Isaiah 28

¹⁸ And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.

¹⁹ From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

²⁰ For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.

²¹ For the Lord shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.

²² Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord God of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.

Here it is the Saturday between Good Friday and Easter Sunday. Why did we not give this day a special name? Where did Jesus go and what did Jesus do for that period of time just before sunset Friday until just after sunset Sunday? There are many words written about that period of time and no good clear argument can be made to understand exactly what happened.

V 19 implies that we shall receive a report of what happened and it shall be a vexation, a frustration of the spirit, to try and understand it. We will be in our perfected resurrected form when we get the report. V 21 speaks to a strange work and a strange act. A strange thing is a thing that has not been explained.

What makes any of us think that we should satisfy our own curiosity about the Lord’s doing this day when we are told that it will be hard to accept even after He explains it to us?

Where the scriptures are silent, perhaps we should follow the example.

Silent Saturday? Observe the time in prayerful meditation about what He has done.

James 1:12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

The Lord’s prayer says lead us not into temptation and in truth God does not temp us nor does He intend for us to suffer temptation. In these last days the world surrounds us with temptation. Satan floods us with temptation in hopes of carrying us away.

The idea of being carried away is the exact opposite of enduring temptation. The Greek word of endureth here in James 1:12 is hypomenō which literally means remain. The idea is that temptation wants to take you someplace else. On the internet we call these hyperlinks.

Words and photos can be hyperlinks. Those words and photos are temptations, they do not always bear resemblance to the place they take you. You can find yourself on the wrong webpage because you clicked on that link by mistake. Granted some trusted webpages will not lead you astray.

Here on my blog I do not advertise. I pay for this space out of my own pocket. Larger, even good webpages, that provide a large range of service and support find it costly. To offset those costs, they will sell advertising space. More and more webpages sell space to offset costs. In that they cannot 100% guarantee that those links will keep you away from ads which begin by whetting your appetite.

To know you are in Christ and to remain in Christ is the only safe place, that solid rock, unshakeable, immoveable, constant and consistent, in whom there is no temptation.

If you do not know this temptation of which I speak, then praise God you do not participate on social media. That is no judgment for those of us who do, it is a warning about careless clicking.