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 --> 00:00:13.519 practical ways. Hey, everybody, welcome, Welcome, Welcome. It is Friday, 4 00:00:13.519 --> 00:00:16.000 Friday Friday. It's so good to be here because it's. 5 00:00:15.919 --> 00:00:18.120 So good and it's good here to be here with you. 6 00:00:18.480 --> 00:00:19.519 Oh thanks, Jess. 7 00:00:19.600 --> 00:00:23.320 Yeah, so today we have one of our new favorite episodes. 8 00:00:24.160 --> 00:00:27.120 You mean segments, segments, Yeah, what I say, episodes. Yes, yeah, 9 00:00:27.160 --> 00:00:29.000 it's gonna be one of our new favorite episodes too. 10 00:00:29.000 --> 00:00:32.079 I have a lot of a lot of big time Yeah, 11 00:00:32.359 --> 00:00:35.119 but this, uh. Normally on Fridays we do what made 12 00:00:35.159 --> 00:00:38.679 Chris mad this week, which is Everybody's well dearly Loved 13 00:00:39.119 --> 00:00:43.000 Second or third Friday. I think it's Everybody's Dearly Beloved segment. 14 00:00:43.119 --> 00:00:45.640 I'm not sure, but a new segment that people are 15 00:00:45.799 --> 00:00:47.399 just raving about. 16 00:00:47.479 --> 00:00:48.240 This is not true. 17 00:00:48.280 --> 00:00:49.200 Raving about it. 18 00:00:50.479 --> 00:00:54.719 Is certain anything one buzz is Insane has. 19 00:00:54.640 --> 00:00:56.719 Even written in that's not true. 20 00:00:56.719 --> 00:00:58.399 We've had a bunch of We've had a bunch of 21 00:00:58.439 --> 00:01:01.359 people write in about how much they love when you 22 00:01:02.159 --> 00:01:05.519 sing new theme songs for our show. 23 00:01:05.319 --> 00:01:06.319 Because we don't have a theme song. 24 00:01:06.359 --> 00:01:07.120 None of this is true. 25 00:01:07.640 --> 00:01:08.159 It is true. 26 00:01:08.239 --> 00:01:10.680 It is true. So I'll read them to you. So 27 00:01:11.640 --> 00:01:13.159 well you want me to do it, I'll do it 28 00:01:13.239 --> 00:01:15.400 right now. No, I can't do it. I can look 29 00:01:15.439 --> 00:01:18.200 it up if you want me to. But here's what 30 00:01:18.280 --> 00:01:20.239 I thought. Since we don't have a really good theme 31 00:01:20.280 --> 00:01:23.159 song yet, sure, I thought we would ask chat GPT 32 00:01:23.359 --> 00:01:26.680 to write us a theme song. Okay, And so I said, 33 00:01:27.359 --> 00:01:30.840 write us a theme song. Help me write a theme 34 00:01:30.879 --> 00:01:33.400 song for a podcast called The Bible Guys where a 35 00:01:33.400 --> 00:01:35.120 couple of friends talk about the Bible and fun of 36 00:01:35.120 --> 00:01:39.359 practical ways and set the song to the tune of Friends, Friends. 37 00:01:39.439 --> 00:01:42.239 And here's what it gave us. It gave me these 38 00:01:42.359 --> 00:01:44.519 lyrics to the tune of friends. And so we thought, 39 00:01:44.599 --> 00:01:47.120 since you're the big singer on our on our team, 40 00:01:47.719 --> 00:01:52.519 that you could sing this theme song from the Friends, 41 00:01:53.280 --> 00:01:53.959 the show Friends. 42 00:01:55.000 --> 00:01:57.519 Yes, uh yeah, yeah, there you go. 43 00:01:57.640 --> 00:02:04.359 Okay, ready, all right, ready, no one told you, No 44 00:02:04.400 --> 00:02:09.360 one told you Bible study could be this fun, bring 45 00:02:09.439 --> 00:02:12.599 the Word of life and break it down for everyone. 46 00:02:13.080 --> 00:02:14.520 There you go, the. 47 00:02:14.520 --> 00:02:18.840 Stories, laughs in truth to life, the way you're growing 48 00:02:18.919 --> 00:02:23.599 your faith, and maybe even smile to day yus. 49 00:02:24.280 --> 00:02:27.639 Where the Bible Guys. 50 00:02:27.439 --> 00:02:34.360 It would help you understand Bible guys bringing truth that's 51 00:02:34.479 --> 00:02:40.840 never played. Where the Bible guys sharing hope of God's command. 52 00:02:44.840 --> 00:02:45.360 It is. 53 00:02:48.439 --> 00:02:52.199 The crowds are just going wild today, Chris. Hey, you 54 00:02:52.240 --> 00:02:54.199 know what if the ministry thing doesn't work out for you, 55 00:02:54.240 --> 00:02:57.159 maybe you have a future career as a jingle singer. 