(Disclaimer: This transcript is auto-generated and may contain mistakes.) Isaiah chapter 12, Isaiah chapter 12, and we are continuing our study through the book of Isaiah here. And if you remember, Isaiah 12 here is actually capping off a prophecy or a vision that was given to Isaiah to give to Ahaz. So if you go from chapter 7 all the way to chapter 12, it's all one thing that's being said. A lot of different things or items are being brought up, but there's no break in who he's talking to, and it's not like about something else. In chapter 13, we're going to be getting into about Babylon. So chapter 13 and 14 are linked together, and they're all one thought. But this is really capping off what Isaiah has been saying to Ahaz, King Ahaz. And so there's only six verses here, but it's packed with some information here. And so Isaiah chapter 12, verse 1, let's just dig into it here. Verse 1, it says, And in that day, thou shalt say, O Lord, I will praise thee. Though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortest me. So this is a great chapter here because it talks about Jehovah, and it talks about salvation, talks about trusting in the Lord. But it starts off actually talking about the fact that God was angry with him or with God's people. And that's really how it starts off, isn't it? When you're dealing with salvation is the fact that you realize that God, that you sinned against God, and that you're under condemnation, right? And so this idea that God isn't angry with you, like Joyce Meyer would say, is not true. Now obviously when you're saved, you're washed by the blood of the lamb, spiritually speaking, God isn't angry with you anymore. And that's what it's stating here. And obviously in eternity, when we have a new body and everything, and all things are become new, body, soul, and spirit, then obviously God's not gonna be angry with us at all anymore. But in this life, obviously, you can still be in the flesh, and God can still be angry with you because you're walking in the flesh, not walking in the spirit. But it says here, it says, though I was angry with me, or I'm sorry, though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortest me. And let's just look at, go to Isaiah chapter 59, and what is he talking about here? Well, I believe it's talking about the fact of sin, okay? So spiritually speaking, God is angry with sinners, okay? God is angry with the wicked every day, and if you don't believe me that God is angry with sinners, then explain hell. I mean, that is God's anger being kindled forever. I mean, the first mention of hell is in Deuteronomy 32, 22, and it talks about his anger being killed unto the lowest hell. And so, yes, sinners and sin makes God angry, and in Isaiah 59 verse one here, notice what it says, Isaiah 59 verse one, it says, behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened that it cannot save, neither his ear heavy that it cannot hear, but your iniquities have separated between you and your, I'm sorry, between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you that he will not hear, okay? And people take this out of context to be like, well, that means hell is separated from God, okay? No, what it's talking about, the fact is, is that obviously, even in this life as Christians, we could have separation of fellowship because of our sin, but if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness, and we can have fellowship back with God. But obviously, sin separates us from, you know, salvation, from eternal life, and all that, as far as, you know, we're in condemnation. Go to Micah chapter seven, Micah chapter seven, I just want you to see that, you know, when it comes to sin, that's what God's angry about. Micah seven, Micah seven, so, in the Minor Prophecy of Nahum, Micah Nahum, Jonah, Micah Nahum, and verse 18, so at the end of the chapter there, end of the book, Micah seven verse 18 says, And isn't that what he does as soon as we get saved? Our sins are as far as the east is from the west, he will remember our sins no more, the Bible says that he actually, they're cast into the depths of the sea, there's another place where it talks about how he throws them behind his back, right? So he, but notice that it says, he will subdue our iniquities, not us, he will, okay? That's why, because he was bruised for our iniquities, you know, and it talks about that in Isaiah chapter 53, and the fact that he, you know, the chastisement of our peace was put upon him, and the fact is that Jesus took all our sins on him, he was made to be sinned for us, or for he had made him to be sinned for us who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him, and so, it's a beautiful picture of salvation, and it's interesting because when you go back to Isaiah chapter 12, the next verse is saying salvation is, God is my salvation, and so this is a great verse here, in Isaiah chapter 12 and verse 2, Isaiah chapter 12 and verse 2, so what do we see in verse 1? He's making a mention that hey, you were angry with me, but that anger has turned away, and now you're comforting me, why? This is why, in verse 2, behold God is my salvation, that's why he's not angry with you anymore, it says I will trust and not be afraid, for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song, he also is become my salvation, so this is a great verse because when you look at, because people say well, where does it say believe, you know, on the Lord in the Old Testament, well, Abraham believed in the Lord and it was imputed on him for righteousness, so yeah, in Genesis chapter 15, okay, Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord, there's grace and there's faith in Genesis, okay, but how about this, the word trust is used a lot in the Old Testament, you know, trusting in the Lord, kiss the son lest he be angry, bless her all day to put their trust in him, and you know, the Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble, and he knoweth them