Monday, July 1, 2013

Terror and pit and snare await you, O people of the earth!

Isaiah 24:1-23
When the Lord is going to lay waste the earth and devastate it; there is not occupation,  position or prosperity difference, all have the same suffering.
After that, from the ends of the earth we hear singing:"Glory to the Righteous One."
But Isaiah said, "I waste away, I waste away! Woe to me! The treacherous betray! " Terror and pit and snare await you, O people of the earth.
The floodgate of the heavens are opened, the foundations of the earth shake.
In that day the Lord will punish the powers in the heavens above and the kings on the earth below.
The moon will be abashed, the sun ashamed; for the Lord Almighty will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and before its elders, gloriously.
Why?
From the particular - God's judgment on specific nations - we move to the universal: the time when God will judge the whole world and everyone in it. Life will not go on for ever just as it is. One day God will step in and end the world as we know it. there will be a shaking of the foundations, and the world. Isaiah was in no doubt about this. Neither was Jesus.
But God's purpose is not just to condemn.(24) on judgment is followed by three on rescue and saving, when God removes 'the cloud of sorrow that has been hanging over all the nations.
The nations will sit down at God's great celebration banquet.
That day: same as chapter 19
That day are terror, both Isaiah and Jesus say the same thing will be happened.
How?
No matter what this world will be in Christ we have hope and peace. Pray for the people who have not know the Lord and Jesus Christ.


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