WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.840 Nancy: Welcome To Immerse: The Daily Bible Reading Experience. 00:00:02.920 --> 00:00:04.060 Day 200 and 50 00:00:04.514 --> 00:00:08.564 it was in the year King Azi died that I saw the Lord. 00:00:09.434 --> 00:00:14.624 He was sitting on a lofty throne and the train of his robe filled the temple. 00:00:15.404 --> 00:00:21.404 Attending him were mighty seraphim, each having six wings with two wings. 00:00:21.404 --> 00:00:24.524 They covered their faces with two, they covered their 00:00:24.524 --> 00:00:27.104 feet, and with two they flew. 00:00:27.989 --> 00:00:29.819 They were calling out to each other. 00:00:30.269 --> 00:00:34.559 Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of heaven's armies. 00:00:34.919 --> 00:00:37.319 The whole earth is filled with his glory. 00:00:38.879 --> 00:00:43.289 Their voices shook the temple to its foundations and the entire 00:00:43.294 --> 00:00:45.149 building was filled with smoke. 00:00:45.719 --> 00:00:48.209 Then I said, it's all over. 00:00:48.449 --> 00:00:49.979 I am doomed for. 00:00:49.979 --> 00:00:51.389 I am a sinful man. 00:00:51.689 --> 00:00:55.709 I have filthy lips and I live among a people with filthy lips. 00:00:56.579 --> 00:01:00.539 Yet, I have seen the king, the Lord of heaven's armies. 00:01:01.829 --> 00:01:05.969 Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a burning coal he had taken 00:01:05.969 --> 00:01:08.309 from the altar with a pair of tongs. 00:01:08.999 --> 00:01:14.969 He touched my lips with it and said, see, this coal has touched your lips. 00:01:15.359 --> 00:01:19.019 Now your guilt is removed and your sins are forgiven. 00:01:19.769 --> 00:01:21.689 Then I heard the Lord asking. 00:01:22.364 --> 00:01:27.374 Whom should I send as a messenger to this people who will go for us? 00:01:28.334 --> 00:01:30.704 I said, here I am. 00:01:31.304 --> 00:01:32.174 Send me. 00:01:32.864 --> 00:01:34.604 And he said, yes. 00:01:35.024 --> 00:01:41.954 Go and say to this people, listen carefully, but do not understand. 00:01:42.614 --> 00:01:45.194 Watch closely, but learn nothing. 00:01:46.574 --> 00:01:51.794 Heart in the hearts of these people, plug their ears and shut their eyes that way 00:01:52.004 --> 00:01:57.194 they will not see with their eyes nor hear with their ears, nor understand with 00:01:57.194 --> 00:01:59.834 their hearts and turn to me for healing. 00:02:01.124 --> 00:02:05.144 Then I said, Lord, how long will this go on? 00:02:06.164 --> 00:02:12.254 And he replied Until their towns are empty, their houses are deserted, 00:02:12.734 --> 00:02:15.014 and the whole country is a wasteland. 00:02:15.869 --> 00:02:21.599 Until the Lord has sent everyone away and the entire land of Israel lies deserted. 00:02:22.439 --> 00:02:28.259 If even a 10th a remnant survive, it will be invaded again and burned. 00:02:28.949 --> 00:02:33.809 But as a Rabin or oak tree leaves a stump when it is cut down, so 00:02:33.809 --> 00:02:40.409 Israel's stump will be a holy seed when Ahaz son of Jotham and 00:02:40.409 --> 00:02:43.289 grandson of Isaiah was king of Judah. 00:02:44.084 --> 00:02:49.364 King reason of Syria and Pika son of Alaya, the King of Israel, 00:02:49.754 --> 00:02:51.704 set out to attack Jerusalem. 00:02:52.394 --> 00:02:55.154 However, they were unable to carry out their plan. 00:02:56.204 --> 00:02:58.934 The news had come to the royal court of Judah. 00:02:59.354 --> 00:03:04.274 Syria is allied with Israel against us, so the hearts of the king 00:03:04.274 --> 00:03:08.624 and his people trembled with fear like trees shaking in a storm. 