that trust in him, and so that word trust is used a lot in the Old Testament, which we know is synonymous with belief, right, if you believe somebody, you're trusting that person, right, and there's a lot in this verse, but the idea that God is my salvation, not my good works, not going to church, not getting baptized, not being circumcised, God is my salvation, God is my righteousness, and there's a lot in here because the word Jehovah is used here, okay, now, the word Jehovah, and I've talked about this before, but in, you know, what they call the tetragrammaton in the Bible, but the King James Bible actually has it written out, you know, transliterated if you will, as Jehovah, seven times in the Bible, four times, it's straight up just says Jehovah, and then there's three other times where Jehovah's in a name, it's kind of like a part of a name, right, and I want to show you those places, this is one of them obviously, where it's the Lord Jehovah, and go to Genesis chapter 22, so I just kind of want to go from the first time it's mentioned down on the line here, Genesis 22, so this is where Abraham's going to name a place Jehovah Jireh, okay, so it's not just Jehovah, but he's naming it Jehovah Jireh, okay, and this is where he offers up Isaac upon the altar, and so I don't want to read the whole story for sake of time, but look at verse 13 there, so Genesis 22 verse 13, it says, and Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns, and Abraham went and took the ram and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son, and Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah Jireh, as it is, I'm sorry, as it is said to this day, now here's the key when you look at this, when you see these phrases or these terms, a lot of times it defines it, and you don't have to go back to the Hebrew and figure this out, okay, meaning that, notice it says, as it is said, as it is said to this day, in the mount of the Lord it shall be seen, so what do you think Jehovah Jireh means, okay, in the mount of the Lord it shall be seen, right, so you can go back and go find some Hebrew scholars, but I'm going to take the fact that that's what it means, right, and so now, what does that mean, well, what just happened where they were at, he offered up his son Isaac, and God said no, I'm going to provide myself a lamb, right, he said that before they got up there, and then there's the ram caught in the thicket, and I kind of showed you all the symbolistic, not all of it, but I'm sure I missed something, but, you know, the symbolistic aspect of the horns caught in the thicket and the crown of thorns, you know, all this stuff as far as that goes, but I believe that where he offered Isaac upon the altar is the exact place where Jesus was crucified, you say, well, can you give me a little more information or prove that, well, go to verse two of that chapter, let's see where they're at, okay, so it does tell us where he told Abraham to take his son, you're like, this is a rabbit trail, well, that's fine, I got six verses, okay, but, you know what, I like going into this Jehovah stuff because I don't believe it's by accident that it's mentioned seven times and I don't believe it's accident, you know, because I believe it's showing us a picture of salvation in a lot of these cases, okay, now in verse two here it says, and he said, take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah, and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of, okay, so he's saying go to Moriah and go to one of these mountains, I'm going to show you which mountain to go to, but go to Moriah, so Moriah is only mentioned one other time in the Bible, go to Second Chronicles chapter three, it's actually going to tell us where that's at, okay, because if you know this, Abraham's sojourning a land that's not his own yet, okay, so at this point this is in Israel and none of the names that are in Israel are there, right, they kind of have different names and then they're like, well, this ended up being this place or whatever, right, so the land of Moriah, where is that in relation to the modern cities of Israel and all that, well, in Second Chronicles chapter three in verse one, notice what it says, then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord at Jerusalem in Mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared unto David his father in the place that David had prepared in the threshing floor of Onan the Jebusite, so Jebus we know ended up being Jerusalem, but he was in the land of Moriah, right, that's where Abraham was at, and it says that Mount Moriah is where they built the temple at, okay, but there wasn't just one mountain in Moriah, right, because what did he say to Abraham, he says, there's going to be mountains, right, plural, is what he says to him, it says offer him there for an offering upon one of the mountains, which I will tell thee of, okay, so I don't believe that he offered him where the temple was at, right, because they rebuilt the temple, obviously Solomon's temple was destroyed, but I believe they rebuilt the temple in the same spot, you know, that the first one was at, but to show you that is that, well, Moriah is where Jerusalem's at, the land of Moriah, and so therefore I personally believe that that's exactly where Jesus was crucified, so when it says Jehovah Jireh, it says in the mount of the Lord it shall be seen, what shall be seen, the fact that I will offer myself a lamb, that's what's going to be seen, and why was Jehovah mentioned in there, well, because Jesus is Jehovah, okay, now, go to Exodus chapter 6, Exodus chapter 6, okay, Exodus chapter 6, this is obviously where God's talking to Moses before he goes into Egypt to do all the plagues and all that, to get the people out of Egypt, so you have the burning bush, you have all that stuff where he's talking to them, but in verse 3 here, so Exodus chapter 6 and verse 3, it says, and I appeared unto Abraham and unto Isaac and