ISAIAH 10 THE PROPHET IS CALLED TO SPEAK JUDGEMENT UPON THE PROUD KING OF ASSYRIA..AS THE LORD BREAKS THE ROD OF ASSYRIA.. THE ISSUE WITH THE KING OF ASSYRIA WAS HIS PRIDE... AND THE JUDGEMENT OF THE LORD WAS SENT TO BRING DOWN THE PRIDE OF ASSYRIA THE UNGODLY LEADERSHIP IN THE CITY. HE SOUGHT TO RULE BY SELF WILL AND SELF AGENDA NOT GOD AGENDA.. HE WAS AN OPPRESSOR REFUSED TO DECREE JUSTICE FOR THE POOR AND NEEDY AND INSTEAD SET UP GRAVEN IMAGES IN THE CITY OF GOD. HE WAS VAIN AND PROUD AND FAINTED IN THE SETTING THE STANDARD OF GOD SO THE ENEMY HAD ACCESS TO PLUNDER..BRINGING DEVASTATION TO THE CITY..AND HE SOUGHT IN VANITY TO CONFORM TO THE WORLD AND CONFORM OR EMULATE THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD RATHER THAN HOLY GOD..AND HE VAUNTED AGAINST GOD ALMOST PROVOKING GOD IN HIS PRIDE AND ARROGANCE SET HIMSELF AGAINST GOD AND THE STANDARD OF THE LORD AND ALL WHO FOLLOWED THE KING OF ASSYRIA WERE PUT TO CONFUSION...AS HE FORGOT THE FEAR OF THE LORD AND SOUGHT TO STRIVE AGAINST HIS MAKER FORGETTING THAT GOD IS A CONSUMING FIRE AND WILL COME AND BURN OUT AND CLEANSE HIS PEOPLE FROM INIQUITY. THAT MEN WILL BE HUMBLED AND RETURN TO THE LORD IN TRUTH AND NOT PRETENSE AND PROFESSION ONLY..BUT (IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH) THE KING OF ASSYRIA HAD WILLFUL SIN THE PRIDE OF HIS HEART DECEIVED HIM AS HE WILLFULLY REBELLED AGAINST THE DECREES OF THE LORD THE JUSTICE OF GOD AND THE JUDGEMENTS OF GOD AND THE STANDARD OF TRUTH THE LORD HAS SET AS A MARKER OR BOUNDARY TO PROTECT HIS PEOPLE HIS CHILDREN HIS CITY...THE PROUD KING WOULD NOT LIFT THE STANDARD OF GOD BC HE WAS MORE INTERESTED IN SELFISH GAIN AND GAINING POLITICAL POWER AND DRAW PEOPLE UNTO HIMSELF AND NOT A HOLY GOD AND THE WORD OF THE LORD. HE TRUSTED IN HIS OWN WISDOM AND REFUSED THE WISDOM AND COUNCIL OF THE LORD...HE CREATED HIS OWN UNDERSTANDING OF GOD AND HIS OWN IMAGE OF GOD AS HE SET HIMSELF UP ACTING AS A GOD. SEEKING TO RULE HIS WAY AND NOT THE WAY OF THE LORD. (ANYONE SEE THIS IN WORLDLY LEADERSHIP?) BUT GOD HUMBLES HIM AND BRINGS HIM DOWN OFF HIS HIGH SEAT. AS THE WORD OF THE LORD IS SENT AND HIS JUDGEMENT IS DECREED.OUT OF THE MOUTH OF THE PROPHET...ISAIAH. AND IT IS GOD WHO EVEN ALLOWED THE KING OF ASSYRIA TO BRING CALAMITY UPON THE CITY AS THE AFFLICTIONS AND CHAOS THAT CAME WAS TO TEACH THE PEOPLE A LESSON OF WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE STANDARD OF GOD IS NOT SET AND UPHELD NOR HIS JUSTICE AND JUDGEMENTS AGAINST THE WICKED...AS WE SUFFER THE ROD OF THE OPPRESSOR WHEN WE BOW AND COMPROMISE TO HIS RULE AND NOT THE RULE OF GOD. YET IT WAS A CONTROLLED FIRE..AS TO BRING TRUE REPENTANCE AND RETURN TO THE WAY OF THE LORD AND THE STANDARD OF TRUTH. AS THE PEOPLE SAW AND FELT THE AFFLICTION OF THE ENEMY WHO CAME IN LIKE A FLOOD TO PLUNDER UNTIL THE LORD RAISED A STANDARD AGAINST HIM. AS THE ENEMY SEEKS TO NOT PROTECT BORDERS AND SET BOUNDRYS TO THE ENEMY SO THE ENEMY CAN COME ROB KILL STEAL..BUT THE LORD ARISES AND PUTS A STOP TO THE PLAN OF THE ENEMY AND BRINGS THE UNGODLY WICKED PROUD LEADERSHIP DOWN BY FIRE. When the Lord has finished all his work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, he will say, “I will punish the king of Assyria for the willful pride of his heart and the haughty look in his eyes. 13 For he says: “‘By the strength of my hand I have done this, and by my wisdom, because I have understanding. I removed the boundaries of nations, I plundered their treasures; like a mighty one I subdued their kings. 14 As one reaches into a nest, so my hand reached for the wealth of the nations; as people gather abandoned eggs, so I gathered all the countries; not one flapped a wing, or opened its mouth to chirp.’” 15 Does the ax raise itself above the person who swings it, or the saw boast against the one who uses it? As if a rod were to wield the person who lifts it up, or a club brandish the one who is not wood! 16 Therefore, the Lord, the Lord Almighty, will send a wasting disease upon his sturdy warriors; under his pomp a fire will be kindled like a blazing flame.
Posted on: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 14:50:30 +0000