00:03:09.704 --> 00:03:17.414 Then the Lord said to Isaiah, Take your son sheer and go out to meet King Ahaz. 00:03:18.134 --> 00:03:21.854 You'll find him at the end of the aqueduct that feeds water into the 00:03:21.854 --> 00:03:25.844 upper pool near the road, leading to the field where cloth is washed. 00:03:26.324 --> 00:03:28.034 Tell him to stop worrying. 00:03:28.544 --> 00:03:32.864 Tell him he doesn't need to fear the fierce anger of those two burned out. 00:03:32.864 --> 00:03:34.124 Embers king. 00:03:34.124 --> 00:03:37.394 Reason of Syria and Pika son of Alaya. 00:03:38.264 --> 00:03:43.844 Yes, the kings of Syria and Israel are plotting against him saying, we will 00:03:43.844 --> 00:03:46.544 attack Judah and capture it for ourselves. 00:03:46.904 --> 00:03:50.654 Then we will install the son of Tabil as Judah's King. 00:03:51.404 --> 00:03:54.164 But this is what the sovereign Lord says. 00:03:55.334 --> 00:03:57.314 This invasion will never happen. 00:03:57.764 --> 00:03:59.024 It will never take place. 00:03:59.909 --> 00:04:02.729 For Syria is no stronger than its capital. 00:04:02.729 --> 00:04:07.139 Damascus, and Damascus is no stronger than its king. 00:04:07.229 --> 00:04:14.519 Reason as for Israel, within 65 years it will be crushed and completely destroyed. 00:04:15.179 --> 00:04:17.669 Israel is no stronger than its capital. 00:04:17.669 --> 00:04:24.029 Samaria and Samaria is no stronger than its King Pika, son of Aya. 00:04:24.779 --> 00:04:29.249 Unless your faith is firm, I cannot make you stand firm. 00:04:30.539 --> 00:04:33.629 Later, the Lord sent this message to King Ahaz. 00:04:35.009 --> 00:04:38.339 Ask the Lord your God for a sign of confirmation. 00:04:38.369 --> 00:04:43.049 Ahaz, make it as difficult as you want, as high as heaven or 00:04:43.049 --> 00:04:44.849 as deep as the place of the dead. 00:04:45.779 --> 00:04:47.219 But the king refused. 00:04:47.789 --> 00:04:48.359 No. 00:04:48.539 --> 00:04:51.899 He said, I will not test the Lord like that. 00:04:53.039 --> 00:04:54.239 Then Isaiah said. 00:04:54.839 --> 00:04:55.469 Listen. 00:04:55.474 --> 00:05:01.679 Well, you Royal family of David, isn't it enough to exhaust human patience? 00:05:02.279 --> 00:05:05.279 Must you exhaust the patience of my God as well? 00:05:06.089 --> 00:05:06.569 All right? 00:05:06.569 --> 00:05:09.569 Then the Lord himself will give you the sign. 00:05:10.379 --> 00:05:13.499 Look, the virgin will conceive a child. 00:05:13.739 --> 00:05:19.799 She will give birth to a son and will call him Emmanuel, which means God is with us. 00:05:20.654 --> 00:05:24.974 By the time this child is old enough to choose what is right and reject 00:05:24.974 --> 00:05:30.104 what is wrong, he will be eating yogurt and honey for before the child is 00:05:30.104 --> 00:05:32.654 that old, the lands of the two kings. 00:05:32.654 --> 00:05:38.624 You fear so much, will both be deserted, then the Lord will bring things on 00:05:38.629 --> 00:05:41.504 you, your nation, and your family. 00:05:41.504 --> 00:05:46.334 Unlike anything since Israel broke away from Judah, he will bring 00:05:46.334 --> 00:05:48.104 the king of Assyria upon you. 00:05:49.814 --> 00:05:54.404 That day, the Lord will whistle for the army of Southern Egypt and for 00:05:54.404 --> 00:05:59.654 the army of Assyria, they will swarm around you like flies and bees. 00:05:59.924 --> 00:06:03.284 They will come in vast hoards and settle in the fertile areas, 00:06:03.344 --> 00:06:08.054 and also in the desolate valleys, caves, and thorny places. 00:06:08.894 --> 00:06:12.854 In that day, the Lord will hire a razor from beyond the Euphrates 00:06:12.854 --> 00:06:17.714 River, the King of Assyria, and use it to shave off everything. 