World Super Power

A month after my last post in which I likened the God of the universe to the worst terrorist one can imagine, I have more to say on this matter. (I want to briefly say, though, that I was saddened when my post did not spark a single comment. We use the word "terrorist" to label the most sinister, evil persons...and I called the U.S. a terrorist and God a terrorist...and no one responded. I am going to assume that my xanga sight just doesn't attract any attention to itself rather than that my remarks were common knowledge or people just don't care.) I read something recently where someone said something to the effect that we should not worry; America is going to get everything that God has planned for them. I couldn't agree more! The irony is that the person who said this was reffering to some type of blessings in store for America(I think), whereas I envision something more along the lines of curses. And those that read the Old Testament know that a nation can receive both, though usually not at the same time.

Today's post is inspired by the prophet Isaiah who gave the words of the LORD to Judah shortly before and after the Babylonian exile. In chapter 2 he paints a beautiful picture of what will happen in the last days: many nations will stream to the LORD's mountain; the LORD will dispense justice to these nations; war will be history. He then gives God's message to the present: the house of Jacob is to walk in the LORD's presence. And yet, there is a problem. The LORD has abandoned Jacob, because they have adopted the practices of other nations, and their military and material success has inflated their pride to the extent that the LORD has a very chilling message. He is going to bring them down. And they shall be afraid, very afraid!

"So man will be brought low and mankind humbled - do not forgive them. Go into the rocks, hide in the ground from the dread of the LORD and the splendor of his majesty! The eyes of the arrogant man will be humbled and the pride of men brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day....Men will flee to caves in the rocks and holes in the ground from the dread of the LORD and the splendor of his majesty when he rises to shake the earth....They will flee to caverns in the rocks and to the overhanging crags from the dread of the LORD and the splendor of his majesty when he rises to shake the earth. Stop trusting in man who has but a breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?" (Isaiah 2:9-11,19,21-22)

Did you catch the part about hiding in the ground and fleeing to the caverns in the rocks? Though he is speaking to the house of Jacob (which may stand for Judah too) he says that mankind will be brought low. Could that include all of us? All of us will be hiding in the rocks just like Osama Ben Laden? We will seem as cowards because we are so afraid of the "dread of the LORD." I'm not sure what all this means, but it is very interesting that a country with military and material success (Judah) would be fleeing to holes in the ground from someone who was going to bring more dread than they could ever imagine, and it's not any nation that they can see. And here we are, the all-powerful United States, a country with military and material success, who was all too recently looking for terrorists hiding in the ground. Could the application be that we are the next to be hunted, that we will be trying to escape a Super Power, the one that we have not been looking for, the one we are least expecting? When will we stop trusting in man? When will we humble ourselves before the LORD brings us to our knees?