Bible Study: September 14, 2022

Okay, so last week we got through Isaiah 10. Nope, Isaiah 11 verse 10. You know, these first, I mentioned the prayer, the first 12 chapters of Isaiah are pretty much tied together. They're all talking about the dual prophecies, as we've been talking about the last couple weeks that are there, that will befall Israel and Judah because they simply will not follow God or turn to God.

And today we'll finish up that. You'll remember that of the four kings that Isaiah lived under, it was Ahaz. Ahaz was the one who simply would not yield to God, would not listen to God, would not even ask God or listen to a sign that God was willing to give him to prove that he would be there with him and with Judah.

And so God then proceeds to give the signs, right? The major one being the return of the Messiah, the promise of the Messiah. We've read about that three, four times here in the chapters since Isaiah 7, and we'll read about it a little bit more here as we are finish this first section tonight. Now, as we conclude chapter 12, it's a very joyful and uplifting chapter as we get into it. It's praising God for all that he's done. Israel will have gone through some rough times. Judah will have gone through some rough times. The people of the world will have gone through some rough times, but in the end it's God who makes everything right, brings the people back to the promised land, all the hope that's there with it.

So it sends on that what we will... well, let's just get through... see how far we get today. Often I'll say we're going to get through this and we're going to get through that. We don't get as far as we think we're going to. So you'll remember in Isaiah 8-9-10 we talked about things where God said... it says, you know, his arms out stretched still as he sends warnings to Israel and Judah and they don't listen.

And then he sends specific things to Israel and Judah and they don't listen and they continue to not listen. We talked about the decrees that rulers would make that weren't for the benefit of the people but were for the benefit of themselves. And we read about how when the land fails it will be the leaders as well as the common people who suffer equally.

Equally, as God exacts, allows his vengeance to come on the world through the power of Assyria back in ancient times. And we talked about who modern day Assyria could be, either through ethnicity that moved from the Middle East up into Europe or could be that area that is still there as Assyria that is very much anti all of the Israelite nations, the English-speaking nations of the world. So as we moved into auto chapter 10 lastly, you know, as God, you know, punished Judah and Israel through Assyria, punished Judah but didn't let Judah go into captivity to Assyria, but used them to prove a point and to show the prophecies that he was in charge of things that Assyria never did conquer Jerusalem, even though Israel completely fell.

That he did exact his vengeance on Assyria because of the pride that they showed and the glee they showed and of course the king Sennacherib or Tiglith Polizer, you know, saying, look what I did, look what I've done, you know, the problems that kings often fall into. They think that they've done everything. So we moved out of chapter 10 and then we come to chapter 11 and verse 1, the second coming of Jesus Christ.

Now we'll see that it's the second coming of Jesus Christ. In chapter 9, we saw the birth of the Messiah. In chapter 11, out of all this mayhem that comes, that came to Israel back then, and in the dual prophecies of what is likely to happen to America, the Israelite nations going forward, we see the second coming of the Messiah in chapter 11.

And we talked about that, Him being a branch from the stem of Jesse, the prophecy that He would come through the line of David, which we have documented in the New Testament, that both Mary, his mother, and Joseph, his stepfather, or father in the physical sense, came through the line of Jesse. We talked about the Spirit that rested on Him, that is part of the Spirit that God gives us, the same strengths that He gave Christ, He'll give us through His Holy Spirit if we yield in it, yield to Him.

And then we move down through the beautiful verses that will doubtlessly be read wherever you are at the feast this year about the peace and the tranquility of the world to come, the millennial rule of Jesus Christ. The beautiful verses about how even the animals will be at peace with one another. The wolf, the lamb, the little child, and the snakes, and all that other stuff.

In verse 9 then, in chapter 11, it says, they shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the eternal as the waters cover the sea.

Where God's Word is, and people lives by it, there's unity, there's peace, there's calm. When you have division, strife, people not liking each other, even a violent world when we see the animals at war with each other, not war with each other, but you know the things that go on in the animal world. That's not God's way. That's not what God created. He's allowed it, but we are living in a world that is marked by division, hostility, violence. You know God's way is not that way. In verses 6 through 9 say that. In verse 10 then, as you go through the rest of chapter 11, God talks about three things that are going to become evident with the Messiah. You know, the first one here we read in verse 10 last week, and I don't know if we had ample time to think about it, to think about it much, but again, remember whenever you see the phrase in that day, more often than not, it's talking about the time later on in prophecy. It's talking about a time yet ahead of us. In that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand as a banner to the people. The Gentiles shall seek him, and his resting place shall be glorious.

So we talked about how when Christ, you know, when he was born, he was prophesied to be a light to the Gentiles, and how the Gentiles will seek him. We talked about last week as well. I have Romans 15 verse 12. Let's just look back there as we talk about these three things that the return of Jesus Christ will bring about in that time that is yet ahead of us. We'll start with the time of the Gentiles there, and the Gentiles turning to Christ. Romans 15 and verse 12.

Yeah, actually, it's a direct quote. Paul is talking here. Let's begin in verse 8 of Romans 15. I say that Jesus Christ has become a servant to the circumcision, that would be the Jews, to the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the provinces made to the fathers. Whatever was promised, Jesus Christ's birth, life, death, and at his second coming, everything that God promised will be fulfilled as it all revolves around Jesus Christ. And then in verse 9 he says, And that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy, as it is written, For this reason I will confess to you among the Gentiles, and sing to your name. And again, he says, Rejoice, O Gentiles, with his people, and again praise the Lord, all you Gentiles, laud him, all you peoples. And again Isaiah says, There shall be a root of Jesse, that's prophesying Jesus Christ, and he who shall rise to reign over the Gentiles, in him the Gentiles shall hope. So, you know, you have these prophecies that are there, that Jesus Christ, he opened salvation to everyone. Through the Old Testament times, there was Israel. Israel was God's holy people, physical Israel. The holy people, a royal kingdom of priests, he called them, a special treasure to him on the earth, dating back to the time of Abraham because of the complete obedience that Abraham and faith and God that Abraham had, as his sons Isaac and Jacob also demonstrated in their lives. And so God looked at Israel, physical Israel. He still knows where physical Israel is today. He still loves physical Israel. Of course, he loves all people. Jesus Christ didn't come to die for just a group of people. He came and gave his life for all people. So in the New Testament, we have the Gentiles.

The Bible will show, I think we read in Zechariah last week, on how the Gentiles will also be the whole world going up to seek Jesus Christ. He is their hope. The Gentile nations have always been apart from God, as we well know. And yet, even in his mercy, Christ died that they might have strength. So when we look at what Jesus Christ does, he provides all that hope, all the promises answered that have been given to the Jews, and the hope of the Gentiles, that they can have eternal life too if they yield to God. So verse 10 is talking about that. There will be this root of Jesse. The Gentiles will seek him, and his resting place will be glorious.

