# 49 2024 Dev. Isa.5.1. Called to Account! Read all of chapter five first. We invite you into God’s space, to read His Word, to think on and interact with. This is God’s Story. Do you believe that this may also be part of our story, in our time? All passages are taken from the NIV.
Isa.5:1 “I will sing for the one I love a song about his vineyard: My loved one had a vineyard on a fertile hillside.”
Isaiah 5 is a commentary on the short comings of God’s people that we today need to pay attention to. It lays out what God has and is now doing for His church. Further it lays out where the Israelites have gone wrong and where we can go wrong today. Yet, there is also hope of God extending His grace.
V.1-7 “The song of the Vineyard.” The first two verses look back at the Song of Songs “My beloved had a vineyard…” The bride is speaking of her beloved—the Christ. These verses are a parable in song, telling of God’s grace to His people, “but it yielded only bad fruit.” God asks a rhetorical question. What more could have been done for my vineyard? Today we ask: What more must God do after giving His Son, Jesus? We answer, nothing, what is being done is adequate!!! When we answer God’s call, and accept Jesus as Lord and Savior, heaven erupts in celebration! Praise the Lord!
V.8-15 The excessive seeking after wealth God rejects. Excessive running after drinks, excessive banquets, every excess is unacceptable to God. There will be consequences, exile, hunger thirst and death. Today we understand that as the Second Death.
V.16-17 There is hope! “But the Lord Almighty will be exalted by his justice, and the holy God will be proved holy by his righteous acts. Then sheep will graze as in their own pasture; lambs will feed among the ruins of the rich.” Those righteous, true followers of Jesus (sheep) and their children (lambs) will be blessed.
V.18-25 Four Woes. Woe to those who seek earnestly to sin and challenge God “who call evil good and good evil”, those “who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter, those who are wise in their own eyes…” woe to those who indulge in excessive alcohol and those who adulterate justice with bribes convicting the innocent. Vs .24-25 There will be a reckoning. These verses (18-23) we read here could be written today in our own country. When will we wake up?
Vs.26-30 “He lifts up a banner for the distant nations, he whistles for those at the ends of the earth. Here they come, swiftly and speedily!” This chapter ends with God sending nations against Israel as punishment, nations that are powerful, confident, and intent on destruction. God is in control, He decides what will happen to Israel and He decides what will happen to us, here in this country. Are we getting back on track? I hope and pray. Happy Thanksgiving!!!
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