Jehovah Is King, Chapter Twenty

BABYLON, Philistia, Moab, Syria, Ethiopia, Egypt, Edom, Tyre, Assyria-all will experience Jehovah's wrath.  Isaiah has foretold the calamities that will befall these hostile nations and cities.  What, though, of Judah?  Will the inhabitants of Judah be exempt from punishment for their sinful ways?  The historical record answers with a resounding no!

Consider what happened to Samaria, the capital of the ten-tribe kingdom of Israel.  That nation did not keep its covenant with God.  It did not keep separate from the lewd practices of the nations round about.  Instead, the inhabitants of Samaria "kept  doing bad things to offend Jehovah. . . .Therefore Jehovah got very incensed against Israel, so that he removed them from his sight."  Forcibly removed from its land, "Israel went off its own soil into exile in Assyria."  (2 Kings 17:9-12, 16-18, 23; Hosea 4:12-14) What happened to Israel bodes ill for her sister kingdom, Judah.

Next time: Isaiah Foretells the Desolation of Judah

From the Book Isaiah's Prophecy Light for all Mankind, 2000