And then beginning in verse 11, you have the other thing that Christ did. It's the second thing, and it talks about restoring the scattered people. You know, we've talked about how in the end time, well, Israel, the physical nation of Israel back in 722 BC, that they were conquered. And in those days, what conquering nations did was take the people out of their land and move them to some place else. So ancient Israel was scattered throughout all those areas. Judah too, when they were conquered, they were moved out. God did allow them to go back 70 years later. Israel never had gone back to their promise land. They are still scattered everywhere. And the Bible talks, as we talked about, scattered dual prophecy, that as modern day Israel, the modern day descendants of Israel, continue to turn away from God. Don't listen to any of the warnings that he has given them.

None of the warnings that may come from his church as the church cries aloud and spares not, and tells the people their sin, both people in the church and people out of the church. But they don't listen. They move further and further away from God. And so the same thing is prophesied for modern day Israel. They'll be conquered. They'll lose their land. They'll be taken captive. It's something that's hard for us to even imagine. But again, you look at how God works in patterns and ancient Israel, right, as ancient Israel as for the 70 who went into Egypt back at the time that Abraham learned that Joseph was alive and in the famine they all moved to Egypt. They later became slaves. They later became slaves, and God had to deliver them from that slavery and deliver them to the promised land. And we have ancient Israel, you know, many years later going into captivity. Never has returned to the promised land. And modern day Israel, God tells us in Ezekiel, they're going to go into captivity. They will be scattered throughout the world. Some will die by pestilence. Some will die by warfare. Some will die some other ways. But here in Isaiah chapter 11 verse 11, God says this is what's going to happen. Again, it tells us in that day it hasn't happened yet. So we know this is a prophecy for the future. It shall come to pass, Isaiah 11 11, in that day that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people who are left. Now the second time is an interesting thing for God to say, because this hasn't happened at all at the time Isaiah. Judah hasn't even gone into captivity yet. Isaiah, or not Isaiah, Israel is going into captivity and kept into captivity during Isaiah's lifetime, during King Ahaz's lifetime. So, you know, he hasn't returned anyone back yet. Judah was going to return. The only people that God has ever said would be able to come back to their land after being conquered was Judah. That happened 70 years after they were conquered in, what was it, 586 BC or something like that. So that's happened. That was the first time that God allowed his people, his physical people, to go back to the Promised Land. Now that's prophesying because the word second there is one of those prophecies. There is a people that's going to come back. You know, a later prophet Jeremiah would talk about that. But here in Isaiah 11, he says, the Lord shall set his hand the second time to recover the remnant of his people who are left.

And earlier in Isaiah 6, I referred back to it a number of times, when God is calling Isaiah and preparing him to go out and speak to the people on God's behalf, he talks about this remnant, this remnant. God will not completely destroy his people, this remnant that will be saved, you know, the 10% of Israel, as it clearly shows back in Isaiah 6. So it says, boy, there's going to be a lot of people die during that time. They didn't listen to God. Of course, we understand the resurrections and that all those people will have a chance, will live again, and have an opportunity to repent and choose God. But here it says, the Lord will set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people who are left. He will recover them from Assyria and Egypt, from Pathros and Kush, from Elam and Shiner, from Hamath and the islands of the sea. So he's very specific, very specific in where these places are, where they will be scattered, right? This is where they're coming from, is what God says. And so we have this map here, and I'm not an ancient cartographer, so I trust some of the things that that people put together. But here we have a map that has Egypt, you know, the Middle East, you know, where Israel is over there at the top of the Gulf of Suez in that area. But there you have Egypt, Pathros, Kush, Assyria, Shiner and Elam, and Hamath, and the islands of the sea out there as well. So God names those places, that's where they are, and he says I'm going to call them back from those areas.

Well, that most likely gives us a pretty good view, or maybe a good idea, of where people will be scattered if Jesus Christ, when he returns, you know, when he returns, and that he gathers, you know, his people, the physical people, and brings them back to the the promised land.

Give me just a second. I want to look at one thing here. I didn't mark this down, but while I'm talking about it, let me look at something here. Mr. Shaby? Yes, go ahead. This is Ted Rudd.

When I read this, I understand, you know, where these nations were during the time that Isaiah made the prophecy, but I think, and also in what do you call it, an atypical sense, or however you say it, Assyria is often thought of as being Germany in today's thought. Yes, I agree. We've talked about that. I put that up the last couple weeks that, you know, we do have, you know, secular history that shows that the Assyrians were moved out of their area up into Europe, and could be the Germanic peoples today. Well, it strikes me that the physical Israel, as well as Judah, when this judgment we're talking about in these prophecies come to pass, they may be once again scattered around much of the nations of the world, and not just in this area that you're showing on the map here. And God's going to reach out to where it says islands of the sea, maybe places like Australia or other islands in different areas where God has to bring them back from there, the remnant from there. So, like I said, when I read it, I think about the destruction of the United States and the British Commonwealth, and they're going to be taken into captivity, and they're going to be scattered through many different places as slaves as it goes. I agree with you. Only God knows where those people will be scattered, right? Christ says he'll gather his elect from the forecar owners of the earth, and so no. I'm just showing kind of where those places were back then, where people were scattered. We know, and I'm just kind of, since God specifically mentions places here, I'm throwing the map up to kind of show where on the map they were. They were apart from their land that God had given them, though. They were out of their native land of Israel and Judah. That's over there on the southeast of the Mediterranean Sea. Same thing, the concept being, or the prophecy being, they will be taken out of their land to a foreign land, and God will bring them back to the promised land when Christ returns.

So we're in agreement on that. Okay, verse 12. Verse 12 in Isaiah 11. It's going on with this prophecy of bringing the people back, which is a key concept in the Bible. When you read about the return of Jesus Christ, it talks about bringing the people back to the promised land. It talks about that in Ezekiel. We'll get to that in a minute as well. But there in verse 12, it says, He will set up a banner for the nations. A banner is, you know, the insignia, the sign. He will be, He will set up a banner for the nations. He will assemble the outcasts of Israel and gather together to this first of Judah.

Well, there it says too, from the four corners of the earth. Right? So when Christ talks about being scattered, it uses this term, even in Matthew 24, you know, He will gather His elect. He says in Matthew 24, the latter verses there from the four corners of the earth. They will be scattered everywhere. They will not be in their, they will not be, well, maybe some will be in their land. When God says only He knows exactly what that means, but it shows gathering. When Christ returns, He puts things back together. The unity returns and He brings the people back back together after they've been separated and cast around the world.

So verse 13, so we've got this promise. We've got this promise that is working here. Verse 13 says, also the envy of Ephraim shall depart. The envy of Ephraim. Now that's a strange thing to say. It's like, what do you mean the envy of Ephraim? So when you look up the word envy or in concordances to see what does that mean, the envy of Ephraim? Who is envying Ephraim? Well, it's in a sense, it's kind of the word hatred. Remember when Jesus Christ was on earth and the Jews delivered Him up to Pilate. Remember what Pilate said? Pilate knew by looking at Christ and talking to Him, they delivered Him up because of envy.

