I use to wonder how a great nation could allow itself to espouse the moral corruptions that have destroyed other nations.
As this country removes itself from the moral standards established in the Bible, we see more and more people boldly asserting themselves and their aberrant behavior and attacking the ones who hold to the Biblical standard. The moral code goes from one level, down to another, and draws the wicked with it, as the wicked draws the nation with them.
Now I know. I see it in action everyday.
ISAIAH SAW IT Apply these principles to the USA, the Church in America and to your own life.
The Lord's Vineyard
As this country removes itself from the moral standards established in the Bible, we see more and more people boldly asserting themselves and their aberrant behavior and attacking the ones who hold to the Biblical standard. The moral code goes from one level, down to another, and draws the wicked with it, as the wicked draws the nation with them.
Now I know. I see it in action everyday.
ISAIAH SAW IT Apply these principles to the USA, the Church in America and to your own life.
The Lord's Vineyard
ISAIAH 5 (selected verses)
1 The Lord planted a vineyard on a hill, a place of prominence, productivity and protection.
2 He increased its protection with a wall and a high tower. He increased its productivity by removing the stones and planting the choicest vine.
DLG note... BUT IT PRODUCED WILD GRAPES (wild, poisonous, obnoxious berries instead of the pleasant and precious fruit of the Vine).
3 God calls the people to SEE His judgment and what the result will be.
4 Nothing more could have been done for the well being of the vineyard, so that it would bring forth precious fruit, still, it brought forth wild grapes.
5 God said He would take away the hedge (the thick, thorny fence) and the wall of protection. The vineyard would be invaded and devoured and destroyed.
6 GOD WILL LAY IT WASTE. When God is against you, no one can save you. The days of fruitfulness will be gone. The corrupt and destructive will rise up in the place of the vine. GOD WILL NOT BLESS THE CORRUPTED GROUND.
7 (The primary fulfillment of this prophecy is Israel and Judah), but the principle is applicable to GOD'S PEOPLE. God looks for JUSTICE, but finds TYRANNY; He looks for RIGHTEOUSNESS, but finds TERROR.
NOW COMES 6 WOES
8 WOE to those who build their own kingdoms by overreaching and overwhelming other people; to those who add temporal pleasure to temporal pleasure; to those who expand their own wealth, at the expense of other people; to those who try to save and secure themselves. (I am reminded, COVETOUSNESS IS IDOLATRY [Co. 3:5])
9-10 GOD'S JUDGEMENT
11-12 WOE to those who PARTY HEARTY, getting on a high that leaves them dry, taking a hit that leads to the pit; to those who EAT, DRINK AND BE MERRY, for tomorrow THEY DIE (Lk. 12:19-20); to those who are filled with man made pleasures but despise heavenly treasures; to those who grasp at worldly toys, while rejecting heavenly joys.
13-17 GOD'S JUDGMENT
18-19 WOE to those who add sin to sin; to those who live in open debauchery; to those who mock God; to those who challenge Divine judgment and taunt God's sovereignty.
20 WOE to those who CALL EVIL GOOD and CALL GOOD EVIL (resisting the authority and nature of God); to those who PUT DARKNESS FOR LIGHT (lauding the right to be lawless over the requirement to be obedient) and PUT LIGHT FOR DARKNESS (condemning faithful obedience to the God of the Bible as being evil); to those who put BITTER FOR SWEET and SWEET FOR BITTER (promote the unnatural instead of the natural and abandon the eternal for the temporal, the holy treasures for unholy pleasures).
21 WOE to those who are self oriented, self advancing, self dependent, self serving, SELFISH; to those filled with pride, arrogance, haughtiness.
22-23 WOE to those who boast in their dissipation (moral degradation); to those who conspire against the righteous and make deals with the wicked and take bribes to hurt the weak and innocent.
5:24-30 GOD'S JUDGMENTS.
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