OUR FATHER WHO JUDGES HIS PEOPLE FIRST BUT THEN JUDGES THOSE WHO OPPRESS THEM

The book of Isaiah chapter 51 verses 22 - 23 says this;

This is what your Sovereign Lord says, your God, who defends his people: “See, I have taken out of your hand the cup that made you stagger; from that cup, the goblet of my wrath, you will never drink again. 

I will put it into the hands of your tormentors, who said to you, ‘Fall prostrate that we may walk on you.’ And you made your back like the ground, like a street to be walked on.”

The people of God were severely judged by God and they were made to drink the whole cup of judgement rendering them punch-drunk with the calamitous blows that rained down on them.

Having dispensed the full dose of judgement to His people, the Lord then defended his people.

He took the cup of the wrath of God out of their hands that had left them staggering and reeling and  He promised that they would never drink from that cup again.

The Lord took the cup of wrath from His people and placed it into the hands of those who had undertaken to torment the people of God with humiliation. They had commanded God's people to lie face down on the ground so that they could walk on their backs as though they were a street.

Instead, they received received a cup of wrath as retribution for their presumption to harras Gid's people.

The Lord defends His people from oppression.

Amen.

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