WEBVTT 00:00:00.520 --> 00:00:03.700 Hello, this is Father Paul, and I'm glad we're 00:00:03.700 --> 00:00:05.740 taking this journey together to read the Bible 00:00:05.740 --> 00:00:09.339 in a year. Today we conclude the book of Isaiah 00:00:09.339 --> 00:00:16.239 with chapters 63 through 66. Chapter 63 Who is 00:00:16.239 --> 00:00:19.300 this who comes from Edom, with dyed garments 00:00:19.300 --> 00:00:22.539 from Bozrah? This one who is glorious in his 00:00:22.539 --> 00:00:25.179 apparel, traveling in the greatness of his strength. 00:00:25.519 --> 00:00:28.579 I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save. 00:00:29.160 --> 00:00:31.960 Why is your apparel red, and your garments like 00:00:31.960 --> 00:00:35.119 one who treads in the winepress? I have trodden 00:00:35.119 --> 00:00:37.799 the winepress alone, and from the peoples no 00:00:37.799 --> 00:00:40.759 one was with me. For I have trodden them in my 00:00:40.759 --> 00:00:43.960 anger, and trampled them in my fury. Their blood 00:00:43.960 --> 00:00:47.000 is sprinkled upon my garments, and I have stained 00:00:47.000 --> 00:00:49.960 all my robes. For the day of vengeance is in 00:00:49.960 --> 00:00:53.020 my heart, and the year of my redeemed has come. 00:00:53.399 --> 00:00:56.640 i looked but there was no one to help and i wondered 00:00:56.640 --> 00:00:59.920 that there was no one to uphold therefore my 00:00:59.920 --> 00:01:03.740 own arm brought salvation for me and my own fury 00:01:03.740 --> 00:01:06.920 it sustained me i have trodden down the peoples 00:01:06.920 --> 00:01:10.340 in my anger made them drunk in my fury and brought 00:01:10.340 --> 00:01:13.299 down their strength to the earth I will mention 00:01:13.299 --> 00:01:15.620 the lovingkindness of the Lord and the praises 00:01:15.620 --> 00:01:18.280 of the Lord, according to all that the Lord has 00:01:18.280 --> 00:01:21.299 bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward 00:01:21.299 --> 00:01:24.180 the house of Israel, which He has bestowed on 00:01:24.180 --> 00:01:26.879 them according to His mercies, according to the 00:01:26.879 --> 00:01:29.420 multitude of His lovingkindness. For He said, 00:01:29.640 --> 00:01:32.939 Surely they are My people, children who will 00:01:32.939 --> 00:01:35.859 not lie. So He became their Savior in all their 00:01:35.859 --> 00:01:38.680 affliction He was afflicted, and the angel of 00:01:38.680 --> 00:01:41.849 His presence saved them. In his love and in his 00:01:41.849 --> 00:01:45.049 pity he redeemed them, and he bore them and carried 00:01:45.049 --> 00:01:48.510 them all the days of old. But they rebelled and 00:01:48.510 --> 00:01:51.209 grieved his Holy Spirit. So he turned himself 00:01:51.209 --> 00:01:54.209 against them as an enemy, and he fought against 00:01:54.209 --> 00:01:57.290 them. Then he remembered the days of old, Moses 00:01:57.290 --> 00:02:00.230 and his people saying, Where is he who brought 00:02:00.230 --> 00:02:03.310 them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his 00:02:03.310 --> 00:02:06.730 flock? Where is he who put his Holy Spirit within 00:02:06.730 --> 00:02:09.539 them? who led them by the right hand of Moses 00:02:09.539 --> 00:02:12.840 with his glorious arm dividing the water before 00:02:12.840 --> 00:02:15.520 them to make for himself an everlasting name, 00:02:15.639 --> 00:02:18.800 who led them through the deep as a horse in the 00:02:18.800 --> 00:02:22.060 wilderness that they might not stumble. As a 00:02:22.060 --> 00:02:24.599 beast goes down into the valley and the Spirit 00:02:24.599 --> 00:02:27.539 of the Lord causes him to rest, so you lead your 00:02:27.539 --> 00:02:30.819 people to make yourself a glorious name. Look 00:02:30.819 --> 00:02:33.620 down from heaven and see from your habitation 00:02:33.979 --> 00:02:36.919 holy and glorious? Where are your zeal and your 00:02:36.919 --> 00:02:39.439 strength, the yearning of your heart and your 00:02:39.439 --> 00:02:43.620 mercies toward me? Are they restrained? Doubtless 00:02:43.620 --> 00:02:46.659 