All right, good evening and welcome to our midweek Bible study on Thursday nights. We're going through

the Bible book by book and chapter by chapter and verse by verse and we're in the book of Isaiah. And

really looking forward to Isaiah chapter 17 tonight. I think you know why. So we're going to get right to it if you don't mind

we'll begin with a word of prayer if you would please join with me loving

heavenly father we're just so ever grateful to you for your word and this time that we have in the middle of a week on

the Thursday night where we can come to this place and put aside all the stress and pressure

and busyness of our lives and just give you our undivided attention,

open up our ears to you, our hearts to you, and allow you, Lord, to not just allow you you but we yearn for you to speak into our lives and

minister to us as only you can in and through your word Lord we have before us tonight a

very interesting chapter here in our Bibles and we really need for the

Holy Spirit to be our teacher and our guide as we navigate our way through it. Lord we want to

mind the riches that are here in the text that is before us tonight. So will you bless our time together,

we pray? We ask you for this in Jesus' name. Amen. And amen. All right. So here we are, Isaiah 17,

long-awaited chapter. And we now come to what I would argue is among the most intriguing

prophecies in the Bible concerning Damascus Syria. And once again, we have another dual prophecy,

as it were, in the sense that it would be fulfilled

in that day as well as ultimately fulfilled yet future in the last days and we are

certainly in those last days and oh by way, when we get to chapter 19,

it is a prophecy concerning Egypt.

And it is another dual prophecy, very, very interesting.

And especially at the end of the chapter,

for those of you that like to read ahead

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