Isaiah 15:3
3 In their streets [chuwts] they shall gird [chagar]
themselves with sackcloth [saq]: on the tops [gag] of their houses, and in their streets [rachob], every one shall howl [yalal], weeping [Bakiy] abundantly [yarad]. KJV-Interlinear
3 In their streets they have
girded themselves with sackcloth; On their housetops and in their squares Everyone
is wailing, dissolved in tears. NASB
From the comforts of
what nearly everyone sees or wants to believe, as the place of unchanging safety,
the home, the streets, the places of work and commerce, then the Moabites, and
all, will see their entire world unraveling.
Were it not for these
words of prophecy, then people might see these events and any event as a matter
of chance or events in the normal due course of human nature.
But when a people
perceives themselves as the masters of their own destiny, and still their
entire world unravels with shocking and unimaginable destruction and with near
impossible speed, then it is difficult to not believe that there is a far
greater power and will at work.
And yet even in our
current time, huge earthquakes and tsunamis and other major catastrophes of
nature and even from war actions, can happen upon a society or a region and
within seemingly minutes, unbelievable destruction and death can occur, leaving
those who survive with little or nothing except days and weeks and months and
even years of recovery, in order to gain back some semblance of their former
lives.
But here, God promises
that evil will pay, and when it is time, God will cause these events to occur
with formidable and certain and complete and overwhelming thoroughness.
And for an entire
people to be brought low to the point of extreme grief in tears, in howling, in
abundance, in the many outward manifestations of great sorrow and loss,
especially those who never seemed to respect anyone but themselves, nor held an
ounce of empathy for others, which you will find in elite classes of society,
then these expressions are brought to bear in the most deeply and private
personal way, and yet become grossly public, that in any other time would be embarrassing.
So, the hard realities
of an anti-God life are all culminated in huge sorrow, pain, and suffering,
that, in those final days of history will be permanently fatal. There will be no recovery, no restoration to
the way things were, no relief, no rescue. There will be nothing but the terror
of ones final end.
And the really sad thing
is, that every generation since Isaiah, did not take his words seriously. Very few take these words seriously even
today. Governments of the world are
racing to deceive themselves and society in their many delusional idealisms. Society is racing to embrace those same
deceptions.
And as the world and
history, since the 1800’s or thereabouts has been rapidly racing toward
increased activities and attributes of many kinds, and so too, the world has
been racing in the opposite direction away from God, so is it any wonder that
these prophecies will certainly occur, and with great surprise odd as that may
seem, for the vast majority.
