Isaiah Said That Would Happen

  How sad it must be for Jehovah to see his bride, or at least his fiancé, engaging in relationship with someone or something, Babylon, in contravention to previous commitments to him -- now disloyal, treacherous, insincere.   In ancient times, when defining Israel's relationship to its God, Hebrew prophets commonly characterize Israel as a woman and Jehovah as her husband within the marriage covenant. Movement, in scripture, of a few people from a land in apostasy to a "promised land" was most generally an effort, led by God through a prophet, to preserve or reestablish some covenant people to continue within that "marriage" covenant.  In ancient times, as reported in scripture, and now in end times as is clear to see, at some point in apostasy covenant blessings, by decree of divine law, turn to covenant curses. "The wickedness of men does not prevent God's will but only keeps them from what they might have received." (T&C 157:40)  Sadly tho...

 Sick in the Head, Sick in the Heart "… They have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they have gone away backward. Why should you be stricken anymore? You will revolt more and more. The whole head is sick and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it, but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores — they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment. …" (RE Isaiah 1:1)  Illness and disease become rampant reflecting a society sick in mind and body.  Allegorically, the people's "head" or leadership, and their "heart" or core institutions--in short, their entire establishment, political and religious (Isa 7:8-9 : 14-16)--has degenerated to a pathological state.   Like the wounds, bruises, and sores of an enemy slave—one who receives no chance of being ministered to—Jehovah’s alienated people find themselves in pitiful circumstances. When so...