So there is "so" much in the first chapter of Isaiah. And it's a pretty long book, but if we take it chapter by chapter, what does the first chapter say to you?
Isaiah Chapter 1: What do you think it says?
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Take your evil deeds out of my sight;
stop doing wrong.
Learn to do right; seek justice...
I will vent my wrath on my foes
and avenge myself on my enemies...
Rebels and sinners will both be broken,
and those who forsake the Lord will perish.
Condensed version of Isaiah chapter one
stop doing wrong.
Learn to do right; seek justice...
I will vent my wrath on my foes
and avenge myself on my enemies...
Rebels and sinners will both be broken,
and those who forsake the Lord will perish.
Condensed version of Isaiah chapter one
Take your evil deeds out of my sight;
stop doing wrong.
Learn to do right; seek justice...
I will vent my wrath on my foes
and avenge myself on my enemies...
Rebels and sinners will both be broken,
and those who forsake the Lord will perish.
Condensed version of Isaiah chapter one
Take your evil deeds out of my sight;
stop doing wrong.
Learn to do right; seek justice...
I will vent my wrath on my foes
and avenge myself on my enemies...
Rebels and sinners will both be broken,
and those who forsake the Lord will perish.
Condensed version of Isaiah chapter one
Wow! I am not afraid to say that you made me bo-bo pucker, lol! And yet, I think it's completely what's called for. Isaiah is scary! If anyone says it's not a scary book, I'd love to hear that story! lol. Still, I guess, I'd like the breakdown... only because people don't seem to get it... so in seeking the great words of Isaiah that even Jesus referenced, perhaps I can take the first 5 verses... and someone else can take the next five... and perhaps we can totally analyze Isaiah.... as is what's really needed.
So If I go, Chapter 1, we see immediately, that man has transgressed against God... and I hinge on this bcuz it happened in Exodus... almost immediately, being deprived of Moses for a short time, the Hebrews built false Gods.... and when I read it, I was like ... eeeek! why did you do that??? But I guess in trying not to think myself high above my brethren (as statutes call for), I had to say, okay, they felt abandoned... I get it... but it still stung .... cuz I love God. But we know more now... than we did before... .or at least some of us I guess. But even in understanding why.... we still have to do judgment as even Moses did, when he came down from the mount. It's important that we don't let sin go. Or it just builds more sin, right?
So then we go on to the 2nd verse, and we see that men are still being men... i see it as them continuing to be worldly as we are today, and seeking wealth and riches, but what is wealth and riches? Is it really rich... or just a fancy piece of trash? For the fanciest thing in your house what does it mean? Let's says it's an old dinette/china cabinet from centuries ago, handed down and worth thousands.... what does that really mean? That you relished a piece of wood, attributed it as an heirloom, and gave it to your heart as a treasure...?.... My mom used to try and make me see family hand-me-downs as heirlooms and treasures... but with Jesus in heart, all I could often see... was "men" clinging to "wood." So cause it looks fancy, I should give my soul to it? No!
But people do it, every day.
Going on to 3rd verse, God tells us that Israelites are just not seeing... they dont' get it... they are so blind, that they keep seeking false treasure.
In verse 4, we see they are not just seeking wooden /false treasures but they have become corrupters to get these riches... they have forsaken God and gone away backward.
... now this backward statement is huge.... for men will think they go forwardd.... seeking industrialism, etc.... but they are going backward from naturalism and trusting in God. Oh a foul thing to seek smog over nature. Yuck!
And in verse 5, we see that every single head is polluted. The are teaching things (esp science ) to leave God behind... and only to seek man, man's ways, and industrialism. But tell me, what "man's way" made the red sea part? Or created the plagues of Egypt? Or created the world in days when science will say it took millions of years. The bible says it took 7 days. Just 7 days. You think God can't make 7 days look like millions of years. For the bible tells us, He is in secret! You believe or you don't. You know He can make it look like a million years..... but do it all in a week! Cause HE said!
