A New Voice of Freedom

Season 6, Podcast 91, Isaiah 36:1-22, “The Price of Pride.” One can read the Old Testament as history. These are real events in real time. For example, Isaiah 36:1 Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of Judah, and took them. The event above occurred in 701 BC. Hezekiah was king of Judah. Sennacherib w...

Season 6, Podcast 90, Isaiah 35:1-10, “Come to Zion.” Chapter 35 stands in sharp contrast to Chater 34. In 35 we read: Isaiah 35:1 The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. That, of course, is speaking of the Millenium. In 34 we read Isaiah 34:11 But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven...

Season 6, Podcast 89, Isaiah 34:1-17, “The Signs of the Times.” Chapter 34 is a typical pattern in Isaiah. For example, it is divided into two parts. Part One deals with the signs of the times in which Isaiah describes the destruction of the world prior to the Second Coming of Christ. That comprises verses 1-15. Part Two deals with the redemption of those who keep the commandments of God. Not only...

Season 6, Podcast 88, Isaiah 33:1-24, “Look upon Zion.” So much of Isaiah speaks of the Second Coming of the Messiah which comes only after much turbulence. To fully understand Isaiah, one must read the Revelations of John for their images overlap, and one expands the other. Typically, Isaiah uses familiar things and places of his day in prophesying of the future. To most of us Lebanon, Sharon, Ba...

Season 6, Podcast 87, Isaiah 32:1-20, “A King Shal Reign in Righteousness.” Of the first thirty-two chapters of Isaiah, Christ is the central theme in 22 of the chapters, 7 of which relate to the Second Coming. Eleven chapters address the scattering and gathering of Israel. Seven Chapters address the Millennium. That reveals the primary message of Isaiah. It is centered around Christ. In Chapter S...

Season 6, Podcast 86, Isaiah 31:1-9, “Seek the Lord.” Again, Isaiah speaks of the present and the future. It is a very difficult time for the southern tribes which comprise of the Tribe of Judah and the Tribe of Benjamin. The Tribe of Benjamin has virtually lost its identity for they are absorbed in the tribe of Judah. The Ten Tribes have divided. The Northern tribes, called Ephraim, have been att...

Season 6, Podcast 85, Isaiah 30:18-33, “Trust in the Lord Pt II.” As we continue with Isaiah 30, we learn that in the latter days, sometimes during the period of the Second Coming, the House of Judah shall return to the Lord, and he shall receive them with great mercy.   Isaiah 30:18 And therefore will the Lord wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may h...

Season 6, Podcast 84, Isaiah 30:1-17, “Trust in the Lord Pt I.” A running theme in Isaiah is to trust in the Lord and not in man or nations, or unfruitful alliances. The verse found in Proverbs summarizes the theme.  Proverbs 3:5-6 Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. The theme, of course,...

Season 6, Podcast 83, Isaiah 29:11-24, “Out of the Dust Pt. II.” In this podcast we continue with Isaiah 29.   Isaiah 29:11-12  And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed: And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I p...

Season 6, Podcast 82, Isaiah 29:1-10, “Out of the Dust Pt. I.” It has been well established that Isaiah, like John the Revelator, is the prophet of the future. Primarily the three periods Isaiah is speaking of are (1) the events that occur in his own day and in the near future of his own day. (2) the events that occur during the time of Christ including the Diaspora. (3) the events that occur in t...

Season 6, Podcast 81, Isaiah 28:1-29, “Line upon Line.” The coming of Christ is at the center of Chapter 28 as clearly defined by the last verse. The purpose of Isaiah is to lead us to Christ; therefore, his teachings are meant to prepare us for his coming.  Clearly Isaiah has the eye of a poet. He looks for analogies in ordinary things. He is talking to an agricultural society; therefore, he uses...

Season 6, Podcast 80, Isaiah 27:1-13, “Gathering of Israel.” Isaiah speaks much about the Millennial Day. In Isaiah 28 he focuses on the gathering of Israel and pronounces extraordinary promises, perhaps greater than they have ever received. The story of the gathering of Israel is the story of the Christianity, for everyone who comes to Christ will be under the Abrahamic Covenant and receive all t...

Season 6, Podcast 79, Isaiah 26:1-21, “Resurrection.” In Chapter 25, Isaiah speaks of the resurrection. Isaiah 25:8 He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the Lord hath spoken it.  Chapter 26 continues the theme of the resurrection. All the children of God who are des...

