One Down, One To Go (Walk Thru the Bible Week 27)

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Now, let's join our host, Susan Michael.

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Hey there and welcome back.

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This is Walk Through the Bible Week 27.

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Well, I have entitled this week one down and one to go.

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I hate to make light of it, but this week we're going to see the fall of the Kingdom

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of Israel will be left with just one Kingdom.

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That's Judah.

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But this week our reading in the Daily Bible is pages 825 through 862 or the dates of July

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1 through the 8th.

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Now as I said, this is week 27 and you know what that means?

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This is the first week of the second half of the year.

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You have been, you've gone through half your Bible by now.

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Isn't that exciting?

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So this is week 27.

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We start the second half of our year.

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It's all downhill from here.

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Okay, let's get back to the prophet Isaiah who just very well might be Israel's greatest

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prophet ever and such an amazing book.

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So much to talk about.

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This week in our reading we have a lot of prophecies against the nations and about the

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nations.

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And you can read that, I'm not going to talk about all those different nations and all

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that we have going on there.

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But I do want to go back to something that we read last week that I didn't take time

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to talk about.

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And this is in Isaiah chapter 5, a beautiful song here of the vineyard.

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And so I want to read this very quickly for you.

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And that is Isaiah chapter 5, 1 through 7, just verses 1 through 7.

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I will sing for the one I love a song about his vineyard.

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My loved one had a vineyard on a fertile hillside.

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He dug it up and cleared it of stones and planted it with the choicest vines.

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He built a watchtower in it and cut out a wine press as well.

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Then he looked for a crop of good grapes.

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But it yielded only bad fruit.

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Now you dwellers in Jerusalem and people of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard.

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What more could have been done for my vineyard than I've done for it?

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When I looked for good grapes, why did it yield only bad?

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Now I will tell you what I'm going to do to my vineyard.

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I will take away its hedge and it will be destroyed.

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I will break down its wall and it will be trampled.

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I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and briars and thorns will

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grow there.

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I will command the clouds not to rain on it.

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The vineyard of the Lord Almighty is the nation of Israel and the people of Judah are the

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vines he delighted in.

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So this song of the vineyard is a very, very important motif here that God likens the nation

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of Israel and the people of Judah.

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It says here, the nation of Israel is his vineyard and it describes how that he prepared

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the soil in the vineyard and then that he chose the choicest vine and that being the

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people of Judah.

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And he plants them and he tends to them.

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And then, you know, usually a farmer doesn't live at his vineyard.

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He lives away.

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He built up a wall around it to protect it and a watch tower so that people could keep

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watch out over his vineyard.

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And he did everything that a good farmer or keeper of vineyards would do.

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He did it all and yet he still got bad fruit.

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So he says, I'm just going to let it go to waste.

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I'm going to knock down the walls and just let it go and let it be trampled down.

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And so this is the way the Lord depicts here his people as a vineyard.

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Well later in Isaiah, in chapter 27, he comes back and refers to another song to his vineyard.

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This one doesn't go into as much detail, but it says that in the days to come Jacob will

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take root and Israel will bud and blossom and fill all the world with fruit.

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So there is a coming day when his vineyard is going to be very, very fruitful.

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And in fact, it's going to fill the world with fruit.

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Well I wanted to bring this up because Jesus also spoke about a vineyard and he had a parable

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of the tenants of the vineyard.

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And I want to talk about this because this parable is sometimes misquoted or misapplied

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by people.

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Listen to another parable.

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There was a landowner who planted a vineyard.

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He put a wall around it, dug a wine press in it and built a watch tower.

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Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and moved to another place.

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When the harvest time approached, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his

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fruit.

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The tenants seized his servants.

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They beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.

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Then he sent other servants to them more than the first time and the tenants treated them

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the same way.

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First of all, he sent his son to them.

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They will respect my son, he said.

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But when the tenants saw the son, they said to each other, this is the heir.

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Come, let's kill him and take his inheritance.

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So they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.

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Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?

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He will bring those wretches to a wretched end, they replied, and he will rent the vineyard

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to other tenants who will give him his share of the crop at harvest time.

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So Jesus said to them, have you never read in the scriptures the stone the builders rejected

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has become the cornerstone, the Lord has done this and it is marvelous in our eyes.

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For I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people

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who will produce its fruit.

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Anyone who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces.

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Anyone on whom it falls will be crushed.

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When the chief priest and the Pharisees heard Jesus' parables, they knew he was talking

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about them.

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They looked for a way to arrest him, but they were afraid of the crowd because the people

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held that he was a prophet.

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Now I wanted to mention this because as soon as Jesus began to talk about a vineyard, everyone

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knew he was talking about Israel.