56 00:02:57.280 --> 00:03:00.400 I realize now I should have lowered the key like 57 00:03:00.960 --> 00:03:01.599 three keys. 58 00:03:01.840 --> 00:03:02.719 No, that was great. 59 00:03:02.719 --> 00:03:05.639 That's why I get done. I started off off key, 60 00:03:05.680 --> 00:03:07.120 but I found my way. 61 00:03:07.280 --> 00:03:08.240 That was awesome. 62 00:03:08.319 --> 00:03:11.800 Dude, thank you you you are by far our favorite 63 00:03:11.919 --> 00:03:15.159 jingle singer. Hey, out of all the jingles, all of 64 00:03:15.159 --> 00:03:18.560 my favorite jingle singers, you are now number one. 65 00:03:18.800 --> 00:03:21.840 Wow. Yeah, thank you, Jeff. And the funny thing is 66 00:03:22.280 --> 00:03:24.560 you can sing. You can sing. You are a worship 67 00:03:24.599 --> 00:03:25.879 leader way longer than I was. 68 00:03:26.479 --> 00:03:29.120 Well, it doesn't improve sing in my church. 69 00:03:29.319 --> 00:03:31.919 In my church, I was the worship leader for three 70 00:03:32.000 --> 00:03:34.879 years on stage and you were the worship leader for 71 00:03:34.879 --> 00:03:35.240 how long? 72 00:03:35.520 --> 00:03:36.199 Fifteen years? 73 00:03:36.439 --> 00:03:37.199 Uh huh? 74 00:03:37.360 --> 00:03:40.199 Yeah, But you're the good singer. No, that's trust me. 75 00:03:40.240 --> 00:03:42.520 You are you are you are the good singer. 76 00:03:42.560 --> 00:03:44.560 Well what does that say about your career in fifteen years? 77 00:03:44.639 --> 00:03:48.360 Yeah? I had just had dumb bosses dumosses. 78 00:03:48.800 --> 00:03:54.439 No, let's keep paying that guy. Keep paying that guy. 79 00:03:55.120 --> 00:03:56.199 Know that nobody likes them. 80 00:03:56.240 --> 00:03:59.000 So those bosses are listening, big going, I guess. So 81 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:03.759 that's funny, that's funny. Actually, my wife was a great 82 00:04:03.759 --> 00:04:05.680 piano player. That's why I kept my job. 83 00:04:06.039 --> 00:04:06.240 Is that? 84 00:04:06.319 --> 00:04:07.479 Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's it. 85 00:04:08.000 --> 00:04:12.360 Hey. By the way, speaking of singing, you know who's 86 00:04:12.400 --> 00:04:21.439 not singing a happy tune is not singing happy not whistling. 87 00:04:22.600 --> 00:04:25.120 This guy is not singing happy to He's wake it 88 00:04:25.240 --> 00:04:28.680 up every day saying good morning because the gauntlet has 89 00:04:28.720 --> 00:04:29.839 been thrown down for him. 90 00:04:29.959 --> 00:04:31.720 Yes, he is counting. 91 00:04:31.439 --> 00:04:32.879 Down for a three year window. 92 00:04:33.279 --> 00:04:35.680 This is rough, yes, okay, So we're going to be 93 00:04:35.720 --> 00:04:38.879 reading from Isaiah chapter eight, which I gave a hint 94 00:04:38.959 --> 00:04:43.199 yesterday that God told Isaiah to get a sandwich board, yes, 95 00:04:43.319 --> 00:04:44.600 and write a name on it. 96 00:04:44.680 --> 00:04:47.959 But then I did not tell you the name. Oh yeah, right, And. 97 00:04:47.920 --> 00:04:50.160 So we're going to go back to Isaiah chapter eight 98 00:04:50.199 --> 00:04:51.920 today for all of you guys that were sitting on 99 00:04:51.959 --> 00:04:53.439 the edge of your seat trying to find out what's 100 00:04:53.439 --> 00:04:56.120 going to happen next. It says this in Isaiah chapter eight. 101 00:04:56.120 --> 00:04:58.600 Then the Lord said to me make a large signboard 102 00:04:58.600 --> 00:04:59.439 and clearly write this. 103 00:04:59.639 --> 00:05:03.079 Oh my gosh, write this name on it. Mahurst shalal 104 00:05:03.920 --> 00:05:10.399 hash Baz. Is that it? Do you think this? Maharst 105 00:05:10.439 --> 00:05:11.600 shalal Hashbaz. 106 00:05:11.800 --> 00:05:14.639 I was looking forward to that the entire time. 107 00:05:15.680 --> 00:05:17.000 I never even looked at the name. 108 00:05:17.199 --> 00:05:20.079 Yeah, as you know, as you were reading it, you 109 00:05:20.160 --> 00:05:21.759 got to see this thing written out in print. 