My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, if we see the portion of the Bible that we meditated on yesterday in order that none of us should become weary our Lord God has given us his eternal possession which is Jesus Christ. He is the stone that is laid in Zion a tried stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation and cornerstone; We see that God is telling us that he has kept that stone in Zion, It is written that whoever believes on that stone will not act hastily.

The scornful people who rule Jerusalem are saying that We have made a covenant with death, When the overflowing scourge (plague) passes through, It will not come to us, For we have made lies our refuge, And under falsehood we have hidden ourselves.” But whatever plagues may come they will not escape. We see that the plagues that God sends is destroying them.

Therefore, God says in Isaiah 28: 17 Also I will make justice the measuring line, and righteousness the plummet; The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, And the waters will overflow the hiding place.

Your covenant with death will be annulled, And your agreement with Sheol will not stand; When the overflowing scourge passes through, Then you will be trampled down by it.

As often as it goes out it will take you; For morning by morning it will pass over, and by day and by night; It will be a terror just to understand the report.”

For the bed is too short to stretch out on, And the covering so narrow that one cannot wrap himself in it.

My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, we must meditate on the above verses and analyze our lives. Think of the times when we followed vain things, gave importance to vain things, gave the place of God to vain things and the times when we thought we can live in the shadow of it. Think of the times when we lived according to our heart’s desires, thought what we are thinking is right, did according to our heart’s thoughts and lived as we desired. God’s servants and gospel workers did according to their heart’s desire holding on to vain things, followed them and walked according to them and if we have also followed them and gone in the wrong path today let us think carefully, think of how whatever God has told is happening in these days. Many people even those who know God are not able to escape from the plagues and pestilence that God has sent in the world today, so we must see what the reason is. Those who thought that there is refuge in vain things should think of the hail which is the plague and the waters overflowing the hiding place and submit ourselves completely to God and remove vain things from us and believe only on Jesus who is out sure foundation and our cornerstone and if we will abide in His words then no evil shall come upon us.

Therefore God’s words says in Isaiah 28: 21 For the Lord will rise up as at Mount Perazim, He will be angry as in the Valley of Gibeon— That He may do His work, His awesome work, And bring to pass His act, His unusual act.

My dear people of God do not be careless after meditating on all these words. God is giving us a chance to repent and unite with God. This is because of God’s long suffering upon us.

Therefore, God’s words in Isaiah 28: 22, 23 says - Now therefore, do not be mockers, Lest your bonds be made strong; For I have heard from the Lord God of hosts, A destruction determined even upon the whole earth.

If God is revealing all these things to the prophet Isaiah through visions and is talking to us, then in these days think of how much we have to change and receive holiness.

For with stammering lips and another tongue He will speak to this people as written in God’s words in Isaiah 28: 11 God is showing that this is the comfort that he is giving the vain people.

Our God is not a God who gives other tongues in the form of stammering lips.

Proverbs 14: 6 A scoffer seeks wisdom and does not find it, But knowledge is easy to him who understands.

From this we understand that wisdom is Christ. A scoffer does not wear Christ. Knowledge is the bride. Those who have received wisdom will gain knowledge. Those who have knowledge will get understanding easily.

Proverbs 21: 11 When the scoffer is punished, the simple is made wise; But when the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge.

God is calling our soul simple when our soul does not have wisdom. When that soul is being punished it will receive wisdom. If we receive wisdom (God’s wisdom) when he listens to God’s teachings, he will receive knowledge.

That is why in Psalms 1: 1 it is written Blessed is the man Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, Nor stands in the path of sinners, Nor sits in the seat of the scornful;

From this we have to understand that ungodly are the Christians who live according to the lusts of the world and by following vain things and those doing God’s work in this manner.

That is why in Jude 1: 18, 19 how they told you that there would be mockers in the last time who would walk according to their own ungodly lusts. These are sensual persons, who cause divisions, not having the Spirit. These are the people that God calls scornful. God talks to such people only with stammering lips and other tongues.

When the Day of Pentecost came the Holy Spirit came upon all those who waited on Him. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues. We can see that no one spoke in stammering lips.

Only if we are the bride – the church whatever plagues or floods may come it will not affect us. Otherwise our covenant with death will be annulled, And our agreement with Sheol will not stand.

This is what is happening in these days. Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters in Christ we must always be careful to stand in God’s truth. We must be built on Christ who is our sure foundation and our Cornerstone.

Let us pray. May the Lord bless you all.

-        To be continued