Politics and Sabbath. Isaiah 58

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Isaiah chapter 58 teaches us to fast or rest permanently from judging and pointing fingers. It says to help people instead. It says take in the outcasts and to feed the hungry. Healing is promised. Politics seem to do the opposite of what Isaiah teaches us however. Am I wrong?
 

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Lots of good teachings in Isaiah :twohearts:


Isaiah 58:13
“If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath,
From doing your pleasure on My holy day,
And call the Sabbath a delight,
The holy day of the Lord
honorable,
And shall honor Him, not doing your own ways,
Nor finding your own pleasure,
Nor speaking your own words,
14 Then you shall delight yourself in the Lord;
And I will cause you to ride on the high hills of the earth,
And feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father.
The mouth of the Lord has spoken.”

Exo 20:10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God

Isa 55:6 Seek the Lord while He may be found,
Call upon Him while He is near.
7 Let the [b]wicked forsake his way,
And the unrighteous man his thoughts;
Let him return to the Lord,
And He will have mercy on him;

And to our God,
For He will abundantly pardon.
8 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord.
9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are My ways higher than your ways,
And My thoughts than your thoughts.



Isa 56:1 Thus says the Lord:

“Keep justice, and do righteousness,
For My salvation is about to come,
And My righteousness to be revealed.
2 Blessed is the man who does this,
And the son of man who lays hold on it;
Who keeps from defiling the Sabbath,
And keeps his hand from doing any evil.”

6 “Also the sons of the foreigner
Who join themselves to the Lord, to serve Him,
And to love the name of the Lord,
to be His servants—
Everyone who keeps from defiling the Sabbath,
And holds fast My covenant


Psalms 89:34
My covenant I will not break,
Nor alter the word that has gone out of My lips.

No wonder why God personally wrote these Words and spoke them
Exo 20:8 8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy
 
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Isaiah chapter 58 teaches us to fast or rest permanently from judging and pointing fingers. It says to help people instead. It says take in the outcasts and to feed the hungry. Healing is promised. Politics seem to do the opposite of what Isaiah teaches us however. Am I wrong?
I'm not sure what "fasting from judging" means? We do not temporarily set aside "judging." Rather, we "die" to it--we completely cast it aside in order to be nonjudgmental. If we judge at all, it is with the help of God's own Spirit, who judges properly, and not with an attitude, not by appearances only, and not with an aim to destroy before the time.
 
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I'm not sure what "fasting from judging" means? We do not temporarily set aside "judging." Rather, we "die" to it--we completely cast it aside in order to be nonjudgmental. If we judge at all, it is with the help of God's own Spirit, who judges properly, and not with an attitude, not by appearances only, and not with an aim to destroy before the time.
Isaiah 58 calls it fasting but it means to stop doing it altogether.
 
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