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20. "Thus raith the Lord God Of Israel,
That which thou hast prayed to me against
Sennaoherib, king Of Assyria, have
heard In the fourteenth year Of Heze-
kiah the king Of Assyria came against
Judah and greatly blasphemed the Lord
both by word and by letter. Hezekiah,
| when he bad read the letter, spread it be-
/ fore the Lord and prayed (yerses 14-19).
/ Many times have I followed Hezekiah's
| plan and always found rest. II we ask
| anything according to His will He hear
eth us Il John V, 14), and 1t is His win
/ that we tell Him everything and have
careful anxiety about nothing. See in
verse 10 that the great desire Of the king
in asking for the overthrow Of Sennaoherib
/ was that all the earth might know that
the God Of Israel was the only true God.
81. ''This Is the word that the Lord
| hath spoken concerning him, The virgin,
the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee
and laughed thee to soorn," The people
Of God IN Judah called the daughter of
Zion, the daughter Of Jerusalem compare
Lam. ii, 49, having God as their defender
and avenger. need fear no enemy. In such
strength Moses ana Joshua lived; Gideon
also, and David whom he went felrlessly
against Goliath When VIC seek only the
honor and glory Of God He viii not fail u.s.
22. "Whom last tnOu reproached and
blasphemed the Holy One of Israeli"
As in the next verse, "By thy messengers
than hast approached the Lord" They
spake against the God of Jerusalem as
against the gods Of the people of the earth,
the works Of the hands Of man, and for
this cause liezckiah, the king, and the
prophet Isaiah, the son of Amor, prayed
and cried to heaven Oil Chron. xxi, 10,
22). God heard their prayer, ana now we
will sec how lie answered it.
e. IT will turn thco back by the way
wIi9h tLnu earnest" This is part Of the
wotI OF the Lord concerning Sennacherib.
s'o1 also yoria rs, Il know thy abode and
tly goins on, and thy coming in and thy
rage against me. 10 who created all
things can set bounds that none can pass
We can only 20 hero and there or do this
or that II The Lord viii (Jas. iv, lJ) Man
does not 500 20 consider that all his words
and even his thoughts ere known to the
Lord FPS. oxxxix, ID, ard that it is inn
possible to hide anything from Him. Even
Adam, blinded by satan, thought he could
hide from God among the trees (Gen. ill,
81. Happy IRE those who live as in the
sight of the Lord
80. "And this shall DO sign unto thee. ="
By comparing this verse with Lev XIV,
2l, 22, the sign seems to have been the
special blessing of God upon the Sabbath
year, or, in other words, the blessing of
God on His obedient people. What but the
hand Of God could cause land to produce
a three years crop in one year? In the
r. V. margin of Prov. X, %, we read that
tho blessing of the Lord maketh rich and
toll addeth nothing thereto,
80. 1.-THE remnant that is escaped Of the
house Of Judah shall yet again take root
downward and bear fruit upward" The
doctrine that it is ever the few out Of the
many who are really the Lords and who
glorify Him Is found in all Scripture. The
stories of Noah, of Lot in Sodom, of Elijah
and such statements as "Few there be
that find it ""A An afflicted and poor peo-
pie who shall trust in the Lord, =" indicate
that which God sees to be ever true. See
Math. vii, IA; Zeph. iii, 10.
81. "Out Of Jerusalem shall 20 forth a
remnant; the zeal of the Lord of Hosts shall
do this. The zeal of tho Lord of Hosts shall
also bring the kingdom Of peaoe on earth
which shall have no end lisa. tx, y. All
shall be accomplished in and through the
Son Of David, our Lord Jesus Christ, of
whom it is written, "The zeal Of thine
house hath eaten me up FPS Xix, 8; John
ii, 10. 1t is nothing with tho Lord to
work with many or with few; nothing is
too hard for Him Oh Chron. xiv, II; Jer.
xxi, ~.
80. Therefore thus saith the Lord con-
corning the king of Assyria. Our Lord
doeth according to His viii in the army of
heaven and among theinhabitants of the
earth dan. ~, 35) His thoughts and
purposes are as good as accomplished lisa
xiv, "a; Jer Ii, 29).
50. "By the way that he came, by the
same shall he return and shall not come
into this city, saith the Lord" This was
the decision Of Him who had all the hosts
of heaven undor His control and all power
to carry out His purposes. He could say,
Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther"
Dob. xxxyiii, ID. Even the great ad +
versary must stop when God shall say So
and he shall 60 to the pit for thousand
years, and to the lake Of fire forever,
81. For l will defend this city to save
it for mine own sake and for my servant
David's sake" See also chapter TX, 8,
and compare lisa. XXI, 8 Zeoh. xii, 8.
The Il Wills Of Jehovah are a study Of
greatest possible benefit. They often oc-
cur in sevens and in connection with the
statement ~ am jehovah" Soc Elk. vi,
6-8; Gen. xvii, IS; Ps. xoi, 14-16. Be
cause He is what He is He win do what He
says, not for Israel's sake, but for His own
sake. Sec Eek. xxxvi, ~; Ps. ovi, 8.
We must not look for worthiness or merit
in ourselves, but in Him who alone is
worthy (Ps. CIV, / Rev. V, 4, 81. Take
all the comfort you can find in such pas
sages as lisa. xiii, 25; John II, 10.
80. And It came to pass that night
that the angel Of the Lord went out and
smote in the camp Of the Assyrians an
hundred fourscore and five thousand. 4"
The work Of this angel is also mentioned
in lisa. xvii, &c. and in II Chron. xxxii,
81. When the devil Is to be bound and
cast into the bottomlsss pit, it is written
that one angel viii do IL REV II, l-s).
Consider in each Of these cases the power
Of an angel and then think Of the millions
upon millions Of them mighty in strength,
doing His commandments, hearkening
unto the voice Of His word (Rev. v, IL;
Ps. Gill, 20). Think Of the angels disre-
gard Of and power over soldiers and fast
barred gates In the story Of Peters release
in Acts xii Think Of the one who carried
good tidings to Paul In the storm at sea
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