unto Jacob by the name of God Almighty, but by my name Jehovah was I not known to them, okay, so this is actually, when the Old Testament was starting with Moses, that's when God started going by the name Jehovah, okay, before that, they weren't calling him Jehovah, that wasn't like the name he was called by, he was called by the Lord God Almighty, right, or God Almighty, and actually if you look through Genesis, both Abraham, you know, God talked to Abraham and says God Almighty, you know, I'm God Almighty, and then both Isaac and Jacob call him Almighty God, okay, but once they go into Egypt, and then when Moses is coming to deliver them out, he says, I'm now going to be known as Jehovah, okay, so Abraham named that place Jehovah Jireh, but at the same time, it was like giving him to say that, they weren't like calling him Jehovah, now when you're going through Genesis, you'll see that all caps Lord mentioned, right, but it's never the fact that someone says all caps Lord, it's the narrator speaking saying the Lord did this or the Lord did that, you know what that proves, is that Moses wrote Genesis, because he wasn't known by Jehovah until Moses, does that make sense, so a lot of people say, well, you know, how do you know that it's the five books of Moses, well that's one of the proofs, besides the fact that, you know, Jesus also confirms it, that it calls it the law, or calls it the books, it says in Moses, and it's talking about, you know, Adam and Eve and stuff like that, so all I'd say is that, don't get that confused when you see Jehovah Jireh, and you'll be like, well, I thought he wasn't known by that, but you gotta understand that a lot of times they were speaking things that they didn't even understand, or they were told to name a place a certain thing, you know, Abraham could have very well known that this is the place where the Lord's gonna be crucified, you know, but sometimes we don't know if they saw that completely clearly, or if it was through a glass darkly, but he wasn't known by the name Jehovah, like he wasn't being called Jehovah until Moses' day. Now go to Exodus chapter 17, so Exodus chapter 17, now Moses is gonna build an altar, and he's gonna name it Jehovah, Jehovah Nissi, okay, so this is another one where it's kind of a combination of words, okay, and so in Exodus chapter 17 and verse 13, it says this, it says, Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword, and the Lord said unto Moses, write this for memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua, for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven, and Moses built an altar and called the name of it Jehovah Nissi, for he said, because the Lord hath sworn that the Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation. So what does Jehovah Nissi mean? Well, you always look at it, well, why is he building this altar? Because it says he's gonna have war, the Lord's gonna have war with Amalek, okay, so if you go back a couple chapters into Exodus chapter 15, Exodus chapter 15 and verse 2, there's a very familiar phrase that's actually mentioned in Isaiah 12, which we're talking about, right, because it says in Exodus chapter 15 and verse 2, it says, the Lord is my strength and song, and he has become my salvation, sound familiar? That's exactly what it says, it's in a different order that it's saying it, he is my God, and I will prepare him in habitation, my father's God, and I will exalt him, the Lord is a man of war, the Lord is his name. So the idea of Jehovah going to war is not, you know, out there as far as being what's being said here with Jehovah Nissi, okay, so again, I didn't go back to my Hebrew lexicon, or whatever you'd call it, I guess, I guess it wouldn't be a lexicon because that's a Greek terminology, but with these words, like Bethel, I'm staying at the house of God, so you see the house of God, that's what Bethel means, Bethlehem means house of bread, and you can look at some of these terms and you'll figure it out just by context, what's being said, and they just define it. Go to Judges chapter 6, so we saw Jehovah, Jehovah Jireh, we saw where he's going to be called Jehovah, right, that's in Exodus chapter 6, and then Exodus chapter 17, Moses builds an altar and calls it Jehovah Nissi, and then in Judges, we're going to see another altar being made, okay, so this is the fourth mention, if you will, or fifth mention, I forget, Isaiah 12 is already in there, so, so Judges chapter 6, this is dealing with Gideon, verse 24 says, then Gideon built an altar there unto the Lord and called it Jehovah Shalom, unto this day it is yet an ophrah of the Abiezrites, say that ten times fast, and it came to pass the same night that the Lord said unto him, take thy father's young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the grove that is by it, and build an altar unto the Lord thy God upon the rock of this, I'm sorry, upon the top of this rock, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove, which thou shalt cut down, so we see here that this is where he throws down the altar of Baal, and God is telling him build this altar on there, and he named it Jehovah Shalom, okay, probably heard it like Shalom, right, and, but you kind of think of the word Salem, right, it's kind of a derivative of that, meaning like peace, and you say well how do you know that means peace, well Melchizedek was called the, he was by interpretation king of righteousness, and he was also called the king of Salem, which is king of peace, okay, so the Bible defines that, so Salem, and so you kind of see Jerusalem, and all that, now, again I'm just kind of showing you these, I don't really want to go into depth on these, I'm just showing you where it mentions these, go to Psalm 83, Psalm 83, Psalm 83, another mention of Jehovah, you say well why didn't they use Jehovah like every time it's, you know, that, that Hebrew word is mentioned, well why didn't the translator, or why, I'm sorry, not