Isaiah 3 - Judgment on Judah

 

Isaiah 3 – Judgment on Judah

 

The leaders of Judah trusted substitutes that would not help them in the coming day of judgment; natural resources, material wealth, military might, political experience and even “religion”.  God would take away in His wrath everything that dethroned Him in the hearts of the people. He would remove bread and water, which represents all that is essential to the nation’s survival.

 

But that was not all. God would replace their proud leaders with weaklings, nobodies without ability, who would oppress the people. Why? Because the nation not only sinned but boasted about it openly! The objects of God’s judgment are as good as dead. (Psalm 11:6).

 

Isaiah was especially grieved because the women of the land had become addicted to wealth and fashion and were more interested in social status than spiritual character.   Because the haughty women delighted in immodest exposure, God would give them over to it, uncovering their secret parts. (Jer. 13:22). The day would come when their artificial glamour would be gone and they would be sitting in the dust. (1 Pet. 3:1-6). So many men would die in the coming war that the women would do anything to get a husband.

 

Even when a society is overrun by sinners, God encourages the righteous few who have remained faithful to Him.

 

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