Isaiah 20 - Ashdod and Arabia

isaiah chapter 20 and 21 tonight try to get through both chapters tonight dealing with ash dodd and arabia remember chapter 18 and 19 we dealt with ethiopian egypt and the whole theme of this section in isaiah these chapters between chapter 13 and 23 is god giving prophecies about the peoples and countries and lands around judah and jerusalem and how because of the big assyrian threat upon the area the assyrians were conquering all the the nations to build their empire at the time um israel and specifically judah their kings were tempted to turn an ally with other nations for help against this huge and massive army of the assyrians and every country was was shaken in their boots for that regard so they thought let's join together and we can survive and god keeps telling judah and the king specifically ahaz and hezekiah to not do that do not form a pact with those people or with these people or with those people and the prophecies are always those people are going to fall you know so if you're looking for help looking for a shoulder to lean on looking for a branch to stand on he's going those branches are going to be cut off so and the question we'll see tonight in chapter 20 is well where else are we going to stand the answer on the rock on christ on god right so that's the that's what god's trying to tell them here um so he's going around these nations and tonight chapter 20 ashdod and then arabia in chapter 21 and talk about how they should not depend on them they should not trust in these nations the power of their armies they're bigger than judah they have more military might in judah very tempting politically right and so this is a spiritual challenge for hezekiah to say am i going to trust the wisdom of men and the power of men or what god has covenanted with this people by the way this preaches really well you know when you talk about you being outnumbered you being the minority you being uh you know something some a person that is the underdog and saying well look at that judas the underdog has a kaiser underdog and god's with them and he brings them through you know that can preach really well in your circumstances but you got to realize dispensationally even though god can do that and he's the god of all power and he will do what he says dispensationally he has not made a covenant with you and your family or your country or your city right it's a different thing so you might be one of these nations that fall you know in history and you still are complete in christ because what god has told you is that you could be saved by his grace through faith than what he did on the cross and you have all spiritual blessings and that you can take to the bank and so what he told you today is what we trust right so we always study isaiah with that in mind that we are going back before the revelation of the mystery before the dispensation of grace and we have more excellent promises spiritually than what hezekiah ever knew okay but we also recognize that he had a special covenant with god as the king of judah as uh israelites as jews there so isaiah 20 verse one in the year that tartan came unto ashdod and sargon the king of assyria sent him and fought against ashdod and took it don't you remember when sargon the king of syria sent tartan to ashdod and took it you're going no i don't remember that at all well maybe because uh this is one of the few places in history historical sources that even talk about this sort of thing uh if i can draw real quick here if you can there's maps at the back of your bible too you've got the mediterranean ocean here you've got the dead sea and the sea of galilee you've got egypt down here with the with the sinai peninsula and then you've got the arabian peninsula down here right the uae and then you've got the euphrates and the tigris river over here right you see what i'm drawing does that look all crazy to you okay you're with me the mediterranean sea you got israel over here here's jerusalem and judah the syrian army and empire is all over here and they're coming down to conquer all these nations we've already dealt with the the damascus up here in syria how they're doomed we dealt with the northern tribes out there doomed moab is doomed right uh we dealt with egypt their doom ethiopia is doomed tonight's ashdod and the arabians ashdod's right here uh city in this this area of the philistines and arabia is this area right here okay and so this is what we're dealing with so we're going around the clock i'm doing these people now it says in verse 1 tartan is a person an officer in the assyrian army who was sent by sargon the king of assyria unto ashdod i want to talk a little bit about these places this is information you can find in bible dictionaries so i want to introduce you perhaps as some of you may know the difference between a a an english or a language dictionary and a bible dictionary they're different right a language dictionary like webster's or merriam-webster you would open it up and has the definition of every word in that language or a lot of words in that language a bible dictionary isn't like that a bible dictionary collects the names and places in the bible and tells you who and where they are which is really helpful for things like this you read this and go i don't know who that is or where that's at right you get a bible dictionary you give them any christian bookstore you can do your own study you just they've collected