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Reassurance of God’s Forgiveness
Isaiah 51:12–23
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A pastor arranged for a gathering of the women’s auxiliary. It was to be a garden party on the church lawn, under the old oak. At the last moment, the morning of the party, the preacher discovered he left Sister Hissyfit off the invitation list. The pastor called the dear s … More
The remnant in Babylon had prayed as though God was asleep and needed to be awakened. In this passage God asked Jerusalem to be awake because He is doing something (vv. 17-23). In exile the Jews had drunk God’s wrath fully, all the way to the bottom of the cup (vv 21-22). In the terrible destruction of Jerusalem many young men had died (v. 20). “Desolation, destruction, famine and the sword” spoke of the awful plight of the city (v. 19).
However, the Lord pronounced that the time of judgment was over (v. 22) for them and the cup of judgment would be given to her tormentors who had walked on the dead bodies in Jerusalem (v. 23). The people of Judah experienced ruin instead of prosperity, destruction instead of liberty. Because of their sins the people suffered, but God promised to restore Jerusalem as a holy city where sinners cannot enter.
Application
God considered the captivity sufficient penalty for Israel and that a new era of forgiveness and blessing is about to come down upon them. I may be going through trials and tribulations in my life, but God loves me so much that He wants to bless me in spite of my forsaking Him.
Isaiah 51:12-23 (English Standard Version)
"I, I am he who comforts you; who are you that you are afraid of man who dies, of the son of man who is made like grass, and have forgotten the LORD, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth, and you fear continually all the day because of the wrath of the oppressor, when he sets himself to destroy? And where is the wrath of the oppressor? He who is bowed down shall speedily be released; he shall not die and go down to the pit, neither shall his bread be lacking. I am the LORD your God, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar-- the LORD of hosts is his name. And I have put my words in your mouth and covered you in the shadow of my hand, establishing the heavens and laying the foundations of the earth, and saying to Zion, 'You are my people.'" Wake yourself, wake yourself, stand up, O Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the hand of the LORD the cup of his wrath, who have drunk to the dregs the bowl, the cup of staggering. There is none to guide her among all the sons she has borne; there is none to take her by the hand among all the sons she has brought up. These two things have happened to you-- who will console you?-- devastation and destruction, famine and sword; who will comfort you? Your sons have fainted; they lie at the head of every street like an antelope in a net; they are full of the wrath of the LORD, the rebuke of your God. Therefore hear this, you who are afflicted, who are drunk, but not with wine: Thus says your Lord, the LORD, your God who pleads the cause of his people: "Behold, I have taken from your hand the cup of staggering; the bowl of my wrath you shall drink no more; and I will put it into the hand of your tormentors, who have said to you, 'Bow down, that we may pass over'; and you have made your back like the ground and like the street for them to pass over."
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