the translators, why didn't the apostles that were penning down the gospels write Jehovah in Greek when they wrote the Lord said unto my Lord sit thou in my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool, when in Hebrew it said Jehovah, right, because they were following suit, you know, so the translators of the King James Bible were following suit with the fact of using Lord in the place of Jehovah, but in these seven places Jehovah is used, I believe there's a reason for it, that it's used that way, I don't believe it's by accident that it's used that way, but I think that there's a lot of meaning to these places where it says Jehovah, and I feel like Jehovah gets a bad rap kind of like Mary does, you know, because of Catholics, you know, and the veneration of Mary, but then you also have the Jehovah witnesses, right, that are just like it should be used everywhere, and you know, it should say Jehovah in all these other places, and Jehovah this and Jehovah that, I'm going to be getting to that, I have nothing wrong with the word Jehovah, right, and we sing that song, I forget, what is it, resting upon Jehovah, there's nothing wrong with that song, but you almost had that like bad connotation, you're just like, God, people think I'm a Jehovah witness, or I'm like some like Jewish worshipper, or something like that, I'm trying to be, trying to be a Jew, or whatever, listen, Jehovah's a great name, but Jesus' name is above that name now, okay, so I'm not against the name Jehovah, and actually I'm going to show you is that Jehovah, that the name Jehovah is in the name of Jesus, okay, so we're not against the name Jehovah, but the name of Jesus is above that now, okay, now in Psalm 83, and verse 1, I want to show you who we're talking about, and for sake of time, I don't want to go through the whole Psalm here, but you need context, as far as, if I just read that last verse, you'd be like, what, what's going on, so in verse 1 there it says, keep not thy silence, O God, hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God, for lo, thine enemies make a tumult, and they that hate thee have lifted up the head, okay, so who are we talking about, we're talking about people that hate the Lord, and that's what this Psalm is about, as far as they hate him, and then the Psalm's like, do this unto them, Lord, and then in verse 17 it says, let them be confounded and troubled forever, yea, let them be put to shame and perish, that men may know that thou, whose name alone is Jehovah, art the most high over all the earth, okay, so again, this kind of, this goes into the fact that he's a man of war, you know, and the Lord is his name, and Jehovah in this eye, you know, he's going to be with war, with Amalek, from generation to generation, the idea that God is a God of wrath, and our God is a consuming fire, okay, so when you think of the name Jehovah, yeah, when we're looking at Isaiah 12, we're seeing hope, and peace, and salvation, right, but that name also has the flip side to that coin, which means the wrath of God, okay, and now people have used this passage right here to try to support modalism, I know you saw modalism in that, right, I feel like sometimes I bring this stuff up and you're like, I would never even like, for one second, thought that, you know, they're trying to destroy the trinity here, but what they'll say here is like, well, see, God's name alone is Jehovah, therefore the son must be the father, that's all I got for you, I don't really know exactly how they explain that, okay, but the idea, I guess, is what they're saying is that while Jesus is Jehovah, and the father is Jehovah, ergo, the father is the son, how about they all are called Jehovah, the Holy Spirit's called Jehovah, and it's just like Jesus is God, right, Jesus is called God, Jesus is called the Lord, Jesus is called Jehovah, guess what, the father's called God, he's called the Lord, he's called Jehovah, okay, so there's no problem, they're all God almighty, right, so there's nothing wrong with calling Jesus God, Jehovah, almighty, all those things, and you call the spirit the same thing, but you don't lose the trinity because of that, okay, so, I don't know, sorry, but sometimes I see these verses and people have tainted them in my mind because of their stupid doctrines, and I just gotta get that off my chest there, so this obviously doesn't do anything for modalism, it's just showing that, you know, God's name alone is Jehovah, so nothing wrong with that. Now, go to Isaiah chapter 26, so Jehovah's actually mentioned twice in Isaiah, so once in Psalms, twice in Isaiah, now if you want to count where it says Jaw, but it's kind of a different, it's kind of a shortened name, it's not the same as the, what they call the tetragrammaton, I guess, you know, like that'll, but in Psalm 68, I believe, it talks about Jaw, it says Jaw, but you kind of see that in Hallelujah, right, the J-A-H at the end, that's where you get that, like praising God, and that's not written out or transliterated in the Old Testament, but in the New Testament, it's Allelujah, so it's a transliteration of Hallelujah, and that last yah is like a shortened version of Jehovah, okay, so if you want to count that, then there's eight, okay, but I'm just looking at Jehovah, the whole full name there. Isaiah 26 and verse 1, it says this, it says in that day, shall this song be sung in the land of Judah, we have a strong city, salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks, open ye the gates that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in, thou will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee, because he trusteth in thee, so you think about that stayed upon Jehovah, right, where these songs come from, trust ye in the Lord forever, for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength, for he bringeth down them that dwell on high, the lofty city, he layeth it low, he layeth it low even to the ground, he bringeth