April 16, 2025 • 32 mins
G. Campbell Morgan said no man is an accurate interpreter of his own generation. We are too busy trying to get through the challenges of the day to be able to see the overall picture, to connect the dots and to determine what caused the situation and where it will end. We have to wait until the smoke clears, and that takes time. Still there are indicators that are hard to miss. The decline of a culture takes place gradually, but some marks are indisputable. As we grow older we see more of them and we see them more clearly.
But this cycle is thousands of years old. In this lesson we will look at a fascinating passage in Isaiah that corresponds closely to many of the things we are seeing unfold before our eyes!
Read about this subject
- Scripture: Isaiah 3:1-26
Listen to more on this subject
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
(00:00):
Hi, I'm Kerry Duke, host of My Godin My Neighbor podcast from Tennessee
Bible College, where we see the Bibleis not just another book, but the book.
Join us in a study of the inspiredword to strengthen your faith and to
share what you've learned with others.
What causes a nation to fall apart?
What happens when thestructure of society crumbles?
(00:23):
What are the signs that anation is in serious trouble?
Isaiah Chapter threeanswers these questions.
This is a fascinating chapter.
It teaches us that leadership is vitalto a country, and it also describes what
happens when qualified leaders, especiallymale leaders, fade away in a culture.
(00:45):
Isaiah talks about Judah in this chapter.
This nation was sinful.
God had warned them and punished themrepeatedly, but they wouldn't repent.
Their worship to God was vain,and their lives were full of greed
and drunkenness and idolatry.
So in Isaiah chapter three, the prophetsays that God will judge these people.
(01:06):
In the Old Testament, God oftenpunished his own people with war,
foreign armies attacked the Israelitesand they destroyed much of the Jews
land, and they took what they wanted.
Whom they wanted back to their own nation.
Isaiah talks in this book about theAssyrians and later the Babylonians
attacking Jerusalem and Judah.
(01:28):
These heathen nations kill many of theJews, but they also took away the Jews
that they could use in their country.
Why would they do that?
They took skilled people.
Good workers, experienced managers,military and government personnel,
educated people, and anyone elsethat could serve their purpose.
(01:50):
For instance, Daniel and his threefriends were some of the Jews with ability
that the Babylonians later took back totheir own country and made government
workers, and even government officials.
So Isaiah chapter threetells us what happened.
Watch this carefully.
When these heathen nations took all themen with ability out of the land of Judah,
(02:12):
who was left, who would take their place,it would be people who were not qualified.
They were the only ones left.
They had no experience, theyhad no ability to lead, and
even worse, they didn't have thecharacter that they needed to lead.
These were the low life peopleand suddenly they're in charge.
(02:33):
Does this sound familiar?
It gets even more interesting.
Let's read Isaiah chapter three,verse one, for behold the Lord, the
Lord of host death take away fromJerusalem and from Judah, the stay
and the staff, the whole stay ofbread, and the whole stay of water.
The first thing to notice is thatthe hand of God was behind this.
(02:57):
Why it says that the Lord takesaway from Jerusalem and from Judah.
God is involved in this becausethese people were hardened in
sin and they would not change.
The Lord takes these things away.
What things?
Well, he mentions the stay andthe staff, the whole stay of
(03:19):
bread and the stay of water.
The word stay in the KingJames version means support.
In Psalm 18, verse 18 in a differentcontext, David said, the Lord was my stay.
That means the Lord was his support.
So the new King James versionuses the words stock and supply.
That is the supply ofwater, the supply of bread.
(03:42):
These people had stored up food and water.
But the war brought chaos.
And not only was the food supplydiminished, but the people who had
organized and managed these supplies arenow gone and the people that are left
have no knowledge or ability to do this.
And what is worse isthat they didn't care.
(04:03):
So the reserves that theyhad were used up quickly.
The people had depended on these suppliesand now they're on their own and there's
no leadership to fix the problem.
So the first sign of nationaldecline that he mentions here
was a lack of basic necessities.
The economy of the nationwas in serious trouble.
(04:24):
I. Let's read verse two.
He also says that the mighty man and theman of war will be taken out of the land.
There were no skilled people left.
There were no trained experienced leaders.
There were no military leaders.
There was little national defensebecause the men of courage and
ability, the mighty men were gone.
(04:46):
The man of war that is the common soldierwas no longer a part of their culture.
Now, before all this happened, thepeople of Judah had depended on the
military to protect them, to preservetheir comfortable way of life.
But now no one knowshow to train a military.
No one knows how to organize a military.
Perhaps these people had takentheir military for granted before
(05:07):
this, but now they need them.
Does this sound familiar?
This means that there was also nolaw and order on the local level
because the chain of command is gone.
No one is in charge.
No one is safe.
The Bible says that God placed governmenton earth to keep order, to punish crime
and to reward law abiding citizens.
(05:28):
Romans 13, one through sevenand one Peter two, 13 and 14.
The second indication of a nation introuble is a weakened national defense
and the absence of the rule of law.
Now, remember that God orchestratedthis God because of the sins of
these people, took these things awayout of the land, and now you see
(05:49):
that the society is disintegrating.
And now we come to the third sign of thecollapse of order in this civilization.
It's found in verse two as well.
After he talks about the mighty manand the man of war, he talks about the
disappearance of the role of judge.
This is not of course talking aboutany one particular person, but the
(06:10):
position or the office of judge.
This is gone.
Why?
Because the judges haveeither been killed.
Or they've been taken to a foreign land.
God had told the peoplelong before to have judges.
Moses said that these judges were tohear cases and be fair and impartial.
And in Deuteronomy chapter one,verses 16 and 17, Moses said These
(06:33):
judges were to be men who feared God.
Honest men.
Men who hated covetousnessand men of ability.
Think of how importantjudges are in any land.
Anywhere you go, you have people.
And when you have people, you havedisagreements and you have disputes.
So somebody needs to settle thedisagreement if it can be settled
(06:54):
at all, and that person needsto see that justice is done.
That's why this person needs to bea man of the highest moral caliber,
as well as having natural abilityand knowledge that he's acquired
through education and experience.
But Isaiah said the day was coming inJudah, when the people would need judges
to help them settle their differences,but they wouldn't have any judges.
(07:17):
Now, all this means that the disputesgot worse and people tended to
take the law into their own hands.
