Well, good evening and welcome. Sorry again for the late start. We are tonight going to be in the

Book of Isaiah, where we're currently in our verse by verse study on Thursday nights. And tonight,

two chapters, Lord willing, I should say, chapters 34 and 35. We finished chapter 33 last week.

Only going to do two chapters tonight. I was going to try to get through

into chapter 36, but I think you'll see why here in a moment. These kind of go together and

for good reason, really looking forward to what the Lord has for us. So why don't we just go to the

throne and pray and ask God's blessing on our time together in this word, if you would, please

join with me. Loving Heavenly Father, thank you so much for your word and for this Bible study tonight, this beautiful place

that we can come to and just kind of put all the cares and the affairs of our busy lives

aside and just give you our undivided attention. Lord, the world is getting crazier, seemingly by the day.

And Lord, we just are desperate for you. And Lord, this is for us a sanctuary and a respite and a time where we can just hear you speak into our lives as you minister to us and reveal yourself to us a fresh and anew.

Lord, we need you. we need for you to speak clearly tonight

in and through these chapters that we have before us here in Isaiah. Lord, it's obvious, it's abundantly clear that we've overstayed our welcome in this world,

not our home.

And Lord, Bible studies like this and times like this are just a much needed reminder

that this world is not our home and heavens are home. And we're going to get a little

taste of that tonight. And we're really looking forward to it, Lord, and thank you in advance

for what you're going to do in Jesus' name. Amen and amen. All right. So I'm going to once again

this week, do what we did last week, and that's begin with the takeaway right out of the

shoot from these two chapters, chiefly chapter 35, but it's that of the highway of holiness, as we're about to see.

We're going to talk about and see what it is and how it is that we can get on this highway until it finds its fulfillment in the kingdom age,

that millennial period, that millennial reign of 1,000 years here on earth after the second

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