some of this stuff and you can look up sargon or look up tartan or look up ashdod and they'll tell you there's a city in philistine there south west of judah or sargon the king of assyria you know after chickaletta and before cherub you know it'll tell you those details and you can also do your bible search and see where a lot of that they pull out information from the scripture but others is historically just recorded okay so just just a bible study tip there to know how to find some of this information tartan is also found in second kings 19 9 look up that that word in your concordance you'll find in kings 19 9 where it's the historical context he's sent by the assyrians to go mock judah and jerusalem saying why are you guys resisting us uh every every person around who's resisted us and they've been destroyed so why are you doing this and tartan was one of those officers in this army sent to do that ashdod in acts chapter 8 verse 40 in the new testament the the same city is called azotus ashdod has the same thing in acts 8 verse 40. this is where peter goes or not peter but philip rather philip is found down there uh in azithus when he's ministering in action for eight and so it's in this area it's south of jerusalem over here where it's now called the gaza strip you know in modern day that's the language but it's the city the places where the philistines are at there were five cities of the philistines there and ashdod i i drew it wrong is on the southern border of this place ashdod not being a huge metropolis but if you're the assyrian army and you're trying to conquer the area and you know that egypt which is down here is one of the major world powers at the time and you're trying to get down to egypt you've got to go through where judah and ashdod and arabia's that's where they're going they're going to come down here to try to conquer egypt which they will right we we warned israel about egypt last time don't try to ally with egypt because they're going to get destroyed right but you see the direction so ashdod's on the way okay and in verse one it doesn't even actually deal with ashdod uh in the chapter except to say that they were taken already they're conquered the tartan came into ashdod and brought and he fought against ashdod and took it there you go that's the end of that story right so that's what isaiah 20 says about that at the same time isaiah gives a warning to judah it's a philistine city it's before egypt it's interesting if you go back to joshua back in those places you skip and maybe only read once in your life that talks about how it divided up the cities between the tribes of israel you know that place and to the tribe of judah come the cities of and for the next ten chapters it's just listed or tinder is just listing cities uh well ashdod's one of those cities given to the tribe of judah what's interesting about that is it's way down here tribe of judah was given a lot of land we'll see later was also given towns down here judo took up a lot of territory but they never conquered all that territory so joshua talks about how there's the territory that god marked out for these tribes and they were told to go into the land and conquer the place that i gave to you and they never finished that task uh david tried to fulfill that as much as he can as much as he could but it just went downhill from there uh which tells us again when you understand the nature of the bible prophecy when god makes promises instead of giving this to you okay in israel's covenant system it's going to be fulfilled if man can't do it then god will do it you say there'll be a day when israel will inhabit the lands that god gave to them in full right because they've never done that uh because of their disobedience because of their hesitancy because of their fear right so anyway ashdod's there that southern border tribe in the philistine country on the way to egypt the philistines if you look at first samuel 5 you may remember the story of the philistines back here when they took the ark of the covenant in first samuel remember this story i love the connections that prophecy requires you to go back and study it's like when you study romans and you say well who's that guy and what's going on they go back to the old testament and study it first samuel 5. samuel becomes the prophet in chapter 3 and 4. remember that in chapter four is when eli and his son his wicked corrupt sons uh were priests there in jerusalem and they were in charge of the temple in the ark of the covenant and the philistines came against them to battle and this is where the sons both died in battle remember and then the messenger comes back and it says the philistines killed your sons and stole the ark of the covenant right and then his father knowing his sons were corrupt was more upset about their taking the ark of the covenant fell off his chair hit his head and died so now eli is dead his sons are dead then the wife of one of his sons is having birth she's like pregnant and because of all that that that that distress she goes into labor has a son and the midwife says cheer up you got a boy and she goes ah because she's weeping over her dead husband and father-in-law and calls his name remember the name ichabod remember that ichabod it calls the name of the son ichabod which means the glory of the lord has departed that's what it means and so he named the son that was born that day the lord had departed from judah because the ark of the