Come Follow Me OT Podcast 39, “Comfort Ye My People,” -- Isaiah 40-49

Meridian Magazine--Come Follow Me Latter-day Saint Podcast

Scot Facer Proctor

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 16 September 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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September 19-25

Isaiah’s very name means The Lord is Salvation. In this week’s chapters (40-49) we get a clear message that there is no other God but Jehovah, who is Jesus Christ. We cannot turn to the world, we cannot turn to idols, we cannot turn to those around us, we can only turn to the one true God. He has made a covenant with His chosen servants (those who will follow Him), the posterity and adopted ones of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The Spirit of the Lord is poured out upon all those who keep the covenant and they will also receive the Lord’s protection and covenant blessings. We welcome our dear friend, Dr. Kerry Muhlestein, this week as we dive deep into Isaiah.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to a joint podcast. This is the Meridian magazine Come Follow Me podcast
0:24.0	and the scriptures are real podcast and I'm one host Carrie Mielsen and I'm so happy to be
0:29.3	also with Scott and Marine Proctor, the host of the Meridian magazine Come Follow Me podcast. So
0:35.4	it's just good to be with you against Scott and Marine. Well we're excited too. There's nothing
0:39.8	really quite so fun as unpacking the scriptures that sometimes might seem mysterious to us. So we
0:45.2	hope it'll be a day of exploration. Well and what could be more exciting than to study Isaiah?
0:51.8	I think so many people in the church over the generations have struggled with Isaiah. But
0:59.0	Nephi promised that in our day we would be able to understand Isaiah and so maybe this discussion
1:06.3	and these discussions throughout the church of Isaiah is part of that prophecy that will begin
1:11.3	to understand Isaiah in our time. So Carrie let me start out with a question for you. Isaiah
1:17.9	chapter 40 starts out with this beautiful comfort ye comfort ye my people say if you're God
1:24.3	and then he says I speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem and cry into her that her warfare is accomplished
1:32.0	that her iniquity is pardoned for she hath received of the Lord's hand double for all her sins.
1:38.8	So that is an amazing thing to say that the warfare is accomplished. What is what time frame is
1:44.9	is talking about because I think most of us today feel like we're smacked up in the middle of a
1:50.0	great war. Yeah yeah we do. But you're right there's an important historical context there. We're at
1:56.8	a really key juncture in Isaiah. Maybe in terms of come follow me as well. I hope that our audiences
2:04.7	have been having a good experience that we're getting to understand Isaiah more than ever before
2:10.8	and hopefully with the great study we've had of the historical background we did like a month
2:15.6	or so ago helped us to get that but let's just remind ourselves that the Assyrians at this point
2:24.0	had scattered the northern kingdom and they had then that's like seven thirty to seven twenty
2:30.3	BC and then in the years just before seven hundred BC they've invaded the southern kingdom
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