So the legal system has been shattered.
That is aspect number threeof their national decline.
Number four, we see thatthe prophet has disappeared.
Another person who suddenly becameabsent in Judah was the prophet.
(07:42):
God sent prophets like Isaiah,Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Amos, and
others to warn the people.
But when the people stoppedlistening, God stopped sending.
Now we see in this passage a lack ofleadership in the most important area of
all in a country, and that is religion.
(08:02):
Sure the people of Jerusalem had a king.
The temple was there with the priestat the capital city, but they were
corrupt for the most part, except fora few men like Hezeki and a few others.
Isaiah says the day is coming.
When they won't have prophets likehimself and others, they won't have
prophets to rebuke them and their leaders.
(08:24):
Now you might say, well, they didn'tpay much attention to the prophets
anyway, so why would they miss them?
But here's the point.
If the people of Judah did evilwhile they had the prophets, how
much worse would they get whenthere were no prophets in the land?
At least there was some restraintbecause of the prophets preaching.
(08:45):
But if those prophets are notthere, then the people will
become even more rebellious.
Do you remember what Mosestold the Israelites hundreds of
years earlier before his death?
Moses told them, behold, while I amyet alive with you this day, you have
been rebellious against the Lord.
And how much more after my death.
(09:06):
Deuteronomy chapter 31, verse27, the same thing was about to
happen in Judah with no prophets.
The people would become even morewild, so God said that he was
going to take these prophets away.
There is a time coming when theprophet would disappear from
the land, at least for a time.
A similar verse is found inAmos chapter eight, verse 11.
(09:29):
Behold, the days come sayeth the Lord God,that I will send a famine in the land.
Not a famine of bread nora thirst for water, but of
hearing the words of the Lord.
So the fourth indication ofserious trouble in any nation
is a decline in true religion.
Especially in the decline or evendisappearance of men who are willing
(09:51):
to preach against the sins of the time.
Then we also look in verse two atwhat is called in the King James
version, the Prudent, and in theNew King James version, the Diviner.
The word diviner is a better translationbecause every other time the Hebrew
word is used in the New Testament,that is translated prudent or diviner.
Here it means someone who pretends tohave the ability to tell the future
(10:15):
or read people's minds something thatonly God can do and something that
God revealed to only certain people.
So these diviners were falseprophets, and this raises a question.
Why does Isaiah list these peoplebeside people that were legitimate
leaders that the country needed?
It was because that even though theywere not genuine, these diviners
(10:36):
were fixtures in the society.
They were part of the culture, andthey played a role, in a sense,
in the stability of the country,even though they, the people.
What Isaiah is saying is thiseverything that you've depended on.
All the people that you'reused to seeing will disappear.
Even the man like the Diviner whohad no right to be there, Isaiah is
(10:57):
saying that your whole world willbe turned upside down, and then he
mentions that the ancient or theelder will be taken out of the land.
These are older people that havesomething that young people don't have.
That is experience becausethat experience brings wisdom.
That's why older people areso important to a nation.
Younger people need advice.
(11:18):
They need direction, andthey need correction.
Do you remember the story of rhe boem?
He took the advice of young men and herejected the council of the older men,
and that caused the nation to divide.
One Kings chapter 12 here, Isaiahsays, the time is coming when the
leadership of older men is missing.
And that happened in partbecause the older people were
(11:40):
killed when the enemies came.
But there were some older peoplewho were left in Judah, and we
know that because of verse five.
So it's not just that there are no olderpeople who were there, but it's also
the case that the younger people didn'twant the leadership of the older people.
We'll talk more about this when we getto verse five, but for now, just notice
(12:02):
that a sign of national decline, anindication that a country is in trouble
is when you have a lack of older leaders.
The next person who's missing inthis leadership is the captain of 50.
Now, this was not necessarily amilitary captain, but a leader
or a manager of the nation.
In Deuteronomy chapter one, verse15, God told Moses to appoint
(12:25):
judges as captains over 10.
That is 10 people, 50 people, ahundred people, or a thousand people.
These captains or judgesheard the disputes of the
people who were under them.
They managed this number of peopleand they had different abilities.
Some of these judges could oversee10 people, others could manage 50
(12:45):
people, and still other judges couldhandle 100 or even a thousand people.
These people would no longer be in Judah.
So think of it, a nation without managers,any society needs certain people who
have the ability to organize, to makedecisions, and to manage the affairs
of other people who are citizens.
(13:07):
Without this management,there will be chaos.
Next, in verse three, Isaiah says thatthe honorable man will be missing.
This is a man of dignity.
Literally, a man of elevatedcountenance, a distinguished man in
the community because of his role.
This is a man who is respected.
He may be a public official, asuccessful and hardworking businessman,
(13:29):
but now Isaiah envisions a timewhen respectable people are gone
and when you don't have respect insociety, you don't have anything left.
Isaiah also said thecounselor would be missing.
I. This was a person thatpeople looked to for advice.
We all need advice, and some peopleare especially levelheaded and wise.
What happens when you can't findpeople like this in society?
(13:52):
Well, the people make bad decisions,and even worse, they look to
the wrong people for advice.
Isaiah said, the time is coming in Judahwhen you're not going to be able to find
one sensible person to ask direction of.
The next class of people thatIsaiah mentions, and the next
indicator of national decline is theabsence of the cunning artificer.
(14:12):
The new King James version translatesthis, the skillful artisan.
These were the builders, the craftsmen,the engineers, the carpenters.
They were good at their tradeand what happened to them?
A good commentary is two Kings,chapter 24 verses 14 through 16.
Now they're gone.
Imagine a place without skilled workers.
(14:34):
The housings and the buildings, and theroads and the farms, the military, and
many other aspects of life will declinebecause there won't be anybody able to do
these things and repair these projects.
The whole country will go to ruins.
And then finally he says the eloquentorator, the King James says, the
new king James says The expertin chanter will be gone again.
(14:56):
Like the diviners in verse two.
These are false prophets.
But Isaiah, again is saying thateven this stay or this supposed
support in society will collapse.
So I ask you to look over these versesmore and consider this question.
Are these words beginning todescribe our country more?
When you look at America throughthe eyes of Isaiah chapter three,
(15:18):
you see our nation similar to theway that the prophet saw Judah.
The problem in Isaiah chapter threein Judah was lack of leadership.
