Friends, welcome to Word on Fire Catholic Ministries. Word on Fire is an

apostolate dedicated to the mission of evangelization using media both old and

new to share the faith on every continent and to facilitate an encounter with

Christ and His Church. The efforts of Word on Fire engage the culture and bring

the transformative power of God's Word where it is most needed. Today we invite

you to join Bishop Robert Barron as he preaches the gospel and shares the

warmth and light of Christ with each one of us.

Peace be with you. Friends, in the 22nd chapter of the book of the prophet Isaiah,

we find the prophet's only criticism of an individual. So Isaiah often

criticizes nations and peoples and indeed his own people. But the only time he

singles out an individual for criticism is in chapter 22. And the person in the

prophets crosshairs is a certain chebna. Chebna. He's described as master of the

palace. Now it probably meant something like oh Prime Minister, so the

palace in question is the King's palace. And chebna is a very high official

let's say in the government. So what is it that rouses the

iron of the prophet Isaiah again, chebna? So that he says, listen to this, I will

thrust you from your office and pull you down from your station. Wow. What did

this guy do wrong? Well, we have to look a little bit earlier in the book of

the prophet Isaiah and we find this. Thus says the Lord God of hosts, come, go to

this steward to this chebna who is master of the household and say to him, what

right do you have here? Who are your relatives here that you have cut out a tomb

for yourself, cutting a tomb on the height and carving a habitation for yourself

...