Isaiah 21:11-22:14

Isaiah 21:11-22:14

This passage has such a strong message for the church today. What ails you was the question to Juday then. What ails us is the question to the church today. We as a church have transgressed in so many ways. We have left our first love through so many seemingly small acts of disobedience that gradually turned in to large acts of transgression. Leaders filled with pride and indifference, congregations filled with those addicted to comfort have allowed watered down doctrines to flow through the church giving rise to compromise, corruption and death. The end result being a last days church that wallows in vile apostasy. Yet at the same time, the vast majority of the church is joyous. Many are feasting when they should be fasting. Talk of a great last days revival and the blessed abundant life monopolize the focus of the church. Many give lip service to the return of Christ but in reality they cling to this world like Lots wife. We know that we are living in the last days. We know that God's judgment is upon us. Yet we seem to be trusting in everything but God. We say we trust in God but if we are not living in obedience to Jesus Christ and His word regardless of cost of consequence, then we are clearly trusting in everything but God.Obedience is the litmus test concerning our total trust in God.In these last days will we truly live in obedience to Jesus Christ and His word? Will we humbly repent when the Holy Spirit lovingly convicts us to do so? Are we willing to live a life that truly declares our deep conviction that we are living in the last days and that the return of Christ is at hand?
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Chapter 21
11 The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?
12 The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come.
13 The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim.
14 The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled.
15 For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
16 For thus hath the LORD said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail:
17 And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel hath spoken it.
Chapter 22
1 The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?
2 Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.
3 All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, which have fled from far.
4 Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.
5 For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains.
6 And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.
7 And it shall come to pass, that thy choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate.
8 And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst look in that day to the armour of the house of the forest.
9 Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool.
10 And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall.
11 Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof, neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago.
12 And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
13 And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.
14 And it was revealed in mine ears by the LORD of hosts, Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
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