Male leadership, and in particular,older men as leaders, the men
who led the country were gone.
There was a lack of leadership inthe military, in religion, in the
(15:38):
community, in the economy, andin every other part of society
that's in verses one through three.
So who was left closely and see if we'reseeing the same situation unfold today?
In verse four, he says, and I willgive children to be their princes
and babes shall rule over them.
(15:59):
Verse four tells us who took charge?
The young people, children, and babes.
Not literal infants, but compared tothe men who used to govern these young
men were like babies and children.
The older experienced men nolonger led inexperienced young
people had taken their place.
(16:21):
This is not good.
Common sense and experienceteach us that the older are more
qualified to manage and to lead.
Age settles a man.
Youth makes us rash.
Age makes us stop and consider,but the energy of our youth
causes us to act without thinking.
(16:42):
Years bring patience.
But youth makes us hasty.
Age will give you an education fromyour mistakes, but youth means that
you're bound to make those mistakes.
And in the Bible, there are manyinstructions and many warnings about this.
In One Kings chapter 12, for instance.
The new younger kingRebo at the age of 41.
(17:04):
Yes.
He was young at the age of 41.
This king asked the older manand he asked the younger man
about how to rule the people.
The older man said, you bea servant to those people.
You speak good words to them, andif you do, they'll follow you.
They will serve you.
But the Bible says that he rejected theadvice which the elders had given to him.
(17:27):
Instead, he listened to the young menabout his own age in their early forties.
They told him to make lifeeven harder on the people.
Ria Bo answered the people roughlyand because he listened to the
young man instead of the older man.
The nation divided inEcclesiastes 10, verse 16.
(17:49):
The Bible says, woe to you oldland when your king is a child and
your princess feast in the morning.
Listen to Leviticus chapter 19, verse 32.
You shall rise before the grayheaded and honor the presence
of an old man and fear your God.
I am the Lord.
A nation is in trouble when theolder men are gone or when the
(18:13):
older men don't want to lead.
The inevitable result of thisbreakdown in society is seen in verse
five, and that is it brings anarchy.
I. Verse five says, and the peopleshall be oppressed every one by
another and every one by his neighbor.
The child shall behave himself proudlyagainst the ancient and the base against
(18:38):
the honorable when there's no leadership.
Or when there's no qualifiedleadership or when people just
don't respect the leaders, thenevery man does as he pleases.
Every man is a law to himself, andif you want to read a complimentary
verse, which is a great example,then look at judges 21 verse 25.
(18:59):
In those days, therewas no king in Israel.
Every man did that, whichwas right in his own eyes.
In verse five, everyperson is out for himself.
Each man oppresses other people.
Does this not sound like America today?
And is this not what we seein other countries as well?
In verse five, there is a suresign that a nation is corrupt.
(19:23):
I. And that is when the child shall behavehimself proudly against the ancient.
That means when the young peopledisrespect older people, that is a
sure indication of a civilizationthat is in serious trouble.
Now, how could that happen?
How did that happen?
Well, in Judah, the warbroke down the family unit.
(19:45):
Fathers had to be gone.
Many fathers were killed.
Some mothers died as well.
You had young people who wereleft on their own and some became
very disrespectful and veryrebellious toward older people.
Now, the same thing happens today, andit takes place because the devil has
turned young people against older people.
(20:05):
How has this happened today?
It's happened because too manyparents and grandparents have not
taught their children respect.
It's happened because televisionand movies and even cartoons,
sometimes belittle parents.
It's happened because in someareas of this country, many
young people don't have a mother.
They don't have a fatherto hold them accountable.
(20:27):
But regardless of the cause, showingdisrespect to elders is a sin and
it is a sign of a civilizationon the verge of collapse.
Verse five also says that the base, andthis refers to, sorry, low life people.
These people will be insolent.
That is, they will be insultingand disrespectful toward people
(20:51):
of dignity, honorable people.
In short.
People have no respectfor anybody or anything.
Now I want you to notice anothersign of National Decay in verse six.
Not only did young people who wereinexperienced take the lead, but almost
nobody wanted a leadership position.
Listen to verse six and seven,when a man shall take hold of
(21:12):
his brother of the house, of hisfather saying, thou hast clothing.
Be thou our ruler and letthis ruin be under thy hand
in that day, shall he swear?
Saying, I will not be in healer for, inmy house is neither bread nor clothing.
Make me not a ruler of the people.
So the time is coming, he says,in which people will look to and
(21:34):
ask other people to rule and theywill not desire that position.
Now, is this not what we're seeingtoday, especially older men who might
be able to serve but they don't want to?
Today we have too few men who wantto be leaders in the home, in the
nation, and even in the church.
Looking at America through theeyes of Isaiah chapter three
(21:56):
is like reading today's news.
Or you might say that if the world standsand let's say a hundred years from now,
somebody writes a truthful history ofwhat happened to America in our time,
it would read much like Isaiah three.
In Isaiah chapter three, verse nine,the Bible says that the show of their
countenance does witness against them,and they declare their sin as Sodom.
(22:21):
They hide it, not woe unto their soul, forthey have rewarded evil unto themselves.
These people had no shame.
Now back in chapter three, verses onethrough five just a little bit earlier, he
showed that these people had no respect.
They had no respect for older people.
They had no respect for authority, andthey had no respect for each other.
(22:45):
Now, the Bible shows thatthey also had no shame.
They were not just open about theirsin, they were arrogant about it.
You could see it on their faces.
They were proud.
They were stubborn, they were rebellious.
They had a defiant, belligerent look.
Now, sometimes you can't tell about aperson by the look on that person's face,
(23:09):
but some rebels have a certain look.
The King James says, the show oftheir countenance, the new King
James says, the look on theircountenance witnesses against them.
In other words, it testifies against them.
It betrays them, it tells on them.
Now, Isaiah said that they wereshameless, just like Sodom.
(23:30):
They declare their sin as Sodom.
Remember back in chapterone, verse 10 that he already
compared the rulers of Judah.
Sodom and Ga. Isaiah chapter one, verse10 says, hear the word of the Lord.
Ye rulers of Sodom.
Give ear unto the law of our God.
Ye people of Gamora.
(23:52):
Now he comes back again in Isaiahchapter three, verse nine, and says
that they were just as open and justas shameless as the people of Sodom.