it even to the dust, so you see that, both sides of the coin there, you see that salvation for the believers, and for his children, but then you see the destruction of the wicked in that same passage there, okay, and so these passages with Jehovah, I just wanted you to see that as far as other places that Jehovah's mentioned or you may have wondered like how many times is it mentioned in the Bible, and if you just do a search like Jehovah and Esau, you'll probably only see it four times, but the other three, like I said, is where it's encompassed in another word, okay, so it's kind of a compound word, if you will, that has Jehovah in it, but you know what's interesting about Isaiah chapter 12 and verse 2 here is that how this correlates with Jesus, okay, so in Isaiah 12, 2, it says, behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid, for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song, he also has become my salvation, go to Matthew chapter 1, Matthew chapter 1, because what does the name Jesus mean? The Bible's going to spell out what it means, it's going to straight up tell you what that name means, but I'm going to show you how that word came to be or how that name came to be, if you will, okay, so I'm going to show you, what I want to show you is that in the name Jesus is Jehovah, okay, the name Jehovah is within that name, but it's not the same name because there's something added on to it, and notice what it says in Matthew chapter 1 and verse 21, Matthew 1 verse 21, it says, and she shall bring forth a son and thou shall call his name Jesus, okay, why are we calling him Jesus? For he shall save his people from their sins, so what does the name Jesus mean? He saves his people from their sins, okay, so obviously savior is in that name, right, and who's the he? The Lord, the Christ, right? So what you may not realize is the fact that Jehovah, it's literally a combination of Jehovah and Hosea, okay, and I kind of want to talk about it, so go to Numbers chapter 13, Numbers chapter 13, and Joshua the son of Nun, okay, is going to show us that, and so in the Old Testament, Joshua is the Old Testament way of saying Jesus, and if you don't believe me there's two places in the New Testament that use the name Jesus and it's talking about Joshua the son of Nun, in Hebrews chapter 4 and in Acts chapter 7, talking about Joshua bringing in Israel into the Promised Land, okay, and it says Jesus, it's just a derivative or a, it's basically how they said it in Greek and then it was transliterated into English and Joshua is transliterated from the Hebrew, okay, but it's the same name, it's like you may not know this but Jacob and James are the same name, which is funny to me because my cousin's name is James Jacob, and I never knew that, I never knew that but James is a derivative or basically the same name as Jacob but it's kind of like the same, same logic there, but go to Numbers chapter 13 verse 16, and I want to show you that Joshua, he was named Joshua, his original name wasn't Joshua, Moses gave him that name, okay, notice in Numbers 13 verse 16 it says, these are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land and Moses called Oshea the son of Nun, Jehoshua, okay, so his name was Oshea but then he said no, now you're going to be Jehoshua, now you don't usually say Jehoshua, right, you say Joshua, and just to prove that go to Numbers 14 verse 6 that most of the time when you're talking about Joshua, you know, like when you see Joshua written, it's Joshua, okay, but I want to show you other places where that name's mentioned, you're going to see Jehoshua, you're going to see Joshua, and you're going to see Jeshua, it's all the same person, okay, just different ways of saying the name, and what you see a lot of times is they drop the H and the O, right, or they'll drop the E and the H, you see this with the kings, right, we saw that with the kings with Jehoash and then Jehoash, and it's the same person, right, but they shorten the name or whatever, right, so this happens a lot in the Bible actually, and even Oshea in another place they'll call them Hoshia, sound familiar to Osea or Hosea, however you want to say it, right, so in the New Testament it says Osi, okay, so names can change when you're going from one language to another as far as how it's pronounced, not a big deal, okay, all that to mean is that it's not a big deal, but I just want to show you this because you may not have seen it before, I know I think I kind of covered this when we went through Matthew chapter 1, dealing with the name of Jesus, because the name of Jesus is above all names, and I just love defending the name of Jesus, okay, so just bear with me for a second, but his name's Jesus, okay, now, in Numbers chapter 14 and verse 6 it says, and Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Japhani, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes, now, I'm not giving you context here, but chapter 13 he picked 12 people to spy out the land, they come back, chapter 14, everybody but Caleb and Joshua, you know, were basically scared, and Joshua and Caleb were like, no, we need to take the land, and they're the only ones that are going to end up going into the promised land, and the rest of that generation's going to be wiped out, and that's basically what it's saying, but notice that Moses called him Jehoshua, and then what is he called in chapter 14, Joshua, and most of all the times where you see it is Joshua, okay, go to Nahum chapter 8, Nahum chapter 8, what's interesting, Nahum, it calls not only Joshua the son of Nun, but he also calls Joshua the son of Josadak, which is the high priest at that time, Joshua, okay, and if anything I just want you to see where this name Jesus comes from, okay, it's not like it's just popped out of nowhere, it's just like this new name, okay, it was a name that was in the Old Testament, or it was being used, but it was given to Jesus because of what it