Why did God tell Isaiah to get naked?

[Godistruth1]

at that time the Lord spoke through Isaiah son of Amoz. He said to him, “Take off the sackcloth from your body and the sandals from your feet.” And he did so, going around stripped and barefoot.
Isaiah 20:2 NIV

Should we not cover ourselves and not be naked in public???

 

[Barney2.0]

at that time the Lord spoke through Isaiah son of Amoz. He said to him, “Take off the sackcloth from your body and the sandals from your feet.” And he did so, going around stripped and barefoot.
Isaiah 20:2 NIV

Should we not cover ourselves and not be naked in public???

Read the next few verses:

And Jehovah said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and a wonder concerning Egypt and concerning Ethiopia;

Isaiah 20:3

so shall the king of Assyria lead away the captives of Egypt, and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

Isaiah 20:4

 

[Godistruth1]

Read the next few verses:

And Jehovah said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and a wonder concerning Egypt and concerning Ethiopia;

Isaiah 20:3

so shall the king of Assyria lead away the captives of Egypt, and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

Isaiah 20:4

Why does God need anyone to do immoral acts & language to make his point?

 

[Barney2.0]

Why does God need anyone to do immoral acts & language to make his point?

Sometimes immoral people can only understand immoral acts. Why should God sweet talk immoral pagan tyrants?

 

[Godistruth1]

Sometimes immoral people can only understand immoral acts. Why should God sweet talk immoral pagan tyrants?

One can tell them what's immoral but to first make them do immoral acts to show them its immoral does not make sense. Its like God telling people to commit adultery or murder to show them what means.

 

[Barney2.0]

One can tell them what's immoral but to first make them do immoral acts to show them its immoral does not make sense. Its like God telling people to commit adultery or murder to show them what means.

Not really, it’s God telling Isaiah to warn people of how he will judge them. God told Isaiah to get naked and Isaiah willingly humiliated himself in the name of God so he could warn the unbelievers about the coming wrath of God. It’s not God trying to show them that being naked is immoral, it’s a warning of what God will do to them.

 

[Chinchilla]

at that time the Lord spoke through Isaiah son of Amoz. He said to him, “Take off the sackcloth from your body and the sandals from your feet.” And he did so, going around stripped and barefoot.
Isaiah 20:2 NIV

Should we not cover ourselves and not be naked in public???

I love when some preachers say that Isaiah was creazy for doing that but it was not his idea to begin with ...

It was prophecy of Israel becoming naked just like Isaiah for disobedience .