There's coming a day when God is going to reformat and reinstall His creation's operating system.
This is the LifeSpring One Year Bible Rewind, and coming to you from Riverside, California,
and podcasting since 2004, I'm Steve Webb, your OG Godcaster. This is the podcast that comes to you
every day, and we're reading the entire Bible together in a year. How's it going? I hope your
years off to a great start. Welcome to the show today. The website is LifespringMedia.com.
Today is National Static Electricity Day. I know, shocking, right? I can't help it, I'm a dad.
This is also, and much more importantly, Prophecy Friday. We'll read Isaiah 62 through 66,
which will complete this book. Let's begin. Our Heavenly Father, Lord, we thank you for your love
and we thank you for your word. We thank you, Lord, that you've given it to us so that we can
learn about you. Teach us as we read today. I pray this in Jesus' name. Amen.
Isaiah chapter 62. I will speak out to encourage Jerusalem. I will not be silent until she is
saved and her victory shines like a torch in the night. Jerusalem, the nations will see you
victorious. All their kings will see your glory. You will be called by a new name, a name given by
the Lord Himself. You will be like a beautiful crown for the Lord. No longer will you be called
forsaken, or your land be called the deserted wife. Your new name will be God is pleased with her.
Your land will be called happily married, because the Lord is pleased with you and will be like a
husband to your land. Like a young man taking a virgin as his bride, he who formed you will marry
you. As a groom is delighted with his bride, so your God will delight in you. On your walls,
Jerusalem, I have placed sentries. They must never be silent day or night. They must remind the Lord
of His promises and never let Him forget them. They must give Him no rest until He restores
Jerusalem and makes it a city the whole world praises. The Lord has made a solemn promise,
and by His power He will carry it out. Your grain will no longer be food for your enemies,
and foreigners will no longer drink your wine. But you that planted and harvested the grain
will eat the bread and praise the Lord. You that tended and gathered the grapes will drink the wine
in the courts of my temple. People of Jerusalem, go out of the city and build a road for your
returning people. Prepare a highway. Clear it of stones. Put up a signal so that the nations can
know that the Lord is announcing to all the earth, tell the people of Jerusalem that the Lord is
coming to save you, bringing with Him the people He has rescued. You will be called God's holy
people, the people the Lord has saved. Jerusalem will be called the city that God loves, the city
that God did not forsake. Isaiah chapter 63. Who is this coming from the city of Basra in Edom?
Who is this so splendidly dressed in red, marching along in power and strength? It is the Lord,
powerful to save, coming to announce His victory. Why is His clothing so red, like that of someone
who tramples grapes to make wine? The Lord answers, I have trampled the nations like grapes.
No one came along to help me. I trampled them in my anger, and their blood has stained all my
clothing. I decided that the time to save my people had come. It was time to punish their enemies.
I was amazed when I looked and saw there was no one to help me. But my anger made me strong,
and I won the victory myself. In my anger I trampled whole nations and shattered them.
I poured out their lifeblood on the ground. I will tell of the Lord's unfailing love.
I will praise him for all he has done for us. He has richly blessed the people of Israel because
of his mercy and constant love. The Lord said, They are my people, they will not deceive me.
And so he saved them from all their suffering. It was not an angel, but the Lord himself who
saved them. In his love and compassion he rescued them. He had always taken care of them in the
past, but they rebelled against him and made his Holy Spirit sad. So the Lord became their enemy
and fought against them. But then they remembered the past, the days of Moses, the servant of the
Lord. And they asked, Where now is the Lord, who saved the leaders of his people from the sea?
Where is the Lord, who gave his spirit to Moses? Where is the Lord, who by his power did great
things through Moses, dividing the waters of the sea, and leading his people through the deep water,
to win everlasting fame for himself? Led by the Lord, they were as sure-footed as wild horses,
and never stumbled. As cattle are led into a fertile valley, so the Lord gave His people rest.
He led His people and brought honor to His name. Lord, look upon us from heaven where You live in
Your holiness and glory. Where is Your great concern for us? Where is Your power? Where are
Your love and compassion? Do not ignore us. You are our Father. Our ancestors Abraham and Jacob
do not acknowledge us, but you, Lord, are our Father, the one who has always rescued us.
