WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to The Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:13.240 practical ways. Hey, everybody, happy Monday. 4 00:00:13.640 --> 00:00:16.039 Well, top of the morning to you in the morning 5 00:00:16.079 --> 00:00:17.399 to you, Yeah. 6 00:00:17.160 --> 00:00:18.280 Is that Scottish or Irish? 7 00:00:18.519 --> 00:00:20.679 I think that's Irish. Well that was the best Irish 8 00:00:20.760 --> 00:00:23.079 accent I can do. That was an actual attempt at 9 00:00:23.120 --> 00:00:25.800 a No, it wasn't. I was just saying top of 10 00:00:25.800 --> 00:00:26.359 the morning to you. 11 00:00:26.440 --> 00:00:27.600 I don't think I could actually do one. 12 00:00:27.679 --> 00:00:29.519 Yeah, I can't even think. Yeah, but did you know 13 00:00:29.600 --> 00:00:32.840 I just found out I'm Irish. This is my second 14 00:00:33.159 --> 00:00:34.759 saint Patti's day as an Irishman. 15 00:00:35.320 --> 00:00:36.439 Well that's not true. 16 00:00:36.920 --> 00:00:37.759 Well it is for me. 17 00:00:38.119 --> 00:00:40.200 Yeah, well it's the second one that you were aware that. 18 00:00:40.280 --> 00:00:40.439 Yeah. 19 00:00:40.479 --> 00:00:40.640 Yeah. 20 00:00:40.640 --> 00:00:42.439 I grew up my whole life thinking I was finished, 21 00:00:42.439 --> 00:00:44.560 and it turns out all of our people came I'm 22 00:00:44.560 --> 00:00:46.280 all Scot's, Irish and Welsh. 23 00:00:46.280 --> 00:00:47.079 Wow, that's it. 24 00:00:47.320 --> 00:00:50.640 Yeah, and partly Swiss. 25 00:00:51.880 --> 00:00:53.960 Well I am German and Italian? 26 00:00:54.399 --> 00:00:56.560 Really, yes, I never saw that coming. Yeah. 27 00:00:57.280 --> 00:00:59.679 Yeah, I'm like fifty percent Italian and like forty eight 28 00:00:59.679 --> 00:01:01.759 percent German and two percent French. 29 00:01:02.039 --> 00:01:05.879 Wow. We yeah, just a little bit well, there you go. 30 00:01:05.959 --> 00:01:09.040 So this is a special day for me personally. It's 31 00:01:09.079 --> 00:01:09.879 all I'm saying. St. 32 00:01:09.920 --> 00:01:10.560 Patrick's St. 33 00:01:10.560 --> 00:01:11.120 Patty's Day. 34 00:01:11.239 --> 00:01:13.760 Wow, I can go to the bars and no, I'm. 35 00:01:13.640 --> 00:01:18.359 Not that guy. Yeah, not that guy. So today our 36 00:01:18.400 --> 00:01:23.480 segment from Dez says, let's ask Chat GPTY is now 37 00:01:24.200 --> 00:01:27.760 Chat GPT loves you. You know that, right? AI loves 38 00:01:27.799 --> 00:01:29.480 you and they never lie to you. 39 00:01:29.560 --> 00:01:30.079 Yeah? Right? 40 00:01:30.599 --> 00:01:33.799 Yeah? Have you are you aware that sometimes AI hallucinates 41 00:01:34.120 --> 00:01:36.480 it makes stuff up? What do you mean? Yeah, it's 42 00:01:36.519 --> 00:01:38.400 not always true. It'll make stuff up if it can't 43 00:01:38.400 --> 00:01:40.840 find the answer for real. Yeah, it doesn't want to 44 00:01:40.840 --> 00:01:42.480 give you a wrong answer, So does make stuff up, 45 00:01:42.680 --> 00:01:44.599 So you got to verify everything it says. 46 00:01:44.959 --> 00:01:46.760 Oh, well, that's disappointing. 47 00:01:46.840 --> 00:01:48.599 I know you're going to start rewriting your messages. 48 00:01:49.439 --> 00:01:56.359 Yeah. I've never used a chat GPT in my life. 49 00:01:56.959 --> 00:02:00.000 Okay, So anyways, here's what does said. It says it's 50 00:02:00.120 --> 00:02:03.439 Saint Patrick's Day. So let's ask chat GPT funny questions 51 00:02:03.480 --> 00:02:06.439 about Saint Patrick's Day and pick some of your favorites 52 00:02:06.480 --> 00:02:09.680 to share with us. So, just before you walked in 53 00:02:09.719 --> 00:02:13.080 the studio, Yes, I asked Chat TPT, tell me some 54 00:02:13.159 --> 00:02:15.919 things I don't know about Saint Patrick's day amaze me. 55 00:02:16.560 --> 00:02:16.960 Oh wow. 56 00:02:17.319 --> 00:02:19.360 And it said here are some fascinating and lesser known 57 00:02:19.400 --> 00:02:21.639 facts about Saint Patrick's day that just might surprise you. 58 00:02:21.759 --> 