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

Today, I am reading and commenting on Isaiah 26-28.

As I read today’s passage I found myself thinking that I would have trouble writing today’s blog because it seemed so focused on the Israel and Judah of Isaiah’s time.  Then I came to this:

“Who does the Lord think we are?” they ask. “Why does he speak to us like this? Are we little children, just recently weaned? He tells us everything over and over— one line at a time, one line at a time, a little here, and a little there!”

The prophet followed that up by saying that as a result God had to speak to them through foreign oppressors.  God had given us a message of peace and rest, but we would not listen, so he had to spell it out for us again, as one does for young children.  This makes me think of those who dismiss the Bible because they claim its moral code is too simplistic, that things are not as “black and white” as the Bible portrays.  Those that come after them discover that the more “complex” moral code they sought to implement relied on God’s “simplistic” one.

Isaiah goes on to address the elites who think that they have a way to avoid the destruction which they themselves are fomenting.  They think that they can fool people and events with their lies and deception.  The elites have made a deal which they think will protect them from the chaos.  They think they can harness that chaos and destruction for their own benefit.  God has canceled their deal, or, more precisely, He will reveal that a deal based on lies and deception is not really a deal in the first place.  The elites will discover that when you reject the foundation of law and justice there is no justice, or even safety, to be found anywhere.