Bible Study: June 15, 2022

Now we're going to start the book of Isaiah. Isaiah is just one of those, wow, well, every book of the Bible is fascinating. Isaiah is a long book, as you know, 66 chapters long, and it covers everything from the time of Isaiah, all the way up until the time when the heavens and earth are no more, and the new heaven and earth are on earth.

There is history, prophecy, fulfilled prophecy, doctrine, you name it, in the book of Isaiah. There's vision in the book of Isaiah. I know that you all will remember verses that are in Isaiah that we look at through the year, but especially at the Feast of Tabernacles, verses like, the wolf and the lamb will lie down together. It gives us a vision of the kingdom of God, there will be no more animosity and no more hurt on the earth. In Isaiah 11, it says that also in Isaiah 65, nothing will hurt or destroy at all my holy mountain. And you have these beautiful pictures of what the world will be like when creation, animals, man, God, all together in peace, a world where we can enjoy everything God created apart from the situations that are on it today.

You have Isaiah 35 that talks about the desert blooming and the earth being restored in a beautiful place, you know, that where we have deserts today, it will bloom. And all these things that will be restored when Christ comes to earth and His way is extant on earth, that people are obeying by that. People will learn to get along with one another. They will learn to enjoy each other. They will be together as one. It'll take you and me, you know, to be working with them and helping them understand the truth of God and to, you know, to put that in their lives.

And, of course, what it says in Isaiah 30 and 31 there when it talks about, you know, when we see someone not going the right way, because even people who live over in the millennium will have old habits that they have to break just like you and I do, sins that have to be overcome and replaced. But, you know, we'll be there to tap them on the shoulder and say, no, no, no, this isn't the way, or that's not the way.

This is the way. Walk you in that way. And, of course, in Isaiah, you know, we have vision, we have doctrine, we have hope, we have, you know, you know, we have the Messiah.

The prophecies of the Messiah that are there in Isaiah, that are graphic. It talks about Jesus Christ being born, the same as you're being born. It talks about the suffering that he's going to go through in Isaiah 53. At least at Passover every year, we recount that chapter, which describes in detail exactly what Jesus Christ went through. So we have just everything is in the book of Isaiah, a very long book, but a very inspiring book to read.

You know, Isaiah, the Bible, we just, I think we define prophets as either a major prophet or a minor prophet. Isaiah certainly is one of the major prophets. The other three major prophets being Ezekiel, Daniel, and Jeremiah.

And then you have those minor prophets, you know, the Micah's, the Joel's, the Nahum, the Hvakak's, the Amos's that are there following the minor prophets leading up into the New Testament. But these are major prophets. Isaiah, you know, actually was alive. He tells us in chapter one and verse one exactly when he was alive.

He tells us the reigns of the kings that he prophesied under. So when you look back at history, you can see exactly when he lived and what he wrote. And the historians have placed that date as from around 740 BC to around 686 BC.

So he was a contemporary of Amos. Amos, you will recall, five or six, nine chapters in the book of Amos. He was a contemporary of Amos. Amos was prophesying to Israel. Isaiah was prophesying of Israel in some cases, but he was in Judah. So they were contemporaries. You'll remember that Israel, the ancient nation of Israel, fell to the Assyrians in 720 BC. So during the prophecy or the time of Isaiah, the nation of Israel fell. They were defeated. They lost their kingdom. They were carried off captive by the Assyrians. And so there's a warning message that goes to the Jews, like, you know, look what happened to Israel.

And God would use that to say, Judah, don't make the same mistake that Israel did, but over and over again, Judah made the exact same mistake. It led to their downfall in 586 BC. So you have Isaiah and Amos, you know, prophesying to these two nations of God, remember his chosen people, descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

And he's blessed them richly. They have had tremendous blessings through the years that they've been a nation. God has led them through the wilderness. He's taught them his ways. He's performed miracles. They have no choice or reason to not know that God can provide everything that they need. And yet when they come in the face of other nations and they get to the Promised Land, they too often turn back to idolatry, turn to look and see what the other nations around them are doing, and they forsake God. So that God even mentions in Jeremiah that it's that he's divorced. He's divorced Israel because they violated the marriage covenant with them. So you have Isaiah and Amos prophesying at that time. You know, 70 to 100 years later, you have Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel. And so at the time Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel are prophesying, Israel has already fallen. So you'll hear us oftentimes, you know, we go to the book of Ezekiel and Jeremiah, we will say things like, remember when it says, say this is the house of Israel, Israel has already fallen. So this isn't something that Jeremiah, Ezekiel, or Daniel were saying for the ancient nation of Israel. It's something that God is saying to the people of Israel, the people of Israel today. And we know where those descendants are on earth today.

Let me look at my notes.

Yeah, okay, Isaiah, you know, Isaiah we're told is the son of Amos. It tells us there in Isaiah 1. Isaiah actually means the Lord of salvation. And, you know, if you've got your Bible there, let's look at Isaiah 30. Isaiah 30 and verse 8.

You know, again, Isaiah is speaking to the people of Judah at that time. He's speaking to the people of Israel. As we go into, as we go through the book, you're going to see there are many things that apply to us as well as it did to ancient Israel. And Isaiah 30 and verse 8, you know, God says, go write it before them on a tablet and note it on a scroll that it may be for time to come forever and ever. But I'm revealing to you, Isaiah, what I'm telling you, Isaiah, it's not just for the people who are hearing it from his mouth on what he says it. Write it down. It's for the people that it may be for a time to come forever and ever. So God is recorded and maintained and preserved this book for us. It's speaking to us today, as is all the Bible. We say that often.

The Bible is not just history. It's not just reporting the things. Hold on just a second.

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And let this person know where they can go to get on. So it's not just something that was written for ancient Israel. It was written for us today.

