“AH, STUBBORN CHILDREN!”

Isaiah 30:1-5                    (ESV)

Do Not Go Down to Egypt

    [1] “AH, STUBBORN CHILDREN,” declares the LORD,

    “who carry out a plan, BUT NOT MINE,

    and who make an alliance, BUT NOT OF MY SPIRIT,

        that they may add sin to sin; 

    [2] who set out to go down to Egypt,

        without asking for MY DIRECTION,

    TO TAKE REFUGE IN THE PROTECTION OF Pharaoh

        and to SEEK SHELTER in the shadow of Egypt! 

    [3] Therefore shall the protection of Pharaoh turn to YOUR SHAME,

        and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt to YOUR HUMILIATION. 

    [4] For though his officials are at Zoan

        and his envoys reach Hanes, 

    [5] everyone comes to shame

        through a people that cannot profit them,

    that brings neither help nor profit,

        but shame and disgrace.”

HOW SHAMEFUL!  The CHOSEN RACE (1 Peter 2:9) OF GOD ancestry had spent 430 years enslaved to the Egyptians before GOD delivered them from their captors in Exodus 14.  Just plain COMMON SENSE should have precluded HIS CHOSEN from reverting back to the torture and captivity of being enslaved by the enticements of “this world”???  

But isn’t that what the United States of America is doing?  The celebration of 250 years of freedom and independence is set for July 4, 2026, that is IF we make it that far!  THE WORD OF GOD has been WRITTEN as a reminder of precisely what GOD has provided for humanity since HE CREATED us.  But, INVARIABLY, we have to be “re-educated” to OPEN our EYES to SEE the TRUTH of what man’s decisions can do to infiltrate GODS PLAN!  

But I am STILL NOT SEEING the TRUTH that GOD is trying to get across to me!  The ONLY person that I am responsible for is me!  Surely I also carry a responsibility for my wife and offspring, but they ultimately have to make the decisions for themselves!  ALMIGHTY GOD has given mankind a LIMITED lifespan, and we don’t have the capacity to extend it one iota!  We MUST come to the point where our EYES are OPENED to SEE TRUTH, and react accordingly!!!

It is as if GOD is saying to me, “AH, STUBBORN CHILDREN”, how many times do you have to be REMINDED? From the FLOOD in the Genesis, to the Exodus from captivity, through MANY other instances, GOD has continually DELIVERED HIS CHOSEN through atrocities and destruction!  Yet, APPARENTLY we HAVE NOT seen the LIGHT?  How long before HE SAYS FOR THE FINAL TIME, “AH, STUBBORN CHILDREN”!!!