Isaiah
28:28
28 Bread [lechem] corn is bruised [daqaq]; because he will not ever [netsach] be threshing ['adash] [duwsh] it, nor break [hamam] it
with the wheel [gilgal] of his cart [`agalah], nor bruise [daqaq] it with
his horsemen [parash]. KJV-Interlinear
28 Does one crush grain for
bread? No, he does not thresh it forever; when he drives his cart wheel over it
with his horses, he does not crush it. ESV
In contrast to herbs, grain crops like corn or wheat,
are crushed and crushed into a fine powder in order to make flour for breads
and other food ingredients.
But the point made here, is that the farmer does not keep
on doing this.
Once the job is done, then he moves on to something
else. To spend his entire life crushing
the same grain, over and over again, would make no sense and nothing would ever
come of it.
The farmer goes only so far and then the task is
over. The flour is collected and put in
storage for later use.
He leaves the task of driving his oxen that are
pulling the huge stone roller, and moves on to another job.
So, also, God does not continually punish or discipline
over and over, again and again.
Sooner or later the task is either completed, has achieved
its objective, or it simply will not work.
So God moves on to another task or approach with regard to the
individual or nation, as it were.
Just as the farmer engages in various tasks to
accomplish his work, so too, God engages in different tasks to accomplish His
work.
Both have a wide variety of methods or tools, to do their
work and accomplish their objectives.
