Bible Study: August 16, 2023

So last time, two weeks ago, I think my notes say we got through chapter 45 verse 7.

And you'll recall, you know, you recall we were talking about Cyrus and the fall of Jerusalem, and then God allowing the fall of Judah, and then God naming Cyrus 150 years ahead of time, that he would be the one to go in and conquer Babylon and allow Judah to go back and rebuild the temple. So we're in, you know, as we look toward the fall Holy Days, they're now just, what, I think maybe exactly a month until, let me see, 816? Yeah, I think September 16th is the Feast of Trumpets. You know, as we look forward to that, we're in a very hopeful and very inspiring part of Isaiah here, as God talks about, and as we're in the time when Jesus Christ returns.

And we learned many things about him, and we learned many things about what he will do. We're reminded about prophecy, we're reminded about fulfilled prophecy, we're reminded about idols that the ancient world built and bowed down to, but also we're reminded of the idols that we have in our lives today that we so trust and always remembering that God will bring all those to nothing that we will all learn to trust and just God because he is the only Savior.

So last time, you know, we got into the part where God is naming Timothor and we read through chapter 45, as I mentioned, verse 7. And we're gonna, you know, we'll plan to get through the rest of chapter 45 and then chapter 46 tonight. But I thought I would go ahead and read through, and just read through the first seven verses of chapter 45 again, just so that we have the context and going forward as we move into verse 8 and beyond. So if we go to chapter 45, I will begin there in chapter 45 verse 1. It says, thus says the eternal to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him and loose the armor of kings to open before him the double doors so that the gates will not be shut. Of course, you know, just just a reminder, Cyrus is the one who defeated Babylon. Cyrus, we're gonna see in the verses ahead, knew who the God of Israel was and that he is the one who allowed the Jews to come back and and rebuild, rebuild the temple, the walls of Jerusalem. God says to Cyrus, I will go before you and make the crooked places straight. My margin says that a better a better translation of that would be, I will trample down the walls. I will go before you. I will trample down the walls. I will break in pieces the gates of bronze and cut the bars of iron. I will give you the treasures of darkness and hidden riches of secret places. And why does he do all that? That you may know that I the Eternal, who call you by your name, am the God of Israel. And over and over we see in these verses, you know, in these chapters, God's saying, I do this so that you will know that I am God. He's speaking to the Gentiles, he's speaking to Cyrus, he's speaking to all of us.

People will know, and they will have to come to know, that God is the only God. I'm going to read it again. That you may know that I the Eternal, that's YHWH, who call you by your name, am the God of Israel. For Jacob my servant's sake and Israel my elect, I have even called you by your name. I have named you, though you haven't known me. Now why would he say, for his people's sake, for Jacob, for Israel? It's because they would know, whoa, the Scriptures say this prophecy of Isaiah has this man Cyrus's name in it. Remember back, I think it's in chapter 8, where God says, write it all down on the scroll. Write it so that there's a record for time to come, so that people 150 years down the road at the time of Judah and the time of Babylon and whatever would read that and say, oh look, God named Cyrus way back then. He is God that Israel would remember. He is God. He knows these things and he makes them happen. And he says to Cyrus, I've known you, I've named you, though you haven't known me. I've known you, though you haven't known me. I am the Eternal, and there is no other. There is no God besides me. I will gird you, though you have not known me. Meaning he wasn't a native Israelite. He wasn't a member of the Church of God. He wasn't a worshipper of God. God says, but even though you didn't know me, I'm the one who gave you these gifts. I'm the one who made this all possible. I will gird you, though you have not known me.

Why? That they may know from the rising of the sun to its setting that there is none besides me.

I am the Eternal, and there is no other. I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create calamity. I the Lord do all these things. So God shows he is sovereign when all the nations, when Christ returns, and everyone from various nations who have worshiped various gods, whether it be Islam, Muslim, Hindu, Buddha, whoever those gods are, that come in, they will learn, and they will be taught, and they will see as they look at life who is the real God, and all these other gods they worshiped. Even those of us in America and the so-called Christian nations will come to understand who the true God is, and that even the Christian God that they've been taught is not the true God, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of the Bible, who opens our minds that we see this truth. So God keeps repeating this, and it's a message for us too that we remind ourselves there is one God, and he is the only Savior. So we get into verse 8 here is where we left off last time.

You can see the prophetic verses here in—let me turn this finger off.

The prophetic verses here in verse 8 were in the time of the millennium, and remember at the time we read it in Joel 2.28 in other places that when Christ returns, the Spirit will be spread upon all nations. Everyone will know the truth. The knowledge of God will come first, though the waters of the cover of the earth as the waters cover the sea, and we'll be living in that time.

So in verse 8 it talks about that. Rain down, rain down, you heavens, from above. The Spirit will be given. God's Spirit will be given. Knowledge will cover the earth, as it says in Isaiah 11.9. Let the skies pour down righteousness. People will learn how to live according to God's way and the way that Jesus Christ lived. You and I, if we follow God and apply ourselves and apply into our lives today the things that he has taught us, will be among those who are teaching people the way. We will be helping them to understand you undo the old ways and you do the things the way that God says to do it that are written here in the Bible, the various things that you and I are supposed to be putting into our lives today.

Let the skies pour down righteousness. And then he talks about the resurrection. Let the earth open. Let them bring forth salvation. You know, in Revelation 20 when we go through the time of the millennium and then you have the second resurrection in Revelation 20 and it talks about death. The earth will bring up. The dead will be brought from the earth. The dead from the sea will give up her dead. All of mankind who wasn't the first fruits, who weren't the first fruits, will be resurrected. And everyone will have a chance of salvation. So let the earth open.

Let them bring forth salvation. I think it was just last time. Remember we read through Ezekiel 37 where it was talking about the dry bones, the first part of that chapter. And it talked about the resurrection and people coming back to life. And he's talking about there. Let the earth open. Let them bring forth salvation. Because then all those who haven't known the truth in this life will have that opportunity then because God will open their minds and he will pour his truth into them.

And they'll have the opportunity just like you and me to either choose to follow God or to reject them. But every single man, woman, and child who's ever lived will have the opportunity at salvation. That's one of the beautiful things of God's way. And as far as I know, the only church in the world who teaches it is the true church of God. No one else has that knowledge of what God's whole plan is from the beginning in Genesis all the way through to the end of Revelation and the second resurrection and the opportunity of salvation for every man, woman, and child who has ever lived.

