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Alright, so Isaiah chapter number seven, we're gonna dig right in here. This is there's events here now in these chapters that we're gonna be dealing with for the next few chapters that are also dealt with in other passages in the Kings and Chronicles. So I'm gonna spend a little bit of time this evening because this story takes place over multiple chapters, we're gonna actually look at some of the other chapters. We're gonna read a little bit here first and then kind of go back and look at some of the supporting scripture to help us just get a clear picture of what's going on during this time. I think it's always helpful to see from other passages to get the most clear picture you can of everything that's going on. Now obviously there's even more places that we can turn to. I believe it's the book of Hosea takes place during about the same time as this does and also what was the other one I was just studying this yesterday there's a one of the other books that specifically mentions that it was it takes place during this time especially during the time of Ahaz so the king the kingdom of Ahaz that's the the time frame of Micah that's what it was it was during the book of Micah as well as Hosea so if you're interested you know read those books this week you know go through and read them as as we're going through Isaiah you get you get yourself into the the right time frame here I mentioned from chapter one you know there's four kings that reign during the time of Isaiah's prophecies now we're already though kind of fast-forwarded all the way to the days of Ahaz so in Isaiah chapter 7 verse number 1 Bible says it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah that reason the king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel went up toward Jerusalem to war against it but could not prevail against it so this is now starting the time frame right of course during this rain and other prophets like Micah and Hosea I think they start either they might start during Isaiah but definitely they have a time of their prophecy during Ahaz as well so you can read through those and you can start making connections with different events that are going on but what's really interesting and I've said this before you know when I when I preach on chapter 1 how there's multiple good kings in here Ahaz is a bad king Ahaz is a king that did not follow the Lord he goes down in history as being a wicked king but the other three kings were recorded as being you know good overall just just good kings right they weren't they weren't bad they weren't wicked so but even though those kings were good the people were really really wicked the people are extremely wicked and and the more you read you know Isaiah you read Micah you read Hosea you're gonna see like man the people were actually really wicked and really bad so it's you know everything doesn't just depend on the the spirituality of the person in charge of a country right like like one of the things that we're gonna learn especially hopefully I've reiterated this multiple times you know don't get hung up on who the political leadership is now what the God we'd have a godly political leadership because when that's the case you're gonna be able to experience more freedom in general but at the end of the day they're not going to save you from God's judgment if you as a people are living wickedly if we had the most libertarian freedom-minded political leader that could possibly take the office of presidency if we had Ron Paul and he'd like brought the government down to a more constitutional size and everything else hey that would be great I would like to see that but you know what none of that would matter if our culture continues to go down this horrible just reprobate type of direction that it's going in right now and and then you know that's not gonna save us God's still gonna bring his judgment and he's still gonna preach the the doom and gloom through his prophets for the people to repent and and and warn of the judgment that's to come because that's exactly what we see you read through the book of Isaiah by you know especially these early books until we get later on it's a lot of negative messages against the children of Judah and the children of Israel so anyhow I just I just want to bring that up again and especially as we you know when so these are some of the things you learn at higher levels when you're when you're starting to put everything together in the Bible you start to see really everything that's going on so I encourage you to look in those books there's always too much to put into one sermon anyway so anyway let's keep reading Isaiah seven verse number two boxes and it was told the house of David saying Syria's confederate with Ephraim so yeah the you know the Syrians now have joined up with Ephraim Ephraim supposed to be you know of you know their brethren of Judah right but we know after the split of the kingdom there's there was different people who rose up and there's wars between Israel and Judah there's some times that they were working together and then other times like we see here where they're pitted against each other and we see now we got Syria and Ephraim are yoking up together it says his heart was moved in the heart of his people as the trees of the water moved with the wind then said the Lord unto Isaiah go forth now to meet a has thou and sheer jash of thy son at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the Fuller's field and say unto him take heed and be quiet fear not neither be faint-hearted for the two tales of these smoking firebrands for the fierce anger of reason with Syria and of the son of Remaliah so what and I'm gonna get in this a little bit more later but what's really interesting about this too is that I said before it has is a wicked King yet we still see here that God is in charge and we're going to see that later that when God decides no no no I don't want this to come to pass it's not going to come to pass so another thing that we could take comfort in is that regardless of our leadership right if God wants something to happen it doesn't matter who's in charge because God ultimately is in charge so we don't need to fret we don't need to get upset we don't need to to worry and be anxious about all these things that can go out in the world that you have no control over anyways right we just need to stay focused on hey we're going to serve the Lord we're trying to get other people to serve the Lord we're going to go out and try to get people saved we're going to try to get people baptized we're going to try to make disciples and get people to follow and obey the commandments of the Lord and just see how many more people we can get and we can persuade and we could we