Daily Manna 12 December
KEY VERSE:
“Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.” – (Isaiah 28:22)
TEXT: Isaiah 28:22-29
Now therefore, do not be mockers,
Lest your bonds be made strong;
For I have heard from the Lord God of hosts,
A destruction determined even upon the whole earth.
23 Give ear and hear my voice,
Listen and hear my speech.
24 Does the plowman keep plowing all day to sow?
Does he keep turning his soil and breaking the clods?
25 When he has leveled its surface,
Does he not sow the black cummin
And scatter the cummin,
Plant the wheat in rows,
The barley in the appointed place,
And the spelt in its place?
26 For He instructs him in right judgment,
His God teaches him.
27 For the black cummin is not threshed with a threshing sledge,
Nor is a cartwheel rolled over the cummin;
But the black cummin is beaten out with a stick,
And the cummin with a rod.
28 Bread flour must be ground;
Therefore he does not thresh it forever,
Break it with his cartwheel,
Or crush it with his horsemen.
29 This also comes from the Lord of hosts,
Who is wonderful in counsel and excellent in guidance.
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When a shepherd boy strayed into the ruins of the Qumran rocks near the Dead Sea in 1947, little did he know he would give the world a most important find: an ancient scroll containing the book of Isaiah the prophet. Now known as the Qumran Scrolls, they reveal that Isaiah’s work dates back to nearly 800 years before Christ. These old documents also settle the literal truth and reliability of the prophetic writings in the Old Testament. They bear the imprimatur of heaven.
Therefore, when we read about Isaiah foreseeing judgment to come upon the whole earth, we must not dismiss it as a fable concocted by man. If under divine inspiration, he prophesied the advent of the Messiah, His persecution and final crucifixion on the cross and these all came to pass, we cannot but also expect that other pronouncements of his would not fail.
The Lord’s decision to chastise Israel for her wanton worldliness was a warning to the entire humanity. Israel’s sin had reached an overflowing level. But so had the neighbouring nations’ iniquities. Since the Lord exercised sovereignty over the entire planet, He would not confine His justice to erring Israel. As He judged Israel in the interim, the whole race of man should expect a final one. No sinner will escape God’s judgment. “Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished…” (Proverbs 11:21).
The sun is about to set for the pall of darkness to spread over the earth. It will be too late for negligent believers, backsliders and sinners. But it will be the long-awaited day of joy for enduring and unyielding believers.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: You cannot stop the judgment day; but you can escape its wrath!
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Thank you for studying today’s Daily Manna – Don’t Despise God’s Warning – by Pastor Enoch A.
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Daily Manna 12 December 2021
