For a period of time there was an emphasis on good news/bad news stories. In good news/bad news stories, details keep turning from triumph to tragedy and back again. One such story which was related quite frequently was about two friends who were avid baseball fans. These two friends made a pact that whoever died first would come back and let the other know if there was baseball in heaven. The first one died and came back and contacted his friend and said, "Hey, man, I have great news for you! The good news is that there is baseball in heaven, but the bad news is that you're scheduled to pitch Friday."
Isaiah the prophet understood the good news/bad news concept. For a while it seemed that everything was bad news. The people of Judah had lived with bad news for so long that they wondere…