you are our Father, though Abraham was ignorant 00:02:46.659 --> 00:02:49.879 of us, and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, 00:02:49.979 --> 00:02:53.319 O Lord, are our Father. Our Redeemer from everlasting 00:02:53.319 --> 00:02:57.360 is your name. O Lord, why have you made us stray 00:02:57.360 --> 00:03:00.719 from your ways and hardened our heart from your 00:03:00.719 --> 00:03:04.370 fear? Return for your servants' sake, the tribes 00:03:04.370 --> 00:03:07.289 of your inheritance. Your holy people have possessed 00:03:07.289 --> 00:03:11.250 it but a little while. Our adversaries have trodden 00:03:11.250 --> 00:03:14.389 down your sanctuary. We have become like those 00:03:14.389 --> 00:03:18.169 of old, over whom you never ruled, those who 00:03:18.169 --> 00:03:32.300 were never called by your name. brushwood, as 00:03:32.300 --> 00:03:34.960 fire causes water to boil, to make your name 00:03:34.960 --> 00:03:37.479 known to your adversaries, that the nations may 00:03:37.479 --> 00:03:39.979 tremble at your presence. When you did awesome 00:03:39.979 --> 00:03:43.539 things for which we did not look, you came down, 00:03:43.680 --> 00:03:46.860 the mountains shook at your presence. For since 00:03:46.860 --> 00:03:49.419 the beginning of the world, men have not heard 00:03:49.419 --> 00:03:52.620 nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye seen 00:03:52.620 --> 00:03:56.479 any God besides you, who acts for the one who 00:03:56.479 --> 00:04:00.270 waits for him. You meet him who rejoices and 00:04:00.270 --> 00:04:02.770 does righteousness, who remembers you in your 00:04:02.770 --> 00:04:06.150 ways. You are indeed angry, for we have sinned. 00:04:06.210 --> 00:04:09.349 In these ways we continue, and we need to be 00:04:09.349 --> 00:04:12.389 saved. But we are all like an unclean thing, 00:04:12.650 --> 00:04:15.930 and all our righteousness are like filthy rags. 00:04:16.089 --> 00:04:19.629 We all fade as a leaf, and our iniquities like 00:04:19.629 --> 00:04:22.509 the wind have taken us away. And there is no 00:04:22.509 --> 00:04:25.110 one who calls on your name, who stirs himself 00:04:25.110 --> 00:04:28.370 up to take hold of you. For you have hidden your 00:04:28.370 --> 00:04:31.569 face from us and have consumed us because of 00:04:31.569 --> 00:04:34.589 our iniquities. But now, O Lord, you are our 00:04:34.589 --> 00:04:37.470 Father. We are the clay and you are the potter. 00:04:37.569 --> 00:04:41.029 And all we are the work of your hand. Do not 00:04:41.029 --> 00:04:43.850 be furious, O Lord, nor remember iniquity forever. 00:04:44.250 --> 00:04:47.410 Indeed, please look. We all are your people. 00:04:47.529 --> 00:04:50.990 Your holy cities are a wilderness. Zion is a 00:04:50.990 --> 00:04:54.199 wilderness. Jerusalem a desolation. Our holy 00:04:54.199 --> 00:04:56.819 and beautiful temple, where our fathers praised 00:04:56.819 --> 00:05:00.120 you, is burnt up with fire, and all our pleasant 00:05:00.120 --> 00:05:03.139 things are laid waste. Will you restrain yourself 00:05:03.139 --> 00:05:06.279 because of these things, O Lord? Will you hold 00:05:06.279 --> 00:05:13.420 your peace and afflict us very severely? I was 00:05:13.420 --> 00:05:16.759 sought by those who did not ask for me. I was 00:05:16.759 --> 00:05:19.939 found by those who did not seek me. I said, Here 00:05:19.939 --> 00:05:23.610 I am, here I am. to a nation that was not called 00:05:23.610 --> 00:05:27.149 by my name. I have stretched out my hands all 00:05:27.149 --> 00:05:30.129 day long to a rebellious people, who walk in 00:05:30.129 --> 00:05:32.850 a way that is not good, according to their own 00:05:32.850 --> 00:05:35.910 thoughts, a people who provoke me to anger continually 00:05:35.910 --> 00:05:39.370 to my face, who sacrifice in gardens and burn 00:05:39.370 --> 00:05:42.670 incense on altars of brick, who sit among the 00:05:42.670 --> 00:05:45.430 graves and spend the night in the tombs, who 00:05:45.430 --> 00:05:48.670 eat swine's flesh and the broth of abominable 