Welcome to Part 2, Visea 13 through 35 with Dr. Kerry Mielstein.

I'd like to just jump a little bit to Chapter 27.

24 through 27, each chapter in some way says the same thing as the next chapter.

It's just this theme that he keeps repeating, but he does it so beautifully.

I just want to look at verse 1 of Chapter 27.

That's really powerful, beautiful stuff.

I love that you said it's not just deserians and Babylonians and New Testament Romans that

are enemy.

I'm going to follow up death.

Let's think for a moment.

My students often feel uncomfortable, and we encounter this all over in scriptures, but

especially in Isaiah, they feel uncomfortable when they read something about God destroying

cities or being violent.

There are times in Isaiah where he says you're violent.

They feel uncomfortable with that, but we have to couple with verse 8 and 9.

I think Chapter 27, verse 1, really helps us with this.

This is a phrase that a lot of my students are not comfortable with, but I rejoice in.

So Chapter 27, verse 1, in that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall

punish Leviathan, the piercing serpent, even Leviathan, that crooked serpent, and he

shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.

And then verse 2, in that day, sing ye under her of men year to red wine.

He's singing because God has a sore and great and strong sword that he punishes with.

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