Week 136, Day 3: A mixed bag
Today’s Reading: Isaiah 32:1-20
Some thoughts from today’s reading…
The message from God turns to having a mixed message. The beginning speaks of good things to come with a righteous king reigning. Such righteous leaders will be like refuge from the wind or a storm or shade in a parched land. They would give the land sweet rest and comfort. But “within a year and a few days”, vs. 10, they would be troubled and the gathering from the land would cease and the palace would be abandoned. This is such a dramatic turn. The captivity for Judah will not be far off. The people needed to prepare themselves by seeking God. There would be a few good leaders before the fall but a complete turn around in Judah would not happen.
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Week 136, Day 2: Not of Man
Today’s Reading: Isaiah 31:1-9
Some thoughts from today’s reading…
God’s message grows starkly more upbeat in the next few chapters. In verse 5 He says that He will protect and deliver Jerusalem. There was coming a day soon when they would cast away their idols and return to God. Assyria would come upon Jerusalem and siege the city. The people in their desperation would stop looking to Egypt or their idols for help and would turn to God. In that day God would cause Assyria to “fall by a sword not of man.” I believe this is what we find happening when the Assyrian king, Sennacherib, came with a mighty army but God destroyed 185,000 of them with His angel. They were not destroyed by any weapon of man but by God’s power. Yet another time when God displayed His power and called for Judah to be faithful to Him only, but they would not remain faithful.
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