Hey everybody. Welcome back to another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. What does that mean? It's what's up? Okay, cool. Yeah. What's up? It's a slang. I gotcha. Yeah, it's Friday. In case those of you out there didn't know, it's yeah, we're we're back with another episode. Pastor Rod's still here. He didn't go on vacation again. He's not back in school again right now. And so this is good. We're back together. I know you guys like this much better. In fact, we'll see. Don't make promises you can't keep. I'm glad that you're back. We've covered that because Isaiah is just a bear to try to get through by yourself. It's not my personality, it's just, it's too, you want to talk about Isaiah with you? Yes. You want me to? Misery loves company as they say. Yes. Yeah. Although Misery doesn't quite describe it, it's just a challenging book, and I think they know that. Yeah. Isaiah is a, but it is also one of the most powerfully used books in the New Testament. It's quoted quite a bit. Yeah. It's also Rich. Some people look at Isaiah like a mini. Canon because there are 66 chapters and the first 39 chapters or so in the last 27. It divides like the canon in that the final few chapters, not the final few, the final dozen, two dozen chapters of Isaiah are pointing to the New Testament gospel. Yep. And there's a lot of that, the branch, which of course refers to Christ. And you got the famous Isaiah Chapter 53, which also speaks to Christ. And so there's a lot of parallels to our current Bible. And people notice that and Isaiah, and it's a very popular book. There's a lot of references to it in pop culture more than I even recognize initially because they're in there. Isaiah is an important book. Yeah, it is for sure. Yeah. You mentioned the word canon. Maybe some of you're listening, you're going, what is that? Is it a ja gigantic gun that fires a ball? It it is that, but it's not that in this context the canon means rule or standard. And so when we talk about the canon of scripture what we're talking about is the standard of what is and what is not part of God's word. What is considered authoritative, what is considered inert, what is considered infallible. And those are the books that are canonized that become part of the canon and our canon's different than the Catho the Catholic Canon, that, that's it. Yeah. The Catholic Canon. And they'll accuse us of having left books out. We'll accuse them of having put books in that, that aren't intended to be there. And there's reasons why, and we can get in that maybe in another podcast. But the canon of scripture is the 66 books. It's, these are the standard rule of what is authoritative. That's right. Hey, it's it's Friday by the way, and we are wrapping up a week of vacation Bible School, BES, which some people know as Camp Compass. Camp Compass. We decided not to do that. Nope. Tell us why. Because I think the people that know it as Camp Compass know it as Camp Compass out in California because it was a brand that was established out there. It was something that was done for a long time out there, and people said, oh, yeah, that makes sense. I know what Camp Compass is. It's their VBS. You come out here, you look around, you're not seeing Camp Prestonwood or camp, Providence or Camp Trails. You're seeing. Vbs, that's what it's known by. That's the vernacular. Yeah. Out here. So being all thanks to all people, we decided to probably make more sense to do Compass VB s rather than Camp Compass. So we're not mad at Camp Compass. Maybe someday some year it'll come back. That's a possibility. It could, but it makes sense to call it VBS 'cause that's what everybody knows. Yep. Yeah, and it's been a great week. It's been awesome. I've been able to be there and interact with our people, our volunteers. Man, it was just, it's, I love our church family. Our church family is I, in my book, unrivaled, on Unrivalled, people serve and are just, they're joyful to be there. They're working a long day and then they're coming there after work and they're hanging out with these cadet Jacob Sealander especially. I wanted to call him out. He's leading games. Oh, wow. I've been back in the coaches closet doing some work, summer prep, things like that. And they do the games right on the other side of that wall there. Oh, wow. And he's a saint. I know we don't canonize people as saints like they do in the Catholic church, but if we did, we're gonna do it though. If starting today, if we did, Jacob Sealander would be up there. Jacob Sealander, he's been great leading games with Matt. Daniel has been involved in that too. We could sit here and name so many different people that have been so crucial and integral to the pulling off of this event. I know Mark and Ally would echo the fact that this team has made this week go. So well, so thank you to you guys that have been serving and laboring so hard. I know we've got family night tonight should be a great time. Not just with the kiddos, but also with the families that are gonna be there and going through all the different stations with their kids to see what the week was like. So it'll be a good time. Talk about how many kids are part of this camp that aren't part of our church. Yeah, so our total numbers were one 20. Ooh. Which last year we were at 98, so that's a good bump. That's huge. About a 20% bump. If my math is right there, which is probably not, but it's okay. I don't do math rough and dirty. Yeah. But it's an increase from where we were last year, which we love seeing that. And at one point, I don't know if that carried through, but at one point when we were. Trending up towards a hundred. We had about half that were from outside of our church as well. So we've got a large portion, maybe 40% or so that are from outside of our church that don't go to our