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OME, hear and hearken (so begins Isaiah 34)! This is, of course, imperative. We must come to God. We must know what God
has to say. We must obey God's words.
Without these 3 things, a man is doomed. I have a book in my hand that
claims to be the book of the Lord. I have a Bible. And, I believe it too. It's perfect and infallible (Psalm
12:6). I'm sure of it. By faith and by experience, I have confidence
in its accuracy and its practicality.
Both testaments; all 66 books; given by inspiration; breathed by the
Spirit of God (2nd Timothy 3:16). It is a book worth reading!
Now, not everything in God's Word is comforting or
comfortable. There are certainly some large and sour pills to swallow as we
turn from one page to the next in reading the Holy Scriptures. This chapter,
for example, has some rather harsh descriptions of God's furious judgments
against sinners. In this case, Edom is
mentioned, but the ramifications appear to be much broader than just Edom. All
of the enemies of God and of God's people are in for a rude awakening. The
destruction of the wicked, the stink of their carcasses, the flow of their
blood, the falling sky upon them, the sword of the Lord used against them,
their ritualistic slaughter (as if they were sacrifices), the vengeance of God
against them, their fiery damnation, their empty metropolis, confusion and
ignobility among them... all of these very grave consequences were prophesied
in "the book of the Lord" against
His opponents. The message of the Bible is not necessarily always pleasant. It
is, however, always true and pertinent.
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