All right. Let's just see what we can cover here. We're going to start out by looking at the timing of these chapters as we look at chapters 32 through 35 I think is what we're covering today.

And I want you to keep in mind that as we get to chapter 36, that's where we hit the

the Assyrian invasion. So we are right on the brink of the Assyrian invasion in these chapters

if they're in chronological order, and there's something in here that

makes me think that they are. So if we were to go to just kind of skip forward quickly to chapter 32

verse 10, we have this phrase, days upon a year, which is a little bit of an odd phrase. And it is odd

in Hebrew as well, but most translators, and I'm inclined to agree with this, say it should be

translated a year and a few days. And if that's the case, then this prophecy is being given

just a little over a year before the siege of Jerusalem. That means because the Assyrians will take them some months as they march

through the country. They're really just months away from the beginning of that invasion.

And so that's worth noting that this prophecy is really upon the brink of all of this destruction

happening. And that timing can help us understand some things now as is so often the case

beginning of chapter 32 is really just a continuation of the last chapter so let's read the last

few verses of the last chapter chapter 31 turn ye unto him from whom the children of israel have

deeply revolted right they've left god they haven't been paying attention to god they haven't

allowed him they've been doing foolishness drunkenunkenness, and looking to the world, and so they don't allow him to teach him truth. But eventually, in that day, every man shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin. Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man, and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him, but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be discompeted. So look at what he's saying. At that point, when they finally have gotten rid of their idols, and by the way, Hezekiah officially leads them all, and they all join him, but they gather out idols that had been put in the temple,

but idols from all over Jerusalem, and they throw them into the valley and burn them and destroy them.

They literally do that, and as a result, not long after that, the Assyrian does fall with sword,

not that either mighty men of Israel nor the humble men of Israel, remember me and means humble,

are the ones destroying them.

It's God that destroys them, right?

He shall pass over to his stronghold for fear and his princess shall be afraid of the ensign,

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