Day 90: December 24, 2025 – Isaiah 33-35 and Matthew 5-7

We will briefly look at Isaiah where we find Israel forecasted to doom and destruction because of its disobedience. This disobedience then translates into a punishment that takes the form of exile and slavery. That is pretty much as bad as it gets for a country, it being abandoned by its God and it no longer being able to dictate how it governs itself, if at all.

These verses in Matthew contain the 10 Commandments of the New Testament which we find in the beatitudes. We find some of the most lasting, and important commandments that Jesus gives to his disciples, which, again like the Israelites, we are commanded to follow, or not at our own peril. The disobedience of the Christian Church of the words of Israel will lead to a church which is abandoned by its God and find itself led by powers that are outside of its ability to dictate. When God no longer is calling the shots, but culture telling us what to do and how to do it, then we will inevitably find ourselves in a straight decline similar to that experienced by culture.