Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.
The heaviness, sorrow and divine distressing described in the verse belong to a larger chapter that lays bare the true spiritual condition of the world in the present time. Within that present application the verse stands as a warning to all who have deliberately cast truth behind them or turned aside from it, expressly including those who have allowed themselves to be misled by smooth, persuasive human words. Yet for those who once knew the truth, the same context holds out a gracious invitation to come back to God.
The heaviness, sorrow and divine distressing described in the verse belong to a larger chapter that lays bare the true spiritual condition of the world in the present time. Within that present application the verse stands as a warning to all who have deliberately cast truth behind them or turned aside from it, expressly including those who have allowed themselves to be misled by smooth, persuasive human words. Yet for those who once knew the truth, the same context holds out a gracious invitation to come back to God.