Let the earth open. If I go back to verse 8, let them bring forth salvation and let righteousness spring up together. I, the Eternal, have created it as part of God's plan from the foundation of the earth before that the earth was recreated, if you will, and made habitable for mankind. That was the plan of God. That mankind would be there for a purpose. The physical earth was for a purpose, and God would be bringing many sons to glory as they choose Him.

But every man, woman, and child have that opportunity. Then the Bible tells us God loves all mankind. Jesus Christ died for everyone, not just the select few, but He died for everyone. That they might have that opportunity that He gives, but it's our choice by the way we live and what we do in our lives and what we're willing, I guess willing, to give up to follow God. In verse 9, then, we have this picture of, look what God has done. He is in charge. He's created all of these things.

He brings forth salvation to all mankind. And in verse 9 it says, woe to Him who strives with His Maker. If we really understand God, we would never strive with Him.

We would simply yield to Him. If we really trust God, we would just simply, anything He says, we would just do because we would have that complete trust in Him knowing that He has our best interest at heart. That He really does want us to be part of His family, part of eternity with Him.

If we really, really did that, and so He's saying, woe to Him who strives with His Maker. If we strive with our Maker, if we resist God, if that's our pattern, if we go through our lives resisting Him, what's the end of us? The end of us isn't eternal life. The end of us is death, as it says in Revelation 20. So woe to Him, woe to Him who strives with His Maker. All of us are going to have to bow down to God. Let the potured, a better translation, probably for potured, is vessel. Let the vessel strive with the potureds of the earth. And that word vessel is interesting, because it shows up in the Bible, as you know, a few times. Let's go back to the New Testament. We see that word vessel show up again, and again it pictures us. Let us look at verse... what verse am I in? I get my scriptures right here. Verse 9. Let's go to 2 Timothy 2. 2 Timothy 2.

2 Timothy 2 and verse 20. 2 Timothy 2. 2 Timothy 2. 2 Timothy 2. 2 Timothy 2. 2 Timothy 2. 2 Timothy 2. 2 Timothy 2. 2 Timothy 2. In a great house, there are not only vessels of gold and silver. Those are the really valuable things, right? Those are the ones that we protect and make sure they don't get broken. In a great house, there are not only... absolutely dozens of gold and silver, but also of wooden clay, some for honor and some for dishonor. Some are very valuable. We would only... we would never just use them for everyday use. We keep them... keep them tucked away for special occasions, but other vessels are used for all sorts of things, right? So we all have all sorts of vessels in our house, so we count very valuable and others not so. Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from the ladder, that would be those vessels of dishonor. If he cleanses himself from the ladder, he will be a vessel vessel for honor. I remember, you know, 1 John 3, 3, a verse I've been using a lot recently in sermons and in these Bible studies is, anyone who has this hope in God, what does he do?

If he has the hope of salvation, if he really has the expectation that Jesus Christ is returning, that God really does offer us eternal life, what does he do? He purifies himself. He becomes a vessel of honor. He gets rid of all the impurities. He gets rid of all the things that make him a vessel of dishonor now so that he becomes a vessel of honor. So verse 21, therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from the ladder, God gives us the opportunity. He gives us his Holy Spirit.

We can know how to do these things, but we have to do it. He'll be a vessel for honor, sanctified, that is set apart, and useful for the Master, prepared for every good work. That's what God wants to do. He wants to prepare us for what he wants us to do for eternity. That's what our lives are about right now. If we go over to 1 Peter 3 and verse 7, you might have thought of this verses well, so I thought I would go ahead and refer there. Peter's talking about the marriage relationship in 1 Peter 3 here. He says, husbands likewise dwell with them, that is your wives, with understanding, giving honor to the wife as to the weaker vessel. So again, he's talking about a person. He's not talking about her being physically weak, but the weaker vessels, you know, many of you probably have crystal. You have crystal glasses, crystal goblets. I know a lot of champagne glasses are made of crystal. You treat those gingerly. They are very valuable. You don't just use them for everyday use. You use them for special occasions. They're the fine crystals, they're the fine vessels that you have. And God is saying about our wives, give honor to them as to the weaker vessels. They may not be as strong. They're not like the plastic cups or the really thick glass that you might drop on the floor and it doesn't shatter. You can shatter. You can shatter them. They're fine and they're precious and they're extremely valuable to us, giving honor to the wife as to the weaker vessel and as being heirs together of the grace of life.

And then, of course, there's a whole sermon in that your prayers may not be hindered, because that marriage relationship is so... we learn so much from it and it's so important to God, you know, how we treat each other and how we live with each other and how we grow and allow and help each other to develop and become everything that we can be.

So we have these vessels that God says, and as long as we're over here in 1 Peter, in the New Testament, let's go back to Acts, Romans, actually Romans 9.

Because our next verse there in Isaiah 45 has to do with the potter and the clay. So let's look at verse chapter 9 of Romans and verse 21.

Let's look at verse 20. Let's look at verse 20, first of all, in chapter 9, because it's going to tie right back to a verse I see here in Isaiah 45 as well. Verse 20.

It's God who makes the vessels. He will mold us into who he wants us to be.

And so we can't say, well, I really wanted to be a really, really talented artist. Why didn't you make me like that? I really wanted to be a really great singer. Why didn't you make me like that? God will give us and he mows us into who he wants us to be. He will mold. He's the potter. We're the clay. We let him mold us into whoever he wants us to be, and we're here to serve his purpose.

So we follow with God and say, why did you do this to me? I didn't want to do this. Whatever God's will is, we do. Wherever Christ goes, we follow. Whatever he leads us into, we do. And we do it to the best of our ability. So in Romans 9 verse 21, Paul, as he's preaching to the church there, writing to the church there that's comprised of Jews and Gentiles, he's going to say the same thing here. Isaiah actually does it back in chapter 45. So if we go back there, we see the very... well, no, I didn't check. Does he actually quote...

no, he doesn't actually quote right here from Isaiah 9. But let's go back to Isaiah 45.

And we read about the vessels, the potcher in verse 9. But the second half of verse 9 talks about the potter and the clay. Shall the clay say to him who forms it? What are you making? Or shall your hand or work say he who has no hands? I mean, you wouldn't be... you know, if we lived in an age where we still worked with the clay and did all those things, we wouldn't expect the thing to look up at us and say, why did you make me into a bowl? I wanted to be a cup or something like that, right? And so he follows that along with verse 10, the same thing. Woe to him who says to his physical father, what are you begetting? You know, to blame his father for who he is, right? We don't blame our parents for we're thankful that we have life. Everyone's got strengths. Everyone's got weaknesses. Part of our job is to overcome weaknesses. Woe to him who says to his father, what are you begetting? Or to the woman, what have you brought forth?

