“Hear, O heavens, and give ear O earth: for the Lord hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.” Isaiah 1:2
No one knows the pride, stubbornness, and blindness of rebellion any more than God. God made Adam and Eve, gave them everything, yet they turned their back upon God to satisfy their own belly.
But, “Woe to the rebellious children, saith the Lord.” Isaiah 30:1 Rebellion is a combination of both willful and deliberate sin. It is not only disobedience to God’s Word, it is also defiance to God’s authority. It is not only doing what Satan wants, but it is also becoming the person that promotes lifestyles that are Satanic, “For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft” 1 Samuel 15:23.
Rebellion always backfires. A person who rebels thinks they are getting away from God. But rather than rebellion deliver one from responsibility to God, it just indicts one for their transgression against God, thus mandating judgment and penalty against them for sin: “But if ye will not obey the voice of the Lord, but rebel against the commandment of the Lord, then shall the hand of the Lord be against you, as it was against your fathers.” 1 Samuel 12:15
The strength of rebellion is the folly of sinful pride and self exaltation. A person in rebellion thinks they are in control of their life. But nothing is farther from reality. A person in rebellion has surrendered their powers of reason unto lies. Their judgment is perverted. Their eyes no longer see, their ears no longer hear. They discern not that which is unto their own ruin. But the strength and nature of rebellion is what will bring about the overthrow of the rebellious: “Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.” Proverbs 16:18 “He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.” Proverbs 29:1
The horror of rebellion is that rebellion destroys the bridges that one would need to be able to retreat from the serious consequences of rebellion, “For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord: They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof. Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.” Proverbs 1:29-31.
“Today, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.” Hebrews 3:15
“Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the Lord.” Malachi 3:7
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