covenant was taken by the philistines and all the priests were dead right of course samuel was just a young prophet at the time he was a child raised under eli right was now a prophet and the prophet in israel at the time and so first samuel chapter 5 the philistines took the ark of god and thought it and brought it from ebenezer unto ashdod that's where they took it see the city of the philistines asheville is what we're talking about so this this shows up there in your bible the philistines took the ark god they brought it into the house of dagon and said it by day gondagon was their false god their false religion you may be familiar with the the way the the hats look by the priest of dagon they look like this you see the hats like anyone wear like hats like this if i can draw a guy that's what the hats of dagon's priest look like now you say i've seen people in the catholic church wear stuff like that well i don't know if they're dagon priests or not but the dagon priests had hats look like fish heads see the fish head and you see religious people wear hats like this i don't know why god never said to wear hats like that but that was the hats of the the priests of dagon and so um there they are at first amateur five in verse what's that yeah yeah it's amazing how there's not really a lot of new things under the sun and uh whether they're intentionally doing that or not there's a lot of history behind these things um even the days of our week are named after pagan gods and so you know nobody cares about it but there's a history still there and it's is connected in first same chapter five and verse three when they have ash daughter rose early on tomorrow behold dagon was fallen upon his face to the earth remember this story they brought the ark put them in the temple next to their gods we got a whole you know hallway of gods here they gone to fish god we got the ark of the covenant lining them up the next morning dagon fell down well it's hilarious because that was their god and of course the bible mocks the false pagan gods because they're look at your god he can't speak he can't talk can't do anything here's the ark of covenant which is not israel's god it's just a thing god created for the temple what that he would sit on remember that the ark of the covenant was his the place he would sit it was called the mercy seat on the top right it was like a throne it represented his throne so it was not god it was just where he would dwell in the temple but that ark of the covenant was sacred the israelites couldn't touch it or else they die and they hear these gentiles these pagans bring it into their false god and the false god falls down they do this two or three times dagon was falling on his face to the earth before the ark of the lord and they took dagon set him up in his place again when they rose early on tomorrow morning behold dagon was falling upon his face to the ground before the ark of the lord now you might think okay maybe they didn't set it up right these false gods you understand not to glorify them at all but they weren't puny little things you know they're like they're huge statues like you get this it takes men to get this thing up there and it's not going anywhere so the fact that it fell down you go how in the world did that happen and they do it again of course this is god doing this it says in verse 4 the head of dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off upon a threshold only the stump of dagon was left to him after he fell down so man that god's really having trouble therefore neither the priest of dagon nor any of that came into dagon's house trailing the threshold of dagon in ashdod unto this day but the hand of the lord was heavy upon them of ashdod and he destroyed them and smote them with imrods remember that there's some hemorrhoids going on here even ashdod and the coast thereof and when the men of ashdod saw that it was so they said the ark of the god of israel shall not abide with us for his hand is sore upon us and upon dagon our god he's breaking our god he's giving us imrods there's infestation and sickness because of the rats and the mice that are around here and this is all they're blaming the god of israel because they've got the ark of the covenant you've heard the story in sunday school right verse 8 they sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the philistines and said what shall we do with the ark of the god of israel they answered let the ark of the god of israel be carried about unto gath and they carry the ark of god eventually what they do is they find two kind k-i-n-e which is a word for cows okay and they find these two cows they they put the ark of the covenant on this cart and they say we're gonna just put that in the direction of israel we're not even gonna we're just gonna send it going and actually what the priest says because they they call their diviners they will how do we know this was god doing this not a coincidence they said well if we send these cows down the road and they turn towards israel we know that it was their god but they turn around and come back then you know coincidence well those cows had to israel and um you know here here's here's the jews you know out there and they're farming vegeta mesh and they're just doing stuff and here come these cows with the art of the covenant on it god had brought the art back so i mean it's just interesting israel was in a battle and they they lost the ark which they would