So before we get into the passage, this morning, I wanna take a minute and just review where we are in the text. So, Isaiah 40 comes on the heels of the betrayal of King Hezekiah. See, Hezekiah had showed off his wealth to some Babylonian envoys that came and then Isaiah came and told Hezekiah that this same nation, Babylon, would come and take Judah captive. And you could flip back a couple of pages or so to your left at Isaiah 39:8 and we see Hezekiah's response.
He says this. The word of the Lord which you have spoken is good, for there will be peace and truth in my days. And this betrayal is just astounding. God just delivered the nation from the hands of the Assyrians.
He healed Hezekiah from a, a terminal illness, and this is the thanks he gets. It's incredible But God is so gracious and instead of, of words of judgment and condemnation in chapter 40, we see words of comfort. And back in September, we worked through the 1st 11 verses of this, this chapter and we saw that the Lord had 4 declarations of comfort for his people. He said that salvation had come, that his glory would would be revealed, that his word never fails, and finally, he declared that he would defend and protect his sheep.
And these are beautiful words of comfort meant to calm the hearts of God's people facing the consequences of their rejection of God. Words meant to show them that God had not abandoned them. and last week, Pastor Milne walked through the, the promise inspired prayer of Daniel. And in this message, Pastor Milton made the point that Daniel read the promise of God in Jeremiah that, that God would bring his people out of Babylon....
