WEBVTT 00:00:00.520 --> 00:00:03.700 Hello, this is Father Paul, and I'm glad we're 00:00:03.700 --> 00:00:05.719 taking this journey together to read the Bible 00:00:05.719 --> 00:00:09.080 in a year. Today's reading is from the book of 00:00:09.080 --> 00:00:12.720 Isaiah, chapters 28 and 29, along with 2 Kings, 00:00:13.060 --> 00:00:19.440 chapter 17. Isaiah 28 Woe to the crown of pride, 00:00:19.640 --> 00:00:22.480 to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty 00:00:22.480 --> 00:00:25.699 is a fading flower, which is at the head of the 00:00:25.699 --> 00:00:28.620 verdant valleys, to those who are overcome with 00:00:28.620 --> 00:00:31.559 wine. behold the lord has a mighty and strong 00:00:31.559 --> 00:00:34.560 one like a tempest of hail and a destroying storm 00:00:34.560 --> 00:00:37.920 like a flood of mighty waters overflowing who 00:00:37.920 --> 00:00:40.200 will bring them down to the earth with his hand 00:00:40.200 --> 00:00:43.539 the crown of pride the drunkards of ephraim will 00:00:43.539 --> 00:00:46.119 be trampled under foot and the glorious beauty 00:00:46.119 --> 00:00:48.780 is a fading flower which is at the head of the 00:00:48.780 --> 00:00:51.240 verdant valley like the first fruit before the 00:00:51.240 --> 00:00:54.799 summer which an observer sees he eats it up while 00:00:54.799 --> 00:00:57.740 it is still in his hand in that day the lord 00:00:57.740 --> 00:01:01.310 of hosts will be for a crown of glory and a diadem 00:01:01.310 --> 00:01:04.150 of beauty to the remnant of his people, for a 00:01:04.150 --> 00:01:06.430 spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, 00:01:06.549 --> 00:01:09.730 and for strength to those who turn back the battle 00:01:09.730 --> 00:01:12.609 at the gate. But they also have erred through 00:01:12.609 --> 00:01:15.409 wine, and through intoxicating drink are out 00:01:15.409 --> 00:01:18.349 of the way. The priest and the prophet have erred 00:01:18.349 --> 00:01:20.950 through intoxicating drink. They are swallowed 00:01:20.950 --> 00:01:24.310 up by wine. They are out of the way through intoxicating 00:01:24.310 --> 00:01:27.629 drink. They err in vision. They stumble in judgment. 00:01:28.250 --> 00:01:30.849 For all tables are full of vomit and filth, no 00:01:30.849 --> 00:01:33.689 place is clean. Whom will he teach knowledge? 00:01:33.950 --> 00:01:36.230 And whom will he make to understand the message? 00:01:36.670 --> 00:01:40.109 Those just weaned from milk? Those just drawn 00:01:40.109 --> 00:01:43.629 from the breasts? For precept must be upon precept, 00:01:43.750 --> 00:01:47.709 precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon 00:01:47.709 --> 00:01:51.230 line, here a little, there a little. For with 00:01:51.230 --> 00:01:53.709 stammering lips and another tongue he will speak 00:01:53.709 --> 00:01:56.629 to this people, to whom he said, this is the 00:01:56.629 --> 00:01:59.750 rest. with which you may cause the weary to rest. 00:02:00.109 --> 00:02:02.670 And this is the refreshing, yet they would not 00:02:02.670 --> 00:02:05.829 hear. But the word of the Lord was to them, precept 00:02:05.829 --> 00:02:09.189 upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon 00:02:09.189 --> 00:02:12.830 line, line upon line, here a little, there a 00:02:12.830 --> 00:02:15.210 little, that they might go and fall backward 00:02:15.210 --> 00:02:18.150 and be broken and snared and caught. Therefore 00:02:18.150 --> 00:02:20.729 hear the word of the Lord, you scornful men, 00:02:20.909 --> 00:02:24.110 who rule this people who are in Jerusalem. Because 00:02:24.110 --> 00:02:26.810 you have said, We have made a covenant with death, 00:02:26.930 --> 00:02:29.909 and with Sheol we are in agreement. When the 00:02:29.909 --> 00:02:32.770 overflowing scourge passes through, it will not 00:02:32.770 --> 00:02:35.770 come to us. For we have made lies our refuge, 00:02:36.050 --> 00:02:38.270 and under falsehood we have hidden ourselves. 