00:05:48.670 --> 00:05:52.459 things is in their vessels. who say keep to yourself 00:05:52.459 --> 00:05:55.899 do not come near me for i am holier than you 00:05:55.899 --> 00:05:59.839 these are smoke in my nostrils a fire that burns 00:05:59.839 --> 00:06:03.560 all the day behold it is written before me i 00:06:03.560 --> 00:06:06.759 will not keep silence but will repay even repay 00:06:06.759 --> 00:06:09.980 into their bosom your iniquities and iniquities 00:06:09.980 --> 00:06:13.139 of your fathers together says the lord who have 00:06:13.139 --> 00:06:15.639 burned incense on the mountains and blasphemed 00:06:15.639 --> 00:06:18.680 me on the hills therefore i will measure their 00:06:18.680 --> 00:06:22.160 former work into their bosom thus says the lord 00:06:22.160 --> 00:06:25.680 as the new wine is found in the cluster and one 00:06:25.680 --> 00:06:28.500 says do not destroy it for a blessing is in it 00:06:28.500 --> 00:06:32.139 so will i do for my servants sake that i may 00:06:32.139 --> 00:06:34.860 not destroy them all i will bring forth descendants 00:06:34.860 --> 00:06:38.740 from jacob and from judah and heir of my mountains 00:06:38.740 --> 00:06:42.579 my elect shall inherit it and my servants shall 00:06:42.579 --> 00:06:46.480 dwell there sharon shall be a fold of flocks 00:06:46.860 --> 00:06:49.319 and the valley of Achor, a place for herds to 00:06:49.319 --> 00:06:52.920 lie down, for my people who have sought me. But 00:06:52.920 --> 00:06:55.600 you are those who forsake the Lord, who forget 00:06:55.600 --> 00:06:58.759 my holy mountain, who prepare a table for Gad, 00:06:58.980 --> 00:07:02.639 and who furnish a drink offering for many. Therefore 00:07:02.639 --> 00:07:05.860 I will number you for the sword, and you shall 00:07:05.860 --> 00:07:08.500 all bow down to the slaughter. Because when I 00:07:08.500 --> 00:07:11.360 called, you did not answer. When I spoke, you 00:07:11.360 --> 00:07:14.819 did not hear. but did evil before my eyes, and 00:07:14.819 --> 00:07:17.920 chose that in which I do not delight. Therefore 00:07:17.920 --> 00:07:21.339 thus says the Lord God, Behold, my servants shall 00:07:21.339 --> 00:07:24.379 eat, but you shall be hungry. Behold, my servants 00:07:24.379 --> 00:07:27.379 shall drink, but you shall be thirsty. Behold, 00:07:27.379 --> 00:07:30.439 my servants shall rejoice, but you shall be ashamed. 00:07:31.000 --> 00:07:33.779 Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, 00:07:33.980 --> 00:07:36.819 but you shall cry of sorrow of heart, and wail 00:07:36.819 --> 00:07:39.579 for grief of spirit. You shall leave your name 00:07:39.579 --> 00:07:42.959 as a curse to my chosen. For the Lord God will 00:07:42.959 --> 00:07:46.240 slay you and call his servants by another name, 00:07:46.379 --> 00:07:49.959 so that he who blesses himself in the earth shall 00:07:49.959 --> 00:07:53.100 bless himself in the God of truth, and he who 00:07:53.100 --> 00:07:55.600 swears in the earth shall swear by the God of 00:07:55.600 --> 00:07:58.360 truth, because the former troubles are forgotten 00:07:58.360 --> 00:08:01.740 and because they are hidden from my eyes. For 00:08:01.740 --> 00:08:04.699 behold, I create new heavens and a new earth 00:08:04.699 --> 00:08:08.139 and the former shall not be remembered or come 00:08:08.139 --> 00:08:11.560 to mind but be glad and rejoice forever in what 00:08:11.560 --> 00:08:15.180 i create for behold i create jerusalem as a rejoicing 00:08:15.180 --> 00:08:19.019 and her people a joy i will rejoice in jerusalem 00:08:19.019 --> 00:08:22.199 and joy in my people the voice of weeping shall 00:08:22.199 --> 00:08:25.139 no longer be heard in her nor the voice of crying 00:08:25.139 --> 00:08:28.699 no more shall an infant from there live but a 00:08:28.699 --> 00:08:31.910 few days nor an old man who has not fulfilled 00:08:31.910 --> 00:08:35.250 his days. For the child shall die one hundred 00:08:35.250 --> 00:08:38.049 years old, but the sinner, being one hundred 00:08:38.049 --> 00:08:41.129 years old, shall be