Today, I am reading and commenting on  Isaiah 17-21.

I am not quite sure how this fits together as the prophet wrote it, but I am going to write about it as it struck me today,  While prophesying the fall of Damascus, Isaiah also prophesies that the people of Israel will become relatively few in number.  He uses the metaphor of the few olives which the harvesters leave on the tree as too much work to retrieve.  Isaiah writes that this will happen because the people have forgotten their savior, God.  He tells us that as a result of forgetting God we will plant the finest plants and care for them until they start to bear fruit, but, in the end, we will harvest nothing.  This is where I start to wonder if I am following the prophet’s thinking or not.  He goes on to write that nations will rage, and people will roar against God, and those faithful to God. Those raging and roaring will strike terror in the hearts of many, but suddenly they will be gone.  As I read this, those who remain faithful will be as the gleanings after the harvest.  The wicked will terrorize them for a short moment as night falls, but then, with the dawning of a new day, those who terrorized them will be gone as if they had never been.  The result will be that people from many lands, people who had no knowledge of God, or, perhaps were His enemies, will come to worship and serve Him.

You have forgotten God your Savior;

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.