Hi, this is Kerry Mulestein, and this is a special episode of my podcast, The Scriptures are Real, the podcast where we try to look at things that help the scriptures become more real so that we can gain more power from them.

In these special editions, I'm posting videos that I made for my classes in order to help them get more out of class than what we could cover in class.

And I've decided to make them available to you so that you can also get a little bit of extra more beyond what I'd be able to do in the normal podcast.

I just want to help people understand Isaiah.

So they're very video oriented frequently, not all the time, but frequently.

And my apologies to my audio audience, which is my largest audience.

But when I made these, I wasn't thinking of audio. I was just thinking of my classes, but I think you'll still get plenty out of them. If you're just on audio and you can always go to the YouTube video, if there's one that you felt like, I'd just like to see that part. And they're kind of hokey. They're just what I do for my classes, although the whole podcast is kind of hokey, so that's fine.

I've just done this because I hope it's helpful for you.

Okay.

We're just going to make a short video here to cover a little bit of some things that I didn't remember to cover in some classes

and that we didn't end to cover in some classes and that we

didn't end up with time and cover some key issues in Isaiah 57, some things I'd really like

for you to think about. So Isaiah, of course, speaks about Babylon a lot in this second part of Isaiah

after the relief or the miraculous deliverance of Jerusalem from the Assyrians,

then the next real problem will be Babylon.

And so we know he's been focusing on that a lot.

And of course, there's some real literal historical issues with that that he's focusing on.

But there's also some symbolic issues behind that. And Babylon

becomes the kind of the paragon of symbols for worldliness and being taken in by Satan and the

world. And we find that in Nephi's writings and John the Revelator's writings, but it really

starts with Isaiah. He's the one that makes it that here in this part of Babylon.

So there is a passage that we didn't cover.

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