Oh and I left out 5.... every head is diseased (perhaps by the scientific lies of the devil), and every heart sick (in not knowing God even a little)... so sad
Yes, I agree... but God is also giving all a chance to repent through the 7 churches of revelation. Ultimately, I think we should use our talents to help... and not to hurt.... lest us be ravening wolves. Let us be the light.... not a darkness
This whole post, has been a post in hopes that some will see. Some say oh God's years are as a thousand... as we see in the NT, however that is "not" what I have learned since God sent the Holy Spirit to me. For God said in Genesis, quite clearly, "and there is an evening, and there is morning... day one"... is that hard to comprehend? One day. God did it. As he parted the red sea... in a moment. So, obviously, God knows what a day is. He created it. However, when it comes to the Holy Spirit upon us... the Holy Spirit can take us back a millenia.... a moment becomes a thousand years.... it doesnt change God's discerning a day.... but it changes what we see in a day w/ the Holy Spirit. And if you get the Holy Spirit, it will likely make you cry. As a matter of fact, If you don't cry, well I'd be worried. Because in the one day, that God gives u the Holy Spirit, You are likely to see all the many ways, man has hurt God. How man has abandoned God, how he left God, how man sought treasures, and missed that our greatest treasure was always God. For He is OUR life.... and HE can make us eternal... but men often just seek those worldly treasures... that will fade or rust over time. So sad.
God is indeed longsuffering but He will not hold back His wrath forever. He knows Judah is not going to repent just like He knows most of what calls itself church will not repent. He does expect more of Christians than He does of lost sinners, heathen.Yes, I agree... but God is also giving all a chance to repent through the 7 churches of revelation. Ultimately, I think we should use our talents to help... and not to hurt.... lest us be ravening wolves. Let us be the light.... not a darkness
For the cause of Christ
Roger
And yet it is still our job to bring ppl to God... even if we see that Revelation is truth. The job is the job is the job. And if we get slain doing the job... then we have a special place with God. And God be with you~!
I think that verses 12 to 15 gives an overview of how Judah is acting that God is scolding them for. They are copying the idol worshipers and not obeying the Lord. It sets the theme of the entire book of Isaiah. They are making sacrifices and celebrating holy days as they had been instructed to do, but it was not done with their hearts. Sacrifices were to be a shadow of Christ, they were for the forgiveness of sin. Judah was celebrating as the idol worshipers do--to satisfy the God's.
It reminds me of today's people who say that if the Lord will not reward me with salvation for obedience, then I won't obey.
The lesson for us as we study Isaiah is to worship the Lord in truth and in love, not superficially.
It reminds me of today's people who say that if the Lord will not reward me with salvation for obedience, then I won't obey.
The lesson for us as we study Isaiah is to worship the Lord in truth and in love, not superficially.
It speaks of the last days condition of Judah/Jerusalem, that leads up to the second coming, and fiery final judgement of God, as Zion is revealed in the New Heaven, Earth, Jerusalem
Isaiah is scary only to the evildoers. However you could also call it the Gospel According to Isaiah. It is full of good news.
Getting back to Isaiah chapter 1:
THE WICKEDNESS OF JUDAH AND JERUSALEM REVEALED
THE SINFUL NATION OF JUDAH
1 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. 2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. 3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. 4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward. 5 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. 6 From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
THE DESOLATION OF JUDAH BECAUSE OF ITS WICKEDNESS
7 Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers. 8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
THE BELIEVING REMNANT OF JUDAH WAS VERY SMALL
9 Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.
THE FUTILITY OF SACRIFICES WTHOUT GENUINE REPENTANCE ESTASBLISHED
10 Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. 11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. 12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts? 13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. 14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
GOD DOES NOT HEAR THE PRAYERS OF SINNERS
15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. 16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; 17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
GOD OFFERS SALVATION TO THOSE WHO REPENT
18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. 19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
20 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
JERUSALEM IS CONDEMNED FOR ITS WICKEDNESS
21 How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers. 22 Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water: 23 Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
JERUSALEM WAS TO COME UNDER DIVINE JUDGMENT
24 Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies: 25 And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:
26 And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.
THE FUTURE REDEMPTION OF JERUSALEM AFTER JUDGMENT PROPHESIED
27 Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness. 28 And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed. 29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen. 30 For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water. 31 And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.
After the Second Coming of Christ Zion (Jerusalem) shall be redeemed and restored, and will become the center of worship for the whole earth. But divine judgment will come first.
THE WICKEDNESS OF JUDAH AND JERUSALEM REVEALED
THE SINFUL NATION OF JUDAH
1 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. 2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. 3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. 4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward. 5 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. 6 From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
THE DESOLATION OF JUDAH BECAUSE OF ITS WICKEDNESS
7 Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers. 8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
THE BELIEVING REMNANT OF JUDAH WAS VERY SMALL
9 Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.
