Exploring Isaiah Chapters 2-5: Peace, Pride, Picture, and Planting (Isaiah: Lesson 2)

Overview

Four "P's" from Isaiah 2–5: Peace, Pride, Picture, and Planting

Isaiah opens this section with a breathtaking vision of peace. In Isaiah 2:1-4, the prophet sees the mountain of the Lord lifted up, with all nations streaming to it and swords being beaten into plowshares. While this verse is famously inscribed at the United Nations, the peace Isaiah envisions cannot be achieved by political effort. Jesus himself never promised earthly peace—in Matthew 24:3-13 he warned of wars, persecution, and lawlessness continuing until he returns. The mountain Isaiah sees is the church gathered through the New Testament era, and the fullness of this peace is our heavenly home. In the meantime, Paul urges in Romans 12:14-18 that "so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all."

The vision quickly turns to the pride of God's people. In Isaiah 2:6-9, Judah is indicted for consulting psychics, hoarding silver and gold, and filling the land with idols—sins that sound strikingly contemporary. Isaiah 2:11 declares that "the Lord alone will be exalted on that day," a phrase repeated some fifty times in Isaiah, almost always pointing to judgment. Every false security will collapse. Philippians 2:9-11 reminds us that every knee will indeed bow to Christ; those who spurn his mercy will meet only his justice.

Chapters 3–4 paint a sobering picture of judgment falling on a rebellious people. Isaiah 3:1-8 describes a catastrophic crisis of leadership: food and water removed, capable leaders taken away, society fracturing into anarchy. Yet even here, Isaiah 3:10 speaks tenderly to those waiting on the Messiah—"Tell the innocent how fortunate they are." Then Isaiah 4:2-6 closes with the promise of "the branch of the Lord," a Messianic image of Christ who washes away filth, covers his people with a canopy of glory, and provides shelter from storm and heat. Isaiah 2 and Isaiah 4 thus form bookends of grace surrounding the harsh realities of human pride. For us, baptism and the promise of eternal life are the bookends that hold our lives steady in a broken world.

Finally, the song of the vineyard in Isaiah 5:1-4 reveals the heartbreak of God's planting: he prepared the soil, planted choice vines, and expected good fruit—but Judah yielded only oppression and injustice. We are not exempt from this indictment. Jesus picks up the same imagery in John 15:1-5: he is the true vine, his Father is the vinedresser, and apart from him we can do nothing. The good news is that the Messiah bore the sin of unfaithful branches and grafts believers into himself. Our righteousness is never our own.

Pastoral application: See those around you—family, neighbors, coworkers—as people with an eternal destiny. Resist the comfortable assumption that "those Israelites were foolish" while we are wiser; God shatters self-righteousness wherever it grows. Live within the bookends of God's grace: claimed in baptism, promised eternal life, and called to faithfully proclaim Christ in every season of conflict, career, and relationship until the day his peace comes in fullness.

Transcript

Gracious Heavenly Father, how good it is to be in your house on this the Lord's day. 3s

We give you thanks for your word, for your word is truth, and we ask, O Lord, that as we 8s

open up the pages of Isaiah, that you will speak to us through your word. 13s

Bless now our study to your glory in Jesus' name. 19s

Amen. 23s

Well, last week we put a little pavement down for our weeks of study in Isaiah. 24s

We took a look at the social and the political and the spiritual stage for the book of Isaiah. 31s

And we saw how God sent prophets to speak to the people, to call them to repentance. 40s

And we studied about the call to the prophet Isaiah. 48s

That was a traumatic experience for Isaiah because there was the encounter with the holiness 53s

of God. 61s

We see that theme as we explored it last week of when you come to encounter the holiness 62s

of God when you become aware of God's perfection and our sinfulness that we see consistently 67s

in Scripture. 76s

This expression of terror and fear. 77s

And that's what we had with Isaiah, but we received, we saw the word of absolution coming 81s

to Isaiah and his call into ministry. 87s

We took a look at how law and gospel is so much apart throughout Scripture, of course, 91s

of every book, but so much apart of Isaiah. 97s

And the first part of Isaiah predominantly with regard to the law, the emphasis on the 101s

on the law, and we see more of the gospel in the second part of Isaiah. 109s

We studied how Isaiah is known as the prophet of the Redeemer. 116s

There's no book that is quoted more, no prophet quoted more in the New Testament than 119s

then Isaiah. 126s

Well, today we'd like to study with you chapters 2 to 5, and I'd like to give you four 128s

peas around which we're going to study. 137s

It just reminded me of what is that insurance commercial where they say, and what are the 141s

four peas? 146s

Alex and its price, price, price, price. 148s

Well, I'm not going to give that to you. 151s

There's a different four peas that are going to organize our thoughts here today. 154s