They envied Him. They envied who He was and so they hated Him. So they envied Him and they hated Him. So the envy, the hatred of Ephraim. Now, you know, oftentimes in the Bible when it talks about Ephraim, it'll talk about it's same as Israel. You look at the world that we live in today, there is an envy of modern-day Israel, right? I mean, we are wealthy. Well, you know, Floyd, I'm looking at you.

I didn't answer the question on Genesis 28, but I will. I will at the end of the Bible study remind me. You look at where the English-speaking countries are today. I mean, people hate America, right? I mean, they hate us, even though we're the most generous nation that ever was on earth. They hate Britain, right? A number of people hate Britain. We know that the entire Middle East just hates the Israelite nations. It dates back to that animosity and that hatred from way back in the beginning of the Bible that you read there in Genesis.

So there is this hatred of us and envy, and there are many that would like to see the country become a third-world country. That, you know, if we could break down, why do they have as much as they do? People don't understand the blessings of God and that the reason that this nation and several of the British Commonwealth nations are blessed is because of God. It's because of His blessing on us.

But they hate us for it. They would like to bring that down and they would like to have that end. And so we see that at play today. When you see some of the things that makes no sense for leaders of the land to do, to do, it seems to be destined to bring, you know, bring the country, to bring the nations down and and whatever. I don't want to get into any more of that right now. It says, also the hate or the envy of Ephraim will depart. People won't hate the nations that they hated before.

They won't hate America, Britain, the little nation of Israel over there and those. The envy of Ephraim shall depart. Christ will return. The hatred will disappear as He pours out His Spirit and people begin to love one another. They understand the plan of God and what's going on. They see what has gone on with Satan and they understand His influence on the world.

I mean, as He's put away for a thousand years pictured by the Day of Atonement, the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off. Well, you know, no more Iran, no more of the nations over there who, you know, you continually hear the haranguing that we will destroy Israel, we will destroy Israel. The adversaries of Judah shall be cut off. That hasn't happened today.

Ephraim shall not envy Judah. Well, what that plays off in the future, who knows what that means, right? Now, there was some kind of animosity we know between Ephraim and Judah that we talked about earlier in Isaiah when King Ahaz was very worried about the king of Israel, allying with the king of Syria, and coming in and conquering them. But it might be that there's another time when Ephraim and Judah, America and Judah, separate ways, right? Sometimes we hear that in America when some of our leaders may favor a Palestinian state over an Israeli state or things like that.

And Judah shall not harass Ephraim, whatever that means. We don't see that in the world today. We don't see the harassment, but we may see that in years ahead, just like as we read through the Bible and the prophecies. Some of these things we read, we can see in the world around us. We don't see those today, but one day I think we will understand what those verses mean. So these things will depart. And then in verse 4 it says, but they, that would be Ephraim, these, you know, Israel and Judah who have been taken captive and are in the faraway countries that God is going to bring them down back to us, says, but they shall fly down upon the shoulder of the Philistines toward the west.

Well, fly, you know, just kind of indicates it is going to be. But here we see that, you know, these nations that have held Israel captive, there will come a time when Israel will come down and they will conquer those nations, or they will fly down upon the shoulder of the Philistines toward the west. And then we see the same thing happening that we saw happen back with Israel when they were in Egypt, right, in slavery in Egypt. Then they says, together they shall plunder the people of the east. So we, you know, we could go back to Exodus 15, but I know you know the story of the Exodus very well. When God brought Israel out of Egypt, when they left, they plundered the people of Egypt. They plumbed, they plundered the Egyptians. They're the ones who they were in slavery to. And God says, they're going to do that again. Here's the people they're going to plunder. Now let me put another map up here. Another map is this one, okay. Now it's interesting, you know, when God says they'll fly down upon the Philistines, here's a map of, you know, a map during Isaiah's time, right. So you see Judah, you see Jerusalem, you see Samaria, which was the ancient, the capital of the House of Israel, and you see Philistia down there in red.

And you look at Philistia, and they're there right on the border of Judah. We know from Bible history and looking, reading in the Bible, the Philistines were always, always at war with Israel and Judah. They just there was just never peace between them. And so this would indicate, in verse 14, they, these people have been scattered to the four corners of the earth, whatever God means by that, they will fly down upon the shoulder of the Philistines toward the west. Okay, so we can see on that map where west is. Now let's keep that in mind where Philistia is. Here's Judah, modern day Israel, right. Today Phil, Philistia, many of the scholars say Philistia is the modern day, or the Palestinians are the modern day ancestors of the Philistines. I don't know if that's correct or not. It makes sense given what we see going on in the world around us and the animosity between the Palestinians and, and little Israel over there. But as we look at a wider map of that area of the sea, or that area, you remember where there you see Israel and Judah down in the lower, you know, middle of that area there. You see Jerusalem with a little circle around it. This is the map we've looked at last couple weeks on the Kingdom of Assyria. And so Palestine, the Philistine area is right there in the area where it says Judah on that map. As you look down at the southeast corner of the Mediterranean Sea. If you look at the map, some commentaries will suggest that when you look at the, when you look at the geography there, what that looks like is a shoulder, right? So, so what's God referring to? That is the area. That's the area to where Israel, you know, Israel who's been in captivity will fly down upon the shoulder to the west of the where the Philistin, or the Philistines are. The shoulder of the Philistines, that area of the Mediterranean that they capture there could be looked at as you look at it, you know, as a shoulder and, you know, whether that's what it means, or if it means that they're going to fly down upon Philistine and have their hands on their shoulder and have the Philistines, you know, in submission to them. But notice also that it says, together they shall plunder the people of the east. Now, the people of the east, you can see some of those. We've got Assyria here, we got Media here, we've got these, but let me put this other map back up.

I thought that was a map. Let's see what's, no, that's not it. Sorry, that's Zoom.

Let's look at this one. Okay, so you can see these areas, these areas that are there, and that are going to be named, specifically named, in the next verse, okay? Away from Jerusalem, okay, you have the Way of the Philistines sitting down there right below at the very southern tip of the Mediterranean Sea, where Israel will fly down on the shoulder. They will plunder the people of the east to the east of where Israel is. You see Jerusalem up there, who's there to the east? You got Moab and Edom and Ammon, and those areas that are there that God says, as he talks about that map, and he talks about those peoples. And this is clearly a time in the future because Israel has never been brought back to his to his promised land. So in verse 14, going on, it says, they shall lay their hand on Edom and Moab, and the people of Ammon shall obey them. Now, I don't have the map tonight to show, maybe let me look again and see if maybe I do. I don't think I have the map of where, of modern, no, I didn't keep that one there. But let me keep that map up for a moment, because we're going to come back to that in a minute. You can see where those nations are. I mean, today that would be the people of, well, I'm going to do some Iraq, Iran, Jordan is there.