110 00:05:22.120 --> 00:05:28.639 It's one, two, three, four or five, bass eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, 111 00:05:28.720 --> 00:05:29.959 seventeen eighteen letters. 112 00:05:30.040 --> 00:05:31.360 Oh, it's crazy. 113 00:05:31.480 --> 00:05:32.279 Eighteen letters. 114 00:05:32.399 --> 00:05:35.079 We've only got what twenty six letters in the whole alphabet, 115 00:05:35.319 --> 00:05:37.560 right right, so he's got eighteen letters in his name. 116 00:05:37.839 --> 00:05:40.120 Mahersh shalal hash Bags. That's what she got to write 117 00:05:40.120 --> 00:05:42.000 on the sign So you know it's a large signboard. 118 00:05:42.040 --> 00:05:42.680 That's why I bought this. 119 00:05:43.480 --> 00:05:46.680 Get a large signboard and clearly write this name on it. 120 00:05:46.720 --> 00:05:50.079 Mahirs shalal hash Bas. I asked you Rayah the priest 121 00:05:50.120 --> 00:05:55.199 and Zachary's son of Jebber Rikaiah, both known as honest men, 122 00:05:55.199 --> 00:05:57.560 to witness me doing this. Then I slept with my 123 00:05:57.600 --> 00:05:59.680 wife and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son, 124 00:06:00.199 --> 00:06:04.920 and the Lord said call him mahershalal Hashbaz, For before 125 00:06:04.959 --> 00:06:07.120 this child is old enough to say Papa or Mama, 126 00:06:07.160 --> 00:06:09.160 the King of Assyria will carry away both the abundance 127 00:06:09.160 --> 00:06:12.279 of Damascus and the riches of Samaria. 128 00:06:12.759 --> 00:06:14.759 So this is the window. This is well, this is 129 00:06:14.800 --> 00:06:16.519 the verses the actual child. 130 00:06:17.160 --> 00:06:18.399 Yeah, Okay. 131 00:06:20.079 --> 00:06:22.800 Then the Lord spoke to me again and said, my 132 00:06:22.920 --> 00:06:25.079 care for the people of Judah is like the gently 133 00:06:25.120 --> 00:06:26.600 flowing waters of Shilloah. 134 00:06:27.079 --> 00:06:28.199 But they have rejected it. 135 00:06:28.560 --> 00:06:31.040 They're rejoicing over what will happen to King Resident and 136 00:06:31.120 --> 00:06:34.360 King Pica. Therefore, the Lord will overwhelm them with a 137 00:06:34.439 --> 00:06:37.000 mighty flood from the Euphrates River, the King of Assyria 138 00:06:37.040 --> 00:06:40.759 and all into all his glory. This flood will overflow 139 00:06:40.800 --> 00:06:44.040 all its channels and sweep into Judah until it's chin deep. 140 00:06:44.360 --> 00:06:47.240 It'll spread its wings, submerging your land from one end 141 00:06:47.279 --> 00:06:51.879 to the other. Oh Emmanuel, huddle together, you nations and 142 00:06:51.920 --> 00:06:55.600 be terrified. Listen, all you distant lands. Prepare for battle, 143 00:06:55.800 --> 00:06:58.639 but you will be crushed. Yes, prepare for battle, but 144 00:06:58.720 --> 00:07:01.600 you will be crushed. Call your counsels of war, but 145 00:07:01.639 --> 00:07:03.959 they will be worthless. Develop your strategies, but they will 146 00:07:03.959 --> 00:07:08.720 not succeed, for God is with us. The Lord has 147 00:07:08.759 --> 00:07:11.360 given me a strong warning not to think like everyone 148 00:07:11.360 --> 00:07:15.000 else does. He said, don't call everything a conspiracy like 149 00:07:15.040 --> 00:07:18.000 they do. Don't live in dread of what frightens them. 150 00:07:18.480 --> 00:07:20.680 Make the Lord of Heaven's Armies holy in your life. 151 00:07:20.720 --> 00:07:22.920 He is the one you should fear. He's the one 152 00:07:23.040 --> 00:07:25.920 who should make you tremble. He will keep you safe. 153 00:07:26.199 --> 00:07:28.319 But to Israel and Judah, he will be a stone 154 00:07:28.360 --> 00:07:30.879 that makes people stumble, a rock that makes them fall. 155 00:07:31.199 --> 00:07:32.839 And for the people of Jerusalem, he will be a 156 00:07:32.879 --> 00:07:35.439 trap and a snare. Many will stumble and fall, never 157 00:07:35.480 --> 00:07:37.600 to rise again, and they will be snared and captured. 