00:02:39.250 --> 00:02:42.490 Therefore thus says the Lord God, Behold, I lay 00:02:42.490 --> 00:02:45.490 in Zion a stone for a foundation, a tried stone, 00:02:45.750 --> 00:02:48.710 a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation. Whoever 00:02:48.710 --> 00:02:52.060 believes will not act hastily. Also I will make 00:02:52.060 --> 00:02:54.360 justice the measuring line, and righteousness 00:02:54.360 --> 00:02:57.520 the plummet. The hail will sweep away the refuge 00:02:57.520 --> 00:03:00.520 of lies, and the waters will overflow the hiding 00:03:00.520 --> 00:03:03.419 place. Your covenant with death will be annulled, 00:03:03.419 --> 00:03:05.699 and your agreement with Sheol will not stand. 00:03:05.960 --> 00:03:08.620 When the overflowing scourge passes through, 00:03:08.819 --> 00:03:11.780 then you will be trampled down by it. As often 00:03:11.780 --> 00:03:14.680 as it goes out, it will take you. For morning 00:03:14.680 --> 00:03:17.699 by morning it will pass over, and by day and 00:03:17.699 --> 00:03:20.460 by night. It will be a terror just to understand 00:03:20.460 --> 00:03:23.580 the report. For the bed is too short to stretch 00:03:23.580 --> 00:03:26.520 out on, and the covering so narrow that one cannot 00:03:26.520 --> 00:03:29.439 wrap himself in it. For the Lord will rise up 00:03:29.439 --> 00:03:32.939 as at Mount Perazim. He will be angry as in the 00:03:32.939 --> 00:03:36.039 valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his 00:03:36.039 --> 00:03:38.879 awesome work, and bring to pass his act, his 00:03:38.879 --> 00:03:42.259 unusual act. Now therefore do not be mockers, 00:03:42.300 --> 00:03:45.860 lest your bonds be made strong. for i have heard 00:03:45.860 --> 00:03:48.740 from the lord god of hosts a destruction determined 00:03:48.740 --> 00:03:52.639 even upon the whole earth give ear and hear my 00:03:52.639 --> 00:03:55.759 voice listen and hear my speech does the ploughman 00:03:55.759 --> 00:03:58.719 keep ploughing all day to sow does he keep turning 00:03:58.719 --> 00:04:01.780 his soil and breaking the clods when he has levelled 00:04:01.780 --> 00:04:04.599 its surface does he not sow the black cumin and 00:04:04.599 --> 00:04:07.400 scatter the cumin plant the wheat in rows the 00:04:07.400 --> 00:04:10.439 barley in a pointed place and a spelt in its 00:04:10.439 --> 00:04:13.580 place For he instructs him in right judgment, 00:04:13.840 --> 00:04:17.160 his God teaches him. For the black human is not 00:04:17.160 --> 00:04:20.259 threshed with a threshing sledge, nor is a cartwheel 00:04:20.259 --> 00:04:23.240 rolled over the human. But the black human is 00:04:23.240 --> 00:04:25.939 beaten out with a stick, and a human with a rod. 00:04:26.560 --> 00:04:29.240 Bread flour must be ground, therefore he does 00:04:29.240 --> 00:04:32.060 not thresh it forever, break it with his cartwheel, 00:04:32.240 --> 00:04:35.379 or crush it with his horseman. This also comes 00:04:35.379 --> 00:04:38.459 from the Lord of hosts, who is wonderful in counsel 00:04:38.459 --> 00:04:44.920 and excellent in guidance. Chapter 29 Woe to 00:04:44.920 --> 00:04:48.120 Ariel, to Ariel the city where David dwelt! Add 00:04:48.120 --> 00:04:51.779 year to year, let feasts come around, yet I will 00:04:51.779 --> 00:04:54.899 distress Ariel. There shall be heaviness and 00:04:54.899 --> 00:04:58.160 sorrow, and it shall be to me as Ariel. I will 00:04:58.160 --> 00:05:01.000 encamp against you all around, I will lay siege 00:05:01.000 --> 00:05:04.300 against you with a mound. And I will raise siege 00:05:04.300 --> 00:05:06.620 works against you. You shall be brought down, 00:05:06.819 --> 00:05:09.720 you shall speak out of the ground. Your speech 00:05:09.720 --> 00:05:12.759 shall be low, out of the dust. your voice shall 00:05:12.759 --> 00:05:15.439 be like a medium's out of the ground and your 00:05:15.439 --> 00:05:19.040 speech shall whisper out of the dust moreover 00:05:19.040 --> 00:05:21.879 the multitude of your foes shall be like fine 00:05:21.879 --> 00:05:24.620 dust and the multitude of the terrible