Week 24 Isaiah 28
Isaiah says something pretty interesting when he says that the Lord – at a certain point in time – will begin to do His task, His unusual task, and to work His work, His extraordinary work. When things are going along in their regular routine way then the Lord is operating in his normal way. His predictable & expected way. Doing the kind of things you’d expect the Lord to do. The Lord’s normal work is just that – standard regular typical & routine. It’s regularity is so regular that it seems like life in the world is on auto-pilot. A fixed recurrency. And while this is going on the Lord is keeping a pretty low profile. Maybe for a long time.
But nothing goes on forever and at some point it’s time for an assessment & review. At that point the Lord moves into his judicial function – which is quite a different category of work. The activity of the Justice Department is unusual & extraordinary work.
I checked a couple of other versions. They used different words but the idea was the same. That this part of the Lord’s work was incredible. Unexpected. Unfamiliar. Strange. Alien. I didn’t see worrisome. Or troubling. But it was a sense I got.
So anyway the Lord engages in two kinds of action (maybe there’s more but there’s at least two). There’s a) the Lord’s normal & familiar & customary work and b) his strange & unusual work.
Note: quote from Isaiah 28:21 (NASB plus Amplified CSB ESV & NIV)