Isaiah 8:1-22
Then I made love to the prophetess, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. And the Lord said to me, “Name him Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz. For before the boy knows how to say ‘My father’ or ‘My mother,’ the wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried off by the king of Assyria.”
The Lord spoke to me again: “Because this people has rejected the gently flowing waters of Shiloah and rejoices over Rezin and the son of Remaliah, therefore the Lord is about to bring against them the mighty floodwaters of the Euphrates— the king of Assyria with all his pomp. It will overflow all its channels, run over all its banks.
Raise the war cry, you nations, and be shattered! Listen, all you distant lands. Prepare for battle, and be shattered! Prepare for battle, and be shattered! Devise your strategy, but it will be thwarted; propose your plan, but it will not stand, for God is with us.
“Do not call conspiracy everything this people calls a conspiracy; do not fear what they fear, and do not dread it. The Lord Almighty is the one you are to regard as holy, he is the one you are to fear, he is the one you are to dread.
He will be a holy place; for both Israel and Judah he will be a stone that causes people to stumble and a rock that makes them fall. And for the people of Jerusalem he will be a trap and a snare.
Here am I, and the children the Lord has given me. We are signs and symbols in Israel from the Lord Almighty, who dwells on Mount Zion.
Why consult the dead on behalf of the living? Consult God’s instruction and the testimony of warning. If anyone does not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.
Why?
Assyria will be the tool of the Lord and destroy Samaria and Damascus. Because these people have rejected the gently flowing waters of Shiloah.
The Lord Almighty is the one we are to regard as holy, he is the one we are to fear!
The Lord will give a stone as a sign and symbol in Israel.
We can't and it is unreasonable to ask the dead on behalf of the living. How ridiculous to do these detestable things.
Remind us that the Lord is handling all of these matters. No one can escape from the punishment and judgment of the Lord.
How?
The has made a plan for salvation for human beings has fallen in the way of destruction, and they turn away from the Lord! Don't be a fool in this generation!
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