Isaiah 10:3
3 And what will ye do [`asah] in the day [yowm] of
visitation, [paquddah] and in the desolation [show'] which shall come [bow']
from far [merchaq]? to whom will ye flee [nuwc] for help [`ezrah]? and
where will ye leave [`azab] your glory [kabowd]? KJV-Interlinear
3 Now what
will you do in the day of punishment, And in the devastation which will come
from afar? To whom will you flee for help? And where will you leave your
wealth? NASB
Remember that most of the
application of these prophecies is to the end days of history, even though
there is an application to Judah and Samaria in Isaiah’s day, and to every person
throughout history with regard to their individual lives.
When the visitation, or
destruction of God, comes, it will come like a whirlwind with extreme calamity
and devastation, and it will come with such a suddenness, that no one could possibly
expect it.
It will come from
afar. And this means generally that it
will come from beyond your expectation, from beyond your borders, from some
foreign country. But when applied to
individuals it comes from beyond their thinking apparatus, from outside of
their realm of expectations.
In the Tribulation, both
of these applications will apply.
Foreign nations will come from afar to destroy Israel. And as far as individuals are concerned,
those who have no doctrine in them, it will strike without warning. They will be
in shock.
Where then will your
glory be placed?
The word for leave, means
to deposit or to place. And this phrase lets the reader know that when disaster
of the type being described, strikes, then there will be no time to gather up
your possessions, no time to protect your property.
But this also applies to
your inner glory or arrogance, which got you in this predicament in the first
place. So where will your opinions be
now? Where will your beliefs be
now? Where will your attitude be
now? Where will you place all that has
been the priority of your life, but is now about to be totally wiped out as
though it never existed?
For people who spend
their entire life pursuing their owned definition of happiness or excitement or
pleasures, and usually at the expense of others, even at the expense of
themselves, then when disaster strikes and their realities turn out to be not
so real, then they will realize too late, that they have nothing, gained
nothing, and have wasted their entire life for nothing.
This applies to all
unbelievers certainly, to all sinners for certain, and unfortunately to all
those who believe that they have been doing God work, but are really not,
because they rejected Gods mandates for study and learning and growth, and have
been chasing after their own works or their own definition of the spiritual
life which revolves around their own personal beliefs and conveniences, and not
Gods commands.
