O. Addison Gethers
e-mail address [email protected] [email protected] twitter URL http//:twitter.com/OAddisonGethers Messenger contact window live/msn messenger: [email protected] aim: durangoadd64 skype: cowboys62 yahoo messenger: OADDISONGETHERS rs ----- Original Message ----- From: "Donnie Parrett" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2009 10:51 PM Subject: Daily Bible Reading For Monday July 20 > Isaiah 1-3 (The Message) > > Isaiah 1 > Messages of Judgment > Quit Your Worship Charades > 1The vision that Isaiah son of Amoz saw regarding Judah and Jerusalem > during the times of the kings > of Judah: Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah. 2-4Heaven and earth, you're > the jury. > Listen to God's case: > "I had children and raised them well, > and they turned on me. > The ox knows who's boss, > the mule knows the hand that feeds him, > But not Israel. > My people don't know up from down. > Shame! Misguided God-dropouts, > staggering under their guilt-baggage, > Gang of miscreants, > band of vandals- > My people have walked out on me, their God, > turned their backs on The Holy of Israel, > walked off and never looked back. > 5-9"Why bother even trying to do anything with you > when you just keep to your bullheaded ways? > You keep beating your heads against brick walls. > Everything within you protests against you. > From the bottom of your feet to the top of your head, > nothing's working right. > Wounds and bruises and running sores- > untended, unwashed, unbandaged. > Your country is laid waste, > your cities burned down. > Your land is destroyed by outsiders while you watch, > reduced to rubble by barbarians. > Daughter Zion is deserted- > like a tumbledown shack on a dead-end street, > Like a tarpaper shanty on the wrong side of the tracks, > like a sinking ship abandoned by the rats. > If God-of-the-Angel-Armies hadn't left us a few survivors, > we'd be as desolate as Sodom, doomed just like Gomorrah. > > 10"Listen to my Message, > you Sodom-schooled leaders. > Receive God's revelation, > you Gomorrah-schooled people. > > 11-12"Why this frenzy of sacrifices?" > God's asking. > "Don't you think I've had my fill of burnt sacrifices, > rams and plump grain-fed calves? > Don't you think I've had my fill > of blood from bulls, lambs, and goats? > When you come before me, > whoever gave you the idea of acting like this, > Running here and there, doing this and that- > all this sheer commotion in the place provided for worship? > > 13-17"Quit your worship charades. > I can't stand your trivial religious games: > Monthly conferences, weekly Sabbaths, special meetings- > meetings, meetings, meetings-I can't stand one more! > Meetings for this, meetings for that. I hate them! > You've worn me out! > I'm sick of your religion, religion, religion, > while you go right on sinning. > When you put on your next prayer-performance, > I'll be looking the other way. > No matter how long or loud or often you pray, > I'll not be listening. > And do you know why? Because you've been tearing > people to pieces, and your hands are bloody. > Go home and wash up. > Clean up your act. > Sweep your lives clean of your evildoings > so I don't have to look at them any longer. > Say no to wrong. > Learn to do good. > Work for justice. > Help the down-and-out. > Stand up for the homeless. > Go to bat for the defenseless. > > Let's Argue This Out > 18-20"Come. Sit down. Let's argue this out." > This is God's Message: > "If your sins are blood-red, > they'll be snow-white. > If they're red like crimson, > they'll be like wool. > If you'll willingly obey, > you'll feast like kings. > But if you're willful and stubborn, > you'll die like dogs." > That's right. God says so. > Those Who Walk Out on God > 21-23Oh! Can you believe it? The chaste city > has become a whore! > She was once all justice, > everyone living as good neighbors, > And now they're all > at one another's throats. > Your coins are all counterfeits. > Your wine is watered down. > Your leaders are turncoats > who keep company with crooks. > They sell themselves to the highest bidder > and grab anything not nailed down. > They never stand up for the homeless, > never stick up for the defenseless. > 24-31This Decree, therefore, of the Master, God-of-the-Angel-Armies, > the Strong One of Israel: > "This is it! I'll get my oppressors off my back. > I'll get back at my enemies. > I'll give you the back of my hand, > purge the junk from your life, clean you up. > I'll set honest judges and wise counselors among you > just like it was back in the beginning. > Then you'll be renamed > City-That-Treats-People-Right, the True-Blue City." > God's right ways will put Zion right again. > God's right actions will restore her penitents. > But it's curtains for rebels and God-traitors, > a dead end for those who walk out on God. > "Your dalliances in those oak grove shrines > will leave you looking mighty foolish, > All that fooling around in god and goddess gardens > that you thought was the latest thing. > You'll end up like an oak tree > with all its leaves falling off, > Like an unwatered garden, > withered and brown. > 'The Big Man' will turn out to be dead bark and twigs, > and his 'work,' the spark that starts the fire > That exposes man and work both > as nothing but cinders and smoke." > > Isaiah 2 > Climb God's Mountain > 1-5 The Message Isaiah got regarding Judah and Jerusalem: There's a day > coming when the mountain of > God's House > Will be The Mountain- > solid, towering over all mountains. > All nations will river toward it, > people from all over set out for it. > They'll say, "Come, > let's climb God's Mountain, > go to the House of the God of Jacob. > He'll show us the way he works > so we can live the way we're made." > Zion's the source of the revelation. > God's Message comes from Jerusalem. > He'll settle things fairly between nations. > He'll make things right between many peoples. > They'll turn their swords into shovels, > their spears into