Inexperienced and Weak
Leaders - the Judgment of God
Dr. Allen M. Barber
September 30, 2010
Isaiah 3:1-5, 12 NKJV
1 For behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts,
Takes away from
Jerusalem
and from Judah
The stock and the store,
The whole supply of
bread and
the whole supply of water;
2 The mighty man and the man of war,
The
judge and the prophet,
And the diviner and the elder;
3 The
captain
of fifty and the honorable man,
The counselor and the skillful
artisan,
And the expert enchanter.
4 "I
will give children to be their princes,
And babes shall rule
over them.
5 The people will be oppressed,
Every one by another and every one by his neighbor;
The child
will be
insolent toward the elder,
And the base toward the honorable."
12 As for My people, children
are
their oppressors,
And women rule over them.
O My people!
Those
who lead you cause you to err,
And destroy the way of your
paths."
Note:
I
wrote this in February 2008, but it is interesting reading
considering
how things have turned out. Barack Obama is without doubt an
inexperienced weak leader whose far left policies and Marxist
ideology
is hurting and oppressing the American people just as the Word of
God
says in Isaiah 3:5. Is Obama an instrument for the judgment of God
upon
our nation? Yes, but the vast majority of Americans including
Christians do not understand the judgment of God. Many Christians
think
the judgment of God is reserved for the "big one" as former
Congressman
and candidate for governor of Ohio, John Kasich, once said in an
interview with the Governor of Alabama who believed Katrina was
the
judgment of God. Kasich put the governor down, even mocked the
idea of
God using a hurricane to judge this nation. Kasich believes God
does
not judge people or nations until the Great White Throne Judgment
after
the millennium. He is wrong because he does not have the biblical
worldview. Since the beginning of time, God has judged
nations
for gross wickedness and for turning their backs against Him. Many
nations of biblical days no longer remain because of the judgment
of
God. Have you seen any Hittites or Jebusites lately? How
about
ancient Assyria, Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece and Rome - once
great
nations that no longer exist. What about the four cities of
Mesopotamia
whom God destroyed for homosexuality - Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah,
Zeboiim? How about Israel and Judah; God destroyed both of
them
and for 2500 years they did not exist as a people with a national
identity and even the one that now exist in the Middle East is not
legitimate according to the Torah and the teaching of leading
Rabbi's. It is foolish to think God does not or cannot judge
nations during the time of their existence on earth. There
will
be no nations in hell, only leaders and people of nations.
Therefore,
it stands to reason that God does judge some nations during their
existence.
When the people of Israel demanded a King because they did not
want God
to rule over them (since they could not see Him or speak to Him in
visible form, they wanted a king like the Gentile nations), God
gave
them Saul who turned out to be wicked, perverted and demon
possessed (got into witchcraft). The people in 2008 yelled,
screamed,
swooned, and cheered - "Give us Barack Obama and he will lead us
to the
promise land." Well, he is leading us okay, but it is not to the
promise land. America is coming apart at the seams because of a
young
inexperienced Marxist (Socialism is just another name for Marxism)
who
determined even before becoming president that he was going to
change
America fundamentally and he is doing that very thing. I make no
apology in saying that Barack Obama is God's instrument of
judgment.
Why? Because our leaders and a great number of the people have
forsaken
the true God - the Lord Jesus Christ.
The article as written in 2008:
[Isaiah 3 concerns God's Judgment upon the House of Judah and the
city
of Jerusalem. Verses 1-3 speak of famine instead of prosperity.
During
the reigns of David and Solomon, the united kingdom enjoyed great
prosperity and were the envy of all nations at that time. But the
more
God blessed Israel, the more they sinned and filled the land with
idols. Then after Solomon died, the Kingdom was divided into the
Northern kingdom with its capital in Samaria and the Southern
kingdom
with Jerusalem as its capital. As a consequence, God began sending
the
nations prophets warning of certain judgment if they did not
repent. Unfortunately, they paid no attention to the prophets so
God
sent His judgment. First to the Northern kingdom in Samaria in 721
B.C.
when Assyria took them captive into their land. These were the 10
tribes (called the lost ten tribes) that eventually merged with
the
Central Asian and European nations. As a result there is no pure
Israeli blood among these ten tribes. They were completely
absorbed by
the Gentiles.
After Judah saw what God did to the Northern kingdom, instead of
repenting they continued to sin and disobey God. In one passage,
God
says Judah was more wicked than her sister Samaria." Isaiah
3 is
a warning of judgment upon the House of Judah. God said He was
going to
remove their prosperity and give them weak and experienced leaders
-
"children shall be their princes and babes shall rule over them."
The
Hebrew meaning of "babes" means to throw a fit, which is what an
immature infant does who wants his way in everything. Likewise,
the
meaning of "children" implies an immature adolescence. The idea in
both
words is someone who is immature and lacking the skills and
experience
to lead. Verse 5 is the result of weak and immature leaders - the
people were oppressed.
