Oh let the Son of God and found you with his spirit and his life,

let him fill your heart and satisfy your soul.

Oh, let him have the things that hold you

and his spirit like a dove will descend upon your life and make you

whole. you home.

Welcome to the Word for today,

featuring the Bible Teaching of Pastor Chuck Smith,

founder of the Calvary Chapel Movement.

This radio program is a verse by verse study through the entire

Bible. And on today's edition of the word for today, Pastor Chuck continues with a series

destruction as we pick up in Isaiah chapter 18 verse 2 and now with today's

message here's master Chuck. The Syrian was conquering and these Ethiopian ambassadors big tall dark skin handsome men were

there trying to get Judah to join with them in a Confederacy to withstand this

invasion from Assyria and Isaiah was counseling against the Confederacy not to make a covenant

with them for God was going to watch over them and take care of them and don't get involved

in a treaty, mutual defense pact with these Ethiopians.

So Woe to the land, God is pronouncing the woe that is going to come

upon Ethiopia that sends the ambassadors by the sea. They came in these boats down the Nile River from Ethiopia and the

boats of bull rushes were light so that when they get to the rapids and all they

could carry them and then put them in and they came from Ethiopia in these

boats of bull rushes to Israel or to Judah the Southern Kingdom and sought then to make this covenant saying go ye swift

messengers to a nation that is scattered and peeled to a people that is

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