00:06:18.374 --> 00:06:23.264 Your land, your crops, and your people in that day. 00:06:23.264 --> 00:06:27.584 A farmer will be fortunate to have a cow and two sheep or goats left. 00:06:28.124 --> 00:06:32.594 Nevertheless, there will be enough milk for everyone because so few 00:06:32.599 --> 00:06:34.484 people will be left in the land. 00:06:35.114 --> 00:06:40.364 They will eat their fill of yogurt and honey in that day, the lush vineyards 00:06:40.604 --> 00:06:46.334 now worth 1000 pieces of silver will become patches of Breyers and thorns. 00:06:47.264 --> 00:06:52.094 The entire land will become a vast expanse of Breyers and thorns, a 00:06:52.094 --> 00:06:54.704 hunting ground overrun by wildlife. 00:06:55.604 --> 00:06:59.924 No one will go to the fertile hillsides where the gardens once grew for 00:06:59.924 --> 00:07:01.994 Breyers and thorns will cover them. 00:07:02.774 --> 00:07:05.594 Cattle, sheep, and goats will graze there. 00:07:06.854 --> 00:07:11.204 Then the Lord said to me, make a large signboard and 00:07:11.204 --> 00:07:13.164 clearly write this name on it. 00:07:15.104 --> 00:07:16.514 Shallal Hash. 00:07:18.104 --> 00:07:23.594 I asked Uriah, the priest and Zechariah son of Jabbar, both known as 00:07:23.594 --> 00:07:26.144 honest men to witness my doing this. 00:07:27.314 --> 00:07:31.694 Then I slept with my wife and she became pregnant and gave birth to 00:07:31.694 --> 00:07:35.624 a son, and the Lord said, call him 00:07:38.534 --> 00:07:39.164 for before. 00:07:39.164 --> 00:07:42.284 This child is old enough to say Papa or Mama. 00:07:42.794 --> 00:07:46.334 The King of Assyria will carry away both the abundance of 00:07:46.334 --> 00:07:48.914 Damascus and the riches of Samaria. 00:07:50.174 --> 00:07:55.724 Then the Lord spoke to me again and said, my care for the people of Judah 00:07:55.784 --> 00:08:00.764 is like the gently flowing waters of Shiloa, but they have rejected it. 00:08:01.224 --> 00:08:05.864 They are rejoicing over what will happen to King reason and King Pika. 00:08:06.614 --> 00:08:10.064 Therefore, the Lord will overwhelm them with a mighty 00:08:10.069 --> 00:08:11.894 flood from the Euphrates River. 00:08:12.584 --> 00:08:15.104 The King of Assyria and all his glory. 00:08:15.944 --> 00:08:19.814 This flood will overflow all its channels and sweep into 00:08:19.814 --> 00:08:21.824 Judah until it is chin deep. 00:08:22.484 --> 00:08:24.044 It will spread its wings. 00:08:24.254 --> 00:08:27.644 Submerging your land from one end to the other. 00:08:27.704 --> 00:08:33.824 Oh, Emmanuel Huddle together you nations and be terrified. 00:08:34.664 --> 00:08:40.904 Listen, all you distant lands, Prepare for battle, but you will be crushed. 00:08:41.204 --> 00:08:45.104 Yes, prepare for battle, but you will be crushed. 00:08:45.854 --> 00:08:49.544 Call your councils of war, but they will be worthless. 00:08:50.234 --> 00:08:53.654 Develop your strategies, but they will not succeed. 00:08:54.164 --> 00:08:55.485 For God is with us. 00:08:56.274 --> 00:09:01.274 The Lord has given me a strong warning not to think like everyone else does. 00:09:01.904 --> 00:09:06.764 He said, don't call everything a conspiracy like they do. 00:09:07.364 --> 00:09:09.974 And don't live in dread of what frightens them. 00:09:10.394 --> 00:09:13.784 Make the Lord of heaven's armies holy in your life. 00:09:14.024 --> 00:09:15.704 He is the one you should fear. 00:09:16.274 --> 00:09:18.794 He is the one who should make you tremble. 00:09:19.454 --> 00:09:21.134 He will keep you safe. 00:09:22.004 --> 00:09:26.594 But to Israel and Judah, he will be a stone that makes people stumble. 00:09:27.074 --> 00:09:28.784 A rock that makes them fall. 00:09:29.624 --> 00:09:33.374 And for the people of Jerusalem, he will be a trap and a snare. 