means, okay, so in Nahum chapter 8 and verse 17, it says this, and all the congregation of them that were come again out of the captivity made booths, and sat under the booths, for since the days of Joshua the son of Nun, unto that day had not the children of Israel done so, and there was very great gladness, okay, so you have Joshua the son of Nun, you have Joshua the son of Nun, you have Jehoshua the son of Nun, and so all these names are the same name, okay, it's just like different ways of saying the name, did I give you the wrong passage, everybody's looking at me weird, what did I say, oh I'm sorry, I got Nahum in the mind, sorry, Nehemiah, Nehemiah, yeah there's no chapter 8, if you have chapter 8 you got the wrong Bible back there, sorry, everybody's looking at me smiling, I know something's up, so Nahum chapter 8, sorry, Nahum chapter 8, I need to stop memorizing Nahum right now because it's literally in my mind, Nehemiah, you know where I'm talking about now, so chapter 8, verse 17, and just in the middle of the verse there, it says for since the days of Joshua the son of Nun, unto that day had not the children of Israel done so, and there was very great gladness, so if you know the story, it's talking about the Feast of Tabernacles, basically they haven't done it since Joshua, so that's pretty bad, right, I mean we're talking about after the captivity of Babylon, hundreds of years they haven't done the Feast of Tabernacles, so think about the name of Jesus, right, it says why is his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins, so we already know saviors in there, because oshia or hoshia means salvation, it means, so basically what the name Jesus means is Jehovah is salvation, what is Isaiah chapter 8, or chapter 12, verse 2 say, behold God is my salvation, and what's his name, the Lord Jehovah, okay, so it's giving you a little clue about what his name is going to be, so yeah, I mean the name Jehovah is in there, okay, now it also says that Jehovah is my strength, can you think of a verse coming to Jesus, dealing with Jesus that would talk about him being our strength, how about Philippians chapter 4 verse 13, I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me, yeah Jehovah is my strength, his name is Jesus, right, and it's in his name, and go to Philippians chapter 2, Philippians chapter 2, now I'm not, so I'm not, I'm not, listen Jesus could be called Jehovah, okay, but why am I going to refer to him that a name that has been demoted because another name has basically risen above it, does that make sense, it wouldn't make any sense to do that, okay, he's still God Almighty, okay, but in the Old Testament they said, you know, now you're going to be by Jehovah, so what do they do, they start knowing him by Jehovah, they start calling him Jehovah, and in the New Testament, notice what it says in Philippians chapter 2 and verse 9, Philippians chapter 2 and verse 9, it says, wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name, that at the name of what, Jesus, every knee should bow of things in heaven and things in earth and things under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father, so you know what, you know what the highest name is now, it's not Jehovah, it's Jesus, and I'm not against Jehovah, okay, obviously it's a good name, but Jehovah's literally in the name Jesus, but you know what it means is that Jehovah came to save us sinners, that's literally what that name's compiling there, and in Acts chapter 4, just to nail this down again, you know, for those Hebrew roots guys, or for, you know, also the fact that Jehovah witnesses don't believe that Jesus is God, but Jesus is Jehovah, they never want to admit that, but you know what, every knee's going to bow and they're going to say that Jesus is Jehovah, and what they don't even realize is that the name Jehovah is even in his name, right, it's like Jesus isn't Jehovah, his name literally means Jehovah is salvation, what are you talking about, because Jehovah, what do you see in there, Jehovah and Hoshea put together, okay, so Acts chapter 4 and verse 10 here, Acts chapter 4 and verse 10, it says, be it known unto you all and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him that this man stand here before you whole, this is the stone which was set at naught of you builders, which is become the head of the corner, neither is there salvation in any other, for there is none other name under heaven, given among men, whereby we must be saved, so don't give me this garbage about how you're going to go over to Israel and say, well, they just need to believe in Jehovah, no, they need to believe in the name of Jesus, because if they don't believe in the name of Jesus, they're denying the sun, they're denying the New Testament, and so don't go over there and be like, well, I'm going to show them, you know, trust in Jehovah and pray this prayer, that's not going to work, my friends, because there's a name above every name, and there's a name that's under heaven, that's the only name under heaven, given among men, whereby we must be saved, okay, you're not going to go over there and say, well, they're going to believe in God Almighty, no, they need to believe in Jesus, because that's the name above every name, okay, so go back to Isaiah chapter 12, Isaiah chapter 12, Isaiah chapter 12 verse 3 here, and relax, I'm not going to take the same amount of time when I use first here, so obviously Jehovah is a big one, you know, I wanted to hit on that, kind of go into the name of Jehovah and all that, and I just want to say this, King James is right, we don't need to go back and put Jehovah in every place that the all caps Lord is at, or in some places where all caps God is at, so I like, it's the way it should be, okay, now, in verse 3 here, it says this, it says, therefore, with joy shall ye draw water of the wells of salvation, this is a great verse, because this is something that Jesus brings up in the New