could have an impact on the people around us that's all we can do it's all we can do so there's no reason to worry and stress over all the things that you can't control and at the end of the day if God is going to do something then he's going to do it he's going to allow things that means allowing that baby's allow us to go into bondage we're going to bondage that is what it is it'll be a result of judgment but that's why all we can do is is serve the Lord to the best of our abilities and and things are going to play out the way they play out which means you can have joy in your life regardless of what's going on all around you and truly this is what if you're at the camping trip what Pastor Anderson was talking about when he when he mentioned that meme of the dog where everything's burning your house burn everything's around him he's like this is fine because when you're serving God that's how I mean what else are you going to do right we're going to be thankful to be content with what we have we're going to serve the Lord and it is what it is there's a peace and a comfort with with that and with just trusting in God now turn back if you would to second Kings chapter 15 and I'm going to try not to preach too much through these books I just want to give the backstory of where we jumped into here in Isaiah chapter 7 because we kind of just jump you know Isaiah sequential but like you're we're just kind of popping in at different moments of time in history so so we're jumping in here with the reign of Ahaz king of Judah and we're going to see a little bit of the history of Israel first in 2nd Kings chapter 15 the Bible says in verse number 23 in the 50th year of Azariah king of Judah Pekahiah the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria and reigned for two years and he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who made Israel to sin but Pekah the son of Remaliah a captain of his conspired against him so this is that mention of Pekah the son of Remaliah which is also being referenced in Isaiah chapter 7 verse 1 so this is why we're going back here so you can see a little bit about who is this guy how did he become to be king of Israel what do who is this person it says here that when Pekahiah was reigning over Israel he was he was only a king for two years and then this is just one of his captains right this is someone that he had in charge someone who's who was at a high level underneath him but one of his subordinates conspired against him and smote him in Samaria in the palace of the king's house with Argab and Aria and with met with him 50 men of the Gileadites and he killed him in rain in his room so he basically just takes over the kingdom that's that's who this guy is he's someone who's just gonna come in and he takes over the kingdom and just says well I'm gonna rain and then it says in verse 26 the rest of the acts of Pekahiah and all that he did behold they are written in the book of Chronicles of kings of Israel and in the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel and Samaria and reign 20 years so this is just the beginning of him starting to reign obviously he reigned for 20 years so in Isaiah 7 we're not at the beginning of his reign it's it's it's probably closer to the end but anyhow just keep that in mind we'll keep reading verse number 28 and he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who made Israel to sin in the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria and took I John and Abel-Bithmaica and Genoa and Kadesh and Hazor and Gilead and Galilee all the land of Naphtali and carried them captive to Assyria and Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah and smote him and slew him and reigned in his stead in the 20th year of Jotham the son of Uzziah and the rest of the acts of Pekah and all that he did behold they are written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel so Pekah is not a good guy and it says in verse 32 in the second year of Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign five and twenty years old was he when he began to reign and he reigned 16 years in Jerusalem and his mother's name was Jerusha the son of Zadok and he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done how be it the high places were not removed the people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places he built the higher gate of the house of the Lord now the rest of acts of Jotham and all that he did are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of kings of Judah in those days the Lord began to send against Judah reason the king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah flip over to chapter 16 of second Kings second Kings chapter 16 we're sorry in verse number five then reason king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war and they besieged you now before I even get into this I just want to just real briefly in the Kings you have a little bit of jumping around and you probably noticed that right there because there's facts and statements that the Bible is making about like okay he started raining now and he ended raining here and this is how he died and everything else right and it just says like basic as again but then it goes back now and it's starting to tell another story about them coming up against Jerusalem later on in the chapter that happens a lot so you just have to be paying attention when you're reading the Bible don't let it confuse you all it is and you know it's really not that complicated the Bible is just trying to finish like complete thoughts right and then going back in describing other things in more detail one of the most common problems that people will bring up where atheists will bring up about the Bible and these critics of creation is they'll bring up like you're like oh there's contradiction in Genesis chapter 2 after like you know Genesis 1 goes through all this creation like well when when were Adam and Eve actually created what day were they created on he already rested on seventh day and now we're seeing Adam being formed out of the dust you know it's like look he went over the week of creation and then goes back in a little bit further detail to give us more info on what happened on day six like it's not that hard to understand but these these people want to try to bring up make an issue out of nothing because they just don't even understand how to read ultimately because you have reading comprehension you even have to be saved have reading comprehension and understand that yeah you can have a section of time complete thought let's go back and with a little bit more of a microscope and examine what happened more closely on a particular day or particular time frame that's what's going on here so I just I just want to make mention of that and I don't