In our time

Kenya at this time has seen leaders who have enticed the populace with  the promise of change and concern for their issues if elected but who have acted in reverse by showing outright greed by demanding for more pay as soon as they have had their seat in those powerful houses. They have forgotten about the Kenyans who go without a meal and who walk to industries without the promise of securing a daily wage. They have added salt to injury by calling those who elected them, terming them as the one's who are both liars and full of greed by an argument which in my tongue will literally translate to 'flour comes from maize'.

Isaiah 32 gives us a hope that in a little while this will come to an end and it has started. A day is coming when a new King will rule in righteousness in this land and all the governors and elected members will rule with justice. (32:1)


It is an appointed time that those who have been fighting for justice in this country will start to seeing this new change that is slowly but surely creeping in. (32:3)

The electorate which has been taken for a ride for a long time will find revelation of the truth and will find their voice (32:4)

Being called 'honorable' when your actions are on the contrary is well catered for by Isa 32:5  The fool will no more be called noble, nor the scoundrel said to be honorable. 

 Isa 32:6  For the fool speaks folly, and his heart is busy with iniquity, to practice ungodliness, to utter error concerning the LORD, to leave the craving of the hungry unsatisfied, and to deprive the thirsty of drink.

Isa 32:7  As for the scoundrel--his devices are evil; he plans wicked schemes to ruin the poor with lying words, even when the plea of the needy is right.

Isa 32:8  But he who is noble plans noble things, and on noble things he stands.

Isa 32:9  Rise up, you women who are at ease, hear my voice; you complacent daughters, give ear to my speech.
Isa 32:10  In little more than a year you will shudder, you complacent women; for the grape harvest fails, the fruit harvest will not come.




The outpouring of the Spirit

As the communication of the Spirit is necessary to produce a reformation, so a large communication or outpouring of the Spirit is necessary to produce a public general reformation; such as may save a country on the brink of ruin, or recover one already laid desolate.
Without this remedy, all other applications will be ineffectual; and the distempered body politic will languish more and more, tin it is at length dissolved. Until this outpouring of the Spirit, says the prophet, “briers and thorns shall come up upon the land; and the houses of joy, the palaces, and towers, shall be heaps of ruins, dens for wild beasts, and pastures for flocks.” Until that blessed time come, no means can effectually repair a broken state, or repeople a desolate country. But when that blessed time comes, then what a glorious revelation--what a happy alteration follows! (Isa_32:15-19). (S. Davies, M. A.)

The Holy Spirit in prophecy

I. THE BLIGHT OF SIN. It is contrasted here with the beauty of holiness; and this contrast makes the deep gloom more apparent than if it were viewed by itself.

II. THE DARK OUTLOOK which Isaiah beheld. There is gloom first, and then gladness--confusion first, then comfort--darkness first, then light. Sin brings suffering and sorrow, either in this world or in the world to come.

III. THE BLESSING PROMISED. In proportion as the Church prays for, and expects, and receives the more abundant outpouring of the Spirit, the work of the world’s conversion will proceed apace. We speak of a Pentecostal effusion; but the Church prays and waits for a yet more abundant outpouring: and, when it comes, the glory of the latter day will be fully realised.

IV. THE BRIGHT FUTURE. As the result of the pouring out of the Spirit, “the wilderness shall become a fruitful field.” It has been said that this part of the prophecy is “luminous, rather than lucid; full of suffused, rather than distinct meanings.” This much, however, is clear, that the good fruits of the Spirit’s outpouring will be both material and moral. (P. Mearns.)

You will do good if your read the whole of Isaiah 32 and get an understanding for yourself.

A commentary by Biblical Illustrator captures this well from an edition of Joseph S. Exell 1849 M.A