PROPHETS & KINGS: Audio & Pull Quotes- Chapter 25

The Call of Isaiah

Audio:
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With oppression and wealth came pride and love of display, gross drunkenness, and a spirit of

revelry. By their apostasy and rebellion those who should have been standing as light bearers among the nations were inviting the judgments of God. Many of the evils which were hastening the swift destruction of the northern kingdom, and which had recently been denounced in unmistakable terms by Hosea and Amos, were fast corrupting the kingdom of Judah.
The outlook was particularly discouraging as regards the social conditions of the people. In their desire for gain, men were adding house to house and field to field. Justice was perverted, and no pity was shown the poor. Of these evils God declared, The spoil of the poor is in your houses." Ye beat My people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor. Isaiah 3:14, 15.
As Isaiah beheld this revelation of the glory and majesty of his Lord, he was overwhelmed with a sense of the purity and holiness of God. How sharp the contrast between the matchless perfection of his Creator, and the sinful course of those who, with himself, had long been numbered among the chosen people of Israel and Judah!  For sixty years or more he stood before the children of Judah as a prophet of hope, waxing bolder and still bolder in his predictions of the future triumph of the church.