Isaiah 5:13
13 Therefore my people [`am] are gone into captivity, [galah] because
they have no knowledge: [da`ath] and their
honourable [kabowd] men [math] are famished, [ra`ab] and
their multitude [hamown] dried up [tsicheh] with thirst. [tsama'] KJV-Interlinear
13
Therefore My people go into exile for their lack of knowledge; And their
honorable men are famished, And their multitude is parched with thirst. NASB
My people are gone into
captivity, is a phrase speaking of a future event as though it were happening
in the current time. This makes the
event certain, for the statement of an occurrence makes it so.
My people are the people of
God, believers who have gone negative and have chosen the life of indulgence
and frivolity.
And they are all gone
because they rejected doctrine. They did
not know doctrine because they did not learn it. They did not learn it because they were neither
interested nor impressed with the threats of God.
People who reject truth
are wise in their own eyes, clever in their own thinking. They believe that they know better, and can
do better, and have no need of anything higher than they.
And this applies not only
to the generation of Isaiah’s time when they will one day face the onslaught of
the Babylonian armies, but it will certainly apply to the last days of history,
when the entire world has gone negative to the greatest of apostasies of all of
history.
But, it also applies
today and to every generation on an individual basis, when people give lip
service to God, but never commit themselves to a daily study of doctrine. It is far easier to post cute little remarks
on an internet page, but it takes more commitment to actually take up a daily
study and commit ones daily life to Gods mandates, as God requires.
In just a few verses this
type of frivolous front is condemned and the repercussions of that
non-commitment are very dramatic. That
drama is generally not realized until after death and then it is too late.
Every day you are alive, you
have the opportunity to change. And
every day more and more people simply hold on to their own defined ways, never acknowledging
that they are totally wrong.
And so, captivity,
famished, and thirst, replace the party-on, drinking, disregard of
responsibility attitude. All that people
pursue they never attain, and that which they attain they lose. The results are
far worse that any can imagine, but then everyone who chooses the life of
self-righteousness, or corruption, or disregard of truth, never take the repercussions
of judgment seriously.
Those who disregard the
mandates of the scriptures, do not take them seriously, and that is a very big
mistake.
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