Now he says that they don't tryto hide their sins, they hide it.
Not many people do try to hide their sin.
They get drunk, they commit adultery,and they steal and get into all
(24:15):
kinds of meanness, but they hide.
And that's why they try to dothese things, especially at
night when they won't be seen.
Now, I ask you when you look at thesewords, that these people had a certain
look of defiance on their face whenthe Bible says that they declare their
sin openly and publicly like Sodom,that they don't even try to hide it.
(24:39):
I ask you the question isnot this America today.
People used to hide theirsins more than they do today.
Now, some still do, but more andmore they talk about it in public.
They even brag about it.
People cuss and take God's name in vainin public, more and more men and women
talk to people at work about livingtogether instead of getting married.
(25:02):
They should have shame about it.
And there was a time whenpeople would've been shocked.
Not now.
People talk about getting drunkand taking drugs like they
talk about eating breakfast.
Gays and lesbians have comeout of the closet and they get
in the faces of the public.
Every chance they get groups thatpromote abortion, act like they're
(25:23):
doing a service to our country, andthey pride themselves in what the
Bible calls killing the innocent.
So how different is our country todayfrom what Isaiah said about Judah?
Now, sadly, the situation got worsein Judah later Jeremiah said this,
this is a great companion passage.
Were they ashamed when theyhad committed abomination?
(25:45):
Nay?
They were not at all ashamed.
Neither could they blush.
Jeremiah, chapter six, verse 15, andif that doesn't describe what is going
on in America today, then what would.
A major warning sign in thischapter was a lack of seasoned male
leaders in Judah, but Isaiah wasnot silent about the women of Judah.
(26:07):
I. He revealed that the lack of moralsand values and spirituality in the women
of Judah was a big part of the problem.
And this is true in any nation.
The strength of a culture depends inlarge part on the integrity of its women.
Judah was not the nation under God.
It could have been because the women in itwere not the women they should have been.
(26:32):
So how does Isaiah describe these women?
Let's listen to Isaiahchapter three, verse 16.
Moreover, the Lord sayeth because thedaughters of Zion are haughty and walk
with stretched forth necks and wantoneyes, walking and mincing as they go,
and making a tingling with their feet.
(26:55):
They were, first of all, arrogant women.
They were haughty.
They were not humble.
They were not, as Peter says in FirstPeter chapter three verse four, women
of a meek and quiet spirit, thesewomen prided themselves in how they
looked and how they appealed to men.
They walked with stretched forth necks.
(27:17):
These women wanted to be seen.
They stretched out their necks andmade sure that men looked at them.
They had wanton eyes.
This means that they had sensual,seductive, alluring eyes.
These women of Judah had a certainlook, the same look that female
models and actors and singersoftentimes have today in our society.
(27:42):
He says that they were walkingand mincing as they went.
The word mincing means that theywere tripping or skipping, perhaps
dancing, and they made a jingling.
They had ankle bracelets on, andthey did all this to get attention.
I. So God said that he would bringdown their arrogance when the war
came, verses 17 through 26 talks aboutthe punishment and how that these
(28:06):
women who were so arrogant and pridedthemselves in how they looked and how
they appealed to men would be sorry forputting the emphasis in the wrong place.
Now, by way of contrast, let's read andconsider first Timothy chapter two verses
nine and 10, where Paul talked aboutthe kind of women that ladies should be.
One Timothy chapter two, verse nine saysin like manner also that women adorn
(28:32):
themselves in modest apparel with shame,fakeness and sobriety, not with brooded.
That is braided hair or gold or pearlsor costly array, but which becomes women
professing godliness with good works.
Now that's one Timothy chaptertwo verses nine and 10.
(28:54):
Now I want you to notice thesecontrast between what the Bible says
that women should be in one Timothychapter two, nine and 10, and the
kind of women that these people were.
In Isaiah chapter three, verse 16, Paulsays that women are to dress modestly.
The women of Judah dressedas showy as they could.
(29:14):
Paul says that womenshould have some restraint.
He uses the word shame fakenessin the King James version.
That literally means a sense ofshame, a certain modesty about their
appearance, but not the women of Judah.
They were arrogant about it.
Paul says that women shouldn't put theemphasis on their clothes or their hair or
jewelry, but on good works that they do.
(29:37):
But to the women of Judah, itwas all about how they looked.
Paul said that women should bemodest and use good judgment in how
they appear and carry themselves.
But the women of Judah drew as muchattention to themselves as they could.
Paul said the inside was more important,but these women in Judah thought
that the outside was, Paul said It'sabout your heart, but the women of
(30:01):
Judah said it was about their body.
In a day when young girls are taughtto do, the very thing that Isaiah
describes that is to draw attentionto their bodies, to be arrogant and
rough, to act seductive and sensual.
Is it any wonder that our nationis in the shape, that it's
in what we need in America?
I. Is not more sex appeal inour women, but more goodness
(30:24):
and godliness in their hearts.
Only when the females of our land aremore interested in virtue than they
are in fashion, will we ever improvethe moral condition of this land?
Some of the greatest questionscome down to a simple word.
And we could say that some of the hardest,and not just some of the most profound
(30:47):
issues revolve around a single word.
I don't mean hard questions merelybecause they're hard to figure out.
I mean, there are some very simple oneword questions that are hard to live with.
The question that we will beexamining on my God and my neighbor
for weeks to come is this, why?
Why do things happen the way they do?
(31:09):
Why do bad things happen to good people?
Why do good things happen to bad people?
Why does God allow so much sinand suffering in the world?
Why doesn't God just dosomething to stop all this evil?
So as we look at that one wordquestion, we will talk about
another hard question, a two wordquestion, and that is, how long?
(31:30):
How long will all this trouble last?
How much longer will Ihave to go through this?
How much more can I stand?
We sometimes ask how long beforeGod hears my prayers and intervenes?
These questions are about what manypeople call the problem of evil.
It's the logical problem of how the allpowerful, all loving God permits evil
(31:52):
in the world, and it's also the reallife problem of having to endure it.
Now, this won't be a philosophicalstudy of this subject.
We will open the Bible to see whatGod says and doesn't say about it.
That's why I'm confident thatthese discussions will help you.
So please join us for the next episode,and please have your Bible ready.
(32:14):
Thank you for listeningto my God and my neighbor.