defend with their lives and here it comes rolling down the road with two cows ringing a bag god brought it back you know it's like because he wanted it back he he was punishing the the ashdodians the philistines or keeping it there anyway that's that whole story um with the ark uh because they were trying to satisfy the god of israel not knowing what he wanted in their pagan idolatry they made gold gifts to give to the god of israel they made golden mice and golden imrans remember that they put them in the ark sent it back to israel saying here's a gift to your god golden mice and imrans because and which is hilarious because that's what god struck them with disease and imrans but anyway this is ashdod in your bible all right later in chapter 6 actually because of samuel's intervention with the prophecy they fight the philistines again and they conquer them but uh samuel gets involved in the prophecies there uh in the fight between ashdod the philistines and judah okay and isaiah let's go back to isaiah chapter 20. i talk about ashdod only because it's mentioned here it's a place that is in your bible and you may have forgotten the connection this is also why it's it's a strange thing that that the jews in jerusalem would turn to ashdod for help now they're doing that because the syrian army is a bigger threat politically it makes sense but god's going those fish god worshipers no right you see the context here god's not god doesn't need their their help they don't need their help um it says in verse 1 when sargon the king of syria said him this is the only place in your bible the name sargon shows up and back when we at the beginning of our isaiah study i gave you a list of kings remember that and if you study first kings and first chronicles and kings and do your list of kings and you look at the kings of assyria you'll say well there's tick-left police there and he's the one that began the invasions from assyria on the northern tribes right and then after him there's shalman easier and he's the one that finished the deal in the northern tribes took them captive and then there's cynic cherub and he's the one that came down to judah that god's smote by the angel and hundreds of thousands of soldiers down there and so you would see tiglath paleser well put him up tiglath you would see shalmaneser put shall up there and we'll put cynic cherub up here okay and this is the list you would make if you're studying the history of the kings and the chronicles right you don't read anything about sargon in isaiah 20 sargon is a king of assyria during the time of hezekiah okay before the assyrians came to judah which would have been right about there right so you don't read about him in the history of kings and chronicles read about him here historians outside your bible didn't think he existed either there was no evidence historically that sargon was ever a king of assyria and so what people would do who were skeptical of the scripture especially during the 1800s early 1800s there are a lot of skepticism in 1700's during the enlightenment a lot of skepticism against the bible and holy scripture they would say well things like this show you that the bible is mistaken because we have no record anywhere of sargon we've got tick life police there's shamanism chair but sargon wasn't on the list i mean look at your own bible doesn't he mention it in kings and chronicles so isaiah is wrong isaiah 20 okay the early 1840s those archeologists i went over to uh modern-day iraq which is where all these the assyrian places were at here iraq and iran and they started digging around and uh just out in the dirt in the desert and in places they didn't think was very significant and they found in a place to their surprise a palace of sargon sargon's palace one of the biggest palaces in the assyrian empire have you ever heard of the hanging gardens the hanging gardens one of the seven wonders of the ancient world some of you heard about this right it's the only one of the seven wonders that has never been uh identified where it's at they don't know where it's at like there's dispute they've never verified where they haven't it's called the hang gardens of babylon but they can't really find proof of that they don't know where it happened and there's different theories about what it is one theory is the hanging gardens actually began with the assyrian empire with sargon the theory comes about because they found this palace it was a mile a square mile is the size of this palace the walls were 45 feet thick 39 feet tall okay they had giant uh what they called lamassu or giant you've seen the the the creatures before they're like the the uh the lions with the man head you know it's a picture of a chair but in the bible but ancient civilizations would worship these things they'd have these giant looking things guarding the the front of their gate and on the bricks of this wall was the name of their king who had you know orchestrated the building of this giant palace for himself inside the palace was a ziggurat like one of those ancient pyramid-looking things among other irrigated type of gardens like on towers so this he wanted to build a palace that no one's ever seen before right and uh he never got it finished actually because he died he was killed but his son cynic cherub continued that kind of project in nineveh and then of course neville was taken over by the babylonians and the nebuchadnezzar built his city patterning after snake