00:02:25.319 First of all, and this is the most scandalous Okay, 59 00:02:25.520 --> 00:02:30.479 Saint Patrick wasn't Irish? What? And I looked it up 60 00:02:30.479 --> 00:02:34.280 because I didn't believe it really. Yeah, despite being the 61 00:02:34.319 --> 00:02:37.680 patron saint of Ireland, Saint Patrick was actually born in 62 00:02:37.800 --> 00:02:41.560 Rome and Britain, possibly Scotland or Wales. So me and 63 00:02:41.599 --> 00:02:43.400 Saint Patrick are just the same. 64 00:02:43.800 --> 00:02:44.080 Wow. 65 00:02:44.199 --> 00:02:48.000 I'm Scott's Irish and Welsh. Wow, that's what I am. 66 00:02:48.319 --> 00:02:51.800 So we're the same. But it's all about you, Jeff, Yeah, exactly. 67 00:02:52.199 --> 00:02:53.919 It should be Sat Jeffrey's day, that's. 68 00:02:53.960 --> 00:02:58.759 Any Yeah, Jeff's and Pat's day. 69 00:02:59.800 --> 00:03:01.639 He was born around three eighty five AD. He was 70 00:03:01.719 --> 00:03:05.240 kidnapped by Irish pirates wow at the age of sixteen 71 00:03:05.479 --> 00:03:09.120 and taken to Ireland as a slave. What. After escaping, 72 00:03:09.199 --> 00:03:11.759 he later returned as a missionary to convert the Irish 73 00:03:11.800 --> 00:03:12.599 to Christianity. 74 00:03:13.520 --> 00:03:14.159 Wow. 75 00:03:14.280 --> 00:03:15.080 That blew my mind. 76 00:03:15.199 --> 00:03:18.560 In honor of his efforts to convert people to Christianity, yep, 77 00:03:18.840 --> 00:03:19.919 people get slashed. 78 00:03:20.400 --> 00:03:23.240 Apparently, yeah, apparently. Well did you know here's another one. 79 00:03:23.680 --> 00:03:30.159 This is amazing. Saint Patrick's Day was originally a dry holiday. 80 00:03:30.360 --> 00:03:34.319 No alcohol come so what it says? Ironically, Ireland once 81 00:03:34.400 --> 00:03:36.919 banned alcohol sales on Saint Patrick's Day because it was 82 00:03:36.919 --> 00:03:41.800 a religious holiday, and pubs were closed nationwide until nineteen 83 00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:46.199 seventy wow, when the holiday was reclassified as a national festival, 84 00:03:46.479 --> 00:03:49.599 because you can get sladged at festivals but not religious holidays. 85 00:03:49.800 --> 00:03:52.840 So basically, when you and I were born, yeah, that's 86 00:03:53.400 --> 00:03:56.639 before our time, it was a dry holiday. Yes, it 87 00:03:56.719 --> 00:03:59.280 was probably a dry day. I mean think about it, like, 88 00:03:59.360 --> 00:04:01.919 what else is there to do in the middle of March? 89 00:04:02.759 --> 00:04:04.919 Right if you live up north? All right, now, what 90 00:04:04.960 --> 00:04:06.919 are the foods? What are the foods you're supposed to 91 00:04:06.919 --> 00:04:08.319 eat on Saint Patrick's Day? 92 00:04:08.400 --> 00:04:08.919 Irish? 93 00:04:09.199 --> 00:04:09.439 Yeah? 94 00:04:09.520 --> 00:04:15.400 Goodness, so be like what like isn't Irish? Like? More 95 00:04:15.520 --> 00:04:17.920 more like actually, I don't know. 96 00:04:17.959 --> 00:04:20.959 It's corn beef and cabbage. Corn beef and cabbage, which 97 00:04:21.000 --> 00:04:24.720 is supposed to have But that's the go to Saint 98 00:04:24.720 --> 00:04:28.040 Patrick's Day meal in America, but it's not the traditional 99 00:04:28.120 --> 00:04:32.439 Irish food. In Ireland, the dish is usually bacon, and cabbage. 100 00:04:33.480 --> 00:04:33.800 Wow. 101 00:04:33.879 --> 00:04:36.680 Yeah, but Irish immigants in the US substituted corn beef 102 00:04:36.720 --> 00:04:38.759 because it was cheaper and more readily available. 103 00:04:39.160 --> 00:04:40.360 Holy cow, isn't that something? 104 00:04:40.959 --> 00:04:43.959 Yeah? That was amazing? And then what was the other one? 105 00:04:44.079 --> 00:04:46.920 Leprechauns were originally evil? I didn't know that one. 106 00:04:47.399 --> 00:04:48.560 I think I did know that one. 107 00:04:48.680 --> 00:04:51.720 Yeah, they're bad guys, their tricksters or even malevolent creatures, 108 00:04:51.720 --> 00:04:57.040 not the jolly figures on cereal boxes. And blue was 109 00:04:57.079 --> 00:04:59.319 the original color, not green. 