In Isaiah, chapter seventeen, verse seven, “At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.” The judgments of God on Israel in the Old Testament would cause a remnant to turn away from idolatry and focus on the Lord their Maker. They would realize how inoperative idols are in times of trouble and war.
The words are words of warning, hardly less than of promise. There is to be a return to the true faith of Israel, but that return will be brought about by a bitter experience of the results of idolatry. The eyes of men will turn in that hour of their calamity to the Holy One of Israel.
Those few men that are left, look to His Maker. They shall sincerely respect, trust in, and worship God, and God only. In other words, at that time, when God shall execute these severe judgments upon the Ephraimites, some, being fully convinced by experience that they had been deceived by their false prophets, and that their worship of idols had turned out as the true prophets foretold, shall turn themselves, by sincere repentance, to the God of their fathers, and, renouncing the errors of former times, and all their sins, shall worship and serve him in true faith and obedience.
Every person will know God for themself. Many today will look to the Maker when they are at the end of the road or feel helpless. Very few seem to look for God during the prime of their lives. ” That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.