A Call For Repentance

And in that day the Lord GOD of hosts
Called for weeping and for mourning,
For baldness and for girding with sackcloth.
But instead, joy and gladness,
Slaying oxen and killing sheep,
Eating meat and drinking wine:
“Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”
  -- Isaiah 22:12-13

Israel was called to repent before the Lord with weeping and mourning, but from Isaiah we see that they decided to have a final feast. Would a nation really decide one and all to go to their doom with one last party? It's a disingenuous question since we know that it has happened from God's word and that it will happen again. That great army gathered at Megiddo at the end will do it the day before their destruction. The kingdom of the Antichrist will do it as the people of God leave it at God's command. We don't have to be prophets like Isaiah to know how some people will act even to that last day before their doom comes upon them. 

We thank God for one another that we have answered the call to repent from our Lord! And we pray all the more for those who have not yet let the Lord Jesus save them. 

Bucky