Isaiah 37:21-38

Isaiah 37:21-38

God now answers Hezekiah through His prophet Isaiah. God's word through Isaiah is in response to the prayer of HezekiahGod speaks both to the king of Assyria and Hezekiah. To Hezekiah, God tells him that Jerusalem will be delivered and God will also sustain them in the aftermath of Assyria's defeat. The same is true for us today. God will deliver us from all our enemies and God will most certainly sustain us.To the king of Assyria, God first ask him if he actually knows who he is reproaching and blaspheming. God reviews his awful pride. God reminds the king that He is the infinite, self-existing almighty creator; that the king of Assyria only accomplished what he did because God ordained it. Nothing happens apart from the sovereignty of God. God Knows all. He knows the rage of the Assyrian king against Him. Because of this rage, God will now defeat the entire Assyrian army and send the king back to Assyria the same way he came. We finally get to verse 36 where an angel of the LORD metes out God's judgement upon the Assyrian army by killing 185,000 soldiers in a single short night. There is little detail give. So much has been said leading up to the judgement of God, yet only one verse is given to the description of God's judgement. Once God's judgment is poured out, there is nothing left to be said.There is so much in God's word that warns us of the judgement that is to come. There are signs everywhere confirming the authenticity of God's word. Yet when His judgement does come, it will be sudden, thorough and complete. There will be no escape for all those who have rejected Jesus Christ and His word.For us as the remnant church of Jesus Christ, we must always be aware of the days that we are living in according to the word of God. Furthermore, we must know God's word. Even more, we are to live in obedience to God's word. Maranatha
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Chapter 37
21 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria:
22 This is the word which the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.
23 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.
24 By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, and the forest of his Carmel.
25 I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.
26 Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps.
27 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.
28 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.
29 Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
30 And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such as groweth of itself; and the second year that which springeth of the same: and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof.
31 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:
32 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this.
33 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shields, nor cast a bank against it.
34 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.
35 For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
36 Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
37 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
38 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Armenia: and Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.
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