want anyone trying to shake your faith and you know what if you get a little bit confused then just go back reread it and you know write some things down just write it down right down okay well he started here and just start writing down facts and then you can see how they fit together if it just sounds real confusing right you can take a person and say okay here's a person I'm just gonna write facts about him here's another person I'm gonna write facts about this person I'm gonna you know and then and then see how they fit together and that'll help you and I'll stay with you I'll help you to know the people to Bible more and then when you're reading these stories you won't be worried about being confused about those things you can start learning other things the Bible is actually trying to teach because you already got some of those basics down anyways just let's keep reading here in 2nd Kings 16 I'm gonna reread verse number 5 the Bible says then reason King of Syria and Pekah son of remilai a king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war and they beseeched Ahaz but could not overcome him and this is this is kind of the point where we're at in Isaiah chapter 7 I wanted to give how Pekah came in to being king and things like that before we got into this but this is more what Isaiah 7 is dealing with specifically is reason and Pekah joining up yoking up to war against Jerusalem besieging Ahaz which means they surrounded the city to try to cut off the resources and choke them out and starve them out but they weren't able to be successful with that so they could not overcome him verse 6 at that time reason King of Syria recovered Elath to Syria and drove the Jews from Elath and the Syrians came to Elath and dwelt there unto this day and this I think I can't remember this off the top of my head this might be the first reference of the word Jews being used I know it's it's pretty close to this area if it's not because the Jews are being referred to those in Judah not you know because obviously Israel and Syria on the same team and this is referring to the Jews like the the Jews from Judea so anyhow side note don't wanna get distracted on that either verse 7 so Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath police or king of Assyria saying I am thy servant in thy son come up and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria and out of the hand of the king of Israel which rise up against me and Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the Lord and in the treasures of the king's house and sent it for a present to the king of Assyria and the king of Assyria hearkened unto him for the king of Assyria went up against Damascus and took it and carried the people of it captive to Ker and slew reason so we see here as is completely just relying on an arm of flesh he's not relying on the Lord he doesn't worship the Lord he's not a godly man he's just he's actually taking you know the silver and the gold out of God's house out of the Lord's house to try to pay off this guy to come and help him out and we saw in second Kings 15 that this Tiglath police or he comes in any heat conquers all kinds of cities for me he takes a lot away from Israel right when they come to wage war against Jerusalem flip over to 2nd Chronicles chapter 28 2nd Chronicles 28 and these are all just facts that you don't find in Isaiah 7 it's one of reasons why I want to want to cover this and we can see a little bit get some insight into Ahaz get the insight into Pekah and and as well as reason 2nd Chronicles chapter 28 verse number 1 and this is a this is basically the parallel to 2nd Kings 15 and 16 second Chronicles 28 verse 1 by which Ahaz was 20 years old when he began to reign and he reigns 16 years in Jerusalem but he did not that which was right in the sight of the Lord like David his father for he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and made also molten images for Balaam moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom and burnt his children in the fire after the abominations of the heathen whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel so I mean we're really starting to understand this isn't a good guy at all I mean he's doing these child sacrifices as he sacrificed also and burned incense in the high places and on the hills and under every green tree so this guy's a real piece of work right he's following just basically the ways of Israel yet we're gonna see that God still protects him not because he has respect to a has at all but for his own purposes and and again I'm gonna get into that I'm getting a little bit ahead of myself here let's keep reading verse number 5 Bible reads wherefore the Lord his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria and they smote him and carried away a great multitude of them captives and brought them to Damascus and he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel who smote him with a great slaughter for Pekah the son of Ramaliah slew in Judah and hundred and twenty thousand in one day which were all valiant men because they had forsaken the Lord God of their fathers so there's a little bit of insight to on what Pekah the son of Ramaliah did in in Judah it says he slew a hundred and twenty thousand valiant men I mean those are those are like these top warriors that's a lot especially for considering this is just for that came for Judah for Jerusalem right but this is what God does when you forsake him and as we are gonna see and as we continue to read you know wasn't just the king that was wicked the people were wicked to jump down to verse number 19 there in 2nd Chronicles 28 the Bible says for the Lord brought Judah lo because of a as king of Israel for he made Judah naked and transgressed sore against the Lord and till got to these are king of Assyria came under him and distressed him but strengthen him not for a has took away a portion out of the house of the Lord and out of the house of the king and of the princes and gave it unto the king of Assyria but he helped him not and in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the Lord this is that king a has for he sacrificed under the gods of Damascus which smote him and he said because the gods of the kings of Syria helped them therefore will I sacrifice to them that they may help me but they were the ruin of him and of all Israel and I'm not going to continue reading but keep hearing this is the guy this is the king that conquered people he won in a battle and then decided to take their gods and serve them like they didn't help the people that were serving that false god and now and now you're gonna say oh I'm gonna build this altar now one of these gods like you're an idiot the guy didn't even save his own people and now you're gonna pick up the torch for that