The Truth Be Told

Isaiah 28:8-16

"For all the tables are full of filthy vomit, so that there is no place that is clean.

To whom will He teach knowledge? [Ask the drunkards.] And whom will He make to understand the message? Those who are babies, just weaned from the milk and taken from the breasts? [Is that what He thinks we are?]

For it is [His prophets repeating over and over]: precept upon precept, precept upon precept, rule upon rule, rule upon rule; here a little, there a little.

No, but [the Lord will teach the rebels in a more humiliating way] by men with stammering lips and another tongue will He speak to this people [says Isaiah, and teach them His lessons].

To these [complaining Jews the Lord] had said, This is the true rest [the way to true comfort and happiness] that you shall give to the weary, and, This is the [true] refreshing—yet they would not listen [to His teaching].

Therefore the word of the Lord will be to them [merely monotonous repeatings of]: precept upon precept, precept upon precept, rule upon rule, rule upon rule; here a little, there a little—that they may go and fall backward, and be broken and snared and taken.

Therefore hear the word of the Lord, you scoffers who rule this people in Jerusalem!

Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol (the place of the dead) we have an agreement—when the overflowing scourge passes through, it will not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge, and in falsehood we have taken shelter.

Therefore thus says the Lord God, Behold, I am laying in Zion for a foundation a Stone, a tested Stone, a precious Cornerstone of sure foundation; he who believes (trusts in, relies on, and adheres to that Stone) will notbe ashamed or give way or hasten away [in sudden panic]."

The truth here in Isaiah is this; The Lord was speaking through the prophet Isaiah that who is teachable here? For Him God, it is like walking through tables of vomit, speaking clean pure things, and who is there to hear Him. 

Then, He has just babies there with small dribbles of milk He can speak. Then He pronounces that true rest.... Is to give to the weary.... So they mouth back at Him, "We can do this without all His order and wisdom."

So Here Comes The Rock!

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