:53:22.039 --> 00:53:24.840
I gotta go through these quickly. God's sovereignty over nations

788
00:53:24.960 --> 00:53:28.440
Verses one through seven, which we've already talked about. He

789
00:53:28.519 --> 00:53:32.000
directs History, raises rulers cyrus the nation's fear, but respond

790
00:53:32.000 --> 00:53:35.079
with idolatry. I'm just summarizing it, all right, in a good,

791
00:53:35.159 --> 00:53:40.079
nice summary. God's sovereignty over nations. He directs History raises cyrus,

792
00:53:40.239 --> 00:53:44.239
the nation's fear, but they instead run to idols. Number two,

793
00:53:44.559 --> 00:53:50.199
God's reassurance to Israel Verses eight through thirteen. Israel is chosen,

794
00:53:50.360 --> 00:53:53.559
secure and upheld by God. Enemies will be defeated, but

795
00:53:53.800 --> 00:53:58.239
Israel will stand. That's God's reassurance to Israel eight through thirteen.

796
00:53:58.639 --> 00:54:01.239
Verses fourteen through twenty. We know what we're gonna call it. Right,

797
00:54:01.400 --> 00:54:06.639
Israel's transformation from weakness to strength, from wilderness to renewal,

798
00:54:08.199 --> 00:54:11.440
and verse twenty one through twenty nine the failures of idols.

799
00:54:11.800 --> 00:54:17.119
Idols cannot predict the future. God alone predicts, controls, intervenes,

800
00:54:17.480 --> 00:54:35.000
make happens everything else you want to say, All right,

801
00:54:36.079 --> 00:54:40.400
any questions now, I think we did pretty good. The

802
00:54:40.440 --> 00:54:42.480
one part I did mess up on a think king,

803
00:54:43.679 --> 00:54:48.079
where was it? If I can find it. I don't

804
00:54:48.119 --> 00:54:50.039
know why I kept doing it. I did it like

805
00:54:50.599 --> 00:54:54.480
four times. Yeah, and verse six, I don't know why.

806
00:54:54.559 --> 00:54:57.519
I think the way the text is written here, they

807
00:54:57.639 --> 00:55:01.280
helped everyone his neighbor, right, But I think I said

808
00:55:01.960 --> 00:55:04.840
like three times they helped everyone his neighbor. And then

809
00:55:04.880 --> 00:55:07.559
I then it's broken down neighbors like the first it's

810
00:55:07.559 --> 00:55:09.639
the top of the sentence, and then it breaks it

811
00:55:09.679 --> 00:55:12.280
and then b oh, you are boor is separate, And

812
00:55:12.320 --> 00:55:14.320
I think I kept saying it as separate, like the

813
00:55:14.360 --> 00:55:17.360
neighbor bore, No, it's the neighbor, because I would just

814
00:55:17.639 --> 00:55:19.320
I see part of the word, and I just feel

815
00:55:19.320 --> 00:55:21.320
in the rest. That's how you speed read, right, you

816
00:55:21.400 --> 00:55:22.840
see part of the word. I don't need to read.

817
00:55:22.880 --> 00:55:25.800
I just move on. So I'm like, nay, were no,

818
00:55:25.840 --> 00:55:29.639
and it's neighbor okay, And everyone said to his brother,

819
00:55:29.719 --> 00:55:31.719
be of good courage. Orry there, we have it all right.

820
00:55:31.760 --> 00:55:33.119
So I wanted to correct that because I know I

821
00:55:33.320 --> 00:55:35.199
caught myself doing like five times, and then I looked

822
00:55:35.199 --> 00:55:37.800
at the page and I'm like, oh, that's not two

823
00:55:37.880 --> 00:55:40.880
separate words. It's a neighbor, okay. So all right, any

824
00:55:40.960 --> 00:55:45.840
questions about the chapter. I think we understand Isaiah for

825
00:55:45.960 --> 00:55:48.280
it won pretty good, now, do we not? I think

826
00:55:48.280 --> 00:55:51.039
we understand. Now here's the thing. Because we did that.

827
00:55:51.800 --> 00:55:54.239
Now when we start going through it, we should be

828
00:55:54.320 --> 00:55:57.599
able to go through at a rapid pace. Correct. But

829
00:55:57.760 --> 00:56:00.920
it will be somewhat repetitive because we've already gone through it.

830
00:56:01.480 --> 00:56:03.079
But the reason we go through it to go through

831
00:56:03.079 --> 00:56:05.920
it again is so that it drives to sections home.

832
00:56:05.960 --> 00:56:09.360
So what we'll do is each section, if we take

833
00:56:09.400 --> 00:56:11.880
one section per sermon. If we do that, or we

834
00:56:11.960 --> 00:56:13.880
just may go through the whole chapter really quick. I

835
00:56:13.920 --> 00:56:16.920
will try to find specific things to emphasize, but I

836
00:56:16.920 --> 00:56:18.760
think you've got the overall art. In some ways, we

837
00:56:18.760 --> 00:56:20.519
could be done with the chapter, so we should be

838
00:56:20.559 --> 00:56:23.280
able to move through it really, really, really quick. Because

839
00:56:24.360 --> 00:56:27.599
I mean, we took that apart really well. God calls

840
00:56:27.639 --> 00:56:31.719
them to court and then he ends with his final verdict,

841
00:56:31.880 --> 00:56:34.679
which is basically, the Idols are useless and Israel doesn't

842
00:56:34.679 --> 00:56:38.559
need anything to be afraid of, and Cyrus is clearly coming.

