Isaiah 2:1-3 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
Men are set in the High Towers to keep watch and report what they have seen. In this there are two types of watchers, far sighted and near sighted. The far sighted can only see the glorious end and has no vision of what it took to get there. The near sighted only sees the immediate danger and has no vision of how to deal with the calamity that is about to befall them.
Both are need and here is the real answer to the watchers on the wall, they are not in charge of the events that occur to get from the short term to the long term. We need both for different reasons. The far sighted vision is to encourage us that all that we will have to go thru will be well worth the effort. The near sighted vision tells us of our immediate dangers and warns us not to ignore them less we should make the battle longer and more costly than necessary.
Neither should be allowed to have a say in what to do with what is seen. As a visionary it is hard to report and walk away but that is the job we are given. So often we will want to do more, to give advice, to offer up a solution without the depth of understanding of the problems that are not within our field of vision. It is our responsibility to report what is seen and then get back to the watch.