March 30, 2025

Isaiah 42: Observational Outline Pt 2

Isaiah 42: Observational Outline Pt 2

We conclude the observational outline of Isaiah 42

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We conclude the observational outline of Isaiah 42

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All right, our number two Isaiah forty two. Our mission

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is to finish the observational outline that we began in

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our number one. Even though everyone says, Isaiah forty two

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is about Jesus, we are already calling that into question. However,

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we're not trying to get too much into interpretation because

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we are working on our observational outline. Observational outline is

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an outline that avoids all interpretation as much as possible.

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So let's remind ourselves of how to break this chapter

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down Isaiah forty two. First, we break the first section

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goes from verses one through four. We call this the

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presentation of the servant, or we will almost want to

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call it the introduction of the servant, but then that

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causes problems with how we break down all of it,

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so we'll call it the presentation of the Servant Verses

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one through four. This has broken down in the three

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parts verse God's introduction of a servant verse one, second,

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the servant's gentle character Verses two through three, and then

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the servant's perseverance verse four. I'm not going to read

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all the things we said about those, but there you go.

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There's the basic idea. All right, So the presentation of

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the servant Verses one through four, that's broken into three parts,

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God's introduction of a servant, the servant's character, our gentle character,

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or merciful character, however you'd like to describe it, Verses

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two through three, and the servant's perseverance, and verse four.

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All right. Then the second section goes five through nine,

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and we called this the Lord's commissioning of the servant.

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His commissioning of the servant. We broke this down into

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three parts. Verse five, the creator, God speaks, Verse six

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through seven, the servant's divine call or the calling of

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the servant, and then verse eight through nine the lords.

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Now we called this a lot of different things. He's

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showing that this Well, we'll just say, well, there's a

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lot of different ways we could discs, but we went

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with God's glory and basic his prophetic power. Right, So

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that's kind of the way we went with this, and

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we've talked about that. To my mind, I go to

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forty two that in some ways, verse eight I think

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is maybe the most is the most important verse that

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we've looked at so far. And why did I think

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verse eight was so key? Because verse eight seems out

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of place. He's been talking about this servant and starting

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in verse one, really all the way through verse seven,

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and then all of a sudden, in eight, God says,

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I am the Lord, basically the self existent, eternal one.

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That is my name and my glory I will not

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give to another. The other seems to be referring to

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the servant. So God is clearly distinguishing himself. I'm not

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going to give my name and my glory to this servant,

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nor am I going to praise my praise be given

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to graven images. Well, if that is the case, then

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that servant in forty two be Jesus, because that would

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make no sense, all right. So I know that's gonna

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cause world War three on the internet. And I already

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know people, you're already typing up verse in Matthew, I

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know that. Calm down. We'll cover that at some point, okay,

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because but we still have to deal with this in

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its context, all right. So then we looked at verse nine,

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which goes with this whole idea of God's glory and

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then what he's gonna tell of the future and what's

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going to happen, all right. Then that brought us to

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The third section went from verse ten to twelve. This

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is the call to a song, I think, is how

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Sarah described it, verses ten through twelve. A call to

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a song, and we have a new song for the

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whole earth. And then I guess specific regions being called

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to praise. Then that brings us. That's where we stopped

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the last hour. We begin this hour with the next section,

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which goes from verse thirteen through seventeen. Between the first

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hour and the second hour, Sarah brought up a good point.

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In some ways, could we kind of say verses thirteen

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all the way down to twenty five is the actual

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song they're called the sing a new song. It's thirteen

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to twenty five the words of that song. Well, in

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some ways it makes a little I like the what

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Sarah was saying, because look at the way if you

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look at some of the stuff before, Like if you

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look at verse eight, I am the Lord, that is

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my name, God is specifically speaking. Right, all of a sudden,

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you get to thirteen, Look what happens. The Lord shall

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go forth. It's not God speaking anymore. If someone saying

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something about God, right, okay, then I again, so but okay, right, okay,

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I see what you're saying, right, But just the fact

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that thirteen starts so differently caught my attention, Right, So

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I like kind of what Sarah is saying. We're gonna

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break it down differently than that, but I'd like the

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at least give you the idea there you can again

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observational outlines. We're not always going to agree on where

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to break these sections down. Me and even Ai had

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back and forth arguments over where some of these sections

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should begin and end. The key is what well we're

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trying to figure out where to break it down? What

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are we doing We're spending at the time looking at

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the text, looking at the text. The more you observe

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what's there, than when pastors bring their garbage and impose

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it upon the text, you'll be the first to go,

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that's not there. I spent just I spent two hours

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in church on Sunday looking at everything in this chapter.

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That's the goal, all right, So as everyone understand that,

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so we don't have to get into a major argument

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where we break it down. We just got to figure

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out what's there, right, So Ai says this, Ai was adamant.

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Verse thirteen and seventeen is its own segment and let

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it did not like any other approach, right, so well,

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I could look it gave me like five different we

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went back and forth, so I'm not going to go

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look at all my other ones to see if it

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ever took a different approach. But at the end it

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wanted thirteen through seventeen. It says thirteen through seventeen the

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Lord declares his intervention and salvation. That's what AI breaks

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this section into. Thirteen through seventeen. The Lord declares his

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intervention and salvation, and we will go with that for now.

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We can possibly refute that in a minute. Okay, thirteen

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through seventeen. Everybody ready to break this down? AYI is

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going to break it down into how many parts? AI

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went lost its mind? Here? Five parts, five, A, B, C.

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D Ekay, yeah, I guess almost each verse is its

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own part, all right? So verse thirteen all right? So

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the section is called the Lord declares his Intervention in

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Salvation thirteen through seventeen. The first subpoint a Lord awakens

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as a warrior. Verse thirteen. The Lord shall go forth

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as a mighty man. He shall stir up jealousy like

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a man of war. He shall cry yea roar, he

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shall prevail against his enemies. So the Lord goes out

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like a mighty man, stirs up his zeal military and

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emotional imagery, shouting prevailing. Everyone agree that that's all right

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there in verse thirteen, He's gonna go out as a

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mighty man. That's what he exactly says. What does the

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inn IV says verse thirteen? Okay, I didn't know if

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it used a different word for man, right, but the

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Lord goes out as a mighty man. Do you see

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the military image. Do you see a kind of an

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emotional type image being described to your imagery? Yeah, shouting?

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Do you see shouting? How about prevailing? Okay, so all

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of that is there. So AI says this is the

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Lord awakens as a warrior. God is going to awaken

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as a warrior, and it says the Lord shall go forth.

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I don't know if I like the word awaken, but

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I think the reason ais going with awaken depending on

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how we understand this, right, because you could argue, well,

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it's been seventy years and where's God been nowhere, so

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that's where the awaken comes from. I just think it

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may be a little bit imposing on the text. But okay, oh,

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there is something Okay, yeah, okay, maybe so right, something

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is starting, something is beginning. I think it's supposed to establish,

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and especially if we go back to the song, it's

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a new song about a new thing. So this is

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something new happening, right, God is getting ready to do

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something that appears to not have been happening for seventy years.

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I think maybe there's a little bit of that idea. Right,

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So how about the next verse, verse fourteen? What should

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we call this? What do you think? Ai calls this section?

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I have long holding my peace. I have been still

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and refrained myself. Now will I cry like a travailing woman.

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I will destroy and devour at once? Okay, well, Ai

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calls this God breaks his silence and acts. Now. I

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like that God breaks his silence and act. But you

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can see why the previous section is kind of described

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as awakening, because there's like something is happening here that

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has not been happening. Yeah, this is all that new,

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that all that new thing. Right exactly, God breaks his

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silence and acts. For a long time, I've held my peace.

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Now we'll cry out like a woman in labor. God's

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restraint burst into decisive action. He's held back. He has

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restrained himself. But now everything is going to happen. The

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new thing is going to happen. The new thing is

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being identified here, right. Okay, this is verse that's verse fourteen.

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How about the third section is fifteen? What happens in fifteen? Okay,

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I know this, Yeah, the Lord's This is the Lord's

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power to transform. I will make waste mountains and hills,

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dry up all the herbs, and I will make the

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river islands, and I will dry up the pools. Once again,

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it's transformation. God's transforming, changing, removing, doing something. This has

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been talked about numerous times. All right, yeah, I think

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the third time he changes, he transforms, he does something.

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Nothing is going to stand in his way. Right, This

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is the Lord's power to transform. Then the next section

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is verse sixteen. What happens the verse sixteen? I will

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bring the blind by a way that they knew not.

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I will lead them in paths that they have not known.

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I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight.

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These things will I do unto them and not forsake them.

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Who's the them? The them, the them, the them those

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in Babylonian captivity again Babylonian captivity. This is guidance and

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restoration for the blind, which is very important because the

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servant is supposed to do what and verse seven all right,

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so yeah, but who's ultimately going to be doing God

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is going to be the one Once again, what is

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it demonstrating there's a servant, but who is the one empowering,

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who's the one acting? It's going to be God, God,

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all right, because he wants them to see him. He

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wants him to say, he wants Israel. He may be

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using Cyrus, but he wants them to see him, not Cyrus.

