Isaiah 36:11-22

We continue to look at chapter 36 which lays out before us an incredible picture of the spiritual warfare we will face and how we are to respond to it according to the scripturesJudah is surrounded and under siege by a massive international army. Judah has no resources left. They have every reason to give up. The only thing they have left is their trust in God.The enemy speaks both to the leadership and to the people. His speech is designed to invoke fear and quickly discourage all who hear his voice. He tells them not to be deceived by God's word, not to listen to God's word and do not let God's word persuade you in any way. The enemy always seeks to have us first doubt the word of God and then deny the word of God. His method is conversation and his primary weapon is deception.The enemy preys on a fearful, hopeless, helpless people. He offers economic security, comfort and safety. All of this he truly is able to offer. However, the cost is high. The cost is freedom. The price tag is that we must worship the enemy in order to receive all that the enemy offers. But in the end, all that the enemy offers will burn.We must keep the walls of our lives secure and never allow the enemy to breach them. We are never to enter into conversation with the enemy. We do not negotiate with a sworn enemy committed to our destruction. And by all means, we remain true to Jesus Christ and His word, trusting God to remain faithful to His word, knowing that God will defend us as He has promised abundantly in His word.

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11 Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and speak not to us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall.

12 But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?

13 Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.

14 Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you.

15 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us: this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.

16 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me: and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern;

17 Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.

18 Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, the LORD will deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?

20 Who are they among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?

21 But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.

22 Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.