Never want to do that. It's God who makes the vessels. It's God who creates us. It's God who gives us the opportunity to grow, develop, overcome, become who he wants us to become.

Now verse 11, then it says, thus says the eternal. And I'm going to say eternal there because God is talking about himself in ancient times. Remember, they had all these guys that had all these names. In chapter 46, we're going to see Bell, we're going to see Nebo. But you remember Chemosh and Baal and Molech and all the names of all these guys. God distinguished himself among all those names, all those foreign gods there by YHWH, the one who is, was, and always will be. So I'm going to say eternal. Whenever you see that LORD, I know that it's capitalized. I know that you all know that. That's the name that he gave Moses to identify the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Thus says the eternal, the Holy One of Israel and his Maker. Ask me of things to come concerning my sons. God says, I'll tell my prophets what's going to come. Amos 3.7, I think we turned to that a couple weeks ago. God will foretell. He will let his prophets know what is coming ahead of time. He doesn't let us know maybe 100 years ahead of time, maybe not all the details, but we know his prophecies are sure. And as we've gone through the book of Isaiah, we've seen prophecies that were fulfilled back in ancient times. We've seen all the prophecies of the Messiah fulfilled perfectly. And we know there's prophecies yet to be fulfilled that are coming in the latter days. Ask me of things to come concerning my sons. I'll tell you, they're already there. They're already there. Starting in Genesis, there's the prophecies of what will be. And concerning the work of my hands, you command me. You want to know what I'm up to? It's there. It's in the Bible. You've got to look at it. You've got to believe it. You've got to pay attention to it. God says in verse 12, I've made the earth. I created man on it. I, my hands, stretched out the heavens, and all their hosts I have commanded. Genesis 1, right? He stretched the heavens across, or the skies across the heavens, the firmament. He created everything. Everything. He did it all for a purpose, as we talked so many times recently. There's a purpose for the earth, and there's a purpose for mankind, and a purpose that God is working out. And you and I are all part of that. I have, verse 13, I've raised him up in righteousness. I think that he may well be talking about Cyrus here. Remember the beginning of the chapter, and the end of chapter 44, it's Cyrus. I have raised him up in righteousness. I raised Cyrus up for a purpose, and I will direct all his ways. He shall build my city. He did allow the Jews to go back in and build Jerusalem, and he will let my exiles go free.

They were released so that they could go back to their homeland, not for price or reward. There was no price put on it. Cyrus didn't get any money by doing that. The Jews didn't pay him off to do it. It was simply he let them do it. Just like when God delivered Israel from Egypt, he just did it. It wasn't for money. It wasn't for anything, and Cyrus didn't do it for payment because the Jews bribed him into it or prompted him into it. It was because God directed him. It was simply because God's will was to be done. Verse 14, thus says the eternal, the labor of Egypt, and the merchandise of Cush, and the merchandise of the Sabaeans, men of stature.

And I'll pause there for a moment because, you know, we've talked about Cush, Ethiopia before, but the Sabaeans, we haven't... Oh, Xavier, did you have something you wanted to say?

I've got two points, Groucho. The first one is that you had mentioned that they didn't bribe him.

With Israel, our Lord had Egypt paid him to leave. He gave them a favor and said, Yes, we did this, so leave. And then the last one is Isaiah 66 verse 7, or was it 8?

Where God says, in one day a whole nation will be born.

Going back to the beget and a woman bringing forth.

Was that it? I think 66-7, did you say? Oh, yeah. Before she was in labor, she gave birth before her pain. Yeah, and then verse 8. And 8. Who has heard such a thing? Yes, go ahead. You can read it on the Bible. Okay. Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things? Shall the earth be made to give birth in one day, or shall a nation be born at once? For as soon as Zion was in labor, she gave birth to her children.

Yeah, that'll be, you know, what we get on to this chapter later on.

I mean, you're going to be able to see how it wraps up, not just this chapter, but the last chapters of Isaiah, kind of wrap up everything we've been talking about, all the way back from Genesis, well, Isaiah 1, but Genesis as well.

But Sabians. Sabians. You know, I looked up, I thought, who are these Sabians, right? And so, even the commentaries, not our commentary, but the commentaries say that would be modern-day Yemen. And they say what the merchandise of the Sabians were. It's very interesting, right, that God would say this when you realize the gifts that were brought to Christ by those men who visited Him. They say that the treasures of Yemen are frankincense, myrrh, spices, gold, and precious stones. Very, very interesting. And those are the very same things that were brought to Christ when He was born. But they even reference a verse back here that shows that in 1 Kings 10. I guess how many times, like, you know, you read those things, and it's like, how do they know that? Because the answers are right there in the Bible. You just have to kind of look in the Bible and say, oh, God does provide the answers to some of these things when you might ask the question, who are these Sabians, and what are the gifts that they're going to bring, or what is going to come to the value of, you know, Israel and that thing. 1 Kings 10, and verse 1, talking about the the queen of Sheba when she came to visit Solomon, right? She was from there. Now when the queen of Sheba heard the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the eternal, she came to test it with hard questions. She came to Jerusalem with a very great retinue, camels that bore spices, much gold, precious stones, and when she came to Solomon, she spoke with them about all that was in her heart. So when she came, she brought those things. She was from that area that they say the Sabians are from that was known for all these spices and very valuable things. You know, I, yeah, there are, I said a few years back, it when they brought Christ, frankincense, and myrrh, and gold, very valuable things. And if you learn something about that, that frankincense, it does have some interesting, interesting properties that are very good for, very good for humans today, not to drink or anything, but it does have, and I know some of you who are into essential oils and stuff like that could very well recite what the benefits of some of these things are that are named in the Bible. So anyway, let's go back to, let's go back to verse 14. Now, verse 14, oh yeah, we were talking about, hold on a minute, talking about the labor of Egypt, the merchandise of Kush, the merchandise of the Sabians.

