Defilements Part 3

(Isaiah 59:1, NASB95) Continued...
Next we read that “They conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity.” Literally this says “They become pregnant with trouble for others and give birth to iniquity.” This has many applications. The one that most readily comes to mind is that they dream up and commit evil against other people. But this also can mean that they dream up philosophies or word views and in teaching them to others evil results.
Verses four through eight continue on with this thought and the main point that needs to be taken from these verses is the switch from “you” to “they”; from the thought of an individual to that of a group. As mischief is conceived and iniquity birthed by an individual others will join in eventually changing families and nations.
In verse six we read that "Their webs will not become clothing, Nor will they cover themselves with their works." All of the mental gymnastics that they are doing to convince themselves that they are doing right will not count for anything with God. For example a man whose world view is that of “if it works for you, it is ok” marries a woman with the same view and they produce children who end up in goddess worship. Those children grow up and marry like minded spouses and produce like minded children and so on until the nation has changed.
This is a simple example, but it does not really matter what the defilements are, the result is still the same and unless God intervenes to stop it, or unless He reverses the national trend through believers in the nation standing for Christ the nation will be judged and destroyed.
Personal, family and national defilement all lead up to defilement of the land. This is beyond the curse on the land because of Adams sin. It can reach a point where God declares "‘For the land has become defiled, therefore I have brought its punishment upon it, so the land has spewed out its inhabitants." (Leviticus 18:25, NASB95) This is both a spiritual condition of the people in the land and a physical condition of the land itself.