AWAKE, ARISE, AND TRIUMPH
Tuesday – February 22, 2022, Adar I – 21
PRIDE THEN A FALL
Greetings dear and precious saints of God. If you are not a saint of God, change that right now and change your current citizenship from the kingdom of darkness to the Kingdom of light and your destination from Hell to Heaven. Welcome back to this wonderful study of the Bible Book of Isaiah. Expect answers, the building of faith, and empowerment. Before I move forward, please take a moment and share these teachings as widely as possible to expand our reach with these Truths. The featured picture today is a very old Church in modern western Turkey, Pergamum, one of the Seven Churches of the Revelation. Now let’s turn our attention to our primary Bible text in the New Living Translation continuing to read out loud. Yes, out loud, you know why.
Isaiah 10:12-17 (NLT)
12 After the Lord has used the king of Assyria to accomplish his purposes on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, he will turn against the king of Assyria and punish him—for he is proud and arrogant.
The Lord hates pride particularly in His people but in all peoples. Pride was the primary sin of Lucifer bringing about his fall. Pride was the root of the fall of mankind.
Proverbs 6:16-19 (KJV)
16 These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
19 A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
Look at verse seventeen in the Amplified Bible.
Proverbs 6:17 (AMP)
17 A proud look [the spirit that makes one overestimate himself and underestimate others], a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
Now let’s pick up with verse thirteen of our text.
13 He boasts, “By my own powerful arm I have done this. With my own shrewd wisdom I planned it. I have broken down the defenses of nations and carried off their treasures. I have knocked down their kings like a bull.
14 I have robbed their nests of riches and gathered up kingdoms as a farmer gathers eggs. No one can even flap a wing against me or utter a peep of protest.”
15 But can the ax boast greater power than the person who uses it? Is the saw greater than the person who saws? Can a rod strike unless a hand moves it? Can a wooden cane walk by itself?
16 Therefore, the Lord, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, will send a plague among Assyria’s proud troops, and a flaming fire will consume its glory.
Now to verse seventeen, pride does not pay off.
Isaiah 10:17 (KJV)
17 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;
In one day, Assyria and it’s leadership is brought to nothing even as the Lord spoke.
2 Kings 19:32-37 (ESV)
32 “Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not come into this city or shoot an arrow there, or come before it with a shield or cast up a siege mound against it.
33 By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and he shall not come into this city, declares the LORD.
34 For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David.”
35 And that night the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
36 Then Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and went home and lived at Nineveh.
37 And as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer, his sons, struck him down with the sword and escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place.
Lord willing, I will pick up right here tomorrow. Remember, we love you and there is nothing you can do about it.
2 Chronicles 20:20 b (KJV)
20 … Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.
I speak this blessing over each and every one of you, receive it, believe it, doubt it not, and speak over yourself and your family in Jesus’ name!
Numbers 6:24-26 (AMP)
24 The Lord bless you and watch, guard, and keep you;
25 The Lord make His face to shine upon and enlighten you and be gracious (kind, merciful, and giving favor) to you;
26 The Lord lift up His [approving] countenance upon you and give you peace (tranquility of heart and life continually).
By: Dr. David Wood, Author, Bible Teacher, and Prophetic Voice
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