accursed. They shall build 00:08:41.129 --> 00:08:43.850 houses and inhabit them. They shall plant vineyards 00:08:43.850 --> 00:08:46.830 and eat their fruit. They shall not build and 00:08:46.830 --> 00:08:49.490 another inhabit. They shall not plant and another 00:08:49.490 --> 00:08:52.990 eat. For as the days of a tree, so shall be the 00:08:52.990 --> 00:08:56.299 days of my people. and my elect shall long enjoy 00:08:56.299 --> 00:08:59.100 the work of their hands. They shall not labor 00:08:59.100 --> 00:09:02.580 in vain, nor bring forth children for trouble, 00:09:02.720 --> 00:09:06.320 for they shall be the descendants of the blessed 00:09:06.320 --> 00:09:10.059 of the Lord and their offspring with them. It 00:09:10.059 --> 00:09:12.559 shall come to pass that before they call I will 00:09:12.559 --> 00:09:15.340 answer, and while they are still speaking I will 00:09:15.340 --> 00:09:18.559 hear. The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, 00:09:18.820 --> 00:09:22.000 the lion shall eat straw like the ox, and dust 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:24.659 shall be the serpent's food. They shall not hurt 00:09:24.659 --> 00:09:28.080 nor destroy in all my holy mountain, says the 00:09:28.080 --> 00:09:34.840 Lord. Chapter 66 Thus says the Lord, Heaven is 00:09:34.840 --> 00:09:37.820 my throne and earth is my footstool. Where is 00:09:37.820 --> 00:09:40.399 the house that you will build me? And where is 00:09:40.399 --> 00:09:43.759 the place of my rest? For all those things my 00:09:43.759 --> 00:09:47.200 hand has made, and all those things exist, says 00:09:47.200 --> 00:09:50.720 the Lord. But on this one will I look. on him 00:09:50.720 --> 00:09:54.139 who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who 00:09:54.139 --> 00:09:58.059 trembles at my word. He who kills a bull is as 00:09:58.059 --> 00:10:01.480 if he slays a man. He who sacrifices a lamb, 00:10:01.580 --> 00:10:04.899 as if he breaks a dog's neck. He who offers a 00:10:04.899 --> 00:10:08.000 grain offering, as if he offers swine's blood. 00:10:08.259 --> 00:10:11.419 He who burns incense, as if he blesses an idol. 00:10:11.720 --> 00:10:14.820 Just as they have chosen their own ways, and 00:10:14.820 --> 00:10:17.799 their soul delights in their abominations, so 00:10:17.799 --> 00:10:20.480 will I choose their delusions, and bring their 00:10:20.480 --> 00:10:23.440 fears on them. Because when I called, no one 00:10:23.440 --> 00:10:26.759 answered. When I spoke, they did not hear. But 00:10:26.759 --> 00:10:29.340 they did evil before my eyes, and chose that 00:10:29.340 --> 00:10:32.340 in which I do not delight. Hear the word of the 00:10:32.340 --> 00:10:35.659 Lord, you who tremble at his word. Your brethren 00:10:35.659 --> 00:10:38.980 who hated you, who cast you out for my name's 00:10:38.980 --> 00:10:42.539 sake, said, Let the Lord be glorified, that we 00:10:42.539 --> 00:10:45.820 may see your joy, but they shall be ashamed. 00:10:46.259 --> 00:10:49.539 The sound of noise from the city, a voice from 00:10:49.539 --> 00:10:52.820 the temple, the voice of the Lord who fully repays 00:10:52.820 --> 00:10:56.100 his enemies. Before she was in labor, she gave 00:10:56.100 --> 00:10:59.179 birth. Before her pain came, she delivered a 00:10:59.179 --> 00:11:02.259 male child. Who has heard such a thing? Who has 00:11:02.259 --> 00:11:05.360 seen such things? Shall the earth be made to 00:11:05.360 --> 00:11:08.399 give birth in one day? Or shall a nation be born 00:11:08.399 --> 00:11:12.120 at once? For as soon as Zion was in labor, she 00:11:12.120 --> 00:11:15.000 gave birth to her children. Shall I bring to 00:11:15.000 --> 00:11:17.419 the time of birth and not cause delivery, says 00:11:17.419 --> 00:11:20.299 the Lord? Shall I who cause delivery shut up 00:11:20.299 --> 00:11:23.480 the womb, says your God? Rejoice with Jerusalem, 00:11:23.740 --> 00:11:27.159 and be glad with her all who love her. Rejoice 00:11:27.159 --> 00:11:30.639 for joy with her all you who mourn for her, that 00:11:30.639 --> 00:11:33.830 you may feed and be satisfied. with the consolation 00:11:33.830 --> 00:11:36.730 of her bosom, that you may drink deeply and be 00:11:36.730 --> 00:11:40.049 delighted with the abundance of her glory. For 00:11:40.049 --> 00:11:42.809 thus says the Lord, Behold, I will extend peace 00:11:42.809 --> 00:11:45.750 to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles 00:11:45.750 --> 00:11:49.250 like a flowing stream. Then you shall feed. On 00:11:49.250 --> 00:11:52.570 her sides shall you be carried and be dandled 00:11:52.570 --> 00:11:56.210 on her knees, as one whom his mother comforts. 00:11:56.210 --> 00:11:59.570 So I will comfort you, and you shall be comforted 00:11:59.570 --> 00:12:03.009 in Jerusalem. When you see this, Your heart shall 00:12:03.009 --> 00:12:06.029 rejoice and your bones shall flourish like grass. 00:12:06.330 --> 00:12:08.950 The hand of the Lord shall be known to his servants 00:12:08.950 --> 00:12:12.330 and his indignation to his enemies. For behold, 00:12:12.450 --> 00:12:15.269 the Lord will come with fire and with his chariots 00:12:15.269 --> 00:12:19.029 like a whirlwind to render his anger with fury 00:12:19.029 --> 00:12:22.789 and his rebuke with flames of fire. For by fire 00:12:22.789 --> 00:12:25.929 and by his sword, the Lord will judge all flesh 00:12:25.929 --> 00:12:29.559 and the slain of the Lord shall be many. Those 00:12:29.559 --> 00:12:31.820 who sanctify themselves and purify themselves 00:12:31.820 --> 00:12:35.440 to go to the gardens after an idol in the midst, 00:12:35.600 --> 00:12:38.860 eating swine's flesh and abomination and the 00:12:38.860 --> 00:12:41.679 mouse, shall be consumed together, says the Lord. 00:12:41.919 --> 00:12:45.460 For I know their works and their thoughts. It 00:12:45.460 --> 00:12:48.320 shall be that I will gather all nations and tongues, 00:12:48.460 --> 00:12:51.960 and they shall come and see my glory. I will 00:12:51.960 --> 00:12:55.240 set a sign among them, and those among them who 00:12:55.240 --> 00:12:58.350 escape I will send to the nations. to Tarshish, 00:12:58.409 --> 00:13:02.590 and Pol, and Lod, who draw the bow, and Tubal, 00:13:02.610 --> 00:13:05.929 and Javan, to the coastlands afar off, who have 00:13:05.929 --> 00:13:09.190 not heard my fame, nor seen my glory. And they 00:13:09.190 --> 00:13:11.850 shall declare my glory among the Gentiles. Then 00:13:11.850 --> 00:13:14.710 they shall bring all your brethren for an offering 00:13:14.710 --> 00:13:18.649 to the Lord out of all nations, on horses, and 00:13:18.649 --> 00:13:22.289 in chariots, and in litters, on mules, and on 00:13:22.289 --> 00:13:25.820 camels, to my holy mountain Jerusalem. says the 00:13:25.820 --> 00:13:28.980 Lord, as the children of Israel bring an offering 00:13:28.980 --> 00:13:31.480 in a clean vessel into the house of the Lord. 00:13:31.720 --> 00:13:34.419 And I will also take some of them for priests 00:13:34.419 --> 00:13:38.360 and Levites, says the Lord. For as the new heavens 00:13:38.360 --> 00:13:41.360 and the new earth which I will make shall remain 00:13:41.360 --> 00:13:44.659 before me, says the Lord, so shall your descendants 00:13:44.659 --> 00:13:48.259 and your name remain. And it shall come to pass 00:13:48.259 --> 00:13:51.940 that from one new moon to another, and from one 00:13:51.940 --> 00:13:55.600 Sabbath to another, All flesh shall come to worship 00:13:55.600 --> 00:13:58.860 before me, says the Lord, and they shall go forth 00:13:58.860 --> 00:14:02.559 and look upon the corpses of the men who have 00:14:02.559 --> 00:14:05.759 transgressed against me. For their worm does 00:14:05.759 --> 00:14:08.899 not die, and their fire is not quenched. They 00:14:08.899 --> 00:14:17.480 shall be an abhorrence to all flesh. I hope you 00:14:17.480 --> 00:14:19.840 enjoyed today's reading as much as I did, and 00:14:19.840 --> 00:14:21.720 I look forward to seeing you again tomorrow to 00:14:21.720 --> 00:14:23.960 continue on our journey. God bless you and have 00:14:23.960 --> 00:14:24.500 a great day.