When Prophecies don’t make sense

Somehow in my meditation earlier this week, I had this conversation ....

God: The Sun shall no longer be your light by day…

Me: Ah Lord, what did I do? Have mercy on me, this means gross darkness, please Lord, don’t do this to me. How will I see right and make right decisions in 2015? What will be my fate? I know I am not perfect but….

God: … neither shall your moon give light to you…

Me: This is serious, Ok.  Lord I’m sorry for whatever it is … but where is all this coming from…

God: (not minding my nervous replies)…Because…I myself will be to you an everlasting light, I will be your God, your Glory and your beauty…this means your Sun shall no more go down, nor shall your moon ever withdraw itself… I am now your everlasting light … your days of darkness are over…You will only keep shining. (Isaiah 60:19 Emphasis mine)

Me: (obviously broken)…WooooooW!!! I never knew this was where You were going … wow! What did I do to deserve this kindness? Father you are sooo amazing. I am sorry for….

God: You need to learn the act of listening. What I say may not always make sense to you at 1^st instance, but all you need to do is just listen. Moreover, if what I say to you always makes sense to you then I am Not God. Remember my thoughts are “far higher” than yours as the heavens are higher than the earth. (Isaiah 55:9).  
 

 

As I read through Isaiah 60:1-5 and I saw the prophet speaking to an audience. Hear what he told them. “Arise [from the depression and prostration in which circumstances have kept you—rise to a new life]! Shine (be radiant with the glory of the Lord), for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you! Then he began to speak promises to them, at a point he says “you shall see and be radiant, and your heart shall thrill and tremble with joy [at the glorious deliverance] and be enlarged; because the abundant wealth of the [Dead] Sea shall be turned to you [vs 5].

If your thought were as good as mine, you’d be asking the same question I asked… “DEAD SEA” ke? Why the Sea of death?  A SEA that is considered to be a place of death and desolation? its one of the world’s saltiest bodies of water, its salinity more than 9 times as salty as the ocean making aquatic life is impossible and hence it’s name. In the Old Testament, Dwelling in caves near the Dead Sea is recorded as having taken place before the Israelites came to Canaan, and extensively at the time of King David. So it was a place of refuge for the depressed.  

Then suddenly it was discovered that the waters of the Dead Sea contained important chemicals. In G.T.B. Davis’ book Rebuilding Palestine, he wrote, “One is almost staggered by the computed wealth of the chemical salts of the Dead Sea. It is estimated that the potential value of the potash, bromine, and other chemical salts of its waters is... four times the wealth of the United States!” (G.T.B. Davis, Rebuilding Palestine According to Prophecy); Isaiah himself did not know this, but the God who caused the Dead Sea to play a part in His program in the last days knew all about it, and He led the prophet to so prophesy here in this verse.  Today, several therapies and treatments hail from this same “dead sea”. Isn’t this God hilarious?

Did your Pastor/leader declare a prophecy for 2015 that “just doesn’t add up” or “you just don’t feel it”?

Do you feel like you are in the “wrong audience”?

Does it look like what God seems to be saying isn’t what you really need right now because that doesn’t look like what you need?

Do you feel so much in darkness that the idea of shining (Isaiah 60:1) doesn’t look possible? Or “hmmn its possible but not this year, maybe next…” (In your mind)

Does your current situation look like it would defy the possibility of the prophecy to be fulfilled in your life?

 Then this is for you. The Israelites were in such an emotional depleted state when God told them “…Believe in the Lord your God …. Believe His prophets also…”  (2 Chronicles 20:20). God’s word may not make sense to you today, but Isaiah 46:10 describes Him as “….Declaring the end from the beginning…” This is why God is God.

Do you believe?