Dr. John Oswalt, Isaiah, Session 18, Isaiah 36-37

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.

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

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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