One is a piece. 160s

The second is a pride. 163s

The third is picture, and the fourth is planting. 166s

So in chapters 2 to 5, those four peas are going to be the ones that are kind of our 174s

organizing principle here as we move through this chapter. 180s

So let's go to Isaiah chapter 2, and we'll pick up in verse 1. 185s

Isaiah chapter 2, verse 1, good way to find Isaiah is to open up to the book of Psalms and 191s

move right. 197s

Psalms, Proverbs, ecclesiastes, song of Solomon, and then you hit Isaiah. 198s

Isaiah chapter 2, verse 1. 204s

The word that Isaiah, some of Amos, saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. 208s

The book of Isaiah is a series of prophecies. 216s

It's a series of prophecies, and this section gives us this picture of peace, verse 2. 220s

In days to come, the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be raised above the hills. 230s

All the nations shall stream to it. 242s

In the days to come, it can also be translated the latter days. 248s

It's in the end of days to get a literal translation. 253s

And what this verse is looking forward to is the New Testament era. 259s

The New Testament era that starts, of course, with the birth of Christ, and it goes until the last judgment. 264s

Verse 3. 272s

Many people shall come and say, come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways, and that we may walk in his paths. 274s

This New Jerusalem, or this Jerusalem here that is being referred to, this mountain here, is the church. 292s

In the beautiful picture here of all peoples will stream to it. 302s

It's a lovely, lovely picture. 308s

Verse 4. 312s

He shall judge between the nations, and shall arbitrate for many peoples. 313s

They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. 319s

Nations shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore. 326s

In the United Nations, plaza, this verse is on a wall. 333s

It's a glorious, glorious verse. 340s

But the piece that is being talked about here is not a piece that can be achieved through political means, even though it's applied there with regard to the United Nations. 343s

It's a piece that is only achieved from God through Christ. 354s

Jesus never promised earthly peace. 362s

Never promised earthly peace. 366s

He said that conflicts would continue until he came again. 370s

Let's keep our finger here, and let's go over to Matthew chapter 24. 375s

Matthew 24. 381s

And we'll pick up in verse 3. 383s

Matthew 24, verse 3. 388s

When he was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately saying, 400s

When will this be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age? 405s

Jesus answered them, beware that no one leads you astray, for many will come in my name saying, 411s

I am the Messiah, and they will lead many astray. 415s

And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars, see that you are not alarmed for this must take place, but the end is not yet. 420s

For nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places. 430s

All this is but the beginning of the birth pangs. 438s

Then they will hand you over to be tortured and will put you to death and you will be hated by all nations because of my name. 444s

Then many will fall away and they will portray one another and hate one another. 452s

And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray. 457s

And because of the increase of lawlessness, the love of many will grow cold. 461s

But the one who endures to the end will be saved. 467s

As Christians, we should not be surprised with regard to the conflict in the world. 473s

We should not be surprised about it at all. 482s

Why is there conflict because there is sin in the world? 485s

And in fact, we see here from Scripture that it will continue to get worse until the Lord comes again. 488s

We should not be surprised about this at all. 497s

The fullness of the peace here that Isaiah is referring to is the peace of our heavenly home. 502s

There then is complete love and complete unity. 509s

And we can draw on the power of God to live as best as we can as a people of peace with those around us. 515s

Let's go to Romans, the twelfth chapter, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts, and then Romans. 526s

Romans 12, picking up in verse 14. 534s

Bless those who persecute you. 544s

Bless and do not curse them. 547s

Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. 550s

Live in harmony with one another, do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. 555s

