Isaiah's Vision Concerning Judah and Jerusalem — Stephen Kaung

This is Monday morning, April 8th, 1974, in Richmond, Virginia. Ministry is being given through Brother Stephen Kahn.

Isaiah's Vision of the Lord and His Holiness

May we turn to the book of Isaiah, chapter 1. Isaiah, chapter 1, verse 1. The vision of Isaiah, the son of Emo, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. In the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, king of Judah.

Hear, ye heavens, and give ear, thou earth, for Jehovah has spoken. I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ax his master split. Israel does not know, my people have no intelligence.

Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evil doers, children that corrupt themselves. They have forsaken Jehovah, they have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are turned away, that is.

Why should ye be smitten any more? Ye will revolt more and more. The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot, even unto the head, there is no soundness in him. Wounds and wills, and open sores.

They have not been dressed, nor bound up, nor modified with oil. Your country is desolate. Your cities are burned with fire. Your land's strangers eat it up in your presence. And it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

And the daughter of Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard, as a night lodge in a cucumber garden, as a besieged city. Unless Jehovah, our Pope, hath left us a very little, very small residue, we should have been as Sodom.

We should have been like unto Gomorrah. Hear the word of Jehovah, rulers of Sodom. Give ear unto the law of our God, people of Gomorrah. To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me, said Jehovah?

I am sated with burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed sheep, and in the blood of bullocks, and of lambs, and of he-goats, I take no pleasure. When ye come to appear before me, who hath inquired this from your hand, to tread my courts?

Bring no more vain oblations. Incense is an abomination unto me. New moon and Sabbath, the calling of convocations, wickedness, and the solemn meeting, I cannot bear. Your new moons and your set days, my soul hateth.

They are a burden to me. I am weary of bearing them. And when ye stretch forth your hand, I will hide mine eyes upon you, from you. Yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

Wash you, make you clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes. Cease to do evil. Learn to do well. Seek judgment. Gladden the oppressed. Do justice to the fatherless. Plead for the widow.

Come now, let us reason together, said Jehovah. Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. If ye be willing and hearken, ye shall eat the good of the land.

But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword, for the mouth of Jehovah hath. Last night, we begin with Isaiah, with his vision of the Lord. On the throne of his temple. In the year of the death of King Uzziah, Isaiah entered into the temple.

And there he was given a vision of God sitting on the throne. And his strength healed the temple. And brothers and sisters, I do believe this is where every one of us must begin. We must begin with a vision of the Lord.

It is a vision of the Lord upon his throne. It is a vision of the Lord upon the throne of his own house. It is a vision of the Lord seated on the throne of each of our hearts. And not only individually, but it is the vision of the Lord sitting on the throne of his own church, of his own house.

And when you get a vision of the Lord upon the throne in his house, you cannot help but hear the voice, Holy, holy. We mentioned last night that holy means uncommon. Nothing is common. In other words, the Lord is unique.

The Lord is all alone by himself. Do not make him common. Do not try to make him as one of us. If you see the Lord on the throne, then you dare not raise up your head. You dare not go your own way. He is holy.

And because of that, we must be holy. That is to say, we must be different. We cannot be as of the world, but we must do his will. And out of that vision, the call, and Isaiah says, here am I. So dear brothers and sisters, we need to begin with such a vision, to see the Lord on the throne, and to know that he is holy.

And out of that vision, we will be given a mission. Now this morning, we would like to go into the second vision in the book of Isaiah. And it is Isaiah's vision concerning Judah and Jerusalem. You know, Isaiah lived during the reigns of four kings.

King Uzziah, King Jotham, King Ahaz, and King Hezekiah. He lived a very long life. And he prophesied at late 47 years. But his prophecies were mainly concerned with Judah and Jerusalem. If you read the book of Isaiah, you'll find his prophecies touch upon many nations.

But the central subject of his prophecies was Judah. In other words, during that time, we know that the twelve tribes of Israel were already divided into two kingdoms. The northern kingdom, Israel, of ten tribes, and the southern kingdom of Judah, of two tribes.

And during the reign of Hezekiah, the northern kingdom of Israel was completely destroyed. The people were taken into Assyrian captivity. So, so far as Israel was concerned, only two tribes will remain.

