Isaiah 29 – 33
Verse 29:5 talks about Gods power:
But in an instant your ruthless enemies, who seem too many to count,
will become as fluttering dust, as wind-driven chaff.
“In an instant” are words I would love to hear many times in my life. Often we tend to want that “instant” to help bail us out of our own self-created mess. We want God to swoop in and save out backsides in order so we can do it again. Notice this time is after a long period without God in the mix. They were suffering and finally figuring out where they needed to turn to in life.
Often, if we got instantly bailed out every time we messed up, the end results would be we would end up in the same boat shortly afterwards. I know that has been my case in life. My first “bailout” was short lived as I did not end the credit cards, but started to use them more wisely. Please note when you have $225,000 in credit cards that cannot be “used wisely”. I continued to spend over what we brought in and eventually when the revenue slowed my credit bubble popped. Now 6 years later I have learned to spend less than you make and keep doing it.
Verse 30:12 is God talking directly to Israel:
But the Holy One of Israel says,
Eternal One: Because you refused to accept this truth, My word and purpose,
and trusted instead in deceit and manipulation, you will fall.
This again gets to the root of the problem; people are not accepting the truth. The world is getting more and more that way today, where we reject God’s truth only to form what we believe is our own. Science and Creation are one of those debates that are ongoing and are pushing God out of the equation. See randomness is what science believes as truth and therefore means no God. I could write a book on this subject alone, and should, but the root is we start doubting God and his presence in the world.
We are being “spanked” or will be soon for our rejection of God’s truth. I hope this isn’t the final one since that will be very ugly.
I will not post this, but look at verse 33:1 and think about how the banks are run today. I expect this will be a problem real soon, if it hasn’t already started. The banks did risky loans and are getting “bailed out” by the government. Eventually that will end and they will be not able to find more money and the house of cards will collapse.