Stay connected with our podcast, on ourwebsite, and on Apple, Spotify, YouTube,
or wherever fine podcasts are distributed.
Tennessee Bible College providingChristian education since 1975
in Cookeville, Tennessee, offersundergraduate and graduate
programs study at your level.
(32:36):
Aim higher and get in touch with us today.
Hi, I'm Kerry Duke, host of My Godin My Neighbor podcast from Tennessee
Bible College, where we see the Bibleis not just another book, but the book.
Join us in a study of the inspiredword to strengthen your faith and to
share what you've learned with others.
What causes a nation to fall apart?
What happens when thestructure of society crumbles?
(00:23):
What are the signs that anation is in serious trouble?
Isaiah Chapter threeanswers these questions.
This is a fascinating chapter.
It teaches us that leadership is vitalto a country, and it also describes what
happens when qualified leaders, especiallymale leaders, fade away in a culture.
(00:45):
Isaiah talks about Judah in this chapter.
This nation was sinful.
God had warned them and punished themrepeatedly, but they wouldn't repent.
Their worship to God was vain,and their lives were full of greed
and drunkenness and idolatry.
So in Isaiah chapter three, the prophetsays that God will judge these people.
(01:06):
In the Old Testament, God oftenpunished his own people with war,
foreign armies attacked the Israelitesand they destroyed much of the Jews
land, and they took what they wanted.
Whom they wanted back to their own nation.
Isaiah talks in this book about theAssyrians and later the Babylonians
attacking Jerusalem and Judah.
(01:28):
These heathen nations kill many of theJews, but they also took away the Jews
that they could use in their country.
Why would they do that?
They took skilled people.
Good workers, experienced managers,military and government personnel,
educated people, and anyone elsethat could serve their purpose.
(01:50):
For instance, Daniel and his threefriends were some of the Jews with ability
that the Babylonians later took back totheir own country and made government
workers, and even government officials.
So Isaiah chapter threetells us what happened.
Watch this carefully.
When these heathen nations took all themen with ability out of the land of Judah,
(02:12):
who was left, who would take their place,it would be people who were not qualified.
They were the only ones left.
They had no experience, theyhad no ability to lead, and
even worse, they didn't have thecharacter that they needed to lead.
These were the low life peopleand suddenly they're in charge.
(02:33):
Does this sound familiar?
It gets even more interesting.
Let's read Isaiah chapter three,verse one, for behold the Lord, the
Lord of host death take away fromJerusalem and from Judah, the stay
and the staff, the whole stay ofbread, and the whole stay of water.
The first thing to notice is thatthe hand of God was behind this.
(02:57):
Why it says that the Lord takesaway from Jerusalem and from Judah.
God is involved in this becausethese people were hardened in
sin and they would not change.
The Lord takes these things away.
What things?
Well, he mentions the stay andthe staff, the whole stay of
(03:19):
bread and the stay of water.
The word stay in the KingJames version means support.
In Psalm 18, verse 18 in a differentcontext, David said, the Lord was my stay.
That means the Lord was his support.
So the new King James versionuses the words stock and supply.
That is the supply ofwater, the supply of bread.
(03:42):
These people had stored up food and water.
But the war brought chaos.
And not only was the food supplydiminished, but the people who had
organized and managed these supplies arenow gone and the people that are left
have no knowledge or ability to do this.
And what is worse isthat they didn't care.
(04:03):
So the reserves that theyhad were used up quickly.
The people had depended on these suppliesand now they're on their own and there's
no leadership to fix the problem.
So the first sign of nationaldecline that he mentions here
was a lack of basic necessities.
The economy of the nationwas in serious trouble.
(04:24):
I. Let's read verse two.
He also says that the mighty man and theman of war will be taken out of the land.
There were no skilled people left.
There were no trained experienced leaders.
There were no military leaders.
There was little national defensebecause the men of courage and
ability, the mighty men were gone.
(04:46):
The man of war that is the common soldierwas no longer a part of their culture.
Now, before all this happened, thepeople of Judah had depended on the
military to protect them, to preservetheir comfortable way of life.
But now no one knowshow to train a military.
No one knows how to organize a military.
Perhaps these people had takentheir military for granted before
(05:07):
this, but now they need them.
Does this sound familiar?
This means that there was also nolaw and order on the local level
because the chain of command is gone.
No one is in charge.
No one is safe.
The Bible says that God placed governmenton earth to keep order, to punish crime
and to reward law abiding citizens.
(05:28):
Romans 13, one through sevenand one Peter two, 13 and 14.
The second indication of a nation introuble is a weakened national defense
and the absence of the rule of law.
Now, remember that God orchestratedthis God because of the sins of
these people, took these things awayout of the land, and now you see
(05:49):
that the society is disintegrating.
And now we come to the third sign of thecollapse of order in this civilization.
It's found in verse two as well.
After he talks about the mighty manand the man of war, he talks about the
disappearance of the role of judge.
This is not of course talking aboutany one particular person, but the
(06:10):
position or the office of judge.
This is gone.
Why?
Because the judges haveeither been killed.
Or they've been taken to a foreign land.
God had told the peoplelong before to have judges.
Moses said that these judges were tohear cases and be fair and impartial.
And in Deuteronomy chapter one,verses 16 and 17, Moses said These
(06:33):
judges were to be men who feared God.
Honest men.
Men who hated covetousnessand men of ability.
Think of how importantjudges are in any land.
Anywhere you go, you have people.
And when you have people, you havedisagreements and you have disputes.
So somebody needs to settle thedisagreement if it can be settled
(06:54):
at all, and that person needsto see that justice is done.
That's why this person needs to bea man of the highest moral caliber,
as well as having natural abilityand knowledge that he's acquired
through education and experience.
But Isaiah said the day was coming inJudah, when the people would need judges
to help them settle their differences,but they wouldn't have any judges.
(07:17):
Now, all this means that the disputesgot worse and people tended to
take the law into their own hands.
So the legal system has been shattered.
That is aspect number threeof their national decline.
Number four, we see thatthe prophet has disappeared.
Another person who suddenly becameabsent in Judah was the prophet.
(07:42):
God sent prophets like Isaiah,Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Amos, and
others to warn the people.
But when the people stoppedlistening, God stopped sending.
Now we see in this passage a lack ofleadership in the most important area of
all in a country, and that is religion.
