Isaiah 1:10 - The Show of Our Countenance
ISAIAH 10 - Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. Jehovah compares his covenant children to the wickedness of Sodom and Gomorrah. “The show of their countenance doth witness against them; and doth declare their sin to be even as Sodom, they cannot hide it. Woe unto their souls! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves. Say unto the righteous, that it is well with them; for they shall eat the fruit of their doings ” (Isaiah 3:9-10). Not only is this a telling statement, but a grave condemnation. Throughout scripture, the destruction of the wicked has been compared to the Lord’s annihilation of the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah, and if the Lord is calling us by that appellation, he is foreshadowing our utter destruction and foretelling our utterly depraved spiritual state. And save it be for the righteous among us, we would be utterly destroyed: “Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we...