HIS MASTER'S CRIB

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                        HIS MASTER'S CRIB
     Isaiah  1:2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for  the LORD  hath
spoken, I have nourished and brought up children,  and they have rebelled
against me.

     Isaiah  1:3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass  his  master's  crib:
[but] Israel doth not know, my people doth not  consider.

     Isaiah 1:4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed  of
evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have  forsaken  the LORD, they
have provoked the Holy One of  Israel  unto anger, they are gone away
backward.

     What  a sad way to start a prophetic book to  God's  people.  It  is  a
story which has been told over and  over,  many  times, during the history of
God's people.

     Humans  almost never learn from the mistakes of others.   We all seem to
insist on making them for ourselves, in our own way.     In some ways,
animals learn far more readily than humans do.     

     Continued disobedience has its consequences, as we see in  a few
scriptures further into the book of Isaiah.

     Isaiah  5:13  Therefore my people are gone  into  captivity, because
[they have] no knowledge:

     Isaiah 6:8-10 tells of an event in the life of the  Prophet. "Also  I
heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I  send, and who will go for
us? Then said I, Here [am] I; send me.    And he said, Go, and tell this
people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive
not.  Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut
their eyes;  lest they  see with their eyes, and hear with their ears,  and
 understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.

     WHAT A MESSAGE!  Nothing but SPIRITUAL DEAFNESS and BLINDNESS  the
Chosen Ones.  THE REWARD OF DISOBEDIENCE!

     If we don't want to hear, nothing will be spoken.

     If  we don't want to see,-- nothing will be shown to us.   

     God seems  to be very obliging.  He does not cast His  Pearls  before
swine, nor does He give anything good to dogs. 

     Psalms  32:9  Be  ye not as the horse,  [or]  as  the  mule, [which]
 have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in  with bit and bridle,
lest they come near unto thee.

     Jeremiah  8:7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth  her  appointed
 times;  and  the turtle and the crane  and  the  swallow observe  the  time
of their coming; but my people  know  not  the judgment of the LORD. 

     Isaiah 33:6 And wisdom and knowledge shall be the  stability of  thy
times, [and] strength of salvation: the fear of the  LORD [is] his treasure.

     I  Chronicles 12:32 And of the children of Issachar,  [which were  men]
 that  had understanding of the times,  to  know  what Israel ought to do;
the heads of them [were] two hundred; and all their brethren [were] at their
commandment.