Isaiah 5:18
18 Woe [howy] unto them that draw [mashak] iniquity [`avon] with cords
[chebel] of vanity, [shav'] and sin [chatta'ah] as it
were with a cart [`agalah] rope: [`aboth]KJV-Interlinear
18 Woe
to those who drag iniquity with the cords of falsehood, And sin as if with cart
ropes; NASB
The smallest of sins is a
burden, even if very slight and seemingly innocent, causing no harm to anyone.
However, that is not the
case in reality. One little sin leads to another, leads to another, leads to
another.
And so this verse teaches
us, that when a person lives in sin, even if in the slightest sense, that life
begins to weave greater and greater sins.
And without realizing it, those sins become so great that the effort to
commit sins becomes greater, such that the person goes to great lengths in
order to commit the sins.
And therefore, to draw
iniquity with cords of vanity, the word for cords, ‘chebel,’ means a fine hair
as in a spiders web. But one hair leads to two hairs, leads to three hairs and
so forth until the web becomes massive.
The cart rope, is a very
heavy rope that requires effort, great effort in order to pull the cart. It is not the beast of burden or ox that is
pulling the cart, but the person who is committing the sins.
So, without effort the
little thin hairs of sin are committed, then they increase in number, and
increase in mass.
The individual does not
think about the little thin hairs. A
single spider web line is thin and easily brushed aside with little notice.
But then the sins
continue and begin to take over the life of the person, and the sins become not
simply easy and unnoticed, but they are pursued with greater and greater
effort. It takes then, work, much work
to remain in the sins, and that is the pattern of life that a person can fall
into.
When you are wrapped up
in a massive spider web, burdened with a heavy rope with which you are pulling yourself
through life, then you are indeed trapped.
And thus the ‘woe’
warning is issued by God.
Disregard truth,
disregard your responsibility and obligations in truth, and you will, and this
is not just a possibility, but a certainty, you will fall into the trap and
bindings and burdens of the very life that you have placed yourself into by
means of your own choices.
Little sins set the
direction. Greater sins set the
pattern. And finally they all combine to
envelope you and trap you in indifference, in belligerence, in disrespect, in
rejection of the obligations that God has placed on you with respect to
yourself, with respect to the people in your life, in being opinionated,
critical, judgmental, brash, in rejection of authority or your role in life,
and on and on as the many principles of doctrine tumble in their importance
right out of your life.
In the next few verses,
even more woes are coming, more warnings are coming. But will you listen or will you continue your
nose dive into your eventual personal disaster.
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