church. Now, some of them are Christians, so we're not saying that all of them are unbelievers. Oh, sure. But some of them are here because they are, we're invited from you who are listening to this and they're part of a family that doesn't go to church or they're part of a family that goes to a. Mosque or a temple. And this is the first time that these kids are hearing about Jesus. And that's what this whole week has been about. It's been about Jesus. And so what a good thing it is that that we're doing this. Good job, mark. Good job, Allie, pastor Mark and Ally and the whole team. It is pastor Ally is been awesome. Not Pastor Ally. Not Pastor Alley, no. Okay. Just making sure. No, it was a test. We changed some while you were gone. We did not change that. Yeah. Glad to hear it. Yeah. Otherwise I might have to find a new position. I'd say. Yeah. That'd be, yeah. I, you could accept my resignation too on that one. Alright. Alright. Hey, let's jump into Isaiah 23. Let's do it through 27 speaking. I, Isaiah, I love this book, man. It's hard, but I have enjoyed it. Yeah, I loved it. It's rich. You're loving it more and more at as just we're talking about it right now. Maybe the more I talk about it, the more I get excited about it. Okay. Fair enough. We've been talking about the nations and we talked about Jerusalem yesterday, but now we're gonna shift back to the nations a little bit here. And it's interesting, we, you mentioned, okay, why do they go back to Fania here after he's been dealing with Jerusalem? And it would've made more sense, we think, to go from Jerusalem to the whole world. But he's gonna have this pit stop here with Fania, and that's Tyra and Seiden and and this is yet another. I think indictment of some people that Israel may have been tempted to trust in, because these were the boujee people, the tire and side. This was the economically dominant force. At the time they had trading. They had a, a good port city there. They were in an area that man, you, if you lived there and you were part of the trade industry there, you were doing well for yourself. And so God is gonna say to them, Hey, you know what? The Assyrians are gonna come against you. Now, what's interesting here? Is assy will come against Tyrant Sein, but their end is not gonna come until Alexander the Great much later on in, in world history. So this is an interruption of things, but this is not a complete end of tyrant Sein here as it has been prophesied about some of the other nations that the Assyrians were going to come against There. Yeah, it's interesting because even though the bullseye terminated on Jerusalem, now you're doing a backward funnel here. You're going up to Fania, and I think part of the reason why, my guess anyway, is that these were included after them because these had a larger presence, not just in their locale. But because they were they were people of the ocean, they were people of the sea, they were travelers. I think that's what's happening. You have a reverse funnel taking place with them, but then that it finishes on them, and then we go into not just them, but everybody, right? Isaiah chapter 24 through verse or through chapter 27, takes us not only to these nations, but also to the world as a stage for God's judgment. Yeah, and that's really where we get to that point in chapter 24 is the judgment upon the whole earth, which I think we have to, at least from our understanding of eschatology, understand this to be the tribulation period, the wrath of God being poured out during that seven year period that's gonna be marked from the time of the rapture of the church to the time of the second coming of Christ. That seven year period is known as the tribulation, and this is going to be a time. In fact, in Revelation, one of the arguments for why we believe in a pre tribulational rapture that is that the church is gonna be taken away is that as Jesus is writing to the seven churches, as he's writing to one of the churches there, he says, I'm about, I'm gonna keep you from the hour of trial that's coming upon the whole Earth. So similar language there to what we read about here, the Lord will empty the earth and make it desolate. So when you look at the judgment here. Once again I think our perspective as pre-millennial, pre tribulational dispensational theologians makes the most sense because that's a mouthful. You have to look at this and say, has this happened? Has anything like this happened where the whole earth has been desolated By God, has God done this yet? And the answer is no. If we're gonna be intellectually honest, we have to say no. This is not taking place. So either we have to make this an allegory somehow, either we have to look for partial fulfillments of this over the course of history, whether you want go to an tikis epiphanies, or you want to go to Nero or other situations. Or you have to say, man, this is yet future because we haven't seen anything like this before. And I think the most logical conclusion is this is yet future. I think this is talking about that seven year period of judgment, and that's because we look at this and we see, even though it, there's some symbols here that we would look at and say, okay, that's probably symbolic of something else. We would also see as. Faithful Bible readers. This appears to be something that is genuine. It is symbolic in nature, but there's also a real event that's taking place here. A faithful Bible reader would have to conclude, this is something in the future. We're futurists. We believe that there is a future for Israel, but there's also a future judgment to come. I agree completely. In fact, lots of Bible readers would call this section of Isaiah's text, Isaiah's Apocalypse because it points to the destruction of the world, the destruction of unbelievers. And there's I can't