Isaiah 5:9
9 In mine ears ['ozen] said the
LORD [Yahovah] of hosts, [tsaba'] Of a truth [lo'] many [rab] houses [bayith] shall be
desolate, [shammah] even great [gadowl] and fair, [towb] without
inhabitant. [yashab] KJV-Interlinear
9 In my
ears the Lord of hosts has sworn, "Surely, many houses shall become
desolate, Even great and fine ones, without occupants. NASB
Greed covers a wide range
of sins. Beginning with arrogance and the
arrogance of indifference, and ending with the greed of having what one wants
and not what God offers. The end result
is total loss.
Wait on the Lord and you
will receive the desires of your heart.
But in greed, one waits on the world and ends up with nothing,
regardless of what is accumulated or acquired, or attained in this life.
We all begin this life as
a blank tablet ready to be filled with knowledge, which includes the knowledge of
how to utilize the physical or mental gifts that God alone gives us.
Unfortunately far too many
take their abilities for granted or take their achievements as due to their
efforts alone, and God is given no credit.
People place the value of
their life or existence, on things they have or have achieved. However, the real value of the person is in
the soul, and not in the things that are external to them.
The soul contains
knowledge and the use of that knowledge, which is called wisdom. Bible doctrine is the only correct knowledge,
leading to the only correct wisdom in existence. The world provides many aspects of truth, but
tends to skew them into awkward philosophies or religions or beliefs, and thus
ends up with false knowledge, false interpretations, and false wisdom.
Anything that is false
and that is pursued, is a pursuit of something that does not really exist. Thus the end result is zero.
When the world focuses on
zero, then the world ends up with nothing.
Even the great and
majestic homes and buildings and bureaucracies, and things that people place
their trust and pride in, end up as nothing.
And when the end finally comes, those great things will be
destroyed. They will cease to exist,
they will have no owners, they will have no one to boast of their beauty or grandeur,
they will have no occupants, they, the things of the world, will be nothing
just as the people who looked to them in pride, will be nothing.
Desolate and without
inhabitant, means just that. This is a
prophecy that applies to each individual, even to you, should you ignore God
and pursue your imaginary worldly life.
But it also is a prophecy for how the end of the world will look, when
God destroys everything of evil.
The population of
humanity will be depleted to the bare minimums, being believers only, as all
people who had control of the world will then be gone. Dead in high heaps of corpses, which will
take months to bury, and a feast for the scavenger birds for those same many
months.
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