{"id":6608,"date":"2011-02-05T10:43:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-05T15:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/?p=6608"},"modified":"2011-02-05T10:44:26","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T15:44:26","slug":"isaiah-4511-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2011\/02\/05\/isaiah-4511-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Isaiah 45:11-13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE NEW BIBLE COMMENTARY, page 594<\/p>\n<p><strong>Isaiah 45:11-13<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Isa 45:11  Thus says the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and the one who formed him: &#8220;Ask me of things to come; will you command me concerning my children and the work of my hands?<br \/>\nIsa 45:12  I made the earth and created man on it; it was my hands that stretched out the heavens, and I commanded all their host.<br \/>\nIsa 45:13  I have stirred him up in righteousness, and I will make all his ways level; he shall build my city and set my exiles free, not for price or reward,&#8221; says the LORD of hosts. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8216;Of things that are to come do ye impudently question Me, and concerning the works of My hands will ye lay commands upon Me?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>But has not the entire emphasis of the preceeding chapters been on sovereignty of God in being able to fortell the things to be while <\/p>\n<ol>\nall other divinities are dumb?<\/ol>\n<p>It is fully in accordance with the context of these chapters to translate it as an appeal of Jehovah to His people to ask and seek for guidance.  While the clay cannot turn to the potter and demand an explanation, this is the very thing that God asks His people to do, to stop doubting His designs and in humility to seek for the illumination they need concerning His ways and their ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE NEW BIBLE COMMENTARY, page 594 Isaiah 45:11-13 Isa 45:11 Thus says the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and the one who formed him: &#8220;Ask me of things to come; will you command me concerning my children and the work of my hands? Isa 45:12 I made the earth and created man on it;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}