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Isa 30:1-9 Our Rebellion Leads To Our Shame

Isa 30:1  Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:
Isa 30:2  That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!
Isa 30:3  Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
Isa 30:4  For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.
Isa 30:5  They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
Isa 30:6  The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.
Isa 30:7  For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.
Isa 30:8  Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:
Isa 30:9  That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:

The first part of this chapter concerns our naturally rebellious nature. Paul calls this rebellious nature "the carnal mind [which] is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be":

Rom 8:7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

Romans 8:7 is just a short summation of the message of Romans 7, where our natural carnal mind is said to be dominated by what the spirit informs us is "the law of sin... which is in [our] members [our flesh]":

Rom 7:17  Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
Rom 7:18  For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
Rom 7:19  For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
Rom 7:20  Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
Rom 7:21  I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
Rom 7:22  For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
Rom 7:23  But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Rom 7:24  O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
Rom 7:25  I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

The flesh cannot trust in the things of the spirit. To do so requires faith, and faith is a gift from God which He gives only to those few whom He chooses in this age. All of us are brought to shame because we are made in a shameful, rebellious condition by our Creator:

Gen 2:25  And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

Rom 8:7  Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

We are all born with a self-centered carnal mind. Every parent knows the sound of a hungry baby with a dirty diaper, but the Lord has also given us eyes which cannot see that we are brought into this world in a shamefully naked and rebellious spiritual condition before Him, and until we become aware that we are spiritually naked and rebellious toward Him and His law, He will not come and dwell within us. We are born under the curse of the law, which 'law' is typified by the tree of the knowledge of good and evil:

Gen 3:6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
Gen 3:7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

Rom 7:7  What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

The law tells us what we are to do, but the law does not strengthen us to do what it says. The carnal mind, with which Adam and Eve and each of us were made, "is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be" subject to the Lord. So we are told:

Isa 30:1  Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:

Notice that when the Lord confronted Adam and Eve they did not beg for forgiveness for their disobedience. Instead, they did what come naturally for any carnal mind. They excused themselves and passed the buck to someone else. In other words, our own ignorance of who we are, by the nature which the Lord first gives us, is what restrains Christ's coming to live within His own temple, which 'temple' is our physical bodies:

2Th 2:3  Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
2Th 2:4  Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

It is "the day of the Lord" which is under discussion here in 2Thessalonians 2:

2Th 2:1  Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
2Th 2:2  That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.

Paul is not saying that the day of Christ is not at hand. Paul knew very well what Christ taught on that subject:

Mat 24:32  Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:
Mat 24:33  So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.
Mat 24:34  Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.

Here are just a few verses from the writings of the apostle Paul concerning the day of the Lord:

1Co 5:5  To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

2Co 1:14  As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.

1Th 5:2  For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

Paul and Peter were on the same page in what they were teaching to those under their charge about what should be their mindset concerning "the day of the Lord".

2Pe 3:10  But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

"All these things" of Matthew 24:34 included the man of sin standing in the holy place in the temple of God, just as Paul told the Thessalonians. Paul understood that "all these things" must be fulfilled in every generation hearing the words of the Lord:

Mat 24:15  When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)

When the Lord appears and our spiritual eyes see our own "man of sin... sitting in the temple of God", it is at that moment the Lord begins judging and destroying the son of perdition with "the brightness of His coming" into His temple, meaning into our bodies and into our lives.

1Pe 4:17  For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?

The Lord's judgments do not end with us. Our judgment in this age is merely the "begin[ning] of His judgments", and those judgments will not be completed until Adam himself is purified of his rebellious carnal mind.

Rev 1:3  Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.

"The day of Christ" and "the day of the Lord" are the same thing, and Paul is telling us that as long as "the man of sin... the son of perdition [is still] sitting in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God, that day shall not come "except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed [as] the son of perdition".

Now let's go back to 2Thessalonians 2 and notice how Paul continues explaining what he means by "the day of the Lord" and 'the temple of God':

2Th 2:5  Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
2Th 2:6  And now ye know what withholdeth [G2722: katecho - withhold, restrain] that he might be revealed in his time.
2Th 2:7  For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth [G2722: katecho - withhold, restrain] will let, until he be taken out of the way.
2Th 2:8  And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:

If we can remember what Paul has "told [us] before", then we will know exactly that what restrains the revealing of the man of sin, the son of perdition, from being revealed is the fact our eyes have not been opened to see that it is our own beast sitting on the throne of Christ in our hearts.

