In 1991 my heart ached for the world; I repeatedly received in response:
A destruction is determined,
overflowing with righteousness.
-- Isaiah 10: 22
For some reason I just couldn't accept that end and stood in the gap with hope and love. But, since the events of the last year have taken place the way they did, I stepped back and warned of the impending doom.
I have since been
inspired to give this testamony:
Is the axe to boast itself over the one who chops with it? Is the saw to
exalt itself over the one who wields it? That would be like a club
wielding those who lift it, Or like a rod lifting him who is not wood.
Therefore the Lord, the God of hosts, will send a wasting disease among
his stout warriors; And under his glory a fire will be kindled like a
burning flame.
And the light of Israel will become a fire and his Holy
One a flame, And it will burn and devour his thorns and his briars in a
single day. And He will destroy the glory of his forest and of his
fruitful garden, both soul and body; And it will be as when a sick man
wastes away. And the rest of the trees of his forest will be so small in
number that a child could write them down. Now it will come about in
that day that the remnant of Israel, and those of the house of Jacob who
have escaped, will never again rely on the one who struck them, but will
truly rely on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel. A remnant will return,
the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God. For though your people, O
Israel, may be like the sand of the sea, Only a remnant within them will
return; A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness. For
a complete destruction, one that is decreed, the Lord God of hosts will
execute in the midst of the whole land. Therefore thus says the Lord God
of hosts, "O My people who dwell in Zion, do not fear the Assyrian who
strikes you with the rod and lifts up his staff against you, the way
Egypt did. For in a very little while My indignation against you will be
spent, and My anger will be directed to their destruction. And the LORD
of hosts will arouse a scourge against him like the slaughter of Midian
at the rock of Oreb; and His staff will be over the sea, and He will
lift it up the way He did in Egypt.
So it will be in that day, that his
burden will be removed from your shoulders and his yoke from your neck,
and the yoke will be broken because of fatness.
-- Isaiah 10: 15 - 27
Behold, the Lord, the God of hosts, will lop off the boughs with a
terrible crash; Those also who are tall in stature will be cut down,
And those who are lofty will be abased. And He will cut down the
thickets of the forest with an iron axe.
-- Isaiah 10: 33, 34
