"And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter. Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey...And he [God] saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor."
(Isa. 59:14-15)
People want to know if the Bible is relevant today. The above text should answer that question. Just compare today's happenings with the condition of Isaiah's day. The prophet wrote some 750 years before Christ; yet if I were to print it in a news article today, without divulging its origin, the mass of thinking people would say the writer had exceptional insight.
Whenever truth is cast into the streets, only to be trampled on as filth, you can know of a surety that neither judgement, justice, or equity will be able to enter the civil courts or Christian congregations. Truth is first and foremost in all situations of life. In our day we have substituted opinion for truth. We put the inferior in the place of the superior.
Such people, saved or lost, live a life of lies! Because they have thrown out truth like dirty dishwater, they're never able to come to the knowledge of it. If they happen to stumble over it, they do not offer to lift it up, but rather, like some, kick it like a cur dog. These truthless pagans are easily spotted; they call evil good and good evil. They acquit the guilty and accuse the innocent.
For the small elect remnant who will not give in to this kind of tyranny but rather depart from such evil, they become a prey to these vicious beasts. They are ridiculed and a laughing stock among these mindless, heartless animals. As Paul puts it, "...I have fought with beasts at Ephesus..." When you give way to a bully, he becomes a bigger bully. Stop him in his tracks!
The wonder of wonders in all of the above is that God Himself wondered at the absence of an intercessor!
By an Old Disciple
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