On the Road to Restoration

Podcast – Pasadena Mennonite Church

English - December 16, 2020 22:43 - 15.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
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Isaiah 61 involves some of the same geographies that are in the news today: Iraq, Israel, and Iran. Iraq roughly correlates with the ancient nation of Babylon. In 597 BC, Babylon invades Judah — the remaining southern kingdom of Israel that hadn’t yet fallen. Judah becomes an occupied territory. Ten years later Jerusalem is leveled.

In 539 BC, Persia defeats Babylon, and the exiles of Judah are allowed to return home — to a homeland that has been destroyed. Yet there is joy in returning. And into this homecoming, Isaiah speaks good news — of promise to these poor returning home, and many yet to come.

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