God says, all these things will come over to you, and they shall be yours. You know, God will deliver Israel, but, and they will be free from captivity, and he'll bring them back to the Promised Land, and the riches of the earth will begin to anore to them. People will look up to Israel. It will no longer be the hated nations that people want to conquer, and the people abuse, and whatever, but it will be that these are God's people. Of course, part of the reason they're hated today, and will be hated more in the future, is just they are God's people, just like the Church of God, you know, will suffer much because of what we believe, just like they hated Christ. They will come over to you, and they will be yours. They'll walk behind you, not because we're so much better, but it'll be like they had the truth. God delivered the truth through them, and again, we talked last time about Israel and how the truth has come through that, you know, even the English, even the English, that's where the Bible was translated into English, and then spread all over the world. It all began in one of those Israelite nations. They shall walk behind you, they shall come over in chains, and they will bow down to you. They will make supplication to you, saying, surely God is in you, and there is no other, there is no other God. They will learn. They will learn. They won't be worshiping. They won't be worshiping the people of God, but they'll be like, yeah, you know God. You're of him. You get what he is. He's put his Spirit in you. You understand it. All these nations that have even maybe heard or simply discount the name of Jesus Christ will come over and realize how deceived and how deceived they were in all of their lifetimes. You know, it reminds me of a verse over here in Zechariah 8 that we turn over there.

Again, speaking of the time when Christ returns to earth and during that millennial period of his reign, Zechariah is the second book from the end of the Old Testament. Zechariah 8 verse 23, you know, in the beginning of the chapter, it'll talk about how children will be playing in the streets. Men and old men and women will sit out on their doorsteps. They won't be afraid. You'll be able to go outside without wondering what's going on, who can harm you. But here in the last verse, in chapter 8 of Zechariah verse 23, it says, Thus says the eternal of hosts. In those days, ten men from every language of the nations shall grasp the sleeve of a Jewish man, saying, Let's go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.

Today they want to reject God. Today the world wants to forget that God even exists. They want to—they don't want to hear anything about it. They don't want to hear anything about the Bible. But in that day, when they see where salvation came from, where the real hope and the real expectation and the real deliverance of the world is, it'll be like, We want to go with you.

You know God. You know God. And we want to learn, and we want to understand that we want to be close to Him. And so we have that same sentiment there in Zechariah 8 that we see here in Isaiah 45 verse 14. They will come. They will make sense to you. They will make supplication. Surely God is in you, and there is no other. There is no other God. Verse 15 back in Isaiah 45, truly you are God who hides yourself. That's an interesting way that that's phrased. What it means is, you know, God doesn't reveal everything about Himself to everyone. Many people will say, you can't understand the Bible. You and I can understand the Bible because God's Spirit, you know, is in us. And it tells us in 1 Corinthians 2, because His Spirit is in us, the Scriptures are open that we can understand. Other people cannot understand. They simply can't. To them, God is hidden. So when it says here, truly you are God who hides yourself. He's there. It's difficult to understand. You need His Spirit to see Him and understand, but we are able to comprehend because of God's Spirit in us. Truly you are God who hides yourself, O God of Israel, the Savior. They, talking about all the people who bow down to idols and who live their lives and that, they will be ashamed. We're going into a section here where, again, He's going to be talking about those idols and the people who will be ashamed and embarrassed that they spent their lives bowing down to lifeless things that couldn't deliver them from anything. You are the Savior, He's saying. They shall be ashamed and also disgraced all of them. They will go in confusion who are makers of idols, but Israel will be saved by the Lord. They all may be calling on their God through times of trouble and whatever, but the only God who can deliver is the true God of Israel.

They will be confused who are makers of idols, but Israel will be saved by the Eternal. They'll be saved with an everlasting salvation, not just from that momentary captivity that they're in, but an everlasting salvation for eternity that God will deliver them and bring peace. You will not be ashamed or disgraced forever and ever. Verse 18, For thus says the Lord, this is a beautiful set of verses here, too. We've talked about this before. It ties right back to Genesis 1. For thus says the Eternal, who created the heavens, who is God, who formed the earth and made it, who has established it, who did not create it in vain.

And that word, vain, there is tohu. We've talked about that before. It's the same word that's used back in Genesis 1 verse 2 where it says, the earth was with without form and void. It was confused. It was chaotic. There was not peace on it. There was just covered by water. And God says here, I didn't create it that way. That isn't the way I created the earth to just be chaotic and confused. I didn't create it in tohu. He formed it to be inhabited. That's why He did it. Today, who inhabits earth? Mankind, because mankind, God, has a purpose for mankind. I created it and formed it to be inhabited. I am the eternal. There is no other. I haven't spoken in secret in a dark place of the earth. You know, this may refer back to some of the, you know, some of the pagan religions of that time that would talk about things, but they would go into hiding places and they would go into caves. You know, you might look later in Ezekiel 8. It talks about where God takes Ezekiel around. He says, look and see what they're doing in these secret places, Ezekiel. Look at the things they're worshiping in these dark places away from view. And then he talks about things. And if you look through that chapter and study it, you see, wow, many of the things they were worshiping in vain back then are the same things that are worshiped by some people who profess to know God today. So he says, I haven't spoken in secret in a dark place of the earth. No, God puts it right out there. The Bible is there for everyone to see the truth.

They just have to look at it. I haven't spoken in secret in a dark place of the earth. I didn't say to the seed of Jacob, seek me in vain. Seed of Jacob. We talked about that the modern day, basically English-speaking nations. I didn't say to the seed of Jacob, seek me in vain. There you have that word, tohu, again. I didn't say to Israel, my people, this is going to be a confused message. I'm going to be confused and chaotic. God is not the author of confusion. 1 Corinthians 14 verse 33 says that specifically, God is not the author of confusion. Satan is the author of confusion. God is the God of order, that things be done decently and in order. I didn't say to Jacob, seek me in confusion and chaos and among all these things. I, the Lord, speak righteousness. I speak it clearly. I speak it plainly. He doesn't compromise. It's all laid out in the Bible. It's just our job to read it, know it, apply it, ask God to put it in our hearts and have it become us. I, the Lord, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right. He is the God of order. He is the God of salvation. He is the God who has the way to peace, harmony, abundance, whatever whatever adjective that you want, God is the way to a life that is absolutely perfect in every way. We just have to yield ourselves to it and ask Him through His Holy Spirit to remove the human nature that's in us that causes us to resist. We still want to do things the way we want, as opposed to the way that He wants. So He says in verse 20, assemble yourselves and come. Come to Me, right? Draw near together you who have escaped from the nations. They have no knowledge.