158 00:07:38.079 --> 00:07:41.199 Preserve the teaching of God and trust his instructions to 159 00:07:41.199 --> 00:07:43.519 those who follow me. I will wait for the Lord 160 00:07:43.519 --> 00:07:45.399 who has turned away from the descendants of Jacob, and 161 00:07:45.439 --> 00:07:47.439 I will put my hope in him. I and the 162 00:07:47.519 --> 00:07:50.160 children of the Lord. I and the children the Lord 163 00:07:50.199 --> 00:07:53.279 has given me serves signs and warnings to Israel from 164 00:07:53.319 --> 00:07:56.319 the Lord of Heaven's Armies, who dwells in his temple 165 00:07:56.360 --> 00:07:59.160 on Mount Zion. Someone may say to you, let's ask 166 00:07:59.240 --> 00:08:01.639 the mediums and those who consult the spirits of the 167 00:08:01.680 --> 00:08:04.759 dead with their whisperings and mutterings. They will tell us 168 00:08:04.800 --> 00:08:07.439 what to do. But shouldn't people ask God for guidance? 169 00:08:07.439 --> 00:08:10.439 Shouldn't the living seek guidance from the dead. Should the 170 00:08:10.480 --> 00:08:13.959 living seek guidance from the dead. Look to God's instructions 171 00:08:13.959 --> 00:08:16.879 and teachings. People who contradict his word are completely in 172 00:08:16.879 --> 00:08:19.000 the dark. They will go from one place to another, 173 00:08:19.040 --> 00:08:21.879 weary and hungry. And because they are hungry, they will 174 00:08:22.000 --> 00:08:24.240 rage and curse their king and their God. They will 175 00:08:24.279 --> 00:08:27.519 look up to heaven and down to earth. But wherever 176 00:08:27.560 --> 00:08:29.879 they look there will be trouble and anguish and dark despair, 177 00:08:29.920 --> 00:08:32.080 and they will be thrown out into the darkness. 178 00:08:33.440 --> 00:08:33.879 Wow. 179 00:08:34.399 --> 00:08:38.240 So yeah, yesterday we read about how God said a 180 00:08:38.320 --> 00:08:42.320 virgin will conceive and bear a son, and a big 181 00:08:42.360 --> 00:08:43.799 part of his name as God. 182 00:08:43.600 --> 00:08:45.279 Is with us, reminding him the gods with us. 183 00:08:45.440 --> 00:08:48.639 Yes, And then that's a three year window of time 184 00:08:48.679 --> 00:08:50.879 before it has is going to be wiped out, and. 185 00:08:50.799 --> 00:08:56.480 A virgin eventually get pregnant, that's right, and had a son. 186 00:08:56.759 --> 00:09:00.639 So apparently this wife was a virgin. But we know 187 00:09:00.799 --> 00:09:04.200 Isaiah already had a son because he went out to 188 00:09:04.200 --> 00:09:07.159 meet a has with a son. So apparently. Then that 189 00:09:07.200 --> 00:09:09.879 would mean that his first wife was dead, this was 190 00:09:09.879 --> 00:09:10.919 a second wife. 191 00:09:10.759 --> 00:09:11.559 Yeah, most likely. 192 00:09:11.600 --> 00:09:13.600 Most likely that'd be the only way, because she already 193 00:09:13.600 --> 00:09:15.879 had a son. Otherwise, unless he adopted a. 194 00:09:15.799 --> 00:09:17.919 Son or something, or unless he had multiple wives. 195 00:09:18.559 --> 00:09:20.919 Yeah. I don't know. Are there prophets that have more 196 00:09:20.919 --> 00:09:21.360 than one? 197 00:09:21.399 --> 00:09:22.120 I don't think there are. 198 00:09:22.200 --> 00:09:22.960 I don't remember any. 199 00:09:23.080 --> 00:09:25.840 I don't remember any either. Yeah, so most likely she's passed. 200 00:09:25.960 --> 00:09:27.159 Yeah, most likely. 201 00:09:27.559 --> 00:09:30.679 So then this this is they have a son named 202 00:09:30.679 --> 00:09:32.080 Maher shalal Hashbaz. 