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So go write it before them on a tablet. Note it on a scroll that it may be for time to come forever and ever that this is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear the law of the Lord. And today, we have certainly people in secular America that don't want to hear God's law. Unfortunately, there are some among us who don't want to hear portions of God's law. They don't want to hear what God says. They don't want to believe that he says this is the only way to salvation. And the prevailing thought out there in the world is there must be many ways to salvation. But no, there is only one way, and God records that way in his Bible. This is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear the law of the eternal. You say to the seers, don't see, to the prophets, don't prophesy to us right things. Speak to us smooth things. Prophesy deceits. So that's what people in the world want to hear today. They don't want to hear the truth. And yet, we're going to see in Isaiah as we begin to look at him and his calling, that God says, Isaiah, you tell the truth anyway. No matter what people want to hear, you tell the truth anyway. They may not want to hear it. And we know that in Jesus Christ's time, they didn't want to hear it. And in our time, they're not going to want to hear it. But the people of God and the church of God preaches the truth in the gospel of God anyway. Isaiah. Now, Isaiah had an interesting life. I mean, as a prophet for what is it, say, 50 some years, 50, 55 years, he prophesied for God. The book of Isaiah is the second most quoted book in the New Testament. 55 times the quotes for the book of Isaiah in the New Testament. The only Old Testament book that's quoted more is Psalms. And Isaiah, you know, came to an untimely death, as the legend would have it. Here he served God all of his life. He was prophesying. He recorded all that God had him record. And at the end of his life, he met with a horrendous death. You know, it's always interesting how people can even contrive some of the tortures and some of the deaths that they put together for people. It's not enough to just kill them. They have to be killed in a terrible, terrible way. Such is the case if we believe the history, the unwritten history of Isaiah. There actually is a book, as I understand, called The Ascent of Isaiah or something like that. I think it's The Ascent of Isaiah. Then we'll talk about how he died. And you'll remember, you know, there's four kings that Isaiah talks about that he lived during their reigns. We'll talk about them in a minute. Uzziah, Joseph, Ahaz, and Hezekiah. And three of those four kings were good kings, at least for part of their lives. But then following Hezekiah was King Manasseh. He was so evil. He was so evil, you know, I'd say more evil than any of the rest of the kings there. So evil that even when he repented and God forgave him, he said, the sins that you led Judah into are so heinous, so heinous that the punishment is coming on them anyway. And you can read about that in 2 Chronicles 33, the things he did. I mean, he threw everything in God's face. He sacrificed children to God. He put up a pagan idol in the temple of God. He did everything he could do to be an affront to God and let Israel, not Israel, but let Judah down the garden path.

It is the legend, or I guess the tale goes that Manasseh, of course, would hate Isaiah. People who don't follow God hate the way of God. He hated, or Manasseh hated Isaiah, and it's reported that as Isaiah was prophesying, someone, a messenger or whatever of Manasseh, went back and told him that Isaiah was preaching against him. You know, was he? Certainly. Manasseh was leading them into all sorts of sins, right? Manasseh was so mad when he did, he had Isaiah arrested and had him thrown into a sack, found the hollow tree, put the sack with Isaiah in this hollow tree, and had someone saw the tree in two. And that's how Isaiah died, is what the legend says.

Now, the only reason that we might give that some credence is because back in Hebrews 11, when it's talking about men and women of faith, it talks about people who have been sawn in two, right? In Isaiah 11 and verse 36. Oh, verse 37. They were stoned, they were sawn in two, tempted, slain with the sword. So the fate of Isaiah may well have been that he was actually sawed as he was put in this hollowed out tree. But he remained true to God. He remained true to God at the very end, and he didn't allow death to quell his zeal for God. So with that, any other comments or questions on Isaiah? Anything notable that anyone would like to add to that? It's always helpful, I think, to know something about the author of these books, because God used people. Clearly, all the books of the Bible are inspired by him. But there were men that God used that gave their lives to him, that yielded to him, and God wrote these words through them as they yielded themselves to him. Sherri? Yeah, I just wanted to ask if that Manasseh came after those four kings he was under? Yes, Manasseh was Hezekiah's son.

Okay, thank you. Okay, so with that, go ahead. Someone else have something? Okay, with this, let's go to Isaiah 1 and verse 1. Now, those of you—I don't even know how long ago— two, three weeks ago, I did give a sermon that was called First Fruits and a Sinful Nation, and in it I did go through much of Isaiah 1, or the first half of Isaiah 1. So I will talk about that a little bit, maybe not as much detail, but in some cases I have more detail than I put at that sermon. But I'm going to look at the first one, and I'm going to remind you something about these four kings that Isaiah prophesied that he was alive and prophesied during their reign. And then we're going to go back and look at the calling of Isaiah, and that'll be in Isaiah 6, because it's very telling and very interesting when God called Isaiah what his mission was, how Isaiah responded and everything. So Isaiah 1 and verse 1, it says, the vision of Isaiah, the son of Amos, which he saw—remember that there's the word vision, right? I mean, here's God showing. He's going to say what the nations and what his people are like, and the visions of that extent, all the way to the past, the return of Jesus Christ, and the end of this world, and a new heaven and new earth, as it talks about in chapter 66, the last few verses there. The vision of Isaiah, the son of Amos, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

So just briefly, let me remind you of who these four kings were, because, again, as Isaiah would work under them, he would see these rulers of Judah, and he would learn things about them. And as I mentioned back a few weeks ago, and I mentioned other times, these kings of Israel, these kings of Judah, we can learn lessons from them as well. They were kings, and sometimes we think, oh, that's not us, we're not kings. But these were people that God had put on the throne of His people during that time, and He was looking to see how would they lead them, how would they follow Him. He's given us the same calling, you recall, from Revelation 1.5, to be kings and priests. And so when we look back at what some of these kings like Uzziah, Jotham, Azaz, and Hezekiah could be, we can learn from them and say, oh, you know, I wouldn't want to be like, you know, as, for instance, He turned completely against God. But we have, you know, these four kings here, and they all had a little something different about them. Uzziah, when he was called, he was very loyal to God. The Bible says that he was a good king, he did what was right before God. He was very committed to God, and during his reign, God blessed Israel grateful. I was surprised when I read some of the commentaries that said perhaps during Uzziah's reign, Israel was the most wealthy that he had been. It's hard to imagine more wealth than what was going on during the time of Solomon's reign, but that was what they said. We did read back a few weeks ago, and as you look in 2 Chronicles 26, you know, Israel or Judah accomplished some major things. Some weapons of war that were put there that were the first time on earth. You know, one of the verses I look at often is, or I guess speak about often, is 2 Chronicles 26.5, where it says that as long as Uzziah sought the Lord, God made him prosper. You know, God gave him prosperity. And prosperity doesn't mean just money, right? It means the blessings that God bestows upon those who seek God's will and then do it. So, Uzziah has a very good history, but as time goes on, when you look in 2 Chronicles 26, you see that Uzziah, who's had all this, that God has given him all this success, it kind of goes to his head. Soon he's looking at himself thinking, oh look, look what I've done. Israel has flourished under my reign. So, it becomes all about him. And the Bible says there later on in chapter 26, when he became strong, you know, it says, he became strong. He no longer looked to God. And so, you see that as that attitude began in him, that pride began to well up, you know, we could see him doing things that he would have never thought doing earlier in his life. He even took it upon himself to go into the temple, which was clearly a priestly duty, and the king had no right being in there and simply shouldn't have been in there. And he was going to offer sacrifices, or whatever it was. The priests, if you recall, came and told him, no, no, no, what are you doing in here? Uzziah, get out of here. This isn't for you to be here.

