Hopelessness of Error by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · May 17, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 20.

Hopelessness of Error

By Editor

1663.—Hopelessness of Error. Isa. 28:18-22.

Please explain Isa. 28:18-22, especially verse 20, in the Question Corner. J. D.

One's religion ought to be that which would give him confidence, strength, rest, in times of trouble, and the fullest fruition at last. These of which the prophet speaks are those who have been trusting in lies, who have been counting death a friend, who looked for a good time, who thought they had within themselves power over death and the grave, instead of trusting in Christ, the foundation stone, the tried stone, the precious corner-stone. See verses 14-16. Verse 17 declares that God's judgments of the last days (Rev. 16:17-21) will reveal all this, and show the utter weakness of their refuge of lies. Their time of peace was a dream, their covenant with death is annulled, and the supposed friend becomes an enemy, a scourge, that cuts down and destroys day and night. The bed of lies on which they had hoped to repose, is now too short for comfort, and their false covering gives them no protection. Verse 21 brings to view God's "strange work," when just wrath will be finally meted out upon all; and verse 22 is His plea to the wicked to turn from the destruction sure to come.