In Isaiah, chapter three, verses sixteen through twenty-six, from the beginning, “Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:” In the midst of spiritual, moral, and political decline, the women […]
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In Isaiah, chapter three, verse fourteen, “The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of His people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.” God hates the mistreatment of the less fortunate in society. In the church, He makes members accountable
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In Isaiah, chapter three, verse ten, “Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.” Isaiah was told to encourage those who remain faithful to God in the midst of an unrighteous people. Although now they might suffer for righteousness’ sake, it would
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In Isaiah, chapter three, verse five, “And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: The child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.” The rejection of God’s ways in a society opens the way for injustice, cruel oppression, violence, the disrespect
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In Isaiah, chapter three, verses two through three, ” The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient, the captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator. The theme under the judgment of the Lord
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In Isaiah, chapter two, verse twelve, “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.” According to Isaiah, a time of judgment was coming. The immediate fulfillment of his prophecy was God’s
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In Isaiah, chapter two, verse eleven, “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.” One serious consequence of human pride is the belief that we can decide for ourselves, independent of God, how we live and
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In Isaiah, chapter two, verses six through nine, these verses describe the apostasy and worldliness of the nation of Judah. They had rejected God, accepted idols and the occult, taken pleasure in the ungodly ways of the heathen, and looked for their security in money, foreign alliances, and military might. Thus, Isaiah prayed that they
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In Isaiah, chapter two, verse three, “And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go
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In Isaiah, chapter two, verse two, “And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD’S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.” The New Testament defines the last days as a
