Isaiah 28

[AllanS]

Interesting bit at the end of Isaiah 28:

The LORD will rise up as he did at Mount Perazim; he will rouse himself as in the Valley of Gibeon— to do his work, his strange work, and perform his task, his alien task. Now stop your mocking, or your chains will become heavier; the Lord, the LORD Almighty, has told me of the destruction decreed against the whole land.

Listen and hear my voice; pay attention and hear what I say.

When a farmer plows for planting, does he plow continually? Does he keep on breaking up and harrowing the soil? When he has leveled the surface, does he not sow caraway and scatter cummin? Does he not plant wheat in its place, barley in its plot, and spelt in its field? His God instructs him and teaches him the right way.

Caraway is not threshed with a sledge, nor is a cartwheel rolled over cummin; caraway is beaten out with a rod, and cummin with a stick. Grain must be ground to make bread; so one does not go on threshing it forever. Though he drives the wheels of his threshing cart over it, his horses do not grind it.

All this also comes from the LORD Almighty, wonderful in counsel and magnificent in wisdom.

We have the Lord rising up to do his strange and alien work of destroying the land, but this destruction is is not everlasting, no more than a farmer would everlastingly plow his field or everlastingly thresh his grain. Rather, God’s destruction allows something far better to emerge. Like a wise farmer, He prepares the soil in order to grow and harvest a new crop.

In the same way, the destruction experienced in hell isn’t everlasting, but rather the plowing up of old hard ground in order to plant something new.

[redhotmagma]

I like it

[SLJ]

Love that! Thanks for sharing, Allan.

Sonia

[URPilgrim]

Amen! Thank you for sharing, it was a blessing

[pilgrim]

Nice one Allan. Cheers

[I_sit_in_Awe]

Nice find Allen

Another place that reiterates the axiom seen all throughout scripture.

Gods work of breaking down in order to rebuild.

[AUniversalist]

Isaiah 28 also in the beginning talks about how the Religious make up words for God and teach according to their beliefs ‘a little here, a little there, line upon line, precept upon precept’ and so to them the Word comes ‘a little here, a little there, line upon line, precept upon precept’ until they are snared, fallen back and captured. A warning against people who claim to know God, but don’t know Him at all and that the True Word of God will come from ‘babbling tongues’, babbling tongues because they will share things that are foreign to these self-righteous religious teacher, things that have no place in their theologies created ‘line upon line, precept upon precept’ because the Truth is foreign to them because of the religion they created in the ‘Name of the Lord.’.

[Cindy_Skillman]

Wow! I don’t even remember that illustration. That was great! I’m off to re-read Isaiah.

[AUniversalist]

We have the Lord rising up to do his strange and alien work of destroying the land, but this destruction is is not everlasting, no more than a farmer would everlastingly plow his field or everlastingly thresh his grain. Rather, God’s destruction allows something far better to emerge. Like a wise farmer, He prepares the soil in order to grow and harvest a new crop.

In the same way, the destruction experienced in hell isn’t everlasting, but rather the plowing up of old hard ground in order to plant something new.

You will need to point out, that we are the field and not the harvest it produces. Otherwise, people will continue to believe that wheat and chaff, wheat and tare refer to individuals themselves and not talking about the fruit or work of that field.

Hebrews 6:7-8
The Field that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is farmed receives the blessing of God. But the field that produces thorns and thistles is worthless and is in danger of being cursed. In the end it will be burned.

Why do farmers burn the field? So that the chaff it produces will burn up and fertilize it for the next harvest producing a crop worthy of blessing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slash-and-burn

We are the field, not the crop it produces but when the crop the field produces is set on fire, so is the land that produced it set ablaze.

Matthew 13:43-44 “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and** sold all he had and bought that field.**

It will take time for people to understand this, but they need to want to understand it.

[AllanS]

Hebrews 6:7-8
The Field that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is farmed receives the blessing of God. But the field that produces thorns and thistles is worthless and is in danger of being cursed. In the end it will be burned.

I’ve not noticed that before. It’s an excellent point. Farmers burn the field in order to clear it of weeds etc and make it productive. The weeds are destroyed, but the field remains.

[I_sit_in_Awe]

We have the Lord rising up to do his strange and alien work of destroying the land, but this destruction is is not everlasting, no more than a farmer would everlastingly plow his field or everlastingly thresh his grain. Rather, God’s destruction allows something far better to emerge. Like a wise farmer, He prepares the soil in order to grow and harvest a new crop.

In the same way, the destruction experienced in hell isn’t everlasting, but rather the plowing up of old hard ground in order to plant something new.

You will need to point out, that we are the field and not the harvest it produces. Otherwise, people will continue to believe that wheat and chaff, wheat and tare refer to individuals themselves and not talking about the fruit or work of that field.

Hebrews 6:7-8
The Field that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is farmed receives the blessing of God. But the field that produces thorns and thistles is worthless and is in danger of being cursed. In the end it will be burned.

Why do farmers burn the field? So that the chaff it produces will burn up and fertilize it for the next harvest producing a crop worthy of blessing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slash-and-burn

We are the field, not the crop it produces but when the crop the field produces is set on fire, so is the land that produced it set ablaze.

Matthew 13:43-44 “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and** sold all he had and bought that field.**

It will take time for people to understand this, but they need to want to understand it.

Things that make you say hmmmmm.

I’m not sure I understand your point with Matt 13, but the Hebrews Passage is thought provoking in light of Isaiah 28. It certainly jives well with UR and the purposes of God’s judgement seen all throughout scripture.