Welcome to part two of Isaiah 58 through 66 with Dr. Ross Barron.

Now, guys, we have gone a good while and we've done one whole chapter.

And that's kind of how we like it here. I'll follow him.

We like to go verse by verse, but we can't do that for the entire block. So, Ross, what do you want to do next?

I'd love to focus maybe on the Savior if we could and talk about a couple of verses in Isaiah 59

and jump to the Savior's mission in Isaiah 61. Is that okay?

That sounds great.

So, in Isaiah 59, we have another question guiding the kind of the chapter.

And the idea is that I think the people are basically saying, you know, why don't you hear us? The kind of similar to Isaiah 58.

And the Lord tells you about who he is in verse 1. The Lord's hand is not shortened that it cannot save.

And here's the parallelism, neither his ear heavy that it cannot hear, right? So, you've got his hand not shortened.

His ear isn't heavy and the point is he can save and he can hear. But the problem is there's been rampant iniquity.

Your iniquities have separated you.

Exactly. And 2 through 8 really, I mean, it's just horrific. Somebody asked me when Lehigh is teaching and they have to leave.

You know, were the people that bad? Like, yes, like the Jeremiah, like, they are bad.

And this is 100 plus years before Lehigh leaves. But I mean, you talk about there's murder going on.

Verse 3, your hands are defiled, your liars. There's no justice. There's your vanity is going on.

And then we've got this great stuff about they're trying to cover themselves. Fake counterfeit atonements

with other kind of gods, their feet, verse 7, run to evil. They haste to shed innocent blood, the way of peace.

They don't know. I love this verse in verse 14. Judgment is turned away backward.

What an interesting way to say, justice standeth afar off.

So, it's like you've got this personification of justice. And by the way, justice is always masculineized and mercy is always feminized.

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