Isaiah 17:7-8
In that day man will look to his Maker, and his eyes will look on the Holy One of Israel. He will not look to the altars, the work of his hands, and he will not look on what his own fingers have made, either the Asherim or the altars of incense.
Tag: When Your Religion Fails You Turn to God
In Isaiah 17 we are reading an “oracle” (preached message of warning) toward the capital city of Syria, Damascus. The people of Syria had forsaken God’s other warnings and turned to their own religious practices ... the ones they made up. Isaiah writes, “He will not look to the alter ... work of his hands ... his own fingers have made ... the Aherim and alters of incense.” Man likes to make religious practices. Man likes to make ways to show his own greatness as he worships a pretend god he can control and he can manipulate to his own favor. But, there will be a time, as above, when all that made-up religion fail and man has to rely on “his Maker.” There will be a time when man has to turn his eyes to the “Holy One of Israel.” When the Jesus was lifted up on the cross everyone was looking at Him. Note what another prophet says about this “looking:”
Zechariah 12:10
“And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn.
At some point mankind has to look on Him whom was pierced for our sins and bruised for our iniquities. They will either rejoice (for His payment of their sins), or morn that they did this and rejected Him. But, all eyes WILL BE on Him.
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