God Has A Day!! - Isaiah 1-6

 Isaiah 2:12-19 (ESV)

For the LORD of hosts has a day

against all that is proud and lofty,

against all that is lifted up—and it shall be brought low;

against all the cedars of Lebanon,

lofty and lifted up;

and against all the oaks of Bashan;

against all the lofty mountains,

and against all the uplifted hills;

against every high tower,

and against every fortified wall;

against all the ships of Tarshish,

and against all the beautiful craft.

And the haughtiness of man shall be humbled,

and the lofty pride of men shall be brought low,

and the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.

And the idols shall utterly pass away.

And people shall enter the caves of the rocks

and the holes of the ground,

from before the terror of the LORD,

and from the splendor of his majesty,

when he rises to terrify the earth.

He has a day!!!   The world today keeps spinning but doesn’t realize it is spinning out of control.  It does not comprehend what is before it.   There is coming a day, prophesied over 3,000 years ago, when God will judge the people of the world.    Isaiah’s prophesy has two meanings throughout the 66 chapters.   One meaning is the historical context for the day Isaiah spoke it.  That context is that there was coming a day when Israel will be judged by a wicked nation (Babylon) for their rejection and disobedience of God’s holiness, as outlined in God’s word.    But, the second meaning is that Isaiah is also talking about all the kingdoms of this world that will equally be judged for the same reason: Rejecting the holiness that was given by the Servant King, the Messiah, Jesus.   God has a day!!!  In that day He will judge all those, who through their pride and arrogance, rejected God’s plan for holiness of mankind.   The proud and the lofty will be exposed and will be extinguished.   That is the story of Isaiah’s prophesy.  The above passage outlines this “day of the LORD” that is coming on all mankind.   Isaiah is “The Revelation” of the Old Testament.   The last book of the Bible, The Revelation of St. John, gives us all the details of “how” the above passage of Isaiah will be actually carried out.  But, Isaiah gives us the “why”.   Pride and arrogance prevent mankind from seeing their sin and their need for a Messiah, a savior.   Because of that pride, God will bring them low and it will God, alone, who will be magnified.    This is the story of the world today.   They keep heading for certain destruction because in the pride they can not see that God has a day!