Earth Staggers, Sways, Falls

Reading:  Isaiah 24
My Verse:  "The earth staggers like a drunken man;
                         it sways like a hut;
                    its transgression lies heavy upon it,
                         and it falls, and will not rise again.

                    On that day the LORD will punish
                         the host of heaven, in heaven,
                         and the kings of the earth, on the earth" (Isaiah 24:20,21).

This passage should bring us up short!  We should be at full attention!  Your Word, LORD God is truth and it stands forever!  What You say will come to pass.  All will pay for their transgressions.  That day is coming when all will stagger, sway and fall before You!

The language here is clear.

     "the LORD will empty the earth, and make it desolate,
        and he will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants"

     "the earth will be utterly empty and utterly plundered"

     "the earth mourns and withers
        the world languishes and withers
       
     " the earth lies defiled"

No one will escape this.

     "And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest;
           as with he slave, so with his master;
           as with the maid, so with her mistress;
           as with the buyer, so with the seller;
           as with the lender, so with the borrower;
           as with the creditor, so with the debtor" (Isaiah 24:2).

All this will happen because . . .

     "they have transgressed the laws,
                       violated the statutes,
                       broken the everlasting covenant" (Isaiah 24:5).

The only way to escape this judgement is to believe on You, LORD God.  To accept the gift of salvation made possible through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.  (John 3:16)

We do not need to "stagger, sway and fall."
Instead we can rejoice on that day when You come!

Ditat Deus- God Enriches!