In the last days

기후재난과 질병의 시대인 동시에 주식, 부동산, 비트코인, 재테크와 투자, 각종 대기업들과 억만장자들, 경제지원과 세금의 시대이다.

그런 시대를 살아가면서 그래도 이나마 이렇게 살고있다는 것에 감사하나,

이 시대에  알아야 하고 신경써야 하고 조심해야 하는 것들이 많아서 피로하기도 하고,

어려움을 겪는 이들을 보면 아픔, 무력감과 죄책감을 느낀다.

하나님은 먼 곳에 계신듯 느껴지기도 하고. 

 

그런 가운데 Encounter with God (1) (2) 을 통해서 읽은 이사야 2 장. 

약 2700 년 전 이사야가 예언한 last days 속에 살아서 역사하시는 하나님.

하기야 지금과 같은 시대는, 인간의 역사 속 다른 시대에서도 비슷한 양상으로 계속 반복되어왔지. 

제국들의 흥망성쇠, 질병과 재난들, 경제적 흥망성쇠, 제왕들과 정복자들과 귀족들, 포드, 록펠러, 카네기 뭐 그런 사람들...

그런 시대 속에서도 하나님께서는 그의 뜻을 펼쳐 오셨을 것이다. 이사야서 2 장의 모습처럼.

 

답답한 21 세기 현실 속에서,  2700 년 전 이사야가 declare 했던 그 생생함과 절박함을 느낀다.

 

"Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the temple of the God of Jacob.... Come, descendants of Jacob, let us walk in the light of the Lord" 의 의미를 생각해본다. 

 

ISAIAH 2:1–5

The Mountain of the Lord

2 This is what Isaiah son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem:

2 In the last days

the mountain of the Lord’s temple will be established
    as the highest of the mountains;
it will be exalted above the hills,
    and all nations will stream to it.

3 Many peoples will come and say,

“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
    to the temple of the God of Jacob.
He will teach us his ways,
    so that we may walk in his paths.”
The law will go out from Zion,
    the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
4 He will judge between the nations
    and will settle disputes for many peoples.
They will beat their swords into plowshares
    and their spears into pruning hooks.
Nation will not take up sword against nation,
    nor will they train for war anymore.

5 Come, descendants of Jacob,
    let us walk in the light of the Lord.

 

ISAIAH 2:6–22

The Day of the Lord

6 You, Lord, have abandoned your people,
    the descendants of Jacob.
They are full of superstitions from the East;
    they practice divination like the Philistines
    and embrace pagan customs.
7 Their land is full of silver and gold;
    there is no end to their treasures.
Their land is full of horses;
    there is no end to their chariots.
8 Their land is full of idols;
    they bow down to the work of their hands,
    to what their fingers have made.
9 So people will be brought low
    and everyone humbled—
    do not forgive them.[a]

10 Go into the rocks, hide in the ground
    from the fearful presence of the Lord
    and the splendor of his majesty!
11 The eyes of the arrogant will be humbled
    and human pride brought low;
the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.

12 The Lord Almighty has a day in store
    for all the proud and lofty,
for all that is exalted
    (and they will be humbled),
13 for all the cedars of Lebanon, tall and lofty,
    and all the oaks of Bashan,
14 for all the towering mountains
    and all the high hills,
15 for every lofty tower
    and every fortified wall,
16 for every trading ship[b]
    and every stately vessel.
17 The arrogance of man will be brought low
    and human pride humbled;
the Lord alone will be exalted in that day,
18     and the idols will totally disappear.

19 People will flee to caves in the rocks
    and to holes in the ground
from the fearful presence of the Lord
    and the splendor of his majesty,
    when he rises to shake the earth.
20 In that day people will throw away
    to the moles and bats
their idols of silver and idols of gold,
    which they made to worship.
21 They will flee to caverns in the rocks
    and to the overhanging crags
from the fearful presence of the Lord
    and the splendor of his majesty,
    when he rises to shake the earth.

22 Stop trusting in mere humans,
    who have but a breath in their nostrils.
    Why hold them in esteem?