203 00:09:32.120 --> 00:09:33.240 I just can't stop saying it now. 204 00:09:33.639 --> 00:09:36.080 Oh, it's it's so funny the way it reads. It's 205 00:09:36.080 --> 00:09:38.840 so intimidating. And when you came across it and you go, 206 00:09:38.919 --> 00:09:42.879 oh no, he said, oh no, so good. 207 00:09:44.159 --> 00:09:48.159 So anyways, this is the beginning, and he says, before 208 00:09:48.279 --> 00:09:50.799 this child is old enough to say, Mama or Papa, 209 00:09:51.279 --> 00:09:53.279 the king of a Siria, care away both the abundance 210 00:09:53.279 --> 00:09:55.519 of Damascus and the riches of Samaria. 211 00:09:56.000 --> 00:10:02.120 Yeah right, yeah, and so and so base Basically, God 212 00:10:02.279 --> 00:10:07.120 used the sign that Isaiah told him to ask for uh, 213 00:10:07.360 --> 00:10:09.799 and he used it and within his own family, right 214 00:10:10.480 --> 00:10:14.360 right right, So it's so the one who gave the 215 00:10:14.399 --> 00:10:17.440 message is the one who I guess God used to 216 00:10:17.480 --> 00:10:18.879 carry out the sign. That's pretty wild. 217 00:10:19.639 --> 00:10:23.600 Yeah, So then God says, God describes his love and 218 00:10:23.639 --> 00:10:25.919 his care for the people of Judah's like a gently 219 00:10:26.039 --> 00:10:27.840 flowing waters of Shiloah. 220 00:10:28.240 --> 00:10:29.320 But they've rejected it. 221 00:10:30.279 --> 00:10:33.440 And they're happy about the fact that Resident and Pika 222 00:10:33.559 --> 00:10:36.519 both got you know, defeated. But the Lord said, but 223 00:10:36.559 --> 00:10:38.840 I'm going to overwhelm them with a mighty flood now 224 00:10:39.679 --> 00:10:43.000 from the Euphrates River. Obviously he's not, actually he was 225 00:10:43.080 --> 00:10:47.360 not a gentle flowing brook for Judah. And he's not 226 00:10:47.519 --> 00:10:50.080 saying he's sending a flood all the way into Israel 227 00:10:50.120 --> 00:10:53.559 from the Euphrates River. He's saying, I'm going to send 228 00:10:53.559 --> 00:10:56.399 the King of Assyria in all his glory, and that's 229 00:10:56.440 --> 00:10:59.639 the flood he's going to overwhelm them. I tried to 230 00:10:59.679 --> 00:11:03.759 care for you as a gentle caring and you rejected me. 231 00:11:04.240 --> 00:11:05.480 So now you're going. 232 00:11:05.480 --> 00:11:08.440 To be flooded by this wicked leader, the King of 233 00:11:08.480 --> 00:11:13.000 Israel or Assyria. He's going to overflow you and sweep 234 00:11:13.039 --> 00:11:16.679 into Judah until he's chin deep. Just you're barely going 235 00:11:16.759 --> 00:11:18.360 to be able to survive, is what he's saying. 236 00:11:18.840 --> 00:11:19.720 This onslaught. 237 00:11:19.720 --> 00:11:21.879 It's going to spread its wings, submerging your land from 238 00:11:21.879 --> 00:11:24.240 one end to the other, Oh, Emmanuel. And then he 239 00:11:24.279 --> 00:11:27.039 gives us a little phrase, and he says, huddle together 240 00:11:27.080 --> 00:11:29.559 your nations and be terrified. Listen all your destined lands. 241 00:11:29.759 --> 00:11:33.320 Prepare for battle. But you'll be crushed. Call your counsel's word. 242 00:11:33.360 --> 00:11:36.320 But you develop your strategies, they will not succeed because 243 00:11:36.360 --> 00:11:39.360 God is with us. Now that's a Syrian song. 244 00:11:40.399 --> 00:11:41.000 That's crazy. 245 00:11:41.039 --> 00:11:43.840 God's on our side now, right, right, not. 246 00:11:43.879 --> 00:11:47.559 Because they're good, but because God's using them as a tool, right, 247 00:11:47.600 --> 00:11:48.120 a weapon. 248 00:11:48.879 --> 00:11:53.159 Yeah, which is yeah, crazy to even think about that that, 249 00:11:54.320 --> 00:11:58.039 you know, think about your father's legacy and your grandfather's legacy. Right, 250 00:11:58.120 --> 00:12:00.639 And then all of a sudden, now you have Isaiah 251 00:12:00.759 --> 00:12:03.679 saying that that God is on the opposite side. 252 00:12:03.879 --> 00:12:05.679 Yeah, God's with them. 253 00:12:05.799 --> 00:12:08.559 That's horrible, right, that's really really terrible. 