What was it Paul had told these Thessalonians "while [he] was yet with [them]"? He told them the same thing he had told the Corinthians and all of us about what is "the temple of God" and what God Himself considers to be "the temple of God". It is knowing what and where that 'temple' is which reveals for us who is the true "man of sin the son of perdition... sitting in the temple of God showing himself that he is God".

Here is what Paul had told these Thessalonians about what is the true "temple of God" and where this "man of sin" truly resides until he is taken out of the way and is destroyed by the appearing of the Lord to evict the "son of perdition" from His 'temple':

1Co 3:16  Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
1Co 3:17  If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

2Co 6:16  And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

That 'man of sin' has a set time to be revealed in every man, and when that time comes he will be revealed, but until that time he continues to sit in the temple of God proclaiming that it is he, by the strength of his own free, who occupies the true 'temple of God'.

That has been the lie which has kept mankind, "the man of sin", blinded from the Truth of who it is that constitutes "the abomination of desolation" from the creation of Adam until this very day. We tell ourselves, "I have never claimed to be God," but what we obsequiously and subserviently do in the worship and pleasing and obedience to the desires of our flesh speaks so loudly that God will not hear what we say.

2Th 2:9  Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
2Th 2:10  And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
2Th 2:11  And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
2Th 2:12  That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

Taken by itself we might conclude that it is our own fault we "received not the love of the Truth", but once again the sum of the Lord's word proves that the Lord is "working all things after the counsel of His own will" and that the doctrine of mankind's fabled "free will" is itself nothing less than rebellion against the clearly defined sovereignty of God:

Psa 119:160 The sum of thy word is truth; And every one of thy righteous ordinances endureth for ever.

Egypt typifies our flesh, and it typifies our rebellious carnal mind and the rebellious carnal mind of all mankind. Isaiah tell us this about ourselves:

Isa 30:2  That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!
Isa 30:3  Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.

Egypt is not speaking of the physical nation of Egypt in scripture. It is true that Israel sought an alliance with the nation of Egypt, to withstand Nebuchadnezzar, but that is just a history lesson. The spiritual lesson for us is that we look to our flesh and to the things of this world, and we seek the approval of this world instead of seeking to please our Lord. We "go down to Egypt" when we seek to protect ourselves by means of personal arms, or on the national level, we depend on our military to keep us safe as a nation. We "go down to Egypt" when we allow ourselves to get involved in the political affairs of this age, seeking to save our own country and our own families and our own flesh. We "go down to Egypt" when we depend on Godless, "science, falsely so-called", and when we put all of these things ahead of our trust in our Lord for our direction in life. When we do any of these things, we are "the rebellious children... that take counsel, but not of me... that cover with a covering, but not of [the Lord's] spirit [and in doing so we] add sin to sin".

Isa 30:1  Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:

"But not of My spirit..." Why do we need the covering of the Lord's spirit? We need the covering of the spirit of the Lord, which 'spirit' is His Words:

Joh 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

Why must we be covered by the Lord's words? There is a very good reason, and "the things that are made" as well as the scriptures reveal why we must be covered by the spirit. The word of our Lord is we want to overcome our rebellion which leads to our shame.

I have told the story many years ago of responding to an ad in a newspaper which simply stated "The cure for cancer was discovered". I think it said 'in 1945'. The claim was that Hitler allowed his Jewish doctor to continue his studies into a cure for cancer because Hitler had lost a family member to cancer. There was an 800 number to call, so I figured, "What do I have to lose?" I, too, have lost friends and family members to cancer, and would love to know how to cure cancer, so I called the number.

The person who answered the phone explained to me that the discovery which was made all those years ago was that all cancer cells lacked being covered with lymph from the lymphatic system. Our lymphatic system parallels our circulatory system capillary for capillary. The lymph, I was told, gives every cell which is bathed with lymph the ability to receive the nourishment from the blood into all the capillaries throughout our bodies. The man talking with me explained that since there is no pump for our lymphatic system, our Creator gave us lymph nodes at every joint placed throughout our bodies. For that reason a healthy body requires a certain amount of daily exercise to keep all the cells of our bodies covered with the lymph which serves as the catalyst which gives our cells the ability to receive the nourishment which the blood of our circulatory system brings to every cell in our bodies. The largest lymph gland in our body is located between our lungs and is activated by the deep breaths we take while exercising. The advice I was given was that if I could not do daily exercising on a consistent basis, then the thing to do was deep breathing exercises which would squeeze that lymph node and get the lymph circulating out to the cells of my body.