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He wants them to see him and not idols. Yeah,

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and now what happens the verse seventeen. They should be

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turned back, They should be greatly ashamed that trust and

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graven images and say to the multen images, ye are

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our gods. Once again, this is idolators will be shamed

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and rejected. That's the last section. Idolators will be shamed

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and rejected. So after once again, he's really emphasizing, guys,

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do not be don't give your worship, don't give your praise,

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don't give your don't give my glory, don't give my

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name to anybody else to any any idol to anything else.

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Make it about me. So this section goes from thirteen

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to seventeen. It's broken into five parts. The section itself

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is God declared Verus intervention in salvation. Verse thirteen is

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the first section. The Lord awakens as a warrior. Second

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verse fourteen, God breaks his silence and acts fifteen God's

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power to transform, sixteen guidance the restoration for the blind.

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Seventeen I dollar Trus will be shamed and rejected right now,

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all of a sudden, Verses eighteen to twenty five is

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the last section, eighteen to twenty five. What happens in

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eighteen to twenty five? Now look at it. What should

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we call this section? Well, everything comes down to identifying

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how to what to call eighteen to twenty five, and

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how you identify this servant that's mentioned in eighteen to

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twenty five. What is Ai convinced this servant is in

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eighteen to twenty five we talked about in the first

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hour Israel. So what do you think the section is

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going to be called? Rebuke of Israel? Yeah, rebuke of Israel. Right,

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so Ai is convinced on this, So it's gonna break

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this section down, guess what and how many parts? No,

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it goes with five again, A, A, B, C, D E. Right.

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It really wants to break these sections down verse by

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verse by verse. It really wants us to see everything

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happening in these sections. All right, So here we go,

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all right. Now, I don't like the fact this is

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where me and A and I, me and AI had

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our arguments. Is because it wants to identify this servant.

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So everybody look at eighteen to twenty five and tell

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me if there's an addenta. If Israel is mentioned by

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name in eighteen to twenty five, okay, Jacob is mentioned.

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Now does Jacob and Israel there reference back to the

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servant mentioned in nineteen Okay, not necessarily right, Oh, Sarah's

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really going in. I like it? Okay, okay't I like this?

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I like this. You see what's happening right here. What

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is Sarah doing right here? She's doing hermeneutics. She's not

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just repeating hermanutics. She's doing I like that. Okay. Now,

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I don't know if we will all agree or that's irrelevant.

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What are we doing. We're trying to work through the text, right,

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We're trying to be honest with the text. So I

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like this. I don't. Obviously Ai disagrees, right, There's a

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part of me that would like to say, well, there

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are two separate servants here, because almost everyone says that,

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so it's easy meat for me to fall into it.

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I like Sarah's idea. Well, why is it, it's just

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not the same servant just described in two different ways.

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He was pagan, he remained pagan, right, but death. Absolutely,

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that's a good argument. That's a really good argument. That's

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a good argument. So so not only is Sarah pope,

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now she's going to be the lead, the lead commentary

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in the church. Okay, so let's just say church is

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run by a woman. Okay, let's just say that. Okay,

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that'll make us really popular on the internet. Okay, I'm

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just the puppet. She just tells me what to say,

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and I just say what she wants me to say. Right,

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But that's actually there's actually some good work going on there.

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So let's work on this and see what happens. We're

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gonna go, We're gonna follow AI's path and then we

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can we'll bring in Sarah's idea as well. Right, So

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here we go. So I'm gonna just say this is

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how I don't like Ai. Even I disagree with Ai

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in this. It wants to call this section the rebuke

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of Israel. I don't like doing that because it identifies

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I'm just gonna say the rebuke of the blind and

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deaf servant. Does everybody agree with that? I like that,

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the rebuke of the blind and deaf servant. All right,

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it's gonna break it down into five sections. What happens

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in verse eighteen? Here ye death, and look ye blind

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that ye may see. Hear ye deaf, and look ye

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blind that ye may see. Do we believe that this

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is a reference to maybe Israel as a whole, Judah

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as a whole because it seems to be plural? Does

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it seem to be How does the NIV translate verse eighteen?

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It seems to be referring to more than one? Do

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we agree or not? Do?

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What?

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What do you think? My desire is to see it

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that way? But I could be wrong?

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Here?

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Is there anything grammatically there that would indicate so it

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could be interpreted, It could be read, and we could

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be right reading it singular or plural. Oh that's a

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good point, right? Does does anybody access the Blue Letter Bible?

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I don't know if it will give you any indication

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of if it's used as plural singular. I don't have

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access to it, so I don't know that's something. Maybe

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we'd have to really be getting technical there, and I

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don't have I don't have the ability to even ask

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ai right now? Should that be interpreted as a singular

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and plural? Because that that's very important? So uh, maybe

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this week I'll do I'll ask and see me? Right?

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So what is me? And it is interesting though it

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is kind of ironic the way it stated, here ye deaf,

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the deaf can hear right, look you blind? So it's

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kind of funny the way it's it's almost being said

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in a sarcastic way. Hey, let's in you deaf, say

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you blind? Right? But whoever is referencing, clearly what's the

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emphasis on the deaf and the blind? Right? But it

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is a dramatic change, right, because we just went from

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this praise, I'm gonna do a new thing. The Lord's

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gonna go out do all of this this powerful stuff,

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and then all of a sudden, here ye deaf and

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look ye blind. That you may see clearly the tone

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has changed. Can we all agree that the tone changes

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drastically in eighteen. Right, that's probably why AI is adamant

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that eighteen to twenty five should be its own segment,

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because the tone changes dramatically here, right, all right, So

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hear ye deaf, look ye blind that ye may see?

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Then it's the question is so verse eighteen is just

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the command to hear and see? Can we state it

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that way? Verse eighteen is just a command to hear

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and see? All right? Everybody like that. Now AI tries

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to offer interpretation here, but I'm not going to read it.

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So this is just a command to hear and see.

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I think everybody can see that, all right. Now, what

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happens in verse nineteen? Well, verse nineteen again AI wants

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to wants to interpret. AI is committed to interpreting this

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segment no matter what I do. All right, let's just

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read verse nineteen. See how we want to classify it.

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Who is blind but my servant or deaf as my

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messenger that I sent? Who is blind as he that

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is perfect and blind as the lord's servant? Whoa nineteen man? Okay, Now,

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remember we talked about earlier what was the most important verse?

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This one is very very important. Okay, this is a

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lot going on in nineteen. Okay. Ai drives me crazy

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because Ai goes all in on Israel here. Okay, So

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I'm going to say the blind and death. Sarah, do

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you think this is fair that eighteen is the command

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to hear and see? Nineteen identifies the blind and the death.

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The blind and death is identified in nineteen. Okay, I

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think that that's fair, right? Because who is blind? Right?

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The servant is blind? Now? Okay, So now let's there's

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a couple of identifiers of the servant in nineteen. Right,

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Let's look at all the identifiers of the servant in nineteen.

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They're blind and they're deaf. Is that identifier? In nineteen?

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They're blind and deaf? What else? Messing injure I said?

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Was Israel ever to be a messenger? That's interesting? Right?

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Sarah may be onto something here, right, Sarah may be

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on to something I don't ever see. Israel. Are you

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sending a message when you go in and kill everyone

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in the land. That doesn't sound like you're preaching a message,

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does it? Right? I'm coming to kill and you're not.

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They didn't even send notice that we're coming to kill,

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So I I don't know if they're okay. Next, whoa

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That one is what threw me off? How is the

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uh servant identified? And verses one through four sounds not

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I'm not not perfect but pretty close? Does it not?

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Sounds because perfect can just mean complete? And whom does

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that not? How he describes the servant and verses went

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through four. Yeah, we're just going through all everything in

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nineteen committed to me. Okay, okay, Well, if you continue

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reading all the descriptions there in nineteen, King James said,

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perfect just means complete, be sound. Yeah, just means to

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be complete, to be sound, not lacking anything. And if

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you look at the servant in verses one through four,

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it doesn't appear to be lacking anything. Does he No?

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Sounds very similar Okay, And it goes on to say

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my delight, he delights in.

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Okay, I thought nineteen said as well. Okay, all right,

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nineteen says perfect? What else does that any other descriptions

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the Lord's servant? Clearly we know that Cyrus is God's anointed,

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God's shepherd. I don't know here. So here's our options. Okay,

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here's our options. Okay. Clearly we can all agree that

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what is the one thing we can eliminate from verse nineteen.

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What is the one thing we can eliminate that verse

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nineteen is not referring to Can we say Jesus? Okay?

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Can we say Jesus? Right? Nineteen is not referring to Jesus?

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Can we agree to that? All? Right? So, so now

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we have two options. What are our two options? Israel

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or Cyrus? Now it would seem weird. Let me throw

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this out. Okay, I'm gonna throw this out. I know

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we're doing more interpretation here than we need to, but

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it's hard not to do this here because this verse

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is so crazy. If it's Israel, does it not seem weird?

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Because this is the book of comfort, This is the

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book of consolation, and this is all about telling them, Hey,

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my servant, I'm gonna do a new thing, sing a

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song of praise. I'm gonna take care of this, I'm

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gonna do this. I'm gonna be a warrior, I'm going

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to awake, I'm gonna destroy everything. And then all of

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a sudden it says, hey, guys, you're all blind deaf.

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But I do like Sarah's idea, at least in theory.