And even with these two tribes, they were in danger of entering into Babylonia. Now think of that. The children of Israel were the vessel of God's testimony on earth. But during that time, the vessel was so marred, so corrupted, that the majority of it was already in captivity.

And what remained of Judah and of Jerusalem was in danger of entering into Babylonia. The people of Judah, those who lived in Jerusalem, were the remaining, the remains of that vessel, supposed to be the vessel of the testimony.

And when God looked upon His people at that time, when God looked upon Judah and Jerusalem, and of course He was thinking of the whole people of Israel, what will be the burden in God's heart? God looked upon Judah and Jerusalem, and His heart was so burdened.

Oh, how He would like to see that with this remaining nation, with this remaining people, His name would not be corrupted, that His testimony might be maintained. And He was so concerned and anxious that it might be so.

And because of that, you'll find, He gave the vision concerning Judah and Jerusalem, and the word concerning them to the prophets. So these words, the words of the vision, came from the very heart of God.

It was so serious, that when Isaiah began his prophecy, he called heaven and earth to be witnesses. And you know, there was another occasion, when Moses, in Deuteronomy chapter 32, when he was speaking to the people, there he called the heavens and the earth to be witnesses, because what follows was of great consequence.

And Isaiah took the same form. He was calling the heavens and the earth to be witnesses, to witness what God, God was speaking, and what He spoke was of tremendous, tremendous significance. And therefore, He called the heavens and the earth to bear witness, and how much more His people should hear.

The Spiritual Application of Israel's History to the Church

Now, brothers and sisters, we are not too much interested in the history of Israel. You know, the history of Israel is very interesting. If you read the Bible, if you read the history of Israel, you'll find it's a most fascinating history.

And even today, the history of Israel is most fascinating. But we are not so much concerned with the history of Israel. Nor are we deeply interested in the prophecies concerning Israel. Now, of course, the prophecies concerning Israel are very, very fascinating, especially at this hour.

But I believe there is something that we should be interested in, even more than the history and the prophecies concerning Judah and Jerusalem. And that is the spiritual application of their history and their prophecies concerning the heavenly people of God.

Now, unless we can enter into that, you are just reading history. You are just studying prophecies. They do not concern you directly, however interesting they may be. You know, they do not concern you directly.

But if you can enter into the spiritual application of the history and prophecy of Israel and see that we are the Israel of God, of course, in a spiritual sense, then you will find what God has spoken to Israel.

He is actually speaking to us. There would be a message to us today, not just listening to a message that was proclaimed 800 years before Christ. But you will find a message that is relevant to us today.

And, brothers and sisters, this is what I look to the Lord for this morning. This is applied in a very broad sense. Of course, you cannot apply it in a very limited sense. In this world, as the children of Israel were the vessel of God's testimony in the old days, so today the testimony of Jesus is vested in the church, the people of God, those who are redeemed by the precious blood.

The church is the lampstand to lift up the light. The church is the vessel of the testimony of Jesus. How will the world know the Lord Jesus? But as the church lifts up, but, dear brothers and sisters, in a sense, we are living in the days of Isaiah.

So far as God's people are concerned, most of God's people live today in captivity. They are the Lord's. And yet they are captured by the world. Trinity is in captivity. God's people are under captivity of the world as a system.

Not only the world as such, but even the world as a system. I think we do not need to enlarge upon it. We can just take it and say most of God's people are, by the word, in, religious. Thank God there are still people who remain.

There are still people who, by the grace of God, as the nation of Judah and Jerusalem, they are still in the Promised Land, they are still standing there for the testimony of God, and yet they are in danger of entry.

And if this should happen, what will happen to the testimony of God? We are more interested in what would happen to the people. But what things that should happen to the people will result in what will be happening to the testimony of God, which is far, much more significant.

Brothers and sisters, thank God there are still people who still remain in the Promised Land, who still remain to be, to bear the testimony. But what are their conditions? As you'll find in the history of the nation of Judah, they too are in danger of entry, in a very subtle way.

Those who desire to stand for the Lord's testimony are in danger of captivity. It may not be Assyrian captivity, but it will be Babylonian captivity. And the one is not better than the other. Somehow the world as a system is of such subtlety, of such dread, that it can come in.

