Comfort Ye My People: The real meaning of Isaiah 40 (week of Sept. 19, first to listen to)
The Scriptures Are Real
Kerry Muhlestein
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🗓️ 18 September 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Kerry provides the historical and spiritual background to help us understand how Judah got to where they were largely destroyed, and how they got to where Jerusalem was spared, and what the famous lines about comforting God's people means in light of that, and what we can learn from that.
Our gratitude to our sponsor, Lisa Spice, and to Alexia Muhlestein for editing this episode, and to Rich Nicholls for composing and playing the music for the podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the scriptures a real podcast. |
| 0:12.4 | This is the podcast where we talk about elements of the scriptures that have become real to us, |
| 0:17.0 | which helps us draw more power from them and we need that power. |
| 0:20.7 | I'm your host, Kerry Mealstein, and I'm thrilled today to start off our week of studying Isaiah |
| 0:26.0 | with some background and kind of bridging some gaps for us and doing some things that I hope |
| 0:32.2 | just makes all of Isaiah make sense, and certainly some of the chapters that we're reading this week. |
| 0:37.3 | But part of the |
| 0:39.1 | issue is that in the way Come Follow Me has set this up and they've done a wonderful job, but we're |
| 0:47.4 | skipping the historical chapters. And there's a reason for that. We covered those same chapters |
| 0:51.0 | when we're doing the historical readings in Second Kings. |
| 0:55.7 | So Isaiah 36 and 37 and parts of 38, 39 are covered in First Kings 18 and 19 and so on. |
| 1:05.6 | So they figure we've already read this and we know the historical stuff we can move on. |
| 1:11.8 | And in a way, that's true, but I find that typically we need to be reminded of this. |
| 1:15.6 | And I want to remind us of some bigger picture things, some things that have happened even earlier in Isaiah, because I think this sets up one of the major, major themes of Isaiah, one of the most important elements of Isaiah, both in terms of what |
| 1:28.4 | Isaiah is teaching and in terms of what happened during Isaiah's ministry. So let's go all the |
| 1:34.3 | way back to the days of King Ahas. We're going back to Isaiah chapter 7 through 9. Remember that at |
| 1:40.9 | this time, Isaiah is a fairly young prophet. He is trying to get both the northern |
| 1:44.6 | kingdom and the southern kingdom to repent and to keep their covenants with God, to trust in God |
| 1:50.4 | enough to keep the covenant and then believe that God will keep his end of the covenant, which includes |
| 1:55.0 | protection. So the Assyrian Empire was expanding at the time, and you will remember, we talked about this, that Syria and Israel did not want to come under the control of the Assyrian Empire. |
| 2:08.3 | And Israel, rather than saying, okay, let's trust in God, let's focus on keeping our covenant, they focused on the ways of the world. |
| 2:16.8 | And they tried to get their army, and they |
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