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September 5 - Isaiah 34 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, It is Tuesday the 5th of September.
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  I'm Sean and so good that you could invite me into your day.
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  At you and I, we can read a chapter of God's Word together.
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  I wonder what the rest of your day looks like.
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  Will you be heading off to work? Will you be heading off to
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  school? Will you be heading off to all
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  the jobs that you got planned for today?
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  Or does today look like a spacious day?
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  I don't know. But whatever it looks like, I
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  hope that your day ahead is colored and punctuated by an
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  injection of God's word. So I'm so glad that you're
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  joining us. And this might be one of these
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  strange readings where you think, how does this inject the
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  Holy Spirit into my day? But this is God speaking about
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  his big picture, engaging with humanity.
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  And and this is a message for the nation.
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  This chapter, and some of it will be scary and some of it
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  will be encouraging. But in all of it, when you hear
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  that God is sovereign. So join me, friends.
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  Let us read together. Isaiah, Chapter 34.
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  Come here and listen. No nations of the earth.
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  Let the world and everything in it hear my words, For the Lord
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  is enraged against the nations. His fury is against all their
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  armies. He will completely destroy them,
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  dooming them to slaughter. Their dead will be left
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  unburied, and the stench of rotting bodies will fill the
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  land. The mountains will flow with
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  their blood. The heavens above will melt away
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  and disappear like a rolled up scroll.
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  The stars will fall from the sky like withered leaves from a
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  Grapevine or shriveled figs from a fig tree.
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  And when my sword has finished its work in the heavens, it will
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  fall upon Edom, the nation I have marked for destruction.
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  The sword of the Lord is drenched with blood and covered
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  with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of
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  Rams prepared for sacrifice. Yes, the Lord will offer a
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  sacrifice in the city of Bosra. He will make a mighty slaughter
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  in Edom. Even men as strong as wild oxen
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  will die, the young men alongside the veterans.
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  The land will be soaked with blood and the soil enriched with
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  fat, for it is the day of the Lord's revenge, the year when
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  Eden will be paid back for all it did to Israel.
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  The streams of Eden will be filled with burning pitch, and
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  the ground will be covered with fire.
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  This judgment on Eden will never end.
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  The smoke of its burning will rise forever.
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  The land will lie deserted from generation to generation.
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  No one will live there any more, and it will be haunted by the
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  desert owl and the screech owl, the great owl and the Raven.
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  For God will measure that land carefully.
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  He will measure it for chaos and destruction.
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  It will be called the Land of Nothing, and all its nobles will
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  soon be gone. Thorns will overrun its palaces.
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  Nettles and thistles will grow in its forts.
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  The ruins will be a haunt for jackals and a home for owls.
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  Desert animals will mingle there with hyhenas, their howls
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  filling the night. Wild goats will bleat at one
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  another among the ruins, and night creatures will come there
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  to rest. There the owl will make her nest
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  and lay her eggs. She will hatch her young and
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  cover them with her wings, and the buzzards will come, each one
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  with its mate. Search the book of the Lord and
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  see what He will do. Not one of these birds and
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  animals will be missing, and none will lack a mate, for the
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  Lord has promised this. His spirit will make it all come
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  true. He has surveyed and divided the
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  land and deeded it over to these creatures.
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  They will possess it forever, from generation to generation.
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  Lord, sometimes we can make the mistake of feeling like you are
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  sitting silently outside of the arena of life, and that we are
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  struggling through and we call out to you and you don't answer
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  and you remain disengaged. But if there's one thing that
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  this chapter throws in our faces, it's that you are not
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  silent. You have your heart of justice,
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  and in your good time, you will bring all things to justice in
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  the way that you know best. And even the little owls and the
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  buzzards and the desert animals and all of those lowly
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  creatures, including us, Sometimes we are.
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  They are all in your care. You are a God who remembers the
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  mighty acts of nations and cares about the smallest desert
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  animal, whether it has a mate or not.
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  Thank you for your mighty oversight of all of your
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  creation, and we submit to you and Your Lordship.
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  And we are so grateful that your loving Father's eye rests upon
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  us. We love you and we pray all
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  these things in Jesus name come in.