ISAIAH, CHAPTER 25, VS 1-5
SCRIPTURE: CHAPTER 25, VS 1-4
1 O Lord, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.
2 For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
3 Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee.
4 For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
APPLICATION: CHAPTER 25, VS 1-4
1-2– “A palace of strangers”–These are people who are not fully devoted to the Lord in spirit….ranging from those working against Him, those in power in the world order, those who are indifferent to Him, and those who claim to be worshiping Him, but are only doing so in their minds, and not in Spirit. John 4:23-24 says we must worship Him in Spirit and Truth. All these are strangers to Him in their spirits. Another meaning of the original word translated strangers is adulterers.
Their defense is of themselves, and it will not hold when God’s judgment falls.
v. 3-4– But those who are His people in every way, denouncing the things of this world, are strong in Jesus Christ. He is their strength in everything. Again He brings up about the wall. We must always keep our wall up by staying in the Word, and keeping our minds on Him.
SCRIPTURE: CHAPTER 25, VS 5
Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.
APPLICATION: CHAPTER 25, VS 5
v. 5– Those who worship with rituals and empty words make a useless noise in God’s ears, and it adds to destruction as heat adds to the dryness of a dry place, because they think they’re doing o.k. and seek no further relationship with Him, and the shadow of the cloud of Spiritual death hangs over them. This is a very powerful verse, and encompasses many people who call themselves “Christian” and many “christian” denominations who rely on rituals and self-vindication to try to impress God. It is interesting that God’s Word puts them in the same group as the evil ones who are working against the Lord. Mt 7:14 “Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.”