00:09:34.004 --> 00:09:37.364 Many will stumble and fall never to rise again. 00:09:38.054 --> 00:09:43.784 They will be snared and captured, preserve the teaching of God and trust 00:09:43.784 --> 00:09:46.124 his instructions to those who follow me. 00:09:46.784 --> 00:09:50.924 I will wait for the Lord who has turned away from the descendants of Jacob. 00:09:51.554 --> 00:09:52.994 I will put my hope in him. 00:09:54.509 --> 00:09:59.699 I and the children, the Lord has given me serve as signs and warnings to Israel 00:09:59.909 --> 00:10:04.679 from the Lord of Heaven's armies who dwells in his temple on Mount Zion. 00:10:05.309 --> 00:10:10.769 Someone may say to you, let's ask the mediums and those who consult the spirits 00:10:10.769 --> 00:10:15.569 of the dead with their whisperings and mutterings, they will tell us what to do. 00:10:16.379 --> 00:10:18.749 But shouldn't people ask God for guidance? 00:10:19.229 --> 00:10:21.689 Should the living seek guidance from the dead? 00:10:22.709 --> 00:10:25.409 Look to God's instructions and teachings. 00:10:26.159 --> 00:10:29.399 People who contradict his word are completely in the dark. 00:10:29.999 --> 00:10:33.599 They will go from one place to another weary and hungry. 00:10:34.319 --> 00:10:39.059 And because they are hungry, they will rage and curse their king and their God. 00:10:39.809 --> 00:10:43.229 They will look up to heaven and down at the earth, but wherever 00:10:43.234 --> 00:10:47.249 they look, there will be trouble and anguish and dark despair. 00:10:47.969 --> 00:10:50.279 They will be thrown out into the darkness. 00:10:51.674 --> 00:10:56.654 Nevertheless, that time of darkness and despair will not go on forever. 00:10:57.404 --> 00:11:02.414 The land of Zein and Naftali will be humbled, but there will be a time 00:11:02.419 --> 00:11:06.914 in the future when Galilee of the Gentiles, which lies along the road, 00:11:06.919 --> 00:11:11.294 that runs between the Jordan and the sea, will be filled with glory. 00:11:12.374 --> 00:11:17.114 The people who walk in darkness will see a great light for those 00:11:17.114 --> 00:11:19.394 who live in a land of deep darkness. 00:11:19.799 --> 00:11:24.509 A light will shine, you will enlarge the nation of Israel 00:11:24.809 --> 00:11:26.729 and its people will rejoice. 00:11:27.209 --> 00:11:32.909 They will rejoice before you as people rejoice at the harvest and like warriors, 00:11:32.914 --> 00:11:38.969 dividing the plunder for you will break the yoke of their slavery and lift 00:11:38.969 --> 00:11:41.009 the heavy burden from their shoulders. 00:11:41.729 --> 00:11:45.299 You will break the oppressor's rod just as you did when you 00:11:45.299 --> 00:11:47.219 destroyed the army of Midian. 00:11:47.819 --> 00:11:53.429 The boots of the warrior and the uniforms bloodstained by war will all be burned. 00:11:53.759 --> 00:11:55.769 They will be fuel for the fire. 00:11:56.969 --> 00:12:03.119 For a child is born to us, a son is given to us, the government 00:12:03.124 --> 00:12:08.339 will rest on his shoulders and he will be called wonderful counselor. 00:12:08.639 --> 00:12:15.149 Mighty God, everlasting Father, prince of Peace, his government 00:12:15.179 --> 00:12:17.189 and its peace will never end. 00:12:18.074 --> 00:12:21.884 He will rule with fairness and justice from the throne of his 00:12:21.884 --> 00:12:27.674 ancestor David, for all eternity, the passionate commitment of the Lord of 00:12:27.674 --> 00:12:29.744 Heaven's armies will make this happen. 00:12:31.514 --> 00:12:33.794 The Lord has spoken out against Jacob. 