Bible Study: February 1, 2023

Yeah, so tonight we're going to go over the last 12 chapters that we've covered in Isaiah. Isaiah chapters 13 to 24. And I guess the best way to do it is just let you answer questions as we go through them. I just kind of want to set the stage a little bit. The last 12 chapters we have gone through many, many prophecies, many of which have been fulfilled. And as we've learned throughout the process that many have yet to be fulfilled, as we have looked at past fulfillments and future fulfillments. Even before these last 12 chapters, though, we had the Messianic prophecies in chapters 7 to 12 that we saw many of them already being fulfilled as well. Wouldn't be bad. Maybe if I have the time, sometime we put together some of those fulfilled prophecies of the Messiah, just so that you have in your mind, what I have in my mind, everything that God has shown us. Because prophecy proves the Bible, but it also should encourage us and inspire us to grow closer to God. That's why he does that. We know that he is through and everything. So, okay, well, let's go ahead and get started then. Maybe we can get through the questions and then even spend a little bit of time beginning in chapter 25. So, I will ask the question, and then you can... I don't know, would you rather raise hands? Or would you... Well, let's just try it one way, because most of you have all these answers down anyway. Okay, this first one is kind of a review question. What three nations did King A has fear, but refused to listen to God's assurance that God was with him, and of course, the nation of Judah? What were the three nations that he feared the most?

Anyone? Okay, I'll give you one of them, right? This goes back to the first 12 chapters. Assyria, right? Assyria was one of those nations that he was afraid of.

There were two others. I'm sorry? Israel and Assyria? Israel and Syria, yes. So Assyria, Syria, and Israel. He was most afraid of Syria and Israel, it seemed like, for some reason.

God told him that Assyria and Israel would never conquer Judah. They didn't. He also told him that Assyria would not conquer Jerusalem. Even though they came close, God did not allow them to conquer Jerusalem. What was the most cruel nation in the world at that time that still touted as one of the most cruel nations that ever was on the face of the earth? Assyria? Anyone? They remember even one of the kings of Assyria that we talked about? Sinacareb. When you're a sinacareb, you know, he and Sargon were the ones who just absolutely touted their superiority and taunted the nations around them and taunted Judah. True or false? The nation referred to, in question above, Assyria conquered Jerusalem and Judah around 720 BC. True or false? False.

Okay, if it's false, what did happen in 720 BC? They conquered the northern kingdom. They conquered Israel in 720 BC. Okay, in Isaiah 13 to 23, where those prophecies are, those prophecies are called burdens. It means prophecies against. They're not pleasant prophecies.

They're prophecies against these nations that are named here. There's prophecies against all the following nations, except which one they're listed in number four. Jerusalem? Nope. Cyprus.

Cyprus was an island out there in the Mediterranean Sea. It's mentioned in the prophecy against Tyre, but not anything against Cyprus, just because it's close to Tyre and Cyprus would be able to see what the desolation of Tyre would be. In chapters 13 to 23, there's two prophecies against Babylon. Anyone have those two chapters in Isaiah? 13 and 21.

Yeah, well, yeah, that's right. You could put 14 in there, too. But yeah, see 14 and chapter 21 as well. Okay, 14. Well, 14 speaks more of Satan, but it does talk about Babylon in chapter 14 as well, and compare the king of Babylon to Satan's traits. Okay, prophecies against Babylon came to pass exactly as God said. True or false? True. Yeah, everyone should get that. We could recount those prophecies. In fact, what we learned through this series of Bible studies is that—I'm answering another question, but that's okay. We'll get to it in a little bit—there are other prophecies that validate and say the same thing that Isaiah said. So we did go through some of those other prophecies on some of these nations. Anyone remember where a pretty detailed prophecy of what happened to Babylon? Where? What book? Or if you got Daniel? Daniel 5. Daniel 5. Yeah, Daniel 5. Quite remarkable when you see what God told Isaiah, and then you go back to Daniel 5 and see how it all plays out there. Other prophecies that we've looked at as well. But yeah, Daniel 5 is from chapter 21, if I remember right? It's not chapter 13. Oh yeah, in fact, you'll remember in Isaiah 21, when we were going through one of the commentaries specifically mentioned verse 5 in Isaiah 21, and they said it is pretty much just an outline of what happened to Babylon in Daniel 5. And then, you know, several generations later when Daniel was prophesying, that pretty much laid out exactly how Babylon fell. So okay, is Babylon mentioned anywhere in the New Testament? And if so, where?

Revelation 17. Yep.

Revelation 18. Yep, both are right. Revelation 17 and 18.

Is that Babylon an actual city? Is it talking about an actual city Babylon, Revelation 17 and 18?

