Isaiah 14:32
32 What shall one then answer [`anah] the messengers [mal'ak] of
the nation [gowy]? That the LORD [Yahovah] hath founded [yacad] Zion [Tsiyown], and the poor [`aniy] of
his people [`am] shall trust [chacah] in it. KJV-Interlinear
32 "How then will one answer
the messengers of the nation? That the Lord has founded Zion, And the afflicted
of His people will seek refuge in it." NASB
What then will be the
answer of people who are subjected to Gods judgment and destruction and/or loss
of reward when their day comes and God calls them out of this world?
What is the answer of a
person who rejects the Word of God, of a person who ignores the Word of God, of
a person who thinks lightly of anything and everything that God discloses within
the scriptures?
Isaiah wrote these
words well over 2700 years ago and since that time people have had ample
opportunity to know, in some fashion, their content, the promises of God, the
mandates of God, the warnings of God, the innumerable disclosures of God, and
yet people throughout the generations, even in our present day of phenomenal communication
capabilities, have taken little or no interest in what Gods clearly states and
expects.
God founded Zion. What is that?
Zion is said to be Gods
place of dwelling. God is truth. Doctrine is Gods revelation of truth to man. Doctrine is mans window and doorway to a
relationship with God. And for those who
seek Him, who pursue Him, who abide by Gods rules, then God provides protection
and a destiny, not to mention the process of spiritual completion that is needed
by everyone, lest they live life as incompletes.
The poor, refers not to
financial poor, but spiritually poor within this world. This world cannot protect anyone nor give
them an eternal future. Wealth, real
wealth, permanent wealth comes through doctrine and is made available in
eternity, not now.
The poor, those who are
lacking from the resources of this world, spiritually speaking, can look to
God, through Zion, His place of dwelling, which is truth, which is Bible
doctrine. And one looks to God through
doctrine by learning it on a daily basis and by being obedient to Gods process
for spiritual development and growth and completion.
And so everyone knows
that there is a God. Most try to pursue
Him on their own terms, not on Gods terms.
Rejecting Gods terms is to reject God.
You cannot have it both ways, for when you reject Gods way you reject
God. And no amount of pretense or invention will change that into your favor.
The generations have
been warned, and yet the generations have seen individual and country and
empire rise and fall simply because of their anti-God agenda. That will continue until God calls a halt to
history, and then it will all end.
Every person has been
notified either by the very nature of creation all around us, or by the
concepts, even bits and pieces, of truth that are spread throughout all of
societies norms and standards.
No one has any excuse
for not pursuing God and truth and their own spiritual life, except that they
simply choose not to follow Gods procedures for that purpose, they choose to
not support the correct promotion of the Word of God for others, they choose to
not comply with Gods mandates for a dedicated learning process of their own.
They instead conform to
the confusion of delusional thinking in this world that has no connection to
reality or truth.
And that is why people
will fail, and that is why people will howl in great sorrow when their time comes
to an end.
And the only person
that you can blame for your failures, is the one who is always looking back at
you when you look in the mirror.
