The Lord turns the earth upside down

Isaiah
{24:1} Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and
maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth
abroad the inhabitants thereof.

The Lord maketh the earth empty.
The Lord maketh the earth a waste.
The Lord turns the earth upside down.
The Lord scatters everywhere the inhabitants of the earth.

Amazing isn't it?
We don't like to think of God this way, we just don't.

It goes against the *love your enemy, do good to those who despitefully use you* teachings of Jesus.

Some people rouse themselves up and say that God was done away with in the Old Testament, Jesus and His teachings are the real way.

I say the Lord God is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Hebrews {13:8}
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.

John {1:1} In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was
with God, and the Word was God. {1:2} The same was in
the beginning with God. {1:3} All things were made by
him; and without him was not any thing made that was
made. {1:4} In him was life; and the life was the light of
men. {1:5} And the light shineth in darkness; and the
darkness comprehended it not.

John {1:14} And the Word was made flesh, and
dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of
the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

The Old Testament God is not the *bad* God. The Old Testament God was the same God with Jesus in the Beginning. They are of one purpose, they are like-minded. Jesus came and revealed God to us, but He didn't change the God of the Old Testament.

Before mankind sinned they were warned of the consequences of the sin.

We can see this sort of behavior in our own parenting, or from our own parents when they warn us before we do something we'll regret. They warn us because they Love us. They tell us of the consequences of our behavior should we go ahead and do the thing they warn us against. We get the wrath of our parents, or the children feel our wrath when they disobey and then they have to suffer the consequences, or we have to suffer it if we were warned. You know what I'm talking about here. It's common knowledge, it's the bit in us that we can see and understand.

Man chose to sin and the consequences of that action will be with mankind until sin is totally gone.

God constantly reaches out to mankind seeking a people who will follow Him out of love, and it's the love that understands actions that some might call unloving are in fact the most loving.

The Lord maketh the earth empty.
The Lord maketh the earth a waste.
The Lord turns the earth upside down.
The Lord scatters everywhere the inhabitants of the earth.


{24:2} And it shall be, as
with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so
with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as
with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with
the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of
usury to him.

In this day it will matter not what sort of profession you hold. It won't matter at all if you are a master or a slave. In God we are all equal and the same standard for one will be with another.

{24:3} The land shall be utterly emptied, and
utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word. {24:4}
The earth mourneth [and] fadeth away, the world
languisheth [and] fadeth away, the haughty people of the
earth do languish. {24:5} The earth also is defiled under the
inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the
laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting
covenant.

Why do we have to have such utter destruction? Because the inhabitants of the earth- that's you and I and every single other person on the earth- have sinned, we've transgressed the laws of God, we've changed the way God would have us live in Him, we've broken the covenant He's sought to make with us to redeem us to Him.

That covenant, that redemption is found in Jesus, by His grace. Jesus who upheld every single law of God and did not transgress a single one. Jesus the innocent One.


{24:6} Therefore hath the curse devoured the
earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the
inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left. {24:7}
The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the
merryhearted do sigh. {24:8} The mirth of tabrets ceaseth,
the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp
ceaseth. {24:9} They shall not drink wine with a song;
strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it. {24:10}
The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut
up, that no man may come in. {24:11} [There is] a crying
for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the
land is gone. {24:12} In the city is left desolation, and the
gate is smitten with destruction.

There will come a day when absolutely nothing will make mankind happy. Nothing. Because they'll realize that they spurned salvation and all that's left is a bitter ending.

{24:13} When thus it shall be in the midst of the land
among the people, [there shall be] as the shaking of an olive
tree, [and] as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.

There will be a people in that time, a very few people who will be shaking out from the rest.

{24:14} They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the
majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea.
{24:15} Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the fires, [even]
the name of the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea.
{24:16} From the uttermost part of the earth have we
heard songs, [even] glory to the righteous. But I said, My
leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! the treacherous dealers
have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have
dealt very treacherously. {24:17} Fear, and the pit, and the
snare, [are] upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth. {24:18}
And it shall come to pass, [that] he who fleeth from the
noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up
out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the
windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the
earth do shake. {24:19} The earth is utterly broken down,
the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
{24:20} The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and
shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression
thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise
again. {24:21} And it shall come to pass in that day, [that]
the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones [that are]
on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth. {24:22}
And they shall be gathered together, [as] prisoners are
gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and
after many days shall they be visited. {24:23} Then the
moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the
LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem,
and before his ancients gloriously.

Amazing! So amazing! Not unsurprising that such destruction has to come to rid the world of sin.

{25:1} O LORD, thou [art] my God; I will exalt thee, I
will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful [things;
thy] counsels of old [are] faithfulness [and] truth. {25:2}
For thou hast made of a city an heap; [of] a defenced city a
ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be
built. {25:3} Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee,
the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee. {25:4} For
thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy
in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the
heat, when the blast of the terrible ones [is] as a storm
[against] the wall. {25:5} Thou shalt bring down the noise
of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; [even] the heat with
the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall
be brought low.

The Lord will save His people from destruction. Those who love Him, truly love Him will be saved by the grace of Jesus Christ, through His righteousness.

A storm is coming.
A storm that the world has known was on it's way.
A storm that like a woman in labor, the pains have been felt for some time.

No one can escape this storm.

There is a shelter from the storm and that shelter is Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior.

The storm is a necessary storm, it's the storm that will ultimately cleansed the world of sin once and forever.

May the Lord keep us in the Storm. May we find Grace in the eyes of the Lord through our Savior Jesus. May we be cleansed of sin and be found in Him, living in Him, for Him, in love.

All praise and glory to our Lord God, our Savior, our Creator!

Amen.