Or like a system. Yeah, a system that God, yes, exactly, calls Babylon because it's got the same traits and the same attitudes of ancient Babylon. Okay, number nine here. I mean, it's one to remember because as we go farther in Babylon, we're going to get into some more prophecies in a couple sections. And there's a word for it that we talked about, I think most of you know, but since part of the prophecy against Babylon has occurred, but some hasn't, this prophecy is called a blank prophecy since it pertains to a past and future fulfillment. What's a prophecy like that called? A dual. Yeah, dual prophecy. Isaiah has many of those in them as the other prophets, the major prophets and the minor prophets. This is going to come to a later question, but I'm going to ask it now. When you come across three words in the Bible in these prophecies, what would indicate that that's a future fulfillment that it's talking about?

In that day, usually it's talking about something that's going to come to pass before the return of Jesus Christ much later from the time the Bible was written.

Okay, in Isaiah 14, to what being does God compare the king of Babylon? Satan. Are you going to stop tiring? Nope. Satan. To what being does not compare the king of Babylon, right? Satan. He lists, he talks about the king of Babylon, and then he goes right into describing Satan. Satan. Satan woke up. Same attitude that Satan had. So number 11, Satan has many, many faults, right? What would you say is the chief fault that Satan had that led to all of this shortcut? Pride. Pride. Pride. Anyone think of a psalm or a proverb? I'm not sure now, or is it a psalm or a proverb that talks about pride? We should all be kind of aware of pride comes. We should all be aware of pride comes. We should all be aware of pride comes. We should all be aware of pride comes. And the book of Isaiah shows that, right? Because time and time again, we read about these kings who got so prideful and so full of themselves about what they thought they had done, and gave them the abilities, and God blessed their nation for a purpose that he had, sometimes to punish other nations or to punish Israel or Judah, because they turned against them, and they always thought it was all about them. And then their downfall came when the pride overtook them. Okay, number 12. God often cites in these prophecies that the kings of these nations fall prey to the same character fault of Satan. True or false? True. True. Yeah, we read of Nebuchadnezzar, Sennacherib, even Edom. Edom and Moab are talked about as being very, very prideful, leading to their downfall. Yep. Okay, what nation? What nation is referred to in the burden against the wilderness of the sea? Babylon. Yeah, Babylon. Anyone want to remember why it might be called the wilderness of the sea? Oh, no. Anyone remember how Babylon and Sennacherib talked about that? They have lots of canals and waterways. Yep. They're on the river. Anyone remember the queen? It goes way, way, way back in history. The queen who kind of worked with those waters and then was able to build this Babylon on dry land? Samiramis? What? Say that? Samiramis. Samiramis, the wife of who? Anyone remember that? Nimrod. Yeah. So Babylon goes all the way back to Nimrod, and we know Nimrod positions himself against God. And so Babylon, Babylon the city, Babylon the attitude, Babylon always positioned against God. Nimrod, you remember from Genesis, he was just, he declared himself a mighty hunter, and he, I mean, he wanted to be God. So some of the same, same attitudes to Satan, yeah, it was just a blade in him, so. Okay, number 13. What nation is referred to? Oh, no, we already just talked about that. Number 14. What modern day nation is represented by Edom, Moab, and Hammon? Jordan. Everyone agree with that? Jordan. Yes. I think even on here, yeah, on that map we put on there for the first, if you overlay that with a modern map, you'd see that that's exactly where Jordan is today. So when you read about that, what chapter do we read something significant about Edom, Edom, Hammon, and Moab? Remember, we went back to a chapter that talked about their fate in the end time.

Is it 15? Nope. It's a nut. It isn't in Isaiah. Daniel 11 verse 41. Daniel 11, right? Verse 41. Yeah. It's a 41. Yeah. And I remember it was at that verse, it says that at the time of the end, the king of the north will go down, he will, you know, Egypt wouldn't, Egypt would fall to him, but Edom, Hammon, and Jordan, or Edom and Moab would escape for the time being. And then we turned to that during a prophecy there. We'll come to that in a little bit here. So, yeah, fact number 15 refers to that. Is there a prophecy anywhere in this section of Isaiah that would refer to the modern-day area on Petra?

Yes. Anyone know what chapters those would be in? Oh, yeah, 15, 14, and 14. Yeah, Isaiah 15 and 16. We went through that. Maps up there so that you can kind of see where that area was that God was talking about. I talked a little bit about Petra and places of God's protection.

And he said that in that area of Petra, modern-day Petra, his outcast would dwell. But modern-day Petra is what area in the Bible? What land then? Then Isaiah 16 verse 4. Moab, right? Moab. When we were reading that chapter about God, God's outcasts. And when he was talking to Moab, you know, let them be. Don't betray him who escapes. Dwell with you, he says in verse 3. That's what he's talking about. How do we know, in looking at Isaiah 16 and that prophecy about the outcast, how do we know that this is a prophecy for the end time? Is there a verse in that chapter that would indicate that this is for an end time fulfillment?