254 00:12:08.679 --> 00:12:12.039 Well, it's because God's decided to use them as a tool. Yeah, right, 255 00:12:12.159 --> 00:12:16.639 every every empire, every king, every leader, Bible says they 256 00:12:16.679 --> 00:12:20.279 exist because God permits it, and he uses good kings 257 00:12:20.279 --> 00:12:22.879 and bad kings for his purposes. And in the situation, 258 00:12:22.960 --> 00:12:25.759 he's using them. So then he says the Isaiah goes 259 00:12:25.879 --> 00:12:28.240 on in verse eleven, he says, the Lord has given 260 00:12:28.320 --> 00:12:31.679 me a strong warning not to think like everyone else does. 261 00:12:32.480 --> 00:12:37.200 So now this next piece is to Isaiah, right, don't 262 00:12:37.200 --> 00:12:39.679 think like they think, don't act like they act, don't 263 00:12:39.679 --> 00:12:42.919 be like them. And he says, don't call everything conspiracy 264 00:12:42.960 --> 00:12:43.480 like they do. 265 00:12:43.480 --> 00:12:44.080 Don't live And. 266 00:12:44.480 --> 00:12:47.519 Hey, by the way, all you all you dooms, all 267 00:12:47.559 --> 00:12:51.720 you doom scrollers out there, right, this might be for 268 00:12:51.799 --> 00:12:54.159 you today, the one that you're just constantly You ever 269 00:12:54.240 --> 00:12:57.080 notice how your your your your your feed is always 270 00:12:57.960 --> 00:13:00.759 conspiracy theories. It's because you read becauseira theories. 271 00:13:00.960 --> 00:13:01.120 Right. 272 00:13:01.159 --> 00:13:03.799 The algorithm knows that that's what you're paying attention to 273 00:13:03.879 --> 00:13:06.440 all the time. You're a little bit of conspiracy theorist, 274 00:13:06.480 --> 00:13:06.759 aren't you? 275 00:13:06.799 --> 00:13:07.200 A little bit? 276 00:13:07.240 --> 00:13:08.519 A little bit? You like them, don't you? 277 00:13:09.799 --> 00:13:11.279 I believe some of them. 278 00:13:11.639 --> 00:13:13.120 Yeah, yeah, we never made it. The moon. 279 00:13:13.360 --> 00:13:17.360 Yeah, well I'm not saying that, but things are weird 280 00:13:17.360 --> 00:13:17.840 about it. 281 00:13:18.519 --> 00:13:22.000 Bigfoots when I want Yeah, yeah, I've told you before. 282 00:13:22.000 --> 00:13:25.159 I think Bigfoot is uh just is blurry. That's why 283 00:13:25.159 --> 00:13:26.120 all the photos are blurry. 284 00:13:26.519 --> 00:13:28.759 He's blurry. He is a blurry Yeah, he's a blurry person. 285 00:13:28.759 --> 00:13:30.879 He stays in a constant state of blurriness. 286 00:13:30.960 --> 00:13:32.360 Yeah. 287 00:13:32.399 --> 00:13:35.000 Anyways, by the way, I was going to say, one 288 00:13:35.000 --> 00:13:37.039 of the footnotes in the Life of Grease and Study 289 00:13:37.039 --> 00:13:40.279 Bible does a translation and it says to be crushed 290 00:13:40.399 --> 00:13:42.960 means to lose courage by the pressure of sudden fear. 291 00:13:43.279 --> 00:13:45.320 So in verse number nine when it says, huddle together 292 00:13:45.360 --> 00:13:49.360 your nations and be terrified, listen to all your distant lands. 293 00:13:49.559 --> 00:13:52.679 Prepare for battle, but you will be crushed. Yes, prepare 294 00:13:52.679 --> 00:13:55.000 for battle, You'll be crushed. I think that's really interesting. 295 00:13:55.399 --> 00:13:58.360 It doesn't necessarily mean the defeat of actual war. It 296 00:13:58.440 --> 00:14:01.320 means you're going to lose courage by the pressure of 297 00:14:01.320 --> 00:14:05.360 sudden fear, to be crushed in your spirit, overwhelmed by fear, 298 00:14:05.480 --> 00:14:08.919 overwhelmed by fear, to be paralyzed. I think that that's 299 00:14:09.000 --> 00:14:10.039 really interesting. 300 00:14:09.720 --> 00:14:09.960 Isn't that. 301 00:14:10.200 --> 00:14:13.480 Yeah, So then He's going to keep you safe, is 302 00:14:13.519 --> 00:14:16.399 what God is saying to Isaiah. Right, So don't get 303 00:14:16.440 --> 00:14:19.279 sucked into all these other conspiracies. Don't live in dread 304 00:14:19.919 --> 00:14:22.840 of what's going to happen to them. Instead, make the 305 00:14:22.840 --> 00:14:25.360 Lord of Heaven's armies holy in your life. The word 306 00:14:25.360 --> 00:14:29.639 holy means set apart right, right, elevated and set apart. 