Testament, go to John chapter 4, John chapter 4, this is why, this is one of the reasons I love the book of Isaiah, I mean it's like reading the New Testament, talking about trusting in the Lord, everlasting strength, everlasting salvation, it talks about it in another place we haven't got to yet, just all the passages, and you say, well, but it's, some of those passages aren't even brought up, this isn't a quotation in the New Testament, this is just a principle, talking about Jehovah and you know, trusting in him, and in the wells of salvation, drawing water out of the wells of salvation, so the idea of the water of life that gives you everlasting life has been a concept from the foundation of the world, this hasn't changed, and in verse 6, so John chapter 4 and verse 6, it says, now Jacob's well was there, Jesus therefore being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well, and it was about the sixth hour, there cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water, Jesus saith unto her, give me to drink, for his disciples were gone away unto the city by meat, then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, how is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria, for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans, Jesus answered and said unto her, if thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, give me to drink, thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water, the woman saith unto him, sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep, from whence then hast thou that living water. Now that's a great question right there, isn't it? How are you going to draw this thing out, the well is deep, and you don't have anything to draw with, because she's not getting the fact that he's not talking about literal water, he's talking about the spiritual water, which he's talking about his everlasting life, and isn't that the truth, the well is deep, and you have nothing to draw with, and the fact is that we can't draw that without the Lord Jesus Christ. He has to give it to us, and there's no possible way for us to get that deep water, if you will. And there's a lot that you can be teaching on this, talking about the Holy Ghost, the deep things of God, the Spirit, that we can know the deep things of God through the Spirit of God and all that, but notice in verse 12 there it says, art thou greater than our father Abraham, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle? Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again, but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst, but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. That's what's being talked about in Isaiah chapter 12 about this wells of salvation, drawing from the wells, the water out of the wells of salvation. Same principle, and you're talking, you know, thousands, you know, hundreds of years before Christ, right? And obviously she asked for it. She said, the woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw. Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither. And you know the story, right? So obviously you have a lot of these realms here if you knew the gift of God and who it is that saith to be, right? You need to know who you're getting it from. You need to know what that is, right? And ultimately she needs to realize, too, that she's a sinner, okay? And so all that with the story of the woman at the well, but you know, when I saw verse three there of chapter Isaiah chapter 12, automatically I thought the woman at the well. But go to Revelation chapter 21, Revelation chapter 21. Now if you remember, this passage in Isaiah chapter 12, if you were to look at chapter seven to chapter 12, it's really pretty much going chronologically, right? Chapter seven you have the birth of Christ, you know, the virgin birth. Chapter nine, you get into the fact of, you know, the virgin birth, but then it goes into the, even the, when he's going to come back and set up his kingdom, the day of the Lord, all that stuff in chapter 10, chapter 11, you deal with all, so we kind of saw that progression. And chapter 12 is more so the finale, if you will. And isn't it, it's a bright future at the very end, isn't it? It's not gloom and doom in chapter 12. It's actually pretty awesome. The only verse that even has any type of gloom and doom is verse one when it says you were angry with me but not anymore, right? So it's kind of like just showing you, hey, I was a sinner and I was dead in trespasses and sins but you saved me from that and now we're going to rejoice evermore with you in Zion. And that's what we get into. But it's interesting how the wells of water is something that's one of the last things mentioned in the whole Bible, that water of life. And that's what's mentioned in Isaiah chapter 12. But go to Revelation chapter 21, dealing with the new heavens, new earth, new Jerusalem, all this stuff. We have this idea of the water of life. And verse 5 of Revelation 21, it says, And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write, for these words are true and faithful. And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. Sound familiar, Isaiah chapter 12. Sound familiar to the fact that salvation's always been free from the foundation of the world. That's always been by grace, it's always been by faith, and it's always been through Jesus. But, you know, as we saw, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob knew God by God Almighty. At Moses, they knew him by Jehovah. In the New Testament, they knew him by what? Jesus. So just because he's known by a different name, does that mean salvation's different? Does that mean the operation of salvation is any different? No, it's always been the same. Because the wells of salvation that worked in the Old Testament is the same wells of salvation that works in the New Testament. And by the way, the woman at the well, that was in the Old Testament, right? Because Jesus hadn't even died