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The vineyard meant Israel in Isaiah.

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It was very common to them.

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And that's what he's talking about.

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The vineyard is Israel and the people are the vines.

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But here this parable is not against the vineyard.

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It's against the tenants, the farmers that are farming the vineyard.

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And that's why at the end it says that the chief priests and the Pharisees knew he was

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talking about them.

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They were the workers in God's vineyard of Israel, tending to the people and they were

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not producing fruit.

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So sometimes this parable has been taken to mean God's rejection of the Jewish people

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and that the kingdom would be taken from them and given to others.

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But that's not what this parable said.

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This parable is talking about the farmers that are farming the vineyard and the chief

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priests and the Pharisees knew it was about them.

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Jesus was not preaching against the people.

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So let's get back to our story this week.

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Now in Judah, King Ahaz, we spoke about him last week that he had gone to worshiping idols

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and he was sacrificing his children in the valley of Hennem which must meant to the God

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Moloch.

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And he was doing all these detestable things.

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Well this week we read the story how that he went to Damascus.

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And in this narrative at this time, they're all cutting deals with each other, one king

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with another, trying to cook up an alliance so that they can together withstand another

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army or they can go against another army.

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And so he needs the friendship of Syria because of us Syria.

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And so he goes to Damascus and what does he see in Damascus?

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But he sees the worship there to their God and he thinks, you know, their God has been

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pretty good to them.

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They, you know, they're doing well and so their God protected them.

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Let me worship their God.

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So he sends back to Jerusalem and he tells them to make an altar like the one that he

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saw in Damascus.

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I don't think it names the actual name of the God that he was building the altar to,

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but it is the God of Syria.

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And of course the scripture says that this then was his downfall.

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And so after Ahaz, who really led the nation astray and into worshiping all the wrong gods,

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he's followed by Hezekiah.

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And now this we can take kind of a sigh relief.

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This is a good king.

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Hezekiah is going to rule for almost 30 years and he's going to bring great religious reforms

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into the southern kingdom of Judah.

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So it says he removed all the high places, all of the Ashiah poles where they worship

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this fertility goddess.

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He cleanses the temple.

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He restores right worship in the temple.

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And a very interesting note here.

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He gets rid of the bronze serpent that Moses raised up in Sinai.

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You remember that story?

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I always thought that story was so strange.

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Why you would put a serpent on the pole and that would bring healing to the people that

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were being bit by serpents.

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But anyway, that's the story.

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And here that bronze serpent is still in the temple.

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But because of the idolatry of the people and the paganism that's everywhere, the people

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had ended up worshiping it as though it was a god.

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So Hezekiah just destroyed it and got rid of it.

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Now the kingdom of Israel at this point, as I told you, is much, much smaller and much

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weaker.

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They've lost a lot of their territory.

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So Hezekiah actually invites the people of Israel to come down and celebrate the Passover

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in Judah because they haven't been celebrating the Passover.

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And he's wanting to do it right.

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And so he invites the people of Israel.

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Now look, this could be really smart on his part, a political move there, to kind of extend

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his authority into those territories that have been lost to the kingdom of Israel.

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But let's face it, it's a great thing and a number of them do come down and celebrate

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the Passover.

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It's such a fun description of their celebration.

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And they celebrated for a whole week.

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And they had such a great time, the blessing of the Lord was with them, the presence of

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God, the priest.

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And it says that they just decided to worship for a whole another week afterwards.

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And so they had another week-long celebration, that's full two weeks of celebrations.

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Great fun for you to read about that this week.

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Even in 2 Kings 186, it says this about King Hezekiah.

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It says, He held fast to the Lord and did not stop following him.

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He kept the commandments of the Lord that the Lord had given Moses.

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I wanted to point this out because if you remember when we talked about King Solomon,

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instead of him holding fast to the Lord, if you remember, it said that he held fast to

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his pagan wives.

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But here we have his, I don't know how many grandsons, King Hezekiah, he holds fast to

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the Lord.

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And so the Lord blesses Hezekiah.

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And in 2 Chronicles 31, verses 20 and 21, it says this about Hezekiah.

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This is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah, doing what was good and right and faithful

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before the Lord his God.

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In everything that he undertook in the service of God's temple and in obedience to the law

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and the commands, he sought his God and worked wholeheartedly.

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And so he prospered.

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So this is sort of a summation of Hezekiah.

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He brought reforms.

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He held fast to the Lord.

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He obeyed the Lord.

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And so the Lord blessed him and he prospered.

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This is really a great time.

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But during for Judah, but during this time for Judah, Israel is falling.

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And so we have that Israel has a king.