But Isaiah 16 verses 3-5. Yeah, 3-5, especially verse 5, right? One will be established, and one will sit on it in truth, in the tabernacle of David, judging and seeking justice and hastening righteousness. That's referring to, you know, Jesus Christ. At the time of his return. But if you've got your Bible there, we referred at that time to Jeremiah 48. Jeremiah 48 is a corresponding prophecy for that time. Okay, and there's another minor prophet. I mean, a really minor prophet, right? Minor as in not a whole large number of books.

That specifically talks about Edom at the end time. And it talks about Edom being completely destroyed. Which would be, of course, after the time of those outcasts are there. So you see the end time. And remember, it's a little book, so we've got one chapter in it. Obadiah. Yeah, someone said it. Eleven.

Obadiah, right? Yeah. Right after the little book of Amos. My little ninth chapter's in Amos. And then verses... Yeah, verses eight and nine. And then again, verses 15 and 16. Talks about the destruction of Edom. So, okay. Which is the prophecy about a lot of those nations, all the nations that are around Israel and Judah, remember? Isaiah 24 talks about that. All the earth at that time that's around that area. And the Bible says that God Clare's has a prophecy for every one of those areas in these chapters that we have just covered in Isaiah 13 to 24.

Okay. Yeah, verse number 17. Besides Isaiah 14, is there another description of Satan and his fault in another book of the Bible? Ezekiel 28. Yep, Ezekiel 28. In that book, who is Satan compared to? Tyre. Yeah, the Prince of Tyre. A little bit. Yeah, that is interesting that in Isaiah, God compares the king of Babylon to Satan. And in Ezekiel, he compares the Prince of Tyre. He has two different things. Tyre was known. Tyre was known for their commerce, right?

They were merchants of the sea. They were economy. They thought everything was great. It even talks about the Prince of Tyre, about the wealth that he has. And then in Isaiah 14, it's more about the pride and the power and wanting to be exalted like God and everything. So we have two different aspects of Satan's character manifested in some of the rulers or nations of the earth. Okay. Number 18. True or false? Jeremiah is a contemporary prophet of Isaiah.

False. No. Everyone agree to false? True. It is false. Okay. It is false. Anyone remember about the years that Isaiah prophesied, or one key event that happened during Isaiah's life? Significant in Bible history? We talked about it already. The destruction of the Assyrian army? Yeah. Well, the fall of Israel, right? The fall of Israel, conquered by Assyria, happened while King Ahaz was alive. King Ahaz is a name to remember. He's significant. It happened while King Ahaz was alive, and happened during Isaiah's when he was a prophet.

Who did Jeremiah? One was Jeremiah, a prophet. About a hundred years later than Isaiah. Right. Does he prophesy to who? He prophesied to the southern kingdom. The Judah. Exactly. So we have that 100. Israel fell in 720 BC. Judah fell in 586, 585 BC. So you have about 100, 3,500, 40 years difference between the two. So Judah prophesied many of the same things as Isaiah, but he was 100 some years later in time than Isaiah.

But there are contemporaries. There are contemporary prophets to Isaiah. Anyone? Can anyone remember? There are three specifically that we could list here. And we referred to these prophecies while we looked at some of the prophecies in Isaiah. Because God says the exact same things through these other prophets as well about certain nations. So we could see the corollary and you know it's God prophesying. I have Ezekiel, Hosea of Micah. Okay, you said Amos. Hosea and Micah.

Well, he talks about Edom, but we don't know for sure. How do we know those three that we listed are exactly at the same time as Isaiah prophesied? If you look at the first verse, in the first chapter of each of those books, it tells the kings that were alive while that prophet was prophesied.

And they were the same kings as when Isaiah was alive. So we know that they were. Yeah. Hosea, Amos, and Micah. So those are contemporary prophets. They were alive at the same time. Number 20 talks about the prophecies in general. And the prophecies recorded in Isaiah are also recorded in the writings of other prophets, including which of those listed there in number 20. Ezekiel? Yeah. Okay. Micah? Yes. Yeah. Jeremiah? Yes. No. Jeremiah? No. Yes. So it's all of those above.

So even though they weren't contemporaries, Ezekiel and Jeremiah did have prophecies that we turned to that validated what God had said through Isaiah. If I was true. In those areas. So the difference between contemporaries and prophecies about the same nations. Yeah. Okay. Number 21. Through Isaiah, God prophesies desolation for all the nations in the area of the world, that area of the world that we looked at, the mediterranean area, except for Judah and Israel. True or false? False. False. No. No, Jeremiah, this prophesies. I think it prophesies for all of them. God prophesies desolation for the nations in this area of the world, except for Judah and Israel.

