Good
day! I’m Duane Matz and this is Today’s Living Word:
Isa
14:23 "I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, And marshes of
muddy water; I will sweep it with the broom of destruction," says the LORD
of hosts. 24 The LORD of hosts has sworn, saying, "Surely, as I have
thought, so it shall come to pass, And as I have purposed, so it shall stand:
25 That I will break the Assyrian in My land, And on My mountains tread him
underfoot. Then his yoke shall be removed from them, And his burden removed
from their shoulders. 26 This is the purpose that is purposed against the whole
earth, And this is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.
The
mighty Assyrian empire will be turned into a wasteland. All that they had built
in their own strength, all their proud accomplishments made desolate to suit
the purposes of our Sovereign God!
And
indeed it came to pass because it was the Lord’s thinking and served His
purposes. The destruction of Babylon in the 4th century before
Christ is a historical fact. The Greek historian Strabo described the ruins in
much the same way Isaiah described it here.
Let
us learn from this! God’s purpose as demonstrated for us here against Assyria is
a message for us for all times. God will not be thwarted. The time is coming
for the devil and his servants, when his yoke and sway over the peoples of the
earth will be forever done away with.
The
devil was “trod underfoot” when Jesus died on the cross and three days later
rose from the dead! He is already defeated, and the full realization of that
victory will be consummated when Jesus returns in full power and glory!
This
“trodding underfoot” was promised way back in the Garden when God told the
devil, “And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your
seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His
heel." (Gen 3:15)
It
was in God’s thoughts and purposes from the very beginning, and every
overthrowing of every wicked regime should always serve as a reminder to us
that God’s “hand is stretched out over all the nations.”
He
is Sovereign and one day the yoke of the wicked one will be forever removed
from the earth!
I’m
Duane Matz and that’s Today’s Living Word.
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