yet. So that whole conversation that he had with all those in Samaria, guess what? That was under the Old Testament. And obviously he's the mediator of the New Testament, but it wasn't until his death until that was in power, okay? So it's a great correlation as far as that goes. Go to Revelation chapter 22, ending the whole Bible. And obviously we know the river of life that's flowing through the paradise of God. But in verse 17 is this call for people to get saved. And that's how the Bible ends, right? It ends with the fact of, hey, come and get the water of life freely. In verse 17 it says, and the Spirit and the bride say, come and let him that hears say, come and let him that is athirst come and whosoever will let him take the water of life freely. That's the call that's going out from the foundation of the world. And it's still going out today for those to get saved. And in Revelation 21, seven, I didn't read after talking about that they may take the water of life freely, or that is athirst that's found in the water of life freely. It says, he that overcometh shall inherit all things and I will be his God and he shall be my son. And who is he that overcometh? But he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God. Whosoever is born of God overcometh the world, and this is the victory that ever cometh the world, even our faith. It's by faith, and it's always been by faith that we've overcome. And it's always been by that living water, the wells of salvation that's been from the beginning of time, and put that in your dispensational pipe and smoke it, okay? And I love Isaiah. And this passage, it's only six verses, but it's such a powerful passage when it comes to that. Trusting in the Lord, eternal strength, salvation, it's present tense. It's not like, well, I may get saved, right? He is become my salvation, right? God is my salvation, okay? It's not, well, I hope he'll be my salvation, you know, or he will be my salvation if I endure unto the end, right? No, it's God is my salvation. Now, the end of chapter here, in verse four, it says, And in that day shall ye say, Praise the Lord, call upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted, sing unto the Lord, for he hath done excellent things. This is known in all the earth, cry out and shout, Thou inhabitant of Zion, for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee. And how does the Bible end? But God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit are dwelling with us for all time. The tabernacle of God is with men, and he's going to dwell with us for all eternity in Zion. And it talks about the inhabitant of Zion. We're going to be in Zion and Zion is what? New Jerusalem. Don't believe me. Hebrews chapter 12, verse 22 says, But ye are come unto Mount Zion unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. And it says, into an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus, the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel. What a finale. You know, and, and so I know when we're going through Isaiah, you may be like, man, I just feel like every Wednesday is doom and gloom. I didn't write Isaiah, right? But you will find some nice bright spots in Isaiah and this is one of them. Okay. And I'm sure when we get, it's going to be, you're going to be trudging through it until you get to Isaiah 40. Okay. Isaiah 40 is like that light, you know, like the, the voice of one crying in the wilderness, make straight the path, you know, make straight the way of the Lord. And, and, and then you'll get into all these, these awesome verses on salvation and everything. But it's going to be pretty much doom and gloom for a little bit, but it's nice to see this little light here. And it also just reminds you that, hey, there's a lot of things that are going to happen that aren't going to be fun, but what's the finale? And, you know, I always think of, you know, Ms. Taylor, you know, and how she loves the book of Revelation. And you may look at that and say, well, you know, Revelation is, is pretty doom and gloom, right? Why would you like that book so much? And obviously we should all love the Bible, you know, but at the same time, but why would you love Revelation? Because you love the end, don't you? You love that new heaven, new earth. You love the fact that there's going to be no more death, no more pain, no more suffering, that we're going to be with our loved ones for all eternity. We're going to be walking with the Lord. We're going to be rolling and reigning with Christ forever and new glorified bodies. And we're going to be rejoicing and praising His name forever. And yeah, that's a, that's a great thing to be thinking about, isn't it? And that's a great ending, okay? And it doesn't end, right? Because it's all eternity. But, but Isaiah 12, I see that, I see that kind of finale for the saved, okay? That, this passage right here in chapter 12 is for the saved. This does not apply to those who are not saved. But you know what? You could take chapter 12 and all those promises, all those things that are said there, they apply to you. And so it's a great passage, Isaiah chapter 12, and a short passage, but, but definitely packed with a lot of information there. So, but let's end with a word of prayer. We thank you for today and just pray that you'd be with us throughout the rest of this week and pray that you'd be with us with our jobs, pray that you bless our jobs, bless the men of this church so that they can provide for their families and Lord, just pray that you'd be with us through the week, help us be productive and Lord, just thank you for the book of Isaiah and just thank you for the promise of salvation, that it's full and free, that it's as easy as just taking a drink of water and Lord, thank you for drawing out that, that salvation out of that deep well for us Lord. And we thank you for salvation. Thank you for heaven and Lord, we love you and pray all this in Jesus Christ's name. Amen.