Yeah, I have that marked true. But let's turn to Isaiah 24, because I know what I was thinking of when I wrote that question. Now, desolation is the key word, I think, in there, because Judah didn't become desolate when they fell. Israel wasn't desolate when they fell. That's prophesied at the end time. But it is prophesied. I was thinking of Isaiah 24. Let me look here. Yeah. Okay. Okay.

Isaiah 24 for the earth mourns and fades away. The world languishes and fades away. The haughty people of the earth languish. The earth is defiled under its inhabitants because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting conduct. Therefore, the curse has devoured the earth and those who dwell in it are desolate. Therefore, the inhabitants of the earth are burned. Few men are left. Yep. So I guess I would say Judah and they're included in that prophecy because it is an end time. And God does talk about the remnant that he's going to save of Israel. So I would say if you said true, you're right. And if you said false as well. Everyone has at least one right. Everybody is some winners. Brother Shibi. Yes. Isn't there a statement in... I think it's in Revelation where it says, all cities of the earth collapsed? All cities of the earth collapsed? Yes. I'll probably... I'll try and do a search. I don't think it's in Revelation. It's not Revelation, okay. I don't... I'm thinking... Let me look at Isaiah 16. It's supposed to be in general. Isaiah 16 talks about rebuilding the old ruins, raising up the former desolations, repairing the ruined cities, the desolations of many generations.

Yeah, there may be another one. Revelation 16.19, where it says, the great cities split into three parts and the cities of the nations collapsed. Is that what you're referring to, Z? I think that's what it is. It says, all the cities of the nations fell. Cities of the nations, yeah. One of the signs of the population. And the cities of the nations fell. The nations fell, yeah. Remember when the two witnesses are resurrected, the whole of Jerusalem collapsed under an earthquake? Yes. And the people repent, yeah. Some of the people repent. Yeah, we often focus on the great city was divided into three parts and just kind of read over the cities of the nations. That's true, yeah. Some versions say cities of many nations fall.

So the world is in turmoil at that time, yeah. Very good. And, yeah, seven angels. Mr. Shaby? Yes, yes, sir. If you think about it, during the Great Tribulation there's things just about every place will be affected with devastation. Yep. Yep, and that verse speaks to that. I often, you know, just think about one, but you know, we're talking about all those. Not really much does talk about worldwide collapse. Can I add something? Sorry, I didn't get my hand raised. Sure. Wait, I think I interrupted. I'm going to wait in case I did. You want to wait, you said, or? I thought I interrupted him. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to. Oh, okay. No, no, no problem at all. Okay, I just wanted to read Haggai 2, 6 through 7. For thus says the Lord of hosts, once more I will shake heaven and earth in the sea and dry land, and I will shake all nations. And they shall come to the desire of all nations. I will fill the temple with glory, says the Lord, those. So I didn't know if that fit in with what Xavier said or not. He will shake all nations. But it doesn't say that in that great earth.

And I say, when God says all, he means all, right? I just do. So people shake all nations. Okay, very good.

Where were we? We were under 32? 22. Where is the Valley of Vision prophesied in Isaiah 22? The really serious of them?

Anyone remember why it might be called the Valley of Vision?

Or the commentaries?

Because of all the prophecies that God gave to the prophets in Jerusalem. So is the Valley that they would call the Valley of Vision. Remember, we talked when we were looking at that chapter about the very many names of Jerusalem that are in the Bible.

Later in our next section, section there is referred to as Ariel. I think that's in the 30s and as many other names too. So Valley of Vision refers to Jerusalem and the prophecy against them. So even Jerusalem and Israel weren't exempt from all the prophecies that God made. I guess all the nations in that area at that time.

Okay, number 23. We talked a little bit about the prophecy in Isaiah 23. About Ethiopia. And we talked about this gift that the people of smooth skin would bring.

Anyone remember what we talked about at that time? What that gift might underscore the word might? It's speculation. We don't know. The Ark of the Covenant. Very fascinating possibility when you think about the future and Ethiopia. We talked about a couple things. This is borrowing on this later on. I know that we have as well. Anyone remember anything unique about the nation of Ethiopia in the world today? Just a couple facts we talked about. They were never colonized. One of only two nations in Africa that were never colonized, the other one being Liberia. Italy tried. Italy tried, but they weren't able to do that. That's unique when you know the history of Africa and how the Europeans went in there and colonized so many areas. What was the other thing about Ethiopia that makes them unique in the world today? They have their own calendar. They keep it separate from everyone else. They have their own calendar. Somehow they're able to survive in that. They keep it. I think if I remember right, I didn't go back and check it. The calendar we're on says 2023. They're in 2014 because of the way they count time. It makes it a unique part of the world. When you read about Ethiopia and prophecy and some of the things that are there and some of the legends that surround it, it makes it an interesting place. There is a prophecy about a queen, not a prophecy. There's a theory, speculation about a queen and Solomon. Queen of Sheba. Some of the legends are there that Solomon had a child like the Queen of Sheba.