Do not claim to be wiser than you are. 560s

Do not repay anyone evil for evil, but take thought for what is noble in the sight of all. 564s

If it is possible so far as it depends on you, live peacefully with all. 571s

Did you catch there? 578s

If it's possible so far as it depends on you, live peacefully with all. 580s

Peace is a challenge, is it not? 586s

Because you got two parties there with regard to the peace. 589s

As much as possible then, we are to live with peace with all. 592s

So Isaiah here in the second chapter, he's talking about this peace of the Lord, this peace of the Lord that will not come in his fullness until our heavenly home. 599s

The picture here is of the church and by God's grace people being brought in the New Testament era here from the birth of Christ until the judgment day of God being brought in by the grace of God into the church. 609s

It's this picture of God calling and lightning his church. 629s

It's a glorious, lovely picture. 633s

So the first p then that we have here is this peace. 637s

Then the lens ships to pride, the pride of God's people. 644s

Look at verse 5, chapter 2. 650s

O house of Jacob, come let us walk in the light of the Lord. 654s

In Psalm 119, 105, it says, your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my half. 662s

God's word for us, but God's people here were not walking in the light as Isaiah writes, picking up in verse 6. 672s

For you forsaken the ways of your people, O house of Jacob. 682s

Indeed, they're full of diviners from the east and of soothsayers like the Philistines and they clasp hands with foreigners. 687s

Their land is filled with silver and gold and there's no end to their treasures. 697s

Their land is filled with horses and there's no end to their chariots. 702s

We see then here that God is condemning as the people sought psychics, how they clung to their wealth of silver and gold and horses, how they filled verse 8, their land with idols, seeking psychics, clinging to their wealth, filling the land with idols. 707s

Does it sound like today? 728s

Indeed. 731s

The law comes and convicts us today too. Look at verse 9. 733s

And so people are humbled and everyone is brought low. 740s

Do not forgive them. 745s

Now, we've got to be precise on that because that's not a call to withhold forgiveness, but it's a call to not ignore idolatry and to work for the removal. 749s

Of the idols. 762s

We see then the folly of human pride and the security blankets here that God is condemning that the people were wrapping themselves in verse 11. 764s

The haughty eyes of people shall be brought low and the pride of everyone shall be humbled and the Lord alone will be exalted on that day. 775s

For the Lord of hosts has a day against all that is proud and lofty against all that is lifted up and high, against all the cedars of Lebanon lofty and lifted up against all the oaks of basha'n, against all the high mountains and against all the lofty hills, against every high tower, and against every fortified wall, against all the ships of Tarshish and against all the beautiful craft. 784s

The haughtiness of people shall be humbled and the pride of everyone shall be brought low and the Lord alone will be exalted on that day. 813s

The idols shall utterly pass away, enter the caves of the rocks and the holes of the ground from the terror of the Lord and from the glory of His majesty when He rises to terrify the earth. 822s

On that day people will throw away to the moles and to the bats their idols of silver and their idols of gold which they made for themselves to worship, to enter the caverns of the rocks and the cliffs and the crags from the terror of the Lord and from the glory of His majesty when He rises to terrify the earth. 835s

Turn away from mortals who have only breath in their nostrils for of what account are they. 856s

In verse 11 it says in the very last three words on that day that's a favorite phrase of Isaiah that pops up 50 times in the book of Isaiah. 868s

It can be used for particular situations. 883s

Most of the time when you see that most of the time what is being referred to is judgment. 888s

So it's quite a juxtaposition here of pictures isn't it? 899s

Starting with the piece that is ours in heavenly home by God's grace people streaming to the church to the mountain there. 902s

And then the revelation of the pride of the people and the coming of God in judgment. 914s

Take a look please at Philippians chapter 2 Matthew Mark Luke John, Acts and Romans, 1st and 2nd Corinthians, Galatians Ephesians and then Philippians. 923s

Philippians chapter 2. 936s

And here speaking of Jesus, let's pick up in verse 9. 942s

Therefore God also highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend in heaven and on earth and under the earth and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of the Father. 952s

The image is peace, the reality is pride, the knees bending to the Lord Jesus Christ. 974s