110 00:04:59.360 --> 00:05:01.639 Okay, now that's going too far, jeff, I, I. 111 00:05:04.399 --> 00:05:08.000 No, no, come on. Originally, Saint Patrick was associated with 112 00:05:08.000 --> 00:05:10.519 the color blue because it appeared on ancient Irish flags 113 00:05:10.560 --> 00:05:11.600 in the royal courts roads. 114 00:05:11.639 --> 00:05:13.560 They don't die the river blue in Chicago. 115 00:05:13.680 --> 00:05:17.519 It wasn't until that I got one about that. What okay? 116 00:05:17.600 --> 00:05:20.240 Hang on. It wasn't until the eighteenth century, when Ireland's 117 00:05:20.240 --> 00:05:22.800 fight for independence used the green shamrock as a symbol, 118 00:05:23.000 --> 00:05:25.879 that green became associated with the holiday. Come on, I'm 119 00:05:25.879 --> 00:05:31.160 not lying. It says it rre but die the river green. 120 00:05:31.399 --> 00:05:35.079 Every year Chicago dies the Chicago River green. Everybody knows that, yes, 121 00:05:35.240 --> 00:05:37.639 but few people know that the tradition didn't begin until 122 00:05:37.680 --> 00:05:41.199 nineteen sixty two. As an accident, a group of plumbers 123 00:05:41.279 --> 00:05:43.480 used a special dye to check for illegal pollution in 124 00:05:43.519 --> 00:05:45.920 the water system. When they realized that turned bright green, 125 00:05:46.000 --> 00:05:47.480 the city adopted it for the holiday. 126 00:05:48.279 --> 00:05:51.680 Oh my goodness, isn't it amazing? So it was a 127 00:05:51.720 --> 00:05:54.800 plumbing accident, that's amazing. And then here's the last one, 128 00:05:54.800 --> 00:05:57.680 and this is the glorious one. More people of Irish 129 00:05:57.720 --> 00:06:00.680 descent live in the US than in Ireland. 130 00:06:01.279 --> 00:06:01.639 Wow. 131 00:06:01.839 --> 00:06:04.160 Yeah. So it says there's about four point nine people 132 00:06:04.199 --> 00:06:07.240 living in Ireland today, but over thirty two million Americans 133 00:06:07.240 --> 00:06:10.560 claim Irish ancestry. Oh isn't that amazing? 134 00:06:10.800 --> 00:06:12.360 I mean four point nine million people. 135 00:06:12.439 --> 00:06:13.839 Yeah, this just said four point nine million. 136 00:06:14.600 --> 00:06:16.399 Yeah, you said four point nine people. I was like 137 00:06:16.519 --> 00:06:19.879 four point nine million people. Yeah, almost five people. There's 138 00:06:19.920 --> 00:06:25.240 almost almost five people. Yeah, four point nine million people. 139 00:06:25.480 --> 00:06:28.639 Now there's over thirty two million in Americans who claim 140 00:06:28.680 --> 00:06:32.399 Irish ancestry. So that's over six times the population of Wow. 141 00:06:32.639 --> 00:06:36.959 Yeah. The Irish diaspora spread largely due to the Great 142 00:06:37.000 --> 00:06:38.560 Famine in the eighteen forties. 143 00:06:38.680 --> 00:06:41.079 Well, my wife is Irish, is she? Yeah? 144 00:06:41.160 --> 00:06:42.680 And that's why she's so nice. 145 00:06:42.759 --> 00:06:46.000 That makes my kids Irish. But I have no part 146 00:06:46.120 --> 00:06:49.000 of that corn beef and cabbage. I couldn't believe. I 147 00:06:49.040 --> 00:06:50.759 can't believe. I didn't think of that when I was 148 00:06:50.759 --> 00:06:51.279 in New York. 149 00:06:51.319 --> 00:06:53.240 Well, you were still hung up on the alcohol side of. 150 00:06:53.240 --> 00:06:54.639 It, the slashing party. 151 00:06:54.800 --> 00:06:55.040 Yeah. 152 00:06:55.120 --> 00:07:00.000 Well, I actually have a horrible story where somebody asked 153 00:07:00.160 --> 00:07:04.079 me to come and like like pray at at a 154 00:07:03.959 --> 00:07:06.839 at a thing, and I thought it was a legitimate prayer. 