Right? In Hosea 4-6, God says, my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. There is no knowledge of God in the world. You're not going to find it out there. You're going to find it in the truth of God. You're going to find it in the Word of God. You're going to find it in His true church that preaches the Word of God. Come to Me, He says, you who have escaped from the nations. They have no knowledge. That's not where you're going to learn truth. If you're going to live by truth, you have to come to where truth is. The only source of pure truth today is His Bible. They have no knowledge. You carry the wood of their carved image and pray to a God that can't save. I was talking about those ancient gods that were manufactured from wood and stone and silver and gold. We have our gods today, too, that profess that they have all this knowledge and they know the way to a better world. They don't. They don't. One by one, we will learn all the institutions of earth of man don't know the way. Only God does. Verse 21, tell, bring forth your case. Yes, let them take counsel together. Who has declared this from ancient time? Hear God as saying again, look back. Who? Where has the consistent message been from ancient times? This is what's going to happen. This is the plan of God. This is how it will come about. Jesus Christ will return. He will usher in a time of peace and harmony and the righteousness. Who has been saying that? Only God and only the Bible. It has never been proven to be in error in any ways. Who has declared this from ancient time? Who has told it from that time? Haven't I the eternal? And there is no other God besides me, a just God and a Savior. There is none besides me. He keeps hammering that in.

For them, yes, but for you and me too, there is no other God but him. There is no, he's a just God and a Savior. Verse 22, look to me. Look to me, he says, you know, and be saved. That's the only way to salvation. Acts 4, 12, 7, there is salvation doesn't come by any other name on earth except through Jesus Christ. Look to me and be saved. All you ends of the earth. And there he's talking about you know salvation for every man, woman, and child from all over the earth, not just physical Israel, not just spiritual Israel in the New Testament, but salvation for everyone. Look to me, be saved, all you ends of the earth. For I am God and there is no other. I have sworn by myself, he says, the word has gone out of my mouth in righteousness. I intend to do it. I only speak truth. I don't fool people. I don't change my mind. Says that twice in the Bible, right? I am the Lord your God, I change not. Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. I by the word has gone out of my mouth in righteousness and shall not return. That to me, every, and you might circle that word every. That to me, every knee shall bow. All of mankind, whoever lived, will learn you bow to God. You bow to Him, and if they refuse to bow, they won't be part. That's a symbolic bow as well, like yield our lives, surrender to Him, let Him lead you and guide you, and follow, and become like Him. That to me, every knee shall bow, every tongue shall take an oath. He shall say, verse 24, surely in the eternal I have righteousness and strength. Something for us to remember today, our righteousness doesn't come because we're such great people. Our strength doesn't come from within ourselves. The strength comes from God. It comes from His Holy Spirit, the spirit of power and love and a sound mind, as it says in 2 Timothy 1.7. Surely in the eternal, that's where my confidence is. That's where I look. That's the way, the truth, and the life. Surely in the Lord, I have righteousness and strength. To Him, God, men shall come, and all shall be ashamed, who are incensed against Him, who said, who are you? Who are you to tell us what to do? Why should we pay attention to you? We reject you. They will be ashamed when they realize how silly and how tragic it is to reject God and think that mankind and his deceived and depraved idea of wisdom knows better than God. Verse 25, in the eternal, all the descendants of Israel shall be justified. Notice that in the eternal, all the descendants of Israel shall be justified and shall glory. It is in God. Let me pause there. We should be able to get through at least most of chapter 46, but before we leave chapter 45, any comments or questions anyone might have on anything in that?

Chapter 46 pretty much follows along the same line. It's another one of those inspirational chapters. Verse 1 talks about two of those ancient gods.

I'm sorry, did someone have? Okay. Verse 1 says, Belle bows down. Belle is another name for bale. It's one of the gods of Babylon. Belle bows down. That means that god is no longer the one people are looking to. It surrenders to God. Nebo stoops. Nebo was an ancient god. Interestingly, when I looked up, what is Nebo? They say Hermes. They said that many of the names in Babylon came from Nebo, like Nebuchadnezzar and a few others that are there that begin with Neb. They came from that god. They named their children after that god. So Belle bows down. He's no longer a god that anyone looks to. Nebo stoops. He's no longer the upright god. He can't stand against their idols. Then in verses 1 and 2, he talks about how their idols can't even move. They have to be carried on beasts of burden. They have to be carried by oxen. They can't even move. There are these stationary things that people bow down and worship. Their idols, he says, were on the beasts and on the cattle. Your carriages were heavily loaded. A burden to the weary beast had to rely on beasts to move them. These gods that people worship and think that they can deliver them or do whatever to them, they can't even move themselves. They have to be carried around by beasts of the earth. They stoop. Verse 2, they bow down together. They couldn't deliver the burden, but they themselves have gone into captivity. That might better be the inference there. They have to be carried, is what God has said. They've gone into captivity. They have to be lifted. They have to be taken, put on a cart, the carriage, and they have to be carried. God is comparing that to what he does as our God in verses 3 and 4. He goes, listen to me. They're gods they have to carry. They can't move. But listen to me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnants of the house of Israel, who have been upheld by me from birth, who have been carried from the womb. He's saying, I carry you. They have to carry their God, but I'm the one who carries you. Even to your old age, I am he. Even to gray hairs, I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear. Even I will carry, and will deliver you.

You see the contrast there. God, again, as people look at things in reality, where is the real God? What are these things you're worshiping? In modern day life, why are you worshiping those things? Only God can provide it all, and we have to learn to trust in him and to look to him. So we go on in verse 5. So God says, after saying that, they carry their gods. Here's another example, but I carry you. I'm the one who brought you out of Egypt. I'm the one who said, I will, I'll move you like eagle's wings. He says that even in the New Testament to the spiritual Israel, who followed God, I will take care of you. I will provide everything for you. So in verse 5, well, to whom will you liken me and make me equal? Are you going to compare me to Baal? Are you going to compare me to Nebo? Or are you going to compare me to Molech or Chemosh? Are you going to compare me to the great governments of the world, and the great military of the world, or the great economic systems of the world, or the great health-care systems of the world? Are you going to compare me to that? God says, to whom will you liken me and make Man creates these gods. It's God who creates man. Again, you have that contrast. They make their gods in their image the way they want them, but God made us in him's image. God makes man. God will provide and develop man into who he wants them to be. They hire a goldsmith. He makes it a god. They prostrate themselves. Yes, they worship. They bear it on their shoulders. They carry it. They set it in its place, and it stands. From its place, it shall not move.

Once you put it there, it's going to stay there. The one cries out to it. It can't answer. It can't save him out of his trouble. It's just a stationary object. That's there. The only thing about man, he always knows that there is something that's greater than him. We know that it is God who sustains the earth, but man's have created these idols. They don't follow God, and they create these idols that are doing these things of earth, all of which God does, because they know they're not the ones doing it. It's a blessing to know who the true God is. In verse 8, it gives a word.

