Isaiah 3:6
6 When a man ['iysh] shall take
hold [taphas] of his brother ['ach] of the house [bayith] of
his father, ['ab] saying, Thou hast clothing, [simlah] be thou our ruler, [qatsiyn]
and let this ruin [makshelah] be under thy
hand: [yad]KJV-Interlinear
6 When
a man lays hold of his brother in his father's house, saying, "You have a
cloak, you shall be our ruler, And these ruins will be under your charge,"
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Isaiah continues the
description of a world fallen apart, from disaster to calamity, to utter chaos.
Thus, the picture of a
world without doctrine. And this does
not mean some third world situation wherein the culture is barbaric or native,
but it applies to all manner of humanity where people have chosen their own way
and have rejected Gods way.
This definitely includes
the self-righteous who pretend or reason that what they do, is Gods will, when
in fact it is merely their own will of convenience. They just do not want to accept Gods process
for the spiritual life. They want things
their way.
We studied earlier that unbelievers
reject Christ and thus presume that they have the right to approach God on
their own terms. Those terms are
arrogance. And likewise, believers who
reject Gods pattern and process for spiritual growth, apply that same arrogance
of self-promotion and self-justification, which God rejects, to their own
detriment.
The entire Bible is focused
on Jesus Christ, mans loss and the need for salvation, mans need for spiritual
growth and completion, and the unfortunate but inevitable rejection by man
which leads to all of the problems that occur in the world. From generation to generation, people simply
do not learn, but repeat the same indifferent attitude which leads to the
repetition of problems that have plagued prior generations.
This all will lead to the
final generation of our own dispensation, the Church Age, wherein we will
witness what both Christ and Paul described as the ‘Great Apostasy.’
That will lead to the
Rapture and that will in turn lead to the greatest Tribulation in all of human
history. These prophecies, which we are
studying right now, not only apply to every generation which rejects Christ,
but especially to that final generation which will live, and die, in the
Tribulation.
When studying the Book of
Revelation, one needs to keep in mind the many descriptions of human character
and human suffering, that have been described in the Old Testament, and then
you will see more clearly, the phenomenal magnitude of rejection and suffering
that will occur in that future seven year period, of the Tribulation, and just
why it is going to occur.
‘Taking hold,’ is an
expression of pleading, of supplication, of begging or demanding.
‘Brother,’ refers to kinsman
of one of the same kind.
‘Of the same house,’
refers not only to a family line or neighborhood or same region, but to a group
with similarities, as in color or race, or culture.
‘Has clothing,’ is a
reference to wealth or something that resembles wealth. If you have more than
I, then you are wealthier than I. It
matters not the nature or degree of your possessions, but only that you have
resources and I do not.
‘Ruin,’ indicates the
state of society.
So, when God is rejected,
when doctrine is rejected, then disaster falls upon mankind. When you reject God, then your destiny is
disaster. This does not mean that it will occur now or soon, but occur it will.
When an entire society,
and especially when the world falls totally away from God, then people will lose
their way of self-preservation, they will lose their ability to care for
themselves, they will look to others to do for them, that, which they refuse to
do for themselves. The promises of a
socialistic world are the fulfillment part and parcel, of this prophecy.
A society that refuses to
depend on God, learns to depend on a society that cannot care for them. They not only learn that dependence, but
demand it, and when it slips away from them, then they will fight to keep it, but
want someone else to be responsible, never themselves.
Does this remind you of
any recent protests over the last few years, or of protests at any time?
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