And Uzziah was so mad at them that they would even challenge him and say, basically, who do you think you are to tell the king that he can't do that? He picked up a hot sensor, and as he did that and was ready to do whatever he was going to do to those priests, God sent leprosy on him.

And the people that were gathered there, including him, were stunned. So Uzziah died a leper.

And so we learned the lesson of Uzziah. As Isaiah learned the lesson, you have to stay you have to remain true to God until the end. You don't get any credit for half of your life, or two-thirds of your life being loyal to God. So Jesus Christ says, endure to the end, and always keep humility as there. If anyone ever mentions to you that, you know, anything about you might be thinking more highly of yourself than you ought to, or if you find yourself thinking, wow, I'm really good. Look at everything that I can do. Look at all the things that have been accomplished by me. Stop. Stop and humble yourself because God doesn't work with prideful people. He works with those who are humble. So we learned that about Uzziah. Jotham was his son, and Jotham, the Bible says, was a good king as well. He did what was right in God's eyes, and unlike his father Uzziah, he remained true to God, humble, and respectful of God right until the time of his death. The Bible will even say in 2 Chronicles 27, he didn't do things like his father. Even when he became mighty and he became mighty in God, God gave the nation power under Jotham as well, but Jotham didn't take that, let that go to his head. God made him mighty.

He didn't go into the temple like his father did. He learned a lesson from his father Uzziah. Remain loyal to God. Obey him all your life. Remain humble. But interestingly, I probably should have had a stern back there, but in 2 Chronicles 27 in verse 2, it talks about Jotham being a good king. But there's a little comment in there that says, but the people still corrupted themselves. So even though Jotham was a good king and he led Israel in the right way, not all the people followed. You know, you've got to have the right leadership, but it's incumbent on each of us to be committed to God and to, you know, I mean, the New Testament says, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. Be thankful when you have good leaders, but there's a responsibility. There's a responsibility that we have for ourselves to, you know, look to God and obey him. Did I see a hand go up there? Was there something someone to want to say something? Okay. Okay, Ahaz. Ahaz was just the opposite of Jotham. He was an evil king. He just, from day one, he just decided to rebel against God. He wanted to do things his own way. He refused to hear God. He had a hard heart.

We talked a little bit about Isaiah 7. As we go through this, you know, you're going to see those three kings or four kings, Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah mentioned here in the chapters of Isaiah. And it's a very interesting series of verses that talks about Ahaz. It appears that God was trying to reach Ahaz, and he simply would not listen. He simply wasn't going to have any of it.

And so, you know, we're going to see, even today, where Isaiah will talk about people being dull of hearing and, you know, eyes that won't see, they simply will not submit to God. And as Isaiah was given those words by God to see, as he watched Ahaz, he was beginning to say, oh yeah, there are just some people who simply will not yield to God. They will just stand against him. And then we have Hezekiah. You know, Hezekiah was another good king. In his days, you will recall, they read the book of the law. They saw a Passover. Isaiah is notable, or Ahaz, is notable because he said the people prepared their hearts to follow God and, you know, ask God to honor the preparation of their hearts, even though they weren't totally clean and ready to do that Passover. God did honor it. You know, it's a lesson for us. Prepare your heart. Let God see that in your heart you are getting yourself ready and allowing him to cleanse us and purify us and get us ready for what he has us to do.

But Hezekiah was there. He was a good king. He was a good king. In Isaiah 39, I guess 38 and 39, we read about Hezekiah's first-hand account that Isaiah has with him when he is diseased and God sends Isaiah to him and tells him, you're going to die. You're going to die Hezekiah. Hezekiah pleads with God, pleads with God for more life, and God grants in 15 years.

Remember Isaiah says God has granted you 15 more years here. He even gives him this poultice of figs. Put this on your, I think it was leg if I remember or that he put it on. It shows that some of the physical things that we have can help in our healing. But Hezekiah, later on in life, after those 15 years, he makes a mistake. God has blessed the nation tremendously. There's all these treasures in Judah, and when ambassadors from Babylon come, for some reason Hezekiah shows them everything, all the riches of Israel or of Judah.

And God holds them accountable for that. And it's interesting when you, well, just to show you again, the dangers of wealth and the dangers of departing from God. Isaiah 39 and verse 8, which is the end of that account there of Hezekiah, is the life extension that God has given him. God says, hey, because you did this Hezekiah, you didn't withhold anything. And Hezekiah was acting like it was all about him. So he's taking pride in it.

His heart was lifted up. It says here, in a series of these verses. And then in verse 8, here's what his sentence is, your sons are going to be taken away. Hezekiah said to Isaiah, the word of the Lord which you have spoken is good. No repentance there. No, oh man, I can't believe I sinned before God. How did I let myself do that? His heart has become a little hardened. The word of the Lord which you have spoken is good.

For he said, at least there will be peace and truth in my days. All I care about is what happens to me. What happens to my heirs? Oh well, you know, that's it. So you kind of see, again, boy, it's enduring to the end and staying close to God and the humility that has to mark us. So those are the kings that Isaiah was under that God exposed him to those kings.

He knew them. He understood or he knew them. He knew their strengths. He knew their weaknesses. He learned lessons from that. And we'll get back to chapter one in a minute, but let's go over to chapter six. In chapter six, we have Isaiah's calling. And that's a good place to begin as we talk about the man and then go back and see the very first prophecy that God had him record about Judah.

In chapter six and verse one, it says, in the year the king Uzziah died. So, you know, that's when God saw him. It says, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of his robe filled the temple.

So here we have Isaiah. God gives him a vision. Here's God, you know, here's the Lord on his throne. It's one of three places that we read about the throne of God. We can look at Ezekiel 1 there. As God works with Ezekiel in the first chapter, he also, you know, gives Ezekiel the vision of his throne. You know, we have to remember, I think as these visions, you know, God gave to Isaiah, the vision that God gave to Ezekiel, the vision that God gave to John in the book of Revelation.

Those were things that were with them for, you know, for the rest of their lives. We see, you know, Christ in Matthew 17 in the transfiguration where the apostles were there, and they were there in a vision. They could see the things, and it was like, this is good that we're here. But here in Ezekiel 1, I'm not going to read through the chapter all the way, but down in verse 26, we see the same type thing that Isaiah is talking about here in verse 1.

