Bible Study: January 18, 2023

Just about every week I talk about how the chapter we're going to be going through that night can be difficult to understand. You have to understand some things about history. You have to kind of compare it to other passages in the Bible, other prophecies that all come together to say the same thing about these lands and these nations and these people that we've been talking about for the last 11 weeks. Tonight's chapter is quite a hopeful chapter, if you will, and really chapters 24, 25, 26, and 27 all relate to the goodness of God, the glory of God, the plan of God, and the coming millennium. Chapter 24 actually is a nice summary of the last 11 chapters and really going all the way back to the beginning of the book of Isaiah. So I'm gonna, you know, as we talk about it, some of the scriptures that we read tonight should make you think back on some of the prophecies that we have read about about the various lands. They'll make you think of some of the verses in the New Testament that had to deal with the dual prophecies, ones that have already been fulfilled and ones that are yet to be filled before the return of Jesus Christ or at the return of Jesus Christ. So I think what I'm going to do to begin tonight is put up a map. Maps are very, very helpful in understanding the book of Isaiah because when we get into chapter 24, the very first verse there, we'll talk about—it uses the word earth there. Behold, the Lord makes the earth empty. And when you look up the word earth, it means kind of a land. And what we've been talking about for the last several weeks are all the areas around Judah, including Judah. We've had the prophecies about all these lands. We've had the prophecy about Jerusalem. So let me put up a map here that kind of will refresh your mind about everything that we've seen. I hope you can all see that map. And just let me just kind of go through that map a little bit. You see the Mediterranean Sea over there to the west. You see Jerusalem. A couple weeks ago, we talked about the prophecies to Jerusalem. That prophecy was called the Valley of Vision, if you recall.

We've talked last week. We talked about Tyre and Sidon. And that is, you know, Tyre and Sidon. We talked about that last week. And we compared, we talked about Tyre being a seafaring people. And they're colony over, Tarshish over there in what we call Spain today. But you know, as we were talking at the end of the Bible study last week about how God compares the King of Babylon to Satan in Isaiah 14, and then compares the Prince of Tyre to Satan in Ezekiel 28, that, you know, Tyre, Tyre there, when you read through, it's really about commerce. It's really about the marketplace that God condemns Tyre. You know, we read all the verses about how the merchants of the world will weep when Tyre or when that Babylon society... And so we have symbols of, you know, Babylon, where kings want to be considered God. They're the ones who set all the truth in the earth. And sometimes today we hear about governors and presidents saying, you know, my truth, and this is the truth that everyone needs to believe. And we move in that direction. But we also see that the economies of the world are very much there. And so much of the problem in the world today is because of the greed with all the commerce that's gone on. And God compares in Ezekiel 28, the Prince of Tyre, to Satan as well, and how wealthy they become, and everything. So anyway, we talked about Tyre inside, and you see Samaria there. We know that Samaria, the capital of Israel, Israel fell to Assyria in 720 BC. We see Edom and Moab there, the people of Esau's descendants, Moab, you know, modern-day Jericho. We talked about Petra, we talked about Seir, as it says down there. A few, a couple weeks ago, we talked about Douma down there in the southwest. You see Kush, and remember, in Ezekiel, not Ezekiel, Isaiah 18, we talked about Ethiopia and the prophecies regarding them, and that gift that they bring, you know, after the return of Christ. Of course, we had a prophecy about Egypt. We move over to the middle of the map, a prophecy about Arabia, Babylon. We've talked about the first world ruling kingdom, Persia, over there on the extreme east. I think I might have said West somewhere there, Babylon to the east, but Persia over there in the east, and the Medes are right north of them. They're the ones who conquered Babylon. Of course, remember the story about Babylon, how the Samaramas somehow channeled the the waters of the Euphrates there, and out of marshes created land that Babylon could be. And then when Cyrus specifically named in Isaiah, he channeled those waters so that they could march into Babylon, and they could conquer Babylon without hardly a whimper from Babylon.

If you look to the north, of course, you see the Caspian Sea over there. You see the Black Sea in the middle there. You have the Caucasus Mountains when the Israelites that were held captive, that were conquered by Assyria, escaped, I guess, after Babylon conquered Assyria. They migrated through the north around that Black Sea area, and then over into Europe. You know the history of Israel there, and how they migrated across the European continent there. You remember we talked about Babylon, and how the Babylonians, even secular history, shows that they migrated as their territories were conquered. They mostly migrated over into the Italian area, what we call Italy today, and Assyria over into northern Europe, and over in the Germanic areas. So we've covered a lot of ground in 11 chapters in Isaiah. We've learned a lot about peoples, and when we get into Isaiah 24 here, we're going to see that all these lands, all this earth, all this world that makes up what the Bible is talking about here, every single area here, there has been destruction prophesied for them that has occurred to those nations. That is yet to occur in many of the dual prophecies we've talked about, and as we get into chapter 24, that's what we're going to be seeing. So I'll pull that map down, and we will get going.

Okay, so in chapter 24, with that map in mind, and the world as they knew it at that time, you notice it's interesting because when the Bible talks about the end time, it talks about that same Mediterranean area. Remember, it's the king of the north, the king of the south, the kings or the news from the east, as it talks about in Daniel 11, and we went there a few times as well. So chapter 24 and verse 1 says, Behold, the Lord makes the earth. That would be the land. That would be that area we're talking about, the world that they knew it at that time.

Behold, the Lord makes the earth empty and makes it waste. And that's what we've seen. That's what we've seen as we've gone through the last 11 chapters there, that the nations sinned against God and that they were displaced. They were displaced. He punished the land, he punished the people, and there was destruction, there was war, there was people being moved out from one area into another, cities being conquered, and people were totally disrupted. We look ahead, we know that there's a lot of doom. Actually, as we begin here, let's go back to Isaiah 6, because a lot of this will relate back to Isaiah 6. When God calls Isaiah, the first few chapters of Isaiah, you remember our prophecies against his people. But when God calls Isaiah, Isaiah 6, where are you? Isaiah 6 is right here. I'll pick it up in verse 11. And remember, he calls Isaiah. Isaiah says, I'm not worthy to speak your words. God says, I've purged you.

