Isaiah 34:11-15 – Dissolution
We see in verses 11-15 that when God’s judgment comes upon the nations that will not take Christ as their king, dissolution occurs. There is no nation there anymore. In fact, there aren’t any people there anymore, just wild creatures. From the high to the low, the people have disappeared. There had been strong forts, nice houses, beautiful and impressive palaces. Now there are weeds growing out of the walls, and plants in the cracks in the floor.
The living and true God does these things upon the wicked. He does so in this life, and He does everlastingly upon the wicked. Back in those days, God destroyed them, as He has done with Edom, Assyria, Babylon, Persia, Alexander the Great, Rome, and as He continues to do with wicked nations today. Each nation, each grand empire that came along doubtlessly thought, ‘We’ve gotten too sophisticated for God to be able to do this to us. We have gotten too powerful for God to be able to do this to us. We have gotten to the point where our scientific advances have enabled us to establish that there is no God anyway, so why should we serve Him?’ And every time, God has brought them to nothing. God is perfectly able, easily able, overnight, to wreck this nation for its refusal to yield to Jesus Christ, for its refusal to govern according to God’s Word. It’s been a mercy so far that God has not done so.
If God so deals with nations, does He not deal with individuals in the same way? Of course He does. How should you escape? Will you continue to defy the Lord Jesus Christ? I speak not only to nations and to individuals, but I would also speak to the professing Church of Jesus Christ. For much of what we have been looking at here in Isaiah has been addressed to those who were the Israel of the flesh, not the Israel of God. Destruction came upon them, too. To nations, to the professed Church of Jesus Christ, to any individual who may be reading this, believe on the king, the king of nations, the king of the church, the rightful king of your heart. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. Repent of your sin. Cry out to Him who saves, that you might be saved.
Questions
- What happens when God judges the nations?
- Does God still work this way today?
Prayer Points
- Pray that God would bring the nations to repent.
- Use prayer points from your congregation.
- Pray for family matters.