Irrevocable
Not capable of being changed. Impossible to revoke
Plumb line
A cord weighted with lead that is used in building to check that vertical structures are true. It is used symbolically to refer to the divine standard against which God, the builder of his people, tests and judges them. It also symbolizes the standards by which God will rebuild his people.
Scriptural References
Amos
7 (NIV)
7 This is what he showed me: The Lord was standing by a wall
that had been built true to plumb, with a plumb line in
his hand. 8 And the Lord asked me, “What do you see, Amos?”
“A plumb line,” I replied.
Then the Lord said, “Look, I am setting a plumb
line among my people Israel;
I will spare them no longer.
9 “The high places of Isaac will be destroyed and the sanctuaries of Israel will be ruined;
with my sword I will rise against the house of Jeroboam.”
with my sword I will rise against the house of Jeroboam.”
2
Chronicles 7:11-22 (NIV)
11 When Solomon had
finished the temple of the Lord and the royal palace, and had
succeeded in carrying out all he had in mind to do in the temple of the Lord and in his own palace, 12 the Lord appeared to him at night and said:
“I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for
myself as a temple for sacrifices.
13 “When I shut up
the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or
send a plague among my people, 14 if my people, who are called by my name,
will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I
will hear from
heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 15 Now my eyes will be open and my ears
attentive to the prayers offered in this place. 16 I have chosen and consecrated this
temple so that my Name may be there forever. My eyes and my heart will always
be there.
17 “As for you, if you walk before me faithfully as David your
father did, and do all I command, and observe my decrees and laws, 18 I will establish your royal throne, as I
covenanted with David your father when I said, ‘You shall never fail to have a
successor to rule over Israel.’
19 “But if you turn away and forsake the decrees and
commands I have given you and go off to serve other gods and worship
them, 20 then I will
uproot Israel from my land, which I have given them, and will reject this
temple I have consecrated for my Name. I will make it a byword and an object of
ridicule among all peoples. 21 This
temple will become a heap of rubble. All who pass by will be
appalled and say, ‘Why has the Lord
done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’ 22 People will answer, ‘Because they have
forsaken the Lord, the God of their ancestors, who brought them out of Egypt, and have
embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them—that is why he brought all
this disaster on them.’”
Invitation to the Thirsty
Isaiah 55: 6-9 (NIV)
6 “Seek the Lord while he may be found; call on him while he is near.
7 Let the wicked forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts.
Let them turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will freely pardon.8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,”declares the Lord. 9 “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”
7 Let the wicked forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts.
Let them turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will freely pardon.8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,”declares the Lord. 9 “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”
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