Today is the 24th day of September.

Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible.

I am Brian.

It is fantastic to be here with you today as we gather again around the global

campfire.

Together, all together, all safe, all taking the next step forward.

Grateful, I guess that's how I feel.

Grateful that we can do this.

And so let's do it.

We're in the book of Isaiah,

moving through.

I guess we're about three quarters of the way through the book of Isaiah.

And a lot of the prophecies that Isaiah had given that were prophecies of judgment and really impending doom because of what the people had essentially brought upon themselves.

I've turned also now to incorporate a lot of restoration and a lot of hope mixed in

as the arc of the prophetic books often do.

So today, Isaiah chapter 43, verse 14 to. Thus, 10. Thus, says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, for your sake I will send

to Babylon and break down all the bars and the shouting of the Caledians will be turned to

lamentation. I am the Lord, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King. Your in the mighty waters who brings out chariot and horse army and warrior they lie down

they cannot rise they are extinguished quenched like a wick.

Do not remember the former things, or consider the things of old.

I am about to do a new thing. Now it springs forth. Do you not perceive it?

I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. The wild animals will honor me. The jackals and the ostriches

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