Isaiah and recent events in the UK
the last chapter of Isaiah I read was chapter 6, which says this...
Then I said "How long, O Lord?' And he said
'Until cities lie waste without inhabitant,
and houses without people,
and the land is utterly desolate;
until the Lord sends everyone far away,
and vast is the emptiness in the midst of the land.
Even if a tenth part remains in it,
it will be burned again....'
(6: 11, 12, 13)
Prophecy is such a strange, disturbing thing. I hear of the cities of my home country being laid waste, and see pictures on the news of buildings burning, and can't believe what I see. And in my head echo these ancient words from a book that most people living in the UK would say has no relevance to the way they live their lives. But something important has gone wrong. I don't think solutions will be found in politics, education, tax reforms, urban planning....or any human initiatives. This is judgement of a totally self-imposed form. People who have disregarded God find that they have killed off the best part of being human, the very force will enables them to live the lives they so desperately long for. And they have to look out of their windows and watch their sons and daughters looting, burning, and destroying, and ask themselves difficult questions about who is to blame and how they can ever start to put things right. Maybe they should read Isaiah.....
Then I said "How long, O Lord?' And he said
'Until cities lie waste without inhabitant,
and houses without people,
and the land is utterly desolate;
until the Lord sends everyone far away,
and vast is the emptiness in the midst of the land.
Even if a tenth part remains in it,
it will be burned again....'
(6: 11, 12, 13)
Prophecy is such a strange, disturbing thing. I hear of the cities of my home country being laid waste, and see pictures on the news of buildings burning, and can't believe what I see. And in my head echo these ancient words from a book that most people living in the UK would say has no relevance to the way they live their lives. But something important has gone wrong. I don't think solutions will be found in politics, education, tax reforms, urban planning....or any human initiatives. This is judgement of a totally self-imposed form. People who have disregarded God find that they have killed off the best part of being human, the very force will enables them to live the lives they so desperately long for. And they have to look out of their windows and watch their sons and daughters looting, burning, and destroying, and ask themselves difficult questions about who is to blame and how they can ever start to put things right. Maybe they should read Isaiah.....
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