# 18 2025 Dev. Isa.16:5. “The Throne!” Read all of chapter sixteen 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.16:5b “a man…one who in judging seeks justice and speeds the cause of righteousness.”
Isaiah 15 is a prophecy against Moab that continues in Ch. 16. There is no escaping God’s justice. That continues to this day, God, not man executes justice in this world. Yes, but there is a reprieve, “In love a throne will be established; in faithfulness a man will sit on it…” A man? Who is that man?
Vs.1-4a This chapter continues the prophecy against Moab. Send tribute “to the mount of Daughter Zion.” They are weak, and confused. Moab is seeking refuge; “Let the Moabite fugitives stay with you; be their shelter from the destroyer.”
Vs. 4b-5 “The oppressor will come to an end… In love a throne will be established; in faithfulness a man will sit on it—one from the house of David—one who in judging seeks justice and speeds the cause of righteousness.” David was intimately connected to Moab since Ruth was his grandmother. “in faithfulness a man will sit on it—one from the house of David” foreshadowing Jesus Christ.
Vs. 6-14 “We have heard of Moab’s pride—how great is her arrogance!—of her conceit, her pride and her insolence…” The next verses are a lament of what is about to happen to the Moabite nation. The Moabites have no standing: Dt.23:3-4 “No Ammonite or Moabite or any of their descendants may enter the assembly of the Lord, not even in the tenth generation.4 For they did not come to meet you with bread and water on your way when you came out of Egypt, and they hired Balaam son of Beor from Pethor in Aram Naharaim to pronounce a curse on you.” In the end Balaam received the same fate. The Lament reaches a tragic end, “ her survivors will be very few and feeble.” This is the result of not only sin but standing in opposition to God’s people, Christians today!!! We know that the God Man is on the Throne, thanks be to God.
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