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As of right now, I can change my mind at

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anymore moment, Hey, this perfect servant. That's so because the

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whole thing leading up to this was God trying to

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stay guys, don't focus on anybody else, focus on me,

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to focus on me, right, And then all of a

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sudden it makes sense to say, hey, guys, that servant

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is blind and dumb, just like everyone else. Even though

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that blind and servant, even though that servant may be

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blind and dumb, look at it, he who is blind

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as he that is perfect and blind as the Lord's servant.

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So it's almost like saying, hey, this servant for now

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is that perfect referring? Is that a description? Wait? I'm

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reading that? How am I reading that? Hang on, let

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me think of that through Wait, who is blind but

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my servant or deaf as my messenger that I sent? Okay,

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who is blind but my servant? That is saying the

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servant is blind agreed, okay, or deaf as my messenger

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that I sent. That is saying that the messenger that

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he sent is deaf? Agreed? Who is blind as he

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that is perfect? Is as saying that the one that

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is perfect is blind? Right? Okay? I just I didn't

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want to I wanted to make sure we weren't reading

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this like the blind and deaf is different from the

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messenger and different from the perfect one? Right, yeah, okay,

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read it, read n IV and verse nineteen. Just read

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the whole thing. Okay, there we go. Okay, so they

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identifies Okay, the NIV identifies it. You see how I

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was what I was starting to think. I was starting

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to think, well, wait a minute, is that saying who

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is blind could unlike my messenger who is who I sent? Right?

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But no, it's just saying the same thing. So the

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one who's perfect and the one I sent is also blind,

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and that right there is already hard to process. Right,

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how can someone be perfect but be blind and death?

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That doesn't sound like you're perfect? Right? Well? Remember perfect

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just means complete, right, So but again, even that is weird.

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How can you be perfect and sound if you're also

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blind and deaf? It's very confusing. But I think Sarah's right.

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There's two aspects. I think there's two aspects to Cyrus. Right.

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On one hand, he's all he's described in all these

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magnificent ways, right, God's messenger, God's anointed, god shepherd, God's servant.

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All right, all those all the things that says in

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verse one, what elect chose chosen? I delight in all

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these one He's almost described. I mean, I'm not I know,

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I don't want to reach, but almost perfect in the

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sense of he's gonna accomplish everything God tells him to accomplish.

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He's gonna do everything. I think he even says that

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in verses what one through four He's going to accomplish everything, right,

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nothing's gonna stop him. But yet at the same time,

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forty of forty two, when you get down to nineteen,

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I think is saying, but this servant is also what

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bl and death, which makes sense because he remained what

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a pagan? He remained a pagan doing the will of God.

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He was blind and deaf doing the will of God.

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And why was he doing the will of God? Because

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God was working through him. So don't look to the

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blind and deaf servant? Who should you look to God?

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Which is what the all the section before it was about, correct,

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I liked, is there anything I'm missing there from a

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grammatical standpoint that we could be wrong? All right? Are

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you sure? Okay? Now? What I will do? Just so

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that we know I'm gonna I know, we're kind of

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doing more interpretation here this week. I'm gonna I will

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present this interpretation to AI. See if AI will what

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it will do. We're probably gonna fight all week, but

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I will try to. I will try to tell you

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how it's going going. If we had internet, I would

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do it right now. But yeah, yeah, this is a

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very important concept here, right, So, just so that everyone's

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on the same page, I'm gonna go with Sarah's hypotheses.

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We're gonna call it Sarah's hypothesis is that the servant

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in nineteen is the same servant in verses one through four,

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and as perfect and as committed as that servant is,

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that servant at the very same time is blind and

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deaf at the exact same time. It seems contradictory, but

459
00:31:28.119 --> 00:31:32.160
it fits history perfectly, because the one who's called God's

460
00:31:32.200 --> 00:31:36.319
anointed his shepherd, all these I mean, when you see

461
00:31:36.319 --> 00:31:38.839
some of the descriptions given to Cyrus, you almost think

462
00:31:38.880 --> 00:31:42.880
it's referring to Jesus, right, You're like, man, Cyrus is

463
00:31:43.200 --> 00:31:46.319
he's my chosen I delight in him. It sounds like Jesus,

464
00:31:46.440 --> 00:31:49.759
But it's not. It's Cyrus. Because history tells us that. Well,

465
00:31:49.799 --> 00:31:58.160
then he's also deaf and blind, I think, yeah, which

466
00:31:58.160 --> 00:32:01.680
reinforces the whole section in betwe So in between the

467
00:32:01.759 --> 00:32:05.400
two servants is what God's like. Guys, focus on me.

468
00:32:06.039 --> 00:32:09.440
I'm doing this. I'm doing this why because this servant

469
00:32:09.519 --> 00:32:14.799
is nothing more than deaf and blind. That's pretty powerful

470
00:32:14.839 --> 00:32:18.279
and it puts it all together. No church on earth

471
00:32:18.319 --> 00:32:22.279
would agree with us on this. Okay, where we've left.

472
00:32:22.319 --> 00:32:25.359
The road, went through the fence, hit, a couple of cows,

473
00:32:25.440 --> 00:32:28.839
went over, the cliff crashed to the bottom, the mountain

474
00:32:28.839 --> 00:32:32.039
fell on top. This would be considered a hermoneutical train

475
00:32:32.079 --> 00:32:34.960
wreck anywhere else. But I believe we're being pretty consistent

476
00:32:35.000 --> 00:32:38.680
with the text. So I'm glad. I'm really I'm excited

477
00:32:38.680 --> 00:32:42.319
to work on this. All right. So we have the

478
00:32:42.400 --> 00:32:45.200
blind and deaf servant and verse nineteen. I'm not gonna

479
00:32:45.200 --> 00:32:48.000
say anything else about verse nineteen other than we have

480
00:32:48.039 --> 00:32:49.920
the blind and deaf servant. Can we agree with that?

481
00:32:50.640 --> 00:32:51.200
All right? Now?

482
00:32:51.200 --> 00:33:08.279
What do we have in verse twenty?

483
00:33:08.400 --> 00:33:13.519
Yeah, seeing many things, but thou observest not opening the years,

484
00:33:13.680 --> 00:33:18.759
but he heareth not. I don't what do we call

485
00:33:18.839 --> 00:33:20.319
verse twenty? What do you want to call verse twenty?

486
00:33:20.400 --> 00:33:26.680
We have perception without what whether maybe understanding? Does it

487
00:33:26.759 --> 00:33:31.440
one like that? Perception without understanding? The cyrus really understand

488
00:33:31.440 --> 00:33:34.680
what's going on now at times? And ezra Wan he

489
00:33:34.720 --> 00:33:37.240
sounds like he has some understanding, but he clearly if

490
00:33:37.279 --> 00:33:39.960
he's still a pagan, he doesn't have complete understanding, right

491
00:33:40.440 --> 00:33:42.480
because if he was, if he had complete understanding, he

492
00:33:42.480 --> 00:33:48.960
would do what believe in the true God. So do

493
00:33:49.000 --> 00:33:51.920
you think that? Continues describing the servant in verse nineteen,

494
00:33:53.680 --> 00:33:57.039
And notice what it says in verse twenty seeing many things,

495
00:33:57.079 --> 00:34:00.319
but thou observest not opening the years, but he fareth

496
00:34:00.440 --> 00:34:06.759
not now that he seems more singular there, right, all right,

497
00:34:06.799 --> 00:34:10.000
So I'm gonna say perception without understanding what happens in

498
00:34:10.079 --> 00:34:20.519
verses twenty one through twenty two. The Lord is well

499
00:34:20.559 --> 00:34:25.400
please for his righteousness sake. It will magnify the law

500
00:34:25.440 --> 00:34:28.880
and make it honorable. But this is a people robbed

501
00:34:28.920 --> 00:34:32.079
and spoiled. They are all them snared in holes, they

502
00:34:32.079 --> 00:34:34.840
are all hid in prison houses. They are for a prey,

503
00:34:35.159 --> 00:34:39.039
and none delivereth for a spoil, and none saith restore

504
00:34:39.239 --> 00:34:43.880
Now verse twenty one and twenty two. Man hurts my head? Okay,

505
00:34:44.280 --> 00:34:47.840
Now what is significant about verse twenty two. Sarah, what

506
00:34:47.880 --> 00:34:50.920
do you think is significant about verse twenty two. I'm

507
00:34:51.000 --> 00:34:57.599
kind of working her hypotheses here. Wait, yeah, it would

508
00:34:57.639 --> 00:35:00.400
make weird the servant as Israel, then all of a

509
00:35:00.440 --> 00:35:03.239
sudden in twenty two, you're no longer referring to the servant.

