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“Be Joyful Forever in What I Am Creating”Isaiah’s Prophecy—Light for All Mankind II
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b Commenting on this verse, Bible translator Jerome (born in the fourth century C.E.) tells of an ancient custom observed by idolaters on the last day of the final month of their year. He wrote: “They would spread a table covered with various kinds of foods and a cup mixed with sweet wine to ensure good luck for the fertility of either the past or the coming year.”
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“Be Joyful Forever in What I Am Creating”Isaiah’s Prophecy—Light for All Mankind II
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Trusting in “the God of Good Luck”
13, 14. What practices show that God’s people have left him, and what will happen to them as a result?
13 Isaiah’s prophecy now turns back to those who have left Jehovah and have persisted in idolatry. It says: “You men are those leaving Jehovah, those forgetting my holy mountain, those setting in order a table for the god of Good Luck and those filling up mixed wine for the god of Destiny.” (Isaiah 65:11) By setting a table of food and drink before “the god of Good Luck” and “the god of Destiny,” these backsliding Jews have fallen into the idolatrous practices of the heathen nations.b What will become of any who naively trust in these gods?
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“Be Joyful Forever in What I Am Creating”Isaiah’s Prophecy—Light for All Mankind II
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15. In what way do true Christians today heed the warning found at Isaiah 65:11, 12?
15 Today true Christians heed the warning found at Isaiah 65:11, 12. They do not believe in “Good Luck,” as if it were some kind of supernatural force able to bestow favors. Refusing to squander their material possessions in trying to appease “the god of Good Luck,” they avoid all forms of gambling.
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