# 06 2025 Dev. Isa.10:3. The Survivors! Read all of chapter ten first. We invite you into God’s space, to read His Word, to think on and interact with. This is God’s Story. Do you believe that this may also be part of our story, in our time? All passages are taken from the NIV.
Isa.10:3 “To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your riches?”
Isa.10 Chapter 9 shines an encouraging light on Israel but the chapter ends with a condemnation of Ephraim and Samaria. Ch.10 continues with: “Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, deprive the poor of their rights.” Given the soft stance on crime is this a condemnation of our society as well? What do you think?
Vs.1-4 “Woe to those who make unjust laws,” Isaiah is warning the people around him, God’s people, who have gone wrong and are not listening to God’s warnings covered in the last three chapters. As a result, “Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised.”
Vs.5-11 “God’s Judgment on Assyria” God allows the Assyrians to become strong and God uses them to punish his people. But they will also be punished; “I dispatch him, (the King of Assyria) against a people who anger me…” The Israelites are asking the question , how can this be, that God sends an idol worshiping people, to punish his own? It raises serious questions for Christians as well. When illness or setbacks hit us we ask, is God allowing this? Yes, He is, God is in complete control. We look to God’s Word; Isa.55:8-9. “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” God has purposes that we are not able to understand.
As far as Assyria is concerned they are not aware of God intentions. As it turned out the king is arrogant, boastful and self serving, as a result, he will also be punished.
Vs.12-19 “I will punish the king of Assyria for the willful pride of his heart and the haughty look in his eyes. For he says:” see vs. 13-14.
Vs. 15 asks a rhetorical question, is the instrument God uses higher than God? No! Therefore, God will decimate him and his land. “The light of Israel will become a flame”, a destroying fire.
Vs.20-34 “The Remnant of Israel”. God will revive a remnant of Israel, “they will return to the mighty God… Therefore this is what the Lord, the Lord almighty, says: do not be afraid of the Assyrians…” As God saved them from Egypt and from all their enemies along the way to Canaan, He will save them again. The Lord God Almighty, He will do it. This translates to today, Christians, churches, are being persecuted. Yet what is more dangerous is the pressure of secular culture, the pressure is on to compromise on DEI, to normalize homosexual lifestyles and to agree to recognize many kinds of genders. No! In the power of the Holy Spirit we stand. Amen and Amen!
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