So in the 8th century BC, the 8th century BC, you kind of get locked in on that time period.

You're like, I have no idea what was going on, the 8th century BC.

Yeah, this is like 400 years before Alexander the Great.

This is like way back, the 8th century BC.

The prophet Isaiah, like in the Old Testament, that Isaiah, the book of Isaiah, this Isaiah,

the prophet Isaiah, Jewish prophet Isaiah made this, um, startling proclamation or declaration to the people

of Judah. And then if your mind's eye, it's kind of like there's Galilee, there's Samaria,

then there's Judea and Jerusalem, you know, on the map. We would call that the Holy Land. So he's eye, it's kind of like there's Galilee, there's Samaria, then there's Judea and

Jerusalem. We would call that the Holy Land. So he's in, he's proclaiming to the people in

Judea, and they are, this is war-torn Judea. I mean, it is a mess. The inhabitants of Jerusalem,

it's just chaos. And what, what Isaiah says, made virtually no sense. At best, it was just wishful thinking.

He was just trying to say something positive to make the people feel better about themselves,

perhaps. They had long ago lost their independence as a nation. They were crushed from the

north with Assyria and the south with Egypt. They were warring

with each other. And unbeknownst to Isaiah, it was about to get a whole lot worse. But Isaiah,

in spite of that, preaches and proclaims and then writes, and it comes to us in the Old Testament

Book of Isaiah, he's speaking on behalf of God. He speaks on behalf of Yahweh, Israel's God. And here's what he said. And it was just, it just fell on deaf ears. It was just, it was so hollow. It was so meaningless. It was hard to find any encouragement. But here's what he said. He said, on behalf of God, I say this to you before me, me being God, every knee will

bow. And by me, every tongue will swear or technically will swear allegiance to me, which this is

impossible. I mean, the God of Israel is obviously a very weak God if he was even a God at all.

His people have been put to shame by

foreigners. In fact, the people of God had been forced to bow their knee to pagan invaders and in

some cases to the pagan gods. And Isaiah is not finished. In fact, earlier in the book, he points to a

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