God for that false god you know it's ridiculous obviously that makes God angry and God judges him for that but to me it's just it's it's just kind of stupid but you know people have this this weird these these weird ideas when you don't know who God is I mean it's just all kinds of bizarre ideas about God that are just illogical and make no sense without without just understanding who the Lord is and worshipping him I mean it's our God is a God of truth which is why you make sense that's true it's real reality let's go back to Isaiah chapter 7 anyways I didn't want I want to spend too much time I didn't spend too much time on that actually but I kind of want to just just get that more of the background of what's going on here Isaiah chapter 7 so I'm gonna reread verse number 4 we read that already but it says and say unto him take heed and be quiet so this is Isaiah speaking to Ahaz King Ahaz a wicked King Ahaz we saw a lot about who he is and what he did so God's message to Ahaz is take heed and be quiet fear not neither be faint hearted for the two tales of these smoking firebrands for the fierce anger of reason with Syria and the son of Remaliah because Syria Ephraim and the son of Remaliah have taken evil counsel against these saying let us go up against Judah and vex it and let us make a breach therein for us and set a king in the midst of it even the son of Tabeo so their plan Syria Ephraim and Remaliah was to go in conquer Jerusalem and then set up their own king like well we just want to have someone else ruling this area and they could be confederate with us and then we could just you know have more power and build our kingdom or whatever that were they're all working together so their plan was to set up a new king in Jerusalem verse 7 says thus saith the Lord God it shall not stand neither shall it come to pass so God's saying nope nope and in the house of Judah you know God had made promises for the the king right for David and for his his line to reign over Judah and throughout that whole kingdom you see like in Israel there's different people taking over and conspiring and they become king and then some other person of another tribe comes and becomes king right after Jeroboam and some Nebat it was not this this perfect succession of a kingly line it was taken over by force from different people Omri, Zimri you had all these you all these other kings that that came into power and just took it by force whereas in Judah you still had the house of David the lineage of David that was continuing to reign and I think that's one of the reasons why God just just foiled their plans he said no no I'm even though as wicked he's gonna be judged there's gonna be another king that's gonna come up after him and God's deciding it's not time for this judgment to come upon Judah yet obviously they're gonna end up being taken captive and going to Babylon and everything else but God says no it's not gonna happen now it's gonna happen in his timing so he foils the plans verse number eight says for the head of for the head of Syria's Damascus and the head of Damascus is reason and within three score and five years shall Ephraim be broken that it be not a people so he's saying you know what their plans aren't going to stand he's saying actually within 65 years Ephraim just could be so completely broken that they're not even going to be like a nation or I'm going to be a people anymore you don't have to worry about them at all as being a power I mean think about that just knowing that this there's a strong people they got a you know a group of people it's a you know a nation or a state or whatever you want to call it right then 65 years this could be decimated it's gonna be like nothing they're gonna they're gonna be a a byword nothing nothing at all worry about they're not going to be a people for summer night and the head of Ephraim is Samaria and head of Samaria is Rameliah son and I love this verse here if you will not believe surely you shall not be established obviously you can take this that verse and apply it so many ways right I mean that's even just our own salvation hey if you don't if you're not going to believe you're not going to be established right we have to believe we have to put our faith and in the rock in that foundation that Jesus Christ and and that's going to establish you and build you but even in this sense he's saying you know because that obviously it's a great passage but even here in context he's just saying look I'm telling you the future I'm telling you what's going to happen but hey if you're not going to believe if you're not going to trust me if you're not going to rely on me if you're not good understand and just be able to walk by faith that if I'm not even going to be a people and do what I say then you're not going to be established and and as doesn't believe in him and we see him just going off and running off and depending on on other Kings verse 10 says moreover the Lord speak again and as saying ask the assign of the Lord thy God ask it either in the depth or in the height above now this is incredible God's giving a has this great chance you say look just believe and you'll be established and I'll even grant you a sign right Isaiah is bringing this great testimony to a has and he's saying just ask a sign you want proof you want proof that that you know the Lord is going to protect you that he's already prophesied that Ephraim is going to cease to be a people after 65 years you all understand just ask a sign what do you want to see you come up with it and God will do it but a has the fake humility of a has says in verse 12 but I said I will not ask neither will I tempt the Lord oh I'm not going to test the Lord I'm not going to tempt God look you're being told to ask that God can show himself powerful and you're not doing it you know the Bible says that evil wicked generation seeketh after a sign but this isn't a generation seeking after a sign this is God saying hey I'm going to give you a sign you have you tell me what you want there's a huge difference there this is God saying oh I'm going to do something now you tell me what you want me to do and I'll do it that's not just someone going oh no we need to see a sign from you and like the wicked Jews who weren't believing on Christ even though he did so many signs and miracles and wonders they still weren't believing on him and they're saying oh well what sign do you show us you know Moses gave us manna from heaven what sign are you blind and and yeah the answer that is yes they were they were very blind that's that's exactly why they didn't see because God had hardened their hearts and they were blind and I went over that last week so if you didn't hear Isaiah chapter 6 go back and listen to that sermon very important doctrinal sermon