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Isaiah 63
begins with a gruesome view of destruction.
Isaiah reports that a person comes, dressed in crimson. At first, He appears rather splendid. Then we hear why the garments are
crimson. The speaker says that He has
been treading the winepress. In other words,
the person has been about destruction and judgment. He has been treading people under His
feet. He has been doing it alone,
because it has been done in righteousness.
There was nobody righteous who could be counted on to participate with
Him.
In other
words, everyone was guilty. On the scale
of righteous versus condemned, the entire world fell upon the side of
condemned. Everyone was sinful. As we hear elsewhere in the Bible, all have
fallen short of the glory of God. The
reality is that our sin causes us to be guilty and worthy of His judgment.
Fortunately,
the words of judgment are not the last we hear.
After judgment, we are reminded of God’s mercy. He rescued the Hebrew people out of
Egypt. He spared them from the desert. He is not only the only person who can judge
in righteousness, He is the only one who can redeem the judged and restore.
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