00:12:34.304 --> 00:12:39.074 His judgment has fallen upon Israel and the people of Israel and 00:12:39.074 --> 00:12:44.024 Samaria who spoke with such pride and arrogance will soon know it. 00:12:44.834 --> 00:12:45.524 They said. 00:12:46.229 --> 00:12:51.869 We will replace the broken bricks of our ruins with finished stone and replant 00:12:51.874 --> 00:12:57.809 the Feld Sycamore fig trees with cedars, but the Lord will bring reasons enemies 00:12:57.809 --> 00:13:01.049 against Israel and stir up all their foes. 00:13:01.949 --> 00:13:06.329 The Syrians from the east and the Philistines from the west will bear their 00:13:06.329 --> 00:13:12.419 fangs and devour Israel, but even then, the Lord's anger will not be satisfied. 00:13:12.869 --> 00:13:15.239 His fist is still poised to strike. 00:13:16.454 --> 00:13:20.534 For after all this punishment, the people will still not repent. 00:13:21.284 --> 00:13:24.014 They will not seek the Lord of heaven's armies. 00:13:24.674 --> 00:13:29.954 Therefore, in a single day, the Lord will destroy both the head and the tail. 00:13:30.254 --> 00:13:33.104 The noble palm branch and the lowly reed. 00:13:33.854 --> 00:13:39.494 The leaders of Israel are the head and the lying prophets are the tale for the 00:13:39.494 --> 00:13:41.864 leaders of the people have misled them. 00:13:42.614 --> 00:13:45.194 They have led them down the path of destruction. 00:13:45.899 --> 00:13:50.549 That is why the Lord takes no pleasure in the young men and shows no mercy, 00:13:50.579 --> 00:13:55.409 even to the widows and orphans for they are all wicked hypocrites 00:13:55.649 --> 00:13:57.449 and they all speak foolishness. 00:13:58.259 --> 00:14:01.409 But even then, the Lord's anger will not be satisfied. 00:14:02.009 --> 00:14:04.589 His fist is still poised to strike. 00:14:05.819 --> 00:14:08.279 This wickedness is like a brush fire. 00:14:08.669 --> 00:14:13.529 It burns not only breyers and thorns, but also sets the forests ablaze. 00:14:14.159 --> 00:14:16.619 Its burning sends up clouds of smoke. 00:14:17.399 --> 00:14:21.629 The land will be blackened by the fury of the Lord of Heaven's armies. 00:14:22.259 --> 00:14:28.049 The people will be fuel for the fire and no one will spare even his own brother. 00:14:28.679 --> 00:14:32.819 They will attack their neighbor on the right but will still be hungry. 00:14:33.599 --> 00:14:36.869 They will devour their neighbor on the left, but will not 00:14:36.869 --> 00:14:39.449 be satisfied in the end. 00:14:39.509 --> 00:14:41.729 They will even eat their own children. 00:14:42.839 --> 00:14:50.099 Manassa will feed on ra Raam will feed on Manassa and both will devour Judah. 00:14:50.969 --> 00:14:54.449 But even then, the Lord's anger will not be satisfied. 00:14:55.409 --> 00:15:00.659 His fist is still poised to strike what sorrow awaits. 00:15:00.689 --> 00:15:05.759 The unjust judges and those who issue unfair laws, they deprive 00:15:05.759 --> 00:15:09.749 the poor of justice and deny the rights of the needy among my people. 00:15:10.784 --> 00:15:14.144 They prey on widows and take advantage of orphans. 00:15:15.314 --> 00:15:17.384 What will you do when I punish you? 00:15:17.774 --> 00:15:21.044 When I send disaster upon you from a distant land? 00:15:21.644 --> 00:15:23.354 To whom will you turn for help? 00:15:23.984 --> 00:15:25.814 Where will your treasures be safe? 00:15:26.654 --> 00:15:31.694 You will stumble along as prisoners or lie among the dead, but even then, the 00:15:31.744 --> 00:15:33.884 Lord's anger will not be satisfied. 00:15:34.574 --> 00:15:36.914 His fist is still poised to strike. 00:15:38.084 --> 00:15:41.954 What Sorrow awaits Assyria, the rod of my anger. 00:15:42.554 --> 00:15:45.104 I use it as a club to express my anger. 00:15:45.884 --> 00:15:49.844 I am sending Assyria against a Godless nation against a 00:15:49.844 --> 00:15:51.464 people with whom I am angry. 