As Ezekiel is writing and describing the, you know, the creatures and everything that's in there in this vision that God has given him, it says, above the firmament over their heads was the likeness of a throne, an appearance like a sapphire stone, on the likeness of the throne was the likeness with the appearance of a man high above it. Also from the appearance of his waist and upward I saw, as it were, the color of amber with the appearance of fire all around within it, and from the appearance of his waist and downward I saw, as it were, the appearance of fire with brightness all around.

So we have this vision. He talks about the appearance of a rainbow on a rainy day, the brightness of the throne. Here Ezekiel is seeing the same thing God has allowed him to that Isaiah is seeing.

Again, think of the inspiration that God gave us that vision. We have to remember God gives us a vision in his words, too. When we read some of the visions, you know, even in the book of Isaiah that we talked about already, you know, the world to come, the desert's blooming, the animals at peace with one another, little children playing with that, men at peace with one another, God's way extant on the earth, people saying, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and he will teach us his ways.

You know, it's a beautiful world of harmony and unity and peace where God is blessing the world in a way that it hasn't been blessed all over the world yet. The nations, you know, the descendants of Israel have been very well blessed in this world in this time, but not everyone. And so we have to keep that vision of what God is doing, what he's called us to. We have to keep the vision of Jesus Christ returning and establishing that kingdom, and focusing on that and knowing what a tremendous opportunity God has given us.

Now, there's men throughout history who have given their lives for much less noble causes. You know, they talk about the greatest generation in World War II, and they were heroes. They went, they sacrificed their lives, that we would have the liberty and freedom of this country we have. We look at the revolution back at the time of George Washington and in the 1700s, and the people that gave their lives were willing to do it because they had the vision of a free country, one that people would be able to achieve their potential, not be under the oppression of a king who would tell them what to do, when to do, and how they were going to live their lives, what God they were going to worship, and everything.

They had that vision, and they were willing to sacrifice everything for it. How much greater is the vision that God has given us that we know it will be for ever and ever, and heal all the troubles and heal all the wrongs that are in the world today?

God's given us that opportunity, so we should be willing to yield anything to Him if we keep that vision in front of us. So, if we go back to Isaiah 6, here we see, as God is calling Isaiah, he has his vision, and then he goes on and describes it further when he talks about the throne there and the temple that was there.

He says, Above it stood a seraphim, each one had six wings, with two he covered his face, with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. And one cried to another and said, Holy, holy, holy is the eternal of hosts. The whole earth is full of his glory. Now, we've talked about recently the word holy. You know, God introduced the word holy to Moses back in Exodus 3 and told him, You're standing on holy ground.

The word holy is used then extensively through the book of Exodus as God introduces holy convocations, the holy Sabbath day, all the instruments that would be used in the service of God in the temple as holy instruments, the garments of Aaron and his sons, holy garments, the anointing oils, the holy oils of God, everything of these that belongs to God. And so here we have, you know, we have Isaiah recording, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts.

Three times he says it. In Revelation 4, we go all the way to the end of the Bible, you see, you see, you know, the the symmetry of the Bible, you see God from beginning to end as you see these visions and as these words repeat themselves. In Revelation 4, you know, at the end of this age when it is about when Christ is about to return and return to earth. In chapter 4, you know, we have the vision of John's kingdom. Right? I mean, there's chapter 4.

You can see as you read, look down through there. You have around the throne were 24 thrones, the 24 elders from the throne. Verse 5, proceeded lightning, thunderings, and voices. There was a sea of glass like crystal before the throne that appears again in Revelation 15. You have these these four living creatures.

And then when you come down to verse 8, it says those four living creatures, each having six wings, each having six wings, were full of eyes around and within, and they do not rest day or night, saying, Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come. Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty. The very same thing that God, when Isaiah was envisioned of the throne, that he heard those seraphim saying, Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord of hosts, the whole earth is full of his glory. Okay, let's go back to chapter 6 of Isaiah then.

In verse 4, it says, the posts of the door were shaken by the voice of him who cried out, and the house was filled with smoke. Now, when you look up at verse 1, and he talks about, he saw the wards sitting on a throne, the train of his robe, but filled the temple.

Okay, comment. Okay, fill the temple. Down to verse 4, then it says, the posts of the door were shaken by the voice of him who cried out. I mean, there was a powerful voice, a powerful voice when it was, Holy, Holy, Holy. We're announcing God, right? The whole earth is full of his glory. The posts of the door were shaken, and the house was filled with smoke. Now, as Isaiah would see this, he would think of some of the Old Testament things that we read about the temple. We go back just a couple of chapters in Isaiah 4. Isaiah 4 and verse 4, when it talks about God washing away the sin of Judah, and he talks about this smoke. We're going to see God washing away the sin of Isaiah 4, verse 4, when the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and purged the blood of Jerusalem from her midst by the spirit of judgment and by the spirit of burning, remember all that fire that we saw around the throne? We're going to see that fire come back here again from the mirror mist by the spirit of judgment and by the spirit of burning. Then the Lord will create above every dwelling place of Mount Zion and above her assemblies a cloud and smoke by day and the shining of a flaming fire by night. For over all the glory there will be a covering, and there will be a tabernacle for shade in the daytime from the heat, for a place of refuge, for a shelter from storm and rain. So again, as God gives Isaiah the words to record, here we see again the smoke. You think back to the Old Testament temple. I remember when Solomon dedicated the temple. It was all God filled that place with a cloud and with smoke. It showed that he was there. His presence was there. If we look at 2 Corinthians 5, yeah, I didn't think I had that right. I think 2 Chronicles 5. Check that out. 2 Chronicles 5, I'm sure. 2 Chronicles 5 and verse 13. The temple is built.

My heading on my page here says, the ark is placed at the temple.

Then in my next page says, the cloud fills the temple. 2 Chronicles 5 and verse 13 says, Indeed it came to pass, when the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord. When they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and symbols and instruments of music and praised the Lord, saying, For he is good, his mercy endures forever, that the house of the eternal was filled with a cloud, so that the priests could not continue ministering because of the cloud, for the glory of the Lord filled the house of God. So, God, you know, Isaiah would have known those verses. The people of Isaiah's time would have known those verses. The temple was filled with smoke. It showed God's presence in there.

And as Isaiah is given this vision, these things, you know, his mind was clicking. He's like, Oh, this is God's temple. This is where God dwells. It's filled with smoke, just like it was back in that ancient temple time. So, Isaiah is aware where he's at, what he's looking at as God calls him.

