God foreknew the attitudes and foolishness of the people to whom He was dispatching me.
Ezekiel 3:8 But look, I have made you as obstinate and hard-hearted as they are.
The attitude that I'm continually accused of having, in an attempt to victim blame, is merely a reflection of the attitude of my accusers (bullies, provocateurs, victimizers).
Isaiah 58:9 [MSG]: "If you get rid of unfair practices, quit blaming victims . . .
I believe it's safe to say that God is accurate in His assessment of the people whereto He sent me.
HORSEPOWER
Isaiah 30:8-16
Go now, write it on a tablet for them, inscribe it on a scroll, that for the days to come it may be an everlasting witness. For these are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to listen to the LORD’s instruction. They say to the seers, "See no more visions!" and to the prophets, "Give us no more visions of what is right! Tell us pleasant things, prophesy illusions. Leave this way, get off this path, and stop confronting us with the Holy One of Israel!" Therefore this is what the Holy One of Israel says: "Because you have rejected this message, relied on oppression and depended on deceit, this sin will become for you like a high wall, cracked and bulging, that collapses suddenly, in an instant. It will break in pieces like pottery, shattered so mercilessly that among its pieces not a fragment will be found for taking coals from a hearth or scooping water out of a cistern." This is what the Sovereign LORD, the Holy One of Israel, says: "In REPENTANCE and rest is your salvation, in QUIETNESS and trust is your strength, but you would have none of it. You said, ’No, we will flee on horses.’ Therefore you will flee!
(There's that horsepower again. Instead of QUIETNESS, using their vehicles, they gathered together; but not by God; like chasing a political party out of town - on steroids. But, hmmmm, it's interesting how God flips the script using the very things that people demonically weaponize against others, without cause.)
AMEN
Recommended Reading: Isaiah 58
Ezekiel 3:8 But look, I have made you as obstinate and hard-hearted as they are.
The attitude that I'm continually accused of having, in an attempt to victim blame, is merely a reflection of the attitude of my accusers (bullies, provocateurs, victimizers).
Isaiah 58:9 [MSG]: "If you get rid of unfair practices, quit blaming victims . . .
I believe it's safe to say that God is accurate in His assessment of the people whereto He sent me.
HORSEPOWER
Isaiah 30:8-16
Go now, write it on a tablet for them, inscribe it on a scroll, that for the days to come it may be an everlasting witness. For these are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to listen to the LORD’s instruction. They say to the seers, "See no more visions!" and to the prophets, "Give us no more visions of what is right! Tell us pleasant things, prophesy illusions. Leave this way, get off this path, and stop confronting us with the Holy One of Israel!" Therefore this is what the Holy One of Israel says: "Because you have rejected this message, relied on oppression and depended on deceit, this sin will become for you like a high wall, cracked and bulging, that collapses suddenly, in an instant. It will break in pieces like pottery, shattered so mercilessly that among its pieces not a fragment will be found for taking coals from a hearth or scooping water out of a cistern." This is what the Sovereign LORD, the Holy One of Israel, says: "In REPENTANCE and rest is your salvation, in QUIETNESS and trust is your strength, but you would have none of it. You said, ’No, we will flee on horses.’ Therefore you will flee!
(There's that horsepower again. Instead of QUIETNESS, using their vehicles, they gathered together; but not by God; like chasing a political party out of town - on steroids. But, hmmmm, it's interesting how God flips the script using the very things that people demonically weaponize against others, without cause.)
AMEN
Recommended Reading: Isaiah 58