I thanked the man profusely for taking his time to explain all of this to me. I did not know if what the man had told me was really true. However, it all had a 'ring of truth' to it, and as the Lord would have it, I watch a 60 Minutes show one week later which featured a lady who in her early 50's started having back pains which got worse and worse until she ended up in great pain and in a wheelchair unable to walk at all. Her children had chronicled her steady decline over several year on videos. This lady had spent thousands of dollars on doctors and medicines over that time, and nothing made one bit of difference in her condition. She continued her downward spiral until she could no longer work in her garden, and she was wheelchair bound.

One day she was attending a community function when another lady, who heard of what was happening in the life of this woman, told her that she knew a Chinese doctor who could cure her of her affliction. The afflicted lady was so desperate she decided to visit that Chinese doctor. What that doctor told the lady was that if she would faithfully and diligently follow his instructions, he guaranteed her that she would be out of her wheelchair and back to good health within two years. The doctors instructions were incredibly simple: Take very deep breaths, as deep as you possibly can, and do this just 20 minutes every day, and he promised her she would be out of her wheelchair within two years. This woman take that doctor seriously, but instead of doing her deep breathing exercises just 20 minutes a day, she did them 2 hours a day, and she was out of her wheelchair and free of all of her pain in just six months instead of two years.

The Chinese doctor never once mentioned the lymphatic system. The 60 Minutes moderator never once mentioned the lymphatic system. It was all presented simply as the good results of this lady listening to and following the instructions of a sage old Chinese doctor.

To me it all typified our need to take in the life-giving Word of God into our lives and be nourished by "every joint" as the scriptures actually teach us:

Eph 4:15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
Eph 4:16 From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.

The lymphatic system works together with the circulatory system to get the nourishment in our blood to every cell in our bodies, just as Christ and His Father's words work together within us to prepare us to receive "the [life giving] truth... building up [ourselves] in love".

Egypt and Babylon, and all the doctors and leaders and ministers of those systems, are the doctors who took this woman's money with the promise and hope of a cure but to no avail and only having her condition worsen by the day. That is what typifies our rebellion against our True Healer, and that is what leads us to our shame.

As any rebellious child with Godly parents soon learns:

Pro 29:15  The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.

But Proverbs 29:15 and Isaiah 30:1 have proceeded out of the mouth of God, and we do rebel against our Lord and seek counsel from the leaders of this age from the prominent people of this world, from Egypt:

Isa 30:4  For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.
Isa 30:5  They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.

Zoan and Hanes are prominent cities of Egypt. It is we who send ambassadors to Egypt when we seek the counsels of Babylon during the time of our trials. Babylon is but a later, more mature type of Egypt. God's people first come out of Egypt, and then at a later stage in their walk they must also come out of Babylon:

First we are told:

Hos 11:1  When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.

Later, after coming out of Egypt after coming out of the godless world, we are then seduced by a harlot, and then we are also told:

Rev 18:4  And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her [Babylon], my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.

Egypt and this world and Babylon, with all of their great leaders and Biblical scholars, appear so very powerful to our natural man and so willing to help us in our time of need, but:

Jas 4:17  Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

We know better than to depend upon our own flesh, and we know this world does not have what we need to satisfy us spiritually, but we do not at first seek to walk in the spirit. Instead we "go down to Egypt" and actually give our lives over to a harlot who is nothing more than a huge burden upon us for many dark years:

Isa 30:6  The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.

Egypt, this world, our own flesh, is "the beast of the south... the land of trouble and anguish from which come the young and old lion, the viper and the fiery flying serpent" all of which are types of the adversary himself. It is we who carry our riches on the shoulders of young asses and our treasures upon the bunches of camels to a people that shall not profit us no matter how faithfully we pay our tithes and regardless of how big a check we place in the offering plate, or how hard we try to save this world and our country. This world and its churches are "a people that shall not profit" us. In time we will be ashamed of our actions, and we will come to see:

Isa 30:7  For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.

"Their strength is to sit still" means that we only receive our strength when we finally learn to trust in the Lord and we quit depending upon ourselves and upon this world and the ministers of the churches of this world, who are actually nothing more than those whom the Lord has given to Satan to afflict and destroy us. "Their strength is to sit still" is the same as what God spoke to Israel through Moses, when Israel was accusing Moses of bringing them out into the wilderness to kill them:

Exo 14:9  But the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baalzephon.
Exo 14:10  And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians marched after them; and they were sore afraid: and the children of Israel cried out unto the LORD.
Exo 14:11  And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt?
Exo 14:12  Is not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.

