Isaiah 24:4 The earth mourns and fades away, the world languishes and fades away, the haughty people of the earth do languish. 5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
Case in point is the issue of devastating droughts all over the world, from Greece to Russia, and from the Midwest to Africa. All over the world, the same cry for water is being made, because the reservoirs and dams which were formerly fed by snow-packs, year- round, have now become so severely depleted that hydropower plants had to shut down, and water is currently being trucked into California as a result.
Question: Is it God that is doing these things to the human family? Or are we just reaping the fruits of our own doing? The correct answer to these two questions will shed great light on why apocalyptic prophecies were written the way they were. In the above passage the prophet Isaiah, in pointing out the reasons for what comes next in the chapter, says that the reason for the distress is that we have “transgressed the laws”. Question: Which laws is the prophet referring to?
Answer: Not only is the prophet referencing the Ten commandments, written with the finger of God, he is also referring to dietary laws, agricultural laws, environmental laws, social laws and godly principles that were given to make the world run efficiently as possible. But we have cast out as archaic and irrelevant many of the statutes and instructions given to the human family by God, and as a result the Bible predicts that our chickens will be coming home to roost, sooner or later.
Isaiah 24:6 Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
May The Lord add His blessing to the study of His word. God bless!