As this chapter in Isaiah progresses, it becomes evident we all carry a similar "gene": it's called the "stupid gene"..and it is still being passed on even today....Gleanings from Isaiah 5:8-17...Here are two ways to obtain sorrow...God will have 4 more to choose from by the time this chapter is done...
"What sorrow is in store for you...buying up homes from those who have suffered through a terrible economy...an economy designed by you, thinking of yourself so clever at buying the homes of the poor for "dirt prices", hoping they would move out so you could foreclose and seize the property...only to rent them back to those who are hurting in these economic times at exhorbrantly high prices.
Yet, I know of the Lord and what He says about all this. He declares: "Let's see how far this takes them...for I will cause all their rent-houses to be abandoned...even the fancy mansions they live in for themselves...look through the windows...nobody there!
And their "Master plan for Success" they carry around and promote for themselves...here..use this equation in your formula: how about 10 acres of your finest vineyard, able to produce maybe 6 gallons of wine...max. That's not enough wine for even one of your "all-night" parties you brag about! Here is another equation to consider: 10 large bushels of your finest seed for grain yielding maybe one full bucket of grain. Not Good! And you brought this all on yourselves!"
Here is something else. What a sad mess they have created for themselves...these rich and selfish "fat cats", waking up "to the sound" of one thing and one thing alone: "Where's the booze?" These idiots are getting "tanked up" before breakfast is over...and then party on!!...clear into the night.
Oh, they make sure their parties are well supplied; got the DJ's, booze everywhere, you know...get the place "rockin"!
They don't even give the Lord the "time of day"...He is the farthest thing from their minds.
But...there will be a day...they will! Trust me.
In fact, all my people who have chosen to numb their brains in alcohol...are so far gone at this point they don't even realize they are being carted off into captivity...soon to become slaves..to serve alcohol..but no longer allowed to pass between their lips. All this because they refuse and reject Me, the One who loves them deeply. Now look, all their "high and mighties" starve and the common man...parched with thirst.
Look at the world of the dead, the very grave itself...now that is an estactic place at the moment! This place fully anticipates the soon arrival of all these drunken idiots...they already have opened the doors to "welcome them through". Everyone among them is about to be destroyed. The day fast approaches when even the arrogant ones will lower their eyes in humiliation.
But as for you who put their trust in the God-of-the-Angel-Armies, I am with you and you shall find favor and relief even during this horrendous time. For when My name is exalted for True Justice...then I will display My Justice...to you! For I am Holy, and I make myself Holy before all!
As for those who choose not My ways, lambs will feed among their ruins...look there is a goat...eating on their dining table...this table made of the finest wood and trimmed in gold...all for a goat to stand and eat upon."
"What sorrow is in store for you...buying up homes from those who have suffered through a terrible economy...an economy designed by you, thinking of yourself so clever at buying the homes of the poor for "dirt prices", hoping they would move out so you could foreclose and seize the property...only to rent them back to those who are hurting in these economic times at exhorbrantly high prices.
Yet, I know of the Lord and what He says about all this. He declares: "Let's see how far this takes them...for I will cause all their rent-houses to be abandoned...even the fancy mansions they live in for themselves...look through the windows...nobody there!
And their "Master plan for Success" they carry around and promote for themselves...here..use this equation in your formula: how about 10 acres of your finest vineyard, able to produce maybe 6 gallons of wine...max. That's not enough wine for even one of your "all-night" parties you brag about! Here is another equation to consider: 10 large bushels of your finest seed for grain yielding maybe one full bucket of grain. Not Good! And you brought this all on yourselves!"
Here is something else. What a sad mess they have created for themselves...these rich and selfish "fat cats", waking up "to the sound" of one thing and one thing alone: "Where's the booze?" These idiots are getting "tanked up" before breakfast is over...and then party on!!...clear into the night.
Oh, they make sure their parties are well supplied; got the DJ's, booze everywhere, you know...get the place "rockin"!
They don't even give the Lord the "time of day"...He is the farthest thing from their minds.
But...there will be a day...they will! Trust me.
In fact, all my people who have chosen to numb their brains in alcohol...are so far gone at this point they don't even realize they are being carted off into captivity...soon to become slaves..to serve alcohol..but no longer allowed to pass between their lips. All this because they refuse and reject Me, the One who loves them deeply. Now look, all their "high and mighties" starve and the common man...parched with thirst.
Look at the world of the dead, the very grave itself...now that is an estactic place at the moment! This place fully anticipates the soon arrival of all these drunken idiots...they already have opened the doors to "welcome them through". Everyone among them is about to be destroyed. The day fast approaches when even the arrogant ones will lower their eyes in humiliation.
But as for you who put their trust in the God-of-the-Angel-Armies, I am with you and you shall find favor and relief even during this horrendous time. For when My name is exalted for True Justice...then I will display My Justice...to you! For I am Holy, and I make myself Holy before all!
As for those who choose not My ways, lambs will feed among their ruins...look there is a goat...eating on their dining table...this table made of the finest wood and trimmed in gold...all for a goat to stand and eat upon."
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