Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.
I suppose that, since the sin of Adam and Eve, there have always been more unbelievers than believers and that the unbelievers have always been more or less vicious - times when they are more aggressive and other times when they have been more passive. Isaiah ministered in a time, much like today, when the mockers were more aggressive.
In the forty years I’ve been in the ministry I have definitely witnessed a growing confidence among the heathen to mock, blaspheme, and resist the things of God. The relatively modern religion of scientific atheism has given many scoffers ammunition to mock and revile the Christian. A religion not unlike Catholicism or Islam, the atheist feels compelled not simply to ignore the message of Christ and the revelation of the true and living God, but to suppress the proclaimers of the message, and to demand that their “heresy” of faith be annihilated.
In the face of this hostility against Jesus Christ we, who know Jesus, must stand and warn them “be ye not mockers.” What we have heard from God is true. There is a day of consumption and judgment approaching. In that day their “bands” will be much worse than they could have imagined.
We proclaim this warning not gloating but grieving and hopeful that many will repent and turn to the Lord before that day.
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Stand Firm: The Impending Day of Judgment
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