even understand how someone else would read this otherwise, except to say, okay, the judgment is symbolic as well, right? God's wrath has poured out in a number of ways and there's perhaps natural effects to tornadoes and monsoons and hurricanes and things like that, but it seems much more fitting to look at this and say, this is real judgment that God will affect at a real stage in human history. That is going to be a literal judgment. Yeah. In chapter 25 the language continues there. And yet we get this glimpse of hope, with this promise that we read about beginning in verse seven, that he, God will swallow up on this mountain. The covering that is cast over all peoples well. What is the covering? Cast over all peoples everywhere at all time. And the answer is death. And that's what he says in verse eight. He will swallow up death forever, and the Lord will wipe away tears from the faces and the reproach. Of his people, he will take away from the earth. So while there's judgment on God's enemies, there's the forecast of the fact that he is going to extinguish the final enemy. The ultimate enemy, which Paul talks about in one Corinthians 1554 as well. And that is the enemy of death. And so here we get a glimpse into not only the millennial kingdom, but really the eternal state as Revelation 21 depicts it, as well as the place where God is gonna wipe away tears from our eyes. Because death will be no more because sin will be no more. It's gonna be completely vanquished from the scene. In 25 you do get this interruption here, as we've talked about with Isaiah. He does this, he talks about a lot of wrath, and then he comes back and he talks about the hope that's held out for people and the hope that's held out for God's people. And then in the meantime, what are they supposed to do? Chapter 26. They're supposed to wait on him. And trust in him. And it says there in that great verse in verse three, you keep him in perfect peace whose mind has stayed on you. This reminds me of what we just saw in Habakkuk. When the prophet is told by God, the righteous will live by faith. It's a similar concept here. I think I. As Isaiah is delivering a message of impending doom and judgment and the tribulation in all these nations being judged, what is the response of Isaiah's original audience? I think it's right there in verse three. You keep him in perfect peace to whose mind has stayed on you. Trust in the Lord forever for the Lord God as an everlasting rock. And so this would've been unsettling for the original audience, and it should have been. And you think about those that were faithful at this time that weren't. Part of the, those that were gonna suffer under the direct wrath of God. But were still part of his faithful remnant during this time. This is terrifying. And Isaiah is simply saying, I think, Hey, trust. Trust in the Lord in this time. Yeah. And I guess I wanna point out to you what's probably evident, but let me just highlight this. Notice that perfect peace comes from trusting in the Lord. It's an obvious but profound truth if you just. Spend a few minutes on it. Think about this. The more you trust, the more peace you'll experience. There's a corollary passage in the New Testament, Philippians chapter four. You know this one. Paul says that you can have the perfect peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, guarding your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. But here's how you get there. Verse five. Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand. Don't be anxious about anything. Everything by prayer and supplication with Thanksgiving will let your request be made known to God. That is essentially what Paul is referring to when it comes to trusting in the Lord. Peace from God comes from trusting God, so the more you trust in him, the more peace that you will experience and that peace, again, Philippians four, four in particular, Philippians four, six, and particular shows you what that trust looks like. Again, don't be anxious, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your request made known to God and then the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding that will guard your heart and your mind in Christ Jesus. One of the neat word pictures that we see here is found in verses 19 through 20. He's talking about the resurrection of Old Testament saints in the future. And it says this, your dead shall live, their body shall rise. You who dwell in the dust, awake and sing for joy. And then here's the word picture for your dues, the do of light and the earth will give birth to the dead. Such an interesting way. To depict the resurrection. And that's not only true for the Old Testament saints. That's true for believers too. When Christ comes back and the rapture takes place, one of the things that's gonna accompany that is, man, if you're walking through a graveyard at that time you're gonna hopefully be caught up together with the Lord. But those that are not believers walking through the graveyard in that time, they're gonna see the graves opened up. And the bodies are reunited with the souls, the glorified bodies being brought back to be reunited with the souls. This is the resurrected body that God is gonna be. Prepare for us, and that's what it means here, that the earth is going to give birth to the dead. They're gonna rise from the ground literally now. It will be different because what is sown perishable is raised imperishable, but it still will be our earthly bodies will be made new and given a glorified nature that will be prepared for eternity with the Lord. Yeah, that's one Corinthians 15 and I guess what's really important about that, sometimes we think about heaven as some kind of ethereal and only spiritual place. But heaven is on earth. God will dwell with man. He will tabernacle