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Welcome to 6640, the ministry outreach of Koinania House and Korninia Institute.

Today's Bible teacher is Chuck Missler, connecting the Bible to your life and the world around you.

In today's study, Chuck begins his teaching on the book of Isaiah, chapters 28 through 30.

Yeah. 28 through 30. Okay, we're in Isaiah.

If my notes are correct, we got through the beginning of chapter 28.

The section that we're in, in general, of course, is a section between here essentially

and chapter 35, including 35, is a collection of some judgments that are immediate and some

allusions to the day of the Lord.

When we get to the next four chapters, 36, 7, 8, and 9,

those four chapters are a historical insert. And that'll set us up for the highlight in my mind of

Isaiah, which is chapters 40 on. But in any case, we'll keep rolling here. Chapter 28, verse 1,

woe to the crown of pride to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading

flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of those who are overcome with wine. Remember now

the historical context, Isaiah is primarily the prophet to Judah, the southern kingdom. The northern

kingdom, sometimes called the House of Israel,

but often just idiomatically called Ephraim, not the tribe of Ephraim, it's used idiomatically

of the whole northern kingdom, and they're about to be captured by the Assyrians, taken into slavery

for their idolatry. The northern house went into idolatry rapidly, and God is about to judge them,

using the Assyrians to judge them. So while Isaiah will call attention to that and prophesy their fall,

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