Isaiah 34-39
With this taunt Sennacherib approached Hezekiah's inner circle... seemingly laying out all the options then knocking them down... one by one. The arrogance of Sennacherib would be his undoing. He mistook the command of the Lord, for the approval of the Lord, then arrogantly compares the Lord God to idols made of stone and wood. Never a smart move.
Yet modern man continues to arrogantly dismiss the living God... Nietzsche proclaimed that God is dead... On his death bed, Stalin shaked his fist at God... but Richard Dawkins must take the cakes with his book the God Delusion. “The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”
At least these men didn't hide from their thoughts, how sad that many in the church act the same way while saying God is Good with their lips. If we truly believe in the God of the old and new testament, then we are obliged to follow him in humility. Hezekiah did, and he won. Hmmm.
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