SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 8/22/2013
8:16 PM
My Worship Time Focus:
“The oracle concerning Edom”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Isaiah
21:11-12
Message of the
verses: “11 The oracle concerning
Edom. One keeps calling to me from Seir, "Watchman, how far gone is the
night? Watchman, how far gone is the night?" 12 The watchman says, ‘Morning
comes but also night. If you would inquire, inquire; Come back again.’”
You can see that this will be rather short for we are
only looking at two verses from Isaiah 21 which speaks of Edom. Edom came from Jacob’s brother Esau, whose
nickname was “red [Edom]” (See Genesis 25:21-24). We know that Edom hated the Israelites: “Remember,
O LORD, against the sons of Edom The day of Jerusalem, Who said, "Raze it,
raze it To its very foundation,’” (Psalm 137:7). It had to go back to when Esau and Jacob were
born and God told Rebecca that she had two nations in her womb and that the
older would serve the younger of which Esau would serve Jacob. Dr. Wiersbe explains some things from these
two verses as he writes: “Dumah and Seir
are names for Edom (Numbers 24:18).
Isaiah moved one letter in the Hebrew word Adom and created Dum, which
means ‘stillness, silence.’ It was his
way of saying, ‘Edom will be silent; it will be no more.’” (Remember that Dr. Wiersbe is using the
KJV.) “11 ¶ The burden of Dumah. He
calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the
night? 12 The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will
enquire, enquire ye: return, come.”
Isaiah was the watchman on the wall and let Edom know
that the darkness would not last forever, but it would return shortly after the
dawn came. Assyria would be defeated by
the Lord, and then the Babylonians would defeat both Judah and Edom, but Edom
would survive until the time of the Romans for the Herod’s were from Edom
(Idumeans). After Rome fell then Edom would also vanish.
Spiritual meaning
for my life today: I can see from
the descriptions that Isaiah gives of these nations that God is surely in
control of all the nations of the world, back then and today even though many
people do not believe or understand all of this.
My Steps of Faith for Today: Trust the Lord to guild my path as seen in
Proverbs 3:5-6.
Memory verses for the
week: Psalm 46 (All)
1 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in
trouble. 2 Therefore we will not fear
though the earth should change and though the mountains slip into the heart of
the sea; 3 though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains quake at its
swelling pride. Selah. 4 There is a river whose streams make glade
the city of God, The holy dwelling place of the most high. 5 God is in the midst of her, she will not be
moved, God will help her when morning dawns.
6 The nations make an uproar, the kingdoms tottered; He
raised His voice, the earth melted. 7
The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our stronghold. 8 Come behold the works of the Lord, who has
wrought desolations in the earth. 9 He
makes wars to cease to the end of the earth; He breaks the bow and cuts the
sword in two; He burns the chariots with fire.
10 “Cease striving and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the
nations; I will be exalted in the earth.”
11 The Lord of hosts is with us; The God of Jacob is our
stronghold. Selah.
Answer to yesterday’s Bible
Question: “Eve” (Genesis 4:1-2).
Today’s Bible Question: What word of Egyptian origin was frequently
used for dry measure, and in capacity was equivalent to the liquid measure ‘bath?’”
Answer in tomorrow’s SD.
8/22/2013 8:45 PM
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