(08:02):
Sure the people of Jerusalem had a king.
The temple was there with the priestat the capital city, but they were
corrupt for the most part, except fora few men like Hezeki and a few others.
Isaiah says the day is coming.
When they won't have prophets likehimself and others, they won't have
prophets to rebuke them and their leaders.
(08:24):
Now you might say, well, they didn'tpay much attention to the prophets
anyway, so why would they miss them?
But here's the point.
If the people of Judah did evilwhile they had the prophets, how
much worse would they get whenthere were no prophets in the land?
At least there was some restraintbecause of the prophets preaching.
(08:45):
But if those prophets are notthere, then the people will
become even more rebellious.
Do you remember what Mosestold the Israelites hundreds of
years earlier before his death?
Moses told them, behold, while I amyet alive with you this day, you have
been rebellious against the Lord.
And how much more after my death.
(09:06):
Deuteronomy chapter 31, verse27, the same thing was about to
happen in Judah with no prophets.
The people would become even morewild, so God said that he was
going to take these prophets away.
There is a time coming when theprophet would disappear from
the land, at least for a time.
A similar verse is found inAmos chapter eight, verse 11.
(09:29):
Behold, the days come sayeth the Lord God,that I will send a famine in the land.
Not a famine of bread nora thirst for water, but of
hearing the words of the Lord.
So the fourth indication ofserious trouble in any nation
is a decline in true religion.
Especially in the decline or evendisappearance of men who are willing
(09:51):
to preach against the sins of the time.
Then we also look in verse two atwhat is called in the King James
version, the Prudent, and in theNew King James version, the Diviner.
The word diviner is a better translationbecause every other time the Hebrew
word is used in the New Testament,that is translated prudent or diviner.
Here it means someone who pretends tohave the ability to tell the future
(10:15):
or read people's minds something thatonly God can do and something that
God revealed to only certain people.
So these diviners were falseprophets, and this raises a question.
Why does Isaiah list these peoplebeside people that were legitimate
leaders that the country needed?
It was because that even though theywere not genuine, these diviners
(10:36):
were fixtures in the society.
They were part of the culture, andthey played a role, in a sense,
in the stability of the country,even though they, the people.
What Isaiah is saying is thiseverything that you've depended on.
All the people that you'reused to seeing will disappear.
Even the man like the Diviner whohad no right to be there, Isaiah is
(10:57):
saying that your whole world willbe turned upside down, and then he
mentions that the ancient or theelder will be taken out of the land.
These are older people that havesomething that young people don't have.
That is experience becausethat experience brings wisdom.
That's why older people areso important to a nation.
Younger people need advice.
(11:18):
They need direction, andthey need correction.
Do you remember the story of rhe boem?
He took the advice of young men and herejected the council of the older men,
and that caused the nation to divide.
One Kings chapter 12 here, Isaiahsays, the time is coming when the
leadership of older men is missing.
And that happened in partbecause the older people were
(11:40):
killed when the enemies came.
But there were some older peoplewho were left in Judah, and we
know that because of verse five.
So it's not just that there are no olderpeople who were there, but it's also
the case that the younger people didn'twant the leadership of the older people.
We'll talk more about this when we getto verse five, but for now, just notice
(12:02):
that a sign of national decline, anindication that a country is in trouble
is when you have a lack of older leaders.
The next person who's missing inthis leadership is the captain of 50.
Now, this was not necessarily amilitary captain, but a leader
or a manager of the nation.
In Deuteronomy chapter one, verse15, God told Moses to appoint
(12:25):
judges as captains over 10.
That is 10 people, 50 people, ahundred people, or a thousand people.
These captains or judgesheard the disputes of the
people who were under them.
They managed this number of peopleand they had different abilities.
Some of these judges could oversee10 people, others could manage 50
(12:45):
people, and still other judges couldhandle 100 or even a thousand people.
These people would no longer be in Judah.
So think of it, a nation without managers,any society needs certain people who
have the ability to organize, to makedecisions, and to manage the affairs
of other people who are citizens.
(13:07):
Without this management,there will be chaos.
Next, in verse three, Isaiah says thatthe honorable man will be missing.
This is a man of dignity.
Literally, a man of elevatedcountenance, a distinguished man in
the community because of his role.
This is a man who is respected.
He may be a public official, asuccessful and hardworking businessman,
(13:29):
but now Isaiah envisions a timewhen respectable people are gone
and when you don't have respect insociety, you don't have anything left.
Isaiah also said thecounselor would be missing.
I. This was a person thatpeople looked to for advice.
We all need advice, and some peopleare especially levelheaded and wise.
What happens when you can't findpeople like this in society?
(13:52):
Well, the people make bad decisions,and even worse, they look to
the wrong people for advice.
Isaiah said, the time is coming in Judahwhen you're not going to be able to find
one sensible person to ask direction of.
The next class of people thatIsaiah mentions, and the next
indicator of national decline is theabsence of the cunning artificer.
(14:12):
The new King James version translatesthis, the skillful artisan.
These were the builders, the craftsmen,the engineers, the carpenters.
They were good at their tradeand what happened to them?
A good commentary is two Kings,chapter 24 verses 14 through 16.
Now they're gone.
Imagine a place without skilled workers.
(14:34):
The housings and the buildings, and theroads and the farms, the military, and
many other aspects of life will declinebecause there won't be anybody able to do
these things and repair these projects.
The whole country will go to ruins.
And then finally he says the eloquentorator, the King James says, the
new king James says The expertin chanter will be gone again.
(14:56):
Like the diviners in verse two.
These are false prophets.
But Isaiah, again is saying thateven this stay or this supposed
support in society will collapse.
So I ask you to look over these versesmore and consider this question.
Are these words beginning todescribe our country more?
When you look at America throughthe eyes of Isaiah chapter three,
(15:18):
you see our nation similar to theway that the prophet saw Judah.
The problem in Isaiah chapter threein Judah was lack of leadership.
Male leadership, and in particular,older men as leaders, the men
who led the country were gone.
There was a lack of leadership inthe military, in religion, in the
(15:38):
community, in the economy, andin every other part of society
that's in verses one through three.
So who was left closely and see if we'reseeing the same situation unfold today?
In verse four, he says, and I willgive children to be their princes
and babes shall rule over them.
(15:59):
Verse four tells us who took charge?
The young people, children, and babes.
