What is the meaning of Isaiah 57:3? But come here • The Lord issues a summons—not a casual invitation, but a courtroom call to account. • Similar tones surface in Isaiah 1:18, “Come now, let us reason together,” and in Micah 6:2 where “the LORD has a case against His people.” • Grace is still available, yet the urgency signals that continued rebellion will face divine judgment. you sons of a sorceress • By labeling them “sons,” God exposes the spiritual lineage they have chosen; allegiance to occult practices makes sorcery their family trait. • Deuteronomy 18:10-12 flatly forbids “divination or sorcery,” declaring such things “detestable to the LORD.” • King Manasseh illustrates this in 2 Chronicles 33:6, provoking God by “practicing sorcery, divination, and witchcraft.” • The New Testament keeps the warning alive: Acts 8:9 notes Simon who “practiced sorcery,” while Revelation 21:8 lists “sorcerers” among those headed for “the lake that burns with fire.” • The point is stark: traffic with occult power sets a person outside the covenant family. you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes! • Isaiah turns from occultism to covenant infidelity; adultery and prostitution picture Israel chasing idols. • Hosea 1:2, “the land is committing flagrant prostitution,” and Jeremiah 3:9, “she committed adultery with stone and wood,” echo the charge. • James 4:4 carries it forward: “You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God?” • Literal immorality often accompanied the idol cults (Exodus 34:15 warns of those who “prostitute themselves to their gods”), but the deeper issue is spiritual: God’s people belonged to Him and have instead traded His covenant love for counterfeit lovers. • Generational language (“offspring”) stresses how entrenched and self-perpetuating this unfaithfulness has become (cf. Exodus 20:5 on sins visited “to the third and fourth generation”). summary Isaiah 57:3 confronts a wayward people with three rapid-fire charges: they have answered occult powers, inherited and embraced spiritual adultery, and now stand summoned before a holy God. The verse unmasks false identities—sons of sorcerers, children of unfaithfulness—and invites repentance before judgment falls. |
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