But God specifically names these people. Now, he may be talking, as Ted pointed out, as we discussed the last couple weeks, he may be talking about the people that inhabited those lands back in ancient Israel's times may have been moved from another location. Or it may be that God is specifically saying these are the nations, because we know these nations around little Israel today hate little Israel. They hate America. They hate Britain. They would rejoice at seeing the fall of all of those Israelite nations. So we know that the animosity, the hatred is still there. And God says, when Christ returns and He brings them back to the Promised Land, these people who oppressed Israel, they will lay their hands on them and they will plunder the people of the East. They will plunder just like they did in ancient times when they left Egypt. I'm looking at my verses here because I know I think there's a verse here I wanted to go to.

Well, we'll go on. I'll get to it here in a minute, I think. So let me pull that map down for right now. But any questions before we move on to verse 15? Now, verses 11 to 14 there are that section that talks about Israel of Xavier. Did you have a comment? Another question just came to mind.

Ezekiel 37 gives us another glimpse into that prophecy where God said He takes Ephraim and the Israelites with them and Judah and Israelites with them and makes one stick of the two of them. Yeah, exactly. I agree with you. Yes, there are those prophecies elsewhere. This isn't the only place throughout the Bible. You see that in many of the major and minor prophets. God will bring them back to that. So we have, you know, one, we have Christ comes, the Gentiles, their hope isn't Him. Two, He's going to bring back the people of Israel to their promised land. He's going to redeem or bring them back. They will plunder their captors. And then in verse 15 we see, you know, one more thing. We're going to see where God says He's going to destroy basically Israel's enemies. I mean, again, just like Assyria of old took great pleasure, great pleasure in defeating Israel. They took great pleasure. They had great pride in saying, look who we beat, you know, look who we conquered. Apparently, the dual prophecy is as Assyria again figures in the defeat of Israel, they will follow the same course. And God will use Israel to bring them down. Remember, humility is one of those things that God will always do, whether we're in the church or not. You know, we have to remember to be humble. So in verse 15, in the next couple verses, we read about this destruction that is in there and how God is going to do that. We're going to see in these verses things that we read about in Revelation as well. Verse 15, the eternal will utterly destroy the tongue of the Sea of Egypt.

That's a tough verse to understand, too. What is the tongue of the Sea of Egypt? What is the word destroy? What will he destroy? Again, when you go back and you look at the Hebrew there, probably, not probably, a better thing is he will dry up the tongue of the Sea of Egypt, right? He'll destroy it. Here's a body of water. He's going to dry it up. If you dry up a body of water, you've destroyed it. The Lord will utterly dry up the tongue of the Sea of Egypt. Now, what is the tongue of the Sea of Egypt? You read the commentaries, you get different different views of what the tongue of the Sea of Egypt is, but let me put up this map again.

Some commentaries will say it's the Red Sea. Other commentaries will say, no, it's the Gulf of Suez that you see there on the map. Others will say it's the Gulf of Aqaba. So, you know, the majority, if I can say that, will say it is in the Red Sea area. The Red Sea area does figure prominently in Israel's history. We know the story of back of ancient Israel and the deliverance of the people of Israel from Egypt through the Red Sea when God dried up the Red Sea and they crossed over on dry ground. We're well aware of that miracle as God put the final nails into the coffin of Egypt and Egypt's mastery over Israel. So, the Bible says, in this time, at the time of the end, Christ returns, and God is going to bring his people back to the brand that he promised them that he'll dry up the tongue of the Sea of Egypt. So, if the Sea of Egypt, what it's known for mainly is the Red Sea, there's other seas we could talk about, but there are these unique features that are there on the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aqaba. If you want to call it a tongue, it's a little thing that's out there to the east. If you look at the Gulf of Suez, it may be seen as a tongue out there. So, what will God dry up? One of those two? What will he dry up for a purpose? Because he will dry one of those, he will dry something up there as he delivers his people back into the places that he wants them to be. He will utterly, verse 15, dry up the tongue of the Sea of Egypt. It would appear that it is one of those as he brings them back from those areas. With his mighty wind, he will shake his fist over the river. Now, keep your finger there in Isaiah 11, because again we see God works in patterns. We see God repeating things the way he does things. Back in Exodus 15, as God delivered Israel from Egypt.

Exodus 14, I'm sorry, Exodus 14 and verse 21. We read about God drying up the Red Sea. So, Israel could pass through it and says, Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night. He made the sea into dry land, and the waters were divided. So, the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea on the dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on their right and on their left. So, we have this east wind that blew all night, as God blew that sea and dried up the land upon them. Now, we see this same thing in Isaiah 11, 15. God will utterly dry up the tongue of the son of Egypt. I mean, utterly, I always pay attention to those adverbs, I say, utterly dry up the tongue of the sea of Egypt. With his mighty wind, he will shake his fist over the river. What river? What river might he be talking about?

Um, pull up yet another map here. So, you guys are going to be geography experts by the time tonight is over. So, um, oh. Okay. Barca River, Hadas River, Asiba River, and Wadi, Wadi, Gauseis River. There's influence into it. Yep, there's a lot. Now, the common, the common, again, using the commentaries of what they think, and I think it ties into Revelation. Do you see the Arabian Desert down there in the white on that map? And right above the very north part of it, you see the Euphrates River. And you see how it begins there under the Black Sea, moves down into Ur and Elam and the Persian Gulf and all those things. You know, so God, it says, God will die up one of those tongues of the Red Sea that you see down there in the lower corner. And it by the, with his mighty winds, he will shake his fist over the river and strike it into, it says in, again, God might have something in mind. Many of the commentaries say that's probably mean strike it into seven streams, making it easier to cross. I don't know how that fits with utterly drying up. But God's going to do something with that Euphrates River, and we do read about that, right? We do read about that Euphrates River back in Revelation 16. So we know it figures prominently in the future. In Revelation 16, now verse 12, it says, the sixth angel. Now we'll be talking about this in, where are we today?

September 14, so in 12 days on the day of trumpets, then the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the Great River Euphrates, and its water was dried up, so that the way the kings from the east might be prepared. So we have the Euphrates River. Go ahead. The Euphrates River right now is going through a water crisis. Is it? Yes, really bad. I was reading you thinking on it lately, and it's way down to basically nothing. Interesting. Interesting. Yeah. Yeah, so we, you know, so we have this Euphrates that figures in Bible prophecy there, that river is going to be dried up. Here God talks about, again, this river, this wind that's going to blow over it, that he'll dry up that river, strike it into whatever it means. I don't know what that means. Strike it into seven streams. We're going to have to figure out, we'll have to see what that means when it comes to pass, and we will make men cross over dryshod, to cross over this mighty river, you know, on dry land, just like Israel marched out of Egypt on dry land. God performing the same miracles again for his people once as he takes them out of Egypt, and then this time as he brings them back into the land that he promised them. And so as he continues then in verse 16, you see it says, there will be a highway for the remnant of his people. So again, we know we're clearly talking about a time ahead of us because it's the remnant of his people. Many, many, many, many have died in captivity, by pestilence, by famine, or by the sword, but 10 percent remain, and they are taken back to the promised land. There will be a highway for the remnant of his people. Now let's go forward to Isaiah 35.

