Now, if we're honest, reading the Bible consistently can be a challenge, but know that it's never too late to start and we're in this together.

Thanks for journeying with us. And here's your host, Emma, daughter.

Thanks for joining. Today, we are reading Isaiah 10 through 14, and I am back in the podcast studio with one of our Watermark students, or maybe I should say former watermark students, Bo Richardson. Yo. Bo, he just graduated from high school. You're heading off to college. Where are you going? Samford University. Go Bulldogs. Go Bulldogs. Studying. Finance. And when do you leave? Probably, what, three weeks from now, four weeks? Yeah, I got like four or five weeks left. Four or five weeks. I love it. You may know Bo because he shared his story on stage as we kicked off every generation July. So we can link that in the episode description. He's also a good friend of Join the Journey, one of our stellar watermark students who

typically says yes when we reach out and say, hey, do you want to come on the podcast?

And we gave you a prompt today, Bo, kind of a little bit of a tricky one.

How does God rule through his enemies?

What you got for us?

Just off the bat to break it into the questions of why does God allow his enemies to rule?

And then what's the result?

Because that's essentially what we're trying to get at.

And I think a word will come back to and to keep in mind throughout this entire study.

And all the things I'm about to say is to remember sovereignty.

Remember the fact that God is sovereign. That's

going to be a key attribute of God that is going to show up very powerfully in these five chapters.

And the sovereignty, just meaning that God is free and he's ultimate and he is all powerful

and all bends to his ultimate will. And that is for our good. and that is for Israel's good and that's what

we're going to see as we dive in. So recap, the two questions were, why does God allow his

enemies to rule? What's the result? And then a key to answering these questions is to remember

his sovereignty. He's in control. Let's dive in. First, we see justice for Israel.

In this, and in the beginning, Isaiah 10, we see a whole lot of judgment and justice is happening.

Justice shows that God is just, and it's for Israel, and Israel is just sinful. God is just. Israel is just sinful. They're not doing great.

And it's important to note God loves his people, but he hates their sin. And this is the

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