It is miraculous how the Lord has given us to slavishly serve our own flesh and the churches of the great harlot, but we accuse Him of wanting to destroy us when we face our first fiery trials. We have great faith in Egypt and in Babylon, and our flesh wants to return there, but notice what God tells Israel both here in Isaiah and again in Hosea 11:

Exo 14:13  And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will shew to you to day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no more for ever.
Exo 14:14  The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.

We will never "see the salvation of the Lord" as long as we continue to complain about the afflictions the Lord has placed upon us. We will begin to see His salvation when we "bring to Him the sacrifice of thanksgiving". Our sister Bettie shared a completely secular and scientific yet Biblical article which demonstrated the physical benefits of "bringing to [the Lord] the sacrifice of thanksgiving" and living with an attitude of gratitude:

Psa 107:21  Oh that men would praise the LORD for his [chastening] goodness, and for his wonderful [fiery] works to the children of men!
Psa 107:22  And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with rejoicing.

Our flesh cannot praise the Lord while He is chastening us. Our flesh cannot express gratitude for the Lord's loving discipline upon us. It takes "Christ in [us]" to do such a thing, and for Christ to grow to that point takes time. In the meantime we are told:

Isa 30:8  Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:
Isa 30:9  That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:

"...For the time to come and for ever and ever" should read 'for the last day untill the end of the ages'. The phrase "for the time to come" is taken from the two Hebrew words 'yom acharon'.

H3117
יוֹם
yôm
yome
From an unused root meaning to be hot; a day (as the warm hours), whether literally (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figuratively (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverbially): - age, + always, + chronicles, continually (-ance), daily, ([birth-], each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever (-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (. . . live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year (-ly), + younger.

Here is where this Hebrew word first appears in the scriptures:

Gen 1:5  And God called the light Day [H314 yom], and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

The Hebrew word, 'acharon' is defined as, and means, "late or last":

H314
אַחֲרֹן    אַחֲריֹן
'achăryôn    'achărôn
akh-ar-one', akh-ar-one'
From H309; hinder; generally late or last; specifically (as facing the east) western: - after (-ward), to come, following, hind (-er, -ermost, -most), last, latter, rereward, ut(ter)most.

The message for us is that God's people will be rebelling against Him until the ends of the ages come upon them, as Paul tells us:

1Co 10:11  Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world [G165: aion - ages] are come.

The 'last days' are "the ends of the world", and the "ends of the world", according to the apostle Paul and the holy spirit, "are come" upon us at this very moment because:

1Pe 4:17  For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?

The Greek word translated 'world' in 1 Corinthians 10:11 is the word G165 'aion'. We are all well aware of the proper translation of this Greek word:

From the same as G104; properly an age; by extension perpetuity (also past); by implication the world; specifically (Jewish) a Messianic period (present or future): - age, course, eternal, (for) ever (-more), [n-]ever, (beginning of the, while the) world (began, without end). Compare G5550.

Notice carefully that Strong admits the definition of this Greek word is "properly an age". Of course, because James Strong is one of the great men of Egypt and one of the merchants of Babylon, he goes on to add to the Lord's words: "by extension perpetuity (also past)..."

Now I want you to notice how Mr. Strong, an agent of the great whore of Revelation 17 and 18, contradicts himself to cling to his false doctrine that the Greek word aion means "by extension perpetuity". He reveals to us that he actually knows that this Greek work aion means only "an age" when he tells us to compare G165 with G5550. When we do so, this is what Mr. Strong tells us:

G5550
χρόνος
chronos
khron'-os
Of uncertain derivation; a space of time (in genitive case, and thus properly distinguished from G2540, which designates a fixed or special occasion; and from G165, which denotes a particular period) or interval; by extension an individual opportunity; by implication delay: - + years old, season, space, (X often-) time (-s), (a) while.

"G165... denotes a particular period..." What happened to "by extension perpetuity"? Mr. Strong twice admits that G165, the Greek noun 'aion', means "properly and age... denot[ing] a particular period". But doctrine always trumps The Truth of the scriptures while we are the great rebellious men of Babylon and Egypt.

In our next study we will be told by the Lord Himself what is the fruit of our naturally rebellious nature:

Isa 30:10  Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
Isa 30:11  Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
Isa 30:12  Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
Isa 30:13  Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
Isa 30:14  And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.
Isa 30:15  For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.
Isa 30:16  But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.
Isa 30:17  One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill.
The Lord Will Be Gracious
Isa 30:18  And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.