cherub and and sargon so it could be very well this hanging gardens were maybe a syrian to begin with um and those kings there in the bible were the ones that that built those anyway sargon was unheard of in history except for in isaiah chapter 20 verse 1 right and then they dug up the dirt found this palace they knew it was sargon's see how they know was sargon's palace because on the stones it had his name right on the stones it had his name he had the name of sargon um you say what people do in the bible what they think who they think sargon was well he thought it was just a different name for cynic cherub that was a different name of shamanism it was the same guy different name they found that this guy had an actual palace and it talked about when he reigned it talked about in the inscriptions that are now translated and there's big thick books that are really boring to read but fun for people who are in the field of study that translate all the inscriptions like all the thousands of descriptions on these stones and they tell you what the words are you know good bedtime reading right but anyway in these inscriptions you find these descriptions of how sargon king of assyria conquered samaria in the entire region of israel who he made he who made captives of ashdod like in the inscriptions on these stones they found the dirt he's telling you exactly what isaiah 20 says so there was no evidence before the 1840s this guy even existed and suddenly they find not only he existed he had this huge palace that possibly influenced these ancient wonders of the world but also isaiah 21 verse 1 says is exactly true compared to these rocks now the rocks are infallible right we've seen many forgeries and mistakes that sort of thing this is accepted in the assyrian studies there are hundreds of thousands of clay tables and things they have now in the assyrian studies and so if you want to study the assyrian empires lots of resources historically they've dug up from the dirt and our dick are finding more but the point being is that now it is known and accepted in the archaeological community that sargon was a king between shalmaneser and senator in fact he was saying sheriff's father right and they found all these out from the inscriptions in the inscription it tells them how many prisoners he took prisoner in my first year i besieged and conquered samaria the northern tribes it says i led away twenty seven thousand hundred ninety prisoners i ordered tribute to be made unto me he talks about the kings in gaza and in the philistines there he talks about the tartan of egypt who set out to engage me in battle and he defeated them it's just giving the details of everything the bible says was happening right and i only bring this up we've talked about archaeology before archaeology is not our authority the bible is if you trusted the bible you'd have a leg up on archaeology okay if you trusted the bible you might think that hey we should be looking how are i open for this this guy right it's only when you start to doubt the bible get yourself into problems right but it's interesting to see that that's one of hundreds of examples where again they find things in the dirt and just a couple hundred years ago they didn't think that it was true they didn't think moses existed in fact in the early 1800s it was a common thing to think that israel itself never existed like the yeah they they wrote about in the bible but what they did was just imaginary stuff it never actually existed and they keep finding things from like the reign of david and the reign of solomon and like apparently there was a kingdom of israel well yeah the bible said that for a long time you see so very interesting to study some of this archaeological um evidence that that supports the scripture okay and you shouldn't diminish that recognize it's not your authority but don't diminish the fact that the bible is a book that describes reality that's the point okay and that is one thing that separates this book apart from any other so-called sacred or holy book of any other religion okay the book of islam the quran for example was written by one man supposedly as he reiterated or repeated it from memory that an angel told him that's the quran this book was written by over 40 different men over the span of 1400 years you say so what how's that any better because that it can contain prophecies that are fulfilled in the time frame of the time in which it was written so it can verify itself okay if one man's telling you what an angel told him from memory how do you know that guy's telling the truth there's no way to know it is purely blind faith there's no prophecy at all in the quran there's none prophecy is how you know the bible is the word of god it's how you knew when people spoke and they said thus saith the lord the lord that's how you knew they you wouldn't kill him because what they said came true right that's how important prophecy is and the fact that the bible contains we and you sometimes it gets kind of boring you're like well these ancient places you know i'm never over there and these people and kings those boring parts of the bible the lists of the cities the lists of the kings the factories are there tell you that the bible is making a claim that you can you can study history from me this is not just a imaginative story like a fairy tale one day there was you know the cinderella and the daughters and once upon a time it's not that sort of thing it's