And then Isaiah volunteers and says, I'll go out. I'll go out and give the message. In verse 11 of Isaiah 6, Isaiah says, Lord, how long will I preach? How long will this message of yours be preached? And God answered, until the cities are laid waste and without inhabitant, the houses are without a man, and the land is utterly desolate. And we know a lot many of these prophecies where we've done that, we don't see that until the end of the time. For instance, when it talks about Israel and all the cities being laced and every house is about that inhabitant, that didn't occur at the time that Israel was conquered. The Assyrians and Babylonians moved into that area, the other nations along with them. It will happen at the end time, but this is a message for today as well, the message of Isaiah, and this speaks to that. Verse 12, it says, the Lord has removed men far away, and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land. People are just, they're moved away from their homes, they're scattered, they lose their homeland. But then in verse 13, he says, yet a tenth will be in it, and will return and be for consuming as a terabith tree or as an oak, whose stump remains when it's cut down. So the Holy See, shall be its stump. So he says, Israel is not going to be completely destroyed. We've read, you know, in books like Obadiah and Ezekiel and Jeremiah, Micah, about the utter destruction of some of these nations. Some soon, and then some later after God has a purpose for them. But we see, you know, specifically even in Obadiah, where it just says, Edom will just, not a man will remain of Edom. And so we have this thing, but God says there's this remnant, and we're going to see this remnant show up in Isaiah 24, because God has completed, at least for now, the prophecies that we've been going through to talk about this destruction. And in this chapter, he's going to again repeat what that destruction, why that destruction comes. So again, if we look at chapter 24, it says, God, behold, the Lord makes the earth empty and makes it waste, distorts its surface.

And actually, I like the way the old King James says this, it actually says it much better than the new King James. It says, behold, the Lord makes the earth empty and makes it waste, and turns it upside down. Turns the world upside down. We know what that means when something is turned upside down. There's just confusion. He actually uses that word confusion later on in the chapter as well. Everything that was is no longer as it was. Things change, and it's not a happy change. It's a change when the inhabitants, as it says in the next phrase there, the inhabitants are scattered abroad. People are displaced from their homes, war, famine, pestilence, continual problems upon the people that are there. And that's what we've seen in the prior 11 chapters.

Whenever I hear the term, the world is turned upside down, you probably think of it too. There's a verse in the New Testament that talks about that. Do you remember where that verse is? Anyone?

In the book of Acts. Yeah, it's in the book of Acts. It talks about the apostles and how they turn the world upside down with their message and everything. When the word of God comes, that would be turning the world upside down for good. Bringing the truth of God. In this case here, when God turns the world upside down, it's not for good. People have to be punished, and out of it will come good. Out of it will come the kingdom of God. But it could be painful for a while. So the last part of verse one there is, he scatters abroad as inhabitants. It happened to Israel, it happened to Judah, it happened to all of the people. Of all the lands that we've looked at in the prior 11 chapters, we've seen it all happen. And then in verse two, God inspired this again, the show. It's not just the common people or not just a group of people, but every single person in that land. He says, And it shall be as with the people, so with the priest, as with the servant, so with his master, as with the maid, so with her mistress, as with the buyer, so with the seller, as with the lender, so with the borrower, and as with the creditor, so with the debtor. Everyone will be affected, is what God is saying. There won't be an elite that is exempt from whatever God does. Every single person will feel the result of the consequences of the lives they've led and the way the people have been led away from God. He says that once before, as well. If we go back to Isaiah 9, you might remember that we talked about here in one of the earlier prophecies in Isaiah 9, in verses 14 to 16. He says the very same thing in other places as well, but if we go back there for a moment, as he's talking about this judgment to come, and he's talking about Syria and the Philistines and Israel and Judah, it says, therefore, verse 14, the Lord will cut off head and tail from Israel. That means the people who are the elites of the earth, the high, the mighty, the rich, as well as the poor. Therefore, the Lord will cut off head and tail from Israel. He'll cut off palm branch and bulrush in one day. That's a suddenly thing, right? So everything, the strong palm tray, the weak bulrush living in the water, the elder and the honorable.

He is the head, the prophet who teaches lies. He is the tail. And he says, for the leaders of this people cause them to err, and those who are led by them are destroyed. So that's what he's saying in there. And he says it again in Isaiah 24 in quite poetic verse, right? As he recounts, so that no one can think, well, I'll be exempt from that. I will, everyone will feel the result of the results of the consequences of the way the nation has been. So verse three, the land will be entirely emptied and utterly plundered, for the Lord has spoken this word.

And again, if you think back to the prophecies we've talked about, that's exactly what God has said. You know, we just read Isaiah 6 verse 11 that talks about how the cities will be laid waste, the land will be desolate. That's what God is talking about. Now, earlier, you know, they translated this Hebrew word, earth, here, as land. And this could be that it is talking about specifically the Israelite lands, right? Israel and Judah, which were which were emptied. But we also know that throughout those prophecies we saw, for instance, Moab scattering, and they would go further and further south. And we saw Egypt and and all these lands in an upheaval here. But the land will be emptied. Verse four, continues this sad, the sad set of circumstances that we've seen in the past 11 chapters, the earth mourns. It just, and again, when it's talking about the earth, you know, it's talking about the land that is there, but also that word earth in this case, especially with the word world right under it, will talk about, you know, the land. And it's going to probably make you think about what you read about in Romans 8. If you remember in Romans 8 verses 19 to 22, actually we should turn there. I do like turning to the verses so people can actually see this. So let's go before we read those verses, look at Romans 8. Romans 8 and verse 19. No, here, of course, Romans 8 is the Holy Spirit chapter, but in verses 19 to 22, it talks about the whole creation. It talks about the earth itself and uses this analogy of how it's waiting for the return of Jesus Christ as well so that it can achieve its potential and not be held under the bondage that mankind has put it under. In verse 19 it says, For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. And that's because that when Christ returns, that's when the first fruits will be revealed. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it in hope. Because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now, until the time that the first fruits are revealed. And then he compares it to what we do as well as we look forward to the return of Jesus Christ. Not only that, but we also who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves eagerly waiting for the adoption or the sonship, the redemption of our body. So you have these New Testament verses that pictures the earth itself, looking forward to the return of Jesus Christ, so it can enjoy the glory with which God had and splendor that God created it with. It can't do that today because of what mankind has done and the way he lives his life. So when we read in verses 4, 5, and 6, we read about how the earth is even suffering under the sin of mankind. It says, the earth mourns. That word mourns means exactly what it means. The earth mourns. It fades away. It's just a shadow of what it could be, right? It gets less and less itself. The earth mourns and fades away. The world languishes and fades away. And that, you know, it gives that same type, you know, I'll just give you a couple verses there. Also in Isaiah, back in Isaiah 1 verse 30, it uses the same analogy. Isaiah 34 verse 4.

