Isaiah 8:1-15
The attack of ennemis is imminent. Emmanuel appears again. It's the cry of distress of the people in danger. The reason of the calamity is written: because you have refused...
1. They have refused... (1-10)
Isaiah takes a note of the camality which approachs. He takes two God's servants as reliable witnesses. Then he went to the prophetess, and she conceived and bore a son. Maybe it's the son which appears in the previous chapter. Before that he talks, in a very short laps of time, Syria and Samaria will be pillaged and their inhabitants will be deported. Then the people is delighted of this deportation, without being aware that it's a prefuguration of their own deportation. They have refused the waters of Shiloah that are very gently, God's word and gently warning of the prophet, so God sends the mighty Assyria, compared with the waters of the River, mighty and many. These waters of the River will be overflow Jerusalem. Isaiah crys that the people be shatter but it's useless, because the force of the ennemy is fearsome.
2. God warns the prophet (11-15)
The Eternal God warns that the prophet must be aside of the people and he certainly musn't compromise with their style life. Their style life and their opinion are twisted, so nothing is credible. It musn't fear that they fear. As Jesus will talk it, it musn't fear men because, after having killed, can't do nothing else; it must fear the Eternal God who judges the soul after death. Our Lord is a sanctuary and a stone of offense at the same time (14). He is the first to these who are saved, but he is second to theses who are lost (Mc 16:16). They stumble, fall in darkness and die.
Prayer: Lord, help me to neither refuse your word nor do a compromission.
Bottom line: The contempt of oneself leads to damn
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