Trusting in Badness

Will Babylon's fortune-tellers save her? Jehovah answers:  "You kept trusting in your badness.  You have said: 'There is no one seeing me.'  your wisdom and your knowledge-this is what has led you away; and you keep saying in your heart: 'I am, and there is nobody else.' " (Isaiah 47:10)  Babylon reckons that by means of her secular and religious wisdom, her military might, and her cunning ruthlessness, she can maintain her position as world power. She feels that no one can 'see' her, that is, hold her accountable for her wicked actions. Nor does she perceive a rival on the horizon.  "I am, and there is nobody else," she tells herself.

However, through another of his prophets, Jehovah warns:   "Can any man be concealed in places of concealment and I myself not see him?"  (Jeremiah 23:24; Hebrews 4:13) Jehovah therefore declares:  "Upon you calamity must come; you will know no charming against it. And upon you adversity will fall; you will not be able to avert it. And upon you there will suddenly  come to a ruin that you are not accustom to know."  (Isaiah 47:11) Neither Babylon's gods nor the magical "charming" performed by her spiritistic practitioners  can avert the coming calamity -one unlike anything that she has ever experienced !

Next time: Babylon's Counselor Fail

From the Book Isaiah's Prophecy Light for all Mankind, Volume II, 2001