We just turn over to 34 verse 4.

Yeah, let's turn over 34 verse 4. I was looking ahead thinking I got ahead of myself a little bit here. Talking about the end of this earth. All the hosts of heaven shall be dissolved. The heaven shall be rolled up like a scroll. All their hosts shall fall down as the leaf falls from the vine and as fruit as fruit from the falling and as fruit falling from a fig tree. So God uses this analogy of the world and the things that are just not working the way they should be. It's just not not up to par. Let's go back to Isaiah 24 then. Here again, we end the last part of verse 4 then, the haughty people of the earth languish. You know, over and over again as we read about these lands, pride came up as part of the sin that they became. Assyria, even though God is the one who used them to punish Israel, to punish Judah, they became very prideful and arrogant and thought it was all about themselves.

God punished them. Babylon, we know that was part of Nebuchadnezzar's fault, pride. God compares that to Satan. He tells us, watch the pride. Remember, it's the humble who God listens to and that when we see pride welling up in us, we need to ask God, you know, help us. Help us to always have a humble attitude. Remember, it's him who gives us everything we have. The haughty people of the earth languish. You know, sometimes that's the leaders of the world, but it doesn't take money or power to be proud. There's a lot of people, all of us, all of us suffer from that. But the haughty people of the earth languish. The earth is defiled under its inhabitants. You know, that should make us think back to those verses that we just read in Romans 8. The earth, the land underneath us, is defiled under its inhabitants. We create these things. God has given us a beautiful, you know, a beautiful planet to live on that it was so productive. When Christ returns and when things are restored to the way they should be, I think all of us will be just absolutely astounded by how beautiful the earth is and how much beauty it's lost in the 6,000 years under the inhabitants of the earth. Still a beautiful place. Still a beautiful place to be. It's still quite productive, but nothing, you know, so faded from what God had created it to be. The earth is defiled under its inhabitants. Verse 5, and then God says, why? Because they, that's mankind, have transgressed the laws because they changed the ordinance. You know, so God talks about some things here, and it's not just Israel. He's talking about the nations. Remember, all those, all the world around Judah and Israel, they all fell short. Now, God had, you know, he didn't give his law to Babylon. He didn't give his law to Moab and Abin and Edom and all those. He gave it to God's people, but he's talking about everyone here because all of mankind has transgressed the laws. They've changed the ordinance. They've broken the everlasting covenant, and you know, we can look at the covenant, and we can look at what the world is going on around us today. I mean, God made some covenants with mankind, right? He made a covenant with, you know, the Noahic covenant about, I will never again flood the earth. He's kept that covenant throughout. He made an Abrahamic covenant, you and I are the benefactors of that. We live in a land that has been so richly blessed, and there's a normal morality that is on earth as well, right? But mankind, especially in the last few years, we see that morality, especially in the land that God has so greatly blessed, like America, just absolutely changing the ordinance and breaking the everlasting covenant. I mean, they may not know what they're doing, but further and further away from just the normal basic things of human life. Yeah, I don't even know what I was watching in the last couple days, but they were arguing, and it was in a good way. They were talking about how—and you've all heard this, right? You can't define a woman. Some people can't anymore. If you ask, what's a woman, no one can define that. If you ask, what's a man, what is it? Some parents are there. It's up to their child. You can be a boy if you want to be a boy. You can be a girl if you want to be. It is just a strange sickening world we live in, and so they've broken even the basics of life and confused everything to such an extent. Why would God allow mankind to go on in his mission?

So, while this is maybe talking about Israel and Judah, it's society that has just so far gone away from God and just changed just the basics of human life in a way that you can't even possibly imagine that mankind could have done, and that some people actually pay attention to that stuff and actually believe it and actually teach their children and expect that you and I would go along with this stuff. I was reading something.

Someone sent me a little clip about some schoolmaster somewhere. It was a religious school, a parochial school of some kind, and they set down the order finally that only boys, biological boys, would use the boys' bathroom. Only biological girls would use that. No more pronouns. It's going to be he and she, and that's it, right? And the gulf that they were taking from the community over that, they just wanted the school shut down.

How could any? And I thought, what has happened to mankind? That you could do something so basic, and yet you could have an outcry from the community that this school was just so far behind the times, and they're talking about how they were too strict and all these other things, and it's like, wow, that's... and I think when God looks down on this earth, you know, just like he looked down on those pagan lands, and we think about the God of Molech and the God of Khemash, and we think, how could people have ever sacrificed their kids, their children, to these gods? And God said, he detested that. He detested that in those lands. And yet we do the very same thing in this world today.

We may not be sacrificing them under a knife, but we are sacrificing their lives and ruining their lives by the type of things that they're exposed to and being taught. So in verse 5, God says, you know, the earth is the earth. It's changed everything. It's changed the ordinance. It's broken the everlasting covenant. And verse 6, he says, and therefore the curse has devoured the earth. You know, here's that word, curse. You know, we saw the word curse back in Genesis, and all the way back in Revelation, we see that finally when Jesus Christ returns and he establishes order and sanity to this earth, you know, we see the curse removed.

So if you keep their finger there in Isaiah 24, we go back to, or forward to Isaiah, and now that Isaiah, Revelation, Revelation 22, you know, Christ has returned, and the world becomes everything that mankind could possibly want it to be. Chapter 22, verse 1, he showed me a pure river of water, of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb.

In the middle of its strait and on either side of the river was the tree of life, which bore 12 fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations, and there shall be no more curse. The curse spoken of here in Isaiah 24 that devours the earth, and of course as we go through the book of Revelation, and we see the four horsemen, as we see the seals unsealed, as we see the seven trumpets of God, it's under a curse, but when Christ returns there will be no more curse, but the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and His servants shall serve Him.