Because again, we'll see this. You know, as God inspires Isaiah, he talks about this highway and other places in this book as well. Isaiah 35. Again, another chapter you will doubtless be reading at the Feast of Tabernacles because it's a beautiful millennial chapter of things that happen when Christ restores beauty to the earth and health to the earth and health to the people that are living at that time. But in verse 8, as part of this millennial prophecy, we read about this highway. Isaiah 35 and verse 8, a highway shall be there and a road. It will be called the highway of holiness. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it shall be for others. Whoever walks the road, although a fool, shall not go astray. And he says it'll be safe. No lion shall be there, nor shall any ravenous beast go up on it. It shall not be found there, but the redeemed shall walk there. The people that God redeems, that he captures, that he brings back from death, brings back from kidnapping, brings back from the captivity they're in. And the ransom to the Lord shall return and come to Zion with singing, with everlasting joy on their heads. They shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. Millennial verses. I mean, we don't have to turn to Revelation 22. There will be no more sorrow. There will be no more pain. There will be no more of all those miserable things of strife that we go through in this life.

When Christ returns, the people will return, and there will be this highway that's there. That's a God prepares the way for them to come back, that he can put them in the land that he promised Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Now, we can read all about that in Ezekiel as well, because it's not just the house of Israel.

The house of Judah also is going to be come back. They're part of Israel, the original 12 tribes. It was because of the carnality that the house of Judah and Israel, or the house of Israel, was split into the two nations that they were. But if we look at Ezekiel 11, you know, we see these things saying this thing. See these same things again. Verse 13, Ezekiel 11. It says, It happened while I was prophesying. The Pelotia, the son of Beniah, died. And I fell on my face and cried, and this is Ezekiel writing, I fell on my face and cried with a loud voice and said, Ah, Lord God, will you make a complete end of the remnant of Israel?

Will they ever return? Are you going to let them die in captivity? So many have died. Will you make a complete end of the remnant of Israel? And again, the word of the Lord came to be saying, Son of Man, your brethren, your relatives, your countrymen, and all the house of Israel in its entirety are those about whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get far away from the Lord.

This land has been given to us as a possession. Therefore say, Thus says the Lord God, although I have cast them far off among the Gentiles, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet I shall be a little sanctuary for them in the countries where they have gone.

Isn't that a hopeful verse? Even if we're captive someplace, God says, I'll be their sanctuary. I'll protect. I'll watch over them. I know who they are. I know what I'm doing. I shall be a little sanctuary for them in the countries where they have gone. Therefore say, Thus says the Lord God, I will gather you from the peoples. I will assemble you from the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel, and they will go there, and they will take away all its detestable things and all its abominations from there.

All those idols, all those things of false worship that are there, the land will be cleared just like God commanded Israel when they moved into the Promised Land. Get rid of all the high places. Get rid of all the altars. Get rid of all those things. Everything that of their religion get out of their life. Only God worshiped. They will go there. They will take away all these detestable things and all its abominations from there, and then I will give them one heart. I will put a new spirit within them and take the stony heart out of their flesh and give them a heart of flesh.

One that's teachable. One that will yield to God. One that won't just rebel against him and resist him as God's Holy Spirit in us helps break down that spirit of resistance and wanting to do things our own way. I don't need this. I don't have to do that. God's okay if I just do this. All these attitudes that we could have. I'll give them a heart of flesh that they may walk in my statutes and keep my judgments and do them.

They will be my people, and I will be their God. It'll be a time when God brings back his people, and mankind and God and creation will be at one again. What God wants is all of us at one. The same thing he wants for you and me, that he's called out of the world now, that we need to be growing together in one. That will be that highway as he brings back, and then the whole world flows to Jerusalem, where the law will go forth. They will all be wanting to live the way of God's life, the same way that you and I have today. Hey, James, do you have a comment?

I think you're muted, James. Okay, sorry. Are we talking about two different groups of people? I'm kind of a little confused. We're talking about national Israel, which are physical humans that are coming back, but there's also the spiritual Israel, which are the saints.

The saints already resurrected at this time, and this is just physical Israel coming back.

That's a whole different thing. When does the Bible say the saints are resurrected?

Coming of Christ. At the seventh trump, right? So, yes. So they're already resurrected. So they're already spirit beings at the time that God is bringing back physical Israel, right? The physical nationality is back to the promised land. So, yeah, this is talking about physical Israel.

Okay, okay, yeah. All right, thank you.

Okay, let me get rid of this map here.

Okay, so where were we? We're in verse 16 of Isaiah 11, and we were just reading about the highway there.

I don't know if I read the rest of verse 16, but let me read it, and then we'll go into chapter 12 here. It says, there will be a highway for the remnant of his people who will be left from Assyria.

So again, the highway is coming. Again, it kind of gives us an indication. Where are those people?

There will be a highway for the remnant of his people who will be left from Assyria.

Whatever Assyria is, if Assyria plays, Assyria plays a key role in the captivity and the punishment of Israel for departing from God. We'll see clearly who that is in the years ahead as we watch all the various political things of the world take shape. Today, we can kind of see how are these things going to happen? How, you know, when times pass, you know, I say, how would that ever happen? Now we can see some of those things happening in the world, and exactly the direction the world is going as we march toward that time of revelation. Yes, Xavier.

Brother Shabik, could these two represent exactly as we are the king of the north and the king of the south? It is talking about that's it, isn't it? The king of the south, king of the north.

Thank you.

Okay, who will be left? Going on to verse 16. Who will be left from Assyria as it was for Israel in the day that he came up from the land of Egypt? So there's that highway God led the people through to the promised land. God will lead the people back to the promised land at Christ's return. So, you know, as we move into chapter 12, which is just, I mean, just as God, you know, he kind of brings it that all the glory goes to God. The people are happy through all the turmoil, through all the misery that Israel has gone through, justly deserved by the way they've turned away from God and misused and not appreciated the blessings that he's given them.

You know, it all ends up, well, God is in control. He never, you know, he will, Christ will return, and there will be the time of the millennium that will be a time of peace and unity. And of course, that leads into eternity, you know, but the next age ahead of us is the millennial age. So we come to, you know, we've come through the first 11 chapters then here of talking about Israel.

We learned a lot of things about Israel and Judah. God has compared them to vineyards. He has talked about them being ungrateful people. He has shown us what, you know, what is like when you reign when you're under a king that is good, and then you have this king Ahaz who may not have been part of our vocabulary or our conscious thoughts back a few weeks ago, but now we see King Ahaz.

