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Declaration of God’s Judgement.
God is promising judgment on the People of Israel in the form of being over come and destroyed by a coming kingdom.
This judgement will take the form of being stripped of their wealth and then left in a needy state.
This will come in the form of an attack by Assyria.
There is an additional warning from the country of Babylon.
Isaiah Boils their trouble down to three distinguishing characteristics.
Judah will be hungry.
This is a real threat the physical needs that they before could trust God with will now be held back from them.
They could call on him for their sustenance but because of their rebellion they will now be held back from his provision.
Judah will not be very flashy
As we read in the opening God will send an enemy that will strip them of their beautiful jewels and gold.
Gold had previously been an indicator that God was blessing them but now they will not have this to fall back on.
Judah will be lead poorly
The Tragedy of Weak leadership...
This is not just speaking of the King he is warning from the top all the way down.
mighty man
man of war
judge
prophet
prudent
ancient
captains
honorable man
counsellor
the artist
the orator
All of these will be tossed out and God will give them a child to lead them.
This is not just to say that they will be chronologically young.
Though this will happen according to the book of Daniel.
This is seen with the fact that they will take anyone to rule them because of the mess of the people.
They will want anyone to take ownership for their lives and give them success at
But make no mistake about it the seeds of this issue were sown in I Samuel 8:6-8
What God is doing is reminding the people of Israel You won’t follow me then you will not have real leadership.
This was a primary not a secondary issue.
Israel would never have good leadership under a king.
Saul would fail, David would fail, Solomon would fail, Rehoboam would fail.
Uzziah would fail.
The issue was they were not God.
Understand that there is correlation here.
Israel would get the leadership it deserves.
The failings of the kings were a mere reflections of the peoples failure to keep Jehovah first.
This brings us to what God saw.
Shameless sin.
Our culture hates shame.
They run from it.
Actually if they really hated it then they would abandon The lives that come from it.
Sin produces shame.
Our shortcomings from God’s perfection and holiness produces Shame.
Just as with our father and mother Adam and Eve as soon as they had eaten the fruit.
Hid themselves from the Lord.
And the joy tha they had once shared with the fellowship of the most high was gone.
Jehovah would take the lives of innocent lambs to cover the nakedness of his two image bearers.
They hate shame but they hold fast to sin.
Shame and Sin go hand in hand.
But Paul describes how a man can become shameless.
Beware when you can no longer feel shame for your own sin.
It is a dangerous sign of one who greaves the Holy Spirit that dwells within them.
Abuse of the Poor.
We went to great length to describe this situation last week.
The people have left their dependence on God so they walk in materialism and abuse of the poor is inevitable.
Immoral Culture.
He uses the immorality of the women of Israel to illustrate the behavior of all the people of Israel.
He calls them the daughters of Zion.
Our world can say all it wants about who we are a country.
But we have not gotten better with the explosion of immorality.
Young men and women are still being victimized but the sin that has been downplayed by each new generation.
So then consider the punishment of our text this morning.
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Tinkling ornaments
Cauls - ornament of hair
Tires - clasping buckles
chains -
bracelets
Mufflers -
bonnets
ornaments
headbands
tablets
earrings
ring
nose jewels
multiple garments
wimples
mantels
crisping pins
glasses
fine linen
sweet smell
You know he‘s going to hurt them.
Try getting around on your Cadillac Escalade without tires or mufflers.
Bud-up-bump
Notice what they all have in common…
They are not large stocks and storehouses of wealth.
They are the things that people see.
Why would God take this away?
Because this is what they care about most.
What matters to them is what people see.
Not what is going on in the heart.
But the issue is that God sees what’s in the heart and it greaves him.
Consider what Joel says during his day just some 65 years after Isaiah’s last writting.
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