ISAIAH CHAPTER 15–ENTIRE CHAPTER
SCRIPTURE: CHAPTER 15, vs 1-9
1The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence;
2 He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.
3 In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly.
4 And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous unto him.
5 My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee unto Zoar, an heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction.
6 For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.
7 Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows.
8 For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beerelim.
9 For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood: for I will bring more upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land.
APPLICATION: CHAPTER 15, VS 1-9
v. 1-9– Moab, Nebo, and Medeba represent the organized Christian denominations which have developed out of the original Christians (Moab) and have been corrupted by Satan to prevent peoples’ growth in the Lord. People are brought down to a weak state by rules and regulations substituting the guidance and total submission to Our Lord Jesus Christ which is the only pathway to the Joy of the Lord.(See Joel 1:16). Moab represents the original true Christians Isaiah speaks of in Chapter 5–God’s vineyard and all He did for us, His church, but Satan came in and corrupted it by taking the Word of God away from the people during the Dark Ages, but then, through Martin Luther and others, He brought His vineyard back into His Word of Redemption for awhile, but after awhile, the people again began to slip back into putting the organized church before a relationship to Christ in their lives, and now He needs to open His people up to Him again. The prophet Joel speaks of the locust, palmerworm and cankerworm and caterpillar eating in God’s vineyard.(Joel 1:4 and 2:25) These are Satan’s representatives trying their hardest to keep our minds off Jesus, and onto ourselves, wanting an easy life, pride– even in our work for The Lord and the church….anything that comes in the way of that One Thing that must be first—Our Pure Love for Jesus. (See Jeremiah 50:5-7; 17:5-8; 10:14 &15)
END OF CHAPTER 15