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you're one of those people thank you very much chad we're in is chapter 11, just got done with God saying, listen, guys,

I've made a lot of promises, but also it is going to get rough. And there's going to be a lot of judgment,

a lot of destruction, but not to worry, there's going to be a remnant. So some people are going to

return to God. That's what's going to happen.

And that was kind of the way we left it. And he's going to expound a little more upon this in

sort of, I don't know, it's prophetic slash poetic fashion. Yeah, yeah, that's a good way to describe it. And I love this chapter, by the way.

I mean, there's a lot of incredible chapters in Isaiah 53, of course, everyone knows about. But I think

in the order of like my favorite chapters, Isaiah 11 is second. You got Isaiah 53, you got Isaiah 11. For a lot of

reasons, of course, it's full of Old Testament style gospel. I mean, this is Isaiah preaching

the gospel to us in his own prophetic and poetic sort of way, but it really in a beautiful sort of way, too.

I mean, all the promises that are here are just amazing.

So that obviously is a good reason to love this chapter.

But also the biblical interpreter in me loves it too because what he does here in gathering together all sorts of narratives from other parts of the scripture,

especially from creation and then from the Exodus, and even from the book of Joshua, you might say,

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