And God delivered a lot of prophecies, many of which have been fulfilled, right? All those fulfilled prophecies. We talked about some of the prophecies of the Messiah. Those fulfilled prophecies are a proof of the Bible, proof that we can rely on God because, you know, as you've heard it said, and if you haven't heard it said, it should be said many times.

If you never go through the Bible and find a prophecy that God prophesied, it will see many, many more as we go through the book of Isaiah that wasn't fulfilled. Then we need to stop and talk about it because God, God, what God says, he says a couple times in Isaiah, if the word goes out from my mouth, it's not going to return void.

What I say is going to happen. So one of the proofs of the Bible is fulfilled prophecies. From those fulfilled prophecies, we know that the prophecies to come are sure, as you and I are, you know, here online with each other tonight, that they're going to happen. And we can have faith in that, and we can have faith in the fact that God said, he will see us through and he will never leave us and he will never forsake us.

Israel learns that as we come through these, as we come through the four, his hand is outstretched still because God will give warnings. Will people listen to the warnings? He will send problems on them. Will they listen and turn to him through those problems? He will prophesy about even these decrees we talked about, those four things we talked about. And then when Christ returns, you know what will happen. So in verse 12, we're in the millennial period, and there's this joy and there's this gladness, right?

Chapter 12, in that day, and that's the time ahead of us, in that day you will say, oh Lord, I will praise you. Though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you comfort me. Now God is, God is angry, or God has been angry with Israel, and they have disappointed him. You know, you and I have disappointed God, too, in our lifetimes, but Israel will bear the brunt of what they have done. They will reap what they have sown.

Lord, I will praise you. Though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you comfort me. Behold, God is my salvation. You know, people will understand that. God oftentimes in the Bible will say, then they will know, then they will know that I am the Lord. All things that are going to happen, then they will know that I am the Lord. Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust and not be afraid. For Yah, the Lord is my strength and song.

You know, as we go through, whatever we go through, you know, little trials in our life always remind yourself God is there. God is there. Learn to trust in Him and discipline yourself to turn to Him. There's an element of the self-control of the Holy Spirit, you know, that we need to pay attention to and use that self-control of that strength to turn to Him. Yes, Dale?

Yeah, I believe, Mr. Shabian, the Bible is at 365 times that God says, fair enough.

Like it's almost like one for every day of the year. For every day of the year. Very good. Yeah, I chose how important it is to God. Don't fear, right? Those are going to be words that, yeah, we're going to be ringing in our ears one day. So, okay. I will trust and not be afraid. For God is my strength, or Yah, the Lord is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. And that day, yes, it was God who saved us. Not us, not our smarts, not our weapons, not anything that we count on today. It'll be God who leads us into eternity. Therefore, with joy, you will draw water from the wells of salvation.

Well, you know, that probably makes us think of John 737, right? When Christ on that last day, that great day of the feast said, if you're thirsty, come to me, and out of your hearts will flow rivers of living water. And so, it says, with joy. You know, with God there's joy, with God there's unity, with God there's all these positive things in life. Therefore, with joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation. Keep that water in mind as you go to the Feast of Tabernacles, too, and how water plays such an important part in our lives today, as God uses that, you know, as a spiritual analogy for us, as we are washed by the water of the word.

The healing water that comes forth from the Millennial Temple that heal the nations.

Verse 4, and in that day, in that day you will say, praise the Lord, call upon his name, declare his deeds among the peoples. You know, make mention, you know, proclaim would have been a good thing. Proclaim. We talked a little bit about, I guess we didn't talk about it on the Bible study, I talked about it in the last sermon I gave in Cincinnati. The difference between preach and proclaim. Proclaim that his name is exalted. Sing to the angel, for he has done excellent things.

Now, you know, if you go back, I won't take the time because I want to take some time to answer Floyd's question from last week. Go back to Exodus 15 and look at the song that they sang after God delivered them through the Red Sea. And this song is pretty similar to what that song, when they had the deliverance back to them. The same song of joy, praise, complete, complete, I don't know, complete joy of God for what he has done for us. Proclaim his name. Sing to the Lord, he has done excellent things. This is known in all the earth. Cry out and shout, O inhabitants of Zion, for great is the Holy One of Israel in your midst.

Let's do, you know, again, as we look at other prophets. Let's go back to the little prophet of Zephaniah.

I think he's the fourth book from the end of the Old Testament.

Okay, have him wait. I'll be done in a few minutes.

Zephaniah 3.

Zephaniah 3.

I'll let them put you on hold for a minute. I got someone who needs an answer on something real quick. I'll be back in just a second.

Okay, okay, sorry about that. Okay, Zephaniah 3, verse 14. Here we see Zephaniah. This little prophet is saying the same thing. Sing, daughter of Zion, shout Israel, be glad and rejoice with all your heart, O daughter of Jerusalem. The Lord has taken away your judgments.

He has cast out your enemy. The king of Israel, the eternal, is in your midst. You shall see disaster no more. And I guess we were in 16 and 2. In that day, it will be said that Jerusalem, don't fear, Zion, let not your hands be weak. The Lord your God in your midst, the mighty one will save. He will rejoice over you with gladness.

He will quiet you with his love. He will rejoice over you with singing. We can always have hope in God and know that through all all the travails and problems of life, he will be there. He will be there and he will deliver just as he has promised. Let me pause there. Any comments, questions, or whatever? We'll get to Floyd here in a minute. Okay, let me tell you what we'll do. I haven't got them done yet, but I'm going to give you some review questions over Isaiah 1 through 12. I'm going to try to get those out to you by Friday, maybe Sunday before I actually can get them to you.

So the next Bible study will go over those review questions. Okay, Isaiah 1 through 12, it's good to be able to put it all together and kind of look back over where we were. It'll be a very good foundation to the rest of the book of Isaiah because the rest of the book of Isaiah will harken on these things too.

You'll see the next section talks about some specific prophecies of some of these nations that have created problems for Israel. In some of those prophecies, we'll see things that God said about a place like Babylon and how Babylon, how that prophecy is still fulfilled today. So it'll be very interesting as all the book of Isaiah and all the Bible is, but that I'll try to get to in the next several days, and then we'll use the next Bible study to go over that review. Mr. Shaby? Yes, sir. Yeah, this is Ted Rudd again. When we're going over these prophecies like this, we can't help but try to see how it corresponds to what's going on today, especially inside the United States.

I've been reading and staying about when, I believe it was King Josiah. He was having the temple cleaned out, and they came across what they refer to as the book of the law.

In there, Josiah was struck by warning messages that God had given to Judah, Israel, about what was going to happen. I'm getting confused now. The king took it to heart as serious, which seems to be different than what's happening in the United States to that respect. It's that warning messages are going out to America today, as well as other nations, about what God predicts is going to happen. If the United States continues in the same track it's going to now, people don't take it seriously, which means that God's people have to take it seriously, what's happening, and observe about what's going on in our country, and knowing that God is a God of love, but he's also a God of judgment, and we need to take that as a warning as well.