He was a queen of Sheba. He was a queen of Sheba. His name was, if I remember right, Melnick. That name has existed down through Ethiopia. It's a very interesting part of the world when you read a history there, something that might be interesting in the years ahead. Anyone else remember where else we read about someone from Ethiopia? Acts 8. Ethiopian eunuch. He wasn't just a common man. He came from the royal court.

In the royal court, there may have been the Bible being studied, or he may have been the only one doing that. But it appears, if you remember in Acts, he was there maybe in Jerusalem for a Holy Day period. When Philip came upon him and he's reading the book of Isaiah, he doesn't know how to interpret it, but Philip sits there and helps him to understand the book of Isaiah, the one that we're in right now.

Just interesting. Number 24 in Isaiah 24, verse 10, God refers to Jerusalem as the city of confusion. From what Hebrew word comes that word that's translated to confusion there? Ooh. Kind of one of those interesting Hebrew words in the Bible. Where else do we read? Let's talk about one, two, three, four different places, other places that we see that Hebrew word tov. This is one. Genesis is one we're referring to. The original state of the earth? Yep. Not the original state of the earth. Well, before it's God recreated it.

Oh, without. It was born without void and without. It was born without void. Yes. That's Tohu and Bohu, right? So then in the book of Isaiah, we read a comment that tells us that Tohu isn't the original way that God created the earth. And you remember where in Isaiah that word is? If God says in Genesis 1, the earth was without form and void, Tohu and Bohu. The counter to that is in Isaiah 45 that lets us know that how God originally created the world was not without form and void.

It was very orderly and a beautiful place, but something happened to make it confused and chaotic. The Bible to my insight? Yep. And remember, we actually find it in Isaiah 45. The Bible to your insight? Yep. Isaiah 45 verse 18. If you ever get into conversation with someone and they talk about the history of the earth and how God created it, it's always an interesting thing to be able to turn to Isaiah 45 and let them know that by 45 18 it says, 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 the word vain there is Tohu.

So there is God didn't create it in Tohu. It was that way at the time he was going to recreate it for mankind to be on it, who formed it to be inhabited. So there's another place that the word Tohu is, but that kind of gives us a clue as to something that happened between Genesis 1-1 in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

I guess while we're on that, what happened in between those times? That God didn't create it. Satan went up there and tried to overtake the earth. It's someplace in Isaiah 14 or Ezekiel 28. Let me back that we find that we have kind of what happened during that time. Apparently it is in, no, no, it's in here in Isaiah 14. And verse 12. Yeah, how are you? How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, Son of the Morning. How you are cut down to the ground, who you who weaken the nation.

So he was cast down. Yes, Ezekiel 28 is clear on that. I'm looking for the place. I'm looking for the place. Verse 11, right? Take a lamentation. Satan, we know, was there in Eden when the world was there. Verse 16. By the abundance of your trading, you became filled with violence and sin. Therefore, I cast you as profane thing out of the mountain of God, and I destroyed you, O covering cherub, from the midst of the fiery stones. Now, verse 12, verse 14, 12 says you were cut down to the ground.

So where he was cast was to the earth. He was there when God created it. He was there in Eden. And when he cast down, Satan is darkness, and the world became confused, chaotic, dark, until the light of God shined on it again. It's interesting that God inspired Isaiah to reference that twice. You know, an Isaiah 45 and also an Isaiah 14.

Yep. Yep, and that word that it's used there, right? Yeah, actually, I'll give you the other two places in Isaiah that Tohu is. It's in Isaiah 41, 29. 41, 29. Indeed, indeed, they are all worthless. Their works are nothing. And verse 48, I was going to read that. For I looked, and there was no man, I looked among them, but there was no counselor, who, when I asked of them, could answer a word. Indeed, they're worthless.

Their works are nothing. Their molded images are wind and confusion. Tohu. Things that are, you know, God is not the author of confusion, it tells us, in Corinthians. Satan is the author of Tohu. God is not. Then 41, 41, 19. No, we just went there. 41, 29, 40, 17. It is the other place we find Tohu. Verse 17, talking about the nations. All nations before him are as nothing, and they are counted by him as less than nothing, and worthless as Tohu.

And worthless. Okay. Okay, so Tohu, you find Tohu, and you find some metrics, I think it's Isaiah that take you back to the beginning, and Genesis there as well. Okay, back to the questions. Number 20, number 25. Who are the people of smooth skin? Yippee-yippee-yay. Yippee-yippee-yay.

