October 6, 2008

• The Book of Isaiah Chapter 1 V.4-6 Part 1

  The Book of Isaiah

  Chapter 1 V.4-6 Part 1

   

   

  Isa 1:4  Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.

   

  Iniquity:

  1) perversity, depravity, iniquity, guilt or punishment of iniquity

  a) iniquity

  b) guilt of iniquity, guilt (as great), guilt (of condition)

  c) consequence of or punishment for iniquity

   

  I note that Israel is identified in four ways here; as a nation, a people, a seed or (in the NIV) a brood, and children. Their spiritual state is described four times as well; sinful, laden (or loaded) with iniquity (or guilt), evildoers, and corrupters.

   

  Mat 3:7  But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

   

  Forsaken also describes their spiritual state. It means to leave, loose, forsake, to depart from, leave behind, leave, let alone, abandon, forsake, neglect, apostatize, to let loose, set free, let go, free, to be deserted; to restore, repair. In this case, it refers to abandonment.

   

  This abandonment has resulted in the apparent extreme anger of the Lord, because the words provoked and anger come from the same Greek word, na’ats. It means to spurn, contemn, despise, abhor, and they are noted twice. The result of this abandonment, aside from provoking the Lord to anger, is to cause the people to go backwards or revert to a former state of disorder.

   

   Isa 1:5  Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

   

  I cross referenced this, because I wondered why and how this “strickening” occurred…why the conclusion was that that whole head was sick and the whole heart was faint. It’s a weird thing, but I guess I’m wondering what kind of sin they were in, and the depth of it, because let’s face it, we all sin and fall short; so what was it that caused it to get to this point wherein God is saying that the people were going backwards and/or reverting to a former state of disorder?

   

  Isa 9:13 For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the LORD of hosts.

   

  Jer 2:30  In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

   

  Jer 5:3  O LORD, [are] not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, [but] they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

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