Around Days of Unleavened Bread time, I say that's an unleavened bread word, but it's a word for all time. That word, remember, right? Over and over during the Days of Unleavened, remember what I did for you. Remember how I delivered you. I brought you out of slavery. I promised you a land. I've given you a life. I've given you a hope. I've given you an expectation. Remember this, and show yourselves men. Recall to mind, you transgressors, you sinners. Remember the four more things of old.

Isaiah here is writing this down, and whatever. It's like, remember that I delivered you from Egypt. Remember the crossing of the Red Sea. Remember the manna for 40 years. Remember everything I did for you. I carried you. You walked through that desert, and your shoes didn't wear out. Your clothes didn't wear out. I provided everything you needed in a desolate land. I did that. Remember that, Israel. When you get full of yourselves and think that you have everything, or you are so wise, remember who it is who gives you those gifts. Remember the former things of old, for I am God.

He says it over and over again, I am God. There is no other. I am God. There is none like me.

And again, he brings in the prophecy. One of the proofs of the Bible is fulfilled prophecy. You know, and again, as we go back and look at Isaiah, we saw many fulfilled prophecies that weren't just kind of coincidental, or they could have just naturally happened. They were specific that there is no way that they came about except through God making it happen. For I am God, there is no other. First hand, declaring the end from the beginning. From the beginning in Genesis, you see the plan of God there as he talks about the Messiah coming. Overcoming Satan and him coming to save the earth from itself and then to set up his kingdom that it will be of God declaring the end from the beginning. From ancient times, things that are not yet done.

And in our lifetime, even though from the time of the time Isaiah wrote, until our time, some of those things have been fulfilled. Some of the prophecies of Jeremiah happened exactly the way they are. We've seen some prophecies from the time of Isaiah before he died that came about. There are prophecies yet to be fulfilled as we've talked about the latter days and then talked about those things. Declaring from the end from the beginning, from ancient times, things that are not yet done saying, my counsel shall stand. I will do all my pleasure. Now God never mends his words. He's absolutely direct. There's absolutely no doubt in what he says. He's absolutely, absolutely sure.

Say, my counsel shall stand and I will do all my pleasure. In verse 11, he may be referring to Cyrus again because that is a notable thing in prophecy that God even named the man who would conquer Babylon and then allow the Jews to go back in there. So this is calling a bird of prey from the east. Calling a bird of prey from the east. The man who executes my counsel from a far country. Now this is, you know, I remember Cyrus wasn't a part of Israel. He wasn't a part of the Israelite nation, but God used him. God gave him the gifts that he needed, the talents, and gave him what he needed in order to fulfill his prophecy. I called the bird of prey from the east, the man who executes my counsel from a far country. I did it 150 years in advance, right? 720 to 140 years to 586 BC. The man who executes my counsel. Indeed, I've spoken it. I will bring it to pass. If I say it, God says, take it to the bank. Don't doubt it. Read the Bible. Understand that what he says is going to happen. We may not, the world may not want it to happen. The world may say it's not going to happen or it never will happen. Take it to the bank. It will happen. Indeed, I have spoken it. I will also bring it to pass. I have purposed it. I will also do it. Listen to me. Now, one thing that the Bible keeps saying, hear me, right? When in the Transfiguration in Matthew 17, when Peter, James, and John were taken into vision, and Peter, you recall in Matthew 17, said, wow, it's good for us to be here. It's good for us to be here. He had that vision of what it would be like when Christ raved the earth and lived in God's way. God the Father said, this is my son.

Hear him. Listen to him. Here throughout the Bible, you say, listen to me. God says, if you would just listen to me, you stubborn hearted, who are far from righteousness, listen to me. He's talking to his people. If we pause there for a moment, if we go over to Acts 7, we see Stephen, the deacon Stephen, after the New Testament church started. He was called before the Sanhedrin, and he gave quite a sermon in Acts 7. He pretty much recounted the history of Israel and God delivering them.

As he comes down to the end, he really causes the Sanhedrin to become irate with him.

Sometimes people get really mad when the truth of God comes out. When you speak it with boldness and you say, this is exactly what's going to happen, and you don't back down, and you don't compromise, you just say, this is kind of it. This is exactly what God said, and I'm not going to apologize for it. Here in verse 51, Stephen says the same thing that God is saying back here in Isaiah 46. He says, you stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears. Some pretty tough words that that God gives, that Stephen says here, to the powers that be of that time. You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears. You always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you. There's that word, resist. Don't resist it.

Resistance is just part of that human nature that has to be broken down.

Even though he said, don't resist, they seem to resist more and more. Then he goes through all these things. You go through, you see that they eventually stoned him. God says in Isaiah 46, listen to me. Listen to me, you stubborn-hearted. Look at who you are. Look at what's going on. We don't ever want to be in a thing where we're resisting God. We feel that. We just have to ask Him to soften our hearts fast of whatever we need to do. Listen to me, you who are far from righteousness. When we're resisting God, when we say, that isn't the way I want it. I'm going to listen to this instead of whatever. He goes, you're far from righteousness. But then in verse 13, he says, I bring my righteousness near. You're far, but I'll bring it near. It won't be far out. My salvation shall not linger, and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel, my glory. So that's chapter 46. Where are we on time? I think we've gone in just about an hour, then a little bit less. But are there any questions? Why don't we just stop there? We'll pick it up in chapter 47 next week. And next week, we really will have a Bible study. I don't have anything on the docket for next Wednesday evening, so we could be together for the next several weeks here.

Any comments, questions, anything at all?

Okay. Yes, Gloria and Bud.

Bud and I are very, very concerned about what we feel is Satan's next prick on us in this new AI, artificial intelligence. And I just wonder if people like our church and our leadership will be coming through with some very, very astounding new things that are going to affect most of humanity now. This looks like something that he will really work on us with. You know, in reading all of this in Isaiah, God continues to tell us to fall into this. And, you know, be aware. And the more we see, the more I see, the more Bud sees, is showing us how damaging this can be to our psyche, to God's plan, which is the opposite.

You know, rely on him, don't rely on artificial intelligence.

