And I Will Turn Thee Back....the Wayfarer 8/21/14
And I Will Turn Thee Back
8/21/14
"Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle on thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest."
(2 Kings 19:28)
When God gave Hezekiah the response he was to make to the ungodly that posed a threat to his people, that response was crystal clear and left no doubt as to the consequences faced by those coming in opposition to His people and His will.
The clarity of that response today is equally given in a manner that may not be ignored despite all attempts to do so, despite all enemies that could come against those chosen by God to endure until the return of His Son to reign without opposition, without concern for any opposition, without dispute of the power given Him after bringing the Judgment of God and His Justice to those who would resist the plan of the Creator, instituted by HIM for this world, and the entire universe HE created.
Just as the threats are hurled today and the atrocities of those making those threats are made apparent to a world that still remains in denial of the power held by God, so too were threats made in the time faced by Hezekiah...threats that will always be met with the same answer of a promised wrath for those making the threats, and salvation for those truly seeking it from our Lord.
"So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus saith the Lord, Be not afraid of the words which thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumor, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own hand.
So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is come out to fight against thee, he sent messengers again unto Hezekiah saying,
Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God in whom thou trustiest deceive thee saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done in all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered?
Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed: as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Thelasar?
Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and lvah?
Braggarts trusting in their perceived power chose to ignore the absolute power of God, placing Him within the category of all the false gods that failed to deliver other peoples from subjugation to the physical power of their own bodies and leaders with no concept of the One True God or inkling of what they faced in standing in opposition to Him.
Just as they were to find that Power invincible and impossible to deny, so too will all "modern" nations come to the reality of that Power!
"And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the Lord and spread it before the Lord.
And Hezekiah prayed before the Lord, and said, O Lord God of Israel, which dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.
Lord, bow down thine ear, and hear: open Lord thine eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent him to reproach the living God.
Of a truth , Lord, the Kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands,
And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore have they destroyed them.
Now therefore, O Lord our God, I beseech thee, save thou us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the Lord God, even thou only."
(2 Kings 19:14-19)
Hezekiah took his problem to God! First, having attempted to find peace though diplomacy and negotiation, communicating with the would be conquerors, he took his problem to the one place where a solution would be offered, and salvation from that enemy given.
That enemy made the mistake of assuming that what little power allowed them would suffice and that Israel, like all the other nations worshipping false gods could be as easily defeated, that no protection could stand in the face of their fury and demands for subservience, even by the people clinging to the ONE TRUE GOD, both Creator and Judge of ALL!
So too do all who refuse to acknowledge that same Power, that same Creator, the covenant given, promise made and wrath for enmity assured today!
There has never been, nor shall there ever be any man, any creature in the universe that can stand up to the power of that wrath when it is unleashed, nor that can defeat and subjugate those serving HIM.
No entity, no organization, no false deity, holds the power held by that One True God, and that given His Son that still provides salvation and succor in a world that still would deny Him.
Just as Hezekiah took his problem to the Lord, so too can we, but it must be done in Spirit and in Truth, with complete belief in and reliance on God alone, not man, not any other purported means that may be offered.
"Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.
This is the word that 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.
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.
By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel.
I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.
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 fenced cities into ruinous heaps.
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 house tops, and as corm blasted before it be grown up.
But I know thy abode, and thy going out and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.
Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will 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.
(2 Kings 19:20-28)
Neither nation, nor individual, is exempt from the power of our Creator. Neither angel nor demon may stand in opposition to Him.
The statement given Hezekiah through Isaiah still stands. God alone is still in charge, and takes note of both individual and national attempt to blaspheme His power.
Blessings are continually available, even when rejected, but that rejection and denial are never unnoted.
"Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!"
"Then said the lord of the vineyard, What shall I do? I will send my beloved son: it may be they will reverence him when they see him.
But when the husbandmen saw him, they reasoned among themselves saying, This is the heir: come, let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.
So they cast him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do unto them?
He shall come and destroy these husbandmen, and shall give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it, they said God forbid.
And he beheld them, and said, What is this then that is written, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner?
Whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be broken; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder."
(Luke 20:13-18)
Even so, come quickly, Lord Jesus!
