God is our Redeemer

Isaiah 48:17-22

17 Thus saith the Lord, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the Lord thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.

18 O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:

19 Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.

20 Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth; say ye, The Lord hath redeemed his servant Jacob.

21 And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out.

22 There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked.

I know my Redeemer lives...Jesus Christ always has been and always will be.  He is the protector of his people.  God has a plan for his children and he will not falter or fail.  Isaiah is teaching us here that if we would only follow after the Lord's commandments that all would be well, but we have failed to do as the Lord would have us do.  Isaiah is speaking to Israel here in these scriptures, but America is just a mirror image of Israel.  God brought his people here to this land and as long as we as a nation trusted in him and lifted up his name, he lifted us up above all nations.  We became mighty and never thirsted or hungered.  America has turned her back on God and there is a turmoil in the land.  People are calling evil good and good evil.  A storm is coming.  Stand strong in the Lord and remember that when the children of Israel thirsted, he brought water from a rock, when they hungered, he gave them manna from heaven.  He will take care of his own, but there will be no peace for the wicked. 

 Psalms 37:25  

25 I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.

 Psalms 37:34-40

34 Wait on the Lord, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it.

35 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.

36 Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.

37 Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.

38 But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off.

39 But the salvation of the righteous is of the Lord: he is their strength in the time of trouble.

40 And the Lord shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.