And because of that you'll find how much God's interest and concern are centered upon those who God has a word for. So here you'll find as Isaiah began his prophecy, he said, Hear ye heaven, hear ye earth, be witnesses, because God, let us listen to what God.

Now of course, the first five chapters of the book of Isaiah serve as an introduction to the whole book. It is not only an introduction, but it is an outline of the whole book. You know, probably for this morning we will just restrict ourselves to the first five chapters.

But let us remember that actually the first five chapters give us the substance of the prophecies that you'll find throughout the book. God has a controversy with his own people. The Lord has spoken. I have nourished and brought up children and they have rebelled against me.

God's Controversy With His Rebellious People

God had a controversy with Judah and Jerusalem. And the controversy was God had brought them up and nourished them as children. But they rebelled. God was like a father to the nation of Israel. How God took care of them.

And yet, they rebelled. Now remember, this word was spoken to Judah and Jerusalem. For the world to rebel against God, that was natural. That's natural. Because the world does not know God. But for God's people who have received his nourishment and has received his upbringing and then rebelled against God, that is something unusual.

In other words, that is the problem with the children of Judah. You see, our relationship with God is the relationship of father and children. And if the nation of Israel was such, how much more is our relationship with God as father and children.

With the children of Israel, God was a father to the nation, but they didn't know God as father to each individual. That was not revealed in the Old Testament. It is after our Lord Jesus had come to this earth.

Then you'll find he has brought to us his father, our father, his God. So the relationship between us and God is the father and children relationship. And the proper relationship between father and children is characterized by one word.

Obedience. What God desires of us, what God inquires of us, requires of us, is only one thing. Obedience. Children, obey your father. God is not looking for anything else from us. What God looks in us is only one thing, obedience.

That's all. But this is the very thing that we do not give to God. We give to God everything else but obedience. And if we do not obey, even though we may give him everything else, we are in a rebellion.

And God has a controversy. You know the nation of Judah at that time and Jerusalem at that time? They were still considered as a holy nation, outwardly at least. They still had the temple in Jerusalem.

They still had the priesthood. They had their feast and season festivals. And they had their sacrifices. They burned incense. And they did all these things to God as if they were a godly people. And yet God said, you rebelled against me.

You rebelled against me. You did all these things but you rebelled against me because there is nothing that God desires more from his people than obedience. The word of Samuel to Saul. You know in 1 Samuel, God sends Samuel to Saul in chapter 15.

He says, Has Jehovah delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices? Has in hearkening to the voice of Jehovah? Behold, obedience is better than sacrifice, attention than the fact of rest. For rebelling is as the sin of divination, and self-will is as iniquity and idolatry.

God does not desire from us. He only requires one thing. Obedience. Brothers and sisters, I do feel that as God's people profess to stand for the testimony of Jesus, we need to be examined in the light of God to see if there is obedience.

Look at the life of our Lord Jesus. His whole life is characterized by obedience. I cannot do anything of myself. I do because the Father does it. I cannot say anything of myself. I say it because I have heard the Father say it.

He was obedient even unto death. And the death of the... No suffering! He learned. The whole life of our Lord Jesus is characterized by obedience. And this is the life that we receive. But, so this is the contrary.

God has given so much grace to us. Whether we have responded to his grace or whether we have wasted his grace is shown in either obedience or rebellion. If we rebel, we have wasted his grace. He has brought us up.

He has nourished us. And yet, what happens? But if we obey him, then we please him. And it is the evidence that grace has not been wasted in our life. And God's controversy with the nation of Judah was of such depth.

He continued to say, The ox knows his owner. And he asked his master's quip, Israel does not know. My people have no intelligence. Look at the ox. The ox is very slow and dull. The ox doesn't have much intelligence.

But even a brute like an ox knows his owner. He knows who owns him. And an ass is very wild. An ass will not even know his owner. And yet an ass knows his master's quip. He knows who feeds him. At least he knows the feeding place.

But God said, My people does not know. My people does not have the intelligence. In other words, even less intelligent than the brute. Isn't that sad? If not the words that were spoken to the world, nor to the ten tribes that were already in captivity, but they were spoken to Judah and to Jerusalem.

