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Isa 56:1-8 For Mine House Shall Be Called an House of Prayer for All People.

[Study Aired March 15, 2020]

Isa 56:1  Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed. 
Isa 56:2  Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil. 
Isa 56:3  Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree. 
Isa 56:4  For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant; 
Isa 56:5  Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off. 
Isa 56:6  Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant; 
Isa 56:7  Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people. 
Isa 56:8  The Lord GOD which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I gather others to him, beside those that are gathered unto him.

In our last study we were told:

Isa 55:6  Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:
Isa 55:7  Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

“While He is near” indicates that a time is coming when He may not be found, or as Jesus put it:

Joh 9:4  I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.

It is this sense of urgency that should motivate us to whom the Lord is giving eyes that see and ears that hear, to work out our own salvation while acknowledging that, in reality, it is God who is working in us both to will and to do of His God own good pleasure:

Php 2:12  Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. 
Php 2:13  For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

The fact that there are only two resurrections, the first being the “resurrection to life” and the second being “the resurrection to judgment”, tells us that the thousand years of this earth being ruled with a rod of iron is not an age in which mankind will be given to seek the Lord as we can in this age. There will be no forgiveness given “in the age to come”, the thousand years of the dominion of the Lord and His Christ:

Notice what the Lord reveals to us:

Mat 12:32  And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world [Greek: G165, ‘aion’, age], neither in the world to come.

Christ is not speaking of the great white throne judgment/lake of fire/second death, because at that time, repentance and forgiveness will be accomplished in all men of all time (1Ti 2:4).

Here is the ACV version of this verse:

Mat 12:32  And whoever speaks a word against the Son of man, it will be forgiven him, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, neither in the present age, nor in the one that is coming.

The thousand-year reign of the Lord and His Christ over the nations of this world is an ‘age’ unto itself. The thousand-year reign is not of this age because the elect are not ruling the nations of this world in this present age. It is not of the age of the great white throne judgment, because the world is being judged in that age. It is this age, which is given to the adversary the devil, as these two verses demonstrate:

Luk 4:5  And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. 
Luk 4:6  And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it. 
Luk 4:7  If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.

This was no hollow offer. The scriptures verify that Satan really is “the god of this age”:

2Co 4:4  in whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, in order for the light of the good-news of the glory of the Christ (who is a likeness of God) not to shine forth to them. (ACV)

The Lord uses Satan to keep the Truth from being understood by the masses of mankind who come to Him (Mat 13:9-15). No one before Christ could even hope to know Christ because He had never been revealed and had not yet come and died so we could know Him and His Father:

Mat 11:27  All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him. (ACV)

Luk 10:22  All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him. (ACV)

Joh 17:3  And this is eternal life, that they should know thee the only TRUE God, and Jesus Christ whom thou sent. (ACV)

Giving Satan the title of “the god of this age” (2Co 4:4) informs us that as long as this world is under the influence of the adversary, he will continue to be “the god of this age”, this eon, “the god of this world”. Therefore, the hegemony of “the god of this world” extends from the time of “the first man Adam” (1Co 15:45) to the appearing of Christ at the time of “the first… blessed and holy… resurrection”. At that point, Satan’s rule, what is called “this present age”, comes to an abrupt end. “This present age” ends at the moment of the appearing of our Lord to rule over the kingdoms of this world at the time of “the last trump… [which is] the first resurrection”. 

Here is what Paul tells us of this great portentous, phenomenal, impending, prophetic event: 

1Th 4:15  For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent [Greek: phthanō, ‘precede’] them which are asleep. 
1Th 4:16  For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 
1Th 4:17  Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 
1Th 4:18  Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

There is not one word in scripture indicating that the Lord’s elect “meet the Lord in the air” and then stay there in the air, neither do they go off to some far away planet called ‘heaven’.

When Christ says:

Mat 12:32  And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world [Greek: G165, ‘aion’, age], neither in the world to come.

Mat 12:32  And whoever speaks a word against the Son of man, it will be forgiven him, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, neither in the present age, nor in the one that is coming. (ACV)

‘The age to come’ begins when “the Lord and His Christ place Satan in the “abussos… the bottomless pit”, immediately upon His appearing, and then “the Lord and His Christ” will simultaneously begin to rule the kingdoms of this world for a thousand years with a rod of iron:

Rev 2:26  And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: 
Rev 2:27  And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father. 
Rev 2:28  And I will give him the morning star.

Anyone who “overcomes and keeps [Christ’s] works unto the end will do so only because they have Christ, “the Morning Star” within them:

Rev 22:16  I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.

Let’s now pose the question, “What is the age to come?”

We have at least two verses of scripture which reveal to us that not one person before the death and resurrection of Christ, not one person mentioned in scripture from Adam to Christ, will be raised up to have part in “the kingdom of God”, which Christ also called “the age to come”:

Mat 11:11  Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

Joh 1:17  For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

“Grace and Truth came by Jesus Christ” telling us that all the scriptures to that point simply served as a prophecy of, and a figure of, the “Grace and Truth… which should follow… [and which] came by Jesus Christ”. We are even told salvation was not yet come to the righteous men and prophets of the Old Testament, because it was never promised to them in that age. It is only promised to us in this age. Here are the words of Christ and Peter as they bear on this fact:

Mat 13:16  But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear. 
Mat 13:17  For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.