You know, we would say, Wow, wouldn't it be great if God would give us that vision? If we could be, Hey, Dale, did you have a comment? Yes, good evening. Yeah, I looked up the word for cloud in that particular verse in the Hebrew. It's a-n-a-n-a and it means a Nimbus or a thunder cloud.

Okay, okay. Cloud, okay. A cloud filled with temple, right? Yeah. Well, lightnings and thunderings, we spread that and emanating from the throne. It all kind of fits together. So, you know, so we might, you know, we might say, Wouldn't it be wonderful if God had done that for us? We would have had a vision of the kingdom. We would be so much more motivated to follow him. We will be so much more motivated to pray earnestly for the return of Jesus Christ because we've had these visions. But God gives us his word that has those visions and he gives us his Holy Spirit that will lead us into understanding that will help us hone those visions.

If we ask him, you know, if we ask him, give us a vision, help us increase our vision, you know, show us what that show us what that is. He will. So we have that. And as Isaiah, we see in verse five here what his response is. He's just overwhelmed. He knows he's in the presence of God. When we come to understand God's truth, when the words of the Bible make sense to us, now we see what God's will is.

We see what his plan is. And we realize this is nothing that the world has any idea about. God has opened the understanding to the select few that he has determined. That's, you know, you and me. The rest of the world will understand it later, but that's not their time right now. So Isaiah, in verse five here of chapter six, look at the response that he has.

You know, he says, woe is me, for I am undone. You know, some of the translations say, I am cut off. Like, oh man, this is where I want to be. This is God, but I'm not worthy. I'm not worthy to be even in the presence of God. It should be the same type attitude that we have when we come to understand God.

We feel remorse and we feel repentance and it's like, boy, I'm not even worthy. I might have thought, wow, I've been doing everything right, I thought, but I have been so far off of what God has called me to that it's, you know, that it's bad. So Isaiah says, what was me? Boy, I want to be. I want to be like God. I want to be part of that vision that I see, but I can't.

I'm not worthy to do it. I'm cut off. There's no way God's going to look at me based on what I've done. He goes, I'm a man of unclean lips and I'm unworthy. I'm a sinner. Interesting that he says, you know, lips, because we're going to see that God's going to cleanse his lips. In part, what Isaiah is calling is to speak the prophecies and speak the words that God gives him to do.

So I'm a man of unclean lips. You know, why would God ever use me to say his truth? Why would God ever use me to give his words? I'm unworthy. I'm a sinner is what Isaiah is saying here. I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips. I'm unclean. My lips are unclean. The nation I live in isn't living the way God is. I come from a people who isn't honoring God with their heart as well as their lips. There's nothing about them. I'm in a land that none of us, you know, is what he's saying are worthy of God and the blessings that he has given us.

I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips. My eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts. He's overwhelmed. He wants to repent. He wants to be like God. He understands that God has given him this vision. He wants to be the pure man he has that he needs to be, that you and I need to be in order to be with Christ and to, you know, fulfill what he wants us to do for eternity. And so Isaiah is having repentance there as he's in the face of it.

And then he sees hope. He doesn't know what to do. And it's like, I'm not worthy of this. And then one of those seraphim that we talked about, one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a live coal, which he had taken with the tongs from the altar. So we've seen the temple of God. We've seen the fire around God's throne. We remember that in the temple. Remember, it's Leviticus 6, I think, Leviticus 6, verses 12 and 13. There was this ever-vironing fire that was there in the temple. And so we know the fire is something that is with God all the time. We've seen it when talking about his throne. We've seen it in the temple that he had Israel, Moses, Israel, ancient Israel built, the tabernacle, and then Solomon built the temple. This ever-vironing fire, it's there. And so here it is. The seraphim comes, and he has a live coal. He's taken it right from the altar. It's of God.

And he touches, verse 7, he touches Isaiah's mouth. Just imagine. Here's Isaiah. He's got this hot coal that touches his mouth, and the seraphim said, Behold, this has touched your lips.

Your iniquity is taken away, and your sin purged is really atoned for. Okay, I guess when you look at the Hebrew there. Behold, this has touched your lips. Isaiah says, you know, My lips are not worthy. My lips, I have unclean lips. But the angel says, No, this has touched your lips. Now they've been atoned for. Remember, Isaiah's calling was to live God's way, yes, but he was going to be speaking. He was going to be speaking the truth of God. He was going to be speaking the prophecies of God. And as Isaiah talked about that, God, I think, you know, touched his lips. No, your lips, your lips are going to speak great things, Isaiah, not your words, but God's word. You are going to be a prophet for the nation then. You are going to be a prophet for people all the way through the ages. And so God says, I've, you know, he's seen his attitude of repentance, just like he sees in you and me, the attitude of repentance. What happens for us? You know, baptism, sins forgiven. In this case, it appears that Isaiah's sins are forgiven, too. He is listed there in Hebrews 11 to be resurrected during that time. But he touched my mouth. Oh, and you're clean. Basically, he's saying you're clean to preach the message. You now are worthy. You are now worthy to preach the message of God. Okay. And then in verse 8, as the angel says, it's okay, okay, Isaiah, you're ready.

Now you've been cleansed. You can preach the message. Isaiah says, I heard the voice of the Lord saying, well, who will I send? Who will I send? And who will go for us? Notice it goes from singular I to who will go for us. So we know who the us is in verse 8. It's God the Father and the one who became Jesus Christ. Whom shall I send? And who will go for us? Well, who's going to go to the people? Who's going to give this message? You know, in Hebrews 1, you know, remember it says that the message of God was given in the Old Testament by prophets. Now the word is given by Jesus Christ, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets. Who's going to go?

Who's going to go? Who's going to speak? Who's going to speak these words? Who will we send?

Isaiah is ready. I'll serve God however he wants me to be served. I said, here I am. Send me.

Send me. And God tells him, go. Go and tell this people, you know, go and speak to them these words. Jesus Christ repeated these words. And in Matthew, there's words that you will hear, you know, that we should all look at very closely to make sure that they don't apply to us. Go and tell this people, keep on hearing, but don't understand. They have a hardened heart. You know, they'll hear the words, but it just kind of goes right over their head. Or they just block it, okay? I've heard what you said. I've got my shield up. It's not going to sink into my mind. It's not going to sink into my heart. I simply have shut my mind off when I hear that part of God's message. Maybe all of God's message for some people who hear it and immediately reject it for some part of the message, right? I don't want to hear that. I'm closing my mind to it. I don't want to hear it. Keep on hearing, but don't understand. It's talking about a hardened heart there. We could all do that. There are parts of God's message we have to be very aware of. You know, don't harden your heart to anything. Be willing to yield anything to God. Any of our habits, preferences, or whatever, if God shows they're wrong or not of His will, we eliminate them from our lives. Keep on hearing, but don't understand. Keep on seeing, but don't perceive. A blind mind.

