# 22 2025 Dev. Isa.18:1. “God Sends a Warning!” Read all of chapter eighteen 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.18:1 “Woe to the land of whirring wings along the rivers of Cush…”
Isaiah 18 “A Prophecy Against Cush”; that is the title of this chapter. Cush offered to help Jerusalem, but God is the one helping His people, on Him they must trust.
Vs.1-2 “Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smooth-skinned, to a people feared far and wide, an aggressive nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers.” The Cushite people ruled Egypt at the time, an aggressive people, speaking their own language and using their own script.
Vs.3-4 “All you people of the world… you will see it, a banner… a trumpet you will hear it.” Yet God seems unconcerned, “I will remain quiet and will look on from my dwelling place…” Isaiah turns again to a harvest metaphor, “For, before the harvest, when the blossom is gone and the flower becomes a ripening grape he will cut off the shoots with pruning knives…” as well as the branches. “They will all be left to the mountain birds of prey and to the wild animals; the birds will feed on them all summer, the wild animals all winter.” Isaiah is not talking about Cush, but the Assyrians. As a result, “At that time gifts will be brought to the Lord Almighty from a people tall and smooth-skinned, from a people feared far and wide… the gifts will be brought to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the Lord Almighty.” God spared Jerusalem and by doing so spared Cush, Egypt. We pray that God will spare Ukraine and by doing so He will spare the Eastern European countries. Praise the Lord!
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