13 -15God enters the courtroom.
He takes his place at the bench to judge his people.
hauls the leaders of his people into the dock:
Your houses are stuffed with what you've stolen from the poor.
grinding the faces of the poor into the dirt?"
God-of-the-Angel-Armies, says.
When I read this, it made me picture a scene that possibly all of our representatives for every state and city as well as our lawers, officers, and judges might have to face on their day of judgement.....
16 -17God says, "American women are stuck-up,
prancing around in their high heels,
swinging their hips,
gaudy and garish in cheap jewelry."
will all turn bald—
The Master will do it.
18 -23The time is coming when the Master will strip them of their fancy baubles—the dangling earrings, anklets and bracelets, combs and mirrors and silk scarves, diamond brooches and pearl necklaces, the rings on their fingers and the rings on their toes, the latest fashions in hats, exotic perfumes and aphrodisiacs, gowns and capes, all the world's finest in fabrics and design.
24Instead of wearing seductive scents,
these women are going to smell like rotting cabbages;
they'll be sporting rags;
scruffy heads;
scabs and scars.
I really feel that this verse was not written only for the women of Zion, but for every nation who's women become this. American women strive for sexyness. It's written all over us every moment of every day. We wear perfum to draw in (seduce) the men of our choice. We wear dark make up and revealing clothing to catch anyone's eye. Once we have men drooling and women jelous, that's when we feel accomplished. Generally speaking of course, not every woman is like this. This is our culture, and I believe it is our responsibility as Christian women to go against it and set an example. You can still get a smokin hot man w/o showing off your body, doing your hair every day, or trying to change yourself. I have known MANY men who find it much more attractive when a girl cover's up most of the time and it more reserved than flaunting themselves every day or most days. There is nothing to look forward to if you reveal the suprise! I belive that women, just as much as men, are responsible for the judgement America is recieving right now. Women are men's helpers, we hold them up. They depend on us no matter how big, strong, and independent they say they are or try to be, every good man has a good woman as his rock. He is the same for us, we need eachother. But if we act in this way, we are setting up our men to fall, be unfaithful, and to turn into the sex animals many are today. Men are visually stimulated and are like hound dogs when they get a scent, they take off. Some men are strong enough to resist this, but most aren't. I belive that if women acted the way they were suppose to, Americans would see our divorce rate go down.
25 -26Your finest fighting men will be killed,
your soldiers left dead on the battlefield.
with people mourning their dead—
brought to her knees by her sorrows.
This is the consequence. Sound familiar already (Iraq and Afganistan) ?
ISAIAH 4
1 That will be the day when seven women will gang up on one man, saying, "We'll take care of ourselves,
get our own food and clothes.
so we'll have something to live for!"
I believe that day is long and gone and we are living that out. I have been raised to be independent and taught to never really depend on a man and always be prepared to be self sufficent because the man you marry doesn't always stay that man. I believe that is true and something I have seen over and over, but I belive there is a balance. Yes, I do believe a woman should be independent, but not so she replaces the purpose of men. Men's purpose is to provide and protect, if we take those purposes away, he will leave. Men must fill that role in order for them to feel accomplished and proud of themselves. That is key. Women should be independent in the ways of general life, what she eats, wears, says, believes, does in the communtiy, job, ect. But non of this should take away from women or man's true purpose. That, I believe, is a good balance. Women should not be controled, nothing should feel unnatural because it is automaticly programmed in us to play these roles.
The next set of verses are what I belive the promise we still have from God, and what would happen if we did make a change and return to him.
2 -4And that's when God's Branch will sprout green and lush. The produce of the country will give American survivors something to be proud of again. Oh, they'll hold their heads high! Everyone left behind in Zion, all the discards and rejects in Jerusalem, will be reclassified as "holy"—alive and therefore precious. God will give American women a good bath. He'll scrub the bloodstained city of its violence and brutality, purge the place with a firestorm of judgment.
5 -6Then God will bring back the ancient pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night and mark Mount Zion and everyone in it with his glorious presence, his immense, protective presence, shade from the burning sun and shelter from the driving rain.
This is so beautiful. Dispite everything, all the wrong doings and betrayal, God still wants to tenderly love us like a Father, picking up his son's and daughters to wipe the dirt from there clothes that they recieved from their fall. If we open our hearts, he will change and clean us. If we give him the reigns, he will lead us into prosperity. Day and night, he will be there. He will lead us, protect us, and comfort us. We will see him and be close to him 24/7. I absolutely love the thought of this. For America to return to what this country was first founded on.
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