Bible Survey - Isaiah 1-39

Isaiah chapters 1 to 39, I broke it into two parts. Even at that, Isaiah is just such a phenomenal book that we're just going to be obviously hitting high spots here. We're going to cover chapters 1 to 39 today and then 40 through 66 next Sunday. Probably the best description of it is a prophetic anthology. Fifty-nine percent of Isaiah is prophecy, but it also includes history, poetry, it has a number of chiasms, you've seen that chiasm pattern, a great number of chiasms, and other kinds of literature as well. You ever hear like, Precept upon precept, line upon line, all that, right? That's actually children's nursery rhyme. So there's lots of neat things in here. Here is... I'm going to go through the series of bullets there on the middle of the first page.

Isaiah has more material on the theme of creation than any other Old Testament book, even twice as much as Genesis. Lots of material on on creation. Isaiah, the first book of the prophets, and the Apostle Paul, who wrote the first letter of the New Testament, Romans, have a lot in common. Isn't that interesting? Including that both of these books emphasize the creation more than any other book in the Old and New Testament sets. So the double emphasis in creation in the book of Isaiah is matched in the New Testament by the emphasis in the book of Romans, the first of the epistles.

Isaiah makes specific prophecies over various periods of time, some including just within days and hours, some of them out a few years, some of them out over a century, and some of them out seven centuries, and some of them still have yet to be fulfilled. So he's an amazing prophet, actually number 111. Specific prophecies.

The book of Revelation, which comes 70% out of the Old Testament, is one that has many references to the book of Isaiah, such as the sword coming from Christ's mouth, which is taken from Isaiah 49.2. I am the first and I am the last, right? In Revelation, where Jesus says I'm the first and the last, God says I'm the first and the last. I'm the beginning and the end, right? In Isaiah. So, really a powerful book.

Isaiah has fascinating literary structures on a large scale We'll see below here in the in the inset and on smaller scales such as the chiasms We'll take a look at an example of that in the next page. Okay. Here's the Isaiah echo very interesting What you have is a pattern in the first five chapters and then chapters 34 and 35 those sections have judgment and restoration and You next go down chapters 6-8 and 36-39 are biographical, historical, and oracles. And then you follow that pattern all the way down through the rest of the book. Chapters 32-33 and 60-66 is national restoration.

Let's ask a question. Why would Why would Isaiah go through and have this pattern in the whole book? Why would he do that? Any ideas? Guesses? Why would he have this pattern in the book? I call it the Isaiah echo. Why would he do that? Yeah? Yeah, if you think about it, did they have bolding and italics and underlining in ways that we have to emphasize something? No, they didn't. So what they would do is they would use literary structures to emphasize something by repetition. That's the same idea with the chiasm. is you have emphasis by repetition. So one reason is to emphasize. Come back to it.

Have you ever had something that you've thought about again a second time and ended up having further insights or come to different conclusions? Has that ever happened in your life? And so that's another reason I think looking at this is we're going to revisit this topic. Why?

It's because in revisiting I'm going to gain some additional insights even into what I was first thinking about it. So it is for emphasis, it is for deeper understanding. Revisit something. Let's take a look at the second page. This is where we have the chiasm. This is a chiasm that goes on for several chapters.

Chapters 24 through 27. and so you have in this case you have the harvest of a remnant 24 13 is kind of the theme there from a destroyed world in this 24 1 through 13 and then you have corresponding to that at the end of the book harvest of a remnant from a destroyed people so you'll have you'll have several different You'll have several different patterns like that that show up. B here is the song of the world remnant. By the way, what's a remnant other than something left over from floor covering? What's a remnant? Yes, that's what it is. But in here, what do they mean by remnant when you see it in the Bible? Yes? It's God's selected and chosen people. The small faithful, I would call them. Right. Let's take an example.

With Elijah, remember Elijah was thinking, I'm the only one left, right? But God said, oh no. There are still, how many, does anybody remember? I think it's like 7,000 or something of that sort, but there are still these many that are faithful. And by the way, if God's telling Elijah that, does God keep track of who's faithful? Yeah, God knows. Elijah's thinking, I'm all alone. And the reality is, he's not all alone, right?

So anyway, here's the song of the world remnant in chapter 24, 14-16a, and then you have the song of the remnant of the people, chapter 27, 2-6. The small remaining faithful. God always has or quickly rises up a remnant. God always has or quickly rises up a remnant.

