"Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain."
Isaiah 26:19-21
This is so interesting, because it kind of sounds like the dead coming back to life and the earth not covering the slain is *part* of punishing iniquity. Can you imagine? Someone gets murdered and the person is raised up to give his side of the story? There are many games and some books (notably, Scalzi) that deal with coming back from the dead, but to think of it as part of God's plan for stopping wickedness is different, and actually seems effective. You kill someone and they are resurrected with an immortal body so you can't hurt or kill them again. Looks like you are going to have to find a different solution. Secret combinations don't work anymore when nothing is hidden.
This goes along with Luke 12:2-3, which tells us that nothing will be hidden anymore, and in fact secrets will be "proclaimed upon the housetops" which seems to indicate at the very least that it will be hard to not know, since it will be apparent. Some of that fits with our day where different secret information is revealed all the time by bad guys hacking into different systems, news articles about past sins coming to light, etc. ... But the earth disclosing her blood takes it to a whole other level. This isn't just data breaches and people coming forward about the past. This is actually not being able to hide anything, which is a very interesting change that I don't think any of us are quite ready for.
Today, maybe we should start getting ready, making sure that we're changing into people that don't need to hide, from God or anyone else. Note that this doesn't mean that I recommend sharing your social security number or list of passwords with the world. God's change will come in time, and right now it is wise to still avoid fraud. :) But let's prepare for a time when our lives are open, and make sure that isn't going to devastate us.
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