Isaiah 2:5-22

Isaiah 2:5-22

Isaiah has just concluded a wonderful exhortation concerning the latter days when Jesus will return and set up His millennial kingdom. In light of this great exhortation, Isaiah challenges the people to walk in the light of God's truth. Any time we are presented with the great scriptural truths concerning our glorious future with the Lord, it must impact the way we are living today in the present.In spite of this great exhortation and challenge, the Israelites are living in stark contrast. They are filled with Eastern ways. They are filled with prosperity, luxury and military might. Their land is filled with idols. They are living in disobedience to God's word. They have a mixed form of worship, yet because of their seeming success they are convinced that God is pleased with the way they are living.Isaiah makes it clear that God is not pleased and that His judgment is certain and will soon be upon them. There will be no escape for anyone from the judgment of God. There will be no place to hide. Everything that is exalted will be brough low. Only the LORD will be exalted in the day of His judgment.Isaiah challenges the people to stop trusting in man and his feeble accomplishment. Man is but a vapor and all that he has built and accomplished will be gone in an instant before the mighty judgment of God. The judgment of God will bring both the terror of the LORD and the majesty of His glory. None shall escape the judgment of God.We are to stop trusting in man. We are to trust in the LORD with all our hearts. We must be obedient to Jesus Christ and His word regardless of cost of consequence.
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Chapter 2
5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.
6 Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.
7 Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots:
8 Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:
9 And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not.
10 Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty.
11 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
12 For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:
13 And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan,
14 And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up,
15 And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall,
16 And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.
17 And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
18 And the idols he shall utterly abolish.
19 And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
20 In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
21 To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
22 Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of ?
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