Isaiah 16:7
7 Therefore shall Moab [Mow'ab] howl [yalal] for Moab [Mow'ab], every one shall howl [yalal]: for the foundations ['ashiysh] of
Kirhareseth [Qiyr Cheres] shall ye mourn [hagah]; surely they are stricken [nake']. KJV-Interlinear
7 Therefore Moab shall wail;
everyone of Moab shall wail. You shall moan for the raisin cakes of
Kir-hareseth As those who are utterly
stricken. NASB
Well the question
previously posed, is answered. When you
play games with God, pretend spirituality, outright reject God and Gods
mandates for how you are to function within your daily spiritual life, don’t
even bother to find out what those mandates are, then there is the heavy
penalty on you for your mourning and rage and sorrow, and not your run of the
mill day to day sorrows, but terrible howling overwhelmed grieving. The kind that brings you to tears, real tears
and trembling and fear.
This is something that
most people probably have never really experienced. But, continue indifference toward God and His
mandated daily study of the scriptures, and you will.
Moab is our
example. And even though they did exist
way back in Isaiah’s day, and finally ceased to exist as a nation in the centuries
following, that same geographical region still exists and the population of
that region in the future, will be filled with people that will do exactly the
same things that was done many, many centuries ago.
And what they will not
do in the future during the Tribulation, is that they will not pay tribute to
the King of Israel, they will not give aid and sanctuary to the fleeing Jews in
that future time, and in effect, they will not abide by the advice of God,
given herein.
So, will Israel have a
King in the future? Yes. That King if Jesus Christ.
Will He be on the throne
here on earth during the Tribulation?
No.
So how can they pay
tribute to the King?
Well, we have already
studied that, and it means simply that they will not believe in Christ, they
will not study the scriptures daily even after believing in Christ, they will virtually
ignore God and Gods mandates for the spiritual life, they will refuse to give
shelter to the fleeing Jews during that latter half of the Tribulation, not to
mention that they will not support Christianity in any sense of the word.
In short they will turn
up their nose toward Christ, all the while looking toward the anti-christ.
Rejecting truth in
favor of the lies of the world always turns to violence as well as social
injustice toward others.
And in the Tribulation
these things will turn extremely ugly.
For that, they will suffer the penalty and punishment for their indiscretions.
Howl Moab for Moab, is
a phrase that simply means that the entire country is in tremendous sorrow,
lamentation, weeping, mourning, grieving.
The foundations, is a
reference to that on which a thing is setting.
And in this case, the people of Moab have placed their faith in the
wrong things.
Kirhareseth, is a city,
that no long exists. The word means wall
of potshards, or bricks, fortress of earthenware, and it comes to mean that the
people have placed their confidence and trust in the things of the world,
things that are temporary, things that can melt away under a simple rain storm.
And that is what the
details of this world really are. They are
temporary and can be taken away with very little effort.
If you are older, then
do you still have the things that you had decades ago? Probably not.
If you are young, then
wait a few decades and count the things of today that you still have. Probably none of them.
And certainly when you
leave this world, you will have nothing of this world, with you, losing it all.
Trust in the world and
you trust in nothing.
Stricken, ‘nake,’ means
severely broken, afflicted, wounded with fatal consequences. Their state is dire and their future is
non-existent. And this they brought upon
themselves for not pursuing the truth, but instead preferred their easy,
non-committal life, detached from the realities of life, thinking that they
could coast through life with no consequences for their choices.
And that is the
principle that we all need to learn. God
has given us all an opportunity to have a completed life, but we have to follow
His rules, not ours. We have to abide by
His mandates, not invent our own.
And in short, He
expects us to pursue a daily study under instruction, in order to learn and
develop our spiritual life. And that is so simple, it is astounding how so many
seem to miss it, even reject it, and therefore will lose out on phenomenal
blessings in favor of phenomenal sorrows.