00:15:52.364 --> 00:15:56.894 Assyria will plunder them, trampling them like dirt beneath its feet. 00:15:57.644 --> 00:16:01.244 But the king of Assyria will not understand that he is my tool. 00:16:01.784 --> 00:16:03.524 His mind does not work that way. 00:16:04.304 --> 00:16:09.194 His plan is simply to destroy, to cut down nation after nation. 00:16:09.734 --> 00:16:13.454 He will say each of my princes will soon be a king. 00:16:13.994 --> 00:16:17.204 We destroyed Kano just as we did car kamish. 00:16:17.744 --> 00:16:22.064 Hamath fell before us as our pad did, and we destroyed 00:16:22.244 --> 00:16:24.464 Samaria just as we did Damascus. 00:16:25.094 --> 00:16:29.474 Yes, we have finished off many a kingdom whose gods were greater 00:16:29.474 --> 00:16:31.784 than those in Jerusalem and Samaria. 00:16:32.999 --> 00:16:38.699 So we will defeat Jerusalem and her Gods just as we destroyed Samaria with hers. 00:16:39.929 --> 00:16:44.339 After the Lord has used the king of Assyria to accomplish his purposes on 00:16:44.339 --> 00:16:49.799 Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, he will turn against the king of Assyria and 00:16:49.799 --> 00:16:52.979 punish him for he is proud and arrogant. 00:16:53.729 --> 00:16:57.119 He boasts by my own powerful arm. 00:16:57.119 --> 00:17:00.659 I have done this with my own shrewd wisdom. 00:17:00.659 --> 00:17:01.439 I planned it. 00:17:02.219 --> 00:17:06.869 I have broken down the defenses of nations and carried off their treasures. 00:17:07.559 --> 00:17:10.229 I have knocked down their kings like a bull. 00:17:10.889 --> 00:17:14.729 I have robbed their nests of riches and gathered up kingdoms 00:17:14.729 --> 00:17:16.349 As a farmer gathers eggs. 00:17:17.189 --> 00:17:21.899 No one can even flap a wing against me or utter a peep of protest. 00:17:23.129 --> 00:17:27.119 But can the acts boast greater power than the person who uses it? 00:17:28.019 --> 00:17:30.749 Is the saw greater than the person who saws? 00:17:31.544 --> 00:17:32.744 Can a rod strike? 00:17:32.744 --> 00:17:35.504 Unless a hand moves, it can. 00:17:35.504 --> 00:17:37.784 A wooden cane walk by itself. 00:17:38.504 --> 00:17:43.094 Therefore, the Lord, the Lord of heaven's armies will send a plague 00:17:43.094 --> 00:17:48.164 among assys proud troops and a flaming fire will consume its glory. 00:17:48.824 --> 00:17:49.454 The Lord. 00:17:49.784 --> 00:17:52.244 The light of Israel will be a fire. 00:17:52.844 --> 00:17:54.854 The holy one will be a flame. 00:17:55.484 --> 00:17:58.424 He will devour the thorns and breyers with fire. 00:17:58.829 --> 00:18:05.069 Burning up the enemy in a single night, the Lord will consume a serious glory like 00:18:05.069 --> 00:18:11.069 a fire consumes a forest in a fruitful land, it will waste away like sick people 00:18:11.069 --> 00:18:14.339 in a plague of all that glorious forest. 00:18:14.344 --> 00:18:16.259 Only a few trees will survive. 00:18:16.529 --> 00:18:21.149 So few that a child could count them in that day. 00:18:21.149 --> 00:18:23.009 The remnant left in Israel. 00:18:23.459 --> 00:18:28.439 The survivors in the house of Jacob will no longer depend on allies who seek to 00:18:28.439 --> 00:18:34.169 destroy them, but they will faithfully trust the Lord, the holy one of Israel. 00:18:34.859 --> 00:18:36.509 A remnant will return. 00:18:36.869 --> 00:18:41.009 Yes, the remnant of Jacob will return to the mighty God. 00:18:41.329 --> 00:18:46.229 But though the people of Israel are as numerous as the sand of the seashore, 00:18:46.679 --> 00:18:48.779 only a remnant of them will return. 00:18:49.739 --> 00:18:52.709 The Lord has rightly decided to destroy his people. 