Isaiah 22:3
3 All thy rulers [qatsiyn] are fled [nadad] together [yachad], they are bound ['acar] by
the archers [qesheth]: all that are found [matsa'] in thee are bound ['acar]
together [yachad], which have fled [barach] from far [rachowq]. KJV-Interlinear
3 All your rulers have fled together, And
have been captured without the bow; All of you who were found were taken
captive together, Though they had fled far away. NASB
Jerusalem is in
view here. It is spiritually
dysfunctional because the people disregarded God and His Word and did not learn
anything. The city that is supposed to
be the representation of Gods vast wisdom and peace, is now in its deepest valley
of spiritual despair.
Its leadership will
run away.
Bound, here represents
the feeling of fear or being seized or bound up with fear at the prospect of an
advancing enemy.
They are so in terror,
that even the professional military types, here represented as the archers,
cannot even lift or use their bows and arrows.
They drop their weapons and run without firing off a single shot. The average citizen is left unprotected.
All will run and
all will try to run far away, but there is no place that is far enough, for
they will be captured and thereby placed in prisons, tortured, executed and
probably worse for many of them.
And so is the
nature of those who have no doctrine in their souls.
Bible doctrine
produces courage and the courageous.
Lack of doctrine
produces cowards.
Everyone in life
will face pressures of one sort or another.
If you have committed yourself to a daily study, then you will learn and
you will eventually be able to handle anything that comes along.
With such
preparation, then God never places anything greater before you, that you cannot
handle. Because, with spiritual
maturity, you will be able to handle anything.
Without
doctrine, without any spiritual growth, then nearly everything will cause you to
be seized with fear and anxiety. And even
if you are able to handle the little things, like a broken finger nail, there will
be sooner or later, something that will destroy your poise.
With doctrine in
the soul, you will be able to handle the little things as well as the huge
problems of life.
