“The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated
in the name of the noblest cause.”
Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
The Earth
See, the Lord is going to lay waste the earth and devastate it;
he will ruin its face and scatter its inhabitants—
it will be the same for priest as for people,
for master as for servant,
for mistress as for maid,
for seller as for buyer,
for borrower as for lender,
for debtor as for creditor.
The earth will be completely laid waste and
totally plundered.
The Lord has spoken this word.
The earth dries up and withers,
the world languishes and withers,
the exalted of the earth languish.
The earth is defiled by its people,
they have disobeyed the laws,
violated the statutes and broken the
everlasting covenant.
Therefore a curse consumes the earth;
its people must bear their guilt.
Therefore earth’s inhabitants are burned up,
and very few are left.
Isaiah 24:1-6
All You Who Light Fires
Who among you fears the Lord and obeys the word
of his servant?
Let him who walks in the dark, who has no light,
trust in the name of the Lord and rely on his God.
But now, all you who light fires and provide
yourselves with flaming torches, go, walk in the
light of your fires and of the torches you have
set ablaze.
This is what you shall receive from my hand:
You will lie down in torment.
Isaiah 50: 10,11
The Plan
The Lord Almighty has sworn,
“Surely, as I have planned, so it will be, and as
I have purposed, so it will stand.
Isaiah 14:24
This is the plan determined for the whole world;
this is the hand stretched out over all nations.
For the Lord Almighty has purposed, and who can
thwart him?
His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?
Isaiah 14:26, 27
The Appointed Time
You say, “I choose the appointed time; it is I who judge uprightly.
When the earth and all its people quake, it is I who hold its pillars firm.
To the arrogant I say, ‘Boast no more,’ and to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up
your horns. Do not lift your horns against heaven; do not speak with
outstretched neck.’ “
No one from the east or the west or from the desert can exalt a man. But it
is God who judges: He brings one down, he exalts another.
In the hand of the Lord is a cup full of foaming wine mixed with spices;
he pours it out, and all the wicked of the earth drink it down to its very
dregs.
Psalm 75:2-8