307 00:14:30.639 --> 00:14:33.440 And he's the one who should make you tremble. He's 308 00:14:33.440 --> 00:14:36.360 the one who's making fear. He'll keep you safe. And 309 00:14:36.399 --> 00:14:39.559 so it's interesting if you're not doing what everybody else 310 00:14:39.639 --> 00:14:42.080 is doing, if you're not thinking like everybody else thinks, 311 00:14:42.120 --> 00:14:44.399 if you're not going down the same path, then that 312 00:14:44.480 --> 00:14:46.480 judgment is not coming for you. That's what he's saying 313 00:14:46.480 --> 00:14:50.840 to Isaiah. Hey, you should fear God. Don't fear what's 314 00:14:50.879 --> 00:14:52.919 going to happen to them. And if you put me 315 00:14:52.960 --> 00:14:54.559 in the right place in your life, then you don't 316 00:14:54.600 --> 00:14:56.840 have to worry what's going to happen to Israel. You 317 00:14:56.840 --> 00:14:59.720 don't have to worry what's going to happen to Judah. 318 00:15:00.039 --> 00:15:01.879 As I'm the one that's going to make you safe 319 00:15:02.240 --> 00:15:07.279 even while I'm making them fall. Right, And so as 320 00:15:07.320 --> 00:15:09.519 as people look sometimes you ever you ever talk about 321 00:15:09.559 --> 00:15:11.519 doom scrolling, as it made that joke of me into 322 00:15:11.759 --> 00:15:15.440 conspiracy theorists. There are some people get really obsessed with prophecy. 323 00:15:16.039 --> 00:15:18.879 Yeah right, yeah, AI is the end of the world, 324 00:15:19.000 --> 00:15:21.679 the mark of the beast, right, I remember when credit cards, 325 00:15:21.720 --> 00:15:23.840 you know, and that that was the mark of the 326 00:15:23.840 --> 00:15:27.879 beast or whatever there, all these things, everything's bad. The 327 00:15:27.919 --> 00:15:30.159 Devil's coming for you, all this stuff, the world's going 328 00:15:30.200 --> 00:15:31.919 to be horrible. Three and a half years is going 329 00:15:31.919 --> 00:15:34.879 to be terrible. All this stuff, right, and they just doom. 330 00:15:35.000 --> 00:15:38.440 They talk about doom all the time. And I think 331 00:15:38.480 --> 00:15:41.799 the message to those that are followers of Christ today 332 00:15:42.080 --> 00:15:45.000 looking at prophetic things is the same as what his 333 00:15:45.039 --> 00:15:47.440 message to Isaiah was. Listen, don't get caught up into 334 00:15:47.440 --> 00:15:50.320 their conspiracies. Don't get caught up into all the fear 335 00:15:50.600 --> 00:15:53.440 of what's happening to them. If you put me in 336 00:15:53.519 --> 00:15:56.879 my right place, I don't tell you these things to 337 00:15:56.919 --> 00:16:01.720 scare you. Right, I'm going to protect you. I'm gonna 338 00:16:01.720 --> 00:16:05.080 take care of you. I'm telling you these things so 339 00:16:05.120 --> 00:16:06.600 that you know what's going to happen to those who 340 00:16:06.720 --> 00:16:09.480 rejected me. So don't think like they think, don't act 341 00:16:09.519 --> 00:16:12.840 like they think, don't be like them. Instead, put me 342 00:16:12.879 --> 00:16:15.200 in my right place. Fear God, and then I'll be 343 00:16:15.240 --> 00:16:18.159 the one who protects you. And it's the same, right, 344 00:16:18.240 --> 00:16:21.759 So when you read any prophetic things, it's not about fear. 345 00:16:21.799 --> 00:16:24.200 God doesn't tell you these things to scare you. God 346 00:16:24.279 --> 00:16:26.759 tells you these things so that you can remember God's 347 00:16:26.759 --> 00:16:29.720 in control, right. The only ones who have to fear 348 00:16:29.759 --> 00:16:32.879 these things are the ones who are rejecting, actively rejecting God. 349 00:16:33.159 --> 00:16:36.240 They're the ones Aas was actively rejecting God. He had 350 00:16:36.240 --> 00:16:40.039 an opportunity, Hey, prove me. Just just ask me anything, 351 00:16:40.039 --> 00:16:41.799 and I'll prove to you that I'm real. He goes, Nope, 352 00:16:41.799 --> 00:16:44.080 don't even want to deal with you God. God goes, Okay, 353 00:16:44.080 --> 00:16:46.559 here it comes. I'll prove to you I'm real. 354 00:16:47.080 --> 00:16:47.320 Right. 