Amen and Amen
the Wayfarer
8/21/14
"Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle on thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest."
(2 Kings 19:28)
When God gave Hezekiah the response he was to make to the ungodly that posed a threat to his people, that response was crystal clear and left no doubt as to the consequences faced by those coming in opposition to His people and His will.
The clarity of that response today is equally given in a manner that may not be ignored despite all attempts to do so, despite all enemies that could come against those chosen by God to endure until the return of His Son to reign without opposition, without concern for any opposition, without dispute of the power given Him after bringing the Judgment of God and His Justice to those who would resist the plan of the Creator, instituted by HIM for this world, and the entire universe HE created.
Just as the threats are hurled today and the atrocities of those making those threats are made apparent to a world that still remains in denial of the power held by God, so too were threats made in the time faced by Hezekiah...threats that will always be met with the same answer of a promised wrath for those making the threats, and salvation for those truly seeking it from our Lord.
"So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus saith the Lord, Be not afraid of the words which thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumor, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own hand.
So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is come out to fight against thee, he sent messengers again unto Hezekiah saying,
Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God in whom thou trustiest deceive thee saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done in all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered?
Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed: as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Thelasar?
Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and lvah?
Braggarts trusting in their perceived power chose to ignore the absolute power of God, placing Him within the category of all the false gods that failed to deliver other peoples from subjugation to the physical power of their own bodies and leaders with no concept of the One True God or inkling of what they faced in standing in opposition to Him.
Just as they were to find that Power invincible and impossible to deny, so too will all "modern" nations come to the reality of that Power!
"And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the Lord and spread it before the Lord.
And Hezekiah prayed before the Lord, and said, O Lord God of Israel, which dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.
Lord, bow down thine ear, and hear: open Lord thine eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent him to reproach the living God.
Of a truth , Lord, the Kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands,
And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore have they destroyed them.
Now therefore, O Lord our God, I beseech thee, save thou us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the Lord God, even thou only."
(2 Kings 19:14-19)
Hezekiah took his problem to God! First, having attempted to find peace though diplomacy and negotiation, communicating with the would be conquerors, he took his problem to the one place where a solution would be offered, and salvation from that enemy given.
That enemy made the mistake of assuming that what little power allowed them would suffice and that Israel, like all the other nations worshipping false gods could be as easily defeated, that no protection could stand in the face of their fury and demands for subservience, even by the people clinging to the ONE TRUE GOD, both Creator and Judge of ALL!
So too do all who refuse to acknowledge that same Power, that same Creator, the covenant given, promise made and wrath for enmity assured today!
There has never been, nor shall there ever be any man, any creature in the universe that can stand up to the power of that wrath when it is unleashed, nor that can defeat and subjugate those serving HIM.
No entity, no organization, no false deity, holds the power held by that One True God, and that given His Son that still provides salvation and succor in a world that still would deny Him.
Just as Hezekiah took his problem to the Lord, so too can we, but it must be done in Spirit and in Truth, with complete belief in and reliance on God alone, not man, not any other purported means that may be offered.
"Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.
This is the word that 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.
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.
By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel.
I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.
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 fenced cities into ruinous heaps.
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 house tops, and as corm blasted before it be grown up.
But I know thy abode, and thy going out and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.
Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will 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.
(2 Kings 19:20-28)
Neither nation, nor individual, is exempt from the power of our Creator. Neither angel nor demon may stand in opposition to Him.
The statement given Hezekiah through Isaiah still stands. God alone is still in charge, and takes note of both individual and national attempt to blaspheme His power.
Blessings are continually available, even when rejected, but that rejection and denial are never unnoted.
"Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!"
"Then said the lord of the vineyard, What shall I do? I will send my beloved son: it may be they will reverence him when they see him.
But when the husbandmen saw him, they reasoned among themselves saying, This is the heir: come, let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.
So they cast him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do unto them?
He shall come and destroy these husbandmen, and shall give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it, they said God forbid.
And he beheld them, and said, What is this then that is written, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner?
Whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be broken; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder."
(Luke 20:13-18)
Even so, come quickly, Lord Jesus!
2 Timothy 1:12 King James Version (KJV)
12 For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
Amen and Amen
the Wayfarer
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