…and all the people will know, Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria, who say in pride and in arrogance of heart: “The bricks have fallen, but we will build with dressed stones; the sycamores have been cut down, but we will put cedars in their place.” Isaiah 9:9-10 This whole time, the Lord was trying to get our attention…calling to us - not to rebuild…but to repent! He is still calling… “Yet even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning; and rend your hearts and not your garments.” Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster. Who knows whether he will not turn and relent, and pleave a blessing behind him, a grain offering and a drink offering for the Lord your God? Joel 2:1-14 “When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land, or send pestilence among my people, if My Peo...