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  COMMENTARY ON ISAIAH 46-47
  by Chuck Smith
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Isaiah chapter 46. Now in Isaiah 46 we get a short contrast between God,
the true and the living eternal God that created the heavens and the
earth, and the false gods that these people were worshipping. And the
tragic thing is these people were the Israelites, the descendants of
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. They had turned to idolatry. And as you read
the prophecy of Isaiah and of Jeremiah, they are crying out against the
idolatry of the people, warning them that their continued idolatry would
bring upon them the judgment of God. Using Babylon as His instrument of
judgment, and that they would be going into captivity as the result of
their idolatry. You remember Jeremiah cried out, "For My people have
committed two sins; one, they have forsaken Me, the fountain of living
water, and they have hewn out for themselves cisterns, cisterns that can
hold no water" (Jeremiah 2:13).

Men will worship something. Men will believe in something. They must.
Every man has a god. But there are some religious systems that hold no
water at all. They just do nothing for the people who believe, but bring
them into captivity. And so God\

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/chuck-smith/commentary-on-isaiah-46-47/
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