510
00:35:03.519 --> 00:35:08.960
You separate the people from whom the servant. Well, that

511
00:35:09.000 --> 00:35:12.559
means the people and the servant wouldn't be the same. Oh,

512
00:35:12.599 --> 00:35:17.920
that may be a strong argument for Sarah's point. That

513
00:35:18.000 --> 00:35:22.360
may be a strong argument, just like we talked about

514
00:35:23.159 --> 00:35:29.159
separating the way it talked about the previous servant. Right,

515
00:35:29.199 --> 00:35:31.320
if the previous servant is Jesus, and then God comes

516
00:35:31.360 --> 00:35:33.119
along and says, I'm not going to give my glory

517
00:35:33.159 --> 00:35:35.639
to But that doesn't sound like Jesus. Right. Well, here,

518
00:35:36.039 --> 00:35:38.000
if the servant is Israel, then why does all of

519
00:35:38.039 --> 00:35:41.320
a sudden it switches to the people. Well, who's the

520
00:35:41.360 --> 00:35:44.119
people Israel? Well, if the servant is Israel, then why

521
00:35:44.159 --> 00:35:46.800
did you just switch? Why would you not just continue

522
00:35:46.800 --> 00:35:55.039
calling them the servant? Right? Makes no sense. Sarah may

523
00:35:55.079 --> 00:35:58.519
be onto something here, She may have figured this out

524
00:35:58.559 --> 00:36:01.079
in an interesting way. So what do we call those

525
00:36:01.119 --> 00:36:17.960
twenty one through twenty two? The Lord is well pleased

526
00:36:18.039 --> 00:36:20.960
for his righteousness sake, he will magnify the law and

527
00:36:21.000 --> 00:36:29.840
make it honorable. Yeah. I don't know what's happening there now.

528
00:36:32.239 --> 00:36:37.480
I think it says maybe it just says God is

529
00:36:37.840 --> 00:36:39.920
the way some would try to understand this. The Lord

530
00:36:39.960 --> 00:36:42.800
is pleased to magnify the law, make it honorable, like

531
00:36:43.199 --> 00:36:45.679
that's what he's pleased to do. God is going to

532
00:36:45.719 --> 00:36:48.760
magnify his law, make it honorable. Well, God will ultimately

533
00:36:48.800 --> 00:36:53.599
do that, But is he pleased for his righteousness sake?

534
00:36:54.079 --> 00:36:57.440
And the servant? Is he pleased just to magnify the law?

535
00:36:57.679 --> 00:36:59.599
Is he going to magnify the law through the servant?

536
00:37:00.159 --> 00:37:01.920
Is it going to make it honorable through the servant?

537
00:37:05.719 --> 00:37:30.119
Okay, eighty that's oh that's weird, that's interesting.

538
00:37:32.360 --> 00:37:35.519
Yeah yeah yeah, but it's sure what the translators are

539
00:37:35.519 --> 00:37:41.320
trying to indicate there. Okay, So I don't know what

540
00:37:41.360 --> 00:37:45.280
we call this session. Okay, I know this. I don't

541
00:37:45.280 --> 00:37:48.000
know what to call verse twenty one, but verse twenty two,

542
00:37:48.360 --> 00:37:51.280
but this is a people clearly verse twenty two is

543
00:37:51.280 --> 00:37:54.159
Israel's failure. Can we agree that twenty twenty two is

544
00:37:54.159 --> 00:37:56.320
Israel's failure? I don't know what to do with twenty one?

545
00:37:56.559 --> 00:38:00.480
God's God, God being pleased and Israel's fail I don't

546
00:38:00.519 --> 00:38:03.320
know what we call this God being pleased in Israel's failure.

547
00:38:03.400 --> 00:38:08.480
All right, but God, God is pleased to douce in

548
00:38:08.559 --> 00:38:11.280
his righteous sake, and he's going to magnify the law

549
00:38:11.320 --> 00:38:16.400
and he's gonna make it honorable. But guess what, Israel

550
00:38:16.800 --> 00:38:21.199
fails big time? All right, because what is Israel done?

551
00:38:21.320 --> 00:38:25.400
But this is a people. Now, this people clearly is Israel.

552
00:38:25.440 --> 00:38:28.320
There's no question about that, right or Judah? These people

553
00:38:28.320 --> 00:38:35.119
did what number one? Oh, this is a people robbed Okay, good, okay,

554
00:38:35.199 --> 00:38:39.039
good point. So first, it's describing their condition. This is

555
00:38:39.079 --> 00:38:42.400
a robbed and spoiled people. Thank you, thank you. They

556
00:38:42.400 --> 00:38:45.760
are all of them snared in holes and they are

557
00:38:45.840 --> 00:38:48.360
hid in prison houses. They are for a prey and

558
00:38:48.440 --> 00:38:51.800
none delivereth for a spoil and none saith restore. Okay,

559
00:38:51.960 --> 00:38:56.440
I think, yeah, this is not this is not really

560
00:38:56.440 --> 00:39:03.679
their failure describing their condition. Yeah, I don't lie. Okay,

561
00:39:03.800 --> 00:39:06.199
I apologize because I kind of was kind of going

562
00:39:06.239 --> 00:39:08.840
with almost like this is describing their failure. It's not

563
00:39:08.880 --> 00:39:11.440
describing them as a failure. It's just well, I guess

564
00:39:11.440 --> 00:39:13.800
their failure is no one says restore. They don't seem

565
00:39:13.840 --> 00:39:16.400
to be calling out for God to do anything. It's

566
00:39:16.400 --> 00:39:20.519
almost like they've given up, right, But there it's more

567
00:39:20.599 --> 00:39:25.840
about their condition, Israel's current state. So this is about

568
00:39:25.880 --> 00:39:29.119
God being well pleased and the state of them. And

569
00:39:29.199 --> 00:39:31.840
we could say, though at the very end and none

570
00:39:31.840 --> 00:39:34.880
saith restore, it does there is a failure for them

571
00:39:34.920 --> 00:39:37.280
to seem to be they've stopped calling on God. They've

572
00:39:37.360 --> 00:39:40.400
kind of given up there, right, Do you see that

573
00:39:42.679 --> 00:39:48.320
and none saith restore? Or is it referring that no

574
00:39:48.360 --> 00:39:52.000
one else has called for them to be restored? Oh okay,

575
00:39:52.039 --> 00:40:00.719
well then that okay, okay, oh right, okay, yeah, and

576
00:40:00.719 --> 00:40:03.679
nobody is coming to help them. Okay, I like that. Okay,

577
00:40:03.800 --> 00:40:06.880
that's a better way. So then my thinking was completely

578
00:40:06.920 --> 00:40:09.679
wrong here, So just ignore everything I was going to say.

579
00:40:10.039 --> 00:40:13.840
Let's just go with the concept that this verses twenty

580
00:40:13.880 --> 00:40:16.840
one to twenty two God is pleased and what he's

581
00:40:16.920 --> 00:40:21.960
going to do and he ignow and it describes Israel's condition.

582
00:40:23.159 --> 00:40:27.760
Is that is that fair? All? Right? Even Ai tried

583
00:40:27.760 --> 00:40:29.920
to go with Israel's failure here, but I agree there's

584
00:40:29.920 --> 00:40:31.880
no there's no failure here. I'm telling you. I'm telling you.

585
00:40:31.920 --> 00:40:34.639
Ai had so many problems with this chapter. It was

586
00:40:34.679 --> 00:40:37.960
like a mess, like I don't know what went wrong here,

587
00:40:38.000 --> 00:40:41.000
but this chapter was difficult for everyone involved. All right,

588
00:40:41.320 --> 00:40:43.960
now this brings us to twenty three through twenty five.

589
00:40:44.039 --> 00:40:45.800
What do we have in twenty three through twenty five?

590
00:40:57.679 --> 00:41:02.960
All right? Now, here's clearly speaking about Israel. Do you agree?

591
00:41:03.239 --> 00:41:10.360
Twenty three through twenty five? Who among you? Well, who's

592
00:41:10.440 --> 00:41:13.280
the who among you? The you has to be Israel? Right,

593
00:41:13.360 --> 00:41:17.000
Judah will give ear to this? Who will hearken and

594
00:41:17.119 --> 00:41:20.639
hear for the time to come? Who's going to listen

595
00:41:20.639 --> 00:41:23.679
to all of this? Who gave Jacob for a spoil?

596
00:41:23.800 --> 00:41:27.199
And Israel to the robbers? Did not the Lord he

597
00:41:27.400 --> 00:41:30.239
against whom we have sinned, For they would not walk

598
00:41:30.280 --> 00:41:35.079
in his ways? Neither they were they? Neither there there

599
00:41:35.079 --> 00:41:38.920
were they obedient unto the law. Neither were they obedient

600
00:41:39.000 --> 00:41:42.199
unto the law. All right, Therefore hath poured upon him

601
00:41:42.239 --> 00:41:45.000
the fury of his anger and strength of battle, and

602
00:41:45.039 --> 00:41:48.760
it has sent set him on fire roundabout. Yet he

603
00:41:48.840 --> 00:41:51.960
knew not, and it burned him. Yet he laid it

604
00:41:52.039 --> 00:41:57.119
not to heart. So clearly twenty three through twenty five

605
00:41:57.519 --> 00:42:01.519
is about God's judgment on Israel. Can we agree to that?

