OUR FATHER WHO PROTECTS THE REMNANT OF HIS PEOPLE

The book of Isaiah chapter 10 verse 11 says this;

shall I not deal with Jerusalem and her images as I dealt with Samaria and her idols?’”

The king of Assyria, looking at the nations he was intending to conquer and dominate, assessed that Jerusalem would be brought under his dominion as easily as he brought Samaria under control.

Looking at the idols being venerated in Jerusalem, he concluded that the people of Jerusalem were of the same quality as the people of Samaria who worshipped similar idols.

What the king of Assyria apparently did not realise was that behind the scenes, he had been empowered by the God of Israel to bring judgement upon His own people partly because of theie penchant of forgetting their true God in order to  follow idols.

The king of Assyria did not allow for the fact that the God of Israel had a remnant of His people embedded in Jerusalem and that it was for the sake of these that that God would truncate the ambitions of the king of Assyria. As verse 12 says;

When the Lord has finished all his work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, he will say, “I will punish the king of Assyria for the willful pride of his heart and the haughty look in his eyes. 

Amen.

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