Why do you let us stray from your ways? Why do you make us so stubborn that we turn away from you?
Come back for the sake of those who serve you, for the sake of the people who have always been
yours. We, your holy people, were driven out by our enemies for a little while. They trampled down
your sanctuary. You treat us as though you had never been our ruler, as though we had never been
your people. Isaiah chapter 64. Why don't you tear the sky open and come down? The mountains
would see you and shake with fear. They would tremble like boiling water over a hot fire.
Come and reveal your power to your enemies and make the nations tremble at your presence.
There was a time when you came and did terrifying things that we did not expect.
The mountains saw you and shook with fear. No one has ever seen or heard of a God like you,
who does such deeds for those who put their hope in Him. You welcome those who find joy in doing
what is right, those who remember how you want them to live. You were angry with us, but we went
on sinning. In spite of your great anger, we have continued to do wrong since ancient times.
All of us have been sinful. Even our best actions are filthy through and through.
Because of our sins, we are like leaves that wither and are blown away by the wind.
No one turns to you in prayer. No one goes to you for help. You have hidden yourself from us and
have abandoned us because of our sins. But you are our Father, Lord. We are like clay, and you
are like the potter. You created us, so do not be too angry with us or hold our sins against us
forever. We are your people. Be merciful to us. Your sacred cities are like a desert. Jerusalem
ancestors praised you has been destroyed by fire. All the places we loved are in ruins.
Lord, are you unmoved by all this? Are you going to do nothing and make us suffer more than we can
endure? Isaiah 65. The Lord said, I was ready to answer my people's prayers, but they did not pray.
I was ready for them to find me, but they did not even try. The nation did not pray to me,
even though I was always ready to answer, Here I am, I will help you.
I have always been ready to welcome my people who stubbornly do what is wrong and go their own way.
They shamelessly keep on making me angry.
They offer pagan sacrifices at sacred gardens and burn incense on pagan altars.
At night they go to caves and tombs to consult the spirits of the dead.
They eat pork and drink broth made from meat offered in pagan sacrifices.
and then they say to others, Keep away from us, we are too holy for you to touch.
I cannot stand people like that. My anger against them is like a fire that never goes out.
I have already decided on their punishment, and their sentence is written down. I will not
overlook what they have done, but will repay them for their sins and the sins of their ancestors.
They have burned incense at pagan hill shrines and spoken evil of me,
so I will punish them as their past deeds deserve.
The Lord says,
for you that forsake me, who ignore Zion, my sacred hill, and worship Gad and Mani, the gods
of luck and fate. It will be your fate to die a violent death, because you did not answer when I
called you, or listen when I spoke. You chose to disobey me and do evil, and so I tell you that
those who worship and obey me will have plenty to eat and drink, but you will be hungry and thirsty.
They will be happy, but you will be disgraced.
They will sing for joy, but you will cry with a broken heart.
My chosen people will use your name as a curse.
I, the Sovereign Lord, will put you to death.
But I will give a new name to those who obey me.
Anyone in the land who asks for a blessing will ask to be blessed by the faithful God.
Whoever takes an oath will swear by the name of the faithful God.
The troubles of the past will be gone and forgotten.
The Lord says,
I am making a new earth and new heavens. The events of the past will be completely forgotten.
Be glad and rejoice forever in what I create. The new Jerusalem I will make will be full of joy,
and her people will be happy. I myself will be filled with joy because of Jerusalem and her
people. There will be no weeping there, no calling for help. Babies will no longer die in infancy,
and all people will live out their lifespan. Those who live to be a hundred will be considered
To die before that would be a sign that I had punished them. People will build houses and get
to live in them. They will not be used by someone else. They will plant vineyards and enjoy the wine.
It will not be drunk by others. Like trees, my people will live long lives. They will fully
enjoy the things they have worked for. The work they do will be successful, and their children
will not meet with disaster. I will bless them and their descendants for all time to come.
Even before they finish praying to me, I will answer their prayers.
Wolves and lambs will eat together, lions will eat straw as cattle do,
and snakes will no longer be dangerous.
On Zion, my sacred hill, there will be nothing harmful or evil.
Isaiah chapter 66
The Lord says, Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool.
