April 12

Isaiah 55-59 We are in the Prophetic Stream as we read from the Lexham English Bible this week. 7streamsmethod.com | #7Streams | @7StreamsMethod | @serenatravis Commentary by Dr. Drake Travis 55-56  God is talking and it is soothing for this first 21 verses.  All of 55 and the first eight verses of ch. 56 is about the work of God expanding and blessing and feeding and watering and including and welcoming more to himself. People are so satisfied and God is shepherding and elevating and assuring. The whole world is invited to come; to come be cared for and ministered to the way God has been reaching out to the Hebrews since Abraham's day. <div>56:9 ff - from here to the end of today's reading, the boom gets lowered and God is giving some of His final warnings.  It isn't pretty stuff, and God will avenge upon those who are playing the Joker in God's face. Have you ever seen a kid, a teenager per se~ who was raised in a well-to-do family.  As has been said about what can happen to these types (especially the unmentored), they were born in the palace, so they think they own the place though they've done nothing constructive from their beginning.  Well the leadership in Jerusalem is thinking they are blessed regardless and since they have the "inside track" to God, they can bend His rules as they please and God is just going to let this arrogance slide forever.  <strong>Well He isn't.</strong>  God is going to cut loose on these men soon. They are blind, ignorant, selfish, stupid, gluttonous, and partying like plastered college sophomores and could not care less about anything; oblivious as well as careless.</div> <div>57 - By this time Isaiah is calling everything what it is and Israel is acting no different than the pagans, heathens, the godless and satanic people all around them.  Even child sacrifice is going on! for shame!  Their behavior is approaching the bottom if not there already and it's been there awhile.  It's nauseating to even mention what is going on. The sin is generational by now and many don't rememb