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Sep 16, 2026
Kathryn DavisGUEST
We might see God in Isaiah's words in our backyards, like in chapter one verse eight, and putting on kids' Band-Aids, or on our morning run, or even climbing into bed.
Kathryn DavisGUEST
If we put effort into studying and understanding Isaiah's words, even when they are all about judgments or the Assyrian army, if we can slow down and ponder, that is when the desert will bloom.
Kathryn DavisGUEST
That is when we will see the Restorer.
Kathryn DavisGUEST
And if I actually try and slow down and understand what he's saying, his words are on my mind a lot more, even more than I want them to, especially these past few weeks, my morning run, doing the dishes.
13 MINS LATER
Kathryn DavisGUEST
The day of the Lord is he is going to destroy everything that keeps me from Him, from feeling His love, from keeping my children from Him.
Kathryn DavisGUEST
He is going to make things right, not punish His people.
John BythewayHOST
If I have personal problems that they could be like my Assyrians or they could be like my Babylonians, if I bind myself to the Lord, which I'm given the opportunity to do every Sunday, He's gonna help me conquer those Babylonians and Assyrians I have in my own life.
John BythewayHOST
We want a God that's powerful to say, "I'm gonna help you destroy the Assyrians that are after you."
QPHOST
And it wasn't only at home.
QPHOST
The Assyrian world next door was burning its own version of the same thing in its own temples in Isaiah's own century, not in a later one.
QPHOST
The Akkadian word for it is kunaba, and it's very likely the direct linguistic ancestor of the word we still use today, cannabis.
QPHOST
Judas spent most of his ministry as an Assyrian vassal, in constant contact with an empire that had this technology named and working.
QPHOST
Isaiah's own temple had its own recipe too, prescribed in its Torah, already burning the one ingredient we can verify, frankincense, and now kunaba as well too.
QPHOST
Between the altar in his own kingdom, the empire next door, and the smoke already filling his own temple, the world around Isaiah had far more of this kind of knowledge close at hand than the account alone lets on.
Graham DunlopHOST
Yeah, I'm not gonna read all these comments here.
Graham DunlopHOST
Actually, th- th- this is from the Nephilim hypothesis on X here.
Graham DunlopHOST
The most interesting part of the lamassu story is that they represented what they represented to the Assyrians themselves.
Graham DunlopHOST
These colossal human-headed winged bulls stood at monumental gateways as supernatural guardians.
Graham DunlopHOST
I mean, if you want to destroy humanity in the West, why wouldn't you get rid of the big statues that are supernatural guardians, right? I mean, they're, they believe in occultism.
Darren GrimesHOST
Those pesky supernatural guardians.
Graham DunlopHOST
The question worth investigating is what the Assyrians believed required guardians this powerful.
Darren GrimesHOST
And why couldn't they stop ISIS?
Dan BlackburnGUEST
This is where this quotation is coming from.
Dan BlackburnGUEST
So Isaiah 28 is all about the Assyrian invasion of Jerusalem.
Dan BlackburnGUEST
And Judah, likely the governors of Judah, tried to make a pact with the king of Assyria.
Dan BlackburnGUEST
So that when he invaded the land, the idea was that this pact would mean that the Assyrians would leave Judah alone.
Dan BlackburnGUEST
So in verse 15 of Isaiah 28, they talk about this pact.
Dan BlackburnGUEST
And they call it, because you have said, we have made a covenant with death and with hell are we in agreement when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come to us.
Dan BlackburnGUEST
Now the overflowing scourge is imagery of the Assyrian invasion.
Dan BlackburnGUEST
And they say, we've made a pact with death itself because we've made a pact with the Assyrians, our could be destroyers.
Roger LewisGUEST
Do you remember these words? Whom Yahweh of hosts shall bless, saying, Bless be Egypt, my people.
Roger LewisGUEST
Assyria, the work of my hands.
Roger LewisGUEST
Daniel 7 verse 12 says, as concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away, yet their lives were prolonged for a season and a time.
Roger LewisGUEST
They'll be in the kingdom, it says.
Mike WickstedGUEST
Behold, the days shall come upon you when he will take you away with fish hooks and your posterity with fish hooks.
Mike WickstedGUEST
This may have been literally true, and you've probably all seen some illustrations, old-time Assyrian illustrations from the time that show captives being led away by hooks in their noses or their lips.
Mike WickstedGUEST
And this type of thing is also described in 2 Kings 19 and 28.
Mike WickstedGUEST
We'll read that real quick.
Mike WickstedGUEST
Now just personally, as a fisherman, I've had a hook stuck in my finger more than once, And if someone was holding the line, going to that hook, they could make me follow anywhere.
Mike WickstedGUEST
You're not going to try to tug against it.
Mike WickstedGUEST
So it's no wonder the Assyrians used hooks to lead their captives away.
Mike WickstedGUEST
Can you imagine trying to take
Joel MuddamalleGUEST
And then you have in Daniel 8, 9, and 10, the presence of archangels.
Joel MuddamalleGUEST
You have the presence of a kind of spiritual being that seems to have status in a kind of hierarchy, and then also a particular function as a protector of a people, a remnant, we might say, that are in captivity in Assyria in the Daniel epic.
Joel MuddamalleGUEST
And then you also have the phrase, the sons of God, that we see in Genesis 6 and Deuteronomy 32, 8 and 9.
Joel MuddamalleGUEST
So, like, within just a couple minutes, Sean, like— We have moved past a reductionistic—well, they're angels.
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Joel MuddamalleGUEST
These sons of God of Deuteronomy 32, 8 and 9 don't steward the nations.
Joel MuddamalleGUEST
They elicit the worship of the nations and become the gods of the nations themselves.
Joel MuddamalleGUEST
And so that would be the third rebellion that actually sets the stage for the gods of the nations and the Egyptian narrative and the Assyrian and Persian and the mess that we find ourselves in in the New Testament.
Sean McDowellHOST
So one of the things that Heiser did so well, and I think you do this in your book as well, is kind of big picture reframing.
annm2705HOST
God expelled the nations of Canaan because of their wickedness.
annm2705HOST
Similarly, Israel was later punished for sin when Assyria and Babylon took over the land.
annm2705HOST
So that those were all warnings that God gave them in Deuteronomy.
annm2705HOST
Blessings and curses.
Avital LeviGUEST
But I think that actually they're, The Bible was a critique on the empires.
Avital LeviGUEST
There was a critique on Egypt, the critique on Assyria, because in these empires, there was no value to every human life.
Avital LeviGUEST
Slaves, literally.
Avital LeviGUEST
The slaves, their individual lives were worthless.
Matthew ThayerGUEST
One of the things that people need to understand is that Cyrus fundamentally changed empire.
Matthew ThayerGUEST
And before Cyrus showed up, the way that you controlled people was to displace them, right? So, you know, that's why Israel was displaced by Assyria.
Matthew ThayerGUEST
That's why Judah was displaced by Babylon.
Matthew ThayerGUEST
It wasn't just those two people groups.
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