THE FUTILITY OF SACRIFICES WTHOUT GENUINE REPENTANCE ESTASBLISHED
10 Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. 11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. 12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts? 13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. 14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
GOD DOES NOT HEAR THE PRAYERS OF SINNERS
15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. 16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; 17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
GOD OFFERS SALVATION TO THOSE WHO REPENT
18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. 19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
20 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
JERUSALEM IS CONDEMNED FOR ITS WICKEDNESS
21 How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers. 22 Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water: 23 Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
JERUSALEM WAS TO COME UNDER DIVINE JUDGMENT
24 Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies: 25 And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:
26 And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.
THE FUTURE REDEMPTION OF JERUSALEM AFTER JUDGMENT PROPHESIED
27 Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness. 28 And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed. 29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen. 30 For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water. 31 And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.
After the Second Coming of Christ Zion (Jerusalem) shall be redeemed and restored, and will become the center of worship for the whole earth. But divine judgment will come first.
Thats a slippery way to begin a study on God's word . " what does it say to you " ?
I wanted to comment on this.
God is an omnipresent Spirit so He does not have to move for He is already there.
He does not have to move from place to place to create for the time it takes Him to make one star He can make all the stars, and the time it takes Him to make a planet He can make them all.
By the time it takes Him to make one fish of the different kinds, or trees, or food, or the different animals, or the different birds He can make them all.
So God can create fast because He is not moving around making things because He is already there so He can make a planet and make all the planets at the same time for He is there at all locations of the planets at the same time.
God could of made everything in less than 7 days but He wanted to have a week and a sabbath day so He made it fit that and the morning and evening was the first day to the seventh day for they are literal days.
God made everything after their kind so nothing evolved from another thing, and created everything in their mature form and they reproduced from there.
God made the animals, fish, birds, insects, and Adam and Eve from the dust of the earth so nothing evolved from another thing.
God has the understanding of atoms and physical matter and can form what He wants from it and does not have to use evolution to produce things.
If God made a living thing to evolve He can make the end result a living thing and skip evolution for whether a single cell ameba or an elephant it is all easy for God to make without evolution because He can form what He wants from physical matter no matter how big or small in their mature form.
Adam was made that way (from the dust of the earth) , but Eve was made from Adam...
I was not thinking about that because I was focused on what I was posting but I knew Eve was made from Adam.
Amen! I am glad we finally got that one figured out. Now we can put the corpse of Scofield back in the grave where it belongs.
We must remember that modern "science-so-called" has an anti-God, anti-spirit realm agenda....
Romans
3:3 For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
3:4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
Isaiah
1:1 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, [and] Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
1:2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
1:3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: [but] Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
1:4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
1:5 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
1:6 From the sole of the foot even unto the head [there is] no soundness in it; [but] wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
1:7 Your country [is] desolate, your cities [are] burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and [it is] desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
1:8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
1:9 Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, [and] we should have been like unto Gomorrah.
1:10 Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
1:11 To what purpose [is] the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
1:12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
1:13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; [it is] iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
1:14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear [them].
1:15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
1:16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
1:17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
1:19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
1:20 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken [it].
1:21 How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
1:22 Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:
1:23 Thy princes [are] rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
1:24 Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:
1:25 And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:
1:26 And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.
1:27 Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.
1:28 And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners [shall be] together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed.
1:29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.
1:30 For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.
1:31 And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench [them].
1:1 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, [and] Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
1:2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
1:3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: [but] Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
1:4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
1:5 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
1:6 From the sole of the foot even unto the head [there is] no soundness in it; [but] wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
1:7 Your country [is] desolate, your cities [are] burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and [it is] desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
1:8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
1:9 Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, [and] we should have been like unto Gomorrah.
1:10 Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
1:11 To what purpose [is] the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
1:12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
1:13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; [it is] iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
1:14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear [them].
1:15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
1:16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
1:17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
1:19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
1:20 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken [it].
1:21 How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
1:22 Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:
1:23 Thy princes [are] rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
1:24 Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:
1:25 And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:
1:26 And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.
1:27 Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.
1:28 And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners [shall be] together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed.
1:29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.
1:30 For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.
1:31 And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench [them].
God is displeased with rebellious Israel. He is going to punish them. No one can or will stand in His way!
God is a God of justice. He is not a baby in a manger any more. The time to accept His mercy and grace is now. Plead the Blood now.