so he answers well I'm not going to test God verse 13 and he said here you know Oh house of David is it a small thing for you to weary men but will you weary my God also so this is a response and like you know it's a small thing for you to weary men right you know you don't want to place any big burden on men but you're gonna weary God do you think you think you're gonna tie your God are you think you're gonna you're gonna say something that's gonna be oh man you know that's too hard for God to do I don't want God to have to work or do you know it's God is anything too hard for the Lord are you know weary my God also like who do you think you are oh you're gonna cut God some slack what's really interesting whether keep your place here too because there's a there's another passage in 2nd Kings turn to 2nd Kings chapter 20 and this is just kind of a cool little nugget they'll call it a nugget right it's nothing that's that's gonna you know change your life forever this isn't that type of piece of truth that you're gonna be keeping with you till the day you die man like I'm glad passive version showed me this because it really changed my life forever but maybe it will be I don't know maybe you'll find some more truth and meaning into this then then I'm gonna preach but I think what's really cool about this is there's another time where God is basically asking someone to you know hey I'm gonna show you a sign so what do you want to see for the sign here and this is with Hezekiah and Hezekiah comes not that much after Ahaz right Hezekiah's reign and 2nd Kings chapter 20 verse number 9 the Bible says in Isaiah said this sign shalt thou have of the Lord that the Lord will do the thing that he had spoken so God's trying to prove like like we just saw in Isaiah 7 he's saying look don't worry about these people they're coming against you don't be afraid don't be afraid of all the rumors of them coming and trying to establish another king don't worry about it in fact in 65 years Ephraim is not even gonna be a people you have to worry about them don't worry about it and he says just ask me I'll prove it to you I'll prove to you that I'm gonna do these things well now he's doing essentially the same thing with Hezekiah you know Hezekiah was a good king Hezekiah feared the Lord and Hezekiah takes him up on this and he says you know that the thing with that that the Lord will do the thing which he had spoken to say just what do you want I'll show it to you just to prove to you that I'm gonna do the things that I'm telling you I'm gonna do shall the shadow go forward 10 degrees or back 10 degrees now the shadow he's talking about a sundial right because that's how I used to tell time before we had all the pocket watches and digital and everything else you set up the Sun you all know what a sundial is right so depending on where the Sun is in the sky the shadow will tell you what time of day it is so basically he's asking do you want the the shadow go down 10 degrees or your back or forward so do you want it to get to you know later by 10 degrees or do I get earlier in time by 10 degrees and I love I love what Hezekiah does here because he doesn't think anything is too hard for he's not gonna weary God he actually wanted to say okay Hezekiah answered is a light thing for the shadow go down today you know what it's not that big of a deal if it just gets a little bit later a little bit faster right like if it just now obviously they're both they're both like say equally miracles you know you can't just go like boom now it's now it's just that much later but since that's the progression of time like going that direction he's like I want to go the other way let's go backwards in time all right let's go back in time this is the original back to the future right going back to second Kings he said let the shower return backward 10 degrees and Isaiah the prophet cried unto the Lord and he brought the shadow 10 degrees backward by which had gone down is in the dial of a has there you go he has there's a testament to you that sundial that you elected that this sundial they has you didn't want to weary the Lord but as the Chi is doing it and God's proving it on your sundial I thought that was pretty cool because it's right like why else would it reference the dial of a has except for the fact that a has he doesn't he doesn't want to tempt God he doesn't want to weary God and and have God do any miracles for him but now of course going back to Isaiah chapter 7 we have this very very famous passage how God is gonna perform miracle anyways see God's wanting to show himself strong God's why and in a has is just not gonna not gonna allow it not don't he's answering just with no when God's ready to show himself strong in a people so God decides we know what I'm gonna show it I'm gonna give you a sign verse 14 therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign no you're not gonna choose a sign well I'm gonna give you a sign behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a son and shall call his name Emmanuel awesome foreshadowing now we get ton the book of Isaiah is gonna be great I mean we're just getting started we're in chapter 7 there's so many prophecies that are reference scriptures that are referenced back in the New Testament so we're gonna get an opportunity to see these and actually if you will keep your place here of course and flip over to Matthew chapter 1 so we're gonna see this reference and there's there's so much that we can learn from quotations in the New Testament from the Old Testament okay and if you want to learn good doctrine it's not what this sermon is about but but here's a little a little piece of information if you want to understand how God feels about translations of his word we can get it from his word itself because the Old Testament was recorded in Hebrew language and the New Testament in Greek by and large right I know is there make whatever but when you have quotes then in the New Testament quoting the Old Testament and both of them are translated into English for us you're gonna find time and time again that the quotes are not word for word every single word exact matches way more often than not they're not identical every single word for word is exactly the same well did they misquote the Bible no no they didn't misquote the Bible well why is it like that because those were the word the the Greek was translated exactly the way it was supposed to be exactly the way is written that is translated those are the words that were used the Hebrew likewise when it's translated English those are the words that were used that's what those words mean that's what the the translation is they were both acceptable and right in English but then why aren't they word for word because God's showing us now look don't