You don't know me. You should at least know who feeds you. But even that you don't recognize. You don't know that I own you. You don't even know. You rebel completely. How far they are. And yet God loves them so much.

God tried to bring them back. God disciplined them. That from the sole of the foot, even unto the head, there is no soundness in them. In other words, because they were of such rebellious state, God tried to bring them to their senses.

God allowed discipline, chastening, one after another to come upon them, hoping that they may be restored to their senses. From the head to the sole of their foot, there was no soundness. It was full of sores and wounds.

There was almost nowhere you can afflict, inflict more discipline. And yet they wouldn't come back. They wouldn't come back. They were just stubborn. There was no repentance. This should be a warning to us.

You know, why does God discipline? Because He loves. When He sees that there is something in us that is not according to Him, He will discipline us, trying to purify us, bring us to our senses, to Himself.

But often times, He disciplines and disciplines, and yet we don't understand. As if it's all wasted. What a warning to us. And yet all the time, what did Judah do? What did Jerusalem do? They proclaimed Feast, Holy Convocation.

They offered sacrifices. They shed the blood of the Lamb and the Goat and the Bullock. They offered up the facts of the realms. They burned incense. They even lifted up their hands and prayed. And you know what was God's reaction to all these?

God said, Do I want these things? I'm tired of these things. I don't want these things. I hope Kongo will close the door of the temple. I hope that these things will all stop. What a mockery to me. Because you serve me with lips but your heart.

You are very religious. There is no fear of the Lord. You maintain the form of piety, but the power of it. Now isn't that the sign of the last days? We live in an age of rebellion. And somehow the spirit of the world, which is rebellion, has entered even into our hearts.

How we try to cover up our rebellions with good works, with many activities, with doing all these outward religious things. The Lord said, If you read 2 Timothy, you'll find one of the signs of the last days is there is the form of piety, but not the power of godliness.

That's one of the signs of the last days. Oh God wants obedience. God wants reality. God is not deceived by our outward activity. He wants the real thing. And brothers and sisters, do we give that to Him?

He said, wash your hands. Do the right thing. Do justice. That's what I want. And applying to us today. What God wants is something that comes. Not just the superficial, the awkward things, but something.

It is the power of His resurrection. As we live in the power of His resurrection, we will be children. We will do history. We will learn to plead. And this is the only thing that God demands. What constitutes the foundation of the testimony?

How can we maintain the testimony of Jesus in this world? It is not to be maintained by outward form. It is not to be maintained even by outward work. It is to be maintained by a spirit. That is the one thing that God demands from His people.

Dear brothers and sisters, does God have a controversy with you today? Are we living in the life of Christ? If we live in the life of Christ, then we will give to obey Him better. This is the one thing.

God. So here you find, because the children of Israel, they will not be paid. Because Judah and Jerusalem, they hardened their hearts. They deceived themselves by going on with their religious routine, thinking that nothing was wrong.

And the result was God's judgment. And eventually, you know, they were taken into Babylonian captivity. But even though, even so, God promised there will be a remnant. There will be some, a little, a small remnant, residue, that will still remain.

And that is because of the mercy. You know, in a sense, God has never left without a testimony throughout the centuries. Even though you find God's people fail Him again and again, and yet you can always see by His grace there will be a small residue.

Not because they are better. It is the grace of God. He always leaves behind Him a small residue to maintain His testimony in the dark. And that is chapter 1. Now we move on to chapter 2. Chapter 2 begins in a very different way.

God's Purpose and the Hope of the Heavenly People

When God looked upon the conditions of His people, it was such a sad. And God had to speak strongly trying to recover them, restore them. That was in chapter 1. And because they resisted judgment. But in chapter 2 you find it began in a very, very different way.

Very different way. The conditions of the people had not changed. And yet you find in chapter 2 it began with such glory. Such hope. It is said, And it shall come to pass, and it is also the same vision concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

And it shall come to pass in the end of days that the mountain of Jehovah's house shall be established on the top of the mountain and shall be lifted up above the hills and all the nations shall flow.

Remember, dear brothers and sisters, the conditions of God's people had not changed. And yet God could begin a new beginning with such glory. How could it be? Because in chapter 2 God was looking not upon the conditions of the people.

