2 Chronicles 32:9-15 (ESV)
After this, Sennacherib king of Assyria, who was besieging Lachish with all his forces, sent his servants to Jerusalem to Hezekiah king of Judah and to all the people of Judah who were in Jerusalem, saying, “Thus says Sennacherib king of Assyria, ‘On what are you trusting, that you endure the siege in Jerusalem? Is not Hezekiah misleading you, that he may give you over to die by famine and by thirst, when he tells you, “The LORD our God will deliver us from the hand of the king of Assyria”? Has not this same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, “Before one altar you shall worship, and on it you shall burn your sacrifices”? Do you not know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of other lands? Were the gods of the nations of those lands at all able to deliver their lands out of my hand? Who among all the gods of those nations that my fathers devoted to destruction was able to deliver his people from my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you from my hand? Now, therefore, do not let Hezekiah deceive you or mislead you in this fashion, and do not believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to deliver his people from my hand or from the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you out of my hand!’”
The non-believing world does not understand the power of our God. They simply believe that all gods are the same. One fails and they all fail. One is fake, so they are all fake. The God of the universe does not fit into the small minds of the non-believing world. They put Him into their little boxes and believe they control Him. They will not allow Him to control them. Man has created a god in his mind that will do as man thinks. In the above story we see how useless this is. Sennacherib will be run out of Israel and return home. Upon return he will be killed by his own sons. His boasting of the successes that he and his fathers have had against the gods of the other nations, will do him no good. The God of Abraham, Moses and Jacob is not those gods. Yahweh does not tolerate blasphemous little men. He didn’t then and He won’t now!
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