So God is saying, this is why all this is going to happen. This is all these prophecies, both of which occurred in one form early on, back before Christ, but will come again, but will occur again in the lands that these are typified here at the end time that we spoke about. So back to verse 6 in chapter 24, therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who dwell in it are desolate. Those who dwell in it are desolate.

Now your margin, like mine, you know, might say that that would be better translated, held guilty, and I did look it up, maybe that the old King James does translate it that way, and those who dwell on the earth are held guilty. They deserve what they get. God judged it, and His judgment is sure, and the punishment that came on the earth is exactly what they deserved.

Therefore the curses devour the earth, and those who dwell in it are held guilty. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men are left. Now we know that that is, you know, for a future time. You know, when you read through Revelation, and you read through the four horsemen, when you read through the seals, when you read through all the things that happened through the trumpets, we see most of mankind is destroyed.

There is a small number that is left. We read about a quarter of them, and, you know, through the first four horsemen, we read about all the people that are consumed, and the wars, and all the things that go on in the famine during that time. Few men are left, and the inhabitants of the earth are burned. Now it doesn't mean that they're literally burned, unless God is talking about the last judgment. But if we go forward to the prophecy of Joel, which comes right after Hosea, which comes right after Daniel, Joel, we see that God uses this word burned and fire again when he talks about this time that's coming, where these armies consume everything that's before them, and how the people writhe in pain.

We'll just go ahead and read Joel 2 verses 1-5 here. That gives us the same analogy. And, of course, in verse 1, it talks about below the trumpet. So we have the Feast of Trumpets, and we have the pictures all this time of alarm, and war, and trouble that comes upon the earth, culminating in the seventh trumpet with the return of Jesus Christ, who will bring peace and calm to the earth again.

It says, Blow the trumpet and zion, sound an alarm in my holy mountain, let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the Lord is coming, it is at hand. A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, like the morning clouds spread over the mountains, of people come, great and strong, the like of whom who has never been, nor will there ever be any such after them, even from any successive generations.

A fire devours before them, and behind them a flame burns. Couldn't tell me that they use things to fire, but it means the destruction of the utter destruction that they bring upon the earth. A fire devours before them, and fire, and behind them, a flame burns. The land is like the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness. Surely nothing shall escape them. Their appearance is like the appearance of horses, and like swift steeds, so they run. With the noise like chariots over mountaintops they leap, like the noise of a flaming fire that devours the stubble, like a strong people set in battle array. So again, as we read through these prophecies, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, and through the minor prophets, you see the same analogy that God uses because he warns through several prophets of what will happen, and they all match each other exactly.

And you'll remember, you know, we talked about some of the contemporaries of Isaiah. People like Micah, people like Abacach that lived at the same time, then others like Ezekiel and Jeremiah who came later, but they had the same prophecies about these nations that even had the prophetic end time prophecies attached to them that Isaiah, that God had given to Isaiah 100, you know, 150 years before them.

So we see this same analogy. We have the, you know, we have the inhabitants of the earth are burned. There's this fire that devires the people. They're under a curse. Few men are left. The death, the death, and the waste of life is they are all because of what mankind has done is because he's departed from God, and even the normal, I don't know if that's the word, but the basic morality that mankind should have and the basic meaning of life that they venture from, as we see happening, you know, in our world around us. In verse 7, it continues this time of these prophecies that we've read, the new wine fails, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted sigh, the mirth of the tambourine ceases, the noise of the jubilant ends, the joy of the harp ceases.

You can see life is no longer good, knife is no longer happy. All the joy of life has departed from the people of this time. You know, verse 9, chapter 24, they shall not drink wine with the song, meaning they're not, you know, I mean, think of karaoke today. You're not going to have the bars where people are sitting there drinking and having a good time. They shall not drink wine with the song. Strong drink is bitter to those who drink it. All the joy has gone out of life.

All the good times that were there, all because mankind departed from God and departed from him to a point that God had no choice but to bring the punishment upon them. The city, verse 10, the city of confusion. The city of confusion is broken down.

And there that word of confusion, it's talking about Jerusalem, right, because we saw that back just a couple of chapters ago, and we were talking about the burden against the valley of vision in chapter 22, and in verse 5. Yeah, it is a day of trouble and treading down, and the new King James says, for plexity. I think the old King James says, I think the old King James says, confusion. It's the same word there. Treading down of perplexity by the Lord God, opposed to the valley of vision, breaking down the walls and applying to the mountain. So it's talking about the fall of Jerusalem, the city of confusion, but the Hebrew word there is a word we're familiar with. It's the Hebrew word tohu. Everyone remembers tohu, right, what it means? Number tohu. Back in Genesis 1 verse 1, the world was void and without form. It's tohu and bohu. It means confused. It's confused and chaotic. There's no order about it. And you know, when we have a world though, there's no order about it. We know that's not of God, because God is the author, is not the author of confusion. He's the author of order. So we have this word tohu that doesn't, that occurs a few times in Isaiah, and I thought we should look at the other places in Isaiah that it looks at. We looked at Isaiah 22, but let's go forward to Isaiah 40. Look at my notes here. Isaiah 40 in verse 17.

It says, all nations, all nations before God are as nothing.

All nations before Him are as nothing, and they are counted by Him less than nothing and worthless.

And that's the word bohu that is right there, right? So again, they could have translated that confused. For some reason, they didn't continue with the same thing. They are counted by Him less than nothing and confused. While we're confused, I guess it kind of lets us know what God thinks of us. One chapter forward and chapter 41 verse 29. Here they do translate tohu as confusion. In verse 29 of chapter 41, indeed they are all worthless. That's a different word worthless in this case. Indeed they are all worthless. Their works are nothing. Their molded images are wind and confusion. Tohu. And then I think maybe the most telling verse that takes us back to what tohu means, it takes us right back to Genesis 1 because the Bible is seamless and it's all tied together when you look at all of the verses and see all the Bible together in chapter 45 and verse 18. Chapter 45 verse 18, it says, 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 tohu.

I think we're all familiar with that. Who did not create it in vain, who did not create it in tohu.

