To come alongside with Scripture...
Isa 30:1 ¶ Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin: 9 That this [is] a rebellious people, lying children, children [that] will not hear the law of the LORD: 10 Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits: 11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us. 12 ¶ Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
Here we learn of a generation that rejects the Holy One of Israel...
Hear the promise of rest in Scripture...
Isa 30:15 ¶ For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.
Because they did not repent...judgement comes...
Isa 30:27 ¶ Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning [with] his anger, and the burden [thereof is] heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire: 28 And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and [there shall be] a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing [them] to err.
Do you hear what war brings to those who reject the Lord? "And His breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of futility; and (there shall be) a bridle in the jaws of the people causing (them) to err."
God allows Satan to sift the nation with the sieve of futility which causes them to err.
After the fire of His breath has gone out to destroy...what is the result?
Isa 30:18 ¶ And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD [is] a God of judgment: blessed [are] all they that wait for him. 19 For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee. 20 And [though] the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers: 21 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This [is] the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
The Lord waits for those who suffer the affliction that they themselves have brought upon themselves, for their cry to Him to save them from this adveristy, from this affliction...
And then once again their is a remnant willing to listen to the word of God that is near them...and rest comes to those who listen.
How many in this nation reject the Holy One, look around you, they all cry for peace through war, and for what gain? To preserve the peverse generation of this day. Do our hearts cry out like Lot's? Are our souls vexed because of what we see and hear around us? Or do we take part and cast our lots in among those who are evil?
In Christ Jeff
_________________ Jeff Marshalek
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