So I do try to keep up, put correspondence with when I read these about what is going on today. Yep, you're exactly right. We can see the prophecy today, and we're going to be talking about that a little bit more as we get closer to the piece of trumpets here in the next few days, actually.

So yeah, Thomas? Should be a fairly quick question. Just to say in 11, where we were talking about the river being utterly destroyed, was it just an inference that it's dried up, or is that what it means closer in the Greek? I was just curious. The inference is it is dried up, since it's talking about the river, and he destroys the river the way you destroy your river is dry up. I would have to go back. I didn't write down the exact Hebrew word, but if you go to one of those, if you go to concordance and look at that, well, you know what?

Hold on just a minute, let me look at something. Ah, you know what? Actually, even in my Bible, I thought I saw that now. In Isaiah 11, in my margin, it's got an asterisk by destroy, and it says, the Septuagint reads dry off. Okay, thank you. Okay, let's go back. Floyd asked a question last week about the latter, Jacob's ladders. Let's go back to Genesis 28 and kind of look at that.

It's good to review these verses and everything and see what God is doing here. It forces quite a dream that Jacob has. You remember that he has left his home in Igno-Mitti, if you will. He's tricked Esau on the right. Esau wants to kill him. Isaac's not happy with him at all. He has to leave home, and so he's on his way. He's all by himself. He's made a method of his life, but it is God's will when it's going on. So if we look at Genesis 28 and read through this, we see what God is doing in a way to comfort Jacob. In Genesis 28 verse 12, verse 11, we read about this stone, right?

This stone that we were talking about earlier that is the supposed stone of the throne that was carried by Jeremiah up into the British Isles, that every king has been under his throne as he's been born. But in verse 11, it talks about this stone. He took one of the stones of that place, put it at his head, and he lay down in that place to sleep.

Verse 12, he dreamed, and behold, the latter was set up on the earth, and his top reached to heaven, and there the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. And behold, the Lord stood above it and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham, your father, and the God of Isaac. The land on which you lie I will give to you and your descendants.

And also your descendants shall be as the dust of the earth. You shall spread abroad to the west and the east, the north and the south, and in you and in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed. So here God is giving, repeating these promises to Jacob, who has just really kind of made a mess of his family, if you will. But God is saying, I'm with you. I'm with you. You're going to inherit those promises that I gave to your, you know, to Abraham. Behold, I'm with you and will keep you wherever you go and will bring you back to this land. And he does. Remember, later on, God, many years after Jacob has all those sons, he brings him back. And there's that reconciliation between Esau and Jacob. I'm with you. I'll keep you wherever you go. And I will bring you back to this land, for I will not leave you until I have done what I have spoken to you. And Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, Surely the Lord is in this place and I didn't know it. And he was afraid, rightfully afraid, and said, How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven. And he rose early in the morning. He took the stone that he had put in his head, and he set it up as a pillar and poured oil on top of it and called that place Bethel. But the name of that city had been lost previously. And it's interesting, verse 12 is continuing. And Jacob made a vow, saying, If God will be with me, which is God already told you, I will be with you. I will provide all these things with you. I will never leave you and I will bring you back to this place. Jacob, who's leaving in a state of who knows what Jacob was thinking, I'm with you. I'm with you. Don't worry about it. I'm going to take care of you. If God will be with me, keep me in this way that I'm going and give me bread to eat and clothing to put on so that I come back to my father's house in peace. Then God shall be my God and this stone, which I have set as a pillar, shall be God's house. And of all that you give me, I will surely give a tenth to you. So we can see the attitude that Jacob had. We can see the impact that that, seeing that ladder to heaven, if you will, with Christ standing at the top of it. So, you know, that ladder, you know, I'm Donald Trump and I approve this message. Okay, that's good.

Okay. What was I saying? Oh, okay. This ladder. I talked to some of the ABC instructors about this, the ministers in there, and I said, okay, talk about this ladder a little bit.

It gives us comfort. God watches over us. God provides for us. And we see, you know, we know that the angels were told in Hebrews, they ministered to us. They are, you know, they kind of are watching over us. You know, God talks about how the angels will come up and they'll report to him what's going on on the earth, you know, and when we're in trouble, God is there. Many people can give us the stories of how they know that angels have come to rescue them in a time of distress or whatever. But God is aware. He's watching his people and that ladder, you know, that ladder to heaven, this is a part I want to think more about, you know, Christ is at the top of it. He is at the top of that ladder. He is the reason that we can have eternity. It only comes through him. He has to be in that ladder to heaven. Keep that one in your mind as we think through it. Let's go back to John 1, and where Lloyd's question was last week was when we look at John 1, 51, and we look at Genesis 28, 12, and those angels that are ascending and descending on that ladder, we see Christ talking about this very, very, very same thing with exactly the same words in John 1, 51. Now, this is the occasion where he's, uh, Nathaniel has been called to be a disciple. And you remember Nathaniel when Christ says to him, Behold a man in whom is no guile. And Nathaniel seems to, he says right away there in verse 49, You are the Son of God. He gets it. Whatever Christ said to him that made Nathaniel know that he knew you're the Son of God. And in verse 50, Christ answers Nathaniel in the sign of his calling. And he says, Because I said to you, I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe? You will see greater things than these. And he said to him, Most assuredly I say to you, hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man. So, you know, he's, he's letting Nathaniel know, you know, you're going to see heaven, you're going to see heaven open. Now, what I didn't write down, and I don't remember the scriptures, there are other places that it talks about. Well, one of them I do remember, let's go to Matthew 3. Sometimes you can look at, you can look at phrases and how God uses them in the Bible. And Christ says, you know, in the hereafter, you will see heaven open.

When heaven opens, it's like God is, God is giving us a calling. He's revealing something to us, something, there's a sign from heaven of who we are. Matthew 3 and verse 16, at the time of Christ's baptism, in verse 16, in Matthew 3, it says, when he Christ had been baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water, and behold, the heavens were open to him.

And he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon him. And a voice came from heaven saying, this is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. So looking at that heaven open, and to Jacob, as he saw that ladder to heaven, and Christ standing at the top of it, it was like heaven was open to him. God was calling him, giving him future, giving him eternity, saying, if you will follow me, there will be, I'm watching over you. And he says, and you'll see these angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man. You know, I don't know how to exactly put it into words. God will give us the words. But you can see the similarity there in what God is saying. There is Christ. He is the door. He is our salvation. He is the way to eternal life. When the heavens open, you know, there's even, there's even, as I'm thinking about it now, back in Revelation, I believe, we have the heavens open as well. Let me see if I can find that quickly.

Yeah, Revelation 11 and verse 19.