Peter confirms for us that “many prophets and righteous men” include “the prophets”, meaning Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, all the prophets of the Old Testament. They one and all desired to know about our salvation and when that time would come, yet they never saw them, and they never heard them:

1Pe 1:9  Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls. 
1Pe 1:10  Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: 
1Pe 1:11  Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. 
1Pe 1:12  Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.

Here we are being told “Not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister… [to the] salvation [by] grace that should come to [us]”, and here now is Isaiah telling us that exact same Truth:

Isa 56:1  Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.

What Isaiah is telling us is that Christ “is near to come”, and Christ’s “righteousness… is near… to be revealed”.

Speaking “not unto [himself] but unto us” Isaiah continues:

Isa 56:2  Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.

Christ’s life demonstrated He has laid claim on all seven of our weekly days and not just the seventh day. 

Joh 5:12  Then asked they him, What man is that which said unto thee, Take up thy bed, and walk? 
Joh 5:13  And he that was healed wist not who it was: for Jesus had conveyed himself away, a multitude being in that place. 
Joh 5:14  Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee. 
Joh 5:15  The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus, which had made him whole. 
Joh 5:16  And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day. 
Joh 5:17  But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto [on the sabbath], and I work. 
Joh 5:18  Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.

“Sin no more” is not a commandment to perfection in a body of sinful flesh and blood. It is a commandment that “sin shall not have dominion over [us]… in this present age”:

Rom 6:14  For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

Sin ‘no longer holding dominion over us’ means we are now free from the strength of sin which keeps us from being obedient to our heavenly Father every day of the week, and we are now free to “do good” every day of the week.

Rom 6:17  But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you. 
Rom 6:18  Being [aorist tense] then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness. 
Rom 6:19  I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.

“Being… made free from sin” is an aorist tense because it is an ongoing daily process of dying to our old man:

Rom 6:20  For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness. 
Rom 6:21  What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
Rom 6:22  But now being [aorist] made free from sin, and become servants to God [aorist], ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. [We are in the process of “being made free from sin”, and we are “becom(ing) the servants of God”]
Rom 6:23  For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

This epistle to the Romans is an epistle which Paul is hoping will bring forth fruit among them as “among other Gentiles”, such as the “other Gentile” Ephesians:

Rom 1:13  Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you, (but was let hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.

Eph 4:17  This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,

It is right here in the very next chapter of Romans (Rom 2:28-29) that Paul reveals the fulfillment of this prophecy here in Isaiah 56:

Isa 56:3  Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree. 

“The son of the stranger, that has joined himself to the Lord” is a prophecy of the calling of the Gentiles, of whom Paul now reveals this to us:

Rom 2:28  For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: 
Rom 2:29  But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God. 

“The son of the stranger that joins himself to the Lord” of Isa 56:3 and “the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths and choose the things that please me and take hold of my covenant” of verse 4, are one and the same:

Isa 56:4  For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant;

Both “the son of the stranger” and “the eunuchs” are those who are considered by the self-righteous Babylonian religions of the world to be unproductive outsiders unworthy of being considered the Lord’s children.

However, the Lord does not look on the outward appearances. He looks on the heart, and He shows mercy to whom He chooses to show mercy:

1Sa 16:7  But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.

Rom 9:16  So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy. 
Rom 9:17  For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth. 
Rom 9:18  Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.

This is the mind of God on whom is now to be “counted for [Abraham’s] seed”:

Rom 9:8  That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.

If we have the mind of the Father and of His Son, if we think as they think, then we will be the possessors of life eternal:

Joh 17:3  And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

To “know… the only true God and Jesus Christ” is life eternal, and if we “know the only true God, then we will believing and doing His doctrines and His teachings and living according to His rules, and we will think as He thinks. 

This is His mindset on whom is His seed:

Gal 6:15  Certainly, it doesn’t matter whether a person is circumcised or not. Rather, what matters is being a new creation. 
Gal 6:16  Peace and mercy will come to rest on all those who conform to this principle. They are the Israel of God. (GWV)

Here is this same doctrine found right here is this 56^th chapter of Isaiah:

Isa 56:5  Even unto them [the sons of strangers] will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.

The “name” the Lord gives to the stranger who joins himself to the Lord to serve Him and to take hold of His covenant is the same as the name the Lord gives Himself when He turns the thorn into a fir tree and the brier into a myrtle tree in the last verse of the previous chapter:

Isa 55:13  Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.

The Lord’s name is His reputation as a “great”, loving, merciful and faithful heavenly Father:

1Ch 17:21  And what one nation in the earth is like thy people Israel, whom God went to redeem to be his own people, to make thee a name of greatness and terribleness, by driving out nations from before thy people, whom thou hast redeemed out of Egypt? 

