Reformation Nation

 By Rev. Benjamin Glaser - Posted at Thoughts from Parson Farms:

In these United States we are well on our own way to destruction because we thought ourselves able to establish a non-established land and not “take sides” in the religious debate, and what has been seen, to quote a famous essayist, is if you choose not to decide you still have made a choice. ...

Good Morning!

In my Bible reading today I happened to be in Isaiah 20 which has to be one of the weirdest chapters found anywhere in Holy Writ. Kind of hidden in the story of the Assyrian general Tartan and his taking of the city of Ashdod is a statement that the prophet Isaiah has been walking around practically naked for three years as a sign against Egypt and Ethiopia. These two nations are being prepped for judgment by Jehovah through the instrument of this army of Sargon of Assyria. While neither the leader of Nineveh nor the residents of the Nile Valley were aware of what the Creator had in store it does not change that God’s sovereign hand is in the midst of it.

Is there not a calamity in the city and the LORD has done it?

While the gentile nations at this point in redemptive history are not yet in the full covenant kingdom it cannot be said that they are not entirely unaware of the LORD and His works. Not only has the earth itself declared the glory of God they have had other instances of seeing the hand of Jehovah in action in history. As we see throughout the Old Testament this supposed “ignorance” is no excuse for any person’s or land’s idolatry and of their general moral wickedness. Egypt and Ethiopia are being held to account in the person and work of the king of the North.

Though there has to be a question percolating in the minds of all fair people: Why are these nations facing the wrath of God if they had not the special revelation which Jehovah had shown unto Israel and Judah? Why do we continue to see His judgment poured out?

The answer is really not that hard, though it has several layers.

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