155 00:07:07.399 --> 00:07:09.920 Come to find out it was a Saint Patty's like 156 00:07:09.920 --> 00:07:12.959 like slosh kickoff or something. Oh no, it was a terrible, 157 00:07:13.040 --> 00:07:15.560 terrible experience. In fact, Jeff, I won't tell you about it, 158 00:07:15.680 --> 00:07:16.920 but I'm just going to tell you this. 159 00:07:17.439 --> 00:07:19.000 Uh, I can tell me about it, But let me 160 00:07:19.000 --> 00:07:20.399 tell you something I'll just make. I'll just make the 161 00:07:20.399 --> 00:07:22.639 one this statement. It's a statement about it. Yes, and 162 00:07:22.680 --> 00:07:27.319 my family knows this story. Yeah, it's in my thirty 163 00:07:27.439 --> 00:07:30.240 what is it, thirty three years we've been pastors. I 164 00:07:30.279 --> 00:07:32.079 have never had a worse ministry experience. 165 00:07:32.800 --> 00:07:35.759 Wow, that's a that's a statement. That's a big statement. Yeah, 166 00:07:36.000 --> 00:07:36.279 that was. 167 00:07:36.399 --> 00:07:39.000 It was actually like I got confused. I didn't know 168 00:07:39.040 --> 00:07:41.120 what I was doing. Somebody asked me to do something 169 00:07:41.120 --> 00:07:43.319 it was a favor when I showed up and I 170 00:07:43.360 --> 00:07:45.800 was like, this is horrible. Anyway, that was it was, 171 00:07:45.920 --> 00:07:48.439 it was so it's it's like triggered. It's connected to 172 00:07:48.439 --> 00:07:49.279 these triggered memories. 173 00:07:49.399 --> 00:07:52.399 Well, I'm telling you there's some amazing things. Do you 174 00:07:52.439 --> 00:07:54.160 want to hear one more surprising one? 175 00:07:54.800 --> 00:07:55.120 Sure? 176 00:07:55.360 --> 00:07:58.199 I got one more. There were no snakes in Ireland 177 00:07:58.199 --> 00:08:02.240 for Saint Patrick to banish, but there were no snakes 178 00:08:02.279 --> 00:08:04.680 on the on the island at all. 179 00:08:05.399 --> 00:08:07.199 I'm not sure I was aware of the snake history. 180 00:08:07.319 --> 00:08:10.360 Oh well, the great one of the great things stories 181 00:08:10.399 --> 00:08:12.920 about Saint Patrick is that he banished all the snakes 182 00:08:12.959 --> 00:08:15.000 from island because there are no snakes in Ireland now, 183 00:08:15.319 --> 00:08:17.399 so he ran them off. But it's not true. 184 00:08:17.439 --> 00:08:18.360 There was himself. 185 00:08:18.439 --> 00:08:19.879 Yeah, but there weren't any snakes. 186 00:08:20.360 --> 00:08:21.800 Well I think that that's silly to begin with. 187 00:08:22.120 --> 00:08:23.240 So it was just a legend. 188 00:08:23.360 --> 00:08:24.959 But I'm not shocked about it. 189 00:08:25.240 --> 00:08:28.879 Okay, faoughly unimpressed on that one. Yeah, okay, Well, hey 190 00:08:28.959 --> 00:08:32.120 I have one more question. Yeah, I didn't wear green today, 191 00:08:32.159 --> 00:08:34.320 but are my eyes green or blue? In the light today? 192 00:08:34.840 --> 00:08:38.360 They look more blue, more blue? Okay, Sometimes they're blue, 193 00:08:38.399 --> 00:08:40.600 sometimes they're green. So I'm on both sides of that. 194 00:08:40.919 --> 00:08:44.679 The blue flag originally in the green later maybe that's 195 00:08:44.679 --> 00:08:46.559 what it is, because my eyes go back and forth. 196 00:08:46.840 --> 00:08:50.919 A lot of Irish people are blueish, sometimes greenish sometimes 197 00:08:50.960 --> 00:08:51.879 with their eyes. 198 00:08:52.159 --> 00:08:54.879 You know. Speaking of all that brand new information about 199 00:08:55.200 --> 00:08:58.200 Saint Patti's day, huh, we're kicking off into a brand 200 00:08:58.240 --> 00:09:01.120 new book today, the Book of Isaiah. 201 00:09:01.159 --> 00:09:03.519 That is the best good Jobsba. 202 00:09:03.879 --> 00:09:05.799 We're welcome, good jobszarba. 