When the Threat Becomes Reality

Isaiah 36:1 KJV

Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of Judah, and took them.

The greatest threat Israel faced was Babylon but the most immediate threat was Assyria. It is the subject of these two threats that has occupied nearly all of the preaching of Isaiah heretofore.

• He has warned them of its coming
• He has instructed them of their purpose
• He has urged them to trust God through them and
• He has promised them peace to come after them

Here finally comes the first of those threats. They will survive this one and, though they will be captured by Babylon, this threat should serve to strengthen their faith in the Lord. He will do to Assyria exactly as He said He would do. In that they may learn that His plan with Babylon will accomplish exactly what God planned.

And so it is true in our lives. God has given us all we need to know

• That there will be trials
• That they have a purpose
• That we can trust God through them and
• That His promises are sure afterwards

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