saying in the times of this king and that king and that day and this time and yeah sometimes those list is boring that means that actually happened you compare the list of those kings and a lot of historians when they believed the bible could actually get a more accurate listing of the kings from the scripture than they could from their own historical sources right and so it's significant that that's the case you know you all know luke chapter two because of our culture and the christmas story there it talks about in the what time was jesus born what was going on in the roman empire it starts off with the so-called christmas story with it's caesar augustus right the time to be taxed right and it's like an introduction but that's very significant folks because it puts a time in which these things happen and you read that in the scripture and you can find out that actually happened you're going oh okay that was 2020 years ago give or take some mistakes in the calendar that people make not the bible but yeah that was then right and you put it in history and you make a timeline and you start seeing where you fit in the timeline and then it gets really kind of uh soul up ending because you start seeing that this whole timeline of history is laid out in the scripture not only history but the future and you're part of it and you're going if this timeline was true in the past why isn't it true in the future and if i'm part of this thing that means my destiny is you know i'm going one place or another and so this will make you think about that okay when isaiah prophesies things that will happen to these nations around him okay this is different than just political commentary this is him uh telling people what god sees that will happen in the future and the fact that it would occur that he would tell you for example who the leader would be in 120 years 100 years after he dies is like you predicting the president a hundred years after you die right and not only his name but how you know which party he'd come from and how he'd become elected and like you say we'd be dead no one would care at that point well if that wasn't the only prophecy you made but you made other prophecies like when that happens america is going to fall when that happens then you know rhode island's becoming the world empire you know and you start becoming true not just on one time but two times three times and four times how many times does it take a hundred times before you say you know what um how did they do that it's not just once not just twice hundreds of times hundreds with an s okay prophecies of all sorts are thousands in the scripture and yes there's a lot unfulfilled there's a lot fulfilled and back in isaiah we're talking about fulfilled prophecies already from where we live it's god take that consideration anyway i'll stop preaching here a little bit get back to the text in 1840 the discovery of sargon's stile which was the rock that had his picture on it and all the inscriptions on the side that describe these these details of his conquering confirmed the bible's testimony even though the world denied it okay so sargon took ashdod philistia because of um ashdod's alliance with egypt ashdod saw the oncoming assyrians and they said we're going to align with these guys that seems only politically convenient and because of that they didn't pay tribute to the assyrians and because they didn't pay a tribute sargon in the syrians said you don't want to pay us taxes we're coming down to get them and they came down and you say why did they pass judah well judah wasn't paying taxes either but you know because they deliberately rebelled against them so they came down and conquered these guys and while they were at it they conquered the egyptians and the arabians as well right and so that's what was going on here isaiah 20 verse 2 at the same time that this happened spake the lord by isaiah the son of amos saying go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins now your eyes open up what and put off thy shoe from thy foot and he did so walking naked and barefoot wow okay tough job being a prophet of god um prophets do some strange things why was isaiah walking naked and barefoot well number one would be god said to do it that's always a pretty good reason to do something if god actually told you to do it you better make sure god's speaking to you at the time and not someone else and it's not your voice in your head but it's actual scripture in black and white and if you think god's telling you to walk around naked you better talk to someone else about that you know these days because i'm pretty sure there's no prophets of god in this sense happening today but anyway isaiah chapter 20 props to do some strange things and the reason why they would do some of these strange things um was for signs okay remember isaiah 8 18 a few chapters ago when isaiah wrote behold i and the children whom the lord hath given me are for signs and for wonders in israel remember that and so the names of his children were actually prophecies remember that his children marshall hash bass and we covered his name what that meant and isaiah's name itself and salvation of the lord right and so isaiah 20 the prophets part of their task their mission god would tell them to perform signs in order to attract the attention of people who are not otherwise listening right and that's why they would do some of these things you can only talk so much before people get