203 00:09:06.440 --> 00:09:11.519 So we're jumping out of first and second kings, right, Well, 204 00:09:11.559 --> 00:09:14.879 we did Amos and then from there what we didn't 205 00:09:14.879 --> 00:09:19.320 do is there's all these little statements Jerreboeam his reign 206 00:09:19.480 --> 00:09:22.240 ended in Israel, and then this guy named Zachariah became 207 00:09:22.279 --> 00:09:23.679 the king, and then he was only there for a 208 00:09:23.720 --> 00:09:27.360 little while. And then Shallam rules in Israel, and then 209 00:09:27.639 --> 00:09:30.159 manae Him rules in Israel, and then a guy named 210 00:09:30.159 --> 00:09:34.159 pekka Ayah rules in Israel, and then Peka follows Pecca 211 00:09:34.240 --> 00:09:36.679 Ayah in Israel. Then it's all done. 212 00:09:36.720 --> 00:09:37.440 Yeah, thanks for that. 213 00:09:37.919 --> 00:09:41.480 So each of those is just like a minute or two. 214 00:09:41.919 --> 00:09:44.000 They're like a year or two reign. They didn't do 215 00:09:44.080 --> 00:09:46.399 a ton. And then finally we get to Isaiah we're 216 00:09:46.399 --> 00:09:47.720 gonna read Isaiah chapter six. 217 00:09:47.960 --> 00:09:50.120 And the reason why we're bouncing around is keep in mind, 218 00:09:50.159 --> 00:09:52.320 we're doing highlights of the Old Testament in this series, 219 00:09:52.399 --> 00:09:54.000 and we're doing it chronologically. 220 00:09:54.080 --> 00:09:54.519 That's right. 221 00:09:54.639 --> 00:09:58.519 So this is Isaiah overlapping second Kings and this is 222 00:09:58.600 --> 00:09:59.919 right around the year of seven four. 223 00:10:00.879 --> 00:10:06.519 That's right. Good job. Yeah. And Isaiah is a prophet, 224 00:10:06.679 --> 00:10:11.480 and he was in the same time as the King Usiah, 225 00:10:11.559 --> 00:10:14.399 and it says this, it was in chapter six. It 226 00:10:14.480 --> 00:10:17.759 was in the year King Usiah died that I saw 227 00:10:17.799 --> 00:10:20.679 the Lord, and he was sitting on a lofty throne, 228 00:10:20.679 --> 00:10:23.679 and the train of his robe filled the temple. Attending 229 00:10:23.720 --> 00:10:27.320 him were mighty seraphim, each having six wings, with two wings. 230 00:10:27.399 --> 00:10:30.039 They covered their faces with two, they covered their feet 231 00:10:30.120 --> 00:10:32.360 with two. They flew, and they were calling out to 232 00:10:32.399 --> 00:10:36.000 each other. Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord of Heaven's armies. 233 00:10:36.240 --> 00:10:38.759 The whole earth is filled with his glory. And their 234 00:10:38.840 --> 00:10:41.759 voices shook the temple to its foundations, and the entire 235 00:10:41.799 --> 00:10:44.720 building was filled with smoke. And then I said, it's 236 00:10:44.720 --> 00:10:47.240 all over. I'm doomed, for I am a sinful man. 237 00:10:47.399 --> 00:10:49.360 I have filthy lips, and I live among a people 238 00:10:49.360 --> 00:10:52.320 with filthy lips. Yet I have seen the King, the 239 00:10:52.360 --> 00:10:55.000 Lord of Heaven's armies. And then one of the seraphim 240 00:10:55.039 --> 00:10:57.000 flew to me with a burning coal he had taken 241 00:10:57.039 --> 00:10:59.200 from the altar with a pair of tongs, and he 242 00:10:59.279 --> 00:11:01.879 touched my lips with it, and he said this, see 243 00:11:02.000 --> 00:11:04.559 this coal has touched your lips. Now your guilt is removed, 244 00:11:04.600 --> 00:11:06.879 and your sins are forgiven. And then I heard the 245 00:11:07.120 --> 00:11:09.440 Lord asking whom should I send as a messenger to 246 00:11:09.480 --> 00:11:12.039 this people who will go for us? I said, here, 247 00:11:12.039 --> 00:11:14.679 I am send me, And he said, yes, go and 248 00:11:14.720 --> 00:11:17.519 say to this people, listen carefully, but do not understand. 249 00:11:17.519 --> 00:11:20.000 Watch closely, but learn nothing hard in the hearts of 250 00:11:20.039 --> 00:11:22.679 these people. Plug their ears and shut their eyes. That 251 00:11:22.759 --> 00:11:24.840 way they will not see with their eyes, nor hear 252 00:11:24.879 --> 00:11:27.320 with their ears, nor understand what their hearts, and turn 253 00:11:27.440 --> 00:11:30.080 to me for healing. And I said, Lord, how long 254 00:11:30.080 --> 00:11:32.600 will this go on? And he replied, until their towns 255 00:11:32.600 --> 00:11:34.679 are empty and their houses are deserted, and the old 256 00:11:34.720 --> 00:11:37.639 country is a wasteland, until the Lord has sent everyone away, 257 00:11:37.679 --> 00:11:40.399 and the entire land of israelies deserted. If even a 258 00:11:40.440 --> 00:11:43.200 tenth the remnants survive, it'll be invaded again and burned. 