S3 E22 Rabbi Joe Charnes on Prophecy and Hope when We Are Cut Down (week 4, 1st episode)
The Scriptures Are Real
Kerry Muhlestein
4.8 • 539 Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2024
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Rabbi Joe Charnes and Kerry delve into some of the prophecies of Isaiah that are contained in the Book of Mormon. To begin with we discuss what it means to be a prophet in terms of Judaism and Latter-day Saints, and how that ties into our understanding of Isaiah's prophecies. We delve into the meaning of the words used for prophets, and how prophets convey God's word, whether the world likes the message or not. We also explore how seeing prophecies of justice coming upon people should be painful for us in some ways. We discuss Isaiah's teachings about ending oppression. We investigate how we can find hope in the times that God cuts us down. This discussion stems from the Messianic prophecy in Isaiah 11 (2 Nephi 21) and how the Assyrias of life can cut us down, but new life and Messianic hope can sprout from there.
We are grateful for our sponsor, Lisa Spice, and our producer, BJ Muhlestein, and for Rich Nicholls, who composed and plays the music for the podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Scriptures of Real podcast. |
| 0:09.6 | This is the podcast where we talk about elements of the scriptures that help them become more real to us because we believe that helps us draw more power out of them. |
| 0:16.3 | And we need all the help we can get. |
| 0:17.9 | I'm your host, Kerry Mielstein, and you can see that I'm here with my my good friend, Rabbi Joe Charnas, and we're just so happy to have you with us. Welcome. |
| 0:26.2 | Thank you. Thank you. Real pleasure. Real pleasure to be here. So our audience will know that |
| 0:31.2 | Rabbi Joe has been on with us a couple of times. We did James and... Colossians? |
| 0:39.6 | Yeah, part of Colossians. |
| 0:41.2 | And we talked about General Conference, I believe. |
| 0:44.1 | So... |
| 0:44.4 | On Colossians, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Colossians, right. |
| 0:47.9 | But it's a pleasure to have, and we talked about |
| 0:50.2 | interfaith relations as well. |
| 0:51.8 | Yeah. So we'd refer you to those if you want to learn a little bit more about the rabbi. |
| 0:56.7 | Anything else you'd like to tell them about yourself? |
| 1:01.2 | I'm just honored to be here, and it's always inspiring and instructive our dialogues. |
| 1:07.6 | Well, I feel the same. |
| 1:10.1 | I was thinking, do you have a website or something? People can go to |
| 1:14.6 | learn more about what you do? No, I'm not particularly social media oriented. I should be |
| 1:23.3 | people of ask. And maybe I should. That's a good calling. All right. Thank you. |
| 1:28.5 | Well, good. But you can certainly find out about what he's doing or the things he's done with us on the podcast. |
| 1:34.2 | And we'll try and we have some plans to do some other things together that we'll put on at |
| 1:40.2 | least some of my websites and so on. |
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