00:18:53.219 --> 00:18:57.569 Yes, the Lord, the Lord of Heaven's armies has already 00:18:57.569 --> 00:19:00.149 decided to destroy the entire land. 00:19:01.349 --> 00:19:05.399 So this is what the Lord, the Lord of heaven's armies says. 00:19:06.119 --> 00:19:10.529 All my people in Zion do not be afraid of the Assyrians when they 00:19:10.534 --> 00:19:14.909 oppress you with Rod and Club as the Egyptians did long ago. 00:19:15.659 --> 00:19:19.979 In a little while, my anger against you will end, and then my anger 00:19:19.979 --> 00:19:22.049 will rise up to destroy them. 00:19:22.784 --> 00:19:26.864 The Lord of Heaven's armies will lash them with his whip as he did 00:19:26.864 --> 00:19:30.704 when Gideon triumphed over the Midianites at the Rock of aib. 00:19:31.664 --> 00:19:36.224 Or when the Lord's staff was raised to drown the Egyptian army in the sea. 00:19:37.394 --> 00:19:40.604 In that day, the Lord will end the bondage of his people. 00:19:41.264 --> 00:19:45.704 He will break the yoke of slavery and lift it from their shoulders. 00:19:46.874 --> 00:19:49.814 Look, the Assyrians are now at af. 00:19:50.429 --> 00:19:55.259 They're passing through Migron and are storing their equipment at Mash. 00:19:55.889 --> 00:19:59.399 They are crossing the pass and are camping at Giba. 00:20:00.029 --> 00:20:02.249 Fear strikes the town of Rama. 00:20:02.849 --> 00:20:07.799 All the people of Gia, the hometown of Saul, are running for their lives. 00:20:08.429 --> 00:20:10.019 Scream in terror. 00:20:10.259 --> 00:20:11.729 You people of Gallim. 00:20:12.119 --> 00:20:14.229 Shout out a warning to Laisha. 00:20:15.029 --> 00:20:16.409 Oh, poor Anna. 00:20:17.339 --> 00:20:17.969 There go. 00:20:17.969 --> 00:20:23.969 The people of Madina all fleeing, the citizens of gibe are trying to hide. 00:20:24.539 --> 00:20:27.509 The enemy stops at knob for the rest of that day. 00:20:27.719 --> 00:20:32.579 He shakes his fist at beautiful Mount Zion, the mountain of Jerusalem. 00:20:32.999 --> 00:20:35.459 But look, the Lord. 00:20:35.759 --> 00:20:39.689 The Lord of heaven's armies will chop down the mighty tree 00:20:39.689 --> 00:20:41.489 of Assyria with great power. 00:20:42.419 --> 00:20:44.069 He will cut down the proud. 00:20:44.879 --> 00:20:47.309 That lofty tree will be brought down. 00:20:47.639 --> 00:20:50.609 He will cut down the forest trees with an axe. 00:20:51.029 --> 00:20:53.189 Lebanon will fall to the mighty one. 00:20:54.599 --> 00:20:57.779 Out of the stump of David's family will grow a chute. 00:20:58.139 --> 00:21:03.299 Yes, a new branch bearing fruit from the old root and the spirit 00:21:03.299 --> 00:21:05.219 of the Lord will rest on him. 00:21:05.819 --> 00:21:10.949 The spirit of wisdom and understanding the spirit of counsel and might. 00:21:11.609 --> 00:21:15.659 The spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord, he will 00:21:15.659 --> 00:21:17.669 delight in obeying the Lord. 00:21:18.239 --> 00:21:22.829 He will not judge by appearance nor make a decision based on hearsay. 00:21:23.609 --> 00:21:28.319 He will give justice to the poor and make fair decisions for the exploited. 00:21:29.159 --> 00:21:33.659 The earth will shake at the force of his word and one breath from 00:21:33.659 --> 00:21:35.579 his mouth will destroy the wicket. 00:21:36.554 --> 00:21:43.484 He will wear righteousness like a belt and truth like an undergarment in that day. 00:21:43.514 --> 00:21:45.704 The wolf and the lamb will live together. 00:21:46.394 --> 00:21:51.074 The leopard will lie down with the baby goat, the calf and the yearling 00:21:51.074 --> 00:21:55.694 will be safe with the lion and a little child will lead them all. 00:21:56.354 --> 00:22:01.724 The cow will graze near the bear, the cub and the calf will lie down together. 