Isaiah 17:7
7 At that day [yowm] shall a man ['adam] look [sha`ah] to his Maker [`asah], and his eyes [`ayin] shall
have respect [ra'ah] to the Holy [qadowsh] One of Israel [Yisra'el]. KJV-Interlinear
7 In that day man will have
regard for his Maker, And his eyes will look to the Holy One of Israel. NASB
Unfortunately it often
times takes disasters of epic biblical proportions before people will wake up to
the spiritual side of their lives, and get their thinking straightened
out. Floating along in a fog of delusion
or indifference, oblivious to their responsibilities, people usually feel no
need for God, or any deity, or anything that they have decided is already good
enough for them.
The spiritual life
becomes nothing more than a convenience, or an inconvenience, such that people
have to incorporate it into their lives.
And even then, people take the attitude that it is a courtesy for pubic
show and nothing more.
Even when times do get
tough, and the prayers come one after another, and the answers are few and far
between, if at all, then people conclude that God and prayer does not work, so
why bother. Never thinking that their
inconsistency in their spiritual life, if they even recognize one, might be their
problem, and not God.
And so long as life and
the world seem to move along with some semblance of order, then God is just not
an issue much less a priority.
And it then takes a
disaster of monumental proportions to wake them up as to their weakness’s and shortcomings
in life.
But will even disasters
be enough to make a permanent change in their life? Usually not.
People just recover and then go back to their same old indifferent
habits, until the next disaster comes along.
All the while convinced that God and prayer do not work. Their own inconsistency and the need for
change within themselves, never occurs to them.
But in the final days
of history, and especially during those final three-and-a-half years of the Tribulation,
people will have seen the disasters of the first three-and-a-half years of the
Tribulation, but still did not change.
And the first half of the Tribulation will have some pretty dramatic and
biblical proportion type of events. But
still no change.
Then, the changes will
happen more and more to them directly as people will be literally dropping out
of life on this planet, and then and only then, they will turn to the God of
Israel, who is Jesus Christ, the one true God in all of existence.
Christ is now and will still
be in the future, rejected and ignored.
Certainly now even most
Christians give lip service to Christ, while the rest of the world rejects
Him. Christians say what they believe
are the right things, but they stubbornly refuse to do the right things, and so
their spiritual lives are empty shells with no spiritual substance.
Anyone can easily turn
to Christ and begin to abide by His mandates, including consistent confession
and daily studies and so forth, but the general practice of the world is, that
nothing is done until it is too late, and a major disaster is needed in order
to generate sufficient humility to bring about change in ones life.