606
00:42:10.639 --> 00:42:13.840
But modis once again, when it refers to Israel in

607
00:42:13.840 --> 00:42:15.760
twenty three through twenty five, they're not referred to as

608
00:42:15.760 --> 00:42:19.920
a servant. And then when they when the when it

609
00:42:19.920 --> 00:42:22.679
talks about this is a people robbed and talks about

610
00:42:22.679 --> 00:42:25.039
their condition in twenty two, doesn't refer to them as

611
00:42:25.039 --> 00:42:28.079
a sermon. So why is the servant supposedly Israel? And

612
00:42:28.119 --> 00:42:31.599
then it abandons that and then talks about Israel in

613
00:42:31.760 --> 00:42:37.199
completely separate ways from the If the servant metaphor, if

614
00:42:37.199 --> 00:42:42.360
the servants descriptor is referring to Israel, it makes no

615
00:42:42.400 --> 00:42:44.960
sense to abandon that description when you're gonna literally talk

616
00:42:44.960 --> 00:42:51.679
about Israel starting in verse specifically, and versus twenty two

617
00:42:51.760 --> 00:42:59.559
all the way to twenty five makes no sense. Oh yeah,

618
00:42:59.559 --> 00:43:02.360
he clear is explaining why they're in judgment. He's clearly

619
00:43:02.400 --> 00:43:09.639
explaining what has happened to them clearly. All right, now

620
00:43:11.440 --> 00:43:17.679
we're just gonna look at this quickly, all right, right now,

621
00:43:19.519 --> 00:43:23.559
AI tried to do a side by side comparison of

622
00:43:23.599 --> 00:43:29.679
the two servants, right, but it already had a in

623
00:43:29.880 --> 00:43:35.199
its mind the first servant and the second servant are different,

624
00:43:36.280 --> 00:43:39.280
and AI tries to argue that the second servant is

625
00:43:39.320 --> 00:43:43.039
whom Israel. So I'm gonna show you how Ai tried

626
00:43:43.079 --> 00:43:45.400
to make its argument. And it will see if it

627
00:43:45.440 --> 00:43:49.280
convinces Sarah, if it agrees or disagrees. I think it's

628
00:43:49.400 --> 00:43:51.519
it's ice of Jesus. I think it's reading it upon

629
00:43:51.599 --> 00:43:56.119
the text, right, because we've already seen textually. I'm like, no, no, no, no,

630
00:43:55.960 --> 00:44:00.400
no no. If the servant in verse nineteen is Israel,

631
00:44:00.440 --> 00:44:03.760
then it would follow that using that same descriptor all

632
00:44:03.800 --> 00:44:06.760
the way through, not all of a sudden. Now refer

633
00:44:06.840 --> 00:44:09.719
to them as the people makes them sense, refer to

634
00:44:09.800 --> 00:44:15.760
them as Jacob. So all right, here we go. So first,

635
00:44:15.960 --> 00:44:19.760
the servant in verses one through four. All right, this

636
00:44:19.840 --> 00:44:22.800
is how, this is how AI identifies it. It made

637
00:44:22.840 --> 00:44:27.760
a chart. It made a chart here a distinct individual spirit, fielled, chosen,

638
00:44:27.840 --> 00:44:30.920
delighted in by God. Can we agree that that's how

639
00:44:30.920 --> 00:44:33.559
it's identified? All right? Now, look what it does to

640
00:44:33.599 --> 00:44:38.199
the second servant Verses eighteen to twenty five. You ready,

641
00:44:38.920 --> 00:44:43.159
Ai just jumps immediately corporate Israel, God's chosen people. Now

642
00:44:43.199 --> 00:44:46.880
blind and death. But where did it get that? It's

643
00:44:46.920 --> 00:44:52.719
God's corporate Israel that's being imported onto the text? So

644
00:44:52.760 --> 00:44:57.039
we can we say that the second servant is blind

645
00:44:57.079 --> 00:45:01.159
and death. That's all we can get, right, eighteen through

646
00:45:01.159 --> 00:45:03.639
twenty five? Does it identify that servant is being chosen

647
00:45:03.639 --> 00:45:05.920
in eighteen to twenty five? I don't think. Well, the

648
00:45:05.920 --> 00:45:10.719
servant's only described in verse nineteen, right, it's only described

649
00:45:10.760 --> 00:45:15.679
in nineteen. Oh, that's twenty one is about the servant? Right? Okay?

650
00:45:16.239 --> 00:45:22.840
But all right, next Isaiah? Okay, now here we go. Now,

651
00:45:23.480 --> 00:45:28.000
this is what AI gives us supporting scriptures. Are you ready?

652
00:45:28.360 --> 00:45:37.679
Go to Isaiah forty nine one through six? Isaiah forty

653
00:45:37.800 --> 00:45:40.079
nine one through six. Tell me what you see there?

654
00:45:45.599 --> 00:45:47.360
Isaiah forty nine one through six.

655
00:45:51.480 --> 00:46:14.880
Okay, right, reform thee from the womb to be a

656
00:46:14.920 --> 00:46:16.719
servant to bring Jacob again to him.

657
00:46:18.760 --> 00:46:21.639
Now Here, clearly in verse five is separating the servant

658
00:46:21.679 --> 00:46:25.840
from Israel? Is it not? Okay? It is clearly okay?

659
00:46:26.079 --> 00:46:26.280
Right.

660
00:46:26.519 --> 00:46:30.840
So now my question is, though, why would someone go

661
00:46:30.880 --> 00:46:33.960
to forty nine and connect that to forty two? AI

662
00:46:34.159 --> 00:46:37.239
tries to connect forty nine to forty two. Now, okay,

663
00:46:37.239 --> 00:46:39.920
everybody got this. Everybody see forty nine one through six.

664
00:46:40.719 --> 00:46:47.000
Everybody see it. Six should be a light to the gentiles?

665
00:46:47.000 --> 00:46:51.320
All right? Does that sound like forty two one through four?

666
00:46:52.039 --> 00:46:57.960
So a little bit right? Because forty two four talks

667
00:46:58.000 --> 00:47:01.639
about judgment to the that seems different than like to

668
00:47:01.679 --> 00:47:04.719
the gentiles, says it. Not all right? But now go

669
00:47:04.840 --> 00:47:18.599
to Matthew twelve Okay, same words. Okay, Now go to

670
00:47:18.719 --> 00:47:30.400
Matthew twelve seventeen through twenty one. Matthew twelve seventeen through

671
00:47:30.440 --> 00:47:32.480
twenty one. This is what I told you. Everyone was

672
00:47:32.480 --> 00:47:37.920
already typing out emails to me. Matthew twelve seventeen through

673
00:47:37.960 --> 00:47:43.000
twenty one. All right, tell me what we see there.

674
00:47:43.320 --> 00:47:45.440
You look at it. I better just read it because

675
00:47:45.440 --> 00:47:47.559
I'm gonna get nine hundred I'm gonna get emails, and

676
00:47:47.559 --> 00:47:52.000
people are gonna be yelling at me, right, And I

677
00:47:52.039 --> 00:47:56.639
appreciate you guys letting us work through this before just

678
00:47:56.679 --> 00:47:59.280
saying well what about this? What about this? Okay, you're

679
00:47:59.320 --> 00:48:01.880
letting me act. That's the only way we can do

680
00:48:01.920 --> 00:48:03.880
hermonutics is we got to work through it. Okay. I

681
00:48:03.920 --> 00:48:07.719
always get back to the other stuff, right, Matthew twelve

682
00:48:08.559 --> 00:48:14.719
seventeen through twenty one. All right, so this that it

683
00:48:14.920 --> 00:48:20.559
might be fulfilled, which was spoken by Isaiah the Prophet, saying, behold,

684
00:48:20.599 --> 00:48:23.960
my servant, whom I have chosen, my beloved, in whom

685
00:48:24.000 --> 00:48:26.480
my soul is well, Please, I will put my spirit

686
00:48:26.599 --> 00:48:30.880
upon him. He shall he shall show judgment to the gentiles.

687
00:48:31.159 --> 00:48:34.679
He shall not strive nor cry. Neither shall any man

688
00:48:34.760 --> 00:48:37.719
hear his voice in the street a bruise read, shall

689
00:48:37.760 --> 00:48:40.920
he not break a smoking flax? Shall he not quench

690
00:48:41.239 --> 00:48:45.559
till he send forth judgment onto victory. And in the

691
00:48:45.679 --> 00:48:48.800
name and in his name shall the gentiles trust. Now

692
00:48:48.800 --> 00:48:51.760
that's a little different the way it's worded. We could

693
00:48:51.760 --> 00:48:54.199
get into is it referring to the septuagen or for

694
00:48:54.280 --> 00:48:56.360
the masoretic text. I'm not going to get into all

695
00:48:56.400 --> 00:49:03.320
of that. But who is that referring to? In Matthew

696
00:49:03.400 --> 00:49:13.440
twelve seventeen through twenty one. Okay, where do you see that?

697
00:49:16.760 --> 00:49:20.519
Fifteen or sixteen? But when Jesus knew it, he withdrew

698
00:49:20.599 --> 00:49:23.760
himself from thence, and great multitudes followed him, and he

699
00:49:23.760 --> 00:49:26.400
healed them all, and he charged them that they should

700
00:49:26.440 --> 00:49:30.239
not make him known, that it might be fulfilled, which

701
00:49:30.400 --> 00:49:34.440
was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, is that saying Jesus

702
00:49:34.519 --> 00:49:47.679
is the fulfillment of this? Or is it simply saying

703
00:49:48.280 --> 00:49:54.199
that when that the Messiah's gentleness was just as had

704
00:49:54.239 --> 00:49:58.000
been prophesied, and also that the gentiles would include in

705
00:49:58.039 --> 00:50:03.159
his blessing. Is it just saying Jesus is that Jesus

706
00:50:03.280 --> 00:50:08.920
is like he has the same characteristics as what's being

707
00:50:08.960 --> 00:50:12.559
described in forty two Or do you immediately say, well,

708
00:50:12.559 --> 00:50:15.320
that text is saying forty two is only about Jesus.

