Isaiah 10: God Rules Over Nations and Humbles Pride

0:00Welcome to the Reading the Bible Daily with Dave Podcast. This podcast is devoted to helping increase your daily exposure to God's Word with a short scripture reading and brief commentary on key ideas, themes, and theology in each chapter. Now please join your host Dave Jenkins for today's episode. Alright everybody, welcome back to Read the Bible Daily with Dave. I'm your host Dave Jenkins and Isaiah 9, we saw the glorious promise of the coming Messiah, the wonderful counselor, mighty God everlasting father and Prince of Peace. Now when Isaiah 10, Isaiah returns to the theme of judgment, but with an important emphasis. God rules over nations, kings, and worlds events. This chapter shows that even powerful empires are not outside the control of God. The nation of Assyria believed it was conquering by its own strength, but Isaiah reveals a greater

1:05reality. God is sovereign over all the nations, so let's read now for Isaiah 10, which says this. What are those who decree iniquitous decrees and the writers who keep writing oppression to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right? That widows may be their spoil and that they may make the follow-ists their prey. What will you do on the day of punishment in the ruin that will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help and where will you leave your wealth? Nothing remains but to crouch among the prisoners or fall among the slain. For all this, his anger has not turned away and his hand is stretched out still. Woe to Assyria, the rod of my anger, the staff in their hands is my fury. Against the godless nation I send him and against the people of my wrath I command him. It takes spoil and seas plunder and it shred them down like the mire of the streets.

2:07But he does not so intend and his heart does not so think. In his heart it is in his heart to destroy and to cut off nations not a few. For he says, are not my commanders, all kings? It is not cow no like Carcomish. It is not Hammath like RPAD. It is not Samaria like Damascus. As my hand has reached to the kingdom of idols whose carved images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria. Shall I not do to Jerusalem and her idols as I have done to Samaria and her images? When the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, he will punish the speech of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the boastful look on his eyes. For he says, by the strength of my hand I have done it and by my wisdom, for I have understanding I remove the boundaries of peoples and plunder their treasures. Like a bull I bring down those who sit on thrones. My hand has found like a nest, the wealth of the peoples.

3:09And as one gathers eggs that have been forsaken, so I have gathered all the earth and there was none that moved a wing or opened the mouth or chirped. Shall the axe boast over him who hues with it or the saw magnify itself against him who wields it? As if a rod should wield him who lifts it or as if a staff should lift him who is not wood. Therefore the Lord of hosts will send wasting sickness among his stat warriors and under his glory a burning will be kindled. Like the burning of fire the light of Israel will become a fire and his holy one to flame and it will burn and devour. His thorns and briers of one day the glory of his forest and of his fruitland. The Lord will destroy both soul and body and it shall it will be as when a sick man wastes away. The remnant of the trees of his forest will be so few that a child can write them down. In that day the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will be no more lean on

4:14him who struck them but will lean on the Lord the holy one of Israel in truth. A remnant will return the remnant of Jacob to the mighty god. For though your people Israel will be as the land of the sea only a remnant of them will return. Destruction is decreed overflowing with righteousness for the Lord god of hosts will make a full in as decreed in the middle and in the midst I should say of all the earth. Therefore thus says the Lord god of hosts oh my people who dwell as I be not afraid of the Assyrians when they strike with a rod and lift up their staff against you as the Egyptians did. For in a very little while my fury will come to an end and my anger will be directed to their destruction and the Lord of hosts will wield against them as a whip as when he struck a median at the rock of Orad and his staff will be over the sea and he will lift it up as he did in Egypt. And in that day his burden will depart from your shoulder and his yoke from your neck and the yoke

5:15will be broken because of the fat. He has come to aeth he has passed through migrant. At micro mash he stores his baggage they have crossed over the past at Giba they lodge for the night Raymouth trembles Gibi of soul has fled cry aloud a daughter of gallum give attention olicious O poor Annath Madema is in flight the inhabitants of Gibben flee for safety this very day he will halt at knob he will shake his fist at the mount of the daughter of Zion the hill of Jerusalem. But hold the Lord God of hosts will loft the bows with terrifying power the great in height will be hewn down and the lofty will be brought low. He will cut down the thickets of the forest with an axe and leviton will fall by the majestic one. Isaiah's ten teaches us that God's sovereignly rules over nations and leaders humbles human pride and faithfully preserves his people. Isaiah's ten addresses God's judgment against injustice while revealing his authority over willy powers.

6:20This chapter shows God's hatred of oppression and injustice his sovereignty over the nations the danger of pride his preservation of a faithful remnant his ultimate victory over human arrogance and it reminds us that history unfolds according to the purposes of God. So our first point today from verses one through four is God condemns injustice and oppression our text says here woe to those who decree iniquitous decrees so Isaiah rebukes leaders who exploit the week oppress the vulnerable pervert justice abuse authority God takes these sins seriously the Lord cares deeply about righteousness and justice our second point today from verses five through eleven is God uses nations to accomplish his purposes our text is a Syria the rod of my anger this is one of the most remarkable statements in Isaiah God uses a Syria as an instrument of judgment against

7:22Judah a Syria thinks it is acting independently it is conquering through its own strength but in reality God is directing history according to his purposes and so even powerful nations operate under God's sovereign authority our third point today of verses twelve through nineteen is human pride invites God's judgment a Syria becomes arrogant the nation boasts of its own strength of its own wealth of its own military success but God responds saying shall the acts boast over him who hues with it the instrument should not boast against the one who uses it pride always forgets who is truly sovereign our fourth point today is God preserves a faithful remnant our text says in that day the remnant of Israel though judgment comes God preserves his people a faithful remnant remains now this theme becomes central throughout Isaiah God's promises do not fail because his people fail God's grace preserves those who trust in him our fifth point today is God will ultimately defeat

8:28every proud power for verses twenty four to thirty four the chapter ends with God promising deliverance for his people judgment upon a Syria the humbling of human power what appears unstoppable to people is easily overcome by God no earthly power can ultimately resist the purposes of God Isaiah 10 points us to Christ by reminding us who truly rules history human rulers rise and fall build kingdoms exercise temporary authority but Jesus is the king above every king Christ rules over the nations governs history preserves his people accomplishes God's redemptive plan and so the sovereign God that Isaiah describes is truly revealed in Jesus Christ and because Christ reigns believers never need to fear the future solemn to God rules over the nations Proverbs 21 one the king's heart and God's hand Janiel 435 God's sovereign rule Romans 13 one authorities established by God

9:32Revelation 19 six king of kings and Lord of lords here's our takeaways for today trust God's sovereignty over world events reject pride and self-sufficiency pursue justice and remember the earthly power is temporary rest in Christ eternal reign our key verse for today Isaiah 10 15 which says shall the axe boast over him who cues it or the sob magnify itself against him who wields it Isaiah 10 reminds us that the headlines of the day never tell the whole story nations rise leaders change empires appear powerful but above every government every ruler and every nation stands the sovereign Lord nothing surprises the Lord nothing threatens his kingdom nothing can stop his purposes so do not place your confidence in political power human wisdom or worldly strike trust the Lord he rules over all of history he preserves his people and through Jesus Christ alone

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