Like today, so too were the days of Isaiah’s time.
When Isaiah began his ministry, temples to false gods littered the landscape of the nation. More citizens worshiped false gods than the One true God.
At the opening of each new season, snow-white horses, stalled in the rooms at Solomon’s Temple entrance, were driven forth harnessed to golden chariots to meet the sun at its rising, as the people gathered together to worship the sun god.
Incense ascended to heathen gods from altars built upon the streets. Even in GOD’s own chamber of the Temple, the priests burnt incense and sacrifices in impure rituals to whatever god was the flavor of the day. They enjoyed lavish ceremonies which no longer centered around Yewah.
The valley of Hinnom echoed with the dying screams of children offered as sacrifices in the terrible flames of the hideous Moloch. Words fail in depicting the deep corruption.
There was a sting of sin in Isaiah’s opening statement about the awful history of God’s people and how they had forsaken the One Who chose them to be priests to the nations around them. Instead, they rejected HIM for the gods of the nations.
Today, some 2760 years later we live in such a time. A similar sting of sin perverts all that is good and righteous throughout our land. Evil is called righteous and righteousness is portrayed as evil. This spiritual darkness has blinded the eyes of men today, as they mock God by doing their evil the light of day.
We are told to enjoy the bitterness of evil and swallow the lies of Satan that God did not make man and woman different, but rather men should reject the sweet truth of GOD.
Like Isaiah’s days, the screams of our children echo throughout the land as evil men mutilate their young minds and bodies for their own perverted desires.
The future can only get worse, as we enter the last days. I fear there will be no more Hezekia’s or Josiah’s in our future to reign in the evil that permeates through our land.
Yet, even with their Reforms, they didn’t last because the hearts of the people never changed. So we can pray for a righteous leaders, but if we don’t pray for the hearts of men to change, things will just get worse again like they did after these righteous kings died. Whether there will be new leaders with a heart for Christ or not, we must I pray, “Lord Jesus come quickly.”
Let us all pray for our children, for their future is not going to be very pleasant if things don’t change. Pray for a revival of men’s hearts like the one Nineveh experienced when Jonah preached to them.
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