So of course when we look at Genesis 1 verses 1 and 2 and it says the world was tohu and bohu, we know God did not create it that way. It became that way. We came that way because of Satan being cast down to earth. As we read in Isaiah 14, we read again in Ezekiel 28 when I think it was in Isaiah 14 where it says you are cast down to the ground. I think in Ezekiel 28 it says you were in the Garden of Eden. Satan who departed from God when God cast him down to earth, the world became confused. The world became chaotic. It became dark and there was no light on it until God looked on it again. We have the world. It was not created in tohu. He formed it to be inhabited. The verse there finishes, I am the Lord and there is no other. It's very telling when you piece some of these words together and how they're used in the scripture and how God uses them in the Bible. It can lead you right back to where the truth and put the pieces together of what the history of the earth is. It also says in chapter 45 that God's word is sure. It is absolutely there. He has been sovereign over the earth even though he allows Satan to have control. He allows Satan to influence all of mankind today. God is still in control. What he says will happen will happen. Let's go back to chapter 24. I'm looking. I don't see any hands. Remember, if you want to say something, you can either just speak up or you can raise your hands if I'm missing something or someone's got a thought on something here. Okay, Isaiah 24 and verse 10. The city of Tohu. That's Jerusalem. It has become a confused city. You depart from God. You try to do things your own way. Think you got a better idea than God? Or, you know, it becomes confused and chaotic. The city of confusion is broken down. Every house is shut up so that none may go in. There's a cry for wine in the streets. All joy is darkened. The mirth of the land is gone.

I don't think I'll turn there. You'll remember last week when we were talking about Tyre, we had similar verses that we were reading in chapter 23 of this. We looked in Ezekiel 27 into a companion prophecy about Tyre and how God talked about all the merchants of the world. He listed all these lands that we saw on the map when we first began tonight. All these lands were merchants of Tyre, the shipfaring people of the world, the explorers that had all the commerce that became very wealthy.

And then we compare that to Revelation 18, where God talks about that same thing again at the end time. That the world and the economy at that time, that everyone will be getting rich in, God will bring that all to ruin because it's not based on godly principles. And so we read all about those verses where no longer is there mirth in the land. There won't be any more singing, there won't be any more music. All of these things have disappeared. It will all come back again under Jesus Christ in the right time, with the right economy in place, with the right way of life, with the right love for all of mankind that will be there as the world operates in that way. But as the world gets into the state of confusion and God brings it to its end, we see that all these things that are part of the world disappear. And that's in verse 11, joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone. In the city, desolation is left, and the gate is stricken with destruction. You know, that can probably better in today's language be translated, the gate is broken down. You know, when your gate is broken down, enemies walk in. You know, we read that about Babylon. You know, Cyrus, remember he was named for chapter 44 and verse 45, 150 years before he was born, is the one who would lead the conquest against Babylon. And you know, their gate was broken down, and they marched right in, and it was Babylon's destruction. And so even in Proverbs, it tells us, guard our gates, guard our gates, guard what goes into our mind, guard what goes into our hearts, because when the gate gets broken down, when we let foreign powers and foreign ideas infiltrate us, destruction comes. Same concept with what the world and society as it is with us personally, if we allow these to happen. Verse 13, when it shall be thus in the midst of the land among the people, when this happens, when all these things happen, and the joy ceases, and cities are desolate, and all of life, you know, that even you and I know of it today, the things that go on around us, the commerce, you know, that that kind of we enjoy the time that we live in because of the comforts and the advantages of it.

When it shall be thus in the midst of the land among the people, when this happens, it shall be like the shaking of an olive tree, like the gleaning of grapes when the vintage is done. So when you read about this analogy of the shaking of the olive tree, it means that, you know, if the olives fall off, there's a few olives left on it, but most of them fall off. And so there's very little left of what God is drawing the analogy there. We read the same words back in Isaiah 17 when we were reading the prophecy against Damascus, the very same things he talks about there when he talks about the grapes. Yeah, verse 6, the gleaning of the grapes will be left in it like the shaking of an olive tree. Two or three olives at the top of the uppermost bough, four or five, in its most fruitful branches. Just a few left. God will shake the earth, and there will be some left, but so much will fall off, just like if you go and shake that olive tree, or, you know, like the gleaning of grapes when the vintage is done. How few grapes, all the grapes have been gathered, but there's just a few left, you know, for people to gather. Not a pretty time. Not a pretty time, and out of the destruction, we'll see as we near the end of this chapter, you know there's hope. And certainly as we go into 25, 26, and 27 when God talks about the return of Christ and the good that will be at that time. Verse 14, they shall lift up their voice. Actually, verse 14, I think, here begins a thing. We've got this devastation we've been talking about, but here in verse 14, we begin to see the resurgence of people. We see the return of Christ. We see things turning around, and so there is there the hope is coming back. They shall lift up their voice. They shall sing for the majesty of the Lord. They shall cry aloud from the sea. So there will be this time. It speaks of a time, this remnant that is left. They will see the power of God. They will know that the return of Jesus Christ is near. We talked about some of them where they will actually go and conquer their enemies when they are free as God shakes those land, and the people that are left of his people are left in those lands. They shall lift up their voice. They shall sing for the majesty of the Lord. They shall cry aloud from the sea. Therefore, glorify the Lord in the dawning light out of a very dark, despaired, disastrous world. Therefore, glorify the Lord in the dawning light. The light is beginning to shine again, just like the light comes up in the morning, and you look at the dawn, and you know that light is on its way. You see the hope that's there. Therefore, glorify the Lord. Glorify the eternal in the dawning light, the name of the Lord God of Israel in the coastlands of the sea. And this is where they've been scattered to. In Isaiah, you read in Psalms about how the people of the coastlands, the people of the seas, they've been scattered around the world, and in some cases, along those coastlands. You know, to the far corners of the earth, in some cases. Verse 16, actually, from the ends of the earth, we have heard songs. Glory to the righteous.

