ISAIAH, CHAPTER 16, VS 4-8
SCRIPTURE: CHAPTER 16, VS 4-5
“4 Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.
5 And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness.”
APPLICATION: CHAPTER 16, VERSES 4&5
v. 4– Moab here is, as it was in Chapter 15, the Body of Christ, which is the way it was intended before the Body was split into denominations and “religionized”. He is saying that we are to dwell together spiritually as one body, and see the Power of Christ work against the spoiler–Satan–and stand on that power and the fact that he has already been defeated.
v. 5– Jesus rules in mercy, and in mercy and in truth was the throne established, and He shall sit upon it in “the tabernacle of David” or the house of David.
SCRIPTURE: CHAPTER 16, VS 6-8
“6 We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall not be so.
7 Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl: for the foundations of Kirhareseth shall ye mourn; surely they are stricken.
8 For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.”
APPLICATION: CHAPTER 16, VS 6-8
6-7– Moab, again, is God’s people–The Body of Christ, but many have gone away from the true one-ness with Jesus. In fact, we do this every day. Many preach that once we are saved, we need not repent, because we are no longer “sinners”. This is not what Our Lord says. When we seek a closer walk with Our Lord daily, we need to be in a constant state of repentance. We need to submit daily more and more to His Will for us and our families, and learn to love Him more and more, and hear His Voice more and more clearly as we live our lives in His Arms.
8– Therefore, the Vineyard that God has planted is languishing, and the lords of the heathen have managed to tempt even the remnant of His Body who can see the obvious delusions. We are all tempted by our own weaknesses to be “broken down” in our relationship to Our Lord in the Spirit, and this breaks down our vines, they aren’t standing up with their faces to Jesus, but are wandering on the ground, with our thoughts much too much to this world, and have reached over to actually thinking more like satan wants us to than the way God wants. We can’t run our branches along this earthly ground, we must rise up and look to the ways of The Lord!!!