How large was the remnant during the flood? Eight people, right? Eight people, right? So yeah, just eight. During Elijah's time, 7,000. So what you have is God always preserves or raises up a remnant. In that time period, 7000 was a lot of people. Yes, and you're only talking Israel, correct? But I know that 7000 would be a lot of people. And even in Israel, if it's only Israel, 7000 is probably the majority, two-thirds of the country. Because Israel is a small country. And they didn't live close together because they lived in cities, but not big cities. And they lived on farms and hill ranches.

God will always preserve a remnant, or raise up a remnant. Okay, so here we have the chiasm. Some of the reasons for the chiasms, and they are from beginning to end in the book of Isaiah, and many other places in the Bible too, whole books are chiasms. Ruth, Matthew, Jude, are examples where entire books are chiasm. Instead, Isaiah has a number of chiasms, some of which, like this, spread over several chapters. Some of them are smaller in their size.

Pardon? Yeah. A chiasm is a literary mirror image. A literary mirror image. You start here from A, from a destroyed world. And then from A-prime, the other corresponding part, harvest of a remnant from a destroyed people. So you'll have this chiasm pattern, a literary mirror image.

And what are the reasons for structuring things in chiasms? Can you think of some reasons? Yeah. and I would assume that the center portion of the chiasm is kind of like the theme in a paragraph. Right, this is the focal point, right? This is the focal point, and then, so you'll have, it's a way to emphasize on the focal point, and then you emphasize in the rest of it by repetition, or something that at least rhymes, okay?

In the old days, when poetry rhymed, it was easier to remember something in poetic form because you had that rhythm and cadence and all the rest that helped fix it in your mind. Whereas if you just sort of told a story in a rambling style, wandering through the rose garden, you might miss some parts of it.

It is definitely done as a memory aid and that's one thing in our culture We don't memorize something unless we have to right because why I can look it up You know I can google it right so in our culture. We're very disinclined to go around memorizing things The Jews however were quite the opposite to them memorizing large chunks of scripture was just the norm that's what you do and And so having something like this was a memory aid. They would go through with these chiasms and use it as a memory aid to drill it and drive it into their minds. You can imagine, here are the disciples, they may be camped out along the Sea of Galilee and probably early in the morning you could envision them actually drilling one another on what Jesus had said the previous day. Committing it to memory. So memorizing things was much more the norm. And so having things in some kind of a structure, and the chiasm was a common one, some kind of a structure was an easier way to commit things to memory.

How does the literary form like this fit in the context of a prophetic sequence? God is revealing things to Isaiah chronologically, through his life chronologically. How does that fit in with the writing pattern? Is this where he as an author is writing it down in a chiasm on purpose, or is God revealing things to Isaiah sequentially? Essentially, he is putting things down in the bigger scale, in a chiasm form. And it may well be that even though the Lord is accommodating it, the Lord knowing well that he's going to use a chiasm, so I'm going to reveal things to him chiastically.

It's kind of like the Apostle Paul would write to different churches and say things according to their culture. Was it inspired writing? Yes. So God inspired things and also fit various patterns and accommodated the culture as well. Below is the book chart of Isaiah. I've got some stuff that's overwritten on the bottom there, sorry about that. Not quite sure what that happened. Alright, so in the book chart of Isaiah, God's anger and mercy fits the first 35 chapters and those are in three sets of warnings.

One, in first 12 chapters, God's warnings to Judah What's Judah? It's the southern kingdom that initially consisted of Judah and Benjamin, those two tribes. Over time, and this is especially true by Isaiah's time, over time the people from the northern kingdom would sometimes retreat, of the various tribes, would retreat into Judah. of the Southern Kingdom, so that eventually the Southern Kingdom ended up having representatives from all the tribes. Just think, if you were living in the Northern Kingdom, how many of the kings in the Northern Kingdom were good?

Zip. Not a one. They were all bad. So they're morally evil. And so you might think, well, you know, I want to get out of here for that reason. Did they have a valid temple system in the Northern Kingdom? That wasn't good either. They didn't have a valid temple system. Matter of fact, they had a mishmash of all kinds of things. And so people would say, well, I'm going to go where I've got a real valid temple system and not this mishmash that we've got of paganism and everything else. So they would retreat for that. Another is that the Northern Kingdom was more subject to enemy attack. And if you want to get away from that, what do you do?