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Their last king is Hosea, and Hosea, who was supposed to be paying tribute to Shamanizer,

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the king of Assyria, he decides to stop paying tribute.

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And instead he was going to turn to Egypt for help.

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Well that didn't work so well for him.

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And so here comes Shamanizer and his army and they do a siege around Samaria.

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And the siege lasts for three years and it was really desperate.

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It got really bad in Samaria until finally it fell.

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By the time Samaria fell, it seems that Shamanizer had been replaced by his son Sargon II.

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And Sargon takes credit for the fall of Samaria and he takes Israel captive.

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This my friends, is the end of the northern kingdom of Israel.

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It is all over.

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And 2 Kings 17, which we read this week, it recaps this history of Israel and it recaps

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the reasons for Israel's fall.

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It recaps how the prophets warned Israel.

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And then it talks about the fall of Samaria and how that then Assyria brings foreigners,

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Gentiles, into Samaria to live there.

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And so in 2 Kings 17, verses 24, it talks about how that the king of Assyria brought

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people from Babylon and Kutah and Ava and Hamath and Safar Vim and settled them in the

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towns of Samaria to replace the Israelites.

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So Assyria came in, took a lot of the Israelites, of course all the men, all the leaders, anybody

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that could fight, anybody that could build up any kind of presence.

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They were taken into exile.

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There were a few Israelites left behind.

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So then Assyria moved Assyrian Gentiles into Samaria to inhabit the area and that is how

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they exerted control.

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Their people now live there so their people are going to be loyal to the king of Assyria.

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Their people also brought with them the worship of their gods.

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And it says that when the people of Assyria got into Samaria and they're living there,

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all of a sudden they were attacked by lions.

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And so they sent word back to the king that they didn't know how to appease the local

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god of the Israelites because evidently he was unhappy.

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They were being attacked by lions.

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They didn't know how to worship this local god.

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So the king of Assyria finds one of the exiles who was a priest, sends them back down in

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order to instruct the people of Israel how to worship the god of Israel.

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Now, I guarantee you it wasn't pure worship and it's just an interesting little story.

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But what it does is it explains how the Galilee became known as the Galilee of the Gentiles

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and why the prophet Isaiah referred to it as the Galilee of the Gentiles that would

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one day, even though they're walking in darkness now, would one day see a great light because

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God was going to send this child.

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We talked about it last week.

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That's how all the Gentiles ended up there in Samaria.

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And then in the time of the New Testament, we see this division between the Samaritans

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and the Jews of Judea.

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Why?

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Because the Israelites that mixed in with these Assyrians in the Galilee area, they became

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a mixed people and a mixed religion.

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And so they mixed the worship of Yahweh, the god of Israel, with the worship of the Assyrian

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pagan gods that they brought in.

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And that's why the Jews of Israel, of Judea, and of Jerusalem considered them unclean because

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they were pagans.

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And they really looked down on them and they wouldn't go near them and they wouldn't touch

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them.

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They'd have nothing to do with the unclean people of Samaria.

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This is why its roots all go back here to this mixing.

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And of course, Jesus went to Samaria and he spoke to a Samaritan woman at the well.

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And she said to him, you know, the Jews worship in Jerusalem.

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And he said to her, and you worship what you know not.

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But one day you will worship in spirit and in truth.

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So very profound words there to the people of Samaria that Jesus was even going to offer

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salvation and true worship to the people of Samaria one day.

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Now I want to just make a footnote here that the Assyrian kings, Sennacherib, Shalmanizer,

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Sargon, all these kings wrote about their victories.

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And any king that came and brought tribute to them, they wrote about it.

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And a lot of these victories over kings were depicted in murals on the walls of their palaces.

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And if you look at, if you just Google and find some pictures of say the palace of Shalmanizer,

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you'll see all these murals on the walls.

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And it's all about the victories of that king.

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Well they depict a lot of this history that we're reading about in the Bible.

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And the siege of Samaria, bringing the Israelites into captivity.

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For that, the partial siege, the partial victory over Israel, all of this is proven from these

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extra biblical sources there in Assyria.

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So this history is really, we know how accurate it is because of the annals and the writings

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and the archaeological finds that have been found there in ancient Assyria.

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So today we're going to go ahead and end there and enjoy your reading this week and

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the book of Isaiah and the story here.

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I called today one down, one to go.

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So we read about the fall of Israel, but we still have in the south, we have King Hezekiah.

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And we're going to have an amazing story about King Hezekiah next week.

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So next week we're going to have our special interview with world renowned Bible teacher

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Kay Arthur about the book of Isaiah and its message to the people and its message to us

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today.

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So be looking for that.

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We'll put that up next week.

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So enjoy your reading.

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We will see you back here next week.

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And until then, God bless.

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