259 00:11:43.600 --> 00:11:46.440 But as a terra binth or oak tree leaves the 260 00:11:46.480 --> 00:11:49.519 stump when it's cut down, so israel stump will be 261 00:11:49.559 --> 00:11:54.240 a holy seed. Ooh, well that's some judgment there, buddy. 262 00:11:54.639 --> 00:12:01.240 This is a very very famous passage. Yes, and probably 263 00:12:01.480 --> 00:12:04.799 one of the most dramatic visions I would say that 264 00:12:04.879 --> 00:12:08.080 anybody has ever had ever Yeah, right, and. 265 00:12:08.840 --> 00:12:13.600 Yeah, it's one of my favorite visions or experiences with God, 266 00:12:14.240 --> 00:12:15.519 you know, told in the Bible. 267 00:12:15.840 --> 00:12:18.679 Yeah, and I can't even imagine. I mean, Isaiah is 268 00:12:19.320 --> 00:12:22.840 having this experience that you know, you and I can't 269 00:12:22.840 --> 00:12:25.960 even imagine. Can we start off by talking about angels, 270 00:12:26.360 --> 00:12:32.720 Let's do it so it says attending him, we're mighty seraphim, 271 00:12:33.240 --> 00:12:36.799 each having six wings. Have you ever seen I'm sure 272 00:12:36.799 --> 00:12:40.200 you've seen this in culture where it says like what 273 00:12:40.279 --> 00:12:43.720 people think angels look like versus what angels really look like. Yes, 274 00:12:44.799 --> 00:12:48.200 and some of the pictures of angels are terrifying. Where 275 00:12:48.240 --> 00:12:50.519 did you ever see them where there's eyeballs on their wings? 276 00:12:51.000 --> 00:12:51.200 Yeah? 277 00:12:51.279 --> 00:12:54.039 Yeah, yeah, yeah, where it's like it's like angels are 278 00:12:54.120 --> 00:13:00.519 actually not like they're they're intimidating. If you if you 279 00:13:00.600 --> 00:13:03.919 really go by the Bible's description of what angels look like. 280 00:13:04.519 --> 00:13:09.720 They are not fluffy, happy, go lucky creatures. And I 281 00:13:09.720 --> 00:13:12.519 always say this, but I think that, uh, you know, 282 00:13:12.679 --> 00:13:15.840 culture is obviously often dictated by Hollywood and you know, 283 00:13:15.960 --> 00:13:20.000 and obviously books and things like that, and somewhere along 284 00:13:20.039 --> 00:13:25.159 the way in the nineteen thirties, people thought people adopted 285 00:13:25.159 --> 00:13:27.879 the fact that every time a bell rings, the angel 286 00:13:27.879 --> 00:13:31.559 gets his wings. And the idea is like, hey, we 287 00:13:31.639 --> 00:13:34.399 all die one day and then we earn our wings, and. 288 00:13:34.399 --> 00:13:36.720 So you see this, We've got news. Grandma is not 289 00:13:36.799 --> 00:13:39.279 an angel, right, that is exactly right. 290 00:13:39.720 --> 00:13:42.360 And by the way, this this is depicted. And even 291 00:13:42.399 --> 00:13:45.320 like in cartoons, you know, where it's like somebody it'll 292 00:13:45.720 --> 00:13:47.360 you know, somebody will like bugs bunny will. 293 00:13:47.240 --> 00:13:50.159 Die by the bus hit by suddenly they're floating up 294 00:13:50.200 --> 00:13:51.000 as an angel. 295 00:13:51.000 --> 00:13:53.080 And you get their harp and their halo, their wings 296 00:13:53.720 --> 00:13:56.360 or Elmer Fudd you know, he left. And it's just 297 00:13:56.399 --> 00:14:00.679 like it's in culture everywhere that somehow, you know, like 298 00:14:00.720 --> 00:14:03.320 you know, and you've heard her on Hallmark cards where 299 00:14:03.320 --> 00:14:05.480 they say, well God needed an angel, yeah, you know, 300 00:14:05.519 --> 00:14:08.320 and so he you know, blah blah blah, and and 301 00:14:08.320 --> 00:14:11.320 and then and then people. People just somehow believe that 302 00:14:11.399 --> 00:14:14.879 humans become angels. But the Bible is extremely clear he 303 00:14:14.879 --> 00:14:17.240 goes out of his weight. Isn't it to say that 304 00:14:17.240 --> 00:14:20.360 that that that mankind is not. 305 00:14:20.720 --> 00:14:25.519 Unless unless Grandma had six wings to covering her face 306 00:14:25.600 --> 00:14:28.080 and to covering her body and to to fly with. 307 00:14:28.360 --> 00:14:30.679 Yeah, she's not an angel, right exactly. 