When the Lord comes again those who have spurned the mercy of God, we'll simply see His justice. We'll simply see judgment. 984s

Peace moving into pride, how a picture. 997s

Chapter 3 and 4. 1002s

Chapter 3 and 4 of Isaiah. 1004s

They make one unified point. 1008s

So if you're a Bible writer you might want to put in the margins here. 1012s

That God's wrath will fall on His people. 1016s

God's wrath will fall on His rebellious people of that day and also in the final judgment. 1020s

Remember our Lord comes first to save. He comes the second time to judge. 1028s

And we see how Isaiah reveals God's judgment now as he's swinging from pictures here. 1037s

He's swinging from the picture of the peace in heavenly home and then he's swinging back here to the judgment on the people. 1046s

He now talks about the judgment that's going to fall on the people of the breakdown of the social order of Judah. 1053s

So part of God's judgment here is that the social order of Judah is going to fracture and chaos is going to result. 1063s

What Isaiah paints here is this picture of this catastrophic crisis of leadership. 1075s

A catastrophic crisis. 1085s

Look at the chapter 3 verse 1, please. 1089s

For now the sovereign, the Lord of hosts, is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah. 1094s

Support and staff. 1101s

All support have bred and all support of water. 1103s

So as part of the judgment here that Isaiah hears prophesying upon Judah, there's going to be a lack of food and there's going to be a lack of water. 1109s

Verse 2. 1122s

Warrior and soldier judge and profit the diviner and elder. 1124s

Captain of 50 and dignitary, counselor and skillful, magician and expert and shanter. 1128s

What's the context then? It's that which the Lord is, is taking away. 1136s

So anyone then with any skill or experience or leadership ability or the ability to make decisions here are either going to be a great deal of support. 1142s

So we're going to die under the judgment of God here as the judgment falls upon Judah or we're going to see or be deported here. 1152s

So there's a catastrophic here crisis of leadership. 1161s

Verse 5. 1167s

The people will be oppressed. 1168s

Everyone by another and everyone by a neighbor. 1170s

The youth will be insolent to the elder and the base to the honorable. 1174s

What this is referring to here is there's going to be anarchy here in Judah. 1180s

The rule of law will give way. 1187s

The structures that hold society give way. 1190s

The rule of law is abandoned. 1195s

Verse 6. 1199s

Someone will even seize a relative, a member of the clan saying, you have a cloak. 1200s

You shall be our leader. 1206s

And this heap of ruins shall be under your rule. 1207s

So as part of the fracturing and the judgment that leads to the chaos in society, no one's going to want to lead. 1212s

No one's going to want to to rule. 1220s

Verse 8. 1224s

Their land is filled with idols they bow down to the work of their hands to what their own fingers have made. 1226s

And so people are humbled and everyone is brought low. 1233s

Do not forgive them. 1237s

The people will refuse to confess their sinfulness. 1240s

They'll continue to speak an act in rebellion against God. 1247s

That's a long way from the beginning here of chapter 2. 1254s

From the pictures of heaven, then we see the pride of the people. 1258s

Then it's the picture of God's judgment that is to come upon a Judah. 1262s

The question then to ask, does God take sin lightly? 1272s

No. He never has. 1276s

He never will. 1280s

He sent his own son to redeem us from the reality of our sinfulness. 1282s

And we see here this picture of judgment coming upon the people. 1288s

But notice verse 10. 1292s

In chapter 3. 1295s

Tell the innocent how fortunate they are. 1301s

For they shall eat the fruit of their labors. 1306s

Tell the innocent how fortunate they are. 1311s

For they shall eat the fruit of their labors. 1313s

Who's that referring to? 1319s

But it's those who are anticipating the Messiah to come. 1321s

Who believe in the Messiah to come. 1324s

Again. 1329s

Those that reject mercy will face justice. 1330s

But here we see those who are anticipating of the Messiah. 1335s

And they are referred to here as the innocent. 1342s

How do we apply all this? 1349s

How do you apply this section? 1352s

I think it's so important for us to see each other as having a good life. 1354s

Having an eternal destiny. 1359s

An eternal destiny. 1362s

Everybody does. 1364s

To see our family members with an eternal destiny. 1367s

To see our neighbors with an eternal destiny. 1370s

To see that the Lord has given us time this side of heaven and gifted us with life. 1373s