00:22:02.564 --> 00:22:04.844 The lion will eat hay like a cow. 00:22:05.204 --> 00:22:08.594 The baby will play safely near the hole of a cobra. 00:22:09.314 --> 00:22:14.474 Yes, a little child will put its hand in a nest of deadly snakes without harm. 00:22:15.464 --> 00:22:20.684 Nothing will hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain for as the waters 00:22:20.684 --> 00:22:25.694 fill the sea so the earth will be filled with people who know the Lord. 00:22:26.864 --> 00:22:30.554 In that day, the heir to David's throne will be a banner of 00:22:30.554 --> 00:22:32.444 salvation to all the world. 00:22:33.374 --> 00:22:37.304 The nations will rally to him, and the land where he lives will 00:22:37.304 --> 00:22:40.364 be a glorious place in that day. 00:22:40.364 --> 00:22:44.444 The Lord will reach out his hand a second time to bring back the 00:22:44.444 --> 00:22:49.244 remnant of his people, those who remain in Assyria and Northern Egypt. 00:22:49.574 --> 00:22:52.574 In Southern Egypt, Ethiopia, and Elam. 00:22:53.429 --> 00:22:59.399 In Babylonia, Hamath and all the distant coastlands, he will raise a flag among the 00:22:59.399 --> 00:23:02.159 nations and assemble the exiles of Israel. 00:23:02.879 --> 00:23:06.929 He will gather the scattered people of Judah from the ends of the earth. 00:23:08.099 --> 00:23:12.599 Then at last, the jealousy between Israel and Judah will end. 00:23:13.349 --> 00:23:15.419 They will not be rivals anymore. 00:23:16.199 --> 00:23:20.219 They will join forces to swoop down on Philistia to the west. 00:23:20.924 --> 00:23:21.374 Together. 00:23:21.374 --> 00:23:24.344 They will attack and plunder the nations to the east. 00:23:25.004 --> 00:23:30.014 They will occupy the lands of Edam and Moab and Amman will obey them. 00:23:30.704 --> 00:23:34.244 The Lord will make a dry path through the Gulf of the Red Sea. 00:23:35.024 --> 00:23:38.984 He will wave his hand over the Euphrates River, sending a mighty 00:23:38.984 --> 00:23:44.204 wind to divide it into seven streams, so it can easily be crossed on foot. 00:23:45.254 --> 00:23:48.254 He will make a highway for the remnant of his people. 00:23:48.674 --> 00:23:52.814 The remnant coming from Assyria, just as he did for Israel long 00:23:52.814 --> 00:23:58.784 ago when they returned from Egypt in that day, you will sing. 00:23:59.264 --> 00:24:00.464 I will praise you. 00:24:00.494 --> 00:24:04.454 Oh Lord, you were angry with me, but not anymore. 00:24:04.964 --> 00:24:06.404 Now you comfort me. 00:24:06.944 --> 00:24:09.614 See, God has come to save me. 00:24:10.334 --> 00:24:12.854 I will trust in him and not be afraid. 00:24:13.484 --> 00:24:16.784 The Lord God is my strength and my song. 00:24:17.174 --> 00:24:18.974 He has given me victory. 00:24:19.994 --> 00:24:24.014 With joy, you will drink deeply from the fountain of salvation. 00:24:24.584 --> 00:24:27.044 In that wonderful day, you will sing. 00:24:27.434 --> 00:24:28.574 Thank the Lord. 00:24:28.874 --> 00:24:30.194 Praise his name. 00:24:30.584 --> 00:24:32.714 Tell the nations what he has done. 00:24:33.524 --> 00:24:35.744 Let them know how mighty he is. 00:24:36.284 --> 00:24:39.284 Sing to the Lord for He has done wonderful things. 00:24:40.034 --> 00:24:42.494 Make known his praise around the world. 00:24:42.854 --> 00:24:46.304 Let all the people of Jerusalem shout his praise with joy. 00:24:46.724 --> 00:24:51.254 For great is the holy one of Israel who lives among you. 00:24:53.534 --> 00:24:56.384 This concludes today's immerse reading experience. 00:24:56.534 --> 00:24:57.734 Thank you for joining us.