ones like 00:05:24.620 --> 00:05:27.600 chaff that passes away yes it shall be in an 00:05:27.600 --> 00:05:30.259 instant suddenly you will be punished by the 00:05:30.259 --> 00:05:33.060 lord of hosts with thunder and earthquake and 00:05:33.060 --> 00:05:36.180 great noise with storm and tempest and the flame 00:05:36.180 --> 00:05:39.220 of devouring fire the multitude of all the nations 00:05:39.220 --> 00:05:42.500 who fight against ariel Even all who fight against 00:05:42.500 --> 00:05:45.339 her and her fortress and distress her shall be 00:05:45.339 --> 00:05:48.199 as a dream of a night vision. It shall even be 00:05:48.199 --> 00:05:51.339 as when a hungry man dreams, and look, he eats, 00:05:51.500 --> 00:05:54.500 but he awakes and his soul is still empty. Or 00:05:54.500 --> 00:05:57.519 as when a thirsty man dreams, and look, he drinks, 00:05:57.680 --> 00:06:00.699 but he awakes and indeed he is faint, and his 00:06:00.699 --> 00:06:03.480 soul still craves. So the multitude of all the 00:06:03.480 --> 00:06:06.600 nations shall be who fight against Mount Zion. 00:06:07.240 --> 00:06:10.259 Pause and wonder. Blind yourselves and be blind. 00:06:10.759 --> 00:06:13.459 They are drunk, but not with wine. They stagger, 00:06:13.680 --> 00:06:16.660 but not with intoxicating drink. For the Lord 00:06:16.660 --> 00:06:19.459 has poured out on you the spirit of deep sleep, 00:06:19.639 --> 00:06:22.600 and has closed your eyes, namely the prophets, 00:06:22.800 --> 00:06:25.860 and he has covered your heads, namely the seers. 00:06:26.160 --> 00:06:28.959 The whole vision has become to you like the words 00:06:28.959 --> 00:06:31.639 of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to 00:06:31.639 --> 00:06:34.199 one who is literate, saying, Read this, please. 00:06:34.399 --> 00:06:37.680 And he says, I cannot, for it is sealed. Then 00:06:37.680 --> 00:06:40.060 the book is delivered to one who is illiterate, 00:06:40.060 --> 00:06:43.079 saying, Read this, please. And he says, I am 00:06:43.079 --> 00:06:46.500 not literate. Therefore the Lord said, Inasmuch 00:06:46.500 --> 00:06:48.779 as these people draw near with their mouth and 00:06:48.779 --> 00:06:51.180 honor me with their lips, but have removed their 00:06:51.180 --> 00:06:54.040 hearts far from me, and their fear toward me 00:06:54.040 --> 00:06:56.500 is taught by the commandment of men, therefore, 00:06:56.579 --> 00:06:59.519 behold, I will again do a marvelous work among 00:06:59.519 --> 00:07:01.860 these people, a marvelous work and a wonder. 00:07:02.269 --> 00:07:04.610 For the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, 00:07:04.810 --> 00:07:07.189 and the understanding of their prudent men shall 00:07:07.189 --> 00:07:10.290 be hidden. Woe to those who seek deep to hide 00:07:10.290 --> 00:07:13.170 their counsel far from the Lord, and their works 00:07:13.170 --> 00:07:16.850 are in the dark. They say, Who sees us, and who 00:07:16.850 --> 00:07:19.730 knows us? Surely you have things turned around. 00:07:19.889 --> 00:07:22.870 Shall the potter be esteemed as the clay? For 00:07:22.870 --> 00:07:25.970 shall the thing made say of him who made it, 00:07:26.029 --> 00:07:28.839 He did not make me? Or shall the thing formed 00:07:28.839 --> 00:07:31.720 say of him who formed it, He has no understanding? 00:07:32.300 --> 00:07:35.639 Is it not yet a very little while till Lebanon 00:07:35.639 --> 00:07:38.199 shall be turned into a fruitful field, and a 00:07:38.199 --> 00:07:41.339 fruitful field be esteemed as a forest? In that 00:07:41.339 --> 00:07:44.019 day the deaf shall hear the words of the book, 00:07:44.180 --> 00:07:47.220 and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity 00:07:47.220 --> 00:07:50.279 and out of darkness. The humble also shall increase 00:07:50.279 --> 00:07:52.920 their joy in the Lord, and the poor among men 00:07:52.920 --> 00:07:56.240 shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel. for 00:07:56.240 --> 00:07:58.839 the terrible one is brought to nothing the