What The Bible Says
Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice
The prophet Isaiah reveals the heartbreak of God who's hand is to stretch out in punishment of his chosen nation. His heartbeat is in his song which begs the question, “What could have been done more?” (Isa5:1-2, 4) “Come now, let us reason together” (Isa 1:18) is followed by seven woes. A woe is a plea, “don't go there”... “this will end badly”... “consider this carefully”... “step away quickly,” and God's first woe from Isaiah is to “city dwellers” (Isa5:8-10). In Genesis 11 citiots wanted to be like the most high God, and in 2016 citiots wanted Hilary Rodham Clinton to lead our nation down a progressive liberal path. They promote abortion, sodomy, racial division and rehearse the line, “Let us break their bands asunder and cast their cords from us,” as they shake their fist at God and against his anointed (Messiah) (Psalm 2). God's second woe is to the drunkard and drug addict, at epidemic levels in our society. (5:11-12). The third woe is to those who dabble in sin and iniquity, and the forth to those who call evil good and good evil. (5:18-19,20). “Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight” (5:21). The sixth woe is to the elite and powerful, the mighty and the politician who refuse that, “Wine is a mocker and strong drink raking” (Prov 20:1). They would legalize drugs in America. But before one looks down their long nose to condemn, Isaiah ascribes a seventh woe, “Woe is me for I am undone: because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts” (Isa 6:5). Man “woes” with anger, God with compassion.
An Essay for week #2 Jan 13, 2019
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