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Chad, we are in Isaiah 45, the first verse.

Kind of ended with, of course, a whole bunch of, you know, sarcastic talk about idolatry.

There was a lot of that in 44.

Then you had this part about the Lord being the one

that's going to redeem Israel. That's, I mean, no one else could do it. I mean, he's the only one.

It turns out there's one God and he's going to have to do the redeeming. But ended with this,

with this strange thing, we were like, like you know god redeems and does things through

means and sometimes those means are unlikely they are sometimes they are not what you think they're

going to be and i hear he talks about somebody an unlikely shepherd i would say chat is it safe to

say an unlikely shepherd here named Cyrus, long before

Cyrus ever existed? Yeah, the dropping of Cyrus's name is quite surprising, even for a prophecy.

I mean, we have some very specific prophecies in the Old Testament, right? We know exactly where

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