Recapitulation in Prophecy, 4

We began with an explanation of recapitulation, pointing out that before the three Charles: Charles Lyell, Charles Darwin, and Karl Marx, most educated people accepted the Bible's accounts of Creation and the Flood as literally true.

Charles Darwin came up with the idea that a human embryo "recapitulates" the earlier life forms going back to the first life, long before humans.

We also pointed out that modern secularist scholars reject the concept of miracles altogether, and therefore reject God's having revealed future events to Isaiah.

That is why many modern scholars divide the book into First and Second Isaiah.

But comparing chapter 39 with chapter 40 can be understood in light of the truth that the Neo-Assyrian Empire dealt with Babylon similarly to Queen Elizabeth and her son, Charles. Charles is the Prince of Wales, and the next in line to the Assyrian crown, was the King of Babylon.

We then looked at the warning omen of Deuteronomy 28:49-50, as cited in Isaiah 28:9-13, and saw how the Apostle Paul applied it in 1 Corinthians 14:20-25, as he affirmed the superiority of known languages in public worship.

We saw how this curse omen took place during the days of Elisha, as well as at the conquest of Samaria in 722 B.C., Jerusalem in 586, and in A.D. 70 when Jerusalem fell to the Romans.

We speculated about its possible connection with the establishment of Israel on May 14, 1948.