709
00:50:15.679 --> 00:50:20.920
Could it not be about both? Right? Because if it's

710
00:50:20.960 --> 00:50:23.840
only about Jesus, that is of no value to the

711
00:50:23.840 --> 00:50:30.400
people in Babylonian captivity. Zero none, right, right, it has none. Now,

712
00:50:30.760 --> 00:50:33.920
I think it's simply saying, as the servant was in

713
00:50:34.000 --> 00:50:41.639
forty two, so is Jesus. It's the same characteristics, He's

714
00:50:41.679 --> 00:50:49.639
gonna do same things. Cyrus is the historical or let

715
00:50:49.639 --> 00:50:56.559
me say Cyrus is the historical shadow, right, Jesus is

716
00:50:56.599 --> 00:51:02.360
the reality, the ultimate fulfillment what Cyrus was in shadow

717
00:51:02.559 --> 00:51:07.480
or what Cyrus was in picture, Jesus is the fulfillment

718
00:51:07.559 --> 00:51:10.920
of But I don't think that means we go back

719
00:51:10.920 --> 00:51:13.280
to forty two and just say it's only about Jesus,

720
00:51:13.320 --> 00:51:16.440
which is what every preacher does because it makes no sense,

721
00:51:17.159 --> 00:51:21.760
and especially not if what Sarah is saying that when

722
00:51:21.800 --> 00:51:24.239
you get further down in forty two, that same servant

723
00:51:24.320 --> 00:51:30.280
is called deaf and blind, and clearly then it's not Jesus.

724
00:51:30.599 --> 00:51:40.159
All right, everybody got that. Now the cross reference that

725
00:51:40.480 --> 00:51:44.079
AI wants to give about the servant in forty one

726
00:51:44.199 --> 00:51:48.119
eight through nine or later on in forty two. All right,

727
00:51:48.559 --> 00:51:52.360
So if you go to forty one, look in forty

728
00:51:52.360 --> 00:51:54.119
one eight through nine, look at chapter forty one, eight

729
00:51:54.199 --> 00:52:04.639
through nine. Go to forty one, eight through nine. First, okay,

730
00:52:04.920 --> 00:52:08.199
so you see why AI tries to quote this, but

731
00:52:08.280 --> 00:52:11.800
because hey see, Israel's God servant. But that doesn't mean that.

732
00:52:11.880 --> 00:52:15.239
Then in forty two that second servant in verse what

733
00:52:15.400 --> 00:52:19.000
nineteen should be Israel because forty two to one says servant,

734
00:52:19.000 --> 00:52:21.880
and we don't make that Israel. So that's a horrible

735
00:52:21.920 --> 00:52:25.159
cross reference. So that doesn't prove anything. All right, However,

736
00:52:27.119 --> 00:52:31.519
forty look at forty three, forty three, eight and ten.

737
00:52:43.800 --> 00:52:47.840
Does it talk about being blind and deaf? Yeah, it's

738
00:52:47.880 --> 00:52:50.239
not referring to the servant. So that's not another that

739
00:52:50.280 --> 00:52:53.159
cross reference to I guess what they're trying to say, Well,

740
00:52:53.320 --> 00:52:55.400
the blind and deaf they're in eight and ten. If

741
00:52:55.400 --> 00:52:58.280
that's the people, then the servant in forty two who's

742
00:52:58.280 --> 00:53:02.599
blind and deaf is Israel. That being a cross reference

743
00:53:03.039 --> 00:53:05.400
because Israel's referred to as blind and death multiple times,

744
00:53:05.440 --> 00:53:08.280
it doesn't mean that that makes the servant Israel. Does

745
00:53:08.280 --> 00:53:15.960
that make sense? All right? How about Deuteronomy twenty nine four? Yeah,

746
00:53:16.039 --> 00:53:27.840
Deuteronomy twenty nine to four? What do you having? Blind

747
00:53:27.880 --> 00:53:30.320
to death? So I guess what what Ai tries to

748
00:53:30.360 --> 00:53:32.960
do here is like, hey, Israel's referred to him blind

749
00:53:33.000 --> 00:53:35.480
and death in multiple cases. And I will agree that

750
00:53:35.519 --> 00:53:38.960
it does. But just because Israel's described as blind and

751
00:53:39.000 --> 00:53:42.599
death multiple times doesn't mean that I just immediately go

752
00:53:42.719 --> 00:53:44.920
to forty two and say, well, this servant has to

753
00:53:44.960 --> 00:53:49.239
be Israel then, because I would also actually argue that

754
00:53:49.519 --> 00:53:52.639
it describes the servant and then later on it refers

755
00:53:52.639 --> 00:53:55.760
to the people by a completely different descriptor and doesn't

756
00:53:55.760 --> 00:53:58.079
refer to the people as the servant. It refers to

757
00:53:58.119 --> 00:54:02.639
the people as the people. So that that doesn't that

758
00:54:02.679 --> 00:54:06.119
cross reference doesn't help me at all, all right. Next,

759
00:54:07.639 --> 00:54:10.800
Ai says that the servant in forty two one through four,

760
00:54:11.039 --> 00:54:14.760
whom I have, whom I uphold, my chosen, and whom

761
00:54:14.800 --> 00:54:18.559
my soul delights. We've already talked about that, Okay. The

762
00:54:18.639 --> 00:54:22.159
other servant who is blind, but my who is blind,

763
00:54:22.159 --> 00:54:26.119
but my servant, he sees many things but does not observe. Okay,

764
00:54:26.119 --> 00:54:28.760
we've talked about that. We got no problem with any

765
00:54:28.800 --> 00:54:31.960
of that. That's just telling us what's there on this

766
00:54:32.079 --> 00:54:34.119
servant in forty two one through four. I've put my

767
00:54:34.199 --> 00:54:39.360
spirit upon him. The servant in Isaiah forty two or

768
00:54:39.480 --> 00:54:43.320
later on verses eighteen and following, no empowerment marked by

769
00:54:43.400 --> 00:54:50.039
spiritual and sensitivity and rebellion. Okay, well, it's it's definitely

770
00:54:50.079 --> 00:54:55.800
marked by there's no empowerment mentioned, and clearly it's mentioned

771
00:54:55.840 --> 00:54:59.079
by not maybe being able to perceive is blind and death.

772
00:54:59.159 --> 00:55:03.719
But okay, don't again, that's nothing that makes that Israel.

773
00:55:04.039 --> 00:55:06.480
The servant in forty two one through four, he will

774
00:55:06.480 --> 00:55:12.159
bring forth justice to the nations. The servant later on

775
00:55:12.239 --> 00:55:18.800
in forty two, no mission fulfilled. I guess I don't know.

776
00:55:19.000 --> 00:55:22.000
It goes on to say suffers judgment in exile, but

777
00:55:22.079 --> 00:55:24.239
I don't know. I don't think the servant is described

778
00:55:24.239 --> 00:55:28.840
as suffering, judgment and exile the people are says, it's

779
00:55:28.960 --> 00:55:32.000
just assuming that the servant is the people, and it

780
00:55:32.039 --> 00:55:36.000
doesn't explain that. So it goes on and I mean

781
00:55:36.039 --> 00:55:39.280
it's a long chart. It's a long chart, but I mean, well, yeah,

782
00:55:39.320 --> 00:55:41.840
it goes on forever. But none of that. It's not

783
00:55:41.880 --> 00:55:44.440
gonna help us. Bottom line is it's not gonna help

784
00:55:44.519 --> 00:55:48.360
us because Ai is just absolutely convinced that the second

785
00:55:48.360 --> 00:55:54.440
servant is whom Israel, and everything that follows after it

786
00:55:54.880 --> 00:55:58.599
they apply to the servant meaning that it's Israel. So

787
00:55:59.159 --> 00:56:02.760
there's the charge becomes meaningless at that point. It's just

788
00:56:02.880 --> 00:56:10.320
it's convinced of it. All right. So yeah, there's a

789
00:56:10.360 --> 00:56:14.599
lot more here I could go into, but we won't

790
00:56:14.639 --> 00:56:19.679
do it right now. All right, So what do we

791
00:56:19.760 --> 00:56:23.760
have to work on then? Before we really can take

792
00:56:23.760 --> 00:56:26.559
the chapter apart? We're really kind of stuck with two things.

793
00:56:26.960 --> 00:56:31.920
What are we stuck with? We're stuck with a chapter

794
00:56:31.960 --> 00:56:35.239
that mentions two servants, and we emphatically have to do

795
00:56:35.320 --> 00:56:38.760
what to understand this chapter? In fact, the only interpretive

796
00:56:38.800 --> 00:56:40.480
thing that you really have to figure out in this

797
00:56:40.559 --> 00:56:44.519
chapter is what who is the identity of the two servants?