Not literal infants, but compared tothe men who used to govern these young
men were like babies and children.
The older experienced men nolonger led inexperienced young
people had taken their place.
(16:21):
This is not good.
Common sense and experienceteach us that the older are more
qualified to manage and to lead.
Age settles a man.
Youth makes us rash.
Age makes us stop and consider,but the energy of our youth
causes us to act without thinking.
(16:42):
Years bring patience.
But youth makes us hasty.
Age will give you an education fromyour mistakes, but youth means that
you're bound to make those mistakes.
And in the Bible, there are manyinstructions and many warnings about this.
In One Kings chapter 12, for instance.
The new younger kingRebo at the age of 41.
(17:04):
Yes.
He was young at the age of 41.
This king asked the older manand he asked the younger man
about how to rule the people.
The older man said, you bea servant to those people.
You speak good words to them, andif you do, they'll follow you.
They will serve you.
But the Bible says that he rejected theadvice which the elders had given to him.
(17:27):
Instead, he listened to the young menabout his own age in their early forties.
They told him to make lifeeven harder on the people.
Ria Bo answered the people roughlyand because he listened to the
young man instead of the older man.
The nation divided inEcclesiastes 10, verse 16.
(17:49):
The Bible says, woe to you oldland when your king is a child and
your princess feast in the morning.
Listen to Leviticus chapter 19, verse 32.
You shall rise before the grayheaded and honor the presence
of an old man and fear your God.
I am the Lord.
A nation is in trouble when theolder men are gone or when the
(18:13):
older men don't want to lead.
The inevitable result of thisbreakdown in society is seen in verse
five, and that is it brings anarchy.
I. Verse five says, and the peopleshall be oppressed every one by
another and every one by his neighbor.
The child shall behave himself proudlyagainst the ancient and the base against
(18:38):
the honorable when there's no leadership.
Or when there's no qualifiedleadership or when people just
don't respect the leaders, thenevery man does as he pleases.
Every man is a law to himself, andif you want to read a complimentary
verse, which is a great example,then look at judges 21 verse 25.
(18:59):
In those days, therewas no king in Israel.
Every man did that, whichwas right in his own eyes.
In verse five, everyperson is out for himself.
Each man oppresses other people.
Does this not sound like America today?
And is this not what we seein other countries as well?
In verse five, there is a suresign that a nation is corrupt.
(19:23):
I. And that is when the child shall behavehimself proudly against the ancient.
That means when the young peopledisrespect older people, that is a
sure indication of a civilizationthat is in serious trouble.
Now, how could that happen?
How did that happen?
Well, in Judah, the warbroke down the family unit.
(19:45):
Fathers had to be gone.
Many fathers were killed.
Some mothers died as well.
You had young people who wereleft on their own and some became
very disrespectful and veryrebellious toward older people.
Now, the same thing happens today, andit takes place because the devil has
turned young people against older people.
(20:05):
How has this happened today?
It's happened because too manyparents and grandparents have not
taught their children respect.
It's happened because televisionand movies and even cartoons,
sometimes belittle parents.
It's happened because in someareas of this country, many
young people don't have a mother.
They don't have a fatherto hold them accountable.
(20:27):
But regardless of the cause, showingdisrespect to elders is a sin and
it is a sign of a civilizationon the verge of collapse.
Verse five also says that the base, andthis refers to, sorry, low life people.
These people will be insolent.
That is, they will be insultingand disrespectful toward people
(20:51):
of dignity, honorable people.
In short.
People have no respectfor anybody or anything.
Now I want you to notice anothersign of National Decay in verse six.
Not only did young people who wereinexperienced take the lead, but almost
nobody wanted a leadership position.
Listen to verse six and seven,when a man shall take hold of
(21:12):
his brother of the house, of hisfather saying, thou hast clothing.
Be thou our ruler and letthis ruin be under thy hand
in that day, shall he swear?
Saying, I will not be in healer for, inmy house is neither bread nor clothing.
Make me not a ruler of the people.
So the time is coming, he says,in which people will look to and
(21:34):
ask other people to rule and theywill not desire that position.
Now, is this not what we're seeingtoday, especially older men who might
be able to serve but they don't want to?
Today we have too few men who wantto be leaders in the home, in the
nation, and even in the church.
Looking at America through theeyes of Isaiah chapter three
(21:56):
is like reading today's news.
Or you might say that if the world standsand let's say a hundred years from now,
somebody writes a truthful history ofwhat happened to America in our time,
it would read much like Isaiah three.
In Isaiah chapter three, verse nine,the Bible says that the show of their
countenance does witness against them,and they declare their sin as Sodom.
(22:21):
They hide it, not woe unto their soul, forthey have rewarded evil unto themselves.
These people had no shame.
Now back in chapter three, verses onethrough five just a little bit earlier, he
showed that these people had no respect.
They had no respect for older people.
They had no respect for authority, andthey had no respect for each other.
(22:45):
Now, the Bible shows thatthey also had no shame.
They were not just open about theirsin, they were arrogant about it.
You could see it on their faces.
They were proud.
They were stubborn, they were rebellious.
They had a defiant, belligerent look.
Now, sometimes you can't tell about aperson by the look on that person's face,
(23:09):
but some rebels have a certain look.
The King James says, the show oftheir countenance, the new King
James says, the look on theircountenance witnesses against them.
In other words, it testifies against them.
It betrays them, it tells on them.
Now, Isaiah said that they wereshameless, just like Sodom.
(23:30):
They declare their sin as Sodom.
Remember back in chapterone, verse 10 that he already
compared the rulers of Judah.
Sodom and Ga. Isaiah chapter one, verse10 says, hear the word of the Lord.
Ye rulers of Sodom.
Give ear unto the law of our God.
Ye people of Gamora.
(23:52):
Now he comes back again in Isaiahchapter three, verse nine, and says
that they were just as open and justas shameless as the people of Sodom.
Now he says that they don't tryto hide their sins, they hide it.
Not many people do try to hide their sin.
They get drunk, they commit adultery,and they steal and get into all
(24:15):
kinds of meanness, but they hide.
And that's why they try to dothese things, especially at
night when they won't be seen.
Now, I ask you when you look at thesewords, that these people had a certain
look of defiance on their face whenthe Bible says that they declare their
sin openly and publicly like Sodom,that they don't even try to hide it.
