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And I'm Tyler. And I'm Josh. This is Book of Mormon Central's. Come follow me insights today, Isaiah 40 to 49.

And we're really excited today to welcome Josh Sears, our friend and colleague. Thank you for joining us.

Josh has spent years of his life studying the Hebrew Bible,

and he has a lot of his research focused, actually, in Isaiah. And I think it's safe to say

specifically in some of these chapters is kind of some of the crux of your work. Is that right?

There's some of the best chapters out there, so it makes sense. So how would you, Josh, with your view of what we're going to be covering today, how would

you overview this for people?

What can we look forward to in chapters 40 through 49 at a very high-overview level?

That's a great question, and there's so many things you can get out of it,

partly because these prophecies, like you've seen earlier with Isaiah,

can apply in different stages and different settings and different points in history.

So to set the stage for these chapters, I thought I'd share a quotation that I really love

from President Dallan H. Oaks.

And I love how, as a good scholar of ancient things,

you have an old copy of the enzyme. Hard copy. January 1995 from my grandparents right here.

Who needs digital resources? This is great. The print copy. And he talks about this fact that prophecy

can have multiple fulfillments, multiple meanings, and you don't want to restrict yourself

to just one narrow meaning. And so he says this about the Book of Isaiah. The Book of Isaiah

contains numerous prophecies that seem to have multiple fulfillments. One seems to involve the people

of Isaiah's day or the circumstances of the next generation. Another meaning, often symbolic, seems to refer to events

in the meridian of time when Jerusalem was destroyed and her people scattered after the crucifixion

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