Isaiah 5:24
24 Therefore as the fire ['esh] devoureth ['akal] the
stubble, [qash] and the flame [lashown] [lehabah] consumeth [raphah] the chaff, [chashash] so
their root [sheresh] shall be as rottenness, [maq] and their blossom [perach]
shall go up [`alah] as dust: ['abaq] because they have cast away [ma'ac] the law [towrah] of the
LORD [Yahovah] of hosts, [tsaba'] and despised [na'ats] the
word ['imrah] of the Holy One [qadowsh] of Israel. [Yisra'el] KJV-Interlinear
24
Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes stubble, And dry grass collapses into
the flame,, So their root will become like rot and their blossom blow away as
dust;, For they have rejected the law of the Lord of hosts, And despised the
word of the Holy One of Israel. NASB
Judgments are pronounced. Judgments are often the repercussions of ones
thoughts or actions. And just as many
things are naturally occurring events that follow some given action, so too,
judgments are naturally occurring events that follow evil.
Only in the case of
reality, judgments always come from God, however God may choose to executes
various judgments in many ways.
Jesus Christ controls
history. Jesus Christ controls history
in three general ways.
First, He can control
history directly. He created the
universe. He creates life.
Second, He can control
history indirectly. He can control
history through the application of divine establishment principles or natural
laws, such as economics, or physics, or gravity, or authority and so forth.
Third, He can control
history through His permissive will. In
other words, God can grant permission for various thoughts or actions to occur. Evil can rise up and combat evil. People can elect the candidate of their
choice. People can adopt norms and
standards that they will live by, and so forth.
But in every instance,
Christ controls the total flow, direction, and outcome of history. And He did this beginning in eternity past
when the divine decrees were issued.
God looked forward, down
through the tunnel of time, and saw all of the possible outcomes and
ramifications of every possible scenario in history. He selected the one and only best possible timeline
that best meets everyone's needs, always resulting in the best outcome for
history.
When people reject truth,
then there is a natural order of results.
And that is of course judgment or discipline.
As these past few verses
have unfolded, we have seen that any and all rejection of truth, parallels the
actions of drunkenness, arrogance, boasting and so forth.
While actual physical
drunkenness has a natural disorganization of ones mind and body and life, then
so too, rejection of truth will cause ones spiritual life to fall into pieces. Drunkenness is the real life representation
of spiritual disorientation.
The fire, represents the
typical tongue like appearance of the flames of a fire as it flickers in the
dark.
Devour, means to eat or
consume, or to remove from existence.
Chaff is typically the
dried grass or stubble of a field, that when lit on fire, is consumed with
rapid fury.
The dried grass has no
production, and its root is rotten and useless for production. Roots typically refer to the strength for the
support and maintenance of a productive plant.
When the roots are worthless, then the plant by default is worthless.
No plant can survive
unless it has strong and productive roots.
No spiritual life can survive unless the individual has a strong
foundation in the fundamental principles of doctrine. No doctrine no roots, no roots then no functional
spiritual life. No functional spiritual
life, then faith is empty and impotent.
The blossom refers to the
beauty or the productive aspects of the plant.
And so the illustration continues with the absence of a root, and
therefore there is an absence of beauty and productivity.
The law, or the
fundamentals or principles, and the word, or the content of the scriptures or
truth, having been ignored, compromised, rejected, and otherwise banned in ones
life, become the basis for the destruction, the self-destruction of ones own
life.
When you reject doctrine,
then you pronounce on yourself, your own sentence of destruction.
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