Read: Isaiah 3:1-5:30; 2 Corinthians 11:1-15; Psalm 53:1-6; Proverbs 22:28-29
Isaiah saw what was going to happen to Judah because they had forsaken the Lord and become arrogant and proud. They had trusted in their wealth and thought they were invincible. Their lack of understanding about God and his word had led them into all kinds of perversion and sin. They were proud about their sin just like Sodom had been. Only, they were God’s people.
So God was going to take away their supply and their support. Their supply meant all their food and water. Their vineyards would dry up for lack of rain which would be a picture of them as God’s vineyard. They had spurned the rain of God’s presence so he was going to take away their natural rain also.
Their support had to do with people. Verse two of chapter three gives us a list of these people. The wise would be taken from the land and the young men would be left to make sense out of it. They would run from leading since they would have no answers and had never been taught responsibility.
God would purge Judah, but a remnant would survive and this would be his chosen overcomes. They would be cleansed by the judgement and fire of the Lord and God would pressure them and protect them.
In Corinth, the people have been split by another party that opposed Paul and was gaining strength. Paul was writing his second letter on his way there to help clean up the damage. By the time he wrote the eleventh chapter, he had received news that this party was losing its strength.
Paul gives his highest aim and that is to be able to present them to Christ as a virgin bride. He exposes the ones who were trying to divide the church as false apostles, deceitful workmen, masquerading as apostles of Christ. They were imitating the acts of Satan who does the same thing but in the end they would all be judged rightly.
Lord, help us to honor you in everything we do and let us follow you with a humble heart and generous spirit.
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