Glory to the righteous. So you see this hope that's there, but then Isaiah says, I'm ruined. I'm ruined. Woe to me. So, you know, as you look at that, you think, why the sudden, going back to going back to the despair, why go back to the, you know, if you're moving into the direction of Christ is returning, light is dawning, hope is coming back to the earth, Christ is about to dawn, captives will be set free, brokenhearted will be healed, all those things that Jesus Christ said he would be coming to do. The captives of the earth begin to be free again. But Isaiah says, I'm ruined. I'm ruined. Woe to me. Well, they are ruined. They are ruined. And it may be that he's that he is just kind of free, you know, hoping for that. But at this stage, he's still I'm ruined. I'm ruined. Woe to me. And then he uses a phrase that we have seen before in Isaiah. The treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously. And he repeats it. Indeed, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously. And remember, we talked about that back in Isaiah 21.

Isaiah 21, when we were talking about the prophecy against Babylon, you know, the wilderness of the sea, to go back a couple of chapters there to Isaiah 21. You know, Isaiah, Isaiah, under inspiration of God, talks about this thing that comes from a terrible land. Verse 2, a distressing vision is declared to me. The treacherous dealer deals treacherously, and the plunderer plunders.

The treacherous dealer deals treacherously, and the plunderer plunders. You know, back then, we turned to Isaiah 33 because that same phrase is used there. And it's used in other places in the Bible. And sometimes when you come across these phrases that God uses over and over, not just in Isaiah, but in other places in the Bible, he's giving us a message as well on how we could live our lives. He'll use it with the nations. But here in chapter 33 and verse 1, he says to them, Woe to you, woe to you who plunder, though you haven't been plundered. Right? So we've got something going on here. Woe to you who plunder, though you haven't been plundered, and you who deal treacherously, though they have not dealt treacherously with you.

So God is saying, you know, don't go out and do these things. If this hasn't happened to you, you treat others as the way they treat you. You treat them with honor. You treat them with respect. Even if they do it to you, you know, you still do what's right. You don't return evil for evil. You return good for evil. Woe to you who plunder, though you haven't been plundered. Woe to you who deal treacherously, though they haven't dealt treacherously with you. When you cease plundering, you'll be plundered. And when you make an end of dealing treacherously, they will deal treacherously with you. So what he's saying is, what you sow, so shall you reap.

You do it. It's going to be done to you. You know, Jacob learned that lesson so well when he, you know, when he was able to trick his brother out of the birthright and then the blessing. And then later he got tricked. He saw what it felt like when you take something unjustly and you plunder or deal treacherously when you haven't been dealt treacherously with. There's a few other places that we can look at here. If we look at Jeremiah 3, we see again, hundreds of years later, with the prophecy of Jeremiah, God inspires him to say, use the same words.

Let me find it here. Oh, I'm in the wrong chapter. That's why Jeremiah 3.

And verse, we'll begin in verse 19.

But I said, How can I put you among the children and give you a pleasant land, a beautiful heritage of the host of nations? And I said, You shall call me my father, and not turn away from me. Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so have you dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, says the Lord. Oh, you dealt treacherously with me, Israel. I gave you everything. I made a covenant. But what did you do? You went out and you followed other guys. You attached yourself to other people. You didn't follow. You didn't submit the way you said you would. You broke the covenant that you were supposed to. So I will deal treacherously.

So as a wife, the treacherous lead parts from her husband, so you dealt treacherous with me, O house of Israel. A couple chapters up in Jeremiah 5. Jeremiah 5 and a little bit of light here.

5.11.

Right chapter here, Jeremiah 5 and verse 11.

He says, For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously with me, says the Lord. They've lied about me, and they said it's not he. Neither will evil come upon us, nor shall we see sword or famine. And the prophets became wind, for the word is not in them, thus shall it be done to them. He dealt treacherously with me, God says in those cases.

In Jeremiah 12. Jeremiah 12.

Verse 6. He says, For even your brothers, the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you, yes, they have called a multitude after you. Don't believe them, even though they speak smooth words to you. They'll tell you what you want to hear, but beware of those who would deal treacherously. Don't do the same thing to them. Hosea. You know, we did Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea. Hosea 5. Hosea was another contemporary of Isaiah.

Verse 6. Hosea 5. Verse 6. With their flocks and herds, he's talking about Ephraim and Israel, with their flocks and herds they will go to seek the eternal, but they won't find him. He's withdrawn himself from them. They have dealt treacherously with the Lord. And look how he says how they dealt treacherously with him. For they have begotten pagan or strange children.

They haven't raised their children. I bless them with children, but they didn't teach them in my way. They didn't teach them my way of life. They've dealt treacherously with me. I bless them. But then they didn't continue that blessing. They didn't teach their children of God. For they have begotten pagan children. The consequence? A new moon or 30 days will devour them in their heritage. And so you read of the fall of Israel, Ephraim, Manasseh, and Judah. Hosea 6. Hosea 6. And verse 7. But like men, they transgressed the covenant. They have dealt treacherously with me.

When we transgress the covenant, we're dealing treacherously with God.

Then a couple verses that will strike home Malachi 2, the very last book of the Old Testament. And how God views everything we do in life. When he calls us and the covenants that we make, the vows that we make, the way we live our lives, the way we yield to him, the way we obey him, the way we commit to him. And Malachi 2. Hold on just a minute.

Yeah, no. Okay, 2 verse 11. Malachi 2.11. Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has reframed the Lord's holy institution which he loves. He's married the daughter of a foreign god. May God cut off the tents of Jacob, etc. But in verse 14, he's talking about marriage again. Remember marriage is like the covenant we make with baptism. It's the covenant or the relationship between Christ and the church. And so the relationship between man and woman, God compares to that. In verse 13, this is the second thing you do. You cover the altar of the Lord with tears, with weeping and crying. So he doesn't regard the offering anymore, nor does he receive it with goodwill from your hands. And yet you say, well, for what reason? Because the Lord has been witnessed between you and the wife of your youth, with whom you have dealt treacherously, yet she is your companion and your wife by covenant.