What kind of house, then, could you build for me?
What kind of place for me to live in?
I myself created the whole universe.
I am pleased with those who are humble and repentant, who fear me and obey me.
The people do as they please.
It's all the same to them whether they kill a bull as a sacrifice or sacrifice a human being,
whether they sacrifice a lamb or break a dog's neck,
whether they present a grain offering or offer pig's blood,
whether they offer incense or pray to an idol.
They take pleasure in disgusting ways of worship.
so I will bring disaster upon them, the very things they are afraid of,
because no one answered when I called or listened when I spoke.
They chose to disobey me and do evil.
Listen to what the Lord says, you that fear him and obey him.
Because you are faithful to me, some of your own people hate you and will have nothing to do with you.
They mock you and say,
Let the Lord show his greatness and save you, so that we may see you rejoice.
But they themselves will be disgraced.
Listen, that loud noise in the city, that sound in the temple, is the sound of the Lord punishing
His enemies. My holy city is like a woman who suddenly gives birth to a child without ever
going into labor. Has anyone ever seen or heard of such a thing? Has a nation ever been born in a
day? Zion will not have to suffer long before the nation is born. Do not think that I will bring my
people to the point of birth and not let them be born. The Lord has spoken. Rejoice with Jerusalem,
Be glad for her, all you that love this city. Rejoice with her now, all you that have mourned
for her. For you will enjoy her prosperity, like a child at its mother's breast.
The Lord says, I will bring you lasting prosperity. The wealth of the nations will flow to you like
a river that never goes dry. You will be like a child that is nursed by its mother, carried in her
arms, and treated with love. I will comfort you in Jerusalem, as a mother comforts her child.
When you see this happen, you will be glad.
It will make you strong and healthy.
Then you will know that I, the Lord, help those who obey me,
and I show my anger against my enemies.
The Lord will come with fire.
He will ride on the wings of a storm to punish those he is angry with.
By fire and sword he will punish all the people of the world whom he finds guilty,
and many will be put to death.
The Lord says,
The end is near for those who purify themselves for pagan worship.
who go in procession to sacred gardens, and who eat pork and mice with other disgusting foods.
I know their thoughts and their deeds. I am coming to gather the people of all the nations.
When they come together they will see what my power can do, and will know that I am the one
who punishes them. But I will spare some of them, and send them to the nations and the distant lands
that have not heard of my fame, or seen my greatness and power, to Spain, Libya, and Lydia,
with its skilled archers, and to Tubal and Greece. Among these nations they will proclaim
my greatness. They will bring back all your people from the nations as a gift to me. They will bring
them to my sacred hill in Jerusalem, on horses, mules, and camels, and in chariots and wagons,
just as Israelites bring grain offerings to the temple in ritually clean containers.
I will make some of them priests and Levites. Just as the new earth and the new heavens will
endure my power, so your descendants in your name will endure. On every new moon festival and every
Sabbath, people of every nation will come to worship me here in Jerusalem, says the Lord.
As they leave, they will see the dead bodies of those who have rebelled against me.
The worms that eat them will never die, and the fire that burns them will never be put out.
The sight of them will be disgusting to all people.
You know how sometimes your computer or your phone or your tablet just starts acting funny?
The operating system slows down or apps just don't act like they're supposed to.
It's frustrating, right?
So what do you do?
Yeah, you reboot the device.
A lot of times that's enough to make things right.
Sometimes, though, the problems don't go away because somewhere along the line,
some of the bits of the operating system have gotten corrupted in some way.
Yeah, corrupted is the term commonly used by tech folks.
Well, when the operating system is broken like this, the best course of action is to save your data
and then wipe the hard drive, reformat, and reinstall the operating system to get a fresh start.
A lot of times when you do this, you get back to a pristine, just like new, out-of-the-box experience.
Everything runs quick and smooth, and it's a joy to use that device again.
Well, guess what?
There's coming a day when God is going to reformat and reinstall His creation's operating system.
