Saturday, January 2, 2010

Isaiah 4

What I remember:
In the days when God is destroying the beautiful, prideful and vain Israel, women will also be desperate (remember, everyone was already desperate for a leader and asking any old schmuck to lead them). The women, similarly are begging men to marry them, without the obligation of providing for them or anything, just to take away their disgrace. (I wonder if the disgrace is the social disgrace of being single, or just a lonliness?) But God's going to rescue the righteous "survivors", call them holy, clean them up and making them glorious again. He will give them a shelter to provide shade from the heat during the day and from the storms and rain.

about God:
washes away the filth of the daughters of Zion, purges the bloodshed, and makes Israel glorious again. He provides shelter for them to protect them from the elements.

notes:
There's a few - the ones left in Jerusalem and called holy, everyone who is recoded for life. These are the ones that God restores and makes glorious. I think this is a reference to having eternal life - that is, there's some saved people, and those are the ones that God is protecting and restoring.

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