And as I was going through this before the Bible study, we're coming up on... I made a mistake in here. It's coming up in a question here. Did it from memory without double checking, but that's not number 26. Number 26. What phrase regarding Babylon helps us know that the prophecy against Babylon is dual in nature? Babylon, the Great Flank Babylon. Babylon is fallen. Babylon is fallen, yeah. When you see God repeating things like that, when he says, his fallen is fallen, you pretty much can determine it's going to happen once, and it's going to happen again. I definitely can't remember offhand, but we saw another thing like that where God had a double thing in Isaiah, one of the prophecies, and it's like, okay, this is what happened then, and we can see in future prophecy what will happen to that group of people at that time as well. So we find Babylon, the Great, is fallen, is fallen in Isaiah 21, and the burden against the wilderness of the sea. Where else do we see those exact same words in the New Testament? Revelation 18. Revelation, I know. Revelation 18. Revelation 2. We have it for the future. A future fulfillment of the prophecy against Babylon. Is that 18 what? Revelation 32. No, 2. Revelation 18. 2. Revelation 22. Maybe? Yes. In Genesis 27, 12. Genesis 27. 11. Jesus, my brother, is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man, meaning smooth-skinned man. I always thought a smooth-skinned man was the white man. I don't know. I'm just saying. The only other reference that I know of in the Bible. Of a smooth skin? Yes. Esau was hairy, and Jacob was smooth-skinned. They were different. When Jacob was tricking Isaac, that came into play. He had to cover his arms with the skin, so that Isaac thought that it really was Esau. You're referring to the smooth skin, the Ethiopians, right? I don't know. I didn't know that's what that referred to. All I know is that Jacob said, I am a smooth-skinned man. Over there in the Middle East, when they talk about smooth-skinned people, even today, if you look at the Ethiopians, they shave themselves, or the smooth-skinned where the rest of the people in the Middle East seem to be white-hairy. I don't know about these Bible studies, because you can try to ask them questions. They're at 9 on Friday. I'm done Friday. I'm sorry. I go to sleep. Okay. Number 27 is where I... We'll see if you catch it. What is the name of the mead who conquered Babylon in 539 BC? Cyrus. Darius. Joriah. Joriah is the mead, but I was looking for the Persian. I said mead, but I'm not sure. Who's the other guy that conquered Babylon, who's better well-known in history? Cyrus. Alexander. Yeah, you have the amazing Persians. Darius is mentioned in Daniel 5, but Cyrus. Cyrus. Cyrus. There's something notable about Cyrus, right? He is specifically... He was named. ...my God by name 50 years before that. Anyone know, remember, where in Isaiah he specifically mentioned? Chapter 45, verse 1. Yep, chapter 45, verse 1.

And then one other place before 45, 1. Yeah, 4428, right? Just the... Well, they're very next... Well, yeah, chapter... There's two verses in a row. 4428, God specifically named Cyrus 150 years before. And that's a notable in 44. He says of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, He will perform all my pleasure, saying to Jerusalem, You shall be built, and to the temple, your foundation shall be laid.

Now, when Isaiah, when God gave that to Isaiah, Judah was still standing, right? I mean, this is 150 years before that. Judah falls, and then Babylon, who conquered them, falls. And then when he was the king of the world, and this man Cyrus, then actually the Bible shows how that is fulfilled. I don't think we turned there then. Let's go back to Ezra as long as we're talking about that.

Because in Ezra 1, you see the exact fulfillment of that prophecy from Isaiah in history. So where do we want to see the back of? I think that is real. You mean Isaac? Yeah. Ezra 1? So when you're talking about prophecies that have been fulfilled, right? If you're ever talking to someone about it, you can say, Yeah, Isaiah wrote this.

He was alive in the 700s B.C. Cyrus wasn't alive until 539 B.C. when he conquered. And here in Ezra 1-1, when we have the history of Judah going back, God bringing Judah back to rebuild the temple, and here in Ezra 1, it says, In the first year of Cyrus, king of Persia, that the word of the Lord, by the mouth of Jeremiah, who wasn't alive at the time that Isaiah prophesied, might be fulfilled, by the mouth of Jeremiah, might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus, king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout his all his kingdom, and put in writing, saying, basically the Jews can go back to their homeland, rebuild the temple, rebuild the wall.

So you have right in the Bible the fulfillment of that prophecy by three different writers and three different writers. Ezra, Isaiah, and... Yeah, well, Ezra and Isaiah, I guess, so... So yeah, so you've got that, so... Okay, but again, it's Isaiah, a tremendous book, tremendous book full of... We're going to learn, you know, some life principles as well in Isaiah, but a tremendous book of prophecy already fulfilled, and yet to be fulfilled. Okay, number 28. The people of Tyre.

