Oh let the Son of God and found you with his spirit and his life,

let him fill your heart and satisfy your soul.

Oh, let him have the things that hold you

and his spirit like a dove will descend upon your life and make you

whole. you home.

Welcome to the Word for today,

featuring the Bible Teaching of Pastor Chuck Smith,

founder of the Calvary Chapel Movement.

This radio program is a verse by verse study through the entire

Bible. And on today's edition of the word for today,

Pastor Chuck continues with signs of the Second Coming as we pick up in Isaiah chapter 13 verse one and now with

today's message here's pastor Chuck now as we move into chapter 13 and he speaks of the burden of Babylon, which Isaiah saw.

You remember that we mentioned when we started the prophecy of Isaiah that in many of the prophecies

There was what we called the near fulfillment and the far fulfillment there the problem the

prophecies were sort of like a two-edged sword in that they had an immediate connotation

but oftentimes there was also a future connotation.

So in the seventh chapter when he said, Behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, shall call his name

Emmanuel and all. And that had an immediate kind of a connotation not of the

virgin bearing a son, but a child born at that time before he is old enough to really

know much the kings would be destroyed from Samaria and from Syria. But the far was a prophecy of Jesus Christ, born of the

Virgin Mary as was interpreted by Matthew in his gospel.

So the near in the far of the prophetic fulfillment

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