Scripture Blog

This weblog is my personal online scripture journal. I try to read the scriptures each morning as I exercise on my cross-trainer. It has a great impact on my life and my testimony of the Savior and his restored church. The journal is really for my own benefit but I have set it up as a web log in hopes to benefit anyone else that may be interested. "For he that diligently seeketh shall find; and the mysteries of God shall be unfolded unto them, by the power of the Holy Ghost..." 1 Nephi 10:19

Wednesday, May 07, 2014

Isaiah 2

As a reminder concerning the words of Isaiah, Nephi counseled his people to -

"...liken all scriptures unto us, that it might be for our profit and learning."  (Book of Mormon | 1 Nephi 19:23)

And thus we are counseled in our day.  Though Isaiah may have been speaking to his people, in a duel manner, he was also speaking to us warning the Lord -

"...hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.
7 Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots:
8 Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made..."  (Old Testament | Isaiah 2:6 - 8)

Where (using the writings of Nephi) -

"...the mean man boweth not down, and the great man humbleth himself not..."  (Book of Mormon | 2 Nephi 12:9)

Are these not the conditions of our day?  Where we are following false religions, scientific projections that are contrary to the teachings of God, and pleasing and pleasureful relationships only for that purpose.  We see great wealth and armies.  The population generally worship that which they have acquired by their own hands.  And more and more move away from worshipping diety.  They even fight against such.

Under these conditions, because of no humility or repentance, under the Spirit of Prophecy, Isaiah promised that the day would come (I have inserted some words for my own use) -

"The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
12 For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:
13 And upon all the cedars (the people) of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks (the people) of Bashan,
14 And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up,
15 And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall,
16 And upon all the ships of Tarshish (materialism), and upon all pleasant pictures.
17 And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
18 And the idols he shall utterly abolish.
19 And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
20 In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats (note the dark places) ;
21 To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth."  (Old Testament | Isaiah 2:11 - 21)

I truly believe that day will come, therefore -

"Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?"  (Old Testament | Isaiah 2:22)

In other words, cease trusting man...since when has the natural man been accountable or right?