"for they shall eat the fruit of their doings."

This is more of Isaiah letting everyone know that they will ultimately (and not so ultimately) get returned to you what you do.

Isaiah 3:9-11

9 ¶ The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.

10 Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.

11 Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

 Sometimes, we concentrate on the bad side of our doings, but Isaiah is good to say that as we are righteous, we will have good things come to us. Rewards and justice are indeed two-edged!

"...shall be made low:..."

We think so much of ourselves. 

I was somewhat trained as a low level planner in my undergraduate college days, styled as some sort of proto-"life coach" to low-income people who needed "management". I quickly lost interest in such a role, as I lacked the desire to run other people's lives and have continued in that lack, to the consternation of my children, I suppose.

I don't know exactly if this is what Isaiah means in "loftiness" and "haughtiness", but it seems that God alone will be "exalted" in this way at some future day.

Isaiah 2:17

17 And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day. 

I don't know what this means for the managerial class of the future, but it seems that such folk will need to find more practical pursuits outside of "motivation" and "productivity" toward corporate goals.

Go up to the MountaIn of the Lord

Isaiah 2:2-3

2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.

3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. 

It has long been a belief among members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that this Isaiah reference speaks of Temples of the Lord, first the temple in Salt Lake City in Utah and subsequently dozens that have been erected around the world.

These truly are abodes of Christ where his disciples can come to learn from him and make covenants to "walk in his paths" toward sharing exaltation with the Father and the Son. I go to the temple of the Lord very often and always feel closer to my Savior at each visit.

The journey to enter these Houses of the Lord begins with learning more of him through missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who will add more wisdom and understanding to the faith and knowledge you may already have in Jesus Christ.

Continue your journey to the Messiah and Savior of all. 

Avoiding the Lord's fiery indignation

It seems some people have offended God and, although the Lord is reported to feel great love for those who follow him and obey his commandments, the scriptural record uses words such as "wrath" and "indignation" to describe Christ's attitude about those who work against him.

Doctrine and Covenants 87:6

And thus, with the sword and by bloodshed the inhabitants of the earth shall mourn; and with famine, and plague, and earthquake, and the thunder of heaven, and the fierce and vivid lightning also, shall the inhabitants of the earth be made to feel the wrath, and indignation, and chastening hand of an Almighty God, until the consumption decreed hath made a full end of all nations;

These are not pleasant ends for "the inhabitants of the earth".

However, Jesus in his mercy extends repentance under certain conditions on those otherwise under condemnation.

Doctrine and Covenants 98:47

But if the children shall repent, or the children’s children, and turn to the Lord their God, with all their hearts and with all their might, mind, and strength, and restore four-fold for all their trespasses wherewith they have trespassed, or wherewith their fathers have trespassed, or their fathers’ fathers, then thine indignation shall be turned away;

The Lord provides a path to redemption, though it may require much of us in both devotion and reparations.

Feminism is silly compared with real feminine power

Years ago, I conceived a society that works with females at its head. It recognizes what women value on a deep level, instead of the sophomoric effort of just pasting a girl's face on a man and saying that will work. This is what feminism is, a foolish replacement of men with women with a total performative ignorance of what either sex truly wants and needs. We are awash with crazed men and women who think the "better way" is simply to switch places, sometimes by physical "trans-gendered" operations that embed the "switcheroo" feminist lunacy more deeply.

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In my book "Escape", women behave as women by nature will do, as do the less mentioned men. The ruling of this society is performed by women, but in ways that are far more sensible for women to do. Many will find the fictional aspects of the story not far enough to make the story into a fantasy novel, and I certainly didn't write it that way. No aspect of this culture is beyond the normal purview of your next-door neighbor or the attention-grabbing starlet that you see on television. It isn't some farcical sub-group in some dark jungle or in some 'better" past. It could work here and work today. It is just as likely to be evil as any male-dominated world, as is very apparent from the Escape book. There are good people and bad people, emperors and pawns.  Females don't make leadership particularly better, as silly feminists demand. There will be feuds and intrigue a-plenty under either sex.

My thought is that my female-run world is much more plausible and would enjoy a longevity far beyond the chaos of what is being experimented with in our world. Read it and see what you think.

A Summative Statement on Performatiive Piety

After Isaiah catalogues the performative actions of piety and the Lord's rejection of them, he instructs the children of Israel in the thing the Lord desires. 

Isaiah 1:16-20

16 ¶ Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;

17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:

20 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

It is customary to see "judgement (or the application of Judgment) as a bad thing, always employed to punish the wicked. In verse 17 above, Advice is given to "seek judgement" and to "judge the fatherless", without the implication that someone is in trouble for wrongdoing. In this case, it is a good thinking to seek the judgement from a righteous judge, such as the Lord. This judge will see the rightful need and dispense what is needed to make things right. The righteous seek the judging Lord for just recompense of the circumstances of life, rather than avoiding judgement as with the wicked.

A proper judge sees through pretense and show to look into the heart of those seeking judgement. Those seeking to deceive hate such a judge and those who are good an in need seek out such a judge who understands circumstances and can make things right. It depends on the sort of person seeking judgement to either embrace or eschew the Lord, our righteous judge.

Isaiah 1 - Meaningless Perfomances?

I can't approach Isaiah in the same ways that I worked through the Book of Mormon.  There are not a few scripture snippets that can be expanded upon, but it seems like, at least in this particular chapter (Isaiah chapter 1), it is almost circular reinforcements of a theme.

Although the people were doing the performances required of the Lord in Isaiah's time, the remembrances and symbolism were not effecting the personal devotion and changes the Lord desired in them.  They are becoming hypocrites with a public face of piety and harboring evil in their hearts.

Isaiah 1:4

Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.

Isaiah 1:10-15

10 ¶ Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.

11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.

12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?

13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.

14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.

15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

Although we can make a good performance o righteousness in the eyes of others, the Lord sees into our hearts and knows if we are truly devoted to him and his purposes.