get me wrong here because I believe that every word of God is true and every word of God is important and I believe in every word of God and when we do a Bible memory it's every word of God but here's the thing is that when it comes to God's Word and you see synonyms used God didn't have a problem with those being the quotations from the from the Old Testament to the New Testament that there was no problem with when the Bible said here we're gonna see and this is an important truth obviously I think there's things that we could learn from this and there's there's even more reason there could be even greater reasons why the you know the New Testament quotes were spoken the way they were to give us some extra teaching and knowledge and I think one of those reasons is because of the fact that if you have a translation of God's Word that literally you know the perfect example would be eternal versus everlasting that mean exactly the same thing I'm not saying there's a reason to switch it but if you know we've seen time and time again between the old the New Testament Old Testament that when when that happened it's still considered God's Word now obviously you don't just go and say whoa what does he what we could change because what would be the point of that there is no reason to do that at all and you don't want to mess with something that's already been done and it works and it's good right it's great and it's perfect not just good I mean it's it's it's right but to but to get so hung up on you know that your people who even would say that that's a possibility if our language were to change enough to warrants well we need we need to have this right in the common language that's ridiculous and we can have the Bible teach us itself I mean are you gonna say that Matthew was wrong because here's it let's read it you're in Matthew chapter 1 I'm gonna reread Isaiah 7 14 behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a son and shall call his name Emmanuel is that right is that a right translation I believe it is it's in English Matthew 1 22 now all this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the Prophet saying now this is a claim in the book of Matthew that the Lord spake by the prophet the prophet Isaiah and said these words behold a virgin shall be with child but Isaiah 7 14 says behold a virgin shall conceive one of them must be wrong that no no no one of them doesn't have to be wrong but they use different words they sure did but the quote on that passage is say that's what God said that's what God said you know this is what God said you can't get away from that this is what the Lord said because that is what he said because conceiving and being with child are the same thing now obviously we could learn and I thank God that he did that that went when when holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost to give us Matthew 1 23 everything can still be correct now some people say the reason he did that because God can do that and this is God's Word Matthew 1 23 is this and and you know second and Isaiah 7 14 says that and they're both just God's Word because God's one that said it but my point is Matthew 1 22 is saying that's what God said that this is what God said when clearly it says the actual word for word says something different now it's not different but there's different words being used so you know that tells me that that there is a level of acceptance with God when you're going to quote scripture and attribute a quote to God saying that this is what God said well that's acceptable and I think we could also use that with translations because these are both translations this is a translation from the Hebrew in the Greek where we're gonna get a standard from if not from the translation found in the New Testament of the Old Testament I mean you want translational standards that are biblical how about we go to the Bible for those translation standards I mean it's don't be afraid because look I love the King James Bible I do it's a word of God I stand on it and I'm not advocating any changes to the Bible at all I don't think they're necessary we don't need to have them but people will have a tendency to take things too far you have to ask yourself what were people using before 1611 did God's Word exist before 1611 yes it did yes it did you better believe it did and you didn't have to have well only in the original Hebrew it did no God's Word has existed in other languages as well since that time now there's no reason to go to anything else the 1611 KJV I mean that's that's an excellent I mean that that's the Word of God is it perfect it is is you know it's gone through it's been purified seven times it's it's it's great work and God used those people and got you know and God has preserved his word and we don't need to look anywhere else but God's Word has existed prior to that as well and if and if there was a translation in English that said something slightly different you can still call that the Word of God if you use a different word how about this like in in the Tyndale version right that which is a which the King Day Bible is revising because you know the King James Bible wasn't just 100% all its own work it's a revision of previous works that were done before though the the translators were working yes they did translating but they were they were using work and you know using the work had been done prior to their work definitely definitely rely you know looking at and and and working with what they had to work with prior to them and my mind just went blank and yeah they tend to thank you the Tyndale so the word Passover is a new word in English that was created and it was transliterated into English so you know what word they used to use Easter Easter and in the translations leading up to the King James Bible the word Easter was used way more often into until the king is only used one time and it's not an error either see other people want to say oh that's an error shouldn't use Easter but you can't say that those other versions were wrong when using that word when the word didn't even exist when Tyndale's the one who actually created the word and started introducing it because it's a good word I mean it makes a lot of sense it's a it's a perfect transliteration of the Pascha I'm probably not pronouncing that right but that's that's the you know where the word came from but Passover that's what it means so what that what the underlying word means just didn't exist English and now it does and being used you know but but that Easter meant the same thing it was referring and that's also how we know that it's not just based off of this pagan thing and everything else because that's not how I was used it's not how I was being used at all that wasn't what I was understand to be understood