You know, I may see what's going on in the world. I simply won't believe it. I won't believe that America ever could have an end. I believe everything will always turn out okay for America. She is invincible. These are just momentary things that we're going through.

I'm just giving an example here. It could be whatever. Don't harden your heart against the truth. Don't block it. When you see, understand. Keep on seeing, but don't perceive. It's talking to His people here. When you see, don't have a blind mind. Don't close your mind off to it and say, nope, I refuse to see that. I refuse to see that in God's Word.

Verse 10, make the heart of this people dull. Tell them the truth anyway. Isaiah, some are going to listen, but the greater number are not going to pay any attention to you, and they're not going to want to hear the Word.

But tell them the truth anyway. Make the heart of this people dull. Make their ears heavy. Shut their eyes, lest they see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and return to be healed. It sounds like God is saying, you know, I don't want them to be healed, but it's like they're not going to listen. But, Isaiah, you've got to give the message and tell them anyway. It's God who calls. It's God who opens minds, and that has to be what we always remember.

So, in verse 11, so again, here's Isaiah. He's being called. Isaiah says in verse 11, Lord, how long does this message need to go out? Just for, am I just going to do this for a week? Do I just say it one time and it gets published here? How long?

And God answered, until the cities are laid waste and without inhabitant, until the houses are without a man, and the land is utterly desolate. That hasn't happened in Judah yet. That hasn't happened in Israel yet. So, what God is saying, this message goes out forever. The message, the gospel, the truth of God is to go out forever, no matter how much people don't want to hear it, no matter what they don't want to do with it, you do it anyway, and it's a message that's going to be said until the cities are laid waste, the houses are without a man, the land is utterly desolate.

Verse 12, the eternal has removed men far away. The forsaken places are many in the midst of the land. And so, we have our devastation coming on the earth. We have things going on. I mean, we've got war, famine, pestilence, all those things it talks about in the book of Revelation, all those things it talks about in Ezekiel 6 and 7 there that it talks about.

And we talked about this in a back up couple Sabbaths ago, who were looking at this verse in Isaiah 6 verse 13. He says, boy, there's going to be a lot of devastation in the land.

There's going to be a lot of people that die. And yet, you know, not everyone will be destroyed. Throughout scripture, God says there will be a remnant of his people. They will be punished. Many will lose their lives, but he will not utterly destroy Israel. Some will survive, and they will inhabit the promised land where Jesus Christ returns. And he says in here what it is in verse 13. But yet a tenth, yet a tenth, that's kind of devastating when you think about it, a tenth will be in it.

It means there's times coming between the wars, the famines, the pestilences, and everything that God says are going to come on the earth, not because he just wants to die, because he doesn't like mankind, but because mankind has forsaken him and turned away from God. When we obey God, when we follow him, there are blessings. When we turn against him, he takes away those blessings, and all sorts of things happen. We will even read here in the book of Isaiah.

Yet a tenth will be in it, and will return and be for consuming. There will be a tenth. They'll come back to the promised land. They're gonna leave. There's going to be a lot of death and misery of that because of what they did, but they will return as a terebin's tree or as an oak, whose stump remains when it is cut down, so the holy seed shall be its stump.

So there will be that remainder of that holy seed of Israel that's there. God will not completely destroy Israel. He won't completely destroy them.

Look at Obadiah. I think it's in Jeremiah too. You see some of the some of the nations that are there as part of the king of the south are utterly destroyed, but they'll have their opportunity in the second in the second resurrection, but won't be there in the millennial reign of Christ, as Israel will be and several other people. Okay, so we go back. Well, here I turned out of the book. Let's go back to Isaiah 1 in our remaining time. I'll just go through a little bit of this here and we'll pick it up another time. Isaiah 1. So with that as a background, and I'll stop there if there's any comments, questions, anything that I've looked at, anyone that wants to make a comment on it, you are more than welcome to add to it here. Can I make a comment? Yes, I don't know who's speaking, but yes, go right ahead. Lloyd. So he said he was on unclean lips. Moses said that he was of uncircumcised lips twice, I believe. So as somewhat of the same meaning, same thought, he wasn't worthy. Yeah, Moses, you remember he just felt totally inadequate. I can't do this. I can't speak. I can't go before Pharaoh. Yeah, I can't speak the words you have. Remember then what God says. Okay, fine. Aaron could be your spokesman. I'll tell you, you tell Aaron. Yeah, it's the same thing. He just didn't feel worthy to give God's words. But he didn't he had learned the confidence in God. Isaiah seems to have learned it there in Isaiah 6, because then he begins preaching. You know, as you mentioned that, again, you know, maybe Isaiah even thought back to Moses, right? He would have been well familiar with the Scriptures, and when he's saying that, and the angel said, you know, your lips are purged, maybe he thought back to that. Oh, you know, I'll do what God says. God's given me this commission. I'll go and do it. Yeah, good point. Question, Brother Shaby. Yes, sir. Do they suppose that Isaiah was royalty like Daniel?

Did you see that anywhere? I did not see that anywhere.

They say Amos was like a brother to one of the kings. Oh, you know what? Now that you mentioned that, that sounds familiar. No, I didn't research that at all, though. So, yeah.

If you had tried to say he wasn't well spoken, it wouldn't it wouldn't have worked because they were well taught. Even the mechanics are one of all the royal kids were very hard, very well spoken, very educated. But yeah, the root of the matter is hard. Very good. Good point. Moses, Moses was very in the courts of Pharaoh, but of course he had those 40 years when he was a shepherd, right? So whatever. And he became very humble because of what he did. So yeah.

Yeah. Good, good point. Good point. Yeah.

