Isaiah 37:26-29 (ESV Strong's)
“‘Have you not heard
that I determined it long ago?
I planned from days of old
what now I bring to pass,
that you should make fortified cities
crash into heaps of ruins,
while their inhabitants, shorn of strength,
are dismayed and confounded,
and have become like plants of the field
and like tender grass,
like grass on the housetops,
blighted before it is grown.
“‘I know your sitting down
and your going out and coming in,
and your raging against me.
Because you have raged against me
and your complacency has come to my ears,
I will put my hook in your nose
and my bit in your mouth,
and I will turn you back on the way
by which you came.’
Wise Words for Today’s Governmental Leaders
The above words were spoken by God, through Isaiah the prophet, about and to the King of Assyria and his surrogates. The commandeer of the Assyrian army had come before King Hezekiah, the king of Judah, and had boasted about the fact that “no god” and/or “no power” has been able to resist the power and attacks of the Assyrians. That boasting lead to the above prophecy. What we take from God’s word to these foreign leaders is that God has actually planned for their desire for power and holds their power in His hands. God has planned from “long ago” what would happen with these foreign leaders. Today’s governments around the world should stand up and take notice of what this history and this passage teaches us. It would not be long before the commander of the Assyrian army and the king would have their lives taken and there would be violent change of leadership ... from their own family. God is in control. We ought not to worry about what our leaders do because God has planned “long ago” the times and the seasons for each of them.
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