Josiah, king of Judah, is one example (see 2 Kings 22:19-20). See also 1 Kings 14:12-13 and 1 Corinthians 10:13. WICKED BEHAVIOUR BRINGS PUNISHMENT V3 ‘But you evil people, listen! You have *broken your serious promise to respect and to serve the *Lord. No, you prefer *idols that you yourselves h... [ Continue Reading ]
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S SPECIAL SERVANT ISAIAH CHAPTER S 49 TO 57 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 57 GOD’S LOYAL PEOPLE MAY SUFFER V1 Sometimes good people die young. So do some holy people. Nobody cares about them. And nobody stops to think why they die early. The reason is that God... [ Continue Reading ]
*Canaanite religion often involved certain green trees as places to *worship the local gods (see Hosea 4:12-13). Because the trees were growing strongly, they must be full of life. So people began to think that to *worship a green tree was to share in its life. Such *worship provided an easy excuse... [ Continue Reading ]
Such stones seem special. So people began to *worship them as local gods. People could look at a stone god. They thought that such gods were attractive. They preferred these stone gods instead of the *Lord God. Nobody has ever been able to see him! (see John 1:18).... [ Continue Reading ]
This is not an actual bed on the top of a mountain. The expression is a picture word for the wicked practice of sex with anybody that you choose.... [ Continue Reading ]
Whether sex takes place in public or inside, it makes no difference. People cannot hide their evil activity from God.... [ Continue Reading ]
People’s efforts to satisfy their desire for sex for the wrong reasons will always fail.... [ Continue Reading ]
For Isaiah’s opinion about people who are foolish enough to love *idols, see Isaiah 44:9-20. GOD HELPS THOSE WHO TRUST HIM V14 The *Lord gives the command: ‘Repair the road! Remove the rocks and stones! Prepare the way for my people’s return from foreign countries.’ V15 The high and holy God, who... [ Continue Reading ]
Here ‘way’ is a picture word, to mean ‘people’s way (manner) of life’. Rocks and stones may cause a person to trip and to fall on a journey. The *Lord orders their removal. These ‘rocks and stones’ mean anything that would spoil a person’s relationship with the *Lord. In particular, this means the c... [ Continue Reading ]
There is no room in heaven for proud people. Courage and certain hope are God’s free gifts. People cannot earn them.... [ Continue Reading ]
The people’s punishment was to become *exiles in Babylon, far away from their own land.... [ Continue Reading ]
People must choose whether to put their complete trust in the *Lord, or to continue to follow their own desires. But people will never know real satisfaction if they do not put their complete trust in the *Lord. LORD ~ God’s name in the Bible; in the original language, it means ‘head over all’ and ‘... [ Continue Reading ]