Isaiah
24:17
17 Fear [pachad], and the pit [pachath], and the snare [pach], are
upon thee, O inhabitant [yashab] of the earth ['erets]. KJV-Interlinear
17 Terror and the pit and the snare are
upon you, O inhabitant of the earth! ESV
Those who resist
advancing in their spiritual life by refusing to engage in a daily study and be
taught Bible doctrine, have this to look forward to in their life, namely going
from one problem to the next, to the next, to the next, and so forth.
The fear, the
pit, the snare, is an expression of going from bad to worse to worse, and there
is no end to it.
If a person has
one problem and manages to get out of it, then he will only find himself in
another problem. And, if he manages to
get out of that one, then he will find himself in yet another problem, and so
life in this world goes.
God is the sum
total of life and truth and all of existence.
To reject God is
to reject all that is reality.
To reject God is
to reject all of the advantages that exist in life.
To reject God is
to reject all of the help and resources and support that exist in life.
Only a fool, a
really big fool, would reject all of the truths of life.
Only a fool, would
refuse to learn all that is possible to learn, so as to make their life and
future, better.
Without Christ,
who is God, you have nothing but problems, and no future, no good future.
Without doctrine
in your soul, which means that you reject Gods mandate to be taught Bible
doctrine, then you have no orientation and no sense of where you are in
life. You remain in a fog and have
little or nothing to figure life out.
To pretend
knowledge, when you resist learning knowledge, is the quintessence of arrogance
and stupidity.
There is only
one good life and one good future and that requires knowing Bible doctrine. Without Bible doctrine and the spiritual
growth that accompanies it, you have only problems and worse.
