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Isaiah chapter 62, verses 6 and 7.

On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have set watchmen all the day and all the night.

They shall never be silent.

You who put the Lord in remembrance take take no rest, and give him no rest,

until he establishes Jerusalem and makes it a praise in the earth. These verses use this watchman

imagery to call us to pray. So think about this. God says, I've put watchmen on your

wall. So what does a watchman do? He stands on the wall at his post day in and day out and

keeps watch. Like he's looking out from the city or what's happening around the city and never takes

his eyes off of that.

So the whole picture here is God all throughout Isaiah has given promises of his restoration

to come, the redemption he's going to bring.

And God says, I've put watchman on your walls of Jerusalem to look forward to that,

to keep pointing us to that. And then he gets down to verse 7. He says, now you who put the Lord

in remembrance, take no rest and give him no rest until he establishes Jerusalem and makes it

a praise in the earth. So in other words, those watchmen on the walls don't rest until it happens,

until Jerusalem is restored, until the people of God are reestablished, and God's name is

praised among them, until these promises become a reality. Keep watching, don't rest,

and then it says, give him no rest. the whole picture is keep watching and praying and pleading

until god brings this about like don't give god any rest from your watching and praying and pleading

like i think about when my uh were newborn, they gave us no rest.

Right. I mean, that's what newborns do. I'm guessing somebody's listening to this right now is

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