Neh 9:10  And shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the people of his land: for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them. So didst thou get thee a name, as it is this day.

As we come “to know God and Jesus whom [He] has sent” (Joh 17:3), we begin to think more as the Lord thinks, and we begin to take on His “name of greatness”, and for us it is “a new name”. 

Once again, the inspired words of Isaiah are the foundation for the inspired words of the New Testament:

Isa 62:2  And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the LORD shall name. 

Isaiah is the inspiration for these inspiring words of comfort in the New Testament:

Rev 2:17  He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it. 

Rev 3:12  Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.

“New Jerusalem” is the name of the bride of Christ:

Rev 21:2  And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 
Rev 21:3  And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.

“The name of my God, and the name of the city of my God… New Jerusalem”, and “a new name”, are one and all the same “good name… of the greatness” which the Lord has given Himself for driving our old man out of His temple and replacing him with the “new man” whose “new name” is “Jesus of Nazareth”:

Ecc 7:1  A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one’s birth.

It is only after we begin dying daily that we are given “a good name… a new name”, the name of “Jesus of Nazareth” (Act 22:8):

Act 22:7  And I fell unto the ground, and heard a voice saying unto me, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? 
Act 22:8  And I answered, Who art thou, Lord? And he said unto me, I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest.

Christ is the husband of His own bride, New Jerusalem, as Saul of Tarsus was informed on the road to Damascus.

As any ‘son’ bears his father’s name, we all first bear the name “of [our] father the devil… sons of Belial” before we are dragged by the Lord to Himself, crushed to powder by the “white… Stone the builders rejected”, and before we have all the “wood, hay, and stubble” of the kingdom of our old man burned out of us (1Co 3:13-15).

When the Lord places His hand to accomplish that then, and not until then, we will begin to take on “a new name, which no one knows but those to whom it is given”.

Let’s look again at what is our “new name”:

Isa 62:2  And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the LORD shall name. 

Rev 2:17  He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it. 

Rev 3:12  Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.

The “White Stone” is Christ. The “new name… the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God… New Jerusalem, are one and all the Lord and His dwelling place, “the Lord and His Christ”:

Act 4:26  The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord, and against his Christ.

Rev 11:15  And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.

The masses of Christendom, and the masses of all religions of men, who think of themselves as the Lord’s people, are in the Lord’s eyes nothing more that “the son of the bondwoman… Jerusalem which now is and is in bondage with her children” and have “gathered together against the Lord and His Christ”.

These words are not the mind of the world of Christendom. These words express the mind of “the Lord and His Christ”:

Gal 4:22  For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. 
Gal 4:23  But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise. 
Gal 4:24  Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.  [All the religions of mankind, are by an allegory to be found at mount Sinai]
Gal 4:25  For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. 
Gal 4:26  But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all. 
Gal 4:27  For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband. 
Gal 4:28  Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise. 
Gal 4:29  But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now. 
Gal 4:30  Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son [the established religions of this world]: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman. 
Gal 4:31  So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.

Not one Christian in a thousand believes that the covenant from Mount Sinai ‘genders to bondage’ and typifies Hagar! Not one Christian minister in a thousand believes that “Jerusalem which now is… is Agar… and is in bondage with her children”!

Isaiah continues with this same theme of “the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the Lord…”, spiritually replacing the physical descendants of Abraham and “as Isaac was, [we spiritually] are the children of promise”:

Isa 56:6  Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant; 

This is how we now ‘keep the sabbath from polluting it’:

Heb 4:9  There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. 
Heb 4:10  For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.

“Overcoming the wicked one” and all the temptations of our corruptible flesh is how we “cease from [our] own works… and enter into His rest”. When we begin to “cease from [our] own works” is when we begin to qualify to lay claim upon this blessed promise:

Isa 56:7  Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people.
Isa 56:8  The Lord GOD which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I gather others to him, beside those that are gathered unto him.

“The mountain of the Lord… the house of the God of Jacob” is the Lord’s kingdom. As is always the case, “My holy mountain… my altar, [and] my house of prayer for all people” are all one and the same, and this is where they are all to be found:

Luk 17:20  And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: 
Luk 17:21  Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

The kingdom of God is not to be found in anyone’s genealogy. Neither will it be found in church buildings built with men’s hands:

Psa 11:4  The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD’S throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.

Isa 66:1  Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?
Isa 66:2  For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look [as “the place of my rest”], even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.

‘Agar’ and ‘the son of the bondwoman’ is teaching the lie of free moral agency and the literal physical torment of most of mankind in literal physical flames of literal fire. The Truth is that Christ is within us, dying daily to our old man, while He Himself is increasing daily within us. We are therefore the only “house of prayer for all men”.

That is our study for today and these are our verses for our next study:

Isa 56:9  All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all ye beasts in the forest. 
Isa 56:10  His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. 
Isa 56:11  Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter. 
Isa 56:12  Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.