Isa
10:12-13 (ESV) 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 in his eyes. 13
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.
NOTE: This is one of
the primary struggles of all mankind, our arrogance. Arrogance can be defined
in many ways, but in the bible, one of the main ways it is defined is as: a
belief that I can live my life without God, that I do not need God, that I can have
meaningful purpose without God, and that I can be successful without God. The
king of Assyria was convinced that he did not need God. He did not believe in
the God of the bible nor did he believe that he needed the God (that he did not
acknowledge) to allow him to conquer the known world. But he was wrong. Not
only was he wrong about the God that he did not believe exists, but that God
would pull him off of his throne for his very arrogance. For the bible, the
question of God working in history is not a question of existence, but a
statement of absolute truth. Denial of a fact does not change the fact. Of
course, how do you prove the statement? That is a lot harder but not
impossible. The Old Testament alone provides evidence through the fulfilled
prophecies of God's appointed prophets. Jesus' life and miracles provide
evidence. The learned is left with one of two options, deny the facts because
they are too uncomfortable for his own unproven world view, or accept what is
laid out before us -- God rules the world.
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