Saturday, November 12, 2016

Isaiah 23

Isaiah 23:9
The LORD of hosts has planned it, to defile the pride of all beauty,
To despise all the honored of the earth.
God has just said that He will destroy a city, one of the main trading hubs of the time.  This is something on the scale of New York City or Miami or Singapore today.  Its loss will be a huge blow to the "world" economy.

Why does He do this?  Why allow all that suffering and deprivation?  Because the people have become vain, and God is showing them that all they have is fleeting and perishable.  He's knocking them down a peg, in the hopes of them realizing that He is the powerful one.

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