hoes. > No more will nation fight nation; > they won't play war anymore. > Come, family of Jacob, > let's live in the light of God. > 6-9God, you've walked out on your family Jacob > because their world is full of hokey religion, > Philistine witchcraft, and pagan hocus-pocus, > a world rolling in wealth, > Stuffed with things, > no end to its machines and gadgets, > And gods-gods of all sorts and sizes. > These people make their own gods and worship what they make. > A degenerate race, facedown in the gutter. > Don't bother with them! They're not worth forgiving! > > Pretentious Egos Brought Down to Earth > 10Head for the hills, > hide in the caves > From the terror of God, > from his dazzling presence. > 11-17People with a big head are headed for a fall, > pretentious egos brought down a peg. > It's God alone at front-and-center > on the Day we're talking about, > The Day that God-of-the-Angel-Armies > is matched against all big-talking rivals, > against all swaggering big names; > Against all giant sequoias > hugely towering, > and against the expansive chestnut; > Against Kilimanjaro and Annapurna, > against the ranges of Alps and Andes; > Against every soaring skyscraper, > against all proud obelisks and statues; > Against ocean-going luxury liners, > against elegant three-masted schooners. > The swelled big heads will be punctured bladders, > the pretentious egos brought down to earth, > Leaving God alone at front-and-center > on the Day we're talking about. > > 18And all those sticks and stones > dressed up to look like gods > will be gone for good. > > 19Clamber into caves in the cliffs, > duck into any hole you can find. > Hide from the terror of God, > from his dazzling presence, > When he assumes his full stature on earth, > towering and terrifying. > > 20-21On that Day men and women will take > the sticks and stones > They've decked out in gold and silver > to look like gods and then worshiped, > And they will dump them > in any ditch or gully, > Then run for rock caves > and cliff hideouts > To hide from the terror of God, > from his dazzling presence, > When he assumes his full stature on earth, > towering and terrifying. > > 22Quit scraping and fawning over mere humans, > so full of themselves, so full of hot air! > Can't you see there's nothing to them? > > Isaiah 3 > Jerusalem on Its Last Legs > 1-7 The Master, God-of-the-Angel-Armies, is emptying Jerusalem and Judah > Of all the basic necessities, > plain bread and water to begin with. > He's withdrawing police and protection, > judges and courts, > pastors and teachers, > captains and generals, > doctors and nurses, > and, yes, even the repairmen and jacks-of-all-trades. > He says, "I'll put little kids in charge of the city. > Schoolboys and schoolgirls will order everyone around. > People will be at each other's throats, > stabbing one another in the back: > Neighbor against neighbor, young against old, > the no-account against the well-respected. > One brother will grab another and say, > 'You look like you've got a head on your shoulders. > Do something! > Get us out of this mess.' > And he'll say, 'Me? Not me! I don't have a clue. > Don't put me in charge of anything.' > 8-9"Jerusalem's on its last legs. > Judah is soon down for the count. > Everything people say and do > is at cross-purposes with God, > a slap in my face. > Brazen in their depravity, > they flaunt their sins like degenerate Sodom. > Doom to their eternal souls! They've made their bed; > now they'll sleep in it. > > 10-11"Reassure the righteous > that their good living will pay off. > But doom to the wicked! Disaster! > Everything they did will be done to them. > > 12"Skinny kids terrorize my people. > Silly girls bully them around. > My dear people! Your leaders are taking you down a blind alley. > They're sending you off on a wild-goose chase." > > A City Brought to Her Knees by Her Sorrows > 13-15God enters the courtroom. > He takes his place at the bench to judge his people. > God calls for order in the court, > hauls the leaders of his people into the dock: > "You've played havoc with this country. > Your houses are stuffed with what you've stolen from the poor. > What is this anyway? Stomping on my people, > grinding the faces of the poor into the dirt?" > That's what the Master, > God-of-the-Angel-Armies, says. > 16-17God says, "Zion women are stuck-up, > prancing around in their high heels, > Making eyes at all the men in the street, > swinging their hips, > Tossing their hair, > gaudy and garish in cheap jewelry." > The Master will fix it so those Zion women > will all turn bald- > Scabby, bald-headed women. > The Master will do it. > > 18-23The time is coming when the Master will strip them of their fancy > baubles-the dangling > earrings, anklets and bracelets, combs and mirrors and silk scarves, > diamond brooches and pearl > necklaces, the rings on their fingers and the rings on their toes, the > latest fashions in hats, > exotic perfumes and aphrodisiacs, gowns and capes, all the world's finest > in fabrics and design. > > 24Instead of wearing seductive scents, > these women are going to smell like rotting cabbages; > Instead of modeling flowing gowns, > they'll be sporting rags; > Instead of their stylish hairdos, > scruffy heads; > Instead of beauty marks, > scabs and scars. > > 25-26Your finest fighting men will be killed, > your soldiers left dead on the battlefield. > The entrance gate to Zion will be clotted > with people mourning their dead- > A city stooped under the weight of her loss, > brought to her knees by her sorrows. > > > > > > > Please join us on Skype Monday thru Friday at 8:00 EST for our Morning > Skype Prayer Time. > > > Contact Me At: > Donnie Parrett > 1956 Asa Flat Road > Annville, Kentucky 40402 > Home Phone: 606-364-3321 > Church Phone: 606-364-PRAY > Skype Name: Donnie1261 > Email: [email protected] > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Deaf-Blind Inspirational Life Group" group. 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