Welcome to episode 178 of Bible Talk, a podcast brought you by Nine Marks in Southern

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And Southern Seminary exists to educate, train, and equip gospel ministers for a lifetime of more

faithful service. For more information, you can visit nine marks.org and sbts.org and sbts.org. My name is Alex Duke, and with me are my two friends. Sam O'Maddy. Jim Hamilton. What did you just crack open there? A Canada dry, zero sugar, ginger ale. Yeah, that's what it is. No free ads, but there you go. All right. So we're going to do two chapters today, whether you like it or not.

Isaiah 31 and 32. ads, but there you go. All right. So we're going to do two chapters today, whether you like it or not.

Isaiah 31 and 32. And what I want to do is spend more time on 32. Okay. So let's just preface that

by saying because 31 fills out where we've been, judgment on Egypt. 32. Do you want to spend more time on 31?

Oh, okay. No, of course you're not. 32. Do you want to spend more time on 31? Oh, okay.

No, of course you're not.

32 sort of begins to switch the train of thought a little bit and starts talking

about this righteous king who will rule and justice.

So any comments before we get started, my friends.

I'll just remind us that beginning in chapter 28, we have the first of five,

you know, first of five woes, you know, 28, 29, then I believe, skipped 30, 31. So there,

there are a sequence of kind of five woe prophecies against Jerusalem in this, in this, you know,

historical context of around 701 BC as Sinakurib has invaded and the Assyrians have invaded

from the north and they are closing in on Jerusalem.

So we're going to be looking at the final woe, Oracle prophecy here from Isaiah in

chapter 31. And then chapters 32 through 36 are a new literary unit that I don't have quite

sorted how it shakes out quite yet. And then in chapter 36, we're going to find 36 through 39 the narrative of Sinakarib's

invasion of Israel, the standoff with King Hezekiah and so forth.

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