Meridian Magazine--Come Follow Me Latter-day Saint Podcast

Welcome to Meridian Magazine's Come Follow Me podcast. We are Scot and Maurine Proctor, and we are delighted to be with you again this week, to discuss Jeremiah, chapters 31 through 33, chapter 36-39, and Lamentations 1 and 3 in a lesson entitled, “I will turn their mourning into joy,” and we're thrilled to be in your homes and in your hearts this week.

Jeremiah was foreordained for the tough prophetic job he was called to do. The Lord said, “Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations” (Jeremiah 1:5). We often point to those verses as a reminder that the Bible does refer to a pre-mortal existence, but something else strikes us additionally here.
It is as if the Lord said, “Jeremiah, I am going to send you one of the toughest, most heart-rending missions that a prophet can have, preaching to a society who have obstinately doomed themselves, and who will never listen to you, but I have chosen you, because I know you. My eye has been upon you. I’ve seen you from the beginning and I trust you for this mighty, unpopular and sometimes agonizing calling.

Isn’t it amazing that Isaiah’s prophecies date back more than 2,700 years and they are so completely applicable today! No wonder the Lord Jesus Christ commanded the Nephites and the Lamanites:
1 And now, behold, I say unto you, that ye ought to search these things. Yea, a commandment I give unto you that ye search these things diligently; for great are the words of Isaiah.
2 For surely he spake as touching all things concerning my people which are of the house of Israel… (3 Nephi 23:1-2)
Isaiah is speaking to us today and let’s see what he has to say about fasting, keeping the Sabbath Day holy and the last days we are in.

Welcome to Meridian Magazine's Come Follow Me podcast. We are Scot and Maurine Proctor, and we are grateful to be with you today. We'll be studying Isaiah chapters 50 through 57. in a lesson entitled, “He hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows.” We are so excited to be able to talk about this material. It's not often in the course of the curriculum of the church, over the years that we've had five different weeks focused on Isaiah. That's exciting, and we could use five lifetimes, but we have five weeks, and we're grateful for each one of them.

Welcome to Meridian Magazine’s Come Follow Me Podcast where today we’re studying Isaiah chapters 40-49 where we are talking about the kind of help God is to His people. We have with us Dr. Kerry Muhlestein who is a professor of Ancient Scripture and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at Brigham Young University. He holds a PhD in Egyptology from UCLA, directs BYU's Egypt Excavation Project, has taught at the BYU Jerusalem Center, and was a visiting fellow at Oxford University. His scholarship brings together the world of the ancient Near East and the scriptures, including extensive teaching and research on Isaiah and the Old Testament.