Okay, what time we got here? Let's just read through a few verses here of Isaiah 1. It's interesting that God begins the prophecy or the whole book of Isaiah with something that probably and certainly pertained to the nation of Judah at that time, but also clearly pertains to people in other times, any nation that would find its way. And certainly, you know, that applies to God's people, which would include us. If we look down to, in verse 7, for instance, you know, these are things. Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire, strangers devour your land and your presence. It is desolate, is overthrown by strangers. Again, you know, we don't see a desolate Israel. When Israel was overthrown, Babylon moved in. They wanted the land. When Judah was overthrown, no, Assyria wanted the land. When Judah was overthrown, Babylon wanted the land. They didn't completely decimate it. You know, we see some of the desolation that the Bible is talking about when you look at what Russia is doing to Ukraine today. You see those pictures and you wonder, you know, I think we're beginning to see what Russia's aim is. Complete desolation of Ukraine. Not simply conquering them. Just complete desolation for some reason. It's certainly not a godly reason. It's certainly a part of a bigger plan, it would be the same, because if Russia wanted to win that war, they could win it pretty quickly. But they are just determined to completely eliminate that country. I haven't heard I was talking to someone today at the office and they said, I guess, and maybe some of you have heard it, that I had seen where, you know, the crops from Ukraine are interrupted, but Russia is even now looking to do something to come to eliminate the the the the um the cultibility of that cult of the cultivil whatever that they wouldn't even be able to cultivate the land over there anymore. They want to completely destroy it and not have Ukraine either be able to produce any food before. And of course, we've all learned during this that it's the breadbasket of Europe and so much around the world. So we see this desolation, this just determining this determination to desolate, you know, to desolate something and that that's happening over there. So the Bible talks about that that that hasn't happened to Judah or Israel before it didn't happen in history. So we know this this prophecy, this this these words that Isaiah has spoken, again, God said write them down, pertain to Jerusalem, but not all of them were filled at the time of Judah and Jerusalem for later. So he says in verse two, Hear, O heavens, give ear, O earth, the eternal has spoken.

I've nourished and brought up children and they have rebelled against me. God, you know, God did everything for Israel. He brought them out of Egypt. We know the story. He blessed them. He brought them to a promised land. He delivered that land into his hands and to their hands. You know, God has done the same thing for us. We live in a country that has been so richly blessed. He has nourished us. He has given us every blessing. I mean, kings, the king, the greatest kings on earth haven't lived at the times, you know, and had the opportunities that you and I have. And yet, you know, he says these children, these children that I have blessed and given so much to, they rebelled against me. And I mentioned, you know, the sin of rebellion, remember, God says in 1st Samuel 1523, the sin of rebellion is as witchcraft. That's how he looks at that. You know, again, I think we talked at the last Bible study, didn't we have a discussion on being thankful, and we need to always remember to be thankful. You know, the people here who have had the blessings of God, they haven't been thankful because if they've been thankful to God, they wouldn't be rebelling against him. If we rebel against God because we don't want to do this element of what his word says, or this one, we're not really thinking clearly. We're not thinking about the blessings that God has given us, the potential that he has given us, the vision that he has given us, because if we were thinking clearly, we would simply say whatever your will is, you know, we will we will do. Well, these children have rebelled against him. Now, if we can draw the parallel to those of us who have had children when our children rebel against us, it kind of like frustrates and irritates us, and you know, hopefully they come around and begin to realize what they've done sometimes. And then he says, you know, even the animals, the ox knows its owner. Verse 3, the donkey knows the naunkiest master's crib, but Israel doesn't know. My people don't consider. They're not stopping and thinking, wait, God gave us to this. We owe him. Dave Permar, you got a comment? Yes, I think I was just going to say, I think it's very, it's interesting to me, the first words that he uses there in verse 2 are basically the same words that Moses uses at the beginning of Deuteronomy 32 at the Song of Moses. And it's almost like, wow, it's such a big event. And what's happening is that, you know, I wonder if the people that heard that, you know, thought of the Song of Moses as he began that prophecy there. That's very good. Again, you know what, if you want to turn back to Deuteronomy 32, where Dave mentioned, yes, that's exactly. Remember, we talked about the end chapters of Deuteronomy being prophetic, right? It's for Israel in the latter days, as it says in Deuteronomy 31 verse 29 there. In chapter 32 verse 1, those are the words. That's the words God gave Isaiah. Give here, O heavens, and I will speak. Hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. Very good. So we kind of see that, and you're right.

The people that lived in Old Testament times and even in Jesus Christ's time, they knew the Bible very well. They would hear a series of words. They knew exactly where in the Bible that was. They could recite that back. They had a feel and a memory of the Bible, you know, better than any of us. Unfortunately, the Jews of Christ's time didn't apply it or understand it. They just kind of had it memorized. But yeah, good point there. There you have the same thing there where God, again, is His words. So very good. As long as we're here, we always have those as witnesses against us.

Yep. Okay. Very good. Alas, I'm going to finish with verse, okay, well, maybe I'll finish with this is verse four. I see a little thing there and give us some. It says, Alas, sinful nation. Right. Again, you know, Judah, yes, you can read through Jeremiah. You see God saying over and over to Judah, you know, turn back to me, you know, don't follow the same the same way that Israel did. And he would talk about backsliding Israel. But Judah didn't hear. I mean, Israel went into captivity because of disobedience and disregarding God. Judah followed the same path, right? They were sinful nations. They had every reason to obey God, but they didn't. The last sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evil doers, children who are corruptors. They have forsaken the eternal. They have provoked to anger the Holy One of Israel. They have turned away backward. They did it. You know, they did not have God's Holy Spirit.

They, when they, you know, they went back to the ways of the world around them. When they found something that they found in ticening in the nations around them, they just kind of did that.

The world that we live in, we know it's it's it's enticing. It's alluring. It can it's got all the baubles and all the lights and all the things that appeal to the senses. You know, beside God says, don't don't don't look at that. That's, you know, this is Proverbs 6 where it talks about the young man who who just follows and goes in goes in with the harlot who has enticed him and seduced him. And he says that very night he would die. So we have to keep those things in our mind and always always look to God and not turn backwards. It turned backward. Once once we have embarked on the way of God, you know, for those of us who have God's Holy Spirit, you know, remember, when we turn backwards, this is the day of salvation. This is the day of judgment. Judgment is now on the house of God. This is the day of our salvation. If we turn back, there is no second sacrifice for the sins we do. We have to completely be committed to God and remember that. March forward with Him.

Okay, well let me let me stop there. We'll move pretty quickly through, you know, some more of these verses here and get down to where we ended in that sermon. But let me let me end there for tonight and any comments or any questions or any discussion anyone wants to have, we can we can talk about that. So, I just, when you were mentioning this, Isaiah has 66 books. I'm sorry, chapters. It got reminded me that we have 66 books from Genesis to Revelation also when you were mentioning the new earth. Yeah, funny how that works out. Yeah, so. Anything else anyone?

I was just going to mention that in my margin that Isaiah was the son of Amos, who was the brother of King Amaeth, and Isaiah would have been a first cousin to King Uzzah.

Oh, really? He would have been a first cousin to Uzziah? Okay.

