Isaiah 3
{12} 13} 14} & 15}
Oh my people, can't you see what fools your rulers are?
Weak as women, foolish as little children playing King.
True leaders? NO misleaders! Leading you down the
garden path of destruction.
{13}
The Lord stands up.
He is the Great Prosecuting Attorney
presenting his case against his people.
{14} First to feel his wrath, will be the elders, and the princes,
for they have defrauded the poor.
They have filled their barns with grain, extorted from the helpless*peasants.
{15}
How dare you grind my people in the dust like that? "the Lord of Host will demand of them.
WE should not put people in the place of God, Jesus, or the HOly Spirit.
This is making people idols, and as the God destroyed the Israelites coming out of Egypt, divided the sea, they made a golden calf, to worship, to see with their own eyes,*because*they assumed Moses was dead.
Jesus always stuck up for the poor, the widows, and the fatherless.
As he Jesus is in the Father, and the father and him are one of Spirit, so in the Old Testament, God Yahweh, always, sticks up for the poor, and it was in the book of Malachi, that the Levitical Priests were to collect a tenth, not for themselves, but for the poor. From the crops of the land, to give. They kept it for themselves, and the verse says, you Priests, you have robbed God, and it is not referring to the people of Israel. God does not curse those who give, as the Israelites did according to the Law, but those who stole from the people what was due them, were the ones that Malachi said were cursed. We don't know much of Malachi, except that he was a Levitical Priest, who was to shave off all his body hair, and were instructed only to be in service for a certain number of years. Malachi, himself was bound under the Law, and not under the Grace and Liberty of Christ, he was neither a disciple, nor a*prophet, so his words, are from himself. Jesus never read from this book.
Redemption through believing in Jesus, teaches us something different, there is only one way to the Father, as Jesus*himself*said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. The biggest deception, is to think that your going to buy your way into heaven. Just as Eve thought, deceived by the lying snake, that there was another way to be Wise, besides being in the wisdom, and glory of God, that there was not enough of her, what God created, he lied to her, and she bought it, actually he sold he a death sentence, and she bought it, with her mind.
The greatest connection we could have with our Father, is knowing Jesus personally, for God is Love.*
It is all about Love, this was Christ's mission. He said, a new commandment I give you,
LOVE ONE ANOTHER
Some just stick to the old ways, of a man, instead of listening to Christ, the Savior, and Son of God.
This is what he means,
calling mere man, a misleading fool, taking other's down the path of destruction.
Taking things from the helpless peasants,, HOW DARE YOU?
HE WILL demand answers from those in authority.