scornful 00:07:58.839 --> 00:08:01.779 one is consumed and all who watch for iniquity 00:08:01.779 --> 00:08:05.139 are cut off who make a man an offender by a word 00:08:05.139 --> 00:08:07.980 and lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate 00:08:07.980 --> 00:08:11.620 and turn aside the just by empty words therefore 00:08:11.620 --> 00:08:14.519 thus says the lord who redeemed abraham concerning 00:08:14.519 --> 00:08:17.560 the house of jacob jacob shall not now be ashamed 00:08:17.560 --> 00:08:20.870 nor shall his face now grow pale But when he 00:08:20.870 --> 00:08:23.990 sees his children, the work of my hands, in his 00:08:23.990 --> 00:08:27.029 midst, they will hallow my name, and hallow the 00:08:27.029 --> 00:08:29.769 Holy One of Jacob, and fear the God of Israel. 00:08:30.290 --> 00:08:33.490 These also who erred in spirit will come to understanding, 00:08:33.730 --> 00:08:36.490 and those who complained will learn doctrine. 00:08:40.230 --> 00:08:44.350 In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah, Hosea 00:08:44.350 --> 00:08:47.429 the son of Elah became king of Israel in Samaria, 00:08:47.509 --> 00:08:50.379 and he reigned nine years. And he did evil in 00:08:50.379 --> 00:08:52.659 the sight of the Lord, but not as the kings of 00:08:52.659 --> 00:08:55.360 Israel who were before him. Shalmaneser, king 00:08:55.360 --> 00:08:58.360 of Assyria, came up against him, and Hosea became 00:08:58.360 --> 00:09:01.200 his vassal and paid him tribute money. And the 00:09:01.200 --> 00:09:04.320 king of Assyria uncovered a conspiracy by Hosea, 00:09:04.340 --> 00:09:07.360 for he had sent messengers to Saul, king of Egypt, 00:09:07.559 --> 00:09:09.919 and brought no tribute to the king of Assyria, 00:09:10.000 --> 00:09:12.720 as he had done year by year. Therefore the king 00:09:12.720 --> 00:09:15.480 of Assyria shut him up and bound him in prison. 00:09:16.099 --> 00:09:18.299 Now the king of Assyria went throughout all the 00:09:18.299 --> 00:09:20.759 land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it 00:09:20.759 --> 00:09:23.480 for three years. In the ninth year of Hoshea, 00:09:23.639 --> 00:09:25.799 the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried 00:09:25.799 --> 00:09:28.500 Israel away to Assyria, and placed them in Hala, 00:09:28.620 --> 00:09:31.320 and by the harbor, the river of Gozan, and in 00:09:31.320 --> 00:09:34.879 the cities of the Medes. For so it was that the 00:09:34.879 --> 00:09:37.059 children of Israel had sinned against the Lord 00:09:37.059 --> 00:09:39.440 their God, who had brought them up out of the 00:09:39.440 --> 00:09:41.539 land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh 00:09:41.539 --> 00:09:44.379 king of Egypt, and they had feared other gods. 00:09:44.789 --> 00:09:46.870 and had walked in the statutes of the nations 00:09:46.870 --> 00:09:49.610 whom the Lord had cast out from before the children 00:09:49.610 --> 00:09:52.590 of Israel and of the kings of Israel which they 00:09:52.590 --> 00:09:55.710 had made. Also the children of Israel secretly 00:09:55.710 --> 00:09:58.330 did against the Lord their God things that were 00:09:58.330 --> 00:10:00.450 not right, and they built for themselves high 00:10:00.450 --> 00:10:03.470 places in all their cities, from watchtower to 00:10:03.470 --> 00:10:06.690 fortified city. They set up for themselves sacred 00:10:06.690 --> 00:10:09.269 pillars and wooden images on every high hill 00:10:09.269 --> 00:10:12.230 and under every green tree. There they burned 00:10:12.230 --> 00:10:15.029 incense on all the high places, like the nations 00:10:15.029 --> 00:10:17.950 whom the Lord had carried away before them. And 00:10:17.950 --> 00:10:19.870 they did wicked things to provoke the Lord to 00:10:19.870 --> 00:10:22.590 anger. For they served idols, of which the Lord 00:10:22.590 --> 00:10:25.149 had said to them, You shall not do this thing. 