among us again and we will be his people in perfect harmony with him because we'll be perfectly righteous. But on top of that, we will enjoy a physical existence. Don't forget that we often talk about the spiritual nature of our religion. This is of course, a faith in and invisible God, who is Spirit? John, chapter four. But our future existence is not. Dissimilar from our present existence in that it is physical. So we shouldn't think of heaven as clouds and naked babies with wings. We should think about heaven as being like what we have now, but perfected no sin, no brokenness, no death, no pain, no cancer, but still very physical. Don't forget that's huge. And the resurrection of our bodies is one of the reasons why we bury ourselves. You don't bury yourself. Other people bury you. Yeah, don't bury yourself. Please don't do that. That's dangerous. But we bury people. As part of our faith, as an as a way to say, we expect that this body will raise again. In fact, for Christian burial sites, they will face the body toward the east where they expect Jesus to rise. And they bury them feet first so that it's easier for their bodies to go up into the sky and meet their Lord in the clouds. We believe in a physical bodily resurrection because Jesus himself had a physical bodily resurrection and therefore a physical. Future eternal home. Yeah. On earth with real stuff. Yeah. Don't forget that. That's huge. Yeah. That was such a freeing thought for me because I used to think about heaven in such this this eternal worship service where you're just sitting in pews or you're With the harp. Yeah. Yeah. And then sounds terrible, right? I think the devil planted that thought and it was always like, okay, but you're gonna love it 'cause it's heaven. You're gonna love it anyways because it's heaven. Yeah. You're not gonna be a sinner. And it's okay, I guess I think that's boring 'cause I'm a sinner. Which is true. I am a sinner. But when I started to read, but that's not why you think it's boring, right? Probably the devil implanted that thought. Totally. Seriously, when I started to read about the fact that there's gates that are open because the nations are bringing their treasures into the, into Jerusalem. This is the new Jerusalem. That means that we're gonna live in different countries. We're gonna have lives, we're gonna have. E existences. We're gonna do things, we're gonna make pilgrimage journeys to the new Jerusalem. We're gonna populate the earth again, not in a reproductive way but we're gonna live in different areas and that corporal existence, and yet it's gonna be everything that we do. We're gonna know what it means to do everything for the glory of God. Perfectly, and we're gonna be able to experience that in the way that we enjoy creation and everything else. He's gonna be glorified through our enjoyment of that, via physical bodies to the point that you're making. Yeah. Maybe it's a good idea for you to read Revelation 21 after this, just to be reminded of what the future is. A hundred percent. Since this is apocalyptic, this is pointing to the eschaton, the last things, revelation 21 tells you where it's all going. Yeah, and this is what's so cool about our Bible. We have the beginning and we also have the end. There's a lot of stuff in between that we don't know. But because God knows the end from the beginning and the beginning from the end, we can take great confidence and rest in the fact that he's got it all under control. Even today. He does well. Chapter 27 as we just wrap up today's e episode, oh, I forgot we were doing that. I thought this was it. If you go back all the way to Isaiah five, I believe, is where he talks about planting the vineyard there and how the vineyard produced wild grapes. This is the undoing of that. This is the reversal of that. So this is looking forward to the future regathering of Israel, the millennial kingdom. The time that Israel is gonna be God's people in Christ is gonna be reigning from the throne of David. This is what. Pictured here, and this time it's not an unfruitful vine anymore because God is undoing what was corrupted by the people originally. So chapter 27 is another glimpse of that hope of, hey, God's gonna have another vineyard, and this time it's gonna be the idealized vineyard under the reign of Christ while he is there reigning from the millennial kingdom. That's exciting. Now we're done. Okay. Alright. Let's pray. God, thanks for our future hope in an eternity that is exciting and and one that we should look forward to and that we can look forward to. And even as we enjoy these earthly pleasures here in our physical bodies, we can be reminded that those things are gonna be maximized in your presence to, to read Psalm 1611. That in your presence is the fullness of joy at your right hand. Our pleasures forevermore. That is the future that. Awaits us. And though, yes it's about your glory and it's about Jesus. Part of your immense love for us is that you've prepared an eternity for us where we will glorify you through through the bliss of our existence as human beings there in a world without sin. Lord I'm reminded even of Dr. MacArthur's words lately, when before he died, somebody was asking him about eternity and he said the thing he's looking for most about eternity is not sinning anymore because he hates sin. And even just that reality, God, that we will be in physical bodies and never sin against another person or be sinned against is something that we can't wait for in the meantime. Help us to be found faithful here while we do wait and we pray this in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Keep reading your Bibles. Tune in again tomorrow for another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. Bye Yelp. Bye.

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