In chapter 21 of the book of Revelation, the Apostle John tells us that he saw a new heaven
and a new earth. Today, in Isaiah 65, verse 17, God said, Look, I'm creating a new heaven and a new
earth. But before he does that, just like we do with our computers, he's going to save his important
data. What data is that? Well, it's those who have responded to his offer of salvation through Jesus
Christ. And when the new heaven and the new earth have been created, and the saved data,
or the saved people, are brought into the new creation. All the corrupted stuff from the old
creation will be made to operate like God originally intended. Listen again to verses 17-25.
Past events won't be remembered. They won't come to mind. Be glad and rejoice forever in what I'm
creating, because I'm creating Jerusalem as a joy, and her people as a source of gladness.
I will rejoice in Jerusalem and be glad about my people. No one will ever hear the sound of weeping
crying in it again. No more will babies live only a few days, or the old fail to live out their days.
The one who dies at a hundred will be like a young person, and the one falling short of a hundred
will seem cursed. They will build houses and live in them. They will plant vineyards and eat their
fruit. They won't build for others to live in, nor plant for others to eat. Like the days of a tree
will be the days of my people. My chosen will make full use of their handiwork. They won't labor in
vain, nor bear children to a world of horrors, because they will be people blessed by the Lord,
they along with their descendants. Before they call, I will answer. While they are still speaking,
I will hear. Wolf and lamb will graze together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox,
but the snake, its food, will be dust. They won't hurt or destroy at any place on my holy mountain,
says the Lord. Beloved, what a joy it will be to live in this new place. Think of it. No more tears,
no more sorrow, no more wars, no more disease, no more pandemics, no more strife. There will be
harmony between God and man, harmony among people, serenity in the animal kingdom, just as God
intended from the beginning before the virus of sin corrupted creation's operating system.
I tell you what, beloved, I for one cannot wait until God hits the reset button.
Here's the verse of the day.
Verse of the day is Isaiah 65, 17.
The Lord says, I am making a new earth and new heavens.
The events of the past will be completely forgotten.
Isaiah 65, 17.
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On this date in church history, January 9th.
In 1522, Martin Luther was formally excommunicated by Pope Leo X.
By that point, Luther had already refused to recant his teachings, insisting that Scripture,
not church authority alone, must guide Christian faith and practice.
The excommunication didn't start the Reformation, but it made clear that the break was now final.
That moment forced the issue into the open.
What began as a call for reform within the church became a movement that reshaped Christianity
across Europe and beyond.
Luther's stand helped recover key biblical convictions, including salvation by grace through faith and the authority of Scripture for every believer.
And then, more than three centuries later, on this same date in 1770, George Whitefield died in Newburyport, Massachusetts.
He was one of the most influential preachers of the First Great Awakening, known for proclaiming the gospel with urgency and clarity across denominational lines.
He preached thousands of sermons on both sides of the Atlantic, often to massive crowds,
and he continued preaching almost daily until his final weeks.
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Beloved, as we close, remember the hope of Isaiah 65, 17.
The God who authored creation also knows how to rebuild it,
saving what matters, removing what's broken,
and restoring everything to the way it was meant to be.
Until tomorrow, may God bless you richly.
Thanks for sharing a part of your day with me.
I'm Steve Webb. Bye.
I only prayed because I always do.
Doesn't hurt just to ask when you've given up on everything.
And I spoke the words I'd never prayed before.
But I knew they were hid somewhere deep inside your word.
And then I felt like maybe I should read it.
So I opened up those words I spoke in desperation.
You're staring back at me with hope.
Thank you, Jesus, for answering me in your word.
All was lost and now it's found.
Like before when I called you and so.
Every prayer now has been filled with hope.
The words I prayed sounded a little strange
Asking you to restore all the years
The locusts I devoured
And almost like I saw a miracle
I flipped open a page
To see you saying how you were restored
And word for word out of a thousand pages
This is what I read
I feel a gentle peace as a tear rolls
And you wanted me to see
Thank you, Jesus
For answering me in your word
All I was lost now is found
Like before when I called you answered
Every prayer now has been filled with hope
With hope, with hope, with hope
With hope, without, with hope
With hope, with hope
With hope
All is lost
Now is found
Like before
When I called you answer
Every prayer that I ask
With hope
All is lost
Now is found
Like before
When I called you
And said
Every prayer
Now is
With hope
That little bonus
was Adrena Thorpe
from her Elusive album.
The track is
With Hope.
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