00:10:25.710 --> 00:10:28.370 Yet the Lord testified against Israel and against 00:10:28.370 --> 00:10:31.710 Judah by all of his prophets, every seer saying, 00:10:32.169 --> 00:10:34.690 Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments 00:10:34.690 --> 00:10:37.470 and my statutes according to all the law. which 00:10:37.470 --> 00:10:40.149 I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to 00:10:40.149 --> 00:10:42.889 you by my servants the prophets. Nevertheless, 00:10:43.269 --> 00:10:45.610 they would not hear but stiffen their necks, 00:10:45.710 --> 00:10:48.269 like the necks of their fathers who did not believe 00:10:48.269 --> 00:10:51.009 in the Lord their God. And they rejected his 00:10:51.009 --> 00:10:53.769 statutes and his covenant that he had made with 00:10:53.769 --> 00:10:56.190 their fathers, and his testimonies which he had 00:10:56.190 --> 00:10:58.629 testified against them. They followed idols, 00:10:58.830 --> 00:11:01.590 became idolaters, and went after the nations 00:11:01.590 --> 00:11:04.309 who were all around them, concerning whom the 00:11:04.309 --> 00:11:06.840 Lord had charged them. that they should not do 00:11:06.840 --> 00:11:09.360 like them. So they left all the commandments 00:11:09.360 --> 00:11:12.000 of the Lord their God, made for themselves a 00:11:12.000 --> 00:11:15.440 molded image and two calves, made a wooden image 00:11:15.440 --> 00:11:18.100 and worshipped all the hosts of heaven and served 00:11:18.100 --> 00:11:21.159 Baal. And they caused their sons and daughters 00:11:21.159 --> 00:11:24.240 to pass through the fire, practiced witchcraft 00:11:24.240 --> 00:11:27.080 and soothsaying, and sold themselves to do evil 00:11:27.080 --> 00:11:30.059 in the sight of the Lord to provoke him to anger. 00:11:30.379 --> 00:11:32.960 Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel. 00:11:33.360 --> 00:11:36.100 and removed them from his sight. There was none 00:11:36.100 --> 00:11:40.539 left but the tribe of Judah alone. Also Judah 00:11:40.539 --> 00:11:42.440 did not keep the commandments of the Lord their 00:11:42.440 --> 00:11:45.299 God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which 00:11:45.299 --> 00:11:48.539 they made. And the Lord rejected all the descendants 00:11:48.539 --> 00:11:51.299 of Israel, afflicted them, and delivered them 00:11:51.299 --> 00:11:54.039 into the hand of plunderers, until he had cast 00:11:54.039 --> 00:11:56.980 them from his sight. For he tore Israel from 00:11:56.980 --> 00:11:59.519 the house of David, and they made Jeroboam the 00:11:59.519 --> 00:12:02.509 son of Nebat king. Then Jeroboam drove Israel 00:12:02.509 --> 00:12:04.929 from following the Lord, and made them commit 00:12:04.929 --> 00:12:08.009 a great sin. For the children of Israel walked 00:12:08.009 --> 00:12:11.049 in all the sins of Jeroboam, which he did. They 00:12:11.049 --> 00:12:13.549 did not depart from them, until the Lord removed 00:12:13.549 --> 00:12:16.710 Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all 00:12:16.710 --> 00:12:19.309 his servants the prophets. So Israel was carried 00:12:19.309 --> 00:12:22.929 away from their own land to Assyria, as it is 00:12:22.929 --> 00:12:26.110 to this day. Then the king of Assyria brought 00:12:26.110 --> 00:12:31.090 people from Babylon. Ava, Hamad, and from Sepharvaim, 00:12:31.129 --> 00:12:33.629 and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead 00:12:33.629 --> 00:12:36.169 of the children of Israel. And they took possession 00:12:36.169 --> 00:12:39.409 of Samaria and dwelt in its cities. And it was 00:12:39.409 --> 00:12:42.009 so at the beginning of their dwelling there that 00:12:42.009 --> 00:12:44.409 they did not fear the Lord. Therefore the Lord 00:12:44.409 --> 00:12:47.210 sent lions among them, which killed some of them. 00:12:47.370 --> 00:12:49.409 So they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, 00:12:49.629 --> 00:12:52.149 The nations whom you have removed and placed 00:12:52.149 --> 00:12:54.639 in the cities of Samaria, Do not know the rituals 00:12:54.639 --> 00:12:57.399 of the god of the land. Therefore he has sent 