ISAIAH CHAPTER 28

Parable of Plowing and Threshing;
God's Explanation of Judgment and Suffering

The Masterful Design in the Way God Apportions Suffering and Hardship

 

Plowing and Planting
God's timing is perfect; He doesn't give people more than they can bear

 

God always does the right thing in the right way

 
23 Give ear and hear my voice,
Listen and hear my words.

24 Does the farmer plow continually to plant seed? Does he continually turn and harrow the ground?

25 Does he not level its surface, And sow dill and scatter cummin, And plant wheat in rows, Barley in its place, and rye within its area?

26 For his God instructs and teaches him properly.

Threshing
God never uses inappropriate means to accomplish His purposes

 

He deals uniquely and perfectly with each nation and each person

This is an example of His work as the "Wonder of a Counselor" (9:6)

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27 For dill is not threshed with a threshing sledge, Nor is the cartwheel driven over cummin; But dill is beaten out with a rod, and cummin with a club.


28 Grain for bread is crushed, Indeed, he does not continue to thresh it forever. Because the wheel of his cart and his horses eventually damage it, He does not thresh it longer.

29 This also comes from the LORD of hosts, Who has made His counsel wonderful and His wisdom great.

 

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