To bring him glory. 1380s

And how do we bring him glory? 1382s

But we bring him glory by confessing Christ. 1384s

That's our call here. 1389s

We do it through various avenues. 1391s

In our lives we can come so obsessed with career. 1394s

Or we can be obsessed with relationships. 1401s

Not that those are an important here. 1404s

But the important thing is amidst our career and amidst our relationships to proclaim Christ. 1407s

Because your neighbor that slept in this morning has an eternal destiny. 1414s

Your family member who doesn't know Christ has an eternal destiny. 1424s

Because we will all stand before God on judgment day. 1430s

And so how then do we see one another? 1437s

To the eyes of compassion and see them standing before God one day. 1439s

Because God does not wink at sin. 1448s

And those outside of the relationship with Christ are lost for all of eternity. 1452s

And the Bible calls that hell and describes it. 1459s

We don't scare someone into salvation. That never works. 1465s

Never works. 1470s

But we are called the faithfully proclaimed law and gospel. 1472s

And how do we look at one another and say, 1476s

These pictures of judgment here that we see of God coming upon Judah here because of their sin, 1479s

these pictures of judgment. 1485s

Extreple it back and pull that back to the day of judgment. 1489s

When we see God separating the sheep from the goats. 1494s

And so how do we see one another? 1501s

How do we see one another with the eyes that we see them as someone who has an eternal destiny to them? 1504s

We go on. 1516s

Verse 13. 1518s

We see the leaders here. 1520s

We are no better than the people. 1523s

Verse 13 against all the cedars of, excuse me, verse chapter 3. 1526s

The Lord rises to argue, is, 1531s

K, she stands to judge the peoples. 1532s

The Lord enters into judgment with the elders and princes of his peoples. 1534s

It is you who have devoured the vineyard, the spoil of the poor, is in your houses. 1539s

What do you mean by crushing my people by grinding the face of the poor, says the Lord God of hosts? 1545s

You see, the leaders bore responsibility not only for their personal sin, 1553s

but also for leading the nation of stray. 1557s

Let's jump down to verse 4 now, or chapter 4. 1562s

Verse 2. 1566s

He's here Isaiah's picture of judgment, ends with this picture of, of grace. 1568s

Verse 2. 1576s

On that day, the branch of the Lord shall be beautiful and glorious, 1579s

and the fruit of the land shall be the pride and glory of the survivors. 1584s

The branch here that is being referred to, for the sake of time, 1593s

I can't pull other scripture passages to prove my point here, 1597s

so I'm going to ask you to trust me on this. 1602s

We see in scripture also the branch referring to the Messiah to come. 1604s

The branch is Christ. 1611s

Verse 3. 1613s

Whoever's left in Zion and remains in Jerusalem will be called holy. 1614s

Everyone who has been recorded for life in Jerusalem. 1620s

It is through Christ that we are declared holy, 1625s

Christ bearing our sin on the cross, Christ coming with the victory of the cross 1629s

and washing us in His Word, wrapping us in the righteous garment, verse 4. 1633s

Once the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion 1641s

and cleans the blood stains of Jerusalem from its midst by a spirit of judgment 1646s

and by a spirit of burning. 1652s

Through Christ, the filth of our sin is washed away. 1656s

And notice these beautiful promises and the Lord will create over the whole sight of Mount Zion. 1661s

And over its places of assembly, a cloud by day and smoke in the shining of a flaming fire by night, 1668s

indeed, over all the glory there will be a canopy. 1675s

He's going to be light in our times of darkness, shade here when we find ourselves 1681s

taking the heat of living, a place of refuge and shelter. 1688s

Verse 6. 1696s

It will serve as a privilege and a shade by day from the heat and a refuge in a shelter 1697s

from the storm and rain. 1702s

Isaiah 2 1 to 4. 1708s

And Isaiah 5 2 through 6 are bookends. 1711s

Their bookends of grace omits all of this talk and the pictures of judgment. 1718s