Tyre's a fascinating city, too. One of the oldest cities in the world, one of the first... well, just one of the oldest cities in the world. People of Tyre were seafaring people at the time of Isaiah. They had a colony as far away as what is known today as Spain. What was the name of that colony? Tarshish. Tarshish. Right? We had the map up there that showed Tyre all the way on the other side of the Mediterranean. They were always the ones who were exploring, and Tyre was sitting right there, I'm going to put a map on in a moment there, because there's another fascinating history of Tyre that the Bible foretells that could only be fulfilled.

Okay, number 29. Tyre, true or false? Tyre was a known enemy of Israel and Judah. False. Yeah, that's false, because what you see is David working with the king of Tyre, you see Solomon working with the king of Tyre, Solomon had a fleet of ships. He became fascinated with that area as well. And then we already looked at number 30, right? Who is the Prince of Tyre like unto an Ezekiel 28? That's Satan. Again, the commerce, commerce, all the wealth that God, in Revelation 18, uses the same words.

Same words we read about the prophecy of Tyre and its destruction that we read in Revelation 18. Mr. Shaby? Yes. I think that actually the Prince of Tyre refers to a human being at the beginning of the chapter. And then beginning on verse 11, start talking about the king of Tyre, and then it likens that to Satan. I'm not completely sure, but if we can look at that. Yes, it does.

When you look at chapter 28, it is. God likens both of them as man, right? What he's showing is the spirit and those men are just like the spirit of Satan, the spirit of the kings. So he talks about the Prince of Tyre there, talking about what his attitude is. I'm like a god and everything.

And then as you move into chapter verse 12 of Ezekiel 28, he takes it right into, you know, here's the king of Tyre. Oh yeah, the Prince of Tyre and the King of Tyre. Yeah, the King of Tyre, Satan. That's the same attitude, the same spirit that was in Satan was in this case. We have Prince of Tyre here. Yeah, well, it says Prince of Tyre in 28 too. Yeah, say to the Prince of Tyre.

Your heart is lifted up and you say, I am a god. So we have Prince of Tyre and King of Tyre in that chapter. Okay, Tyre was known for many things for chapter number 31. Which of those were they known for? I don't know if it was purple, but the world was merci. Yeah, what? Tyre was a state in what nation, I guess.

Anybody remember that? Phoenicia? Yeah, Phoenicia, the Philistines. So, yeah, so, yes or no? Purple? I remember purple. Yeah, they were known for purple, remember? Some of the historians say Phoenicia actually is means, purple people. And they had to die from that shellfish that they were using. People came from near and far. Those purple garments. Were they wealthy merchants? Yes. Known for their trade. They were right there in the Mediterranean Sea. They were known for their trade. And the world marketplace.

God even calls them a joyous city. That doesn't say all of you are there alone, though. None of them. I kind of want to just remind you about...

You said you get the purple from the oyster or something? Yeah, it was some kind of shellfish. Can you put an apple on your screen? No. Let me figure out what I'm doing. I never can give this quite right here.

Okay, so just a reminder of where Tyre and Sidon are. Tyre and Sidon are here. This is a modern nation, right? So today, it's close to Beirut, where Tyre is today. It's a non-entity today. But it's in the nation of Lebanon, which is where Phylicia would be. You can see Israel, the capital there in Jerusalem, Egypt, Jordan, and Syria by that.

So you kind of get, again, it had a prime place right on the Mediterranean Sea. And then we looked at this. Remember that? There's a prophecy in the Bible. I wonder if anyone remembers where the prophecy is. It's in Isaiah. It fills in the story of Tyre and what its history is. And it's actually in Ezekiel 2026. But in that, remember the old city of Tyre was on the mainland, and it was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar. If you read about that in Isaiah 23, where it talks about all the houses, would be, you know, chapter 23, verse 1, says, The old city of Lake Waze, so that there is no house, no harbor.

And Nebuchadnezzar did come in, and he just completely destroyed. For 13 years, he besieged Old Tyre, which was on the mainland. And it sat there. It was not rebuilt during that time. But the people did flee to this island that you see out there, the island city of Tyre. And it was protected by water, but it was only a few hundred yards and whatever.

It did give them some protection. So the old city, the people went to the new city. But in 332 BC, Alexander the Great conquered New Tyre because of all that land that he filled in between the coast out to the city of Tyre. Ezekiel 26 is remarkable in the fact that it prophesized exactly what would go on there.

So I just want to kind of remind you of that, because this is another one of those, like, prophecies of the Bible. It was in 330-332 BC that Alexander the Great did that. Ezekiel wrote hundreds of years before that. But Ezekiel 26, he'll talk about the walls of Tyre being broken down. It'll be trampled, talking about what Nebuchadnezzar does. And in verse 12 of Ezekiel 26, it says, They will plunder your riches, pillage your merchandise, they will break down your walls, and destroy your pleasant houses. Nebuchadnezzar did all that. They will lay your stones, your timber, and your soil in the midst of the water.

