Episodes
Friday Feb 28, 2020
Episode 49: Isaiah and the Messiah Part 13--The Servant Speaks Again!
Friday Feb 28, 2020
Friday Feb 28, 2020
This week we cover the third Servant Song, where the mysterious Servant of Yahweh further sets himself apart from the nation of Israel and we begin to see the legal persecution of the Servant by the ba’al mishpati. We will also explore the preamble to the second Zion song and its connection to The Great Scroll of Isaiah, 1QIs-a and see how the Qumran community taught it as sort of an extra Servant Song.
Friday Feb 21, 2020
Episode 48: Isaiah and the Messiah 12--The First Zion Song (Is 49:14-50:3)
Friday Feb 21, 2020
Friday Feb 21, 2020
In light of the marvelous deliverance promised in last week's segment, through the work of the Servant, we would think that Jerusalem would respond with joy and song and exultation! We would be wrong.
Friday Feb 14, 2020
Friday Feb 14, 2020
The first Servant Song, Is 42:1-9, was fairly vague when it comes to identifying the Servant and His mission, but this week we will be going through the second song verse by verse. The Servant, in the first half, speaks about Himself and what He has been commissioned to do. Then Yahweh responds to the Servant and the earth rejoices.
Friday Feb 07, 2020
Friday Feb 07, 2020
Isaiah 48 is very much a downer. Israel is repeatedly confronted with the word "shema" which means to both hear and obey--and then they are outright told that they have never heard and never obeyed. Yahweh delivers a very potent warning for those exilic Jews who are going to refuse to leave Babylon when Cyrus sets them free, and it's really easy to point our fingers and shake our heads but--how are we, all of us, still comfortably residing in Babylon when we have been called to be elsewhere?
Friday Jan 31, 2020
Episode 45: Isaiah and the Messiah 9: Babylon the Virgin Queen
Friday Jan 31, 2020
Friday Jan 31, 2020
For those who are Revelation focused, it comes as quite the shock to hear Yahweh call Babylon a vulnerable virgin in Isaiah 47--repeatedly. But then, our view of Babylon has been much confused by some propagandistic fictional writings of the 19th and 20th centuries that were accepted at face value without any sort of comparison with what we know either Biblically or archaeologically. Believe me, the truth about Babylon is important because it changes how certain passages are understood and seriously effects how we should react to how they are thrown around now, often entirely out of context.