I'm going to move to Judah. So he ended up having representatives of all the tribes coming. So God's warnings to Judah, even Judah itself would eventually fall. God's warnings to Judah's neighbors, those others who were neighbors to Judah, including to the east, Countries that's chapters 13 through 23 chapters 24 through 35 God's warnings to all nations So it's it's Judah Judah's neighbors and then to all the nations.

Okay, so that's the larger pattern there in Isaiah and then we have God's delivering power which is in the historical section. This is during the time of King Hezekiah a descendant of David and in the line of Christ and God's delivering power, 36-39, those chapters. And then what we'll look at next week is chapters 40-66. Let's take a look at page 4. I see what happened. We had some text when I sent it to the printer here, not print out as I had formatted it. Alright, the bottom of page 2, excuse me. Isaiah's heavenly throne room has a contrast here. Here's Isaiah the believer. He's a believer, right? Here is Isaiah the believer. In chapter 6, Isaiah shows up in God's heavenly throne room.

Does he feel comfortable or does he not? He goes, woe is me! Woe! So here he is, a believer, he has a vision of the throne room and he is frightened. Immensely. Deeply frightened. Here I am, a fallen human being in the presence of God himself. Now, are we believers here frightened of heaven? Frightened of the thought of being present in heaven? No, we're not. And why not?

We're seated positionally in the heavenlies. We have a heavenly citizenship. That's where we're blessed. We now have a high priest in the heavenlies who ministers on our behalf. This is a message of Hebrews, right? So, and there's one more thing. You look at both Romans and Galatians, our approach to the Father is not, oh no, I'm done. But our approach to the Father is Abba, Papa. So we have a heavenly citizenship, we have a heavenly blessing, we have a heavenly seating, we have family familiarity, we have a high priest who ministers on our behalf constantly. And so here we are, We call it home with a capital H in heaven.

Yeah. That goes back to that word propitiation because Christ came to satisfy God's anger. So today we are not dealing with God's anger because of that. Also it's our high priest. So in the Old Testament times with Isaiah, God's anger and wrath was pretty evident throughout the whole Old Testament. I've got one little puzzle for you. Isaiah goes into the heavenlies and he is scared. Did Paul go to what he calls paradise? Yes. Is Paul uncomfortable in heaven? Paul is not uncomfortable, but what's very interesting is he's forbidden to tell about it.

Very interesting. But later on, in the last book of the New Testament, Revelation, 150 verses are on the heavenly scene. Is John uncomfortable there? He's not uncomfortable, but he does get disoriented. He starts worshipping angels by accident because his frame of reference, he just hasn't figured out who's who yet, right? So here's John who must write about it, and he doesn't feel uncomfortable there, he just is a little disoriented.

Here's Paul who doesn't feel uncomfortable about being on the heavenly scene, but he is forbidden to talk about it. Here's Isaiah who is on the heavenly scene and he thinks, oh no, I'm toast. I'm toast. It's really amazing to see the contrasts and differences. Let's look on top of page 3.

Isaiah 7.14 predicts regarding Christ's birth. Therefore the Lord himself will give you, by the way, you is plural, okay? You, plural, a sign. Behold, a virgin will be with child and bear a son and she will call his name Immanuel. Okay. Which virgin is this talking about? Yes, one immediately, but also in the future. And did Mary call Jesus Immanuel? Yeah, call his name Jesus. You will call him Jesus. And he will be Jesus, the Savior, and he will be Christ, the Anointed One, the Messiah.

Right? Yes? Is it true that that word, virgin, in that particular case, just like Al said about the fact that it was current and also future, that word can be used in different ways? I have heard that. In checking it out, it doesn't seem to check out. Well, currently at that time, obviously, there wasn't a virgin child, but in the future there was. So I was always a little confused how that related to his time. The word is Alma that you're looking at, and why would that word be communicating virgin? when, at least at this time, the gal was not. Well, the thing that they write, the things that I've studied, the word could be used for a young woman, and the presumption was she had not had sexual relations.

Here's what's interesting. In the Greek Old Testament, and that was translated by Jews who didn't have any concept that Christ was going to come and be born of Mary. They translated it Parthenos, which is what is used when Mary objects or is puzzled and says, but how can this be? I'm Parthenos. So it says a virgin will be with a child referring to marriage.