798
00:56:44.840 --> 00:56:48.679
All right, and in all three cases are on all

799
00:56:48.679 --> 00:56:53.239
two cases we have three options? Right, So forty so servants,

800
00:56:53.320 --> 00:56:55.119
So you may want to write down this chapter of

801
00:56:55.159 --> 00:56:56.840
two servants. That's what you need to get from this.

802
00:56:56.880 --> 00:56:59.400
It's the chapter of two servants and everything else we've

803
00:56:59.440 --> 00:57:01.559
kind of walked through. We don't have any problems the

804
00:57:01.599 --> 00:57:04.639
two servants. We really come down to three options, all right,

805
00:57:04.880 --> 00:57:07.440
the servant in chapter forty two one through four, what

806
00:57:07.559 --> 00:57:15.559
are your three options? Go forty two one through four?

807
00:57:15.760 --> 00:57:18.880
What are the three options for who the servant is?

808
00:57:20.119 --> 00:57:26.639
Christ Israel or Cyrus? Christ Israel or Cyrus? Those are

809
00:57:26.679 --> 00:57:31.800
our three options? Okay, everybody got it? For forty two

810
00:57:31.840 --> 00:57:33.719
one through four. The one that seems the most easiest

811
00:57:33.760 --> 00:57:41.519
to remove, No, forty two one through four Israel. Right.

812
00:57:42.519 --> 00:57:44.960
I can't say it's easy to remove Jesus since Matthew

813
00:57:45.000 --> 00:57:47.519
twelve connects it to Jesus. Right, So it's going to

814
00:57:47.559 --> 00:57:50.400
be hard to remove Jesus, But clearly we can remove

815
00:57:50.440 --> 00:57:53.400
whom Israel. Just makes no sense that that's Israel, right,

816
00:57:53.639 --> 00:57:57.320
because if Israel's that perfect, why are they in captivity? Right? Okay,

817
00:57:57.360 --> 00:57:59.800
So unless you're not gonna get into a positional argument,

818
00:57:59.800 --> 00:58:01.800
but this is not about that. All right, So we're

819
00:58:01.960 --> 00:58:04.239
we're going to be left with Jesus and Cyrus in

820
00:58:04.320 --> 00:58:07.800
forty two one through four. All right, historically in the

821
00:58:07.840 --> 00:58:12.239
context of this chapter, which one makes more sense Cyrus?

822
00:58:12.559 --> 00:58:15.719
Is it perfectly acceptable to say Cyrus is in light

823
00:58:15.880 --> 00:58:20.360
here because that only makes sense. But Jesus is going

824
00:58:20.400 --> 00:58:23.960
to be the ultimate fulfillment what Cyrus was and what

825
00:58:25.079 --> 00:58:30.199
Cyrus was and what Cyrus lacked. Jesus would be even

826
00:58:30.559 --> 00:58:34.440
more than what Cyrus was and not lack anything that

827
00:58:34.480 --> 00:58:42.599
Cyrus was lacking. I think that's true. Yeah, exactly, exactly exactly. Now,

828
00:58:42.719 --> 00:58:46.000
what's the second servant is mentioned in Isaiah forty two?

829
00:58:47.800 --> 00:58:50.159
Do we believe eighteen has anything to say about that

830
00:58:50.199 --> 00:59:00.679
servant in nineteen? Okay? He just kind of ok he

831
00:59:00.800 --> 00:59:03.920
identifies it in nineteen, So nineteen about twenty Did we

832
00:59:03.920 --> 00:59:11.079
say twenty possibly applies to the servant? Okay? All right, well, no,

833
00:59:11.199 --> 00:59:12.519
well what have you say it? Because I want the

834
00:59:12.519 --> 00:59:15.360
people on the internet to hear it? Okay, Well, that's okay.

835
00:59:15.400 --> 00:59:18.239
You don't have to be certain we're doing We're doing hermaeutics.

836
00:59:18.239 --> 00:59:21.760
If you know, what's the only rule in hermaeutics no

837
00:59:21.840 --> 00:59:24.639
one is ever certain. Okay, all right, all right, nineteen

838
00:59:24.679 --> 00:59:27.639
through twenty, all right, nineteen through twenty. So and what

839
00:59:27.679 --> 00:59:30.360
are our options for the servant in nineteen through twenty.

840
00:59:30.440 --> 00:59:34.960
Let's make them the same three? What would that be? Sis, Israel? Ji?

841
00:59:35.119 --> 00:59:38.000
What's the one that we can clearly remove from nineteen

842
00:59:38.039 --> 00:59:41.079
through twenty Jesus? So Jesus is not showing up there

843
00:59:41.119 --> 00:59:43.679
at all? Okay, all right, So that leaves us with

844
00:59:44.199 --> 00:59:47.559
Cyrus or Israel. What's the textual argument that this should

845
00:59:47.559 --> 00:59:51.159
be Cyrus? The textual argument is that if it's Israel,

846
00:59:51.159 --> 00:59:53.000
it makes no sense that the Israel is referred to

847
00:59:53.039 --> 00:59:56.039
as a singular servant in nineteen and then just a

848
00:59:56.039 --> 01:00:01.000
few verses later it just abandons the servant descriptor and

849
01:00:01.079 --> 01:00:06.639
goes to the people. So our our preliminary argument is

850
01:00:06.719 --> 01:00:13.079
what this is our our preliminary hermeneutic. Cirrus is in

851
01:00:13.199 --> 01:00:15.920
light and forty two one through four because he makes

852
01:00:15.960 --> 01:00:20.760
sense historically, Jesus is the ultimate fulfillment of it. Second,

853
01:00:21.559 --> 01:00:26.480
Cyrus is the servant in forty two nineteen through twenty

854
01:00:26.920 --> 01:00:29.480
because no matter how perfect he is or good that

855
01:00:29.519 --> 01:00:32.639
he has described, he is ultimately deaf and blind because

856
01:00:32.679 --> 01:00:38.199
he is a pagan. Right, that's our preliminary work. We

857
01:00:38.320 --> 01:00:40.920
will work on this in greater detail. And Sarah had

858
01:00:40.960 --> 01:00:45.280
another option for which servant I want to hear it?

859
01:00:45.320 --> 01:00:49.920
I want to hear it? Oh for okay, okay the

860
01:00:50.039 --> 01:00:51.000
flow go go? What for?

861
01:00:58.119 --> 01:01:10.079
Yeah?

862
01:01:13.199 --> 01:01:15.880
Okay?

863
01:01:16.559 --> 01:01:17.360
Right?

864
01:01:18.840 --> 01:01:38.159
Okay, okay, okay, okay, Oh back to the images, Okay,

865
01:01:38.320 --> 01:01:49.280
to the idols okay, okay, gotcha okay?

866
01:01:52.920 --> 01:02:06.280
Or between nothing right place with him? Okay? That I'll see.

867
01:02:06.760 --> 01:02:10.360
It's kind of a uh it's a song, and it's

868
01:02:10.360 --> 01:02:14.639
going between the idols and the servant. He did bring

869
01:02:14.719 --> 01:02:16.920
up the idols. That's a good point. That's a good point.

870
01:02:17.639 --> 01:02:21.239
And then it flows into the people. So you have

871
01:02:21.639 --> 01:02:27.239
the servant, the idols, and the people. There's some there's

872
01:02:27.280 --> 01:02:30.079
possibly some work there. Put it this way. It's as

873
01:02:30.119 --> 01:02:32.000
good as anything else we come up. I know, I know.

874
01:02:32.079 --> 01:02:34.440
It's a million times better than what I think. It's

875
01:02:34.440 --> 01:02:36.960
a million times better than simply saying Isaiah forty two

876
01:02:37.039 --> 01:02:40.000
is about Jesus or and then that the second servant

877
01:02:40.079 --> 01:02:43.599
is just about how bad Israel is that both of

878
01:02:43.639 --> 01:02:47.159
those are not doing hermeneutics. You know what, when pastors

879
01:02:47.199 --> 01:02:49.199
do that, you know what they've done. They simply opened

880
01:02:49.280 --> 01:02:51.920
up a commentary and they're just reading from a commentary.

881
01:02:52.000 --> 01:02:54.800
Because anyone should be struggling with this, that's why we

882
01:02:54.840 --> 01:02:57.360
do the observation. The observational work makes us go, well,

883
01:02:57.360 --> 01:02:59.679
wait a minute, if that's the servant, then why are

884
01:02:59.679 --> 01:03:05.639
they people described as the people? Just how many verses later? Yeah,

885
01:03:05.840 --> 01:03:08.000
like three verses later. It makes no sense. It in

886
01:03:08.079 --> 01:03:12.000
the same narrative, right and then, so it makes no sense.

887
01:03:12.000 --> 01:03:14.840
It just doesn't make any sense at all. It doesn't

888
01:03:14.840 --> 01:03:16.880
make any sense at all. So I think from the

889
01:03:16.960 --> 01:03:20.800
text we've got at least we've got two steps. We've

890
01:03:20.840 --> 01:03:26.239
got possibly one servant being described in radically different ways,

891
01:03:26.800 --> 01:03:29.719
which makes perfect sense because if you describe, because if

892
01:03:29.760 --> 01:03:31.559
you try to describe Cyrus to someone, how are you

893
01:03:31.559 --> 01:03:36.440
going to describe him? Chosen by God, God was well pleased,

894
01:03:36.719 --> 01:03:41.079
God worked through him. The God himself refers to him

895
01:03:41.119 --> 01:03:44.360
as his anointed, which is basically the term for a messiah.

