Reading
SAA Notes
Another name for the Mountain of the Lord is the Rock of Israel. Isaiah 30:29 Think of the important mountains in the Scriptures: Ararat, Babel’s ziggurat, Sinai, the split Rock of Moses, Zion, the split mountain of Zechariah which provides the way of salvation, Transfiguration, Ascension, Mount Zion heavenly Jerusalem of Hebrews 12:22 (Jerusalem Above which is eternal as opposed to Jerusalem Below which is temporal).
SJA Notes
* God Above, please open our eyes today to know You better from Your word.
“For the LORD of hosts has a day against all that is proud and lofty, against all that is lifted up – and it shall be brought low;”
How does God’s word help us work through living in situations where the proud and lofty bring about injustice, where they seem to only care about the pursuit of earthly gain (power, money, control).
God has a day prepared!
“And the haughtiness of man shall be humbled, and the lofty pride of men shall be brought low, and the LORD alone will be exactly in that day.”
This day is coming. God has promised it in His word. God int he Person of the Son, Jesus our King, promised it while He was on earth. You can read of this passages such as John 14 and Revelation 22.
When will this day come?
Peter helps us wrestle with this, in 2 Peter 3 we read,
“But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.”
SALVATION!
God’s timing of the _when_, in His patience, is tightly linked with His salvation plan.
And while it can be easy to look out and see the proud and lofty, the haughtiness of man in others – We remember that it was our sin that Jesus went to the cross for.
We need this humility, this repentance, first and foremost in ourselves.
Peter goes on,
“But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.”
This is a big important day, when big important things will happen.
Let us make sure we are humbled at the feet of our King now, sheltered in His righteousness.
* Gracious Father,
Thank You that we can read of Your coming day in Isaiah and Revelation, in John and in Peter’s words, all through Your word.
Prepare our hearts today Lord, for going about the works You have for us to do.
Amen.