These bookends of grace are held up. 1728s

And you see Isaiah here giving the picture of heaven. 1731s

And now you see him return here at the conclusion of chapter 4 and giving the picture of what is accomplished through the Messiah. 1735s

This New Testament era here, he's prophesying of what will come to the people of Judah but intertwined in it, 1747s

is also these pictures of grace through the Messiah that come and extend to us. 1755s

These bookends for us are baptism and promised eternal life are our bookends for us, right? 1763s

As we go about, as we go about living. 1774s

Knowing that God has claimed us in the waters of baptism and knowing our eternal destiny, we live here in these in between times, knowing the bookends that are ours. 1777s

You know, in my shelf in the office there, I've got on some of the shelves, you know, the bookends there, right? 1792s

If I take that apart, you know, some of the books will just kind of fall over but the bookends kind of hold everything in place. 1798s

And that's how we live, right? 1809s

As we live in a sinful world, as we live in a world, this side of heaven in which we are not promised peace, we have the bookends of our baptism, the promise of life eternal, the promise of who we are in Christ Jesus. 1811s

And that is our confidence for living. 1826s

It is living in the faithfulness and the promises of God and living in the bookends and God inspires Isaiah to give this picture of peace, pride, and then the picture here, not only of judgment, but the picture of heaven itself. 1831s

And the picture of redemption through Christ. 1854s

Lastly, let's go to chapter 5. 1859s

Let me sing from my beloved, my love song, concerning his vineyard. 1864s

My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. He dug it and cleared it of stones and planted it with choice vines. He built a watchtower in the midst of it and hew it out a wine vat in it. 1870s

He expected it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes. 1884s

And now inhabitants of Jerusalem and people of Judah judged between me and my vineyard. 1892s

What more was there to do for my vineyard that I've not done in it? 1898s

When I expected it to yield grapes, why did it yield wild grapes? 1902s

The people of Judah were planted by the Lord and what God found in the people that he had planted was oppression and injustice. 1911s

You see him swinging? You see him swinging here? Now we're back to this sinfulness. 1924s

Let's pull back. Let's go to John chapter 15. 1932s

John chapter 15, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and then John. 1937s

John 15 verses 1 to 5. 1942s

And notice the planting picture here that we receive in the New Testament. 1947s

Jesus said, I'm the true vine and my father is the vine grower. 1956s

He removes every branch in me that bears no fruit. 1961s

Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes to make it bear more fruit. 1964s

You've already been cleansed by the word that I've spoken to you abided me as I ablide in you. 1970s

Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me. 1977s

We see here the bookend at the end of four lived out in the graciousness of Christ. 1989s

We understand that he's the vine and we are the branches. 1999s

We see the condemnation upon what he planted and their sinfulness. 2005s

And we see here the Messiah bearing the sin of the world, including your and mine and grafting us into Him. 2013s

We can be tempted to think as we read this. 2026s

Those Israelites were really foolish. 2031s

Those Israelites were really foolish and I'm so glad that we're not so foolish today. 2036s

That could be the temptation. 2044s

Those bad people. 2047s

Instead, God's shatters our self-righteousness. 2053s

Shatters it. 2058s

But it's only by the righteousness of our Lord's suffering and death and resurrection. 2062s

Because as God condemned the people of Judah for their sin so also, we are condemned for our sin. 2068s

But the bookends of His grace lived out in the Lord Jesus Christ. 2077s

We are a forgiven people, claimed in the waters of baptism, given an eternal destiny, and then are empowered to live in the in-between times of the bookends in the confidence. 2083s

In a sinful, broken world, the confidence of who God is and that we belong to Him. 2097s

And in any vestige of our self-righteousness, He keeps ripping away and showing that our righteousness is only through Christ. 2107s

Chapters 2 to 5, then, it's the picture of peace in heaven, it's the reality of our pride. 2120s

It's the picture that left to ourselves we deserve nothing but judgment. 2129s

And it's the planting of us as branches on His vine. 2136s

Well, next week we're going to study chapter 7 to 9, and it's going to feel a little bit like Advent. 2143s

O'com, O'com Emanuel, and we're going to study His eloquent writing of the sign of Emanuel. 2152s

We'll see you next week. 2163s

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