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Today is Tuesday, December 17th, 2019.

This week on the Catholic Sprouts podcast, we are continuing our Advent journey through the Jesse tree,

through God's story of salvation.

We are talking about many of the prophets to do this.

And yesterday we started talking about the prophet Isaiah.

Now, the prophet Isaiah came with a strong warning that the nation of Israel had sinned

and that God would punish them. That punishment would be that

they would be conquered by another nation, their city and their temple destroyed, and they would be

taken away as slaves. This did come to pass because the nation of Israel did not change its ways.

And all of the things the prophet Isaiah spoke about came to pass over a hundred years later.

But don't worry, the prophet Isaiah was not all doom and gloom.

Even more important is the message of hope, the message of a beautiful future.

In fact, many of the readings that we read during Advent come from the book of Isaiah.

Isaiah was able to see who this Messiah would be.

Now remember, let's just go back to the beginning for one second.

When Adam and Eve were in the garden, they sinned.

They broke the covenant between God and man. Before this, human beings and God lived in perfect

harmony, but after the sin that was destroyed, they were cast out of the garden. And ever since that time, God was

working hard to bring us back to him. But this had to be done in steps. We had to learn to trust God,

to look to God, to obey God. And these are all hard things to learn. But we needed to learn these things before we were

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