That's, and I'm sorry, I don't know where I've written it from. It's just, I've got it written in there. Sure. Oh, yeah, I mean, you heard that someplace that goes along with what Xavier was saying that, yeah, there's some relation there. Very good. You don't have to look that up. That's a good point. And a part of this history we should be aware of. I saw another hand there somewhere.

Yeah, Isaiah was highly educated. Apparently, he was more new words than any other prophet, more richer vocabulary, you know, than any other prophet. So, that's the reason he was in good circles of education, so on. Yeah. Interesting. Interesting. Yeah, that's an interesting point. Actually, going back at some of those words that he uses, again, when you look at the chords, you can see the first time they're used. They're probably in Isaiah the first time. Yeah. Good. The hand was probably me. I just think it's worth noting Isaiah's attitude in 6-8 when he says, here I am, send me. His willingness is worth mentioning to his credit because we were talking about Moses, and Moses was still like, no, you have the wrong person, but Isaiah says, here I am, send me. Like, I'm ready. Yeah, you are absolutely right. He was there. Again, maybe he was remembering Moses and thought, I'm not going to do, I'm not going to make every excuse here. I'm ready. You cleansed me, send me where you want me to go. Good point. Good point.

You think he almost instantly agreed? It seems like in 1st 6-7. It seems like once his iniquity is heard, right away, he's ready to preach.

It's like when Christ says, follow me, right? And people followed him. They dropped what they were doing and followed him and didn't hesitate. So it was an eagerness that I think we should all have. Yep. Ziel, commitment to doing God's work? Exactly. Xavier mentioned there were 66 chapters in the book of Isaiah, like 66 books of the Bible. And my preface before the first chapter mentioned that the first 39 chapters, which is 39 chapters in the Old Testament, are filled with judgment upon immoral and idolatrous men. The final 27 chapters, like the 27 books of the New Testament, declare a message of hope. There you go. There you go. 39 and 27. Yeah, there is that kind of division after chapter 39. Exactly, as you pointed out there. Yeah, isn't that interesting? 39 and 27. Yeah.

Bud? I like what the MacArthur study Bible has to say about animals, and we're talking about the donkey. Animals appear to have more powers of reason than God's people who break fellowship with him. And of course, people are sitting all around us. Donkeys and animals seem to have more sense than the people around us that are sinning. Yep. Listen to that. Yeah, and they respond to the kindness of humans, right? So that's the old adage, that the dog that bites its master's hand, right? That's kind of like you just don't do that. And you know, people do that to God all the time.

All right. Remember, Caleb's donkey. There's another word for donkey.

Yes, there is. I was listening to one of the ABC classes on Isaiah, and they said that there's a theory of partition where some people believe that the book of Isaiah was written by three different people. But he was saying that in the New Testament, you know, several times Christ says, as Isaiah the prophet wrote, and so he was saying that, no, that's not the case, that he wrote the whole book under inspiration of God. Yeah, people are always doubting, right? They're always doubting, yes.

Yeah, and then they always then they overlook what Christ, how he validated those things. So, yep.

Thomas, did you have a question or comment? Yeah, mostly a comment. You know, I really like that cloud thing, you know, for a long time I pictured smoke, in my head, smoke, and then you start talking with thundercloud. I mean, what a terrifying and glorious picture of God to me to sit there and think, this is the thundercloud of God in the temple. And that really changes the perspective on, you know, the way I think about that. I thought that was really neat. Yeah, that is that this kind of give us a vision. And yeah, I think, does it say that back in Revelation, too, when it talked about the Ark being, yeah, actually Revelation 11, 19, says the temple of God was opened in heaven and the Ark of his covenant was seen in his temple and there were lightnings, noises, thunderings, and earthquake and great hail. Yeah, all the power that's associated with God. So, yeah.

We have the same thing when we go back to Exodus 24, where the 70 elders and the children of Israel saw Christ, our Lord standing on the sea of glass. It has a similar picture as in Exodus, where he looked like fire standing there. Yeah. Are you in Exodus 24? Did you say? Yeah, and that is, yeah, just verses 9 and 10, right? Is that where you are? Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Again, you see the things in the Old Testament that carry all the way through to Revelation. Same God, same message, same plan, same between, you know, and it never changes.

I had one more. You mentioned what Isaiah's name means about salvation.

Right. I just have here that the term salvation appears in Isaiah 26 times, in contrast to a total of only seven times in all the other prophets combined. I don't know about these. Wow. That's what this says. I'm not sure it's accurate, but it's sort of connected to his name in that way.

And then the other man said something about the first part of Isaiah talking about our need for salvation. So I thought that kind of tied in with that, if it's part of his name and it's in there 26 times. Yeah, that's very good. Usually, yeah, when something shows up at many times, you know what the book is about. So one of the key things. Very good. Excellent. Shambi. Yes. We're just saying there's a plethora of numbers that God had Isaiah having in his, what he inspired. One of them is Daniel 12 verse 11, where it says 1290 days. Yes. There's 1290 really? Are there? Just look at it. What was there in 19 verses it in the book of Isaiah?

You talk about numbers and then the first time you hear one, you think, oh, that's just coincidence, right? Because man divided the chapters. But God is in control of everything like that. So when you see that many of them, you know, you know, God was behind even how mankind divvied up those things. That's incredible. So wow.

Oh yeah. 1290 verses in Isaiah.

Ali, did you have something you want to say? No, thank you. I'm sorry.

That's okay. I just don't want to leave anyone out. So thank you. Mm-hmm. Does anyone have, if I'm missing a hand, just go ahead and speak. I think that I think I'm learning that when someone's got their hand up, it's showing up in my left-hand corner over here. So I don't see a hand right now, though. Okay, well, I'm going. Sherry?

I just need to ask you something if I can contact you because I need to talk to you about something.

I didn't want to really say it out here, but I don't have your number.

Oh, okay. I'll give you my number. It's 386-986-1441.

Okay, can I call you after this? Yeah, now we're here. Okay, I won't take long. Okay, thank you.

Okay, so anything else, anyone? Okay, unfortunately, I'm going to be on a plane I learned late last week, next Wednesday night. So I'm not going to be able to do a Bible study next Wednesday night. So, but we'll plan to resume on the 29th. Okay, and after that, it should be a series of series that we're in, or regular for a number of weeks in a row. So no Bible study next Wednesday night, unless we did a Tuesday. But now you know what? No Bible study next Wednesday night, but we'll pick it up again on this 29th. Okay, okay, thank you, everyone. Thank you.

Yes, I know your time and everything.

Be all later. Bye.