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Isaiah 5:1 - 7

In the fifth chapter of Isaiah God likens the relationship between Him and His children to a man planting a vineyard. Christians should mature and develop. Christianity should make you a joy to be around. It should not make you a pain to anyone unlucky enough to be in the same room with you. Everything needed to make wine has been supplied, but the grapes produced sour wine. The wine symbolizes the spirituality and character of the nation. In the King James they are called wild grapes. Actually the word translated wild could have translated bitter, toxic, and stinking. God expected His children to prosper when they did what He said. Their prosperity was to make them an example of the benefits of following God’s word to other nations. Instead they followed the examples of other nations by worshiping idols and becoming like the heathen nations. In the fourth verse God asks what more could He have done? He removed the protection He provided and sent no wisdom. Israel eventually lost everything it had. Israel had morally degraded to the point that the government was taking care of 450 prophets of Baal. They were also sacrificing their infant children to Moloch. Three times in Jeremiah God says not even He had ever thought of doing that.