Isaiah 1:4-6
Alas, sinful nation, --
Any nation that has "missed the bull's eye," an archery term.
People weighed down with iniquity, --
This is a word for "twisting" and "bending" the Truth into unrecognizable monstrosities that weigh us down.
Offspring of evildoers, --
Like your parents who taught you to be harmful, injurious to yourselves and others.
Sons who act corruptly! --
Children who cause the good to putrefy!
They have abandoned the Lord, --
In preferring these twisted and corrupt ways, they have abandoned the pure right ways of the Lord.
They have despised the Holy One of Israel, --
They abhor the Holy One's goodness and deliberately provoked Him to anger.
They have turned away from Him. --
They've turned their backs on how He has designed this world to work, considering that God is not worth their attention; in their pride they consider themselves gods who know better.
The result is this:
Where will you be stricken again, as you continue in your rebellion?
We've had so many problems and troubles, financially, socially, relationally, even terroristically; what will happen next to tear down and destroy our society?
The whole head is sick, --
All our thinking processes have been infected.
And the whole heart is faint. --
There is no more hope for times to get any better, only despair.
From the sole of the foot even unto the head --
The whole body, every limb, every organ.
There is nothing sound in it, --
Nothing is healthy.
Only bruises, welts and raw wounds, --
The "open sores" of all our problems staring us in the face.
Not pressed out or bandaged, nor softened with oil.
All the "remedies" and "reforms" the sick government provides do no good at all to actually solve any of the problems we have but only to benefit themselves and the Big Corporations who are in partnership with them, off the backs of the poor and sick that they are keeping poor and sick.
We have become a "sinful nation" that has gotten sick, and the moral sickness has infected every part of our national body: our federal, state and local governments; our seats of learning and education; our healthcare and hospital systems; our businesses and corporations, our insurance and other "helping" institutions; and even our churches.
We need real solutions to solve our problems at the root, to return to the common-sense, Biblical ways we learned from our Manufacturer's Instructions; and seek God's people to lead us back into His righteousness, before the end.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