Right. Yes. Okay. Perfect. So you said it also referred to somebody of that time period though too. One then and one in the future. So a double fulfillment. You know, at one time or another, I studied the Jewish history, and the Jewish history, why they were so confused, is that there was more than one person claiming to be the same God, and there were three of them, Jesus and Abraham. Yeah, there were different ones. So, it could have been referring to these other two. Well, I don't think so, and here's why. It's because the specific fulfillment is called out in the New Testament.

But you're saying, though, that it's two people. Two different people. Well, one at that time, and then one later. Who is that one at that time? You're saying that there was one at that time, and then Jesus later on. Right. So who was that one at that one time? I know it's a rhetorical question, but maybe it's some of these people that were in the Jewish history. Yeah, we're going to get lost in details here pretty quick.

In the New Testament fulfillment, it's called out in Luke 1, 26-38, that this is specifically a fulfillment of that prophecy, Isaiah 7.14. Okay, Isaiah 9, 6, and 7, for a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us. This is the first coming of Christ. The rest of that passage, verses 6 and 7, is the millennial Kingdom fulfillment and the government will rest on his shoulders and his name will be called wonderful counselor mighty God And here's one.

I'll have a little explanation for eternal father you say wait a minute isn't this the son right? Why is it eternal father? It could be translated. I think it would clarify it father of the ages that he's the source of the various ages of Earth And then we have the prince of peace, there will be no end to the increase of his government or peace on the throne of David and over his kingdom to establish it and uphold it with justice and righteousness from then on and forevermore.

The zeal of the Lord of hosts will accomplish this. It's millennial kingdom, but does this prophecy indicate that his reign ends? It's forevermore, right? So it continues. So it's initiated with the Millennial Kingdom, but continuing on into eternity in the new heavens and new earth. And what we have down below in the inset is the Millennial Kingdom, shown there right after the Tribulation. And then you have a line there marking the new heavens and new earth and eternity. So that's the time frame we're looking at here.

Isaiah chapter 11 is about the end of the tribulation period, end of the Millennial Kingdom. Key themes are, as we go through it, Isaiah 11, 1-5 is about Christ in his first and mostly second comings. Isaiah 11, 6-9 is about the conditions during the Millennial Kingdom.

And Isaiah 11.10 is a brief return to Christ and His reign during the Millennial Kingdom. And then 11-16 is about the conditions during the Millennial Kingdom. So here is Isaiah prophesying thousands of years into the future, things that have yet to be fulfilled.

Why doesn't God just say, You know earth has been around a while. I'm just gonna wrap everything up right now. Why doesn't God just do that? Okay, not in his plan, right? It's not in his plan. That's one thing He's he's prophesied that it's going to happen through Isaiah here and through other prophets as well Does God have the latitude to just say now we're just not gonna do that. I'm just gonna cut it off right now I You're thinking of Noah? You're thinking of Noah? Yeah, yeah, of Noah. So we have instances where God has made a prophecy and then changes it. An example with Hezekiah. Hezekiah was told, you know, you're done. And Hezekiah asked for 15 more years and God granted it.

So it is possible that God changes something. However, why would He not change the promise to Abraham and the promise to David? Why would He not change that? Yeah, it has to do with his holiness and righteousness. That's part one. The other thing is if God changes a prophecy, he does it during one person's lifetime. Just like he did with Hezekiah. This is the last part of the section we're looking at today.

He changed it during Hezekiah's lifetime because Hezekiah prayed and asked. But in the big picture, he's not going to change something he promised to Abraham. He's not going to change something he promised to David. Was something similar to that happen with Manasseh? Was he given extra time also, or was it only Hezekiah? So far as I'm recalling, it was just Hezekiah. Okay, let's turn to page 4. One other thing comes out of this chapter, chapter 11.

When you get in Revelation, Revelation 1, 4, 3, 1, 4, 5, and 5, 6, have what is translated in a lot of translations, the seven spirits. And Arnold Fruchtenbaum did a good job of clarifying that. It's the spirit of the Lord, and then the spirit, and it shows there on this candelabra, shows the knowledge of the Lord, of counsel, of wisdom, of understanding, of power, and fear of the Lord. And someone has asked, well, wait a minute, the Spirit of the Lord is of a different character than the rest of these. How come that gets to be included as one of them? And the reason is, how do you light a candelabra like this, a menorah? You have a slave candle, and that's the slave candle that lights the rest. So that's how that gets included.

