“See, the Lord, the LORD Almighty, will lop off the boughs with great power. The lofty trees will be felled, the tall ones will be brought low.”
~ Isaiah 10:33
Hi James and Ellen,
The year is 722 B.C. An enemy people group’s army would be approaching – again. An enemy people group’s army has already beaten up and taken away as exiles and/or captive slaves God’s specially chosen guys and gals who had been living in the land area of Samaria. Samaria was the Northern Kingdom’s portion of the land that made up the land area of Israel. Hezekiah is king over the guys and gals who are living in the land area of Judah. Judah was the South Kingdom’s portion of the land that made up the land area of Israel. The city of Jerusalem was in the land area of Judah. Isaiah is for this time God’s designated prophet to be a courier of His messages to His specially chosen guys and gals who are living in the land area of Judah and in the city of Jerusalem. Isaiah has had a vision. Isaiah recorded the vision in what is now Isaiah 10 in his Isaiah Book. Isaiah saw in his vision an enemy people group’s army approaching the city of Jerusalem from the direction of Aiath or Ai. Aiath or Ai is a town that is located about ten miles to the north of the city of Jerusalem. Isaiah then saw in his vision an enemy people group’s army arriving in Micmash. Micmash is a town that is located about seven miles to the north of Jerusalem. Isaiah then saw in his vision an enemy people group’s army arriving in Ramah. Ramah was Samuel’s hometown. Ramah is a town that is located about five miles north of the city of Jerusalem. Isaiah then saw in his vision an enemy people group’s army arriving in Gibeah. Gibeah is a town that is located about three miles from the city of Jerusalem. Gibeah was the first town to be the capital for the Israelite people group guys and gals capital. Isaiah then saw in his vision an enemy people group’s army arriving in Anathoth. Anathoth was Isaiah’s hometown. Anathoth is a town that is located between Micmash and the city of Jerusalem. Isaiah then saw in his vision the enemy people’s groups army stopping at stop at Nob. Nob is located on the outskirts of the city of Jerusalem. Isaiah in his vision saw the enemy people group’s soldiers shaking their fists at the guys and gals who were living in the city of Jerusalem. God told Isaiah that He would see to it that His specially chosen guys and gals who were living in the land area of Judah and in the city of Jerusalem would see their enemy destroyed. Verse 33 says, “See, the Lord, the LORD Almighty, will lop off the boughs with great power. The lofty trees will be felled, the tall ones will be brought low.”
Have you ever dreamt that you were about to be killed? Isaiah may have had that kind of vision as he watched an enemy people group’s army advancing closer and closer to the city of Jerusalem. Your grandpaa believes that the guys and gals who would become cornered in the city of Jerusalem knew what had happened to God’s specially chosen guys and gals who had once lived in the land area of Samaria. Your grandpaa believes that God’s specially chosen guys and gal who would become trapped in the city of Jerusalem would be resigned to a fate of becoming also exiles and/or captive slaves. When Sennacherib assumed being an Assyrian king in 720 B.C., Sennacherib and his Assyrian armies set out to conquer the known world. The Assyria people group army by 650 B.C. had overrun and were in control of a land area that stretched from the Persian Gulf – the area which is now Iran, north to the Mediterranean Sea – which included the land area of Babylonia – which is now Iraq, and Syria. The Assyrian people group army by 650 B.C. had overrun and were in control of the land area that edged the Mediterranean Sea’s eastern shore – which included the land area of Israel – which is the land that God gave to His specially chosen guys and gals to always to have to live in as their very own land if . . . and Egypt’s fertile Nile River basin. God told Isaiah that Sennacherib and his Assyria people group army would have setbacks in their search for and in their march towards world dominance. God – in 701 B.C., sent an angel to planet Earth who used a rapidly spreading, wasting plague to kill 185,000 soldiers who were in Sennacherib’s Assyrian army.
God used Sennacherib and his people group Assyrian army as pawns or rods. God had completely had it with His specially chosen guys and gals. God’s specially chosen guys who were living in the land area of Judah were no longer obeying any of the worship mandates that He had given to them for them to follow. God’s specially chosen guys and gals who were living in the land area of Judah instead were living by the oppressive decrees and the unjust laws that they had created. God’s specially chosen guys and gals who were living in the land area of Judah were depriving poor, oppressed guys, gals and kids of their rights by withholding justice from them, preying on widows and robbing orphan kids. God’s specially chosen guys and gals who were living in the land area of Judah had really gotten under the skin of God when they filled their homes with inanimate manmade gods that were handmade from wood, stone, clay and metal. God used Sennacherib and his Assyrian people group army to punish His specially chosen guys and gals because His specially chosen guys and gals were disobeying His directives. Isaiah saw all this in his vision as going to happen – and it did. God would then punish Sennacherib and his Assyrian people group army because of their willful pride and haughtiness. Why do you think that there is such turmoil on planet Earth today? Why do you think that God is using His power today to shake, flood and storm over planet Earth – causing hundreds of thousands of guys, gals and kids to die? Why do you think that God is using His power today through one nation of guys and gals to purge, unnerve and agitate despots and tyrants – causing literally millions of guys, gals and kids to face uncertain futures? Seeing God unfold His plan for planet Earth is fascinating to your grandpaa.
Isaiah 10 (651)