A third judgment is seen in Verse 5 - "The child will be insolent
toward the elder and the base toward the honorable." The KJV
says, "Shall behave himself proudly." The literal Hebrew means to
show
disrespect toward the aged or elderly. The same meaning is implied
in
the "base toward the honorable." The literal Hebrew meaning of
base is
"a lightweight." The young and inexperienced shall have no
respect for the aged and wise.
The fourth judgment is something few can handle today as God says
He
will give them women to rule over them and the young and
inexperienced
shall oppress them. This is not an indictment against women
in
general, but God's will for leadership whether the nation, the
Church
or the family is male leadership and there is a reason for that
that
few understand, which would take another article. Sorry ladies,
but if
this upsets you, talk to God about it as He said it not me.
Now let us fast forward to February 2008 and apply these verses to
our
time. What is the current political scene and temperament? In the
Democratic fold we have the
young and
inexperienced Barack Obama who has not served one
complete term
as a U.S. Senator, yet he believes he is qualified to be
president. He
is banking on his superb oratorical skills and Charismatic
personality
to sway the people and he is doing just that. In addition, he has
said
Hillary is too old to be president. Well, if Hillary is too old,
then
John McCain at 72 would be disqualified. Moreover, the clever
media is
selling the American people on the fact that youth is the "in
thing"
and age is out! I've noticed that all the major networks
including Fox continually scan the audience wherever Obama and
McCain
speak drawing a contrast between the youthful Obama audience and
the
aged McCain audience. The networks are doing their part in
condemning
the wisdom of the aged.
In addition, I have listened carefully to the youthful Obama
supporters
whose major theme is "Change," and few have any solutions for how
Mr.
Obama will handle the domestic and foreign policy problems of this
nation. When one Fox News reporter attempted to pin them down to
what
exactly they meant by "change" their response was Bush and the
Republicans need to go, but they offered no substantive
alternative. This is characteristic of inexperience youth -
emotions without any reasonable substance. I'm afraid that many
who
will vote for Obama will do so for two primary reasons - they want
somebody different in the White House and the majority of blacks
are
going to vote race even though they deny it.
Then there is Hillary who has been running for president even
before
she was elected to the U.S. Senate. In fact, her Senate tenure has
been
more about her bid for the presidency than serving the people of
New
York. She is not a true New Yorker, but had to establish residence
there to be elected Senator. She choose New York because it is a
strong
democratic state and the best place to launch her secret campaign
to
become president. From day one as the U.S. Senator from New York,
she
setup a presidential campaign fund and began taking donations to
her
eventual epiphany as a candidate for president. Hillary is laden
with
deception which she hides behind her personality and rhetoric. She
is a
staunch liberal but to get elected as the democratic nominee, she
suddenly appeared as a moderate. Nothing could be farther from the
truth - Hillary is and has always been a Marxist liberal and if
she is
elected president, her true colors will surface just as George W.
Bush
did in proving he was not a true conservative. Furthermore,
Hillary did not count on a strong Obama candidacy. He is a thorn
in her
and old Bill's side.
With a Hillary presidency, the traditional American presidency and
culture goes out the window. For the first time in the history of
our
nation, we will have a "first man" instead of a "first lady" and
to
think it could be old Bill, is disgusting to say the least.
There is a growing movement in this nation to discredit the wisdom
of
the aged and replace it with the emotional whims of inexperienced
youth. The same thing has been occurring in the Church for many
years.
The Church seeks youthful inexperienced pastors as their leaders
and
they get what they ask for.
When God chose someone to lead the nation of Israel out of
Egyptian
bondage, he chose Moses who was 80 years of age. He led Israel for
forty years until he was 120 years old. Then God chose Joshua who
also
was not a young man, but was between 80-85 years of age. There is
a
wisdom that comes only by having lived and experienced life's
valleys.
Aged wisdom is not something we as a nation should disdain, but
honor.
God said He gave Judah weak and
inexperienced leaders to rule over them as His judgment.
While
Obama is obviously a likeable person, he is as green as a head of
lettuce when it comes to having the necessary experience and
skills to
lead this nation in its present troubles - the global war on
terrorism;
ending the war in Iraq with dignity and respect for the thousands
who
have died and been wounded serving in that conflict; the declining
dollar; rising energy prices; huge national debt and deficits;
taxes;
the threat from Russia and China; the Middle East crisis, etc. The
youthful Obama is going to walk into a buzz saw from the first day
of
his administration and his
inexperience will began to show by the decisions he makes. This
is
of course if he is elected president. [Unfortunately he was].
Hillary may have a little more experience, but her liberal
policies
like Obama's will mean higher everything - higher taxes, higher
energy
bills, high medical costs, which every American will be forced to
have
government sponsored health insurance, weaker military, certainty
of
amnesty for Illegal aliens and bringing the United States into the
North American Community Union and lost of our sovereignty just to
name
a few. Hillary is not a Constitutionalist and neither is hubby
Bill.
They are both Socialists and will move this nation further into
Marxist
- Socialism. The U.S. is already a fascist nation and soon to
become a
socio-fascist state.]
May God give us all a heart and mind of wisdom in choosing our
leaders.
Dr. Allen M. Barber, a Servant of the Lord Jesus