April 16 – Foolish Reliance - Isaiah 5:11
The prophet sees a day where the city of Jerusalem will face, tumult, trampling and terror. The
people who relied both on the heritage and the walls are about to see it all fail. Jerusalem is a city
in those days built on three hills and three valleys. Isaiah sees the walls being breached by battering
rams. He sees the arrows, chariots, horsemen at the gates and armies breaching the walls. He sees
the defenses being broken down and all the weapons of Judah depleted.
He sees the special water sources built during the times of Hezekiah being depleted all because the
King and the people did not look to the Lord. They relied on other empires, their own cleverness, and
resources which failed them completely. They had no regard for the sovereignty of the Lord who had
warned them numerous times over the centuries what would happen. As Jonathon Edwards wrote, “it
is terrible to fall into the hands of an angry God.”
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