This is the Baymaw podcast with Marty Solomon. I'm as co-host Brent Billings.

Today we look at the next portion of Isaiah to see God's message aimed directly at his own people.

Yeah, I want to dive in about five chapters here in Isaiah and for me as I'm doing this profits are such a hard thing to study and to teach and to look at and to reflect on.

For me the goal is always to try to figure out how do you read this in a way that's relevant and

applicable to yourself that you can find something without yanking a bad hermeneutic, like without trying to make this prop,

because there's, there's like three pitfalls that I typically feel like I encounter when I'm studying the

profits. One pitfall is that I only look at look at the profit from this cold

academic distance. I only am considering the historical prophet Isaiah and the author.

I'm only considering the historical context and the historical audience and I just kind of stay at arm's length and I just I never really wrestle with but what do I take out of this passage so that I can be changed and and be made new.

One of the other pitfalls is that we use the profits and we weaponize them against other people.

So we read these, a lot of us that have like a more like a more prophetic personality like we hear

this and we can we can see the the ideologies in our own world we can see the the

modern day empires and we can we can the curses and the wrath of the prophets kind of directed at.

We weaponize it against other people.

The third pitfall is that we we completely internalize.

We almost do the opposite of pitfall number one.

We totally forget the historical author.

We totally forget the historical audience. and we feel like the words through Isaiah are

God speaking directly to us all of this condemnation.

So somehow in the midst of this study, the goal is to try to stay true to good

contextual hermonutics, to do the approach of number one, to consider the

realities of number two, but to do number three in a healthy way.

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