SCRIPTURE: CHAPTER 21, VS 10-12
10 O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have heard of the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.
11 The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?
12 The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come.
APPLICATION: CHAPTER 21, VS 10-12
10– Isaiah used the word for threshing, but the word translated “corn” also means “son” (with a loving, close relationship). He is speaking to the children of God–To the ones who will be put in God’s barn at the Judgment, and He wants us to heed this with great care, what He has written in this chapter. He places great emphasis on it, as definitely we should! Satan never rests. (see Matthew 3:12).
11-12– “The morning cometh, and also the night”. The morning is our salvation–The Joy of the Lord–Our closeness to Our God. But just as surely as we feel these things, we’ll feel satan’s tugging to get us down and away from God’s Joy. But when we watch and stay in the Joy, and strength of the Lord, he CAN’T TOUCH US!!!
13 The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim.
14 The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled.
15 For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
16 For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail:
APPLICATION: CHAPTER 21, VS 13-17
13-17– In this series of verses, God’s people are the inhabitants of the land of Tema, and the ones who are fleeing are the people of the world who are being molested by satan (Kedar). God’s people are to give the water of the Love of God to those who are hurting, and tell them of the real, Living Water available to them, and the real bread–the Body of Christ. We are to show them the Peace and Love of Christ, and incorporate them into God’s army. Then, in God’s timing, the “glory of Kedar shall fail” and we will triumph through Christ Jesus.
END OF CHAPTER 21