308 00:14:30.759 --> 00:14:34.799 Yeah, they're distinct different creatures right all together. And then 309 00:14:34.840 --> 00:14:37.440 within the angels there seems to be a couple, right, 310 00:14:37.480 --> 00:14:41.440 there's the seraphim and the Cherubim. This word sarah comes 311 00:14:41.720 --> 00:14:45.480 from the word that means to burn, burning, right, and 312 00:14:45.519 --> 00:14:48.720 it probably has to do with this passage that you know, 313 00:14:48.799 --> 00:14:53.480 he uh purified Isaiah with fire. 314 00:14:53.639 --> 00:14:57.840 So, by the way, because some of the actual depictions 315 00:14:57.879 --> 00:15:01.440 of angels are so terrifying, it's no wonder why the 316 00:15:01.480 --> 00:15:04.399 angels had to say fear not every time an angel. 317 00:15:04.399 --> 00:15:06.240 Do you ever notice every time an angel shows up, 318 00:15:06.279 --> 00:15:07.120 it says, don't be afraid. 319 00:15:07.240 --> 00:15:08.759 Yeah, And so it's like. 320 00:15:08.840 --> 00:15:12.559 Imagine that you were confronted with a terrifying looking angel 321 00:15:12.600 --> 00:15:16.039 with eyeballs on its wings, and and it just and 322 00:15:16.080 --> 00:15:23.360 it just had this unbelievably majestic and intimidating look about it. 323 00:15:23.440 --> 00:15:27.600 With you know, six wings and flaming swords and such. 324 00:15:28.679 --> 00:15:31.320 You know, you would you would probably be terrified on 325 00:15:31.360 --> 00:15:34.039 the get go anyway, So. 326 00:15:34.200 --> 00:15:38.120 Most of the time, when like when Joshua saw an angel, 327 00:15:38.840 --> 00:15:41.879 others when they see they see men. Yes, right, So 328 00:15:41.879 --> 00:15:43.840 so the the angels seem to be able to present 329 00:15:43.919 --> 00:15:47.679 themselves as a man. Yeah, a lot when he saw 330 00:15:47.720 --> 00:15:53.480 the angels, when when Abraham Elijah, yeah, Elijah, they see 331 00:15:53.519 --> 00:15:57.039 them as as men. And even then they're terrifying. But yeah, 332 00:15:57.279 --> 00:16:00.480 there's something to that, uh. In this situation. These are 333 00:16:00.480 --> 00:16:02.840 the angels that seemed to be flying around the Throne 334 00:16:02.840 --> 00:16:06.320 of Heaven for one, which I love. So let's go 335 00:16:06.399 --> 00:16:08.039 back just a little bit before we get there. It 336 00:16:08.080 --> 00:16:11.720 says in the year King Uziah died, I saw the Lord. 337 00:16:12.360 --> 00:16:16.519 And this is a very profound thing I think for Isaiah. 338 00:16:17.120 --> 00:16:23.720 Isaiah's vision is I think upsetting to him a little bit. Yeah, 339 00:16:23.919 --> 00:16:27.960 Usiah was a good guy mostly right, Most of what 340 00:16:28.000 --> 00:16:30.639 he did was really good. And then remember he goes 341 00:16:30.639 --> 00:16:34.159 in and sacrifices in the temple or whatever and does 342 00:16:34.200 --> 00:16:37.080 this thing there and then God goes come on man 343 00:16:37.240 --> 00:16:38.200 and he winds up dying. 344 00:16:38.720 --> 00:16:41.720 So because he had leprosy, right, yeah, Hey, he was 345 00:16:41.720 --> 00:16:44.679 cursed with leprosy to the day he died, right because 346 00:16:44.720 --> 00:16:46.639 he was trying to take on the priestly duties. 347 00:16:46.360 --> 00:16:49.399 That's right. So he was. He was a good guy. 348 00:16:49.600 --> 00:16:52.519 And I think that so Judah. Remember I mentioned all 349 00:16:52.559 --> 00:16:55.600 those other kings in Israel. Judah and Israel were separated, 350 00:16:55.639 --> 00:16:59.000 and Judah was still more prosperous and had had some 351 00:16:59.080 --> 00:17:02.200 bad leadership for while. But Yusaiah comes in, he does 352 00:17:02.240 --> 00:17:07.319 a great job for the most part. I think the prophets, 353 00:17:07.599 --> 00:17:10.359 there were so many prophets in those days, remember, and 354 00:17:10.880 --> 00:17:13.160 