Now, Isaiah chapters 36-39 is a historical section that focuses on the time when the Assyrian Empire was applying huge pressure on King Hezekiah of Judah to submit to the military power of Assyrian Emperor Sennacherib. But Isaiah advised Hezekiah, the king of Judah, and all the Jews to trust the Lord. So here's a short-term prophecy. He says, here's Sennacherib, he is going and just wiping out whole cities. And one of them that did get wiped out, and Sennacherib recorded it, and so you can see the pictorial account at the British Museum from Sennacherib's palace, when he attacked Lachish. So the rest of the cities were getting wiped out, and that was even with great preparation by King Hezekiah. But here's Isaiah that says, trust the Lord through this. Trust the Lord through this, you people of Jerusalem and King Hezekiah. Trust the Lord. So though Hezekiah was distressed through this, he trusted the Lord.

So the angel of the Lord, taken to be the pre-incarnate Son of God, we've gone over that previously so I won't detail it here, killed 185,000 Assyrian soldiers overnight. And what's interesting here, Sennacherib then didn't have a victory. He went home and didn't have the victory over Jerusalem. Was Isaiah correct in saying, trust the Lord? Yes. Because 185,000 soldiers were taken out without anybody firing a shot or anything. The Lord took care of it all. and wipe them all out.

So that was a short-term prophecy where they could see Isaiah was not a false prophet, right? So that was a short-term prophecy that worked out in his time. What's very interesting, Herodotus records this same event, a Greek historian. He attributes the loss of the Assyrians to a bunch of mice chewing their bowstrings. That's what he said was the cause.

Of course, he didn't know what Isaiah knew, and that's that the angel of the Lord is going to take care of this. Right? Sennacherib's own record of his battle against Hezekiah is he said, I shut up Hezekiah in his royal city like a bird in a cage. But he didn't say, like he said with the rest of the cities, that he defeated them. Right? So that's the best he could claim. You know, putting a good you know, face on it.

Also, when he went back to Babylon, he didn't come out again because then it was taken over by Nebuchadnezzar, right? Didn't Nebuchadnezzar follow him? Sennacherib was an Assyrian emperor, right? Sennacherib was Assyrian and he was killed by two of his sons after he went home. But the Babylonians did overtake them.

However, Hezekiah blew it, and that's a part of what we're going to look at here. Chapter 38, Hezekiah appeals the Lord for a longer life and is granted it. That's the part we talked about earlier here, where first the Lord says your life is done and Hezekiah appeals for more time and the Lord grants it. In chapter 39, Hezekiah reveals his defenses and assets to the Babylonians, thinking of them as allies.

Oops! So Isaiah says, tell me what you've done. He said, I showed them everything. And Isaiah said, that's not good. Because they're going to remember that. They know your strong points and your weak ones, and they know all of your assets. And they know where the assets are. Now, with that, Isaiah told Hezekiah, The Babylonians will come against Jerusalem, but not in your lifetime. Not in your lifetime. But that is also a prophecy a little bit farther out, right? Yes, but what would happen is that his son would end up being caught in the snare on this. Yes Towards the end of his life.

He showed less wisdom Yeah Nonetheless he was he was I would say one of the more righteous kings in the series of kings you know from David through Solomon in the southern kingdom and There were 20 kings in the southern kingdom and he was one of eight good ones and probably the better of the eight.

So in chapters 1-39, Isaiah gave predictive prophecies regarding events, people, and nations that were within his time in the decades and about a century to come. and many centuries to come, including details regarding Christ's first coming, things yet to take place during the Tribulation and Millennial Kingdom. So he gave quite a few prophecies, and what's fascinating is that there are some yet to be fulfilled, the ones about the Tribulation and Millennial Kingdom. Those are yet to be fulfilled.

But everything from near term, all up until Christ's first coming, all fulfilled. And one more, he also prophesied that Israel would be gathered together as a people again. And we've seen that happen during our time. Gathered together as a people, they were brought into nationhood several years before I was born, and continued to bring in people from afar.

Okay, then we have an FYI contemporary of Isaiah because there was Micah the prophet who wrote a smaller book But was a contemporary of Isaiah prophesying at the same time Isaiah spoke particularly To the the royal household he was a court prophet and That was his role. Uzziah was his uncle. King Uzziah was his uncle. So he was actually part of the royal family. Micah, however, spoke more directly to the nation and not so much within the royal household and the royal city.

So it's Micah 5.2 that talks about the Messiah would be born in Bethlehem. And so when we get to Micah, we'll of course be taking a look at that. What's interesting, I want to get your Bibles out.