So everything we do in life, when we enter into this covenant with God, we have to be aware, don't deal treacherously with Him, how God looks at it. So we see this phrase that goes throughout the Old Testament that can teach us some things about ourselves. The nations have to learn lessons. We need to learn lessons as well. Xavier, do I see your hand up? Oh, yeah, even everyone. In some translations, they translate in some of those contexts, instead of treacherous, as deceitfully. It means to deal deceitfully. Very good. And then we're being deceitful with God. If we say we're going to do something and not do it right. Yeah. Yeah. One more is where it says, scorch or burn, it could be translated scorch. And then we have another example in Revelation 16, where an angel of God pours all one of the pigs and scorches men. Scorches men. Yeah, very good. Exactly. Those same analogies, the same things that go on there. So very good. Okay, so let's go back to Isaiah 24.

Now we were in verse 17.

Verse 17, Isaiah 24. Fear and the pit and the snare are upon you, oh, inhabitants of the earth. Okay, we got all these things that are alarming coming on earth. Fear, the pit, the snare. They're upon you. And it shall be that he who flees from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit. And he who comes up from the midst of the pit shall be caught in the snare. For the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth are shaken. Now when we read that, I mean, we read something like that when we were talking about the prophecy against Moab. You might remember, go back to Isaiah 15. Remember in chapter 15 and 16, we talked about Petra 2 and God's cast out ones and what he will do, what he will do with them. But in chapter 15, chapter 15 and verse 8, he says the same thing of these people who are fleeing.

Yeah, I have the right chapter there, Isaiah 15 verses 8 and 9.

I'm going to read 15, 8 and 9. And I say, yeah, for the cry has gone all around the borders of Moab. It's wailing to Igleum, and it's wailing to Bir-Ilam. For the waters of diamond will be full of blood. I don't think that's what I wanted, but I must have written down the wrong verses here.

Well, anyway, we use similar language when we're talking about Moab. I have written down there. If it wasn't Moab, it was another one where no matter what they do, no matter where they flee, God will find them. What I know is sure is in Amos. So let's go to Amos because the name is 5.

We'll miss 5 in verse 18 or 19.

Yeah, verse 18 of Amos 5 gives the same concept here that God is saying in Isaiah, Woe to you who desire the day of the Lord! For what good is the day of the Lord to you? It will be darkness and not light. It'll be as though a man fled from a lion and a bear met him, or as though he went into the house, leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him. Isn't the day of the Lord darkness and not light? Is it not very dark with no brightness in it? Basically what he's saying is you can't escape God no matter where you go. There's a verse somewhere that says if you go to the depths of the ocean, God will find you there. You go down to the deepest hole, he will find you there. And this is exactly what he's saying there. You know, he who flees from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit. I'm back in Isaiah 24 in verse 18.

You know, the foundations of the earth are shaken. Some commentaries will say that will refer to earthquakes. You know, it can be just the foundations of the earth are shaken. It could be in earthquakes because certainly in Revelation at the end time you see earthquakes occurring. Revelation 11, 19, Revelation 16 verse 18, it talks about earthquakes at the end time, and that really is a foundation of the earth being shaken. But also we have all this turmoil that's going on. Societies are falling, economies are falling, militaries are falling, all the gods of this world are falling. Everything that the world is founded on, God is shaking. Just like he brought down the walls of the temple when Solomon put his arms up against there and the pillars came falling down. So what will be at the end time when God destroys all those gods, all those other gods, and the foundations of the world, what you and I have lived in, and seen as the foundations, they will be brought down. And that's what God is talking about here. There will be earthquakes, and everything we've relied on, you know, will just be brought to nothing. There will be no choice for mankind but to rely on God. He goes on to say that in verse 19, the earth is violently broken. The earth is split open. The earth is shaken exceedingly. The earth shall reel to and throw like a drunkard and shall totter like a hut. It's transgression. There you have. Why? Why will God bring this upon the world? Why will this happen? It's transgression shall be heavy upon it, and it will fall and not rise again. You know, the Roth is about, you know, even though the walls will be broken down, we will build again. And many times man will build back. But there's a coming of time with the foundations of this world. This society will be broken down, and they will not be rebuilt ever again. It will be Jesus Christ's kingdom at that point. He will return to earth. That will be the kingdom from out. And the foundations of this society you and I live in will be there no more. So this is prophetic and an end-time prophecy, because that is the end result of the 6,000 years of man's reign. Christ will come. He will restore the world to what it should be, government to what it should be, mankind to what he should be, when he pours out his Spirit on mankind. And then you and I, we live our lives the way God wants us to live it today, will be there to teach people to live God's way, the way of life that, you know, we talked last Sabbath about eternal life, and knowing God and doing the things the way that he wants it, he wants it done. Verse 21. Verse 21, it shall come to pass in that day, it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord will punish on high the host of exalted ones, and on the earth the kings of the earth. So again, we have, it won't be, you know, I mean, we've got this World Economic Forum going on, and you know, there's all sorts of stories that go on around there. They plot the future of the earth, you know, you and I will be eating, I mean, we've got all these things, right? We've got climate change that has to be done, cattle are an evil thing, we've got to limit everything, and America is at the top of the list of how our lifestyle needs to change. But somewhere along the line, they're the elite to the earth, and their lives will go on. It's the rest of mankind that needs to sacrifice, but God says it's not going to be the kings of the earth who are exempt from what's coming. It shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord will punish on high the host of exalted ones, and on the earth the kings of the earth.

Everyone's going to participate in this. They may think they're building a world where they're going to be exempt from the ramifications of what has gone on, but they will be part of it. Verse 22, they will be gathered together. How? Like prisoners are gathered in the pit. Well, you've seen the pictures of prisoners, right? They'll be shut up in the prison. You know, you have pictures that conjure up in your mind about people in chains, the captives that we've talked about. You know, we're talking about people led into captivity, the bald heads, their shades, they're running around, you know, with nothing on because shame is upon them because of what they've done.

They've been conquered. They're humiliated. This is the picture that it'll be, that in that day, the kings of the earth, they'll be shut up in the prison. But after many days, and there's an interesting word there, that word punished in verse 22. You look it up in the, you look it up in in in Strong's, and it can be, it can be either good or bad.

You know, punished is certainly a bad word. But in other translations, you know, it may, it's, it's gonna be, it, it, well, it can be talked about after many days, they will be numbered, I think is the word. But when you look up the word avenged, it can be translated avenged. And so when you look at the next verse, verse 23, when God is, he's talking about the return of Jesus Christ, and I'll read that, then we'll come back to that word again. Then the moon will be disgraced and the sun ashamed. That means you have these heavenly signs that are happening that we read about in Revelation, leading up to the return of Jesus Christ.

