Biblical eLearning ([ Ссылка ]) presents (audio is also available on Spotify [ Ссылка ]):
Dr. John Oswalt (Ph.D. Brandies University) on the book of Isaiah. This series was first made available by the Francis Asbury Society ([ Ссылка ]).
Dr. Oswalt has been the distinguished professor of Old Testament at Asbury Theological Seminary for many years. Dr. Oswalt was president of Asbury College from 1983 to 1986.
He is the author of 11 books, most notable of which is the two-volume commentary on the book of Isaiah in the New International Commentary of the Old Testament. His most recent book is The Holy One of Israel: Studies in the Book of Isaiah, released in 2014. He has also written numerous articles that have appeared in Bible encyclopedias, scholarly journals and popular religious periodicals. He has served as a part-time pastor in congregations in New England and Kentucky, and is a frequent speaker in conferences, camps and local churches. The audio, full text in English, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, and others are freely available at [ Ссылка ].
Timed Outline:
00:00 Opening Prayer
1:55 Review 1-6 Call to servanthood, 7-39 Trust – basis of servanthood, 7-12 No trust, 13-35 Lessons in trust, 36-39 Trust, yes but…
4:35 Isaiah 36.2/7.3 same location Ahaz challenged, Now Assyria connected, envelop
9:40 Rab-Shakah sent to Jerusalem
10:10 9 Words for trust in Rab-Shakah speech
12:15 Trust in God ridiculed – Hezekiah tore down his high places
16:55 Hezekiah got rid of high places of Yahweh
18:05 Isaiah 36.8-9 Offers them horses mocking them
19:40 Isaiah 36.10 Yahweh sent us, talk to us in Aramaic, he spoke Hebrew about siege
23:00 Isaiah 36.13 never calls Hezekiah King
23:40 Isaiah 36.15 should not trust in Lord Rab-shakah says
23:50 Isaiah 36.16-17 Trust Assyrians
24:40 Isaiah 36.18-19 Bottom Line: no other god had delivered from Assyria, King of Assyria versus Yahweh
28:30 Isaiah 36.10,22 Yahweh helpless, enemy uses "God" against us, Assyrians well prepared on how to get at Judah
33:15 Isaiah 22 Shebna over house, now Eliakim takes over (cf. 32.22)
34:05 Isaiah 37.1-2 Hezekiah humbles himself, sends message to prophet
35:05 Isaiah 37.3 coming to point of birth theme, no strength to give birth
37:38 Isaiah 37.4 gods-lifeless made by human hands, I Am – hears, sees, acts, King of Assyria thinks he can fight God
40:15 Isiah 37.5-7 Isaiah tells Hezekiah not to fear, Sennacherib dies by his own sons' swords (37.37)
42:05 Isaiah 37.10-20 Rab-Shekah returns to king, sends letter to Hezekiah, spreads it out before the Lord
46:50 Isaiah 37.20 It not about us, its about God, so that the world may know
48:38 Isaiah 37.24-25 Isaiah's language like Assyrian annals
51:55 Isaiah 37.26-29 Exile comes to Assyria, Sennacherib's sin is pride (cf. 14.24-27)
56:00 The Assyrians free will conforms to God's plan
57:10 Isaiah 37-36 185,000 slain, we have Sennacherib's annals, Hezekiah like a bird in a cage, they never campaign in the west again
1:00:05 Trust God climax
Dr. Oswalt's teaching in audio format is now available on Spotify Podcasting playlist [Biblical eLearning - Ted Hildebrandt]: [ Ссылка ]
