Isaiah 36:4-7
And the Rabshakeh said to them, “Say to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: On what do you rest this trust of yours? Do you think that mere words are strategy and power for war? In whom do you now trust, that you have rebelled against me? Behold, you are trusting in Egypt, that broken reed of a staff, which will pierce the hand of any man who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him. But if you say to me, “We trust in the Lord our God,” is it not he whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and to Jerusalem, “You shall worship before this altar”?
Tag: The World's View of God's Power
It is silly for people of the world to give commentary on God, His power and His plans. As though they were studying general business math, they comment as though they know the mind of God. Even believers have come to realize that God is deep and, even in faith, much remains secret to God:
Deuteronomy 29:29
“The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.
We only know what God chooses to revel to us. I would doubt, in the above passage, that the Commander (The Rabshakeh) of the Assyria army would know much about God. He, earlier, compares Yahweh with every other god the Assyrian army has destroyed. Again, he knows little of what he is talking about. When the world talks about God it is important to remember they have to access point for God. The unbelieving world can know the power of God, for God has revealed it to them in nature. In Romans chapter one the Apostle Paul tells us that the world can know the nature of God, even His eternal power and godhead. However, their commentary, as seen above, lacks insight into the mind of Christ. Paul later, in chapter eight of Romans, explains only the mind of God can be understood by the Spirit of God and only those who have the Spirit of God can know it. We often get fearful of the world as they speak foolishly of God. But, since they refuse to believe in God and His plans, they are only fools (Psalms 53:1)
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