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. So here is another video, just to give you a little bit of background to help you understand Isaiah 18 through 20. These are some tricky chapters with some tricky verses in them. Some of it is a real

difficulty in translating, but hopefully we can help you understand a little bit about what

it's talking about. Our real clue to where it's talking about starts in verse one. We get

Wown to the land shadowing with wings. Most likely that word should really be translated as buzzing with wings.

We should tell the King James translators, I do not think that word means what you think it means.

But anyway, we still don't know exactly what it means with buzzing.

There's one idea, but get back to you with that in just a second anyway.

It says, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia. So I just tell you right now and I'm back to you with that in just a second anyway it says which is beyond the rivers of

Ethiopia so I just tell you right now and I'm back to explain why that that tells us that

it's really talking about Egypt all right so maybe the buzzing is because one of the symbols of

Egypt was a bee and so buzzing wings but I don't know it's a pretty weak connection who

knows in any case to understand this let's look at the geography of Egypt traditional know, it's a pretty weak connection. Who knows? In any case, to understand this, let's look at the geography of Egypt.

Traditional Egypt and its traditional natural boundaries go from a swan all the way to the Mediterranean Sea.

And, of course, you follow the trace of the Nile for that.

And the reason why this becomes the natural boundary is the stone all along here,

excuse me, is really all the same kind of stone. So it wore away evenly and you have this

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