355 00:16:47.480 --> 00:16:49.759 But to Isaiah, these are really scary things that are 356 00:16:49.759 --> 00:16:51.879 being told to Isaiah. And Isaiah and God says he'll 357 00:16:51.879 --> 00:16:54.799 be afraid Isaiah, that's not for you. 358 00:16:54.799 --> 00:16:57.240 You have the right perspective of me. I'm going to 359 00:16:57.279 --> 00:16:57.759 protect you. 360 00:16:58.159 --> 00:17:00.600 And I think it's the same when you hear bad news, 361 00:17:00.639 --> 00:17:02.360 when you see things going on in the world, when 362 00:17:02.399 --> 00:17:05.559 you see us heading towards the end. God only lets 363 00:17:05.640 --> 00:17:07.799 us know about those things, not to scare us if 364 00:17:07.839 --> 00:17:09.880 you're a fall of Christ, but just to let you 365 00:17:09.960 --> 00:17:12.359 know he's in control. A man is good to be 366 00:17:12.480 --> 00:17:14.079 on the side of the God who's in control. 367 00:17:14.400 --> 00:17:17.960 Yeah, right, yeah, there's no doubt about that. And you know, 368 00:17:18.160 --> 00:17:22.680 I think that in general, we can use that mentality 369 00:17:22.720 --> 00:17:25.960 across any anything that God asks us to do, you 370 00:17:25.960 --> 00:17:28.759 can attach it to any single thing, because sometimes God 371 00:17:28.759 --> 00:17:32.680 asks us to obey and they're just general life commands. 372 00:17:32.839 --> 00:17:34.960 But then sometimes God asks us to do things that 373 00:17:35.000 --> 00:17:37.599 are very specific, and he says, hey, go out in 374 00:17:37.680 --> 00:17:40.799 this venture, or give this amount of money, or trust 375 00:17:40.799 --> 00:17:43.279 in this or invest in this, or you know, go 376 00:17:43.319 --> 00:17:46.039 to this missions field or whatever it is. And God 377 00:17:46.160 --> 00:17:48.759 sometimes asks us to do something. And I think that 378 00:17:48.839 --> 00:17:51.039 it's sort of the same way, isn't it, Where it's like, hey, 379 00:17:51.079 --> 00:17:53.160 if I'm in the work of God, and I think 380 00:17:53.160 --> 00:17:55.000 that you've even said that before, Like you've been out 381 00:17:55.039 --> 00:17:57.359 in the bush and you're like and you're like, hey, 382 00:17:57.400 --> 00:17:58.440 God's going to take care of us. 383 00:17:58.640 --> 00:18:00.960 Sure, Yeah, we've been a dangerous situations and you just 384 00:18:01.039 --> 00:18:03.799 know we're doing what God told us to do. And 385 00:18:03.880 --> 00:18:07.319 so until he's finished with us, we're invincible, right right. 386 00:18:07.480 --> 00:18:09.920 Yeah, yeah, or you're going to be a martyr, yeah 387 00:18:09.960 --> 00:18:10.359 and use it. 388 00:18:10.359 --> 00:18:12.720 Well, then he's finished with us on earth, that's right. Yeah, 389 00:18:13.000 --> 00:18:13.680 And either way that's. 390 00:18:13.599 --> 00:18:15.799 Okay, right, Yeah, that's really great. 391 00:18:16.400 --> 00:18:19.440 So he tells Isaiah a few things because the second 392 00:18:19.440 --> 00:18:21.720 half of this, the first chapter half of the chapter 393 00:18:21.799 --> 00:18:23.119 is it's going to be bad news for you. 394 00:18:23.160 --> 00:18:23.559 A has. 395 00:18:24.200 --> 00:18:27.200 The second half of the chapter is to Isaiah, and 396 00:18:27.240 --> 00:18:32.880 he says, don't think like they think. Instead, he says, 397 00:18:32.920 --> 00:18:34.680 the second thing he tells him is make the Lord 398 00:18:34.680 --> 00:18:37.240 of Heaven's Armies holy in your life. Set God apart 399 00:18:37.240 --> 00:18:40.000 in your life, make God who God is, and remind 400 00:18:40.039 --> 00:18:42.440 yourself over and over and over again who God is, 401 00:18:42.559 --> 00:18:44.880