(24:39):
I ask you the question isnot this America today.
People used to hide theirsins more than they do today.
Now, some still do, but more andmore they talk about it in public.
They even brag about it.
People cuss and take God's name in vainin public, more and more men and women
talk to people at work about livingtogether instead of getting married.
(25:02):
They should have shame about it.
And there was a time whenpeople would've been shocked.
Not now.
People talk about getting drunkand taking drugs like they
talk about eating breakfast.
Gays and lesbians have comeout of the closet and they get
in the faces of the public.
Every chance they get groups thatpromote abortion, act like they're
(25:23):
doing a service to our country, andthey pride themselves in what the
Bible calls killing the innocent.
So how different is our country todayfrom what Isaiah said about Judah?
Now, sadly, the situation got worsein Judah later Jeremiah said this,
this is a great companion passage.
Were they ashamed when theyhad committed abomination?
(25:45):
Nay?
They were not at all ashamed.
Neither could they blush.
Jeremiah, chapter six, verse 15, andif that doesn't describe what is going
on in America today, then what would.
A major warning sign in thischapter was a lack of seasoned male
leaders in Judah, but Isaiah wasnot silent about the women of Judah.
(26:07):
I. He revealed that the lack of moralsand values and spirituality in the women
of Judah was a big part of the problem.
And this is true in any nation.
The strength of a culture depends inlarge part on the integrity of its women.
Judah was not the nation under God.
It could have been because the women in itwere not the women they should have been.
(26:32):
So how does Isaiah describe these women?
Let's listen to Isaiahchapter three, verse 16.
Moreover, the Lord sayeth because thedaughters of Zion are haughty and walk
with stretched forth necks and wantoneyes, walking and mincing as they go,
and making a tingling with their feet.
(26:55):
They were, first of all, arrogant women.
They were haughty.
They were not humble.
They were not, as Peter says in FirstPeter chapter three verse four, women
of a meek and quiet spirit, thesewomen prided themselves in how they
looked and how they appealed to men.
They walked with stretched forth necks.
(27:17):
These women wanted to be seen.
They stretched out their necks andmade sure that men looked at them.
They had wanton eyes.
This means that they had sensual,seductive, alluring eyes.
These women of Judah had a certainlook, the same look that female
models and actors and singersoftentimes have today in our society.
(27:42):
He says that they were walkingand mincing as they went.
The word mincing means that theywere tripping or skipping, perhaps
dancing, and they made a jingling.
They had ankle bracelets on, andthey did all this to get attention.
I. So God said that he would bringdown their arrogance when the war
came, verses 17 through 26 talks aboutthe punishment and how that these
(28:06):
women who were so arrogant and pridedthemselves in how they looked and how
they appealed to men would be sorry forputting the emphasis in the wrong place.
Now, by way of contrast, let's read andconsider first Timothy chapter two verses
nine and 10, where Paul talked aboutthe kind of women that ladies should be.
One Timothy chapter two, verse nine saysin like manner also that women adorn
(28:32):
themselves in modest apparel with shame,fakeness and sobriety, not with brooded.
That is braided hair or gold or pearlsor costly array, but which becomes women
professing godliness with good works.
Now that's one Timothy chaptertwo verses nine and 10.
(28:54):
Now I want you to notice thesecontrast between what the Bible says
that women should be in one Timothychapter two, nine and 10, and the
kind of women that these people were.
In Isaiah chapter three, verse 16, Paulsays that women are to dress modestly.
The women of Judah dressedas showy as they could.
(29:14):
Paul says that womenshould have some restraint.
He uses the word shame fakenessin the King James version.
That literally means a sense ofshame, a certain modesty about their
appearance, but not the women of Judah.
They were arrogant about it.
Paul says that women shouldn't put theemphasis on their clothes or their hair or
jewelry, but on good works that they do.
(29:37):
But to the women of Judah, itwas all about how they looked.
Paul said that women should bemodest and use good judgment in how
they appear and carry themselves.
But the women of Judah drew as muchattention to themselves as they could.
Paul said the inside was more important,but these women in Judah thought
that the outside was, Paul said It'sabout your heart, but the women of
(30:01):
Judah said it was about their body.
In a day when young girls are taughtto do, the very thing that Isaiah
describes that is to draw attentionto their bodies, to be arrogant and
rough, to act seductive and sensual.
Is it any wonder that our nationis in the shape, that it's
in what we need in America?
I. Is not more sex appeal inour women, but more goodness
(30:24):
and godliness in their hearts.
Only when the females of our land aremore interested in virtue than they
are in fashion, will we ever improvethe moral condition of this land?
Some of the greatest questionscome down to a simple word.
And we could say that some of the hardest,and not just some of the most profound
(30:47):
issues revolve around a single word.
I don't mean hard questions merelybecause they're hard to figure out.
I mean, there are some very simple oneword questions that are hard to live with.
The question that we will beexamining on my God and my neighbor
for weeks to come is this, why?
Why do things happen the way they do?
(31:09):
Why do bad things happen to good people?
Why do good things happen to bad people?
Why does God allow so much sinand suffering in the world?
Why doesn't God just dosomething to stop all this evil?
So as we look at that one wordquestion, we will talk about
another hard question, a two wordquestion, and that is, how long?
(31:30):
How long will all this trouble last?
How much longer will Ihave to go through this?
How much more can I stand?
We sometimes ask how long beforeGod hears my prayers and intervenes?
These questions are about what manypeople call the problem of evil.
It's the logical problem of how the allpowerful, all loving God permits evil
(31:52):
in the world, and it's also the reallife problem of having to endure it.
Now, this won't be a philosophicalstudy of this subject.
We will open the Bible to see whatGod says and doesn't say about it.
That's why I'm confident thatthese discussions will help you.
So please join us for the next episode,and please have your Bible ready.
(32:14):
Thank you for listeningto my God and my neighbor.
Stay connected with our podcast, on ourwebsite, and on Apple, Spotify, YouTube,
or wherever fine podcasts are distributed.
Tennessee Bible College providingChristian education since 1975
in Cookeville, Tennessee, offersundergraduate and graduate
programs study at your level.
(32:36):
Aim higher and get in touch with us today.
Popular Podcasts
Crime Junkie
Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.
24/7 News: The Latest
The latest news in 4 minutes updated every hour, every day.
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.