896
01:03:44.800 --> 01:03:50.000
His Messiah is anointed and his shepherd, which is really

897
01:03:50.239 --> 01:03:57.599
interesting language. However, he remained an idolatry and a pagan.

898
01:03:58.599 --> 01:04:02.119
What in the world is that makes no sense? Kind

899
01:04:02.159 --> 01:04:09.039
of sounds like Isaiah forty two historically speaking, and when

900
01:04:09.079 --> 01:04:11.400
you look at yeah, I think I think we're I

901
01:04:11.400 --> 01:04:13.320
think we're onto something. I'm so glad you did that.

902
01:04:13.400 --> 01:04:15.440
I'm so glad you did that because I don't know

903
01:04:15.480 --> 01:04:17.920
if I would have caught it. I think I kept

904
01:04:18.000 --> 01:04:20.039
arguing and arguing, we're trying to how to break it down.

905
01:04:20.159 --> 01:04:22.000
Maybe I would have caught it. Maybe I wouldn't have,

906
01:04:22.440 --> 01:04:25.039
But I was like, that's why. But we're from the

907
01:04:25.119 --> 01:04:27.159
very beginning, I kept saying, are we sure Israel is

908
01:04:27.199 --> 01:04:29.360
described here as this sermon? Where do we find it? Remember?

909
01:04:29.360 --> 01:04:31.239
I started asking that question right from the beginning, in

910
01:04:31.280 --> 01:04:35.199
the first hour, because I don't know where how come

911
01:04:35.239 --> 01:04:38.719
we're making that second servant Israel. I could not figure

912
01:04:38.760 --> 01:04:42.960
out why that Ai was absolutely cut into that. So

913
01:04:43.320 --> 01:04:46.760
I'm gonna I'm gonna give it a separate uh idea

914
01:04:46.760 --> 01:04:48.679
and see what it comes up with. It's probably gonna

915
01:04:48.719 --> 01:04:52.320
argue with me, but that's okay. That's okay, because what

916
01:04:52.480 --> 01:04:55.960
we're more worried about the text, and I think the

917
01:04:56.000 --> 01:05:00.239
flow of the text, it just makes it just makes

918
01:05:00.280 --> 01:05:03.679
no sense. Right just as I go back, I'm gonna

919
01:05:03.679 --> 01:05:05.320
look at Isaiah forty two and we'll end here in

920
01:05:05.440 --> 01:05:14.719
just a second if I'm looking here. Okay, Just like

921
01:05:14.840 --> 01:05:17.800
in verse eight, what remember I said, how key that

922
01:05:17.920 --> 01:05:20.639
verse was? I am the Lord, that is my name

923
01:05:20.760 --> 01:05:22.719
and my glory, will I not give to another? It

924
01:05:22.800 --> 01:05:27.519
seems to be separating God from the servant, right, Well,

925
01:05:27.519 --> 01:05:29.679
that means we'll wait a minute. If the servant is Jesus,

926
01:05:29.679 --> 01:05:32.280
God wouldn't be saying that, So that doesn't make any sense, right,

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So that to me was kind of an argument that

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the servant and forty two to one through four then

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is Cyrus and it's not Jesus. And then at least

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01:05:40.880 --> 01:05:44.039
in the historical context. And just note the New Testament

931
01:05:44.079 --> 01:05:46.760
doesn't quote that part, right, The New Testament leaves that

932
01:05:46.800 --> 01:05:49.679
part out of course, all right, And remember the New

933
01:05:49.719 --> 01:05:52.719
Testament writers use the Old Testament in all kinds of

934
01:05:52.760 --> 01:05:55.400
ways that sometimes don't appear to be consistent with the

935
01:05:55.440 --> 01:05:58.360
actual text. That's okay if the New Testament writers do

936
01:05:58.440 --> 01:06:01.400
it because they're doing the aspiration and Holy Spirit. We

937
01:06:01.519 --> 01:06:04.679
just got to understand that. And then the second servant,

938
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I think what's most important this stands out to me

939
01:06:08.119 --> 01:06:11.559
is the servant is kind of described but immediately in

940
01:06:11.639 --> 01:06:16.519
twenty one, but this is a people robbed, and it

941
01:06:16.519 --> 01:06:19.280
goes right back to describing them as people, not as

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01:06:19.280 --> 01:06:22.639
a servant. So it makes no sense if you're gonna

943
01:06:22.639 --> 01:06:25.280
go with the language used in other sections of Isaiah

944
01:06:25.400 --> 01:06:29.400
or even Deuteronomy, or Israel's referred to God's servant. All

945
01:06:29.480 --> 01:06:37.760
of the description flows that identifier. Hey, Israel's my servant. There, this, this, this, this, this, this,

946
01:06:38.000 --> 01:06:41.360
It doesn't go Israel's my servant, and then hey there

947
01:06:42.000 --> 01:06:44.039
then all of a sudden just switches over to people.

948
01:06:44.079 --> 01:06:46.360
Maybe maybe there's some passages that do that, but it

949
01:06:46.440 --> 01:06:49.440
just doesn't seem to make sense to me. So I

950
01:06:49.639 --> 01:06:53.840
like the idea that maybe Isaiah forty two is ultimately

951
01:06:54.000 --> 01:07:03.000
about one servant. Now don't tell anyone you came to

952
01:07:03.079 --> 01:07:06.039
church and learn that, now, No, actually you can. What

953
01:07:06.199 --> 01:07:08.760
you can say is, there's this crazy woman and she

954
01:07:08.840 --> 01:07:11.199
came up with this new way to interpret Iaiah forty two.

955
01:07:11.320 --> 01:07:13.559
And you're like, well, didn't a pastor like throw her out?

956
01:07:13.639 --> 01:07:15.639
And like, no, he didn't because he's an idiot. Okay,

957
01:07:15.519 --> 01:07:20.800
but right exactly, I don't have enough people to throw

958
01:07:20.840 --> 01:07:24.559
anyone out, right, But I think that that we may

959
01:07:24.599 --> 01:07:26.559
be onto something. I think we may be on to it.

960
01:07:26.599 --> 01:07:29.760
I'm not saying we're Please note for anyone listening online,

961
01:07:29.920 --> 01:07:33.079
are we being dogmatic at this point? No? Are we

962
01:07:33.199 --> 01:07:35.719
being like, this is actually the way it is. What

963
01:07:35.760 --> 01:07:39.320
we're saying is by doing an observational outline, we've seen

964
01:07:39.360 --> 01:07:42.519
some things that cause us to question every other sermon

965
01:07:42.559 --> 01:07:44.719
that's ever been preached on this section, because I don't

966
01:07:44.719 --> 01:07:47.480
think that the sermons are even remotely trying to do hermanudics.

967
01:07:47.880 --> 01:07:52.519
They're not doing hermanutics. They're simply repeating someone else's hermanutic.

968
01:07:53.199 --> 01:07:55.400
That's not how you don't do hermautics by relying on

969
01:07:55.400 --> 01:08:00.440
someone else's hermaudic. You do hermautics by doing what working

970
01:08:00.480 --> 01:08:03.480
on the text. And so that's what we've come up with.

971
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All right, any questions everybody experts? Now I got forty

972
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two figured out? Okay, Hey, we're onto something, all right.

973
01:08:15.760 --> 01:08:18.000
I can't I can't wait to get home and ask Ai,

974
01:08:18.039 --> 01:08:20.159
and AI is gonna be like, what what happened in

975
01:08:20.199 --> 01:08:22.800
your church today? Like what was going on? Okay? So

976
01:08:23.079 --> 01:08:25.239
I'm just gonna give it this recording maybecause I want

977
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to do maybe I'll that's what I'll do once I

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upload this I'm just gonna give the transcript Ai and

979
01:08:30.239 --> 01:08:33.199
then ask AI to go, can what do you think

980
01:08:33.239 --> 01:08:37.520
about our hypotheses that forty two is really the story

981
01:08:37.560 --> 01:08:42.199
of one servant Cyrus? And then we'll see. I'm by

982
01:08:42.239 --> 01:08:44.079
the time it said I'm reviewing my Sermont, I'll probably

983
01:08:44.079 --> 01:08:47.039
cry and like what you mean? So mean okay, but

984
01:08:47.239 --> 01:08:48.920
it'll be interesting to see. All right, let's pray, Lord,

985
01:08:48.960 --> 01:08:51.640
got we come before you this afternoon. We are grateful Lord,

986
01:08:52.079 --> 01:08:53.560
we are in a place where we can do this,

987
01:08:54.119 --> 01:08:56.640
because nowhere else would we be allowed to do this,

988
01:08:57.239 --> 01:08:59.880
So we are grateful. We are thankful. Or let our

989
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our ability to study the text and struggle with the

990
01:09:03.720 --> 01:09:06.920
text never take if we don't want it to ever

991
01:09:07.000 --> 01:09:10.000
take us further away from the text, but only draw

992
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us closer and deeper into it. Help us just continue

993
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to work to understand what exactly this passage is saying.

994
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We asked this in Jesus name. It got people said,