Season 6, Podcast 78, Isaiah 25:1-12, “Death Swallowed up in Victory.” Isaiah 24 deals with the devastation of the wicked just prior to the Second Coming. Isaiah 25 deals with the exaltation of the righteous. Isaiah 25 is an extension of the last verse of Isaiah 24.  Isaiah 24:23. Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the Lord of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerus...

Season 6, Podcast 77, Isaiah 24:1-23, “The Last Days.” It is almost as if everything thus far in Isaiah was leading up to Chapter 24. It is very hard hitting, the first three verses describing the devastation of the earth just before the Second Coming of Christ. Since I am relying upon the poetic structure of Isaiah, I shall sometime refer to a group of verses as a stanza. Ancient Hebrew poetry di...

Season 6, Podcast 76, Isaiah 23:1-18, “Burden of Tyre.” Thus far Isaiah has listed the following states that shall be destroyed: Judah (The Southern Kingdom), Israel (the Northern Kingdom), Babylon, Assyria, Philistia (Philistines), Moab, Damascus (Syria), Ethiopia (Cush), Egypt, and Tyre. The theme is the same. They did not hearken to the Lord. History has shown that Isaiah’s prophecies were true...

Season 6, Podcast 75, Isaiah 22:1-25, “The Burden of the Valley of Vision.” As we have come to expect, the focus of Isaiah 22 is Christ. He holds the keys to the House of David. The central theme of Isaiah 22 is that because Judah rejected Christ, they shall be led into captivity. All those who are taken into captivity will die in captivity. At the time of the prophesy the Jews were under the thre...

Season 6, Podcast 74, Isaiah 21:1-17, “Watchman on the Tower.” The fall of Babylon has become a recurring theme in Isaiah. It is profoundly reinforced in Daniel, and finally pronounced by John the Revelator. The fall of Babylon is compared to the sudden destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.  Historians tell us that at the height of its glory, Babylon controlled about 770,000 square miles, yet like So...

Season 6, Podcast 73, Isaiah 20:1-6, “The Fall of Egypt.” One very unique thing about Isaiah is that he was a man of his times. On the one hand, in today’s modern terminology, he would be a news anchor that reports the daily news. For example,  Isaiah 20:1 1 In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, (when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it; Those are histo...

Season 6, Podcast 72, Isaiah 19:1-25, “Redemption of Egypt and Assyria.” Egypt has played an extraordinary role in Biblical history. On the positive side, during a killing famine it became a sanctuary for the House of Israel, particularly during the days of Joseph who saved both Egypt and his father’s house from starvation. It was a sanctuary for Abraham. It was a sanctuary for Mary and Joseph and...

Season 6, Podcast 71, Isaiah 18:1-8, “Gathering of Israel.” If we examine Isaiah as one long epic poem, then he is easier to follow. It is the parallelism of Isaiah that ties one chapter to another, for time to Isaiah is fluid. For example, in Chapter 17, Isaiah talks about the scattering of Israel. In Chapter 18, he talks about the gathering of Israel. Those events occur thousands of years apart....

Season 6, Podcast 70, Isaiah 17:1-14, “Scattering of Israel.” We have learned thus far that the central theme of Isaiah is Christ. Another dominate theme is the history of the Lord’s covenant people. At the time of Isaiah, the twelve tribes have split. The northern tribes, which consist of what is soon to be called The Ten Lost Tribes, is led by Ephraim. Their capital is Samaria. The southern trib...

Season 6, Podcast 69, Isaiah 16:1-14, “Moab 2.” The fate of Moab, the descendants of Lot, is similar to the fate of Assyria and Babylon. They also fall because of pride and idol woship.  Isaiah 16:1-3 Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion. For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moa...

Season 6, Podcast 68, Isaiah 15:1-9, “Moab 1.” Previously Isaiah discussed the fall of Babylon, the fall of Assyria, the fall of the house of Israel, and even the fall of Lucifer. Fundamentally the cause is pride. Isaiah extends the theme by describing the fall of Moab. Moab is 30 miles east of Jerusalem as the crow flies. To get there from Jerusalem, however, one must travel around the Dead Sea,...

Season 6, Podcast 67, Isaiah 14:21-32, “Zion.” As we read Isaiah 14, consider three things. (1) a description of the fall of Babylon. (2)  a description of the fall of Lucifer, a son of the morning and his being cast out of heaven along with a third part of the hosts of heaven who followed him. They came to earth and continued the war against the people of God. Just as Lucifer and the angels who f...