This is really who made us a real problem. Yeah, no, you are exactly right. You know, some people have said it's the most dangerous thing that man has ever invented, AI, right? And it certainly has the potential of doing that. I think it's the next Beyond Today magazine that comes out. There is, I think the editorial for that one compares it. I don't know if anyone's seen the movie Oppenheimer, right? He's the one who developed the atomic bomb and everything. And when he saw the power of it, later on in his life, he regretted it. And he said, I wish I had never done it when he saw the hydrogen bomb, the development of the nuclear bomb. And the AI is more dangerous than that. It can destroy the battery. Yeah, I think so. Yeah, we are like, it looks like a Scott Ashley. Yes, that's exactly. So that's the Scott Ashley editorial. I think it's the next one that comes out. Yeah, the next issue, where are we? Oh, yeah, September, October, it will be the Feast of Tabernacle, the kingdom, a kingdom issue, we call it. So I think you'll like that issue. I think it's got a nice cover on it. That's kind of different than what we've done before. But no AI, we're very aware of that, right? And when it talks about the end times, when Jesus Christ made the comment that with all the things that are going on in the world, even the very elect could be deceived, we better be very close. We better be able to hear Christ's voice and know it very well so that we aren't deceived, because it is going to be powerful and different than any of us have ever, ever expected. We know, here that we are very, very close to God. Yeah. Yes. Thank you. Yeah.

Anything else? Anyone? Mr. Shaby, I just say, it's Dolly. I'd like to just say a quick hello to Teresa Renfro and Connie Gilmer. I've seen them for many years, but I see that they are on the Bible study. So that puts a heart on my heart. Very good. Yeah. It's nice. It's nice to see the faces, but it's nice to see the names, too, right? So, you know, you know, sometimes you see people you haven't seen for a long time. So, getting there. Right. Yeah. Hey, did I see Dave from our Samsung? Yes, sir. So, good evening, everyone. I just would like to add on to this discussion about AI. And, you know, it's even at the point now where hackers have created their own forms of chat, GPT, and things using AI to come up with very sophisticated phishing emails. But there are certain things that you can do to protect yourself from, you know, standard from those things. And it's just basically when it comes to investigating everything, you know, the Bible tells us to prove all things. And, you know, if you get emails and they can appear to be completely legitimate, but you really have to go through the steps to check without, you know, hovering your mouse over the links without clicking on them, looking for spelling errors and things like that to make sure that emails that you get are fake emails and phishing emails because they are using AI for that and coming up with some pretty sophisticated things. So, just a word of, you know, just to be on the lookout for things like that. I'm sure Mr. Longboy would agree with that in the sense of cybersecurity, you know, they're, you know, these hackers are very smart and they are using AI to their advantage. So, just a word of caution. Everybody, please be on the lookout for fishy things like that and because they're using it as well. Yeah, you know, and you're right. Some of them, I'm usually pretty good about that, but a few of them, I catch myself and I think, wait, this isn't what it is supposed to be, right? So, yeah, you got to be very careful, you're right. Hey, Tom and Jodi, how are you? We're fine. Hey, Mr. Shavey. Just wanted to mention that there was a sermon by Steve Myers titled, Artificial Intelligence in the Bible. Yeah. And it's dated July 29th, if anybody wants to check it out. Yep, very good, very good. Hey, Paul.

Hey, Rick. This is not a concern the Bible study, but I was interested to know if there's an update on Rick Beam. You know, I haven't heard in the last couple of weeks, last time we, he was, he was doing okay. He's lost a lot of weight. I don't know if Angela's on tonight. Sometimes she's on. Angela, if you are, maybe you could give us an update. If not, I probably need to write them again and see how they're doing. We haven't heard anything the last couple weeks, though, but he was doing okay. Okay, so I'll keep him in your prayers because he's got a long way to go. So it was a tough surgery. Hey, Jim. Hey, going with this AI deal. You know, in the end times, it says, you know, that the beast will be able to form miracles and stuff like that, like we've never seen before. Okay, let's go with this AI thing. And I believe it was May FDA approved the use of putting chips in a people's brains. What those chips will do is that people that cannot see will be able to see. The people that are blind will be able to see, or death will be able to hear. People will be able to walk again. They're calling it a miracle now. So this, like I've said, this AI is just the tip of the iceberg. Yeah, you're right. I hadn't even heard. I hadn't heard of that. I mean, you almost have to kind of like a look at daily what's going on because it's multiplying and growing so fast out there that you just can't keep up with what's happening.

Where maybe someone said it on the last Bible study, or maybe, you know, maybe it was in Steve Myers' sermon, right? I think something like in 1980, knowledge doubled. Remember it says in Daniel 12 about knowledge doubling. I think I see Steve's name on here. Steve, correct me if I'm quoting you wrong. I think it was in the sermon you gave. Knowledge doubled every, I forget, wow, 12 months or something like that. And now it's every matter of minutes, if I remember correctly.

I think it was 100 years in 1900 they were predicting, and then now it's down to like every eight months or something, or 12 minutes, I think is when it comes down to something crazy, unbelievable. Which is hard to even imagine. That now just doubles that quickly, but it does. It's like you hear things and you think, boy, it's like time just fleets by. Hey, Bob and that.

Oh, hello, Mr. Shaby. Hello. This is concerning AI again. It's on the funny side.

One time I used chat GPT and I asked him, what's philosophy? And then to make the long story short, it came up with answers and then it said ontology and all of that stuff. And then it said, Christian von Wolf was the originator of all this German rationalism and enlightenment in the 1700s. It's not really Plato who did that, but Christian von Wolf. And I said, is that the wolf in the Bible? He answered yes. And then Christian von Wolf had a song called Ernst von Wolf. So that's the short end of the funny sort of little trivia, but it's hiding in plain sight. Christian von Wolf. I never knew that.

He's got quite the name, yeah. He was the inspiration of Emmanuel Kant, who started all of this PhD in academia and all of this evangelical thought, the religious stuff. He started all of it in the 1700s. So it's hiding in plain sight. Hiding in plain sight, yeah. Yep.

Very good. Hey, Sherry. What was the man that spoke before Mr. Meyers? What was that article he was talking about? Does he know what it was? On the AI. Oh, Jim. Is that what he was talking about? Yeah. Yeah. I think that might have been Jim. Yeah. The article you were talking about? Yes.

Yeah. Did you hear Sherry's question? Yeah. What does she need?

What was the article that you were referring to? It was an article. It was on YouTube. A guy was interviewing some AI people. And then he came out with this. He said, you're not going to believe this, but in May of this year, the FDA approved the use of chips to be experimentally placed in people's brains for the use of regaining sight, deafness, the use of arms, and things like that.

Okay. I'll move to Matthew for that. Thank you. You're welcome. Hey, Xavier.

