Isaiah 20

It would be easy to focus on the message of nakedness and shame that Isaiah portrayed as a portent of Ashdod's future. But I think that there are other messages in this passage.  Messages that all center on this truth; don't depend upon people to bring deliverance. Government, domestic or foreign, will solve the problems of our culture. As a matter of fact that is not the function God intended. Government is intended to provide security and ensure civility within the culture and with those outside of the culture. Technologist will never provide the solutions for the problems that we face.  They may enable us to do some things with less effort, but the ethically questionable situations they can create only add to the dilution of moral purity in our culture. Artists will never remove the pains of life that we face. At best they can most fully describe those pains. No person or persons can fix life. The problems we face originate in the spiritual realm. So it will take a spiritual solution to resolve them.
Stuart