And let's look at Micah 5.2. Because this is another one that speaks of the birth.

Micah 5.2, you may recall, is the one that the Jewish scholars went to when Herod asked, where is the king of the Jews to be born?

So they went here. But you, Bethlehem, Ephrathah, though you are little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of you shall come forth to me, the one to be ruler in Israel, whose goings forth have been from old, from everlasting." Okay, let's look at a few different things. It says Bethlehem, and what's that other word behind it? Why is that there? There's more than one. There's two Bethlehems, right? And the other one is real close to Nazareth. Wouldn't that have been convenient? Right? But that's not where Joseph and Mary went, right? They went to this one, which is the one about a half dozen miles from Jerusalem. And just south of Jerusalem. So Bethlehem, Ephrathah. You are little among the thousands of Judah. So here's Judah. Is Bethlehem a major city or a smaller one? It's a smaller one. Rough estimates about this time about 3,000 people. So a smaller one. Yet out of you shall come forth to me The one to be ruler in Israel. So when the Jews were answering Herod's question, where is the king of the Jews to be born? Did they have a good direct answer here? The one who is to be ruler in Israel. Born there.

Whose goings forth have been from old. What does that mean? From everlasting. What does that mean, that his goings forth have been from old? He's eternal. From everlasting. Also saying that it's the one that God has told you about from time past. Yeah, let's think about this. It's part of God's plan and has been revealed progressively. When it says from everlasting, what does that mean? Does that mean all time? Or what does that mean if it says it's from everlasting? It's unmeasurable. When God said, let there be light, was the one that this prophesied about existing before that time? Yes. So it's eternity past. Eternity past before God said, let there be light.

He's not from this creation. So he will be born, which means he'll be a human, in this town of Bethlehem, But he won't just be a human being, he will also be God. He'll also be God. Are the angels from everlasting? No, the angels are created beings. So he will be fully God and fully man. So that's the message that comes out of here.

Micah being a contemporary of Isaiah. Interesting the Lord had this spoken through Micah and then other details like the virgin birth spelled out in Isaiah. Unto us a child is born and he will be the one who reigns over this coming kingdom. Alright, so next week we'll go into chapters 40 through 66, which contain some really unique and special material. One of the things I haven't mentioned is that here's Isaiah. How many chapters in Isaiah? We've got 66. How many books in the Bible? 66, right? And the Old Testament is ended at how many books? 39 books.

So chapter 40, if you were to make chapter to book correspondence, chapter 40 is the chapter that corresponds to the book of Matthew. And one of the things we'll find as we look at that is here is the announcement of John the Baptist. And that corresponds to chapter 40, as we'll soon see.

Anyway, we'll get into that next week. Other thoughts? Questions? Inspirations? Exasperations? Yeah? When it makes statements like the Lord is going to destroy or Sometimes you have various conditions given. So that you have a way to tie it to a particular time. The other thing is looking at other prophecies. Let's say for example about the tribulation period. I assume that's what you might be referring to. There are other prophecies and you look at ones of a similar character and line them up. Would be a part of the description.

The book of Daniel, for example, gives specific time frames. If you take Daniel's prophecy about the 69 and 70 weeks, he prophesies Christ's lifetime precisely. So, sometimes it's very precise as to time, other times it's a matter of lining it up as to the character of what's being prophesied.

Isaiah's prophecies about the coming millennial kingdom, the conditions during that coming millennial kingdom. The wolf will lie down with the lamb. By the way, it's not the lion and the lamb. Lying down is the wolf and the lamb. The wolf and the lamb lying down together is conditions during the coming millennial kingdom. And it's a matter of lining up that description throughout the book other other prophecies at different times It is precise. So we have both kinds Other thoughts questions.

Yeah, okay Essentially the the literal fulfillment of the virgin birth Is simply Mary that's the the literal fulfillment of it and It's description later, and this is something that gets complex enough we'd have to take a whole section on it. I covered that when I went through Isaiah, because actually there's chapter 7, chapter 8, and chapter 9. There are prophecies in there. And so what I'll do is I'll pull that stuff up and get it to you.

But yeah, it's a bit more complex. All right, let's pray. The second bell here. Lord, we thank you for your word. We thank you for your just amazing revelation through the prophet Isaiah here and his contemporary Micah. Just some astounding things that you brought forth here. And Lord, we just thank you for these things that you've revealed because you love us and you care for us and you want us to know and understand. And we pray in Jesus' name. Amen.