I think the prophets were like, good, thank God, We've 355 00:17:13.200 --> 00:17:15.960 got this good, godly leader. And then Usiah dies and 356 00:17:16.599 --> 00:17:20.480 you can imagine then how uncertain and unsettling it is 357 00:17:21.279 --> 00:17:24.519 when you have an uncertainty with regard to who's the 358 00:17:24.559 --> 00:17:25.920 leader going to be next and are they going to 359 00:17:25.920 --> 00:17:27.759 be a good king or a bad king? Just think 360 00:17:27.759 --> 00:17:31.319 of how unstable things get every election cycle with here 361 00:17:31.400 --> 00:17:34.799 in the US, right right with and we have a 362 00:17:34.920 --> 00:17:39.079 limited powered leader in our in our nation. Whereas in 363 00:17:39.119 --> 00:17:42.759 those countries and those times, the king, if you had 364 00:17:42.799 --> 00:17:44.960 a good king, things were going to be amazing. If 365 00:17:45.000 --> 00:17:46.799 you had a bad king. It was going to be 366 00:17:47.240 --> 00:17:51.240 hell for everybody. Right, that's it's literally he had absolute 367 00:17:51.319 --> 00:17:55.079 total authority. And so Usiah dies and there's there's some 368 00:17:55.119 --> 00:17:59.359 sadness in this, and it's in that context that he 369 00:17:59.440 --> 00:18:02.119 sees God. You're right, he has this vision of God, 370 00:18:02.519 --> 00:18:04.880 and I think that there's probably it's you know, if 371 00:18:04.880 --> 00:18:07.759 you read between the lines, this is God stepping into 372 00:18:07.880 --> 00:18:11.920 Isaiah's life, going, hey, I've always been the one in charge. Right. 373 00:18:12.160 --> 00:18:16.119 You read Romans thirteen and God says that there is 374 00:18:16.160 --> 00:18:19.200 no power that exists that he didn't establish. And then 375 00:18:22.000 --> 00:18:24.799 he says, hey, I'm on the throne, and just the 376 00:18:24.880 --> 00:18:27.799 train of my robe fills the whole temple. And then 377 00:18:28.359 --> 00:18:32.119 he has this really amazing vision of the angels flying 378 00:18:32.160 --> 00:18:35.839 around the seraphim, six winged creatures flying around the throne, 379 00:18:36.119 --> 00:18:39.000 and they're singing worship songs. Holy, Holy, Holy is the 380 00:18:39.000 --> 00:18:41.920 Lord God Almighty. Right, the whole earth is filled with 381 00:18:41.960 --> 00:18:44.319 his glory. We sing that song in church sometimes, right. 382 00:18:44.920 --> 00:18:47.440 Chris Tomlin and what's his name helped put those together, 383 00:18:48.039 --> 00:18:50.359 and I love it. You want to know how loud 384 00:18:50.400 --> 00:18:53.359 they sang. They sang so loudly that they shook the 385 00:18:53.400 --> 00:18:56.920 temple to its foundations. And that's some volume. And then 386 00:18:57.160 --> 00:18:59.240 the building was filled with smoke. They had a smoke machine, 387 00:19:00.200 --> 00:19:05.160 and so as loud and smoky, and they're singing Holy, Holy, Holy, 388 00:19:05.200 --> 00:19:09.079 as the Lord of Heaven's armies. And he says his 389 00:19:09.200 --> 00:19:13.319 immediate response when he has a view of God is 390 00:19:13.759 --> 00:19:14.400 I'm a sinner. 391 00:19:14.559 --> 00:19:17.240 Yeah, I'm unworthy right, yeah. 392 00:19:17.279 --> 00:19:20.079 And I think that that is even today, it's an 393 00:19:20.119 --> 00:19:24.079 appropriate response repentance. When we haven't encounter with God, repentance 394 00:19:24.079 --> 00:19:28.480 should come immediately. A lot of times we go, well, 395 00:19:28.480 --> 00:19:30.519 at least we're not as bad as sinners as other people. 396 00:19:30.799 --> 00:19:33.359 In reality, when we're confronted with the holiness of God 397 00:19:33.960 --> 00:19:36.400 and the glory of God, one of the first things 398 00:19:36.480 --> 00:19:38.799 is we don't deserve to be in his presence. And 399 00:19:38.799 --> 00:19:40.799 then what does he do. He sends an angel to 400 00:19:40.880 --> 00:19:43.519 come and give him this purifying thing. That's what Jesus did, 401 00:19:43.559 --> 00:19:45.759