Great Was Its Fall

 

Good day! I’m Duane Matz and this is Today’s Living Word:

 

Isa 19:1 The burden against Egypt. Behold, the LORD rides on a swift cloud, And will come into Egypt; The idols of Egypt will totter at His presence, And the heart of Egypt will melt in its midst

What do you think of when you read of Egypt in the Bible? I immediately think of Joseph and how he rose to be second in command, and with his leadership, his brothers and his father were delivered from the sure death of a severe famine.

I think of another Joseph and his bride Mary fleeing to Egypt with their infant Son, Jesus, to escape the sure death at the hands of Herod. Jesus survived and now, by faith in Him,  we have been delivered from hell and

So one thing I think about when I hear the word Egypt is deliverance, from sin.

 

 

Also, when I think of Egypt, I think of the Israelites in their wilderness wanderings (before they entered the promised land) and how often they longed to go back to the delicacies of Egypt. They were willing to trade their freedom, for the bondage of sin, just to enjoy the goodies of the world.” So I think of our tendency to backslide.

 

One more thing that comes to mind when I read of Egypt. And this is closely related to the judgment pronounced here against Egypt by Isaiah. During the threatening’s of conquest by the Assyrians and others, the Israelites often sought aid from the Egyptians rather than trusting in God.

 

God always sought to warn the Israelites to not trust in the power of Egypt to save them, and here in Isaiah the Lord reminds us of how quickly His judgment can come (a swift cloud) and when it does idols of the world (Egypt) will do no good at all, (They will totter and fall)

 

Look around at our world today. Pestilence, the sword, and famine are on the rise, and note how quickly these changes have come upon us, but no one seems interested in linking these outbreaks to the judgement of God.

 

The world has this spirit of Babel which says, “we’ll figure this out without God.” No one seems to be interested in the only true solution….. repentance and a return to trust in the one true God!

 

Tottering idols will eventually fall, they are like the house built on sand that Jesus talked about in Mt 7:26,27 "But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: 27 "and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall."

Great was its fall

I’m Duane Matz and that’s Today’s Living Word.