After all these sticks, Rabshakeh holds out a sweet, tasty carrot. 'Give up. Give up and we'll be nice to you. Throw open the gates, come on out, and everything will be fine. We'll leave you alone for a while. And then we will move you to someplace that's even better. Come on. It'll be nice.'He says, 'Even if Jehovah

This is a pivotal time in Judah's history. We read about this as well in 2 Kings and 2 Chronicles. King Sennacherib of Assyria finally bursts into Judah like an overwhelming flood. He has a great, fearsome, and seemingly invincible host with him. The word translated Rabshakeh is a military official, he's similar to a military chief of staff. He

This highway is the highway of holiness. We are justified, that is, declared to be innocent before God's law, because of what Christ did for us at the cross. We take hold of Christ and we take hold of his obeying the law in our place, by faith and by faith alone. But the Scripture says that we are dead

In these last three verses of chapter 35, we have a picture of a great highway. It's looking ahead to a time when God's people are redeemed. The people of God, redeemed by Him, shall come to their true journey's end. They shall be able to go to their true home, to their Father's house.This is all looking, of course,

When we talk about quenching something, we usually talk about quenching a thirst. We talk about quenching a fire. How do we do that? We get buckets of water, and we pour them on. By the time we are done, it is quenched, it is drowned, it is out, and the fire cannot burn anymore.What we have here is a

Should we look from Isaiah forward to the days of the gospel? We read here of the eyes of the blind opened, the ears of the deaf unstopped, the lame leaping like a deer, the tongue of the dumb singing. Think, for example, of John 9, with Jesus healing the man born blind. Think of Mark 7:31-37, with the man

Friends, do not be tempted to think that because in your place and your time, things are not going as happily or as well as you would like to see them, that somehow this is the normal way for the people of God or for their king, the Lord Jesus Christ. And do not think that this is the way

In chapter 34 we saw the destruction and judgment upon the nations. Now we see the deliverance that this brings about. We had seen how these countries, whether Assyria, Babylon, Rome, or the general unbelieving system in this world, seem to flourish and thrive. They look so powerful and bold. But we see the destruction visited upon them, and their

Not only is the judgment of these verses an assured judgment, it's an effectual judgment. It's a judgment that actually brings about what it promises. The picture here is of a conquering king who has taken the land away from his enemies. Perhaps it is land that was taken from his own people at one time, when an ancestor was

We're looking at a theme of judgment and of redemption that we find in this and the next chapter -- judgment upon those who will not have Christ as their king. But it is redemption and rescue for His people. It's like a coin with two sides. And as we come to the end of this first side of the