167 Isaiah 064 – 066; Luke 021
We are at the close of Isaiah’s prophecy for Israel and the future of the world. Isaiah is again reminding God’s people that the Lord is always there if only people will turn from their sinful ways and turn to the Lord. People can be saved but what many of us cannot fathom is that people do not want to be saved. They may want the pain removed or they may want some more creature comforts, but truly being saved is not in their hearts. Israel as a nation reflects what happens in many people’s hearts concerning their relationship with God. It is either leave me alone or I will build my own way of serving God. Then, of course, there are those who say yes to God and follow after the Lord. May God give us hearts to always say yes to our Lord Jesus Christ. May God give us contacts who want to say yes to the Lord. One day the whole world will follow after God. The Lord will build a whole new heaven and earth.
In our N.T. reading we are lead right into the heart of giving. A widow gives like two pennies and Jesus gets more excited about that than what the wealthy were giving. God is always looking upon the heart. People love the next portion of Scripture because it gets into the end times. I want you to know that some apply this to the end times while others say it was fulfilled in 70 A.D. when the temple was destroyed in Jerusalem. Either way it is a prophecy of Jesus Christ and it was fulfilled in 70 A.D.. What other theologians say is that it is also to be applied to the very end times when the end is near and Christ it about to come back. You see this as Christ continues His message and talks about the Son of Man will be welcomed in grand style which is the second coming of Jesus Christ. Our hope and only hope is for Christ to come and fix this mess. We do not use this to escape from our duties upon this earth. We are to serve and try to make this a better place to live.
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