“‘Come now, let us reason together,’ says the LORD. ‘Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.”’
~ Isaiah 1:18
Hi James and Ellen,
When your dad and/or ma talk to you after you have done something that your dad and/or ma have told you not to do or say or after you have not done something that your dad and/or ma have told you to do, does your dad and/or ma talk to you with a frustrated demeanor using an angry voice or do your dad and/or ma calmly explain to you what you did and/or said wrong or what you did not do that you were asked to do? Are you okay with your dad and ma being angry and/or frustrated with you? Do you think that your dad and ma should never get angry and/or frustrated with you? Do you think that God ever gets angry and/or frustrated? Why do you think that a guy, gal or kid will sometimes get angry and/or frustrated? How do you feel when a guy, gal or kid disappoints you? Do you get angry and/or frustrated when a guy, gal or kid disappoints you or do you pretend like nothing happened? God has children. Do you know who God’s children are? The Israelite people group’s guys, gals and kids are the guys, gals and kids who God specially chose for Himself to be His children. The guys, gals and kids who God specially elected for Himself before He created planet Earth are also His children. Your grandpaa believes that the Israelite people group’s guys, gals and kids are still God’s specially chosen guys, gals and kids. Your grandpaa knows that when God – as God the Son, came to planet Earth 2000 years ago that God the Son made it possible – while He was nailed to a cross where He inhumanely suffered and sacrificially shed His blood, for your grandpaa – after your grandpaa made a decision of faith, to personally know God the Father. When your grandpaa made his decision of faith to believe in God the Son – Jesus, your grandpaa joined all the other guys, gals and kids who have made a decision of faith and who are God’s specially elected guys, gals and kids or children in what is referred to as the body of Christ.
How do you think that God felt after having chosen the Israelite people group’s guys, gals and kids to be His specially chosen guys, gals and kids after the Israelite people group’s guys and gals did the things that God had told them not to do and when they did not do the things that God had told them to do? Do you think that God was angry and/or frustrated and/or disappointed with the guys and gals who He chose to be His specially chosen guys and gals? God gave His specially chosen guys and gals every opportunity to obey Him and to do or not do what He had told them to do or not do. God sent prophet spokesmen who knew Him personally as being the one true God to tell His specially chosen guy and gals to change their lifestyles or else. Isaiah was one of the prophet spokesmen who God sent to His specially chosen guys and gals to . . . God for nearly eighty years used Isaiah as one of His prophet spokesmen to His specially chosen guys and gals who were living in the land area that was known as Judah. Isaiah lived during and he influenced the reigns of four kings – Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, who reigned over the guys, gals and kids who were living in Jerusalem and in Judah’s land area. Isaiah was married. Isaiah and his wife had two kids. Isaiah’s name means Salvation of Jehovah. God gave Isaiah visions. The visions that Isaiah saw that God gave to him were not only for God’s especially chosen guys and gals but they were also for the enemies of God’s specially chosen guys and gals. Isaiah compiled the visions that God gave to him in a book that was given his name. The Isaiah Book is the first of four major prophet books. The Isaiah Book has the most chapters and is the longest of the four major prophet books. Isaiah begins the book that is named after him – in Isaiah 1, with God communicating through Isaiah how disappointed that He is with His specially chosen guys and gals. Isaiah will end his 66 chapter book with God still saying how disappointed that He is with His specially chosen guys and gals.
After God – through Isaiah, had ripped into His specially chosen guys and gals by telling them how big of a disappointment that they have been to Him, God told His specially chosen guys and gals that He was Who had raised them up to be His specially chosen guys and gals. God told His specially chosen guys and gals that even an ox knows his owner and a donkey knows where food can be found to eat but His own specially chosen guys and gals just have not gotten it why He has them living on planet Earth. God told His specially chosen guys and gals that because of their sinful nature that He was going to load them with guilt and allow them to comport wickedly, to act corruptly and to forget Him. Your grandpaa knows that God being all present, all powerful, all knowing, God could have changed the way that His specially chosen guys and gals were acting and how they were disappointing Him. Your grandpaa believes that God was allowing His specially chosen guys and gals to experience and to internalize what the emptiness felt like to not have God in their lives. God never stopped promising His specially chosen guys and gals that if they would just change their lifestyles that He would do what Isaiah wrote in verse 18 “‘Come now, let us reason together,’ says the LORD. ‘Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.”’ God made it very clear to the Israelite people group’s guys and gals who were living in Jerusalem and in the land of Judah that if they did not change their lifestyles that He would completely remove His Spirit from them and that they would find themselves destroyed by their enemies. Have you done something that has had God angry, frustrated and/or disappointed with you? God also made it clear though through Isaiah that there would be a time when God would have His specially chosen and elected children living hope filled lives because they will know that their sins have been atoned for through God the Son’s death on a cross.
Isaiah 1 (286)