Isaiah - Verse By Verse

Isaiah - Day 119

versebyverse | October 08, 2008 20:51

Scripture:  Isaiah 6:11 (NIV):  "Then I said, 'For how long, O Lord?'  And he answered: 'Until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses are left deserted and the fields ruined and ravaged,' "

Thought:  To me, when God decides to destroy a thing, He has very good reason!

Question:  Am I on the road to destruction?

A typical human response comes here from Isaiah.  In the face of trouble and rejection we humans always want to know what's coming.  We want to see an end to trouble!  We must think it is pointless, so why bother at all?  To what purpose do we persevere?  God's ways, however are high above our ways.  (Where would we be today had God not persevered through Calvary?) 

Even as we saw yesterday, God is using Isaiah to be sent and to send a message to the Jews of his day that really becomes meaningless to them, (calloused hearts, dull ears and closed eyes).  God sends the "powerful delusion" so that they will believe only lies.  (See yesterday's reference to II Thessalonians 2:11.)  The delusion must continue until full destruction of their world as they know it is completed.  The consequence of lies is total destruction!  The devil, the father of lies, seeks to destroy us!  This is "how long" Isaiah must work at his mission:  until the Jews are virtually destroyed as a nation:  "cities" will "lie ruined", with no "inhabitant", "houses" will be "left deserted"; "fields" will be "ruined and ravaged." 

Interestingly, in the end times when II Thessalonians 2:11 will literally be fulfilled, this process will have to ripen and go full circle again:  earth will be destroyed by fire because mankind prefers to believe the lie, the delusion that God Himself sends to them, because they are not worthy of entertaining or accepting the truth.  They have crushed it underfoot too many times already.

Prayer:  Great God, help me to avoid ruination at Your hand!  Cause me to realize if and when I am ever beginning to harden my heart, so that I may confess and find Your forgiveness.  Amen.   

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