When God arises

Isaiah points the people of his day to the coming day of the Lord, and warns them of what lies ahead. He speaks of gold and silver, the idols of man's making upon which they now rely. He speaks of moles and bats, the dark places into which they will cast their idols in the day in which they are exposed. He speaks of rocks and crags, and the worthless refuges to which desperate sinners will look in the day when their defences fail. He speaks of terror and glory at the coming of the Lord, and the horror of falling as a guilty sinner into the hands of the Holy God who is a consuming fire.

If we do not abandon our idols now, we will then, and be found utterly exposed. We need the refuge that only Christ provides that we might stand in the day when the Lord arises to judgment.