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Welcome to EvangCat Baton Rouge. My name is Barry Schoedel.  I am the Associate Director of the Office of Evangelization and Catechesis, for the Catholic Diocese of Baton Rouge, in Southern Louisiana. This is the second episode in our Podcast Series on Evangelization. Last week we asked the question: what is evangelization? We examined the Greek meaning of the term Euangelion and its various English translations. We left off with the discovery that there are limited uses of the Greek terms that evangelize and evangelization are based upon in the Greek version of the Old Testament, otherwise known as the Septaugint. The Septuagint was in common usage around the time of the incarnation of Jesus among Greek speaking Jews. We see the root of our modern terms evangelize used in the book of the Prophet Isaiah 4 times. We will highlight two of these here.
First in chapter 40 verse 9 of Isaiah a herald is said to announce a New Exodus which promises delivery from the servitude. Similar to the Egyptian Exodus this new exodus will be  an occasion of the manifestation of the glory of the Lord. To prepare for this a straight and level way must be made, in the same way a road or route is made level and smooth to prepare for the entry of a king or a conqueror in the ancient custom. We recall that in the Gospels this herald is recognized in John the Baptist.
In the New Testament the route that is prepared for the entry of the Lord is ultimately the human heart, a heart in need of turning away from sin, a heart in need of repentance and purification – hence the baptism of repentance as the making straight and leveling of the route by which the Lord will come in glory. A conqueror and king is indeed coming.
This is the context for the use of the term euangelizein where the prophet Isaiah proclaims, 
Go up onto a high mountain,
Zion, herald of good news!
Cry out at the top of your voice,
Jerusalem, herald of good news!
Cry out, do not fear!
Say to the cities of Judah:
Here is your God!
The good news, the Gospel that is proclaimed is promised to bring comfort to the people because her servitude will have ended, her guilt will be expiated and she will receive in return for her sins an abundance of forgiveness. Intrinsic to the Good News of salvation, then, is the preparation of repentance and also of waiting in faith for the Lord to manifest his glory, for the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together. He will come with power, but like a shepherd who feeds his flock and gently gathers the lambs, so shall the Lord do for his people. We see here that the term evangelization or the heralding of the good news is inseparable from the act of the proclamation of a new exodus. Isaiah, can be said here to be an evangelist, in fact each prophet, in their own way, were evangelists, that is they proclaimed a message that was of the Lord, that instructed the people both in what to sacrifice and repent of, but also where their faith, hope, and love must be placed. This is the essential work of an evangelist in every age, first of all, the evangelist instructs in what idols must be given up, what sins must be repented of, and what the nature of true sacrifice is, i.e. what God actually expects of us. But also the evangelist helps us to know where we should truly place our faith, where the object of our hope should really be, and what we ought to love above all.
Let’s look at Isaiah chapter 52 verse 7 to see how it illustrates the tasks of evangelization.
Isaiah 52 reads,
Awake, awake!
Put on your strength, Zion;
Put on your glorious garments,
Jerusalem, holy city.
Never again shall the uncircumcised
or the unclean enter you.
Arise, shake off the dust,
sit enthroned,