Isaiah’s Log, 17th Day Chislev, 748 B.C.

Coming from a family of nobility I guess it kind of hard to notice how things really are here in Jerusalem.  Many of us profess to know the Lord, but we just walk on by the suffering and the hurting enjoying our little trinkets of jewelry, silver, gold and precious gems.

Walking through the Sheep gate today, though it is a place where the lambs for slaughter are brought into the city, I noticed a lot of pride.  The women walking with their heads held high as though they had no problem in the world and the men no better.  The women, at least more than a good majority of them, are full of haughtiness, thinking that beauty is the main thing of life.  They call attention to themselves with jangling jewelry.  They cry out for men’s attention; even men who are not their husbands.

One day this arrogance and pride will be judged by the Lord.  He will take away the finery; The jingling anklets, the scarves and the cresents…will he do away with.  What will these “pretty” women do then.  LORD help us.

The sweet fragrance of their perfumes will turn to a stench of death.  Rather than having well kept hair, they will be bald.  O that the people of God would hear; O that we would obey His voice, and turn from our sins.  God, the LORD of hosts, will brand them rather than give them beauty.  What will become of the men they lure and chase after then?  They will perish.

The women of Jerusalem, Judah, and all Israel will find  themselves without enough men for husbands to go around.  They will be slaughtered.  There will be a great lamentation throughout all the land.  There will be desolation.

When will people learn that the way of the LORD is through faith in Him?  Faith is turning from the life of sin and death to live in Him.

O, the time is good, but Oh such darkness.  There is a darkness that many do not see.  There is light.  O, come to the Light.  Come that you might see.

READ: Isaiah3:16-4:1