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Isaiah - Day 109

versebyverse | September 25, 2008 20:23

Scripture:  Isaiah 5:30 (NIV):  "In that day they will roar over it like the roaring of the sea.  And if one looks at the land, he will see darkness and distress; even the light will be darkened by the clouds."

Thought:  To me, Satanic power is horribly dark and distressful.

Question:  Have I known the "roar" of the devil?

"That day", of course, is God's Day of Wrath--a season of outpoured anger in judgment upon Israel.  It is the result of their rebellion against God in pushing Him aside, mocking and disobeying Him and serving self.  The "they" who "will roar" are the Assyrian armies, ordained by God to attack Israel.  They are God's instrument of judgment upon His unruly children.  The Assyrians have been granted the opportunity and ability by God, to "roar over" Israel, the "prey" (Isaiah 5:29), until only "darkness and distress" fill the land.  The "light" of day will be "darkened by the clouds", which, to me, speaks of how the light of God's truth and beauty has been obscured completely by Israel's sins.

When God uses Satan in our lives, the little bit of our hope and faith in God can become completely obscured for a time.  All seems dark and distressful.  Even as the nations, the pagan enemy territories around Israel, will advance so strongly that it will be drowned and overwhelmed, so we can sometimes fall away from God so far that the only reality is God's judgment upon us.  Just as the noise of "the sea" drowns every other sound, without let-up, so the enemy hordes will conquer and oppress and block out any good.

Believers who refuse to listen to God's Word and fail to apply it to their lives will become the objects of God's anger.  In His anger God will call for Satan to come and oppress them.  Truth and light will shrink to nothing while the evil and subjugation of Satan will take over in those peoples' lives.  That is "the day" of judgment for them.

Yet even this judgment attack is a merciful move by God!

Prayer:  Great Savior, thank You for saving me from the enemy!  Forgive me my sins and restore me, Lord, that I may not suffer the horrors of the evil one, particularly the darkness he brings.  Amen.

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