Wrapping up Isaiah using Isaiah 65 (week of Oct. 3, fifth to listen to)
The Scriptures Are Real
Kerry Muhlestein
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🗓️ 2 October 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
In this shortcast Kerry discusses the teachings of Isaiah 65 and how it sums up many of Isaiah’s themes, especially how God accepts us back and blesses us when we return to Him and keep His covenant.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the scriptures are real podcast. This is the podcast where we talk about elements of the scriptures that have made them become more real to us so that we can draw more power out of them. I'm your host, Kerry Mealstein, and I hope you'll bear with me as my voice is largely gone, |
| 0:24.0 | but we'll see what we can do here. |
| 0:26.4 | This is going to be, very sadly, our last episode on Isaiah. |
| 0:30.6 | I have loved studying Isaiah with you. |
| 0:33.2 | I've found so much joy and power in it. |
| 0:36.3 | It's just been a wonderful experience. But in this |
| 0:38.8 | shortcast, we're going to try and sum up Isaiah by reading from chapter 65. We'll start at the |
| 0:45.7 | very end of chapter 64, which is a prayer or a pleading prayer from Israel. So think of this as being from you. Think of it as being from |
| 0:57.7 | Israel. We want to think of the historical context, but also about it being from you. So we'll read in |
| 1:03.7 | verse 9 of chapter 64, be not wroth, very sore, Lord, neither remember iniquity forever behold see we beseech thee we are all thy people so |
| 1:16.1 | the same can please don't be mad at us forever please forgive us please we are yours forgive us |
| 1:23.2 | the holy cities are a wilderness zion is a wilderness. Jerusalem, a desolation. |
| 1:28.8 | Our holy and our beautiful house where our fathers praise thee is burned up with fire, and all our pleasant things are laid waste. |
| 1:35.1 | wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O Lord? |
| 1:37.9 | wilt thou hold thy peace and afflict us very sore? |
| 1:40.5 | So this is speaking about the temple in the literal or in the earliest context about the temple being destroyed. |
| 1:48.9 | Is this Isaiah himself looking forward and prophesying about that? |
| 1:53.5 | That seems very likely and very possible. |
| 1:57.1 | Isaiah certainly could and did see the future and could and often did speak as if what he knew was going to happen had already happened. |
| 2:09.0 | It's also possible this is added by someone later as a kind of an addendum to what Isaiah had written, like Mormon adds to things later and so on. |
| 2:18.8 | In the end, I don't know, and it doesn't matter very much to me. But you see the point. |
| 2:22.7 | They're saying we know we have, and we all say this in some ways at some point, we know we've |
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