to be meant for any reason Christ was referred to as the Easter lamb where now we're looking at the Passover lamb anyhow but let's get back into looking at this passage because this is that's one lesson we could learn and over and over again in Scripture you see that happening where there's slight differences and it's not word-for-word and we don't have to worry about that because it is exactly the same thing but what I love about this passage also though is that it does teach us that a virgin conceiving is being with child because that has been under attack now for a long time with the abortions we say well when someone's pregnant I mean you've got idiots that'll say that well someone doesn't really become a person until they breathe their first breath that's the ruckmanite retard position of you know trying to justify abortions and whatever else whatever kind of wickedness saying that oh it's not really a person until they're born so they're born out of the womb are you crazy being referred to with child it means you have a child in your womb there's a child there's a person is a real it's a real human being inside there and that's a child being with child that's a child from conception and even the scripture will define what it means to conceive because guess what it's not conceiving isn't implantation conceiving is a moment you can get this from Hebrews 11 if I turn to Hebrews 11 a person a woman a woman yeah I'm using genders appropriately because only women can get pregnant and women can give birth and women of you know it's only women that can do that some real hard preaching for you it's crazy conception conceiving happens when the seed of the woman the seed of the man come together that's conception that's being with child Hebrews 11 verse 11 says through faith also Sarah herself received strength to conceive seed so can see a word conceive the conception is the conceiving of the seed because after that point the seed no longer exists the seed of the man no it's it's formed into something new at that point you can you know a lot once that union happens you're no longer referring to the seed as something separate the seed the egg right that's that's no longer something separate that conception makes that's that's that new life and that's when you have a child that's when the child is formed in the womb now obviously continues to be formed in fashion and and from that moment then after that moment is when you know the the implantation happens and you just wall and starts to grow and get more substance up but see people want to try to find these loopholes because they want to lay with people like the married and they're not married they don't want to have the consequences of having that type of relationship of actually you know having children oh what am I going to do now oh I'm not prepared for this all that well then what are you doing all around then so they want to get rid of it they want to kill the child and they want to justify it in their own mind saying oh well it wasn't really a child I'm sorry if you believe the Bible if you call yourself a Christian you believe the Word of God these passages prove beyond any shadow of a doubt that once you conceive you are with child and no taking the morning after pill hey if that conception has taken place and you take that morning after pill you've murdered your child so all it's doing is not allowing the implantation to take place it's not really a child yet yes it is because once that seed is conceived that's a child that is a child and if you are doing things to murder your child and you're a murderer plain and simple and I know that there are tons of women in the world today that have had abortions and it doesn't change the truth it's murder murder and there's nothing more selfish than it ending someone else's life because oh it's gonna cause you problems oh I'm not ready for it oh I need more money oh I don't you know I don't love this person oh you know whatever wicked as hell don't you know I'm making it now so you have no opportunity to lie to yourself you can't deceive yourself it's a child child from birth from from conception so if you're gonna do anything to get rid of that child that's on you I didn't know hey people have made mistakes and done things and you know what it's no less wicked it is it's still wicked but now you know if you didn't know before you know now you know now and for anyone who's guilty of that you need to get on your face if you haven't already and confess your sin to God and beg him for mercy and never even think about doing that again conceiving is being with child conception you don't wait till they're born it's not at nine months it's not at six months not at three months it's at second one millisecond one at Union conception that's it from then on with child now with fetus now with blastocyst now with anything with child to child let's go back to Isaiah chapter 7 therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign verse 14 behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a son and shall call his name Emmanuel and I didn't read this in Matthew chapter 1 because I started going on and the translations and such behold a virgin shall be a child shall bring forth a son and they shall call his name Emmanuel which being interpreted is God with us so just that word Emmanuel by itself that name means God with us so what a great prophecy all the way back in the book of Isaiah saying hey there's gonna be a virgin virgin hasn't known a man that's going to conceive and actually give birth to a son and that son is going to be God with us now you want to talk about trying to figure out well what's the Word of God where is the Word of God how about you go to the book that prophesied hundreds of years before the event and is has irrefutably been part of Scripture and history and written history wasn't gone back and added later and oh this event happened now we're gonna predate and write this back into history as if this was written hundreds of years earlier prophesied such a critical event in human history that a virgin was was able to conceive and bring forth a son and it's God with us because that's who Jesus Christ is proven so many ways in Scripture it's prophesied prophecies came true it's from God let's keep reading here Isaiah 7 verse number 15 butter and honey shall he eat that he may know to refuse the evil and choose the good now real quickly on this just on this one passage you know one of the best ways to spot things that are bad and identify bad things is to just know and engulf yourself in what's good when you really know what's good and you know it really well you'll be able to spot the bad you'll be able to spot the frauds a lot easier so you want to you know if you wanted to spot counterfeit money you know