Why are God’s people succumbing to spiritual attacks?
… Come, wild animals of the forest! Come and devour my people!
Isaiah 56:9
We have cut down the defences against evil and have become an open target.
For the leaders of my people … are blind and ignorant. They are like silent watchdogs that give no warning.
Isaiah 56:10
Our defencelessness indicates a failure of spiritual leadership. Leaders fear challenging evil because in our day it is considered offensive to challenge behaviour.
Like greedy dogs, they are never satisfied.
Isaiah 56:11
Spiritual greed for numbers to demonstrate fruitfulness overwhelms faithfulness to our Lord and silences our challenge to a culture casting off constraint.
They are ignorant shepherds …
… all following their own path and intent on personal gain.
Having hardened ourselves against God and his word we are freed to follow the paths that will give us numerical following, the ‘indication of fruitfulness.’
All this might be expedient in our day, but there are consequences …
Come, wild animals of the field! Come, wild animals of the forest! Come and devour my people!
Isaiah 56:9
People are suffering and asking why isn’t God stopping it from happening?