00:12:57.399 --> 00:13:00.139 lions among them, and indeed they are killing 00:13:00.139 --> 00:13:02.299 them, because they do not know the rituals of 00:13:02.299 --> 00:13:04.620 the god of the land. Then the king of Assyria 00:13:04.620 --> 00:13:07.519 commanded, saying, Send there one of the priests, 00:13:07.659 --> 00:13:10.419 whom you brought from there. Let him go and dwell 00:13:10.419 --> 00:13:12.740 there, and let him teach them the rituals of 00:13:12.740 --> 00:13:15.720 the god of the land. Then one of the priests, 00:13:15.879 --> 00:13:18.220 whom they had carried away from Samaria, came 00:13:18.220 --> 00:13:20.679 and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how they 00:13:20.679 --> 00:13:23.299 should fear the Lord. However, every nation continued 00:13:23.299 --> 00:13:26.240 to make gods of its own, and put them in the 00:13:26.240 --> 00:13:28.860 shrines on the high places which the Samaritans 00:13:28.860 --> 00:13:31.519 had made, every nation in the cities where they 00:13:31.519 --> 00:13:34.720 dwelt. The men of Babylon made Sukkot Benot, 00:13:34.840 --> 00:13:38.120 the men of Kut made Nergal, the men of Hamat 00:13:38.120 --> 00:13:42.279 made Ashima, and the Avvites made Nebaz and Tartak, 00:13:42.419 --> 00:13:44.980 and the Sepharvites burned their children in 00:13:44.980 --> 00:13:48.679 fire to Adra -Melech and Ana -Melech, the gods 00:13:48.679 --> 00:13:51.529 of Sepharvim. so they feared the lord and from 00:13:51.529 --> 00:13:54.009 every class they appointed for themselves priests 00:13:54.009 --> 00:13:57.269 of the high places who sacrificed for them in 00:13:57.269 --> 00:13:59.929 the shrines of the high places they feared the 00:13:59.929 --> 00:14:02.610 lord yet served their own gods according to the 00:14:02.610 --> 00:14:05.289 rituals of the nations from among whom they were 00:14:05.289 --> 00:14:08.009 carried away to this day they continue practicing 00:14:08.009 --> 00:14:10.649 the former rituals they do not fear the lord 00:14:10.649 --> 00:14:13.950 nor do they follow their statutes or their ordinances 00:14:13.950 --> 00:14:16.690 or the law and commandment which the lord had 00:14:16.690 --> 00:14:19.620 commanded the children of jacob whom he named 00:14:19.620 --> 00:14:22.700 Israel, with whom the Lord had made a covenant 00:14:22.700 --> 00:14:24.940 and charged them, saying, You shall not fear 00:14:24.940 --> 00:14:28.320 other gods, nor bow down to them, nor serve them, 00:14:28.419 --> 00:14:30.940 nor sacrifice to them. But the Lord who brought 00:14:30.940 --> 00:14:33.759 you up from the land of Egypt with great power 00:14:33.759 --> 00:14:36.840 and an outstretched arm, him you shall fear, 00:14:37.039 --> 00:14:39.659 him you shall worship, and to him you shall offer 00:14:39.659 --> 00:14:42.720 sacrifice. And the statutes, the ordinances, 00:14:42.820 --> 00:14:45.480 the law and the commandment, which he wrote for 00:14:45.480 --> 00:14:48.019 you, you shall be careful to observe forever. 00:14:48.509 --> 00:14:50.970 you shall not fear other gods. And the covenant 00:14:50.970 --> 00:14:53.710 that I have made with you, you shall not forget, 00:14:53.970 --> 00:14:56.870 nor shall you fear other gods. But the Lord your 00:14:56.870 --> 00:14:59.629 God you shall fear, and he will deliver you from 00:14:59.629 --> 00:15:02.830 the hand of all your enemies. However, they did 00:15:02.830 --> 00:15:05.710 not obey, but they followed their former rituals. 00:15:06.190 --> 00:15:08.929 So these nations feared the Lord, yet served 00:15:08.929 --> 00:15:11.909 their carved images. Also their children and 00:15:11.909 --> 00:15:14.370 their children's children have continued doing 00:15:14.370 --> 00:15:23.210 as their fathers did, even to this day. I hope 00:15:23.210 --> 00:15:25.049 you enjoyed today's reading as much as I did 00:15:25.049 --> 00:15:27.149 and I look forward to seeing you again tomorrow 00:15:27.149 --> 00:15:29.649 to continue on our journey. God bless you and 00:15:29.649 --> 00:15:30.350 have a great day.