4.8 • 33.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
0:00.0 | Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible recap. |
0:13.2 | The Northern Kingdom of Israel is falling apart, but the Southern Kingdom of Judah is still |
0:17.4 | moving along and that's where we find ourselves today. |
0:20.7 | King Uzziah has just died and a son Jotham takes over the throne officially. |
0:25.1 | Jotham was one of the good kings in the Southern Kingdom and 27th 6th says he became mighty |
0:30.8 | because he ordered his ways before the Lord his God. |
0:34.3 | It's important to note that this corresponds directly to God's covenant promise with |
0:37.8 | the kings of David's line. |
0:39.7 | He promised them that if they obeyed him, they'd flourish and if they didn't, they wouldn't. |
0:44.3 | It's important to remember these kinds of context details, otherwise we might be tempted |
0:48.6 | to look at our own lives or the lives of others and try to determine what their faith |
0:52.2 | is like based solely on their apparent circumstances. |
0:57.0 | After Jotham dies, his son Ahaz takes over the throne and he is not a great king. |
1:03.3 | We'll read more about him in two days, so buckle up. |
1:07.0 | Moving on to our chapters in Isaiah, the early parts of chapter 9 include some verses |
1:11.8 | you may have recognized as Messianic prophecy or maybe you just thought, hey, that's on a |
1:16.6 | lot of Christmas cards. |
1:18.3 | It's natural for us to look at this and immediately attach it to Jesus, but let's talk about |
1:22.7 | what people in Isaiah's time would have thought of this prophecy. |
1:26.3 | They're living in a land that constantly sees war. |
1:29.0 | They've experienced lots of oppression and exile. |
1:31.8 | Their nation-state exists in division and decay and they currently live with the threat |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Tara-Leigh Cobble, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Tara-Leigh Cobble and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.