And that's exactly what Alexander the Great did. He took all those ruins, all those houses that have been destroyed, all the towers from the Old City, and he built a causeway from the city, Old City to the island. And that's how they marched and they eventually conquered.

It seemed like it was an impregnable, unconquerable city that Tyre had. But he did it, and that fulfilled that prophecy exactly. So even today, we'll talk about the geography of Tyre, where it is today. And it has the most unusual geography, because you have the natural coastline, but then you have this little jutout that has become land, and that all dates back to Alexander the Great and him filling in all that area so they could get out to New Tyre. So you have a living example that even the people on earth, when they look at the history, it's amazing what Alexander did.

And then when you look in the Bible, it's exactly what God prophesied would happen. So again, some remarkable prophecies that have been fulfilled in Isaiah that can't be explained any other way than God doing it and bringing it about. Okay, I hear me. I hear me. I just never pleasant things. I don't know if you hear an echo. I hope you don't. I do. I do. I hear the echo. You do? Okay. Just a little bit. I believe people have not muted and your voice is coming through their system and back again.

You know what? I think you're exactly right. Let me mute everyone and then you can open your mic. You can open your mic when you want to answer and please feel free to do that. Okay, we were on number 30. We have the prophecy of Tyre. That's Revelation 18. The words used to talk about how God will bring down Tyre are very, very similar as they are in Revelation 18.

Let's look at number 33. In Isaiah 22, I believe it is, God talks about this... I forget what his title is... Shevnah. And then the one who replaces him, and the one who replaces him, God says he will give him the key of David, which is an interesting thing for God to put in there. Yes, in Isaiah 22, 22, the key of the house of David I will lay on his shoulder so he shall open and no one shall shut. So we talked about this key of David and how what God says about this time here in Isaiah 22 and how it relates to other times of the Bible.

Anyone else, anyone remember other times in the Bible that the key of the house of David is mentioned or more verses or words that are used here in Isaiah 22?

Well, there in Revelation 3, right, when you talk about Christ's letter to the church of the church in Philadelphia, he uses those same words, you know, I open doors that no man can shut and shut doors that no man can open. In Matthew 16 verse 19, when he's building his church or beginning his church, you know, he says, I will give you the... Well, let's turn back to Matthew 16 and 19 and read exactly what it says rather than me just paraphrasing it.

Matthew 16, if I can get there.

I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven.

What God says to the church there. So just very interesting. When God gives us and he gives the church the keys, the kingdom of heaven, he's opened that door for us. But it's our job to walk through it and to live our lives, you know, so that we can and that he will give us that gift of being in his kingdom and eternal life.

Okay, 34. We already did that one. What three words in that day? And then 35, we talked about that one too. What's one of the two nations in Africa that have never been colonized? And that's Ethiopia. And the bonus question, I won't take the time to do that. You might go back to your notes or just think about it. Remember in Isaiah 24, where it talked about the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously.

And God uses that exact term one, two, three, three or four times in the book of Isaiah. And he's talking about how, well, you know, traders who deal treacherously with ones who don't desire it. And we I'm going to give you verses because I'm looking at our time here and I would like to get into it just a little bit of chapter 25 tonight.

If you want to remind yourself of the treacherous dealers who deal treacherously, we could do that to God. You could look at Hosea 5 or 7. There God talks about how people have raised pagan children.

Isaiah 6 verse 7, Malachi 2, 11, and Malachi 2, 14, where it says we've dwelt treacherously with the wives of our youth. So we can deal treacherously with God by the way we live our lives. It's not just what these nations do. We can be guilty of the same thing. It brings it right home. Right home to you and me when you see God using the exact same phrase in very many places. We should take note of that and make note of it for ourselves and how we are living our lives.

Okay, anything on that, on those chapters then? We're going to move into some really inspiring chapters, uplifting chapters here. Isaiah 24 was kind of like a summary of what we had done with the prophecies and the 11 chapters before. Isaiah 25 continues in that vein. But any questions on anything before we move into 25? We have just completed a very interesting series of chapters here that the world just doesn't understand. Until you go through it, chapter by chapter, verse by verse, and you relate it to other parts of the Bible, bring in some history and see what happens. You really can't understand what's going on in these chapters. We've been through a very significant part of the Bible here. We'll be going into another significant part of Isaiah here as well in the rest of the book. Okay, well then we will go ahead and sign off. Everyone have a good rest of the week and Sabbath, we will look forward to seeing you next Wednesday night. Okay? Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good evening, everyone. Good night. We'll see you in the future. Bye, everyone. Bye. Bye. See you.