You know, we have the two witnesses in chapter 11. We have them, proper, they have witness, you know, them for three and a half years witnessing to the earth, they're finally killed, and then they are resurrected. They're resurrected. And then at the end of that verse, chapter 11, it says, then 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.

Now, you know, was that temple of God, whatever that is, in heaven, open that all of mankind? Is this something that they, okay, this is God, this is God working with us here, this is God who has been sending a message to the earth, and mankind just ignores it? You know, let me just leave it there, and maybe Floyd has thought more about it, or anyone else about that question. But, you know, there is this significance and symbolism there. God is with us. God will open our minds to what it is that he has in mind for us. He is, of course, salvation, and we know that there are angels that are sent to minister to us, as the Bible tells us throughout. So, any questions, comments?

Anyone can fill in, or maybe do a better job of explaining some of these things than I have. That makes sense. Brother Shaby, what shocks me is, in the first case with Jacob, is that he gets the vision first, and God speaks to him. And he exclaims, in Nathaniel's case, Nathaniel is praying, and Christ comment tells him probably about what he was praying about. And he exclaims to Christ, and then Christ does the reverse, and says, hereafter you will see something similar to what? It's like one happened before the other.

It's an interesting analogy of what God is telling us there. Just something for us to contemplate. God will fill in all the blanks, and we'll understand what that is. That's the way the Bible was going to get a note.

Mr. Shaby? Yes, Debbie. Hi.

It's kind of like the opposite of the tower that was built by men to reach heaven on their own.

You know, the Tower of Babel? Yes. This is more like God extending the invitation or the direction instead of man getting to God on his own.

It's like the opposite, and that tower didn't work.

They tried to build a tower, but the only way you're going to ever build that is through God, right?

Good thought. Maybe it will be a sort of communication too, because angels are the word messenger on the loose means a messenger as well. Yeah, that's true. That does. It means messengers.

And we know during the Gospel many things of Christ had the angels arranged, Him and the Father. But in the city you'll see a man doing this. You'll see a donkey. You'll see that many other times it may have been some of their faithful angels, of course, doing their bidding, setting things up for the apostles and our disciples to find it exactly as He said. Very good.

They weren't just twiddling their fingers while He was here, or doing nothing, because they ministered to Him when He needed strength. They did this, they did that.

They did it for Him. They'll do it for us, right? Well, we need it when God sends them.

Bud?

Bud, can you hear us? I got your hand up. I don't know if you wanted to make a comment or...

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Okay.

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Jacob's pillar stone, and I believe its tradition is in the throne that they are crowned on in England. That very stone is supposed to be in that throne, a chair, and that's what we... what, 50 years ago we were being taught.

Anybody... it's kind of vague with me right now, but it comes to mind that we did at one time, and I think it's tradition more than anything. Any comments on that?

I, you know, whether it's the actual stone or not, I think it is more tradition. I think it shows, it kind of shows there is that relationship to the throne to the people of Israel, even though Britain wants to deny it. I know in the thing that we sent out, on the day after the Queen's death, we had two links in that letter. One was to the United States of Britain and prophecy, and given what's going on right now, it wouldn't be a bad booklet to review. The other one was one that is in booklet form that's only on the internet, and it talked about the throne. And in that article, in that study that dates back for years and years and years and years, it'll address some of those things. And I think that stone is in that article as well, now what the theory is behind it. Only God knows if it's the same stone. But the reality is the British have thought that forever. That's why they carry that stone with them.

Very good. And Queen Elizabeth was crowned in that chair where the throne is.

Correct. Yeah, I would say when that coronation comes, whether it's just watch for that, I think that will be one of the most fascinating things we see. In fact, for the ABC class, we've already been talking about how they just need to see that because there's going to be so much of the Bible that you can tie into that coronation. I think with the stone, the significance of the throne, a lot of the things that are in the Bible come to life with this change in the monarchy here that has just happened. Paul? Yeah, Mr. Shavey. Yes, yeah, Paul. Hi. I didn't want to get too far off track, but I was wondering when you display these maps, are you able to run your cursor over them? I don't think so. I have to try that. I tried it once and it didn't work, but what I haven't done is go to the next step to see if there's something I can do to make them happen. Try and control and you're screwed. It would really be nice to be able to point at things because those maps aren't the best, especially seeing them the way we see them. Oh, really? Okay, well they look good. They look good. They're in full screen when I do them, so I don't know if they're coming across in full screen when you see them or not.

You know, maybe, yeah, maybe if you have gallery view, maybe you have to switch to speaker view at that time when those maps are up. That would put the full screen on them so you could see them.

I can see them in full screen. You can? Okay, okay. Yeah, and I'm not in gallery view. Okay, okay.

Some maybe. And also take a snapshot of them, too, so I can print them and keep them.

Yeah, you know, I can, what I can do, too, I guess I can send them today because some of those maps, they do help you visualize what you're talking about, right, in the Bible when you see those maps. I hadn't, before some of these studies we've been through in Acts, I hadn't been that interested in maps, but I see how it makes it adds to the whole study, just to have a visual with it. So, yeah, if you send those to me, I'll upload them. Okay, okay. Then on the website and whoever could just download them from there. Okay, okay. Mr. Shaby, can you see? Yes. That's the coronation chair, I believe, with the stone. Ah, there you go, there you go. That's what it looks like. Yep.

Mr. Shaby, do you know whether Charles will be crowned or anointed with anointing oil when he's discorinated? I don't know, I don't know. It wouldn't surprise me if he is, but I don't know that for sure. Okay. I think at that time, America seems so fascinated. I think the whole world is so fascinated with that ceremony. I think we'll know every detail of what's happening. The news will probably spell it out in detail so that we understand the history and the significance.

Mr. Shaby, can I ask one question? Sure. When you talked to some other ministers, do they ever see that with John 151? No. No, they didn't.

When I saw that, wow, that's interesting. Yeah, but I had a discussion on it. So I think the ABC class, when they get to Genesis 28, probably are going to be talking about that this year. They tie it into John 151, right? And things. So yeah, I think it's a good addition. And when they find something new with the Bible like that, it's like, that's pretty clear. Christ is talking about that. So. Mr. Shaby, just to answer that question about him being anointed, I just pulled up an article that says, under a canopy of golden cloth, he will be anointed with holy oil, blessed and consecrated by the Archbishop of Canterbury. Wow. Yeah, it's going to be quite quite a ceremony. Yeah, that no one, yeah. In our, the only time in our lifetime, the battle happened, right? Except when Christ is anointed king and when he returns and takes that crown. So.

It's a good time to reread the book. It is a good time to look at it. You see, you see, coming alive. Okay, I'll let y'all go. I'll let y'all go. Okay, so I have a very good rest of the week. Good Sabbath. We will, we will see you all next Wednesday night. I will try hard to get those questions to you here in the next, in the next few days. Okay? All right. Okay. Bye, everybody.