For the Lord of hosts will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem and before his elders gloriously. So you have chapter 24 ending in this triumphant place where Jesus Christ is now returned. Everything is going to be made right again. You have these people that are prisoners, right? But after many days it says they will be, this one says, punished, more likely the word should have been avenged, that they will be able to be set free.

Their days will be numbered, and they will be able to then be set free because when Christ returns, just as he said in Luke 4, verse 18, quoting from Isaiah 61, he came to set at liberty the captives. He came to heal the brokenhearted. He came to set free those who were in the prisons.

And so we have the same picture as we close chapter 24 that Christ talked about that's later on when we get to the end of Isaiah. So I wanted to read the first five verses, but I'm looking at our time here and our time is up. But in chapters 25, 26, and 27, they're very hopeful chapters, and we'll get to those. I think what we'll do next week, we're not going to have a Bible study because I have I have strategic plan and budgeting.

I've got our new treasurer coming in all next week, so I'm going to be wrapped up with that all next week. So we won't have a Bible study next week, but since we've gone through 12 chapters since our last review, I'm going to try to get to you in the next several days a few review questions. So you can go back over chapters 13 to 24. I've even dealt back into the earlier chapters than that since they all tie together. And then the next time we get together in two weeks, we can spend maybe some time going over that review and then head into chapter 25.

It's a very easy and good chapter, good chapter to read. It's a very hopeful chapter. If you read ahead of it, you will see that. But let me pause there with chapter 24 and open up for any comments or any questions that anyone may have. Okay, well, you're a quiet group tonight, so let me see here. I don't see any hands, but I don't know. I'll look asleep, but maybe I'm sorry. Yeah, someone's speaking.

I'm sorry. Yeah. Hello. Good evening, everybody. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There weren't treachery just to supplement what the brother Xavier was saying there. I think in chapter 6, the Hebrew word is what is pronounced bah-gah-d-b-h-a-d. It means acting overtly.

Acting overtly, right? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. And I got a lot out of this that God is just, even though He's merciful and non-suffering, He's also, there has to be justice and He treats everybody equally, if they turn away from it. And I thought about the word treacherously, and God calls out the leaders, especially the leaders in Israel, and I just looked up, I don't know if the word treason is in the Bible or not, but I think it's interesting just to maybe read it.

Treason is the act of attacking a state authority to which one owes allegiance. So we say people owe allegiance to God, of course, right? The leaders, Israel, nations. So it says that attacking the authority of God is kind of like what it's like, what it is, is attacking the authority of God when they turn away from Him. And of course, as a result, they suffer, of course, because of that.

Yeah. You're right. We're rejecting God's authority. I mean, we committed to Him that we would follow Him, right? No matter what. Yeah, Mr. Shabe, you have a comment. Earlier, when you were talking about how horrible people are today, it really reminded me of more and more how I see Second Timothy 3 coming to pass about how people are. And you mentioned how they just just don't care about people. And I think it's Second Timothy 3, verse 3, where it says, unloving. In the King James Version, it says, without natural affection. They have no natural affection. And it even says there, I think in the same verse, about how it says that they hate people that do good. And that's right where we are in this world today. We're right there.

Yeah, increasingly so. Right? Increasingly so. Yeah, Delgado.

I was going to ask, would it be possible that that first part of verse 21, that it says that the Lord will punish on high the hosts of exalted ones be referring to Satan and the falling angels, because it says that they will be shut up in the prison.

I guess that's what Revelation says, that Satan will be put in the bottomless pit, I assume, with all his fallen angels. Because there's like a contrast between that first part, and then talking about specifically about on the earth, the kings of the earth. So it's like a contraposition of the heavenly hosts and the human rulers. I see the contrast. I don't know. I don't know. It would be hard to see God calling the fallen angels exalted ones, unless he's just referring to their pride. They think they're high and mighty and whatever.

The way it's written there, that he may be referring to that, will punish on high the hosts of exalted ones and on earth the kings of the earth. Interesting thought. That's the way I read it.

I didn't idea.

Ephesians 6 verse 12. Yes.

Ephesians 6, 12. Yes, where it says, we wrestle against, not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the dine of the state, against spiritual powers, of wickedness, high places, or heavenly places.

Interesting. I'm going to mark that down on my notes. Good point. That's why we have these Bible studies. We learn something. We learn something new every week.

Mr. Shaby? Yes, sir.

When you go back to Genesis and Satan in the Garden of Eden, and he was championing Eve, and he was striking out against the family ultimately because God created Adam and Eve, and then told him to be plentiful and multiply. But Satan, right at the beginning, tried to destroy God's plan, and he was striking out. He was resulting himself above God.

Yep. Yep. You're right. You're right.

Uh, Becky? Yes, I was wanting to comment on that same verse, 21. In the NIV, it says, in that day the Lord will punish the powers in the heavens above and the kings on the earth below. And then if you skip down in 22, they will be shut up in prison and be punished after many days. So it's, I was wondering about that verse as well, because it's hard for me to imagine the kings of the earth and some kind of powers being shut up together. It doesn't correlate well in this version, at least.

Yeah, I've marked that first on. I'm gonna do a little more study. I'm gonna do a little more study about myself and see. I don't remember reading anything about that person in our commentary, but I will.

I don't think it's addressed there, but I'll follow up on it, too, as I know you guys will.

Thank you.

Okay, anything else? Anyone?

Okay.

Okay, then I'm gonna go ahead and we'll sign off.

All of you have a very good Sabbath. We will... I see someone from... Oh, hi. Yes, Sam. iPad 3.

You have your microphone on.

Maybe the connection.

Yeah, go ahead if you had a comment or question.

Okay, if there's nothing else, then I see something with Cincinnati. We'll see it in Cincinnati this week. The rest of you have a very good rest of the week Sabbath, and we'll... I know I guess we won't see you next Wednesday night, so it'll be a couple weeks.

I will get out to you. If you're on my email list, you'll get some questions here in the next several days, probably just 20 or 25 of them this time, but I need to have your email with you on my email list for you to get those questions ahead of time.

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