Hi. Going back to the quote, the verse where it was saying that the people of the world under the religionists, they whisper and they have secret societies, etc. Our Lord tells us the absolute opposite. We have the word of God in plain sight. He says whatever He tells us in secret, we are to shout it out, not to hide it. And then even on the night when He was betrayed, He said, I've spoken openly in the synagogues to the people. He didn't hide anything. He taught them the word of God plainly, purely, and lived it. Now, the next point is in Revelation 13, verse 15, it says to make an image of the beast. Now, the image there, you look at the Greek and the word the image can mean a figure. So a figure can be, say, a robot. And a robot would have what you would say, AI.

Because it says if you don't worship the image, you will be killed. So how do they know you're not worshiping the image? Unless it's in your possession, in your very bedroom.

We got our phone, we got everything else. Yeah, it's gonna be definitely gonna make everyone has to have an image of this person. Yeah. And then somebody else is maybe a robot. Yeah, you're right, that's an interesting word there, right? That is good. We're gonna know more what that means as time goes on, that image of the beast. Exactly. So, yeah. Hey, Brandon, how are you doing today?

Hey, I'm doing pretty good with Shabey, how about yourself? Pretty good. Thanks. Yeah, so just to follow up on what's being said, one thing that, you know, there's two points. One thing that my family and I did, we set up a password because what people are doing now is they're taking a lot of the AIs and they're starting to clone, like, clone your number. So it will appear as if someone you know is calling you or like Dave was saying, like, you know, it'll look like a legitimate email. But if it seems like they're asking you for something, then, you know, have a password to say, hey, okay, what's the password so that you know it's a legitimate situation. And the thing is, like, even on the phone call, they can even sound like your family members because all you need is one little sound byte and then you can, you know, you can mask your voice and all of this stuff. So I just want to urge you all to have a password concerning that. And then the other thing I'll say is just that just remember anything that has a way out has a way in. So your computer, your cell phone, somebody can monitor that some sort of way. So, you know, it's not, it's definitely not too far off to think that, you know, or how, you know, how they can control or how they could could get in even this call, you know. Like I said, if it has a way out, it has a way in. So just, you know, just be mindful of that. And that being said, I love you all and appreciate you all being here. Well, you know, that's a good point, Brandon, about having a password because I know, you know, even before this new age we've entered into, there were a lot of people who got, you know, kind of got suckered into some deals on that, right? And it's going to be even more, it's going to be more, even more important that they know who they're talking to on the phone before they just send money by or send gift cards or whatever it is that people are asking for. That's a good, some very good point. So, okay. Hey, Dale. Yeah, hi. Yeah. I've heard maybe Mr. Myers or yourself can respond, but I've heard that AI is actually coming out with their own song, AI Bible.

Said no, it was not a good true story. Yeah, there was a false idea that the, let's see, what was it? The that a certain group, what was it? The World Economic Forum was going to rewrite the Bible and that was, that's evidently false. But at the same time, AI could certainly rewrite the Bible without a doubt. So it's kind of true, but that specific thing that the World Economic Forum was going to do it is false. But AI could certainly write some kind of ecumenical Bible or come up with their own version of things. And I think it's just a matter of time. So we've got it. I would agree, because I read a follow-up article on that and it wouldn't be rewrite, it would be a Bible for today's age, right? So it would include all the transgender stuff and everyone should be able to do whatever they want. It would be, that's kind of what I wrote. And sooner or later, there will be something like that, right? That people say, ah, this is what we want to believe, I guess, and just replace the Word of God. So yeah, thank you both. Hey, Xavier.

We're on the... Oh, yeah, they already have... I'll get to you, Gloria, next. I saw your hand. I'll get to you next. Oh, sorry. They already have an ecumenical Bible. I remember it was called World Scripture or something like that. I heard it quote a couple of times in a few different sermons by another brother in the church. But yeah, I'll have to find it and share it. Well, when he quotes, when you hear those quotes... No, when he quotes it, he's not quoting it, it's saying this is a Bible. He's quoting it and showing what they have done and condemning it. And what... okay, good, okay. Yeah, ecumenical. I will have to look into that. I didn't hear that, so okay. I think B. Bud One is trying to get your attention. She keeps waving. Yes, I know. I saw her over there. Hey, Gloria, you're next. So...

You have to unmute yourself.

Oh, I'm sorry. Can you hear me? We can hear you. Okay. When we get thinking about how very, very vicious Clayton is, and then compare it with what we just read a Bible study, we need to stay real, real close to God and realize, you know, just exactly what God wants us to be thinking and being careful of, and how dangerous, dangerous that is.

And on the side, we had gotten eight... this has nothing to do with AI, but we have eight tickets to go to Maui on the 17th or the first to the 17th. We're not going to go.

But I mean, you talk about people with real problems.

So we decided not to go, but boy, this AI is so serious. And if we just realize what Satan is... he's after our minds now, and we might fall into that, but stay close to what we're studying right here. Yep. Totally agree. We have to cling to the Bible and cling to God, right? And our young people, our young people, I... yeah, because they work in those fields too, right? So it's kind of like...

Yes. They just... yeah, pray for them, pray for all of us. That way we get closer and closer, not allow the world to seep into anything we do. So...

Do you have something else, Xavier?

Yeah, I found what I'd mentioned. It's called the World Scriptures, a comparative anthology of sacred texts. And their website is called origin.org. Interesting. Okay. Yeah, it's an abomination, of course. That's what it's called.

Good. Okay. Anything else, anyone? Oh, I see. I see someone. I'm not... is that...

Oh, Cynthia and Jodi, how are you doing?

You'll have to unmute, Jodi. Okay. Can you hear me now? We can hear you, yes. Okay. Someone mentioned AI in the Bible, and it said the mention of date July 29th.

What publication was that in?

Well, a publication of maybe something that church put out or...

I don't know. I heard it during the Bible study. 2009. It was in 2009. It was what? You said it was... It was a sermon from Mr. Meyers on July 29th. Oh, yeah. Mr. Meyers' sermon on July 29th.

Oh, okay. Thank you. You can find it at ucg.org. Go under sermon. And you'll see it there. Okay. Thank you.

Okay. Anything else? Good discussion tonight. Very good. So...

Okay. I'm going to... I will let you go. Everyone have a... If you're in Cincinnati, we'll see you this Sabbath. The rest, we will look forward to seeing you a week from tonight if that's okay with everyone. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Good night, everyone. Good night, everyone. Good night. Good night, everyone. Good night. Good night. Everyone, hi, Lisa. How are you feeling? I'm feeling good, too. He's out there somewhere. Good night, everyone. Good night.