Isaiah 16:12
12 And it shall come to pass, when it is seen [ra'ah] that Moab [Mow'ab] is weary
[la'ah] on the high place [bamah], that he shall come [bow']
to his sanctuary [miqdash] to pray [palal]; but he shall not prevail [yakol]. KJV-Interlinear
12 So it will come about when
Moab presents himself, When he wearies himself upon his high place, And comes
to his sanctuary to pray, That he will not prevail. NASB
And in those final
days, when all of these things come to pass, when the country is desolated, her
cities destroyed, her fields and crops destroyed, her people slain, and when it
is apparent that all is truly lost, then the people, or those who are still
alive, will run to the various temples looking for help from false gods.
High places, is a
reference to the location of the temples.
Typically constructed on hill tops or mountain tops or any high ground
such that the surrounding area can easily view the temple.
These temples are
viewed as places of sanctuary, a place that will provide protection from whatever
the problems of life come along.
But these are false
gods and false temples, and false sanctuaries.
They offer no protection, and no provision, and no answers.
And as stated here, the
people looking to their false gods, will find nothing.
Pray as you might to a
stone or a picture or a religion or whatever, these things have no life, no
ears, no eyes, and cannot hear or see you.
And, they certainly cannot help, for they do not exist as forms of
deity.
They are only rocks or
pictures in paint, or false and invented religions.
The problems are clear.
The people that are
running know full well why they are running.
They refused to observe Christ as the one true God. They refused to provide aid and shelter to
Gods people. The Jews are their object
of hatred, and they know why they hate them.
The Christians are objects of their hatred and they know why they hate
them.
And yet they turn to
false gods made of lifeless inanimate objects.
They turn to gods of philosophy or religion which are nothing more than invented
opinions formed from fancy rhetoric. They turn to gods of things, secular
things, the hustle and bustle of human effort to gain riches or wealth or
simply to gain things.
And everything in this
world is temporary. Nothing in this
world is permanent.
Only bible doctrine is
permanent, and doctrine in the soul provides the permanence of the completion
of oneself.
To look to anything
else, other than bible doctrine, leads to certain and guaranteed failure.
