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The Story that Changes Everything is a podcast hosted by pastor and professor Dr. Scott Daniels. The podcast serves as a guide for people who want to read through the Scripture in a year. Each day Dr. Daniels shares his reflections so that readers can get the most out of their journey. In addition to the daily podcasts, longer interviews will take place with various commentary writers for those who want to go even more in-depth into the beauty and truth of the Bible.
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After a break of about 160 years, the voice of comfort breaks into exile and speaks words of hope and newness for God's people.
Hezekiah responds to the threats of Sennacherib by running to the temple and throwing himself down in prayer and in trust in God. God not only delivers him from Assyria but from illness as well.
The places that flourish with injustice will be devastated, and the places of desertion and barrenness will be renewed in God's great reversal. These texts also step back into history with the trash-talk of Assyria against Jerusalem and Judah's God.
The woes continue, but there is hope that God will bring about a new king who will be the source of God's sustained peace.
The question is one of security for Isaiah. Where do the leaders of God's people find their hope and strength? Isaiah is afraid their trust in Egypt is a sign of a lack of trust in God.
The Little Apocalypse of Isaiah concludes with laments, but also with the hope that God will conquer even death itself.
The oracles against the nations end with judgment upon the unjust economic systems of the world and then transition into the "Little Apocalypse" of Isaiah. No one is exempt from God's judgment.
The oracles against the nations continue with a word against Egypt. But the irony is that there is a hope that Egypt will repent and draw near to God. Like Israel, the prophetic hopes are that whatever wounding Egypt experiences would become the source of its healing.
The oracles against the nations continues with a lament over Moab and a word against Cush. In the midst of judgment is still the hope that the nations would stream to Jerusalem and come to know the ways of the LORD.
The book of Isaiah turns in this section to the Oracles Against the Nations. The oracles begin with one against Babylon, the empire that in the imagination of Israel is most problematic because of its great allure.
The visions of hope break forth. The stump will not have the last word, but a shoot will bring a new creation that invites the lion and lamb to lay down together.
Isaiah and Ahaz have a confrontation. Ahaz refuses to trust or even ask for a sign. But God will give him a sign anyway.
Isaiah experiences his call. He winds up in the holiest place but instead of being destroyed he is healed and sent with a message.
We've reached the halfway point through the Bible and enter the beautiful book of Isaiah. The prophet speaks words of both judgment and hope that Jerusalem can not only survive but become a light to the nations.
The Song of Songs ends as though the whole poem may have been words of expectation from a woman still too young to marry. The psalm for today also waits in expectation for God to come and make things new.
There is nothing more painful than young love separated. But nothing better than young love reunited. It is a reminder that we were created as desirers and we are what we love.
Love is in the air as we read the Song of Songs. Although there is not a lot to glean theologically from this book, there is much to be said about how God created us and the kinds of relationships God hopes for us to have to be found here.
The book of Ecclesiastes ends with the recognition that the Teacher was right. Life is hard to hold onto. We should receive the life we have as gift. And we should obey God and trust that God sees and will reward the righteous.
The Teacher of Ecclesiastes laments how little folly it takes to overcome the good results of wisdom. He hopes for some kind of restitution or justice to happen after life is over.
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