He was looking into His purpose. When you see God's purpose... You know, we sometimes only see conditions. And when all you see is conditions it is very depressing. It makes you feel depressed. And this is the time that you should lift up your head and see purpose.

God's purpose. Purpose concerning Judah and Jerusalem is glorious. In the last days, at the end of the days, in other words, God's purpose shall be realized. And what is God's purpose? The mountain of Jehovah's house shall be established on the top of the mountain lifted up above the hills and all the nations.

One day when Christ shall return Israel will yet be the center of the nations on earth. During the millennium time all the nations will go to Israel for instruction. To be instructed of the ways of the Lord.

The mountain of Israel will be lifted higher than all the mountains. Because God is there with us. In other words, God's purpose concerning Israel, God's purpose is not given by our condition. On the contrary, will.

So there is hope there. Here Isaiah saw the purpose of God concerning Judah. These two pictures seem to be completely in the opposite. How can you reconcile these two things? And yet brothers and sisters, we need to see both.

On the one hand, we need to see the condition of God's people with the eyes of God. If we can see God, the condition of God's people with the eyes of God, it is a terrifying thing. There is another picture he showed us.

According to the eternal purpose of God, which he has purpose in Christ Jesus, concerning his church. If we see that, the glory... We need to know Romans chapters. We need also to know Ephesians. How do you reconcile these?

We are living in a time that you cannot live by just noticing the condition. We are living in a time when the conditions are such that we have to get a vision of God. Here God gives you a vision of his purpose concerning his church.

The body of Christ. The fullness of him who fills all and in all. If you see a vision that we are seated with him in the heavenlies. He has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus.

If you have caught a vision that we are heirs and co-heirs with Christ. We are his inheritance and he is our portion. Brothers and sisters, if we have caught a vision of what the church is, that gives us strength.

Otherwise, we will be absorbed by the conditions. And for that reason, you find in chapter 2, verse 5, there is an exhortation. The exhortation is, House of Jacob, come in and let us walk in the light.

Do not be discouraged. In spite of all this depressing thing, the exhortation of the Lord to the House of Jacob is, come and let us walk in the light of the Lord. Do not be absorbed by the conditions that you see.

But walk by the light. This is the light that guides our path. We have to walk in the light as he is in the light. Then we have fellowship one with another. And the blood of Jesus, God's blood, cleanses us from all our sins.

Walk in the light of his eternal purpose. And we've fallen back into it. It is so easy to give up and to give in. It is so easy to see the conditions of God. It is hopeless. Why be different? Why press on?

It is impossible. But dear brothers and sisters, if you have caught a vision of God's purpose, in spite of all that you may see, you do not walk by this darkness. You walk by the light of the Lord. You can press on.

Judgment Beginning With the House of God

And it shall. In chapter 3, you find that Judah and Jerusalem was under. The Bible says judgment must thus begin with the house of God. Now this is found in 1 Peter. You remember in 1 Peter it is said, let me read it.

In 1 Peter chapter 17. For the time of having the judgment begin from the house of God is come. But if first from us, what shall be the end of those who obey not the glad tidings of God? Judgment must begin with the house of God.

And the time of the judgment of the house of God is come. Do you know that we today, as the house of God, have already entered into judgment? It is true, one day, when the Lord shall come back, there will be the judgment seat of Christ.

And we shall all appear before the judgment seat of Christ. And we shall be judged. That's true. But that is the consummation of the judgment of the house of God. Actually the judgment of the house of God has already begun because Peter said, the time is now come.

It's now come. What are the signs of this? And here you find in chapter 3, there are several signs. In other words, if they do not return, eventually they will be taken into Babylonian captivity. That will be the consummation of God's judgment.

But did God reserve His judgment until that day? No. Judgment had already begun with us. How do we know that judgment had already begun with the house of Israel? How do we know? There are several signs.

For behold, the Lord Jehovah-Host will take away from Jerusalem and from Judah's stay and staff the whole stay of bread and the whole stay of water. In other words, when God sent famine into the nation, that was a sign that they were under.

God took away the stay of bread, the stay of bread. God gave them drought. There was famine. And this very famine and drought were the signs that they were already brothers and sisters. Is the church of God under judgment today?

