I am the first one to say that taking a verse or passage from the Bible out of context is asking for a misinterpretation. But I think that looking at Isaiah 5:20 is an exception to that rule.
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The chapter in Isaiah begins with a warning to the people how they were given everything one could ask for from God, but instead of worshiping him properly they rebelled against him and so, as a result of their rejection he will take away from them what they have been given.
Verses 11-23 give warning to those who drink too much, who have misused property boundaries, and who- in general- have rejected God’s laws in how they react and interact with others. From verse 23 to the end he tells them how God will punish them.
So this entire chapter is about how, having been given so many good things, by rejecting the way God said to live they will end up having all that good stuff taken away from them and given to others.
Today, throughout the world, we see one of those warnings being exemplified by our own political parties, as well as the mass media. I am speaking about Isaiah 5:20, which says (CJB):
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who change darkness into light and light into darkness, who change bitter into sweet and sweet into bitter!
There is a rise of antisemitism throughout the world, and especially here in America. Did you know that it was Jewish money that paid the troops during the Revolutionary War, without which today we would be driving on the wrong side of the street! This country owes SO much to us Jews, yet today there is rampant antisemitism: the media is behind this because they are calling what Israel is doing to protect itself bad, and what Hamas and the other terrorist organizations are doing as good.
That’s exactly what Isaiah warned us about in this one passage.
People in America are protesting against the military action in Iran (there isn’t a war without a declaration of war), something that the Christians in Iran are ecstatic about! After all, our CIA (being asked to do so by Great Britain) removed the democratically elected Prime Minster and installed the Shah back in the 1950s, which ended up pretty bad for the Iranians. Now we are freeing them from the same sort of despotic rule that the person we had placed in charge initiated.
There are even American colleges supporting terrorists attacking innocent civilians, claiming that Israel is being genocidal while the truth is that the terrorists have one goal- to totally destroy all Jews in Israel. These cowardly monsters murder, rape, and then mutilate the dead bodies to drag through the streets, while the Gazan’s cheer!
And Israel isn’t their goal, the world is. These terrorists live to kill, and they are only starting with the Jews in Israel. Their influence is seen all over the world with the rampant rise of antisemitism, and once all the Jews are gone, believe me they will turn against the Christians, next.
What do you think “From the river to the sea” means? It doesn’t mean freedom for those alleged Palestinian people (a reference to people who never existed but was a propaganda program initiated by Yasser Arafat back in the 1970’s) to live in Israel, it means to totally destroy all Jews from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.
These Arab nations do not want the land- they had access to it for centuries before 1948, and never once built any permanent cities or businesses. The ones that were asked to leave when Israel became a state were nomads.
The media and politicians accusing Israel of genocide have it totally backward: Hamas and Hezbollah and ISIS, et.al., are the ones who want genocide, while the Israeli IDF has warned civilians of coming attacks against these terrorists, have sent food and medical supplies (which the terrorists have intercepted and not given to their own people), and tried to be as careful as possible when attacking, even though the terrorists hide under hospitals and next to schools, showing they have absolutely no concern for their own people.
And what does the mass media do? They support the terrorists, attacking in the papers Israel and anyone supporting Israel with twisted news reports and out-and-out lies!
Isaiah warned against those who call evil good and good evil, and that is exactly what we are seeing in the world, today- yes, even here in America, the land of the free.
HAH! The land of the free and the home of the brave is now the country of the ignorant, the land of the sheep, and the home of the misled.
What did Shaul (Paul) call Satan? Didn’t he call him the Prince of the Power of the Air (Ephesians 2:2)? And how does the news travel throughout the world? Isn’t it through the air?
See my point? We are being led down the path to destruction by the media and the political leadership of the world, centered in the United Nations, which I believe should be re-titled United Nations Against Israel. After all, that is clearly their desired goal.
So, what is all this rambling about? After all, I have stated that this ministry is not for political discussion, but I am not really talking about politics, I am talking about the political leadership leading us into damnation, helped along by the media.
Isaiah also states in this chapter (verse 13) that the people are being destroyed by their lack of knowledge, which Hosea reaffirms in his warnings, as well (Hosea 4:6, which I have at the bottom of my ministry home page).
So, I am saying all this as a warning to you, to ask that you please do not automatically believe anything you hear, about anyone or any country, from any source without thoroughly confirming it with multiple searches throughout the Internet. You may have to go through three or four pages of “hits” before you find some website you can trust, or at least gives what appears to be a fair report.
And this is especially true of anything you hear from anyone (yes, even me) regarding the Bible: you certainly do not want to be one of those destroyed because of your lack of knowledge.
Thank you for being here and please comment and share these messages with everyone you know, even non-believers. Hey, after all, you never know how fertile the soil is until you plant a seed in it.
That’s it for this week, so L’hitraot and (an early) Shabbat Shalom!