you're gonna do you're gonna study real money and you're gonna know it in and out of your study it because then and because if you if you spend your time try well I'm gonna study and try to find all the frauds out there there's always gonna be new frauds you're gonna have endless possibilities you're never gonna learn all of those but if you spend your time learning the right one the right thing then no matter what it is you should be able to spell wait that's wrong that's wrong because I know what looks right it's the same thing with the gospel with Jesus with God you don't need to study every other false religion in order to answer the question look if you just know the right one really well you'll be able to spot all the falsehoods and all the lies and all the deception out there because you know what's right really really well you study the Word of God and you study this and you know this people come at you with false doctrine you can be like well I say that doesn't sound right because I know the truth because I know what's right that's going to help you to refuse the evil and choose the good so yeah the butter and the honey those are good things and I don't care what fad comes along and all borders bad for you because he's got these bad look Jesus Christ was bad butter and honey that he might know to refuse evil and choose the good that's why it's butter or margarine you know where I stand on get that margarine away from me I can't believe it's not butter I can I can believe it okay it's not anything like butter it's not I had that growing up a little squirt it's not butter okay you get yourself some of that that carry gold butter and then you get that little squirt bottle and you tell me you don't taste the difference all right if you tell me there's no difference you're lying or there's something you have COVID or something seriously wrong and you can't taste anything anyways okay this I think this is a great teaching you know when you know when you know what's right in your in your given what's right you don't need to worry but you'll be able to spot everything else that's wrong because you know what's right verse 16 for before the child shall know to refuse evil and choose a good the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings the Lord shall bring upon me and upon thy people and upon thy father's house days that have not come from the day of that Ephraim departed from Judah even the king of Assyria and it shall come to pass in that day that the Lord shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria and they shall come and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys and in the holes of the rocks and upon all thorns and upon all bushes in the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired namely by them beyond the river by the king of Assyria the head and the hair of the feet and it shall also consume the beard so God not there's all this prophecy now the judgment that's going to come on these nations right because he's content this is don't forget this we jumped around a lot but he's continuing to tell a has not to worry right because he asked for the sign is you know I'm gonna give you a sign and he goes on about the prophecy of Jesus Christ but now he's still going further to say hey look you know the Assyrians they're coming in and cause all this trouble that they're gonna be ashamed so when it says a razor is gonna come on them beyond the river the king of Assyria the head the hair of the feet and the beard so like like all of that just being taken away is is putting the Assyrians to shame right so that razor just coming up I'm just gonna take this razor and and and you know shave off all their all their hair basically is kind of putting them in a state of shame verse number 21 and it shall come to pass in that day that a man shall nourish a young cow and two sheep and it shall come to pass for the abundance of milk that they shall give he shall eat butter for butter and honey shall everyone eat that is left in the land so it's basically saying hey when you're left you know being left in land God's gonna still bring you a blessing and even when the captivity comes to like there's the people who remain in the land are gonna be blessed and God blessed the people that were left in the land and and kept on promising hey there's a blessing don't go into Egypt after Babylon came don't don't don't go and be scared and don't you know like just stay here and I'll bless you and and again we see butter and honey being a blessing so again don't tell me about your diets that that they're gonna exclude butter and honey because the Bible says that they're good verse 23 and it shall come to pass in that day that every place shall be where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings it shall even be for briars and thorns so this is a curse right on the the wealth of the thousand vines and being just becoming briars and thorns verse 24 with arrows and with bows shall men come thither because all the land shall become briars and thorns and on all hills that shall be digged with the matic there shall not come to the fear of briars and thorns but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen for the treading of lesser cattle so you got someplace being being blessed and some places being cursed and I'm gonna go more in depth this kind of leads into chapter 8 so I'm gonna deal with that next week we kind of ran out of time anyways but let's borrow that word of prayer Heavenly Father Lord we thank you so much for this passage we thank you for all that we can learn in Isaiah God I pray to please help us to maintain good doctrine that we would have solid doctrine on all variety of issues dear Lord and you know maybe some of the things I said tonight especially about the preservation of your words you know might have brought people the wrong way or they've been they've been taught a certain way Lord and and at the end of the day and you know it doesn't matter to me I just want to know the truth and I think we can get what's true and what's right directly from your word and that these small minor differences are when there's not an exact word for word in English of these quotations Lord that we don't have to worry about them not being the word of God or being corrupted somehow dear Lord because we know that you promise to preserve your words and since we know that and since you've kept your promise then we're gonna learn from that and from how you've kept your words dear Lord so that we can have proper standards and and know what's right and God we love you and I pray that you would please just increase our wisdom and our knowledge and help us to just do our best and in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation dear Lord we love you Jesus name we pray amen