April 19, 2026, Isaiah 8:11-22
April 19, 2026, Isaiah 8:11-22
11 For the Lord spoke
thus to me with his strong hand upon me, and warned me not to walk in the
way of this people, saying: 12 “Do not
call conspiracy all that this people calls conspiracy, and do not
fear what they fear, nor be in dread. 13 But
the Lord of
hosts, him you shall honor as holy. Let him be your fear, and let him be
your dread. 14 And he will become a sanctuary
and a stone of offense and a rock of stumbling to both houses of Israel, a
trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 15 And
many shall stumble on it. They shall fall and be broken; they shall be
snared and taken.”
16 Bind up the testimony; seal the
teaching among my disciples. 17 I
will wait for the Lord,
who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob, and I will hope in
him. 18 Behold, I and the children whom
the Lord has given me
are signs and portents in Israel from the Lord of
hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion. 19 And when they
say to you, “Inquire of the mediums and the necromancers who chirp and
mutter,” should not a people inquire of their God? Should they inquire
of the dead on behalf of the living? 20 To the
teaching and to the testimony! If they will not speak according to this word,
it is because they have no dawn. 21 They will
pass through the land, greatly distressed and hungry. And when they are
hungry, they will be enraged and will speak contemptuously against their
king and their God, and turn their faces upward. 22 And
they will look to the earth, but behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of
anguish. And they will be thrust into thick darkness.
How should God’s people respond when everyone else is
fearful and obsessed with conspiracy theories? Are we living in times such as
those described in this passage?
Debbie Walker
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