Trashing the Honorable

The people will be oppressed,
Every one by another and every one by his neighbor;
The child will be insolent toward the elder,
And the base toward the honorable.” Isaiah 3:5

We may think that insolence from the younger persons is something invented in this particular generation, but Isaiah brought the prophecy of the Lord to another generation many years ago showing this would come to Israel, the remnant called Judah in this case. As I am no longer a child in years, there is a bit less to worry about, but then there is that line about the base and the honorable.

This thumbing the nose, to use an elder term, or trashing those in office comes to us as a temptation. And no it is not limited to the current president, though he may have raised it to unprecedented levels of popularity and volume. Speaking those disparaging words toward our leaders is likely a sign that the first two lines of this verse cannot be far behind. I don't think that I would care to live in a place where everyone was oppressed, and each by their neighbors at that! Even in our little town though we have seen the laws used to oppress one another by a neighbor. Perhaps a time as foretold by Isaiah to Judah is not far away for us too.

May the Lord our God guide us home to Him soon,

Bucky