February 19, 2022
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Reading along with us in Isaiah? Here’s today’s reading:
Isaiah 24 (NIV)
The Lord’s Devastation of the Earth
1 See, the Lord is going to lay waste the earth
and devastate it;
he will ruin its face
and scatter its inhabitants—
2 it will be the same
for priest as for people,
for the master as for his servant,
for the mistress as for her servant,
for seller as for buyer,
for borrower as for lender,
Well accounts of the Great Tribulation make me think of two things…
First, hope I am not here to see it!
Second, I may be so I best be prepared!
Firm foundation of Christ, intimate relationship with God, and ready to stand in faith and know the battle belongs to the Lord and one day we will rest with Him in heaven!
“You built a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the Old Pool, but you did not look to the One who made it, or have regard for the One who planned it long ago.”
Isaiah 22:11 NIV
https://isaiah.bible/isaiah-22-11
We need to look to God, rather than to man.
Reading chapter 25 is like seeing the sun after a month of rain, refreshing and up lifting, I was becoming exhausted by all the doom and gloom of the prior 24 chapters. Chapter 26 verse 19 mentions “but your dead will live, their bodies will rise” I believe that is the resurrection of the dead, a promising verse to us who are believing in Christ Jesus paying for our sins in full.
Isaiah 24
“The moon will be dismayed, the sun ashamed; for the Lord Almighty will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and before its elders—with great glory.”
Isaiah 24:23 NIV
https://isaiah.bible/isaiah-24-23
All the judgements upon various nations will culminate with the destruction of the earth. No strata of society will escape and all will be treated the same, regardless of earthly standing. I think we all observe the pride of humankind expressed here, reveling in the pleasures of the flesh and thinking nothing can touch them. Well there will be a day of reckoning where nothing will matter except the glory of God and His power, and all those not correctly related to Him will be destroyed. And not only people, but the earth itself will not withstand the power and judgement of God. But in all this, there still remains the glory of the Lord, the praise that is due His name. In the presence of all the evil on the earth, there are those who understand that God is worthy of praise and the praise of His name will be heard. There is also the aspect, that God will be glorified because of us or in spite of us. Even the evil give glory to God in the fact that their ways are shown to be evil in the ultimate truth and reality of who God is and in the judgement that comes upon them. If all that we would depend on is going to be destroyed in this way, doesn’t it make sense to believe and follow the One doing the destroying?
Neither ice age, global warming, nor climate change will destroy the earth, God will.