hard of hearing right and they just ignore you and so sometimes you got to do something to wake people up you know that's strange why do you do that you say well exactly now you're listening you know and so this this happens and throughout the scripture god tells these prophets to do these strange things and not just randomly wacky strange things he tells him to do things um have a performance an affectation of of sorts in order to attract attention to the man his man the man of god and the message he's communicating there's a reason why god told isaiah to walk around naked and barefoot and it says in the next verse okay but before we get there let's deal with some other examples in the old testament about these strange occurrences look at ezekiel chapter four maybe you've heard some of these strange things that prophets have done ezekiel chapter four ezekiel is called the strangest prophet because if you read his book there's a lot of strange things going on in there not just things he does but things that he sees there's all sorts of descriptions of cherubs in the book of ezekiel and you're going that guy you shouldn't be drinking on that part of the river you know ezekiel 4 in verse 1 thou also son of man take thee a tile lay it before thee and portray upon it the city even jerusalem and lay siege against it and build a fort against it and cast a mount against it set the camp also against it instead of battering rams against it roundabout so he said draw a picture of jerusalem and then fight it like beat it down i mean imagine this like here's this man of god you know he drawn the city of jerusalem up here and then he's yeah i'm gonna fight that thing you know what what is he doing in prophecy it's that same message throughout it's always trust the holy one he's made you a promise he's given you a covenant he's giving you opportunity so we have to trust him trust him against all odds trust him against anything that you see right which way faith is necessary it's always trust the holy one now what makes your message of grace so much more glorious than just trust the holy one which we do we do trust the holy one is that you know how god saves you by his grace it's not only is it trust the holy one it's trust the holy one and what he did because he's already accomplished the salvation he died for your sins he rose from the dead and you have a complete and assured position heavenly places when you trust his finished work you're reconciled to god right you're not earning something you're not trying to climb a ladder you're not waiting to the end if you die today you're saved right you die next week you're still safe today you trust the gospel you see that that's how much more excellent the message of his grace that that his mystery has now been revealed but you see the connection in hebrews and matthew and isaiah all throughout prophecy it's the same message trust the holy one right trust that messiah look at hebrews 12 25 how shall they escape the message of the bible generally speaking is that man sinned god will judge them how will they escape trust god and what he said obey him right he says take off your set pop you do it when he says that you don't ally with the egyptians you do it or don't do it you're right hebrew chapter 12 verse 25 see that you refused not him that speaketh for if they escaped not who refused him that spake on the earth much more shall not we escape if we turn away from him that speaks from heaven you see that who speaks from heaven jesus through the holy ghost all right hebrews 10 talks about there's no more forgiveness to them who forsake discipline together who reject the holy spirit so these people give the holy spirit a pentecost what hebrews 2 talks about they reject that holy spirit the message is reaching pentecost then how much more will they not escape i mean they didn't know isaiah what these guys knew in matthew and hebrews they never saw jesus they saw jesus right and so it makes you wonder you don't you don't only have the benefit of prophecy in hindsight you also the revelation of the mystery now we can ask ourselves how much more shall we not escape but we can't ask that question of ourselves because we're saved by grace absolutely there's nothing that separates us the love of god right amen how glorious is that message but the spiritual principle is still there how often do you consider who you are what god's done for you right why are you trying to run away right and so you're still in that admonition we need to thank god more right we need to realize that god's doing something here today and that's through some bastards and through the church and get in line with what he's doing in one sense it's always been that same message god's trying to communicate with humanity even through foolish means like preaching right but god's also changed his message so we got to know what he's saying and so if you're doing something silly for the lord you better make sure the silly thing god told you to do not some silly thing he told someone else to do in the bible right building an ark getting naked these are things god told you to do isaiah to do it right for that reason and with that i guess we'll stop tonight that clock's right is that clown correct did they be talking all right we'll stop we'll cover chapter 21 next week but uh man we didn't tend to go an hour on sets first that's fun though

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Published: Tue Aug 25 2020