What is the sign? In the last day, people will go about not because there is the lack of bread or water, but they are hungry and thirsty for the lack of God's Word. Because people's ears are itching. Because people's hearts are imbalanced.

They hear and do not hear. They see and do not see. And because of that, there is such a lack. Just as in the day, you remember, when Samuel was a boy, a vision was rare. And the Word of God. When such things happen, you know we are under.

The people of God today are already under judgment. Where can we hear the Word of God? People are hungry and thirsty for God's Word. Everywhere you go, you find people are just hungry. But where is God?

Lots of teachings, but where is God's Word? As God is God's. You can go to many places, you cannot hear God's Word. You can read many books, you do not hear His voice. And yet God's people. That is a sign of judgment.

We have already entered into judgment. The mighty man and the man of war, the judge and the prophet, and the diviner and the elder, the captain of fifty, an honorable man, a counselor, and a clever of advisors, and one verse enchantment, and I will appoint you as your princes, and children shall rule over them.

That's the second sign. Lack of spiritual leadership. As if God has taken the leaders away. There are no mature people. People who really know the Lord. To me, instead you find children are appointed as children shall rule.

Many, many people set themselves up as leaders, and yet they are but children. He who knows the Lord. He who is mature. But because there is no maturity, there is such a lack of maturity, so children begin to rule over God's people.

It's tragic to think how many people today are led here and there by so-called leaders, and they end up, because the leaders do not know, spiritual, and this is something that is very much lacking today.

And when there is not leadership, not the right leadership, undone. There is no lack of people who have set themselves up as leaders, but for children to be leaders, and this is judgment, remember. Why does God allow such things?

Why are there not more mature people to be in leadership? The reason is because God's people, therefore God put them under judgment. Children lack of judgment. The third sign of judgment is wordliness.

Because as you read on towards the latter part of the chapter, you'll find all the daughters of Zion, of Jerusalem, how they were wordless, competing with the world, as it were, in wordliness. You know, we may think that, well, if the church becomes rich, if the church becomes popular, if the church becomes influential, and so on and so forth, fashionable, oh, I'll get blessings.

When there is wordliness in God's people, you know it is, that itself is because the church is no different than the world. So God's all right. Let you be wordless. If you are not different, all right, be the same then.

That's a judgment. And you'll find in these three things in particular, God showed his people that they were already, but thank God, when you come to chapter four, you'll find grace has restored them back.

Restoration Through the Branch and the Grace of God

And the grace there was centered upon that sprout. In that day they shall be a sprout of Jehovah for beauty and glory and the fruit of the earth for excellency and for ornament for those that are escaped of Israel.

In other words, so far as the children of Israel were concerned, they were already under judgment. But God's judgment with his people was not for destruction. God's judgment with his people was to bring them so low and so down that they might be brought to a position where God can lift them.

And this was to come through that sprout. And we know the sprout or the branch is the Messiah. So even there you'll find God has promised the children of Israel that when Messiah shall come, by grace he will restore them to be a holy nation as God has ordained them to be.

And that is the way. And how it is true with us today. Oftentimes God had to allow us to go down and down and down. And after we have hit the bottom, there is nothing left then you'll find in Christ so that no man can boast.

It is all. So dear brothers and sisters, we should be greatly encouraged knowing that God's way with us, even if it is judgment, is not for destruction. It is for restoration. And restoration can only come through Christ.

Restoration does not come from any other source, any other area. It is when God begins to reveal Christ to us, we are restored to the fullness. And then chapter 5 is concluding what God has spoken in the preceding four chapters.

The Song of the Beloved and the Six Woes

And Isaiah concluded it with a song. It is the song of the Beloved. Of course, the Beloved is God. The vineyard is Israel. So here you'll find God, as it were, through His prophet was singing and through a song to express His feet.

And this song can be divided into three parts. The first part is from verse 2 through verse 7. And that is how God planted Israel as His vineyard. How God used the best seed for it. How God put a hedge around it.

How God prepared everything for that vineyard with the expectation that He would reap from it the good grain. But unexpectedly, He didn't get what He got. The wild, wild vine. God was disappointed. He was disappointed with His people.