843
00:56:38.760 --> 00:56:42.199
He hasn't named him yet, but now the only thing

844
00:56:42.199 --> 00:56:45.280
that would if there was a challenge or that kind

845
00:56:45.320 --> 00:56:47.239
of confused me. Is there anything that jumps out at

846
00:56:47.280 --> 00:56:49.559
you that kind of confuses you or you're like, wait

847
00:56:49.599 --> 00:56:56.079
a minute, I'm a little confused here. Well, this is

848
00:56:56.079 --> 00:56:58.159
where I was a little confused. Forty one to two

849
00:56:58.320 --> 00:57:02.519
says who raise up the righteous man from the east?

850
00:57:02.760 --> 00:57:06.400
And then forty one what was it verse twenty five,

851
00:57:06.559 --> 00:57:10.400
I have raised one up from the north right. That

852
00:57:10.440 --> 00:57:16.199
caught me a little Now. Now, according to at least

853
00:57:16.400 --> 00:57:21.800
my study Bible, the conquest of Media by Cyrus five

854
00:57:21.800 --> 00:57:25.719
point fifty BC made him master of the territories north

855
00:57:25.719 --> 00:57:31.119
of Babylon. So most likely maybe he starts in the east.

856
00:57:31.199 --> 00:57:33.000
But what it's trying to demonstrate by the time you

857
00:57:33.000 --> 00:57:36.960
get here is that Cyrus, guy I raised up, has

858
00:57:37.119 --> 00:57:40.559
moved now to north of Babylon, and he's now captured.

859
00:57:40.679 --> 00:57:44.000
It's trying to demonstrate this, I'm controlling everything here. I

860
00:57:44.039 --> 00:57:47.280
know exactly where he is. I raised him from the east,

861
00:57:47.559 --> 00:57:52.519
but now he's coming from the north, meaning that he's

862
00:57:52.559 --> 00:57:55.800
on the move. He's on I think that's the idea.

863
00:57:55.960 --> 00:57:58.639
But in other words, you can you can connect Cyrus

864
00:57:58.639 --> 00:58:01.079
to the east and you can connects Cyrus to the

865
00:58:01.119 --> 00:58:06.559
north because he's moving right, He's moving right, so I think,

866
00:58:06.639 --> 00:58:10.079
and that's that's that's that fits me perfectly why everyone

867
00:58:10.119 --> 00:58:15.000
could be afraid. Right, he's getting closer. Okay, build the

868
00:58:15.039 --> 00:58:22.159
idols faster, right. Oh yeah, he's taking over everything. Yeah yeah,

869
00:58:22.199 --> 00:58:25.440
he's just taking everything, right, And so they're like, oh boy,

870
00:58:26.079 --> 00:58:28.440
so build some idols. But the way it ultimately plays

871
00:58:28.480 --> 00:58:31.719
out is kind of hilarious. At some point they were

872
00:58:31.719 --> 00:58:33.599
obviously scared, and then at some point they were just

873
00:58:33.679 --> 00:58:38.079
kind of like, maybe because everyone's so scared, there's no

874
00:58:38.199 --> 00:58:45.199
point here, do I Right? Yeah, right, that's what I'm saying.

875
00:58:45.199 --> 00:58:47.880
When the Babylonians, who are obviously the ones kind of

876
00:58:47.880 --> 00:58:49.639
being scared here, I think at some point they kind

877
00:58:49.639 --> 00:58:54.360
of just realize either we go to war and we

878
00:58:54.440 --> 00:58:57.400
all die, or we just get taken over and he

879
00:58:57.519 --> 00:59:01.360
comes in and then to their shot. Probably, Hey, let's

880
00:59:01.440 --> 00:59:03.679
let all the Jews go, and they're kind of like

881
00:59:03.719 --> 00:59:07.000
what just happened here? Like because those Jews may have

882
00:59:07.039 --> 00:59:10.280
been like their slave labor, their servants, and also like

883
00:59:10.320 --> 00:59:12.920
you're just gonna let them go? What is wrong with you?

884
00:59:13.119 --> 00:59:14.800
And then they may go with this guy isn't well.

885
00:59:14.840 --> 00:59:17.480
The Jews would have been like, this guy isn't half bad? Right.

886
00:59:17.519 --> 00:59:19.559
I don't know how the Babylonians would have felt about

887
00:59:19.559 --> 00:59:23.400
it from an economic standpoint, but yeah, it's fascinating the

888
00:59:23.440 --> 00:59:25.360
way it plays out. All right, let's pray where got

889
00:59:25.360 --> 00:59:28.440
we come before you? Lord? I pray we do see

890
00:59:28.440 --> 00:59:32.039
your power, your greatness, your sovereignty in this chapter. But

891
00:59:32.079 --> 00:59:35.639
we apply that power, sovereignty and greatness of you to

892
00:59:35.760 --> 00:59:39.119
our lives in a correct way, in a spiritual way,

893
00:59:39.159 --> 00:59:42.639
in a solvafic way, and not with some guarantee that

894
00:59:42.639 --> 00:59:46.119
you're gonna resolve all of our problems and we're gonna

895
00:59:46.159 --> 00:59:50.320
have some we're gonna take these promises for ourselves. Lord,

896
00:59:50.360 --> 00:59:52.280
that would be very wrong if we do that, and

897
00:59:52.320 --> 00:59:55.280
we would lead people to false comfort and a great

898
00:59:55.320 --> 00:59:58.960
sense of disillusionment and anger when it doesn't work out

899
00:59:59.000 --> 01:00:02.079
that way. Praise you for what you did do, and

900
01:00:02.239 --> 01:00:04.440
understand how this does apply to us, and what you

901
01:00:04.519 --> 01:00:07.519
have done in Christ for us and our salvation and

902
01:00:07.519 --> 01:00:09.480
what awaits us in eternity. And we ask this in

903
01:00:09.559 --> 01:00:11.199
Jesus name. And God's people said