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Responding to the Diagnosis of the Problem with Confession of Sin
Isaiah 59:1-8 gives the diagnosis of the problems. From Isaiah 59:9-15, we read the confession of sin.
Repentance Leads to Restoration
In 2 Chronicles 7:14, we read the formula for Repentance and Restoration. “If My people who are called by My Name
will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from Heaven
and will forgive their sin and heal their land.” If we want God to heal our land then we need Him to hear our prayers
and forgive our sins. To do this He demands that we humble ourselves, pray, seek His face and turn from our wicked
ways. Humbling ourselves in prayerful confession and heartfelt repentance is foundational.
Grumbling and Complaining
“We all growl like bears and moan sadly like doves; we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is
far from us.” Isaiah 59:11. This sounds like a description of our times. Complaining, moaning, talking about justice
when there is none. Far from Salvation. Considering how the Bible has been abandoned in schools and government,
it is no wonder that we grope blindly in the dark.
Acknowledging our Guilt Before God
“For our transgressions are multiplied before You and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us
and as for our iniquities, we know them.” Isaiah 59:12. The prayer that God hears is as our Lord described with the
two men who went up to the Temple to pray: “Lord have mercy on me – a sinner!” We need to humble ourselves and
pray and seek God’s face, turning from our wicked ways. Our sinful selfishness, foolishness and gullibility entrusting
wicked men to be leaders of our country and then being surprised at the catastrophic consequences – all this testifies
against us.
Admitting our Wickedness and Deception
“In transgressing and lying against the Lord and departing from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving
and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.” Isaiah 59:13. Removing the Bible and prayer from the opening of
parliament, removing Bible reading, prayer and hymn singing and Bible education from the daily curriculum of our
schools and from the military, is symptomatic of our transgressing and lying against the Lord and departing from
our God. Sabbath desecration, twisting truth, slandering the saints of old, tolerating and encouraging the crime
epidemic, criminalising the victims and an obsession with the rights of criminals, re-writing history, replacing truth
and facts with lies, distortions and blasphemous idolatry.
War Against Truth and Justice
“Justice is turned back and righteousness stands afar off; for truth is fallen in the street and equity cannot enter.”
Isaiah 59:14. Justice has become a sick joke in the ANC-run new South Africa. Truth has indeed fallen in the streets.
When someone tries to bring out a book exposing the criminal corruption, state capture, the gangster state, mobs
of the ANC Youth League stormed the bookshops and damaged private property, tearing up books, mobbing
people who were attempting to purchase these books. In the times of Thabo Mbeki, nine Christian community
radio stations were targeted and closed down by the so-called Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA). Today,
ICCASA continues to harass, confuse, overburden and threaten independent Christian community radio stations
and any journalist who dares to question the official narrative with independent research or investigative journalism,
indeed makes himself a prey. Character assassins predominate, including in the church. Those who refuse to partake
in national idolatry and the repeating of the myths and mantras of the new state idolatry are targeted and trashed.
The Problems from Man’s Perspective and the Solution from God’s Perspective
Here we come to the end of the second section in Isaiah 59, the confession. Starting in the middle of Isaiah 59:15,
we begin to see the Salvation of God. In the first half (Isaiah 59:1-15) we see the problems from man’s perspective.
However, now from the second part of Isaiah 59:15, we begin to see what God sees and what God thinks and to hear
what God says.
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