Is this the beginning of the end?
The conspiracy
2 Kings 15:5-6, Isaiah 7:1-2
Israel to be broken
Isaiah 7:3-9
Judah invaded
2 Chronicles 28:17-19
True worship
Psalm 50:1-23
Damascus to be judged
Isaiah 8:1-4, 17:1-14
Assyria defeats Syria
2 Chronicles 28:16,21, 2 Kings 16:7-9
Eastern tribes deported
2 Kings 15:29, 1 Chronicles 5:25-26
Warning to Judah
Isaiah 1:2-20
Judah is being harried by her enemies. Wicked King Ahaz is given no time to think again. Psalm 50 says in majestic words that God is Lord of heaven and earth, he has no need of any sacrifices. It is being openly declared now that God is greater than a tribal god, that his reach is more powerful and his authority worldwide.
The question is why does he not defend his people, and the answer that is given is because they are unfaithful, they do not deserve it. This